Paul Hodkinson
@paulhodkinson.bsky.social
Prof of Sociology at University of Surrey - fathers, masculinities, youth, digital media...
'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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October 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
'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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“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?
Has AI killed the essay?
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...
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
“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?
Has AI killed the essay?
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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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May 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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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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!
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Deadline: 9 June
Please repost- thanks!
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Job Details
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May 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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...
Deadline: 9 June
Please repost- thanks!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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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-...
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.
www.newyorker.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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Two posts coming up in my department. We are very nice 😌
#criminology #digitalcrim #crimpsych
#sociology #digitalsocio or #whatever ⬇️
#criminology #digitalcrim #crimpsych
#sociology #digitalsocio or #whatever ⬇️
April 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Two posts coming up in my department. We are very nice 😌
#criminology #digitalcrim #crimpsych
#sociology #digitalsocio or #whatever ⬇️
#criminology #digitalcrim #crimpsych
#sociology #digitalsocio or #whatever ⬇️
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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
• 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
October 21, 2024 at 8:36 AM
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
• 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
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!
April 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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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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-...
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-...
March 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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-...
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-...
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
Is the crisis masculinity—or the way we talk about it? Responding to Adolescence from a position of Safe Uncertainty | Reimagining RSE
eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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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See also cute share-worthy graphic:
March 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
See also cute share-worthy graphic:
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If Trump was President in 1940
March 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If Trump was President in 1940
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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
fatherinclusion.org
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.
fatherinclusion.org
February 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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
fatherinclusion.org
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🎉 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...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pop--post...
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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February 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🎉 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...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pop--post...
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📢New article: 'Paradoxical Parenting Practices and Australian Higher Education', in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social, with @drdanwoodman.bsky.social & @juliacook.bsky.social
#parenting #HE #intensiveparenting
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#parenting #HE #intensiveparenting
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January 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
📢New article: 'Paradoxical Parenting Practices and Australian Higher Education', in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social, with @drdanwoodman.bsky.social & @juliacook.bsky.social
#parenting #HE #intensiveparenting
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#parenting #HE #intensiveparenting
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🌟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...
Friday, 21 February, 11am - 1pm
Register ➡️: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Publishing from your PhD: Crafting Articles and Reviews with Sociological Research Online
www.britsoc.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🌟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...
Friday, 21 February, 11am - 1pm
Register ➡️: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
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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?
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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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January 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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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...
Beyond Doomscrolling
The internet we have, and the one we want
www.theatlantic.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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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...
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.
iandunt.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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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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
January 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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
@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'
With the #UK's Online Safety Act, #Ofcom has published a guide for tackling harms and risks #online. But do these guidelines go far enough?
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social argues we need more and smarter #regulation to keep children safe online @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social 📱👇
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social argues we need more and smarter #regulation to keep children safe online @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social 📱👇
Child online safety – next steps for regulation, policy and practice
Following the Online Safety Act, Ofcom has published its guide for tackling harms and risks online. But critics argue that these guidelines don’t go far enough. Sonia Livingstone analyses the…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
@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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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...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Total information collapse
It's started. And it's only going to accelerate from here.
open.substack.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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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!
January 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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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Really pleased to be on the Editorial Board for this new series.
Launching our new series with The Subcultures Network 📢
SUBCULTURES AND SOCIAL CHANGE - an ambitious series broadening the lens of 'subculture' to a wider range of fields such as sex, politics, religion and leisure. 🕺
Now taking proposals - read more: tinyurl.com/ywx8h2uy
SUBCULTURES AND SOCIAL CHANGE - an ambitious series broadening the lens of 'subculture' to a wider range of fields such as sex, politics, religion and leisure. 🕺
Now taking proposals - read more: tinyurl.com/ywx8h2uy
December 12, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Really pleased to be on the Editorial Board for this new series.