Yesterday I presented my research on shadowbanning, de-platforming and platform appeals to Samantha Niblett MP, together with a group of badass sex educators, activists and brands.

Our team secured external partners (start-ups, charities, govt offices & big corporations) who set challenges to be developed through interdisciplinary collaboration.

I had the pleasure of co-selecting & mentoring students + co-drafting the KBB programme. I was blown away by the level of presentations - well done to my mentees Abigail, Hong, Clara & Katelyn! Your projects give me hope that more scrutiny & justice will be built into our future tech & society.

The day started with a galvanizing opening keynote by London’s Deputy Mayor for the Environment Mete Coban MBE, reminding us we all have a role to play in making London (& the world) more sustainable.

Last week marked the conclusion of a very busy few weeks spent co-organising the #LSE’s Knowledge Beyond Boundaries conference & co-organizing + teaching the Impact Research Lab (IRL) programme pilot ⤵️

Since the UK govt's consultation about social media bans for under-16s is now live, it's fitting to share our newly-published papers from our AoIR2025 panel discussing the effects of platform governance's constrains, limits or outright bans on crucial information & networks for several users.

I was really sad to hear that the First Monday Journal will soon cease publication. Back in 2020, First Monday became the home of one of my very first papers, and the kindness and time taken in peer review was incredibly helpful to me as a PhD student and early-career researcher.

Popped into the BBC yesterday to record my bit of Radio 4's Anti-Social #podcast with Adam Fleming three years since my last appearance on it :) This time I talked about the 2016 vs 2026 trend, why Gen Z think Millennials are cringe and the real reasons behind these online trends...

It’s my 1st day as an LSE Fellow in Interdisciplinary Social Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science :) looking forward to teaching everything surrounding societal fairness & AI as part of LSE100 & to continuing with my work on platforms, governance & digital inequalities 💪🏼

Back from a gorgeous 10 days in Greece with the news in my inbox that our panel has made it into #AoIR2025! Catch me, @samcabbuag.bsky.social, Crystal Abidin, Ruepert Cao, @zaritaylor.bsky.social _ and @cjpersaud.bsky.social in Rio 💪🏼🇧🇷

Going to Greece on hol tomorrow and will be offline for a week or so 🥰 leaving you with @whoretographer’s fab shots from the Lover Management bday party. See you on the other side 😛

In a new paper for Convergence, @pamogranite.bsky.social & I examine the challenges Instagram & TikTok creators at risk of de-platforming face when holding onto communities, arguing that these spaces' turn towards entertainment & selling is producing fatigue: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very grateful to my friend Mary & to my partner for coming to support & taking these bangin’ pics of me in my @dipetsa.bsky.social goddess dress cause… dress for the job you want, right? *she says, crying at the state of the academic job market*

The journey to this performance was intense bc my hormones & body have been kicking my ass - I couldn’t do a lot of my fave moves, meaning I was really nervous in the lead-up to today. Luckily it went well ❤️‍🔥 I had a lot of fun with it!

This year I decided to pay homage to the 1st example of pole dancing I witnessed as a rock fan / teen: Kate Moss in The White Stripes’ video for “I just don’t know what to do with myself”.

Thank you SFA team & in particular Els, Suebie, Tulloch & David for making me feel so looked after, & thank you all my fellow judges for sharing the impossible job of choosing a winner. Thank you our lead judge Kian for trusting me with the role of “chair of vice” in your absence 😛

S3xual Freedom Awards 2025: completed it mate, for the 3rd year running ✅🏆 it is always an honour & a pleasure to come back to judge this gorgeous ceremony celebrating s3xual pioneers after having won activist of the year in 2019.

It was an honour to write in the same book as my academic idol @zahrastardust.bsky.social & as the woman that has inspired me and taught me so much about activism, SW & communicating with others, Ethical Stripper.

S3x on Stage - Performing the body politic is OUT with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social & it opens with my chapter about decompartmentalising my pole dancer & academic identities. We just had a wonderful, sold-out book launch at the gorgeous Scarlet Letters, the perfect space ❤️‍🔥

I've just finished my talk for the BSWC "Villainous" conference, where I shared strategies for communicating with social media platforms to push for change & make an impact with NGO &/or academic / union work. Yet, comms with platforms are getting more frustrating⤵️

I read, summarised & reviewed #CarelessPeople, Sarah Wynn Williams’ insider memoir about her time as the head of global public policy at Meta, so that you don’t have to (here bc it allows me to write more lol: www.instagram.com/p/DIMYeNdIIMC/).

Today, we presented findings from the report arising from my policy analysis virtually at the Comparative and International Education Society (#CIES2025) conference, with more presentations to come.

Congrats on your new book, @ysabel.bsky.social! Really enjoyed the book launch. If you want a more informed opinion on online safety and social media's influence on young people, consider buying Ysabel's book: www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ki...

Really hate to be *that* girl but if anyone had any hope Zuckerberg’s “less censorship, more freedom” turn was gonna help s*x-positive creators or indeed anyone who isn’t a cishet white tech dudebro, I present you my Instagram account status:

Celebrated IWD closing my friends’ pole studio’s 3rd bday show, performing to Pink Pony Club in a part-SW owned, badass space full of glitter, ass-shaking and supportive audience screams 🤘🏻

Dreamy Valentine’s weekend in Rye ❤️

Soldiers laying down their weapons after hearing the Pope’s message and two singers singing Imagine at #Sanremo2025

What will BTVS look like in a world where the Trio from S6 (aka the evil yet loser tech broligarchs) are now in charge, without the Scoobies... or Willow... to keep them in check? That's mainly why I'm hopeful but scared. Maybe only Buffy can save us now.

Secondly - & that's a big 1 - series finale "Chosen" delivered a democratisation of Slayer powers via the primordial slayer weapon, so that every girl who could be a slayer will be a slayer. But how will that look like in our current world, which looks increasingly less hopeful?