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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Have decided to start tomorrow morning in a very chill manner by doing an Ask Me Anything on Reddit about my OnlyFans book. Is this a good idea? Will the internet be mercilessly unkind? Will anyone even ask a question at all? Let's find out, shall we. imgur.com/a/iQ1ko6G

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sorry, it's the Gen Z shake - the movement created by starting the video and setting the phone down to record, shaking the frame slightly and signalling the start of a video post

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I mean, it's somewhere between ASMR and the millennial shake, right? A sound that draws attention to the physical world inside your screen

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Filming a Get Ready With Me video to introduce my students to Social Media Lab... turns out moisturising, cleansing, AND remembering the key critical questions of the unit is hard work, who knew! (influencers knew)

A woman in her bathroom wears glasses, a black jumper, and a lapel microphone. She is squirting cleanser from a bottle into a small white towel.

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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This really sums up why we need internet anonymity.

So who, exactly is anonymity for?

It's for the teenage girl who lost her mother when she was young, just got her period for the first time, and is to embarrassed to meet with a school nurse.

It's for the 45-year-old who hasn't drunk in years but is realizing that he's struggling with his sobriety and needs to talk privately about it.

It's for a woman coming to terms with the fact her boyfriend is abusive and figuring out how to get away from him without his knowledge.

It's for a Chinese immigrant who wants to speak about human rights abuses he witnessed at home without his family in Beijing paying the price for his words or repression following him abroad.

It's for a factory worker looking for resources about how to report unsafe conditions without losing his job.

It's for a college freshman who needs to talk about being gay without fearing his family will learn of it before he's ready to tell them.

It's for a grandmother who just received a breast cancer diagnosis and wants to discreetly discuss her anxiety about a mastectomy,

It's for a priest dealing with depression who doesn't know how to manage his feelings of emptiness amidst his duties to his parish.

It's for anyone who has ever experienced a fear, thought, idea or emotion that need to express but aren't ready to share with colleagues, family, friends, or acquaintances or authority figures.

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is what the sign refers to. I only know the shop in the corner used to be The Reject Shop because I've lived at Box Hill for years. It's a pharmacy now. (yes I've submitted this to snap send solve so the council knows)

A photo of a pharmacy in a shopping centre

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The least helpful sign in Box Hill: asks you to go find a shop that hasn't been there for years to locate the lift to a bus

A metal sign on tiles that reads: LIFT ACCESS TO THE BUS DECK IS AVAILABLE WITHIN THE SHOPPING CENTRE ADJACENT TO THE REJECT SHOP

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Well unfortunately I giggled all the way through Ladies First so maybe I've got terrible taste or maybe movies should just be fun sometimes, who knows

Film poster for Ladies First, featuring Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Please, AI slop scammers, there's no need to run my new book's blurb through whatever program you're using and promise me "discoverability" "opportunities". I wrote my book for human people to read. Would love to talk to human journalists/writers/podcasters/interviews! But not... this.

A screenshot of an email offering Dr van der Nagel "several opportunities" to "potentially increase" her book's "discoverability"

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I don't want to Edit an Image With AI, I want to CROP THE SCREENSHOT dammit

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I'll be talking porn, OnlyFans, automated people, and automated customisations at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas this August 💕🖱️✨👩‍💻👉👌 festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/porn...

A screenshot from the Festival of Dangerous Ideas website advertising a session titled Porn Without People

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Sam Chan 陳力深 @liksamchan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

*CFP* Digital Intimacies 12: Intimately Disconnected considers what remains of digital intimacies when we are digitally disconnected. Keynote: Dr Tingting Liu, University of Technology Sydney Conference: 4-5 Dec 2026@USyd CFP closes: 28 Aug 2026 digitalintimacies12.wordpress.com

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Digital Intimacies 12 is at the University of Sydney this year from 4-5 Dec! Submit your abstracts on the (broad) theme of Intimately Disconnected by 28 Aug. Digital Intimacies is such a wonderful and generous gathering of scholars - get along if you can 👩‍💻✨💕🖱️💌 digitalintimacies12.wordpress.com

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I just ordered 20 copies myself so basically if you walk past my office in the next month I'm gonna throw one at you

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

There's a sale on at Booktopia that includes my & Kat's book at 90% off, so if you are in Australia and want to get Sex and Social Media for FOUR Australian dollarydoos, the time is now www.booktopia.com.au/societynow-e...

