Why thank you, yes my parents did have a impregnating sort of festive period.

The other week I was talking with an academic from another discipline re 'employability' skills. I explained that my modules focus on identifying and understanding the mechanisms which produce and solidify inequality, and how to act against this. They replied:

I know this isn't news to anyone sick, but being ill is such a fucking boring waste of time. Today? An HOUR for a blood test at the hospital. With! Added bonus of refusal of privacy as blood tests done in groups of 3 people in a room. Phlebotomist loudly identified what medication I was on.

It's nice when photos you didn't know existed turn up AND you don't hate how you look in them. A happy little snap from Pride in Southampton, from last month with @uosengagement.bsky.social

Subject to dotting some doi's and pluralising some time(s), it's accepted! Second round reviews were a rave, what a lovely process this peer review has been. 5 stars for the Sociological Review, would submit manuscript to again

It's a testament to my commitment to my adopted home of Southampton that I was so much more excited about Craig David in the JustEat advert than Jude Law in the Uber Eats advert.

It was a simpler time. These lyrics are objectively ridiculous but somehow that just didn't feel as important at the time. #totp #ThatsTheSightIFearMost #RatherHaveaPieceOfToast

Echo and the Bunnymen and the Spice Girls: together at last. #TOTP

Is Grandparents day "difficult for some people" or is it a non existent event which they are somehow rinsing coming and going with this email?

Writing out my affiliation and suddenly stuck on whether I profess _in_ sociology, or _of_ sociology. I have no idea.

"maintain a healthy diet" says every psychiatrist ever. Yeah great. Thanks.

Those poor B*Witches girls, trapped in a technicolour and denim nightmare land, forced to sell garbage records to the newly created tween market. #totp

I have the vaguest memory of this song, but between the terrible lip syncing and the obvious attempt to style like All Saints, N-Tyce were doomed from the start #totp

Didn't win the Radiohead lottery, but I did get cancellation tickets for SS Shieldhall for the "steam together" with PS Waverley around the Solent. So, highs and lows, you know.

It's in! It's in! Always have a co-author, always. Makes the whole process at least 10% less painful.

I am refreshing a reading list/adding a new week to my (soci) module Sexuality and Intimacy. I am looking for recomendations of work on religion and intimacy/love/friendship/care/embodiment. Particualrly interested in anything about Quakers, Sikhs and Buddhists. Recommendations gratefully received.

SNW episode 7 has absolutely finished me. All my hesitation about the orientation of this series to core Star Trek principles are gone for that episode. It remains my deepest wish to join Starfleet. Unfortunately, I seem to be stuck in the mirror universe.

Wes Streeting is actually 482 slugs in a second hand Moss Bros suit.

Wes Streeting suggesting a change in law about hate speech online after Gl*nner arrested is just so fucking on brand. I feel so betrayed by Labour. They stand for nothing I believed the party was.

Days of news cycle on this clown archipelago nothing but

I wasn't really on board with the whole "flags on lamposts" thing. But seeing this filthy mattress, as the shining shit on top of a heap of rubbish, with the red cross daubed on it like blood, really turned my head.

I wasn't really on board with the whole "flags on lamposts" thing. But seeing this filthy mattress, as the shining shit on top of a heap of rubbish, with the red cross daubed on it like blood, really turned my head.

I am so close to finished on this. SO close. Feel like I've hit everything on the reviewer comments, one last bit to finish finessing. All I need to do is just write it....gargh

Men who grab you (and hold on) as they pass you in a crowd: this is unacceptable. An open hand on a shoulder or arm is enough to alert someone you are trying to pass. Being grabbed is physically violating: I WILL shout at you to get your hands off me.

Reeeaally wish people calling Reform UK ‘Deform(ed)’ would stop that immediately and think about it for just a hot second 😑😑😑

Just had the misfortune of catching Julia Bradbury on Radio 2 peddling all sorts of shaming quack cure nonsense. Including claim that you can only "feed" your brain by walking. Which brings me back to this excellent article: lithub.com/nature-is-no...

Letter to Cleo cover is superior. Don't at me. #totp

On Tuesday 26th August tear gas canisters were fired near Ramallah Friends School and a parent was fired on by a sniper while trying to reach the school gates. Nobody at the school was injured but the children were left shaken and their families anxious. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Opinion: Mental illness in Black people is criminalized, and Lil Nas X being thrown to the ground and arrested is no laughing matter, Mey Rude writes.

This is such an important article getting to the heart of the real issue with the Salt Path story. "The way we talk about illness and disability dictates what is possible...There are two options that seem to be available: triumphal recovery or inspirational death" lithub.com/nature-is-no...

6 days to go, and we just reached 40,000 responses! 🎉🫣 If your gender is a quantum superposition, please consider filling in our annual survey. It takes 5-6 minutes, and just asks for all your gender words like pronouns and whatnot. survey.gendercensus.com #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #gender #survey

Less than 300 to go until 40,000 responses... Did your gender get dyed a different colour in the wash? If so, please consider taking this 5-minute, non-intrusive language survey: survey.gendercensus.com #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #gender #pride #survey

An exhausting but elating day at #SoProud #SouthamptonPride collecting a huge cloud of names that make up the web of kin that have made our community who we are. It's so special to talk to people about the people in their lives and imaginations and celebrate all the diverse influences.

UK online safety law in practice.

I've been working on the hardest thing I've ever written (by length, harder even than my PhD) for 2 years now. It's through one round of review and even though the comments feel achievable it's such a huge emotional and intellectual undertaking it's excruciating to edit. I really hope it's worth it.

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

Bit of light prep for the #UoSRoadshow on Saturday at #SotonPride. I'll be there with @miloustella.bsky.social running our Oddkin and Bedtime Stories activities.

It's so nearly reasonable, isn't it? But for that paragraph suggesting that human rights are inalienable, except for groups he's decided are less deserving. And the bizarre bargain. And all the vile things he's said about trans people and the significance of that to the aims of the Polari prize.

UK readers, if you can't afford to buy any of these books, order them from your local library. The authors will see your support through loan figures and PLR. You don't even have to finish reading them if you don't want!

We have an opening for a one-year Sociology Lectureship in Glasgow focused on teaching the sociology of class. Please share it with anyone interested. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

In mid-April, after 3 months chasing a correct contract for work dleivered, I sent Sage my payment details. I have emailed them once a month since asking for the payment to be processed. Their companies house filings seem to suggest tax avoidance, apparently they also avoid paying people.

No one likes your moustache #SNW #treksky

Nothing can convince me the text on the new Warwick site was written by humans. This sort of bananas word invention and tautology is pure AI

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

James Wade talking just really matter of fact-ly about how something as "normal" as needing to do professional/social interaction for a few days can be a tipping point for ill health and how *urgent* it is to rest for people with bipolar www.independent.co.uk/sport/james-...

Fixed term (maternity cover) post at Keele, ideal for a freshly minted PhD looking for that first lecturer post. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX238/l...

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

Genuinely enjoyed this at the end of a long email outlining some beautifully crafted event plans.

It's like the hokey cokey but we're stuck on putting research in and out. I just need to get to putting whole body in (or) out. Also, the Frascati definition is causing me an existential crisis.

Trapped in a kafkaesque loop with university departments. Is it research or enterprise? The only thing anyone is certain of is that it is not whichever one of those they are dealing with.