Daniel Cockayne

New 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

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library This 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 ....

New 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...

Who 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?

AI is useless.

Super exciting - congratulations on the quote Jessa!

Really 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!

The Booker is an English language prize, not a British one.

Are we doing only 19th Century, or are To The Lighthouse and Beloved allowable?

This 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....

I'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...

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85 The American essayist, playwrightauthor of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man, has died

Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

Geographies of Fintech and Everyday Life: Reconfiguring Spaces, Practices, and Scales of Digital Money and Finance Financial 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...

Consumers 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....

This will be perfect for the class I'm teaching on AI economies in *checks syllabus* four weeks' time.

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Please 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.

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I 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.

To the surprise of literally no one.

Just 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...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Jesus fucking Christ

OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images The latest version of OpenAI's image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli.

”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.'"

Only someone born and still living in Toronto, someone who has never left the GTA, could think this, surely...!

In 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...

Gross. Sad to see some of these names...

If the only thing I know about music is that Britten's Festival Te Deum is a Kinsey 6, that's probably enough.

This looks incredible!

Currently @universityaffairs.bsky.social has like 20 followers, so anyway, Canadian academics (and others) should follow them.

I've been using the term straightening device after Ahmed and I also want to use cissening device but it just seems too clumsy somehow...!

Or, perhaps, it's not.

A 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...

Glad 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....

I read this a couple of years ago and it was truly excellent - an inspiration to Ferrante that is surely worthy of her.