I wrote this little blog post on Sheila O'brien for Cinema and Social Justice cinemasocialjustice.org/2026/03/05/b...

New exciting adventure: Women’s Broadcasting History book series edited by @nenieb.bsky.social and @helenwarner.bsky.social and yours truly. If you have a relevant project shaping up, please get in touch!

Probably best to avoid me for the next few weeks because I just finished @timbl.bsky.social memoir and I am insufferable. I am skillfully steering every conversation so that I can bring up an anecdote from the book.

The International Women’s Broadcasting Histories network is delighted to announce that it will be hosting its inaugural conference at the University of East Anglia, 25-26th June 2026. #cfp as a 🧵

As a mum of an autistic child, I don't feel any guilt. I do, however, feel furious and terrified because the end goal is to make autistic lives unliveable. This. Is. Fascism.

Can we make it so that everyone in power *has* to read this book?

#JessCarter just playing like prime Bobby Moore. #lionesses #England #Euro2025

I am a wreck 😭😭😭😭😭 #lionesses

I wish more disabled and/or neurodivergent people (not to mention the ableds) would understand that the explicit openly stated goal of tech companies re gAI is to replace every public/social service from healthcare to education and more with their tech. And they’re using us to build consensus.

I am dead. #lionesses

I am deceased #lionesses

I feel sick #lionesses

Anyone else find breathing exercises immensely stressful?

SEND parents: We need more TAs and 1-1s in school Government: there's no money. Also government: (I'm not anti tech but this is not the silver bullet the goverment thinks it is. It does not 'assist' kids with social communication differences and sensory processing disorders)

I was genuinely horrified to be told in parenting course for kids with additional needs to ask Chat GPT for Occupational Therapy advice because the waiting lists are out of control

My eldest often assigns family and friends names related to a thing he's interested in. (We've had planet names, Thomas characters etc). He's currently into Gladiators. He is referring to me exclusively as Mark Clattenburg.

Day one of #DWFTV7 done. Highlights incoming. First, Lincoln is pretty

So I know it's fathers day coming up but I just attended a course for parents of kids with additional needs. Can you guess how many dads were in there?

UEA HUM PGR conference is fast becoming my favourite event. Such fascinating research and presented so enthusiastically and dynamically. Massive congrats to all involved

Hilariously I posted this before seeing that there would be a screening of a video essay she co-created. It's superb.

At the 'Women Talking' symposium in Leeds. Blown away by the way @feministbell.bsky.social presents. A real feminist ethics of care in the way she curates and communicates info. I don't know how to explain it other than to say it's like watching a really good documentary.

I just keep thinking about how this perfectly sums up how I'm feeling rn

Redundancies remain on the table at UEA. "It’s time for UEA management to do the right thing, drop the threats, engage meaningfully, and commit to real accountability." @drjogrady.bsky.social Solidarity with all striking staff. ✊ #SaveUEA #UCU

The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous. Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family. To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.

This week friends & colleagues @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social are finding out whether they are facing compulsory redundancy. Sombre times. We don’t think UEA has *ever treated its own people like this before. It’s both cruel & unnecessary @uea-ucu.bsky.social

A day before our national rally UEA staff are back on the picket line, standing strong against cuts and redundancies. Solidarity works. Let’s bring that energy to London tomorrow. #ProtectEducationNow

New article published! Co-written with my fantastic colleagues in the International Women's Broadcasting Histories network: Women’s broadcasting histories and the archive: National, transnational and transmedial entanglements. Critical Studies in Television, doi.org/10.1177/1749...

Delayed announcement due to strike action and observing the digital picket line, but our article for Critical Studies in Television is out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Can't really afford to strike. Definitely can't afford not to. Sending solidarity and strength to all colleagues at risk. It should never have come to this.

Seeing irritating chat about gentle parenting. Here's my hot take: Parenting is impossible. Everyone is doing their best (with limited support/resources). Don't add to their guilt with your shit opinions.

The BBC’s new policy for the Written Archive Centre in Caversham is to allow access only to files that have already been vetted, making it impossible to consult new material crucial to original research — see here: www.bbc.co.uk/archiveservi...

Having an ND kid is wild. Handryer in a public toilet? Complete meltdown. Amusements where every single sense is assaulted? Err, yes please. What is that about?!

Great piece on the crisis facing British HE, the mismanagement, greed, and managerial incompetence that is leading us to the end stage of the UK’s prized knowledge economy >>> www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/staf... #SaveUEA (Unpaywalled here: archive.ph/202502210341... )

Internet studies folks! I need help. Please send recs for work on young people, digital labour, influencers, micro enterprises...I hate to ask but my kid has chicken pox and I have a deadline 😭

Teen Vogue being the voice of reason...again

UEA UCU members, have you submitted your ballot yet? This is a ballot about the future of UEA. It is about empowering staff and protecting the livelihoods our members. ✅Vote YES to Strike Action ✅Vote YES to Action Short of a Strike. The ballot will be open until Feb 4th. #SaveUEA

Voted Yes & Yes @uea-ucu.bsky.social

The world is literally on fire. Can we stop cooking the planet with chat gpt maybe?

In a moment of massive anxiety before a work appraisal, I took a photo of all the required reading I'd done for teaching that semester. I deleted it because it was a bit bonkers, but I like the idea of keeping a kind of academic good reads. So here's what I'm reading this semester: chapter 8 of

Started my excellent Christmas present. I heard @victoriandetective.bsky.social on Radio 4 talking about it and it doesn't disappoint.

Anyone familiar with the Cal Newport time blocking thing (or similar)? Is it worth doing? Trying to make my work life less chaotic

Day 20: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #bookchallenge

Day 19: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #bookchallenge

Day 18: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #bookchallenge

Day 17: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #bookchallenge

Day 16: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #bookchallenge

Day 15: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. ##bookchallenge

Day 14: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. ##bookchallenge

Day 13: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #bookchallenge

Day 12: Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #bookchallenge