Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026How do we stop the Booker Prize committee from enabling Elizabeth Strout? 000
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I'm not saying it's acceptable or good policy, but the multiple data breaches that have happened over the years have not sparked nearly this level of public outcry. My point is simply that there is a massive disconnect between who is asking, what is being asked for, and how the public respond. 030
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 18/06/2026It is ironic that we've all been uploading our personal thoughts, demographic information, consumer habits, and so on, to social media and other websites for 25 plus years at this point, but the second a government asks us to confirm our age online we lose our collective minds. 110
Reposted by Daniel CockayneTIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 27/10/2025New commentary in TIBG: 'Subtractive, ambient and bifurcated attention at work and when working from home: Towards a geography of workplace attention' by @tylerb.bsky.social & @dcockayne.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky 022
Reposted by Daniel CockayneTyler Blackman @tylerb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025New Commentary w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social in @tibg.bsky.social. Daniel and I comment further on the politics of attention at work, building from @davidjbissell.bsky.social, @lillicrovara.bsky.social, Andrew Gorman-Murray, and @lstraughan.bsky.social excellent recent article. doi.org/10.1111/tran...doi.orgTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online LibraryThis commentary responds to and extends recent research by Bissell al. (2025). We add to their analysis of attention, focusing on social difference and workplace politics by drawing on examples from .... 053
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Who at Routledge is responsible for changing the pagination of Gender Trouble seemingly every time it is reprinted and what form of retribution is appropriate for such a crime? 010
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Super exciting - congratulations on the quote Jessa! 000
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Really wonderful to work on this project with @tylerb.bsky.social - this includes a little two-page work of speculative fiction about work refusal in an AI-saturated future, as well as a bit of academic commentary. We're quite happy with it - check it out! 030
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 29/07/2025The Booker is an English language prize, not a British one. 010
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Are we doing only 19th Century, or are To The Lighthouse and Beloved allowable? 251
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 08/07/2025This looks fascinating - excited to check out more of Smith's work! Her recent paper from Transactions also looks excellent: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.comTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online LibraryThis article analyses the career of Edward Curtis by centring the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899, his relationship with George Bird Grinnell, and his production of spatial knowledge toward land d... 054
Reposted by Daniel CockayneRuth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 28/06/2025I've added FOUR new peer-reviewed academic articles to my round-up post, "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" Together, these highlight serious ethical issues with the Cass Review's design, recommendations, and implementations. It's important to keep this story live! ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w... 12331144
Reposted by Daniel CockayneThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/06/2025Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85theguardian.comEdmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85The American essayist, playwrightauthor of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man, has died 826298
Reposted by Daniel CockayneJessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Consumers defer payments on 'Buy Now Pay Later' purchases, suggesting an affordability crunch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b... In our new article @dcockayne.bsky.social & I explore how fintech affects relations to payment, wages & debt. Check it out! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.comGeographies of Fintech and Everyday Life: Reconfiguring Spaces, Practices, and Scales of Digital Money and FinanceFinancial and monetary technologies, understood both through their digital platforms and the materiality of mobile devices, are increasingly pervasive, and now shape the economic practices of individ... 1107
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 24/05/2025This will be perfect for the class I'm teaching on AI economies in *checks syllabus* four weeks' time. 010
Reposted by Daniel CockayneAlison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Please sign and share this petition, calling on Newcastle University’s Executive Board to halt the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling careers and the future of our institution. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...change.orgSign the PetitionEnd unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University 13935
Reposted by Daniel CockayneRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 15/05/2025I think we need to start upping the social pressure against using AI. Professors in the quotes talking about how it’s no different than Google. Absolutely pathetic. 2318
Reposted by Daniel CockayneDr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 12756002841
Reposted by Daniel CockayneRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081 5865978420440
Reposted by Daniel CockayneSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 27/03/2025”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"variety.comOpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI ImagesThe latest version of OpenAI's image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli. 303388946
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Only someone born and still living in Toronto, someone who has never left the GTA, could think this, surely...! 020
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 08/03/2025In an attempt to be generous I'm wondering if some of these folks only knew the name of the panel they are speaking on and then overall event/poster detail was finalized later. Unlikely, but possible I suppose... 041
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 04/03/2025If the only thing I know about music is that Britten's Festival Te Deum is a Kinsey 6, that's probably enough. 000
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Currently @universityaffairs.bsky.social has like 20 followers, so anyway, Canadian academics (and others) should follow them. 010
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I've been using the term straightening device after Ahmed and I also want to use cissening device but it just seems too clumsy somehow...! 110
Reposted by Daniel CockayneJessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Glad to see this work with Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social on Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment technolgies and consumer fintech published in the newest volume of @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comA feminist approach to fintech: exploring ‘buy now, pay later’ technologies and consumer fintech‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) is a financial technology that is reshaping online consumption by allowing users to split payment for goods over 3–4 interest-free digital installments. While the use an... 0163
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I read this a couple of years ago and it was truly excellent - an inspiration to Ferrante that is surely worthy of her. 000
Reposted by Daniel CockayneChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/01/2025Martin Luther King was born on this day 96 years ago. He was murdered at age 39. When I was younger, I thought he lived far into adulthood. Now that I’m 42, I think, he was such a baby when he was pushed into the spotlight. 181446226
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 14/01/2025It's part of "Triptych, May–June 1973" I think. 000
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Especially when you know the story behind this one, it's horrible. 110
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Some of Francis Bacon's paintings are very good and very unpleasant to look at IMO. 120
Reposted by Daniel CockaynePatrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 10/01/2025It's exciting to see the launch of Urban Political Ecology (the journal). I'm on the ed board along with a bunch of great folks & it's a venue that values practitioner-facing articles to develop tools and concepts that make sense of cities' future as the ecological crisis intensifies.journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 1172
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Good that it can be used against it's intended purposes! Thanks for sharing 030
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 03/01/2025👀 Would you mind sharing the title of the Stoller paper? 130
Reposted by Daniel CockayneFitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 20/12/2024📚 It's time for the Fitzcarraldo Editions staff picks for Books of the Year 2024* 📚 3584
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Watching Carol and listening to Bad Gays: the perfect Christmas. 081
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 24/12/2024She forgot to read the Wikipedia page for Bodies That Matter! 020
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Sadly it's hard to do unless you're an attractive white man that says to other white men VCs in pitch events things like, "exploiting the poor has become too cumbersome, out product provides a solution for that." 130
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Trying to work in the last hours of the last day of the working year is proving very challenging. 020
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Favorite books read this year, in no particular order: The Empusium - Olga Togarczuk The Long Form - Kate Briggs Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid Jazz - Toni Morrison The End of the Day - Lydia Davis Next year I'll be tackling The Books of Jacob...! 010
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Ironically I'd say thay crypto's use as a means of payment in criminal activity is one of the only ways it legitimately functions as a form of money. 021