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Thanks Alex!! No AoIR for me this year but waiting to hear where it'll be in 2027 😊

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

First minor Instagram suspension for posting about a book I wrote. This is going to be an interesting social media case study, actually - how to post about a book on OnlyFans, titled, "OnlyFans" with the kind of content moderation challenges faced by OnlyFans creators all the time

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The cover image isn't up yet, which makes it look like the cover art is too NSFW to be displayed (it isn't), but my book has a page on The Internet! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

A screenshot of the web page for the book OnlyFans, by Emily van der Nagel

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This recipe was 1 can tomato, 1 cup white beans, and 1/2 cup mashed pumpkin, blended together, to make a pasta sauce for toddlers btw

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The latest in the constant race to optimise recipe websites for maximum datafied attention metrics: requiring a whole ass user account for the privilege to open the recipe in print view so you can see it without a hundred popups crowding your screen

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Finding out that some universities* are cancelling classes next week because of the Canvas outage: @dangolding.com "I'm sure there will be absolutely no reflection on what this means for our teaching's dependency on external platforms though" *not Monash, we use Moodle

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Sorry friends - I have not been DMing anyone over the past few days! Just changed my password and enabled 2-factor authentication 😬 hopefully that does it

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 08/05/2026

Hello friends just an fyi that @emvdn.bsky.social’s account has been hacked, in case you weren’t sure if she was really into crypto all of a sudden

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

But this is the comedy festival and all was not lost; we went to the Elephant & Wheelbarrow for a comedy showcase instead. And I laughed. Catching a lineup of tight 10s is good actually and so is Melbourne.

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I booked tickets. I invited my mum and sister. I prepaid for a city carpark. I took the toll road from work to the city. I planned to meet for ramen so we'd make the show on time. I parked my car and got a text that the SHOW WAS CANCELLED (not Reuben Kaye's fault feel better soon king)

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Me when I make Same Lasagne as Last Night but Now With Side Salad

A frame of The Simpsons showing Lisa facing a crowd of girls - and Smithers at the back, eagerly pointing. It's captioned, "But she's got a new hat"

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Fantastic! Can you email me at emily.vandernagel@monash.edu and I'll include you for an inspection copy?

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Hello Bluesky friends, I wrote a book about OnlyFans that is coming out SOON. Would you use this book as a set reading in your course/unit/subject? Would you like an inspection copy? Let me know! I'm thinking media studies (especially social media/internet studies), sociology, gender studies etc

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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

hey Victorian renters! if you've used 'RentTech' (think online application platforms, rent payment apps, property management portals), please spend ~5 minutes to share your experience in this survey to contribute to important @cprc-research.bsky.social research: cprc.limesurvey.net/594888?lang=en

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Hey well done Seamus!! Great to have that milestone done! 🎉🎉🎉

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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

📘New Report: Young Australians’ perspectives on the social media minimum age legislation📘 With the #socialmediaban for teens kicking in on 10 December, hearing their perspectives on it, and social media generally, is so vital! 💡 Read the full report here: doi.org/10.60836/tr3...

Young Australians’ perspectives on the social media minimum age legislation [Report]

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

BARRIE AND YOU!!!! I *love* the sound of sexuality and civics education pedagogies, what a fantastic project, HUGE congratulations to you!

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Thank you, thank you to @brkeogh.bsky.social Robbie Fordyce @hmberents.bsky.social @bradyjay.bsky.social @dangolding.com Paul Long, Zala Volcic, Kerry O'Brien for their mentorship and support through the process ♥️

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

It is such an achievement to even submit one of these applications. So many researchers didn't get entirely worthy projects up, which is tough to bear and does not reflect the hard work and intellectual effort of the process.

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

So happy, and a bit overwhelmed, to find out my DECRA project, 'Social, ethical and regulatory challenges in the social media porn industry', has been awarded. What an immense privilege to have the next three years to dedicate to research!

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"Mum having her coffee", a portrait by my 3 yr old

A woman sits on a chair with a coffee cup

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

So glad to have been part of the UQ symposium 'darkness to hyper-visibility' Really rich, thoughtful work from scholars of creator visibilities, a wonderful keynote on platform epistemologies from Kelley Cotter, and the opportunity to present my own work on OnlyFans

Two presenters in front of a screen that says Darkness to Hyper-Visibility

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I kind of can't wait to tell my dentist I chipped a tooth while flossing. YOU SUGGESTED THIS WOULD BENEFIT MY DENTAL HEALTH KEITH

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

So well done Ben. Proud to be your colleague.

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Thanks, Eileen. He had a good death - said goodbye to his family and chose how he went out ❤️

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Omg honestly wild that I spent SO much time Getting It Right on that app and logging things correctly but for WHAT. I NEVER looked at a single data point again after the moment I recorded it.

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This weekend I'm MCing my first funeral (my grandfather died at 90 years old and I probably do the most public speaking in my family) and the next day hosting a baby shower for a friend. LIFE HEY.

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