This article broke my heart, and underlines the shocking state children’s mental health care today - the erosion of children’s and parents’ rights, unqualified and inexperienced staff, corporations who don’t care, and so much more. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

David Olusoga #CelebTraitors

I've never actually watched this show before. It's a tremendous format in the final section isn't it! So exciting #CelebrityTraitors

WE HAVEN'T GOT TIME FOR YOUR BUMBAG #CelebrityTraitors

No snark at all in this week's #GrandDesigns, just very nice, relatable people who seem lovely and inspiring. Kevin's historic snobbery about their tastes notwithstanding

What a beautifully written and breathtakingly honest paper. It's rare to see this level of honesty, reflexivity, and creativity in academia.

I'm so glad to find this! What a fantastic article. I love The Sociological Review - constantly find they publish edgy, challenging work... This one is going to give me new language for my world - thankyou for this radical reconstruction! #ChronicPain

I have been waiting for Lizzie to post this so I can tell them publicly how proud I am of them (and Robin) for this article. It's a landmark contribution to Mad and crip studies, disability and time studies, and UKHE analysis. More than that, it's a very personal exploration of failure and feeling.

This is an excellent paper and brilliant contribution to queer/crip temporality scholarship. It’s also a really important confrontation with some of ways UKHE harms us. As a disabled academic it was at times a difficult read(in a good way I think). I’ll definitely read it again. Thanks for your work

this is a fantastic paper that sounds in harmony with La Marr Jurelle Bruce's concept of madtime in a really wonderful and meaningful way. we must allow ourselves to be messy; we must be allowed to be messy. our hurt must not be tidied away.

One of best things about collabs with people outside academia is they remind you how ridiculous time is inside academia

This sort of story is sort of shocking, and then also deeply predictable; www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... ""Despite significant offers of continued funding we have decided it is in our best interests to terminate the research," an email of August 2024 said."

Teaching social research methods? Lots of free to access ideas for generating those lightbulb moments from @ncrm.ac.uk

Piles of scrap metal (and what smells very much like plastic) on fire few hundred metres from my house www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2558832... People argue "it's the lifeblood of Soton" etc when anyone complains about poor air quality and pollution from docks, but it's also poisoning residents.

James Dean Bradfield is one of those rare things where someone is known by all 3 names and isn’t a serial killer #TOTP

Subtitles making an absolute mess of these lyrics #totp #manicstreetpreachers

It's Friday funday! I was suddenly struck by the realisation I should, therefore, attempt to explain our #OpenAccess article (doi.org/10.1177/00380261251388708) with gifs! We've got #CripTheory, #Disability #HigherEd and #Failure. Buckle up for a thread!

It did not go Piers way, they have not yet finished it, they overborrowed: sothebysrealty.co.uk/properties/b... #GrandDesigns

Piers and Emma have experienced manual labour for the first time. They now admit to camera that manual labour of this sort is both skilled and time consuming #GrandDesigns

"£2.2million _is_ useful cash" Kevin says, with a little salt #GrandDesigns

It's a real delight to be published in such an exciting journal which platforms such exciting and diverse work. So grateful for all the responses we've received so far to our article

Failure hurts. How can the concept of bipolar time help us understand it? @lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6

Oh, so Frances Corner is out at Goldsmiths? I really hope there's enough left to save something of the institution after her disastrous 6 years. Encouraging to have a long serving Goldsmiths person stepping in as interim VC?

Sandra's generous praise has really got me 💜 You can read the article here, open access: doi.org/10.1177/0038...

Here we are then, the article I have been whining about for well over a year. Written with @robinskyer.bsky.social, our article explores failure and crip temporalities in UKHE and is published today with the Sociological Review doi-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0038... #bipolar #Sociology

Teaching 1st years Foucualt today. My seminar slides have this on which remains one of my favourite stupid memes and I anticipate is entirely lost on students. Making myself laugh is 90% of the challenge though, right?

Very strongly recommend the Storyville: Sanatorium on iPlayer. Really measured, quiet study of a sanatorium in Odesa in 2023. So much more in it than I anticipated

Nothing can convince me there aren't crates of retired Profs stacked up behind this door.

CAT WITH THE TISM CARD I AM HOWLING #CelebrityTraitors

Cat probably was asleep because she was exhausted from doing social. But I cannot stress how enjoyable I found Stephen's discomfort in accusing an AuDHD person of being a traitor. It was Art. #CelebrityTraitors

1% for new investigator is particular obnoxious as it would seem to directly undermine the core aims of the scheme. You're not helping ECRs develop if you won't give any of them money to manage as PIs

Accidentally set 3 out of 4 key readings across 2 weeks of my module which engaged with topic of BDSM in some way. Refocused slightly by changing one but BDSM in sexuality and intimacy work is having a bit of a moment isn't it?

I wish I was the sort of person who could turn up to give a lecture and just riff on a topic for 45mins and have it turn out largely coherent. Unfortunately I am the sort of person who doesn't quite know the point I want to make until I've talked around it for 45mins. So here I am, scripting, again

Ransomwear attacks: I feel like I haven't heard anyone talking about risks to universities. Given huge research and teaching costs if we lost everything...should we be protecting our research data elsewhere? Or am I misjudging the appeal of universities as targets?

The TONE from my GP surgery. If I don't "comply" (first time they've asked) they will deny me medication which prevents me becoming seriously ill and sudden cessation from which can cause serious illness. I'm unaware of side effects that would cause me to change height

I submit that communicating flexibly is incompatible with communicating "without much obvious searching for expresssion". Fundamentally, those two things cannot coexist.

I didn't apply for the BSA conference because it was being held at Uni of Edinburgh who the UN special rapporteur said were among the most financially entangled institutions with the genocide in Gaza. After abstract submission closed, they have moved to Mancheser. I feel a bit swindled.

I need a page reference for a book I don't have access to anymore. Does anyone have ebook access for Bond Stockton's 'Queer Child/Growing Sideways' who could just look up one half sentence for me so I can stick a page number down? #AcademicSky

So to recap Starmer's position; Protests calling for an end to genocide in Gaza and government action to enforce international law = "anti Semitic hate marches" White nationalist rallies calling for mass deportations = "legitimate concerns"

Streeting is a hateful haunted wax work of a man & this is so consistent with everything he has done for 20+ years. Picking one relevant stat? It takes an average of 9.5 years for someone to receive a bipolar diagnosis. But the money is going on 'overdiagnosis'? www.bipolaruk.org/bipolar-comm...

About 90% sure I just saw a classmate, as he was in '98, in the audience for Ghetto Supastar. Are you out there Luke? Was it you? #totp

Literacy of UG students has declined so much in the last ~10 years. It has huge implications for what counts as an accessible text. Non specialist language like "hitherto" and "epoch" are completely unknown to them. I learnt most vocab from reading for leisure and I wonder if that's the big shift?

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

People say international solidarity cannot work, and yet eduroam.

This is a good response

Please help to spread the word! A chance to get your PhD funded through ESRC SCDTP to study @ Brighton, Chichester, Portsmouth & Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social @uniofbrighton.bsky.social @chiunipress.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social @uoseducation.bsky.social

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