It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Living the good life, I just made this plum almond cake. Turned tasteless plums into a piece of magic and happy afternoon 😋 share.google/QusBF1wTinCZ...

Sceptical or optimistic about qualified doctors being #wellness influencers? Great piece here showing how doctors promoting wellness are largely indistinguishable from non-doctor wellness-sellers.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

👀 I thought we had all agreed that videoing each other without consent was gross, last time round @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social @drjentarr.bsky.social & I wrote about this way back in 2015 😭 Too much information: visual research ethics in the age of wearable cameras eprints.lse.ac.uk/61629/

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I have always hated the way smart speakers and chatbots mimic amicability and draw people in to talking to them as if there is a person there. Great to read a scholarly exploration, using dear old Gigerenzer and Grice to set out the problem 🌟

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Lolsob, this is so stupid for so many reasons Reason #3581: every academic I know who wins research funding ALWAYS spends unfunded time writing up and developing impact. The funding is never ever enough to complete the project. 😭

This is so clear on why "debate" is not a productive democratic format 🙏🙏🙏

The relentless contempt, disgust, even hate that successive UK governments exhibit for the country's (hitherto) wildly successful HE sector remains one of the most baffling sub-plots of a generally insane age.

Iam so immensely shocked and heartbroken. I’ll miss his fierce intellect, ethical backbone, political commitment, high energy, and that famous irreverent wit. Rest in power, Professor Gearty.

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Paid a visit to the London arms fair today... Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display. Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains? These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.

I would love to! Let me know if any non-fiction agents out there are interested in taking it on! (For various reasons I will not self publish. I also don't want to work directly with a publisher because I have no experience, don't know red flags to look for, and don't want to be taken advantage of.)

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

UK sociologist of health? Next call for @fshi.bsky.social awards closes 30th october www.shifoundation.org.uk/schemes/

Our Sociology of Health & Illness editorial team is advertising for a PGR RA to drive our social media strategy. Apply with a CV + 1 page letter outlining your skills and approach by 26th September 5pm to Prof. Janice (dot) McLaughlin (at) Newcastle (dot) ac (dot) uk. Come join us! #medsoc #medhums

Wow. Fiona Godlee, former editor of the BMJ, arrested at protest for Palestine. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Tomorrow, Russell Square, London, 12 noon. It will be huge - add your presence if you can't stand genocide.

I spoke a little bit on the radio about why the deconstruction of Grenfell Tower weighs so heavily. The Tower sustains the memory of Grenfell, it is a part of the community. Out of sight, out of mind? (As Karim Mussilhy said at the anniversary). Another tough week for everyone. Sending strength.

"This application of Adorno’s maxim 'never again Auschwitz' has made of it the opposite of what he intended: a tool of [Germany's] Staatsräson instead of resistance against it." Must-read, authoritative analysis of Germany's misguided response to Gaza, unearthing gems from Adorno's work and more!

YES!

EXACTLY

Grant rejected. I really wish reviewers would understand that giving a grant anything lower than an 80% grade is going to get it rejected in these times. It's weird to read an extremely positive referee feedback report and then see they've given it a score which means it's an inevitable fail.

Very taken by this from @carlhendrick.substack.com both from an #AcademicSky AI summary ennui perspective and also as someone who is spending as much of their annual leave as possible reading as a restorative activity. carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-humili...

Helpful read I think: we need to move on from Gen AI panic mode to designing programmes for learning with and alongside AI tools in different explicit ways

Wellness #influencers are widely criticised as “unqualified” health advisors, so what difference does it make when those giving lifestyle advice online are medical doctors ⁉️ Find out ⬇️

Stimulating paper arguing that qualitative sociology of health is more than lived experience / patient voice. V interesting for what gets institutionalised as legitimate knowledge and peculiarites of "PPI"

Same!

🧶 #showmeyourknits WIP week Mitred square blanket (thanks to @everydayknitter.bsky.social for the free instructions) in leftover Malabrigo Rios (so squishy 😍). Undecided how big it will become.

as part of @abortionbookclub.bsky.social, @joestrong.bsky.social & i have been running short creative workshops to produce 'zines/creative outputs to the broad prompt 'what's in an abortion, anyway?'. check out some of the wonderful outputs 👇 www.otherabortionstories.space/abortion-zin... 1/

PLRC have transformed the meaning of 'patient expertise' or 'community-led research'. Not only do they lead crucial research, they fund innovative new lines og inquiry - catch up with their webinar next week!

This looks amazing!

Current #knitting #wip is loads of garter stripes for #showmeyourknits 🧶 Everyday Attitude by Susanne Sommer, in De Rerum Antigone linen yarn Drying after an interim blocking to check length (my gauge got much looser between little swatch and big speedy knitting 😭)

"Britain’s health and social care system Is not sustainable without an unrelenting focus on tackling health inequity. The truth is that right now, in the UK, we value some people significantly more than we value others. And this is actually costing us in terms of economic and societal wellbeing"

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Great thread to understand the mentality of the self-serving fuckers wrecking everything collective Read to the end for celebration of top notch solidarity too 🤩

“Law-abiding protest has so far failed to stop the genocide. More than 50,000 innocent children have been killed or injured. In what circumstances could civil disobedience ever be justified if not now?”

The world is insane. Cheers to the mural painters in Bantry, Co Cork, for their big hearts (photo from April 2025) ❤️🇵🇸

Is it terrible to admit that I don't like writing reviews that are going to be public forever? Performing for the whole world is different to writing a letter to an editor and authors. Peer review is definitely at breaking point, but am not convinced this is the answer

The world is insane. Cheers to the mural painters in Bantry, Co Cork, for their big hearts (photo from April 2025) ❤️🇵🇸

🧵 on the suffering of people enduring Long Covid globally, in the absence of proper knowledge and care. It is another epidemic we must recognise.

This should keep us up at night -

Writing is hard, but writing is also part of the process of thinking, so lets not decapitate ourselves by outsourcing our thinking to Gen AI?

"One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This"

I’m still thinking about this, and wondering what sort of support might be useful I suspect even just having a space to share ideas and strategies ends up being useful before we get into lists of tools or apps or anything like that, what do you think? (And big thanks to all who’ve already replied)

Long Covid is almost completely erased from scholarly, professional and public knowledge in Brazil. Yet prevalence and symptoms are the same as in the Global North, where most research is located. We are trying to increase its recognition!