For victims, the burden of truth is high. For perpetrators, any old bullshit seems credible. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Well #sophiefromromania and I are tangoing #strictly

"another word for austerity is living within our means" So how come in the "5th richest country in the world" (as we're often told), it's the poorest whose kids are dying from mould & the disabled clobbered to death by the govt? How come the most precarious die and the richest are just fine? #bbcqt

If you ever have to get top up insurance for a young driver, don't bother with Veygo Tay crashed my car 3 weeks ago. These jokers havent even got it out of storage yet. £750 excess, no customer service, no sense of urgency. It is so bad it borders on a scam.

New paper, the amazing luke ward www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Quite bizarre. Why turn away from the very thing that has made teen vogue relevant.

ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties. Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan. Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.

Very disappointing to see such political interference in the curriculum. Whatever one might think about aspects of the existing curriculum (and I certainly have my own criticisms of it), it must be remembered that many individuals and communities gave their time and expertise in its development.

I climbed a mountain in the andes today. It was a small one (1638m). But still. It was in the andes and i climbed it! :)

Important article on the challenges of access to domestic abuse sevices journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Demographers & sociologists assemble! I'm looking for papers that use both Generation & Gender Survey and SHARE in the same paper. Don't care about topic, sub-sample, or design - just that it's empirical. Self-promotion is encouraged. #sociology #demography

Today is a good day to remind everyone that the US narrative claiming the President of Venezuela is a drug trafficker is 100% lies. The Trump administration knows this, the Nobel committee knows this... it is a campaign to manufacture consent for invasion. Don't fall for it.

“I’ve spent six months talking to trans people who are afraid to go out because of the climate of fear the EHRC’s interim guidance created,” Maugham said. “Some are suicidal – and I am aware of people who have sought to take their own lives." goodlaw.social/9j3v

I am oberon and theseus in midsummer nights dream, this week

Universities have been saying that the cross subsidy model doesn't work. We have been saying it for some time. So... um... why are politicians and policy makers surprised that the sector is in free fall? Universities did *not* make this mess. But my god we are bearing the brunt.

Oh god

I love this image.

I have just started reading this wonderful book. It is open access. Legacies of Forced Removals in South Africa: Children and Childhoods in Temporary Relocation Areas in the Western Cape wpcpress.app.box.com/s/pvxp2f1jyd...

'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children news.sky.com/story/abject...

A useful book www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...

Every day there seems to be a new blow to the things we value most about academic life. It is hard not to feel overwhelmed.

What actually is wrong with these people.

A newish* open access paper: My student Romany Murray's prof doc counselling psych research: “I am secretary, therapist, maid, nurse”: a qualitative exploration of lived experiences of caring for a family member with a BPD diagnosis share.google/z3Q1tYJ6lipb...

My collie girl thinks if she shiuts at me enough, i will make the wind and rain stop....

Hardly any Hen Harrier nesting attempts on English grouse moors for second year running. Hardly any surprise why. #RaptorPersecution #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/02/h...

Academic publishing is in such a mess. Its dependency on free labour is surely going to make this worse with so many uk universities now telling staff to do *nothing* for free... ? What will it take to break and remake the industry?

Fantastic resource - podcast about dementia-related memory loss - from Professor Catherine Loveday - how to have tricky conversations, how to improve sleep and how to scaffold memory mempathy.podbean.com

Our first post to bluesky! We thought we'd share the brand new episode of our podcast, Caring About Care, shining a light on the history of the #careexperienced movement! Listen now on spotify www.tinyurl.com/caringaboutc...

When english politicuans tfy to convince the public scotland has the same water pollution issues they have, and i am like "aye right..."

This is moving in exactly the wrong direction! Education & meaningful activity in prison is crucial to reducing violence and improving outcomes

I have disagreed with her in the past, and she blocked me, but this is the most shocking thing I have seen her post. She is a headmistress! I expect more wisdom from someone in her position. I sincerely hope he doesn’t shape the future and in my opinion he was the ‘worst of us’!

Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

I'll be playing oberon and theseus, if you fancy a bit of Shakespeare at his silliest... www.ticketsource.co.uk/kraken-theat...

Do you think an associate Dean for Research should be someone with a significant Research profile? Or is managing Research a different job from doing it?

I am entirely bemused by this. Victoria Clarke is one of the most prominent methodologists in the world. This is evidenced by multiple metrics. From this article, it seems that her university, @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social‬ are aware of this. blogs.uwe.ac.uk/research-ext...

Early reports of a school shooting this morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis (I was baptized at the church there). As always: it's the guns. The US is the only country in the world that politically tolerates and legally ensures the routine mass slaughter of its own citizens.

Guess which uwe academic isnt a full professor. Hint. It is a woman. Its probably the only person on the list you have actually heard of... blogs.uwe.ac.uk/research-ext...

Questionable review processes and labor practices retractionwatch.com/2024/10/22/y...

A very interesting article drawing out the concept of care poverty from my colleague @profkirstein.bsky.social and collaborators. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Such an interesting article journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Bit grossed out that bbc radio scotland have fascists as guests this morning. Don't legitimate them. Don't give them space to spew their hate. Their are pictures of them giving nazi salutes and holding posters threatening murder. The little jackboots belong in prison, not on the radio.

Are you a black Scot? (either a native Scot or settled Scot) Or do you have friends who are black scots? One of my phd students is doing research on black Scottish experiences and would love to interview you. If you're interested, could you drop me a message and I'll get some information to you.

Because domestic abuse is a gendered phenomenon, services need to reflect that, regardless of the sex of the victim. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Also what kind of saturation? Theoretical saturation which -- as far as I know -- is where the term comes from, is not the same as data saturation. And that's really only the first of my concerns about this kind of approach!

Trump's North East visit is forcing the local community to shut down for the weekend, & normalises a man whose politics are hateful, cruel, & deluded. Join the movement this Saturday to tell the world that power-hungry Trump is not welcome here!

Why do people keep trying to fo this? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I want something to read my papers back to me. The built in word one is too robotic. What else do people use?