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Paul Hodkinson

@paulhodkinson.bsky.social
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Prof of Sociology at University of Surrey - fathers, masculinities, youth, digital media...

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Paul Hodkinson @paulhodkinson.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
'Fair Game': Talks, Jokes and Legitimacy in Men's Journeys of Hereditary Hair Loss - not of the press from myself and Matt Hall, open access, in Men and Masculinities journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
“If an expert is somebody who knows a lot about very little, AI is the opposite, engaging with academic literature only superficially while falling over itself to show you the breadth of its knowledge. The result is 1,500 words of grammatically impeccable mediocrity.” Has AI killed the essay?
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Have chatbots killed the student essay?
This year’s marking season has confirmed for many academics that, less than three years since the launch of ChatGPT, AI use by students has become so rife that their submitted writing is no longer a r...
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Paul Hodkinson @paulhodkinson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Lecturers are struggling with students’ use of AI | Letter
Letter: A Guardian cartoon strikes a chord with a music lecturer worried about the impact of artificial intelligence on academia
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Professor Ranjana Das @profranjanadas.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
What does #LocalNews have to do with #parenting and raising #children? Our brand 🆕 paper from The Leverhulme Trust #news #use study shows #parents use local news as anchors ⚓️, escape 🪜, as a lens 🔭, and news use as a site of parenting labour 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒. #OpenAccess now journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We're currently advertising for a 3+ year post-doc position @education.ox.ac.uk working on the ESRC-funded @studentspolitics.bsky.social project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer & me - to start ASAP Deadline: 9 June Please repost- thanks! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
ChatGPT “encourages] users to rely less and less on inner resources and personal capacity at a time when most of us are already losing the equipment—our will, our instincts, our sense of purchase—with which we handle the task of being alive,” Jia Tolentino writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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My Brain Finally Broke
Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.
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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Two posts coming up in my department. We are very nice 😌 #criminology #digitalcrim #crimpsych #sociology #digitalsocio or #whatever ⬇️
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
List of UK politicians/political figures who have declared support for Trump: • Boris Johnson • Liz Truss • Suella Braverman • Andrea Jenkyns • Jacob Rees-Mogg • Nigel Farage • Lord Frost • John Hayes • Robert Jenrick • Sammy Wilson • Ian Paisley • Jake Berry • Kwasi Kwarteng • Tim Montgomerie
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Paul Hodkinson @paulhodkinson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Happy to have signed contract with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social for new book: 'Going Bald: Identity, Masculinity and Wellbeing in Men's Journeys of Hair Loss' - based on findings from the BA-funded Journeys of Hair Loss project - can't wait to get writing!
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Does higher education politicise today's students? Delighted to be starting a new ESRC-funded project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social & Tom Fryer Follow our new account @studentspolitics.bsky.social & come along to our launch seminar in June! www.researchcghe.org/events/does-...
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Paul Hodkinson @paulhodkinson.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Excellent blog from Emily Setty and Jonny Hunt on need for nuance, listening and caution about simplistic cause/effect ideas in responding to public debate on digital media & masculinities etc following Adolescence series
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Is the crisis masculinity—or the way we talk about it? Responding to Adolescence from a position of Safe Uncertainty | Reimagining RSE
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ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
See also cute share-worthy graphic:
This graphic displays a book launch invitation for Ysabel Gerrard's first book: The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life. The invitation is pink and also displays a cover of the book. 

EVENT HOST: Dr. Briony Hannell
DATE + TIME: 18 March 15:00 GMT
EVENT FORMAT: hybrid
REGISTRATION LINK FOR ONLINE PARTICIPANTS: https://tinyurl.com/ydrep6fh
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 03/03/2025
If Trump was President in 1940
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Anna Tarrant @profatarrant.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Father-inclusion Hub website was lunched just this month! A growing, co-created archive of ‘what works’ in embedding father-inclusion! Visit the site to access resources developed by leading organisations and get in touch if you have examples to share! fatherinclusion.org
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National providers of research, evaluation, consultancy and training, plus unique access to our resource hub; a growing, co-created archive of 'what works' in being father-inclusive.
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Nathalie Weidhase @nweidhase.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🎉 My new book 'Pop and Postfeminism: Female Dandyism in Popular Music' is now 30% off the hardback version and 40% off the ebook as part of the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social sale! 🎉 come for the beautiful cover, stay for the #LadyGaga analysis 💃 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pop--post...
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Pop & Postfeminism
Nathalie Weidhase conceptualises the female dandy as a figure that simultaneously embodies and disrupts postfeminist notions of femininity, including maintainin…
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
📢New article: 'Paradoxical Parenting Practices and Australian Higher Education', in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social, with @drdanwoodman.bsky.social & @juliacook.bsky.social #parenting #HE #intensiveparenting journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... 🧵
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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🌟Are you a PGR interested in publishing your sociological research? Join us for this free @britsoci.bsky.social PG Forum event: Publishing from your PhD: Crafting Articles and Reviews with Sociological Research Online 📝 Friday, 21 February, 11am - 1pm Register ➡️: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
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Publishing from your PhD: Crafting Articles and Reviews with Sociological Research Online
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
NEW: Why not calling a Nazi salute a Nazi salute puts us in a whole new place of danger. We have to call spades spades or what else is there? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Seig heil Tesla
Yes, you did see what you think you saw. Here's an idea, let's call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Our information systems “feel like they were built for a world we no longer inhabit,” @cwarzel.bsky.social writes. He sees the Watch Duty app as a potential template for resilient “tools that give people information that can be turned into agency.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Beyond Doomscrolling
The internet we have, and the one we want
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Big tech is now formally in league with the far-right. The resistance to it will be personal and political iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
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How to resist the tech overlords
Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.
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Anna Tarrant @profatarrant.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Today we launched the Father-inclusion Hub to over 122 professionals. This hub is a living archiving of resources to capture what works in supporting dads! TY to @felicitycallon.bsky.social from Small Steps Big Changes for sharing your resources! Check it all out here: fatherinclusion.org
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Paul Hodkinson @paulhodkinson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social on why literacy not enough: 'if we don’t effectively regulate the tech companies, the effect of awareness raising... burdens vulnerable individuals with the responsibility for coping with the opaque and often exploitative actions of the world’s most powerful companies'
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
NEW: Elon Musk’s X is a weapon currently owned and controlled by a non-state entity. But from January 20, that changes. At that point, we need to understand in the context of information warfare from a hostile nation state. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Total information collapse
It's started. And it's only going to accelerate from here.
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Dr Patricia Hamilton @patriciahamilton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Happy New Year! In 2025, I'm running a research project on blackness and ARTs. I'd like to talk to: 1) black egg/sperm donors, 2) black surrogates, 3) black parents who plan to or have used IVF, IUI etc 4) clinicians & managers who've worked with black families #fertility #sociology Repost at will!
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Prof Kirsty Fairclough @profkirsty.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Really pleased to be on the Editorial Board for this new series.
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The Dad Shift @dadshiftuk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Ten years on from the introduction of shared parental leave, the policy has completely failed working families. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Shared parental leave ‘failing working families’
The government is reviewing the policy but campaigners say the current system is
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Professor Ranjana Das @profranjanadas.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It’s publication day!! Thrilled that my new monograph - #Parents talking #Algorithms: Navigating #Datafication and #Family life in #Digital societies is now published. Thanks to the fab testimonial writers and to BUP! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/parenting-in...
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Parents Talking Algorithms
Parents Talking Algorithms - Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies; This book explores the intersection of parenthood and the digital age, where algorithms shape daily decisions...
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