University of Southern Denmark, 3-year postdoc in Medieval Studies memorients.com/news/univers...

I’m watching Khauf (the sound on this is so terrifying- and that gnawing horror is well paced so far) & there’s not much to laugh at but it’s hilarious that ‘taalein ho’ (clap!) is translated as ‘tally ho’ 😂😂😂

This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.

watching Sean Combs The Reckoning & I’ve surprised myself (& my partner) with how much I know/remember from being a 13 year old obsessed with Tupac and (imo, the precursors to my fave ATCQ) Public Enemy.

amazing how my brain actually functions when I’m on holiday

As a regular reader, I am out on the picket line again today, supporting staff at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social who are JUST asking for decent pay

Good piece by @francesjones.bsky.social elevating the voices of researchers such as @petermandler.bsky.social on how the issues at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social are impacting scholarship including abandoned/postponed projects. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

The end of PEPFAR and global cuts to HIV prevention and treatment are a longterm health crisis and an immediate, fast-moving economic crisis—not dissimilar from the ways that conservatives are waging war on queer and trans people by coming for their jobs:

do we know when to expect ballot results @ucu.org.uk ?

Legal/scholars who work with legal archives: how do I find specific cases? For e.g., @wellcomecollection.bsky.social archives say Rex v. Blain is in the public domain. But where do I find/search for the case file/transcript? Maybe @ruthfletcher.bsky.social @sandraduffy.bsky.social know?

As #India transforms into a hub for artificial intelligence, the datacentre boom is creating a toxic hell and ruining the health of its people. “Amazon is using the shiny thing of AI to distract from the fact that it’s building a dirty energy empire." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

this is so deeply upsetting to read, for many reasons. the takeaway isn’t jus ‘prosecute influencers’ but why there is such deep distrust of medicine and obstetric care- we know the rates of obstetric violence are horrifying, maternal mortality & morbidity is shocking; & so deeply racialised. 1/

This week in Critical Bioethics, we asked "What kids of ethics in a pandemic?" - apart from the moral frameworks ("no egalitarians in a pandemic" - really?), we reflected on ungrievability, necropolitics too. A student asked "what evidence did they draw on?" I've just sent them the inquiry report.

I can kind of understand JMDP, but not Kuz - 4 GS overall (2 singles, 2 doubles), especially when Roddick is there with his single slam (whom I really like!). I also don't get Nestor getting rejected THREE times -EIGHT majors AND an Olympic gold. What do they base this on?!

I love this thread - including photos of lesbians organizing at Beijing in 1995! In my book I look at this lesbian advocacy as it relates to the movement for women's peacebuilding globally. Check it out here, and message me if you have any trouble accessing it. academic.oup.com/book/61612/c...

Given it’s taking 7, 8 up to 23 years to make some determinations this actually had me laughing out loud in the absolute certainty this this is undeliverable on every level. It’s a broken policy on inception. The bureaucracy alone is unworkable.

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this really made me laugh (not the sewage in waterways!) and is the most British way to protest that I’ve heard in a while www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‼️New Publication‼️ Precarity and Pills in a Pandemic: online #abortion care-seeking in Poland. How did COVID-19 shape abortion care-seeking in Poland? The pandemic deepened existing precarities and structural violence, reshaping abortion decision-making. 1/ doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

interesting @podsavetheuk.crooked.com epon abortion in the UK- Lisa was great!- but I’d suggest that perhaps imaginations/knowledges of fighting back is actually from non-US contexts like Argentina, or y’know, Ireland! The most radical abortion work is not happening in the US. 😕

In Oct 2023, an FOI revealed an actual wait at my nearest clinic (Exeter) of 17yrs & 3mos, a fact that stunned everyone I told. In one year, that's grown to THIRTY-ONE YEARS. NOT bcos referral rates are ballooning, as the MSM claims, but bcos at last count, each clinician only did 1.6 new appts pcm

I love when bus driver uncle sees me at the zebra crossing and nods at me, and waits at the bus stop for me to catch up. 🥹

The government has announced yet another proposed anti-protest law: a new criminal offence of protesting outside the home of someone in public office "where their intention is to influence them in their role or an aspect of their private life", with a maximum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment.

