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📆Friday 13th February: "Queer Data: Methods, Approaches, and What is Queer Social Research Anyway?" with @kevinguyan.bsky.social and @sociologyoxford.bsky.social. A workshop exploring how we think about and use data. Don't miss it!

The Futures of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Forum is taking place on Tues 27 Jan! 📊 We've overjoyed by the HUGE number of people registered – and would love for you to join us! 🕑 16.00 (GMT), 11.00 (ET), 08.00 (PT) 💻 Online 👋 All welcome Register here: sogidata.eventbrite.co.uk

Three years ago, census data on the LGBT+ population in England and Wales was published for the first time! 🌈 On 27 Jan 2026 we're organising the Futures of SOGI Data Forum to explore opportunities and challenges associated with gender, sex and sexuality data 📊

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and please complete your mandatory e-learning by 31 December.

Morning all! Ivor remained asleep until 6am, bless him. Just had a look and we tipped 20k, which is magnificent. I’m going to repost some pix that I missed while slumbering. Thank you thank you #DuvetKnowItsChristmas www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Preparing a slide show for my complaining daughter who has no idea how luxurious her temp bedroom is!

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

And chill….

The AIDS Memorial Quilt, memorial to celebrate the lives of people who died of AIDS-related causes. Created by/cared for by many, but especially "Mother of the Quilt" Gert McMullin. The largest piece of community folk art in the world, now on show at Tate Modern #GoSeeArt !

First time making lamp bases - feel like this might become a new obsession! #pottery #clay

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...

My favourite time of year - just spotted five pairs of #swifts over our garden in Penarth

This is a very tough day for trans people – with a long legal road ahead to right this wrong by @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

thread of pro-trans demos in: aberdeen belfast bristol cardiff cheltenham dundee glasgow leamington spa london manchester nottingham plymouth sheffield swansea worcester york

Protest in Cardiff

Protest in Swansea bsky.app/profile/tran...

Link to our latest blog: breakingbinariesresearch.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/t... The Supreme Court Judgement: A Case of Testimonial Injustice? #Translivesmatter #Transwomenarewomen

Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral. Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law. 📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...

NEVER Forget. Say it loud. Say it proud. #TransWomenAREWomen

Stand up and fight for this every step of the way until everyone agrees. #TransWomenAreWomen #TransMenAreMen #NonBinaryPeopleAreValid #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Excellent summary of a key isssue - no trans voices were heard in this case goodlawproject.org/the-supreme-...

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS 🏳️‍⚧️

Today, Katy Perry became a space tourist, emitting as much carbon as someone does over their ENTIRE LIFETIME. No scientific gains were sought through this flight. Just pandering to rich folks. Don’t come at me saying this was for female equality. It was not. It is bullshit. #blueorigin #ns31

Time for a break….

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Went to visit mum’s tree at Dyffryn Gardens. Five years since she passed (yes the first day of lockdown) has gone so quickly but she is never far from my thoughts.

Call for Papers by 21 March for ‘Continuities and Discontinuities in Work and Employment’, the BSA Work, Employment & Society Conference 2025, from 8-10 September at the University of Manchester tinyurl.com/3j52cdmm #Sociology #CFP

Today’s walk. Storm leading the way as usual.

More pots. I’d had a break from throwing for a while but two weekends of practice and I’m back in a routine. There will be a lot of glazing soon. #pottery #clay

Storm enjoyed his walk #northerndogs

Today’s pots! #pottery #clay

🚨New Methods Session!🚨 Find the recording and slides for our session on using tools and tech for qualitative research over on our blog! The slides include a list of current papers and sites discussing AI in qualitative research! breakingbinariesresearch.wordpress.com/our-expertis...

ANNOUNCEMENT Due to concerns related to platform directions and values, Management Learning is now migrating to Bluesky as an alternative social media platform to X/Twitter. To access the journal's updates and news, please follow us on on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/mana...

🚨 Just a few days left to apply to share work at this June's QUEER DATA SHOWCASE! We’re inviting artists, academics, activists and anyone who works with – or is interested in – queer data to pitch their ideas! The Call for Presenters closes on 3 March www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

YES! Calls for 'more categories' or 'more inclusive' rules for changing gender markers is the wrong approach. We instead need to expose the inherent violence of classification systems for queer communities and fight for a future without the use of gender markers on passports.

breakingbinariesresearch.wordpress.com/2024/01/31/p.... To get you in the mood for more Barbie themed content next week here’s @breakingbinaries.bsky.social original film review

I'll share this again for the new arrivals. Let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/Nh93EHh

Team BBR have been out and about this week - look out for the blog post in the next few days!

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

We love it, Will! ❤️

Indirect costs = the costs of keeping a university running. Heating and lighting it, the library, the IT department, HR, cleaning etc. The actual costs are perhaps 50-100% of the direct costs of research. This is a pillow on the face of academic research in USA.

Queer Judgments brings together scholars, lawyers, and activists to re-imagine and re-write legal judgments that relate to LGBTQ+ folk. It’s been a labour of love and community. We hope our book energises pursuits for justice! Download a copy here: counterpress.org.uk/publications... #AcademicSky

When data systems incorporate gender and sexuality categories uncritically, things can go wrong 🗣️ New writing on the use (and misuse) of identity data when setting #research targets, benchmarks and indicators. #DEI #diversity #data #REF #funding 📝 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

🌈 Delighted to share the cover for my new book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion, publishing with Bloomsbury this June www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rainbow-t...