Has anyone ever volunteered as an independent visitor?

The Mannheim Centre at the LSE is holding a PhD symposium in May '26. The details are here lse.ac.uk/social-polic... and I would encourage all interested PhD students to apply. Should be a great, great event

even when they’re stripped of titles, they’re still propped up with our tax monies. grow up already, it’s been time for a @republiccampaign.bsky.social for aeons already

organised as part of the Reproduction Research Group in the Dept. of Global Health & Social Medicine @kings-sga.bsky.social, we're delighted to celebrate the work of Drs Vacarezza, @cordyf.bsky.social, Chaparro-Buitrago. Come join us in person or online! www.outsavvy.com/event/31065/...

What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era of reactionary politics? 'in conversation' w/ leading feminist & reproductive justice scholars on messy, magical, political feminist activism in Latin America. 10th Nov, 1830-1930 GMT: www.outsavvy.com/event/31065/... @kings-sga.bsky.social

Here are two "I can't believe these are free" online stats texts books that cover both underlying principles and practical applications in R that I regularly refer to. Learning Statistics with R learningstatisticswithr.com Doing Meta-Analysis with R bookdown.org/MathiasHarre...

I tend to write really detailed feedback for student assessments - this is obviously extremely time intensive, & i'm often told students don't *want* that much feedback. my marking load has also increased so... any tips on how to write more conscise but still useful feedback?

is it my algorithm glitching by sending me karva chauth stuff or is it a lot more folks putting it on social media?

Today, the counterprotesters have started giving out leaflets. This is because yesterday they managed to talk someone out of going to FiLiA, and they felt that leaflets could communicate such messages more effectively. They have also started giving out stickers promoting trans joy.

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Conference alert! Thursday 18th-Friday 19th June, 2026, London campus of Loughborough University. Online day: Monday 22nd June, 2026. Please see Call for Papers here: feministmiscarriageproject.org/conference

“[…]AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

reclaim the em and en dash.

genuinely so stupid. have they even bothered to talk to anyone working at a uni? not like unis are struggling because of the broken HE model and treating international students like cash cows, & they don’t want to come here anymore (which, y’know, fair) www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"But it’s not just abortion, it is part of a larger anti-rights issue" Reform has seen a few anti-abortion folks join them, but this broader anti-rights ideology includes racist, anti-immigration, anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI approaches and actions. 1/ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

yes, because this war criminal/ crypt keeper is the logical pick for this www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

giving the same energy: youtu.be/Ei9iM_zzzQk?...

Do you think I can start my lecture on bioethics and technologies with the first five minutes of this on the absurdities of AI?

**UNHEARD BOOK EVENT - LONDON** 21st October at the beautiful Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garrett in London. I used to pass this venue all the time when I was a medical student at Guys Hospital so this is really exciting! Join us! Tickets 👇🏽 oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/...

🌍 The Guild is pleased to announce that the Early-Career Research Fellowships programme launched by ARUA is now open to African researchers affiliated with the #AfricaEuropeCoRE! 🧐 Click the link to find out what that means: www.the-guild.eu/news-and-blo...

If you're looking to connect with folks working in the food security and nutrition space, our team have put together a starter pack to facilitate dialogue--you can find the details below. There are some really great accounts worth checking out here! #FoodPoverty #FoodInsecurity #StarterPacks

student induction is just over a week away. my first lecture of the year is in 17 days. how do we teach social justice or bioethics or, well, anything at all without grappling with the horrifying fact of genocide or fascism or hatred of trans folks, immigrants, Muslims […]? 1/2

Judith Butler: “We have a right to know the charges against us, to know who has made the charges and to review them and defend ourselves...But none of that has happened, which is why we’re in Kafka-land…It is an enormous breach of trust.” Isn't Butler working on a book on Kafka right now?

Historian of science here: it’s worth pointing out that getting paid for doing research is a fairly recent thing. William Harvey did his research as a hobby, as it were. So did Charles Darwin.