Time is weird. I’m tired. I’m going to bed. When I wake up the year will be new and I may or may not still be tired. May your tomorrows be better than your yesterdays.

NEW Tressa Burke of Glasgow Disability Alliance turned down MBE over ‘scapegoating’ of people with disabilities www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Annnnnnd breathe. My out of office is on. I will be doing no more work for the rest of the year. In fact until the 12th of January. If anyone needs me I’m sorry I’m far too busy eating chocolate. Pictures of your pets are alway welcome though.

Pleased to be interviewed for this much needed piece on the rising transphobia in higher education. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s... (Archive link: archive.is/oYqXS)

It’s my last campus day before Christmas (will still be at work next week but from home). Please enjoy my excellent rainbow Christmas shirt.

I’ve been coughing and losing my voice for months (currently unexplained but I don’t have an infection). We’ve reached the point where lovely students are emailing me with home remedies because they are concerned. These are some of the joys of teaching. Not the coughing. We’d all like that to stop.

Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

Happy BSA @britsoci.bsky.social abstract decision day to all who celebrate. Don’t know where I’ll work in April. Do know I’ll be in Manchester for BSA conference. That in itself feels like a comment on where sociology is as a discipline. Excited for conversations with colleagues old & new in April.

Can anyone point me to any public health campaigns (ideally video) from during Covid19 which in some way say "stay apart to stay safe" or similar messaging? I know the UK ones, but I want an example from further afield (reposts appreciated)

Ready to merge sociology with art? Applications to the 2026 cycle of the Image-Maker in Residence series are now open! We seek to commission four online residencies that showcase experimental methodologies and ways to disseminate research beyond plain text. APPLY NOW – buff.ly/TD5raNw

Qualitative research isn't a consolation prize for when we can't get 'real' numbers. It's a different way of knowing; one that captures complexity, context, and meaning that statistics alone cannot provide.

An excellent resource from one of my favourite colleagues. And students on our Media Research Methods course get to hear from @kenglish.bsky.social with their lecture on questionnaires and surveys next week! (Please don’t ask me about numbers. Kirstie Ken is here for numbers. I only do words).

Have been included in a collection of online resources for teaching research methods produced by the @ncrm.ac.uk . www.ncrm.ac.uk/documents/Th...

Today I had a work meeting and there was a dog. There is no happier Harvey than a Harvey with a pet friend. Please introduce me to your pets. Will travel for pet friendship.

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

A Complicated Woman by Rebecca Lucy Taylor (Self Esteem) arrived in the post today. This is the very first page which says “trans women are women. Kindly shut this book if you think that is up for debate.” This will be great.

On Tuesday we launched the new Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary & Trans Studies! Thank you to everyone who came to the launch event & my fellow co-directors. It was a great evening & the first of what Iam sure will be many fantastic GLINTS events.

This just arrived in the post. So that’s my weekend sorted. I actually think I might reread book 2 first. I think this follows on immediately and I don’t remember it as well as I could. It did come out 6 years ago. Anyone else thinking the same? Anyway I have high hopes for this.

Thanks to everyone who came to the GLINTS launch yesterday. Great to see so many academics, students & supporters. Excited for the possibilities of this new space. Thanks to @echomikeromeo.bsky.social @notrightruth.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & co-directors not on here

In a couple of months it’ll be 30 months before the end of my 30s. I like music & chocolate. So I’m thinking I might commit to once a month having a nice bar of chocolate & listening to a full album I like for 30 months. I have some in mind but recommendations for chocolate very welcome (albums too)

Actually former university I have changed my name with not only do I not want an email in my deadname I also don’t want an invite to an alumni street party, SU club night, silent disco & alumni TED talks. The stuff of actual nightmares.

We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...

This is really exciting to see - GLINTS launches this month @uofglasgow.bsky.social and will provide a multi-disciplinary, cross-College space for academics and research students working in trans studies.

Lucy Pickering and I first talked about research ethics nearly 30 years ago. Now we’re launching a call for chapters on experiences of ethics review. Deadline: 30 Nov 2025 More here 👉 helenkara.com/2025/10/08/e... #ResearchEthics #CallforChapters #EthicsReview

Interdisciplinarity is fun because it’s something job ads in humanities HE say they want but it often feels like it actively disqualifies you (in the sense of having degrees in, and published in leading journals of, multiple distinct disciplines). Everyone believes you’re not in their discipline.

Just got my Covid and flu vaccines. The eligibility for Covid jabs has been reduced (by both NHS Scotland and NHS England) but loads of people can still get the flu jab. It was super quick and not busy at all. Get jabs pals. It’s way cooler than getting sick.

The new Idlewild album came out today. It’s pretty good. Excited to give it a proper listen over the weekend. These are all the opinions I have on albums that came out today.

If you are a @uofglasgow.bsky.social staff or student interested in intersex, non-binary and trans studies join us for our GLINTS launch event later this month on October 21st: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glints-lau... also enjoy this image of some our publications (books and zines!) from our stall.

Yesterday I had a fab time meeting folk from @uofglasgow.bsky.social ArtsLabs & talking about our new Glasgow Lab for Intersex Non-binary & Trans Studies co-organised with colleagues inc @uofgsociology.bsky.social. Thanks to @echomikeromeo.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @notrightruth.bsky.social

My partner just told me about tattie scone nachos & I was unimpressed. Tattie scones on crisps is too much potato! Turns out tattie scones are instead of crisps. Now I’m on board. Anyway that’s our level of culinary delights if anyone has eat out recommendations for Edinburgh for his birthday in Nov

Do you, or does someone you know, live with vertigo? Are you in, or near Edinburgh? If so, you might be interested in this @ustaresearchimpact.bsky.social funded puppetry workshop to explore life with dizziness and vertigo. For questions get in touch here or [email protected]

Only read one thing on your phone today trans friends & make it this. Ruth’s writing is a gift & this essay is a little parcel of hope & possibility (wrapped in a bow of grief because it’s still a trans essay). I read it on my phone & now I’m putting my phone down. Think about how we create together

At a time when some use the language of feminism to attack trans rights, it’s vital to see feminist activists and scholars counteract such attacks. Feminist Legal Studies is inviting papers for a special issue that will explore how feminist goals and trans liberation are connected. Check it out. ✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

I’m writing up sections of my annual Performance & Development Review and realising that I’ve actually done a lot over the last year. Treated my objectives like a to do list ✔️✔️✔️✔️. Weird to then face redundancy in 4 months. Not sure what my next objectives are. Find employment? Scream into the void?

Call for book proposals! Are you passionate about punk? 🤘 Do you have an idea for a book? 📖 Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶 More details below 👇 #booksky #punk

New book out 2026. Incredible work from @yvettetaylor.bsky.social herding academic& creative queers inc @kevinguyan.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @vavapoetry.bsky.social @finnfox.bsky.social @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social @matwilkie.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social

Congratulations to everyone on here! — thrilled to be sharing space w/ @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social Prof Churnjeet Mahn, Dr Maria Sledmere & others. Big shoutout to @yvettetaylor.bsky.social for making this happen! Out April 2026. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-in-...

Would you like to read a special @uofgsociology.bsky.social edition of the So Fi Zine wonderfully curated by @awtsn.bsky.social and featuring @mindyptolomey.bsky.social @academicdiary.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @erdemavsar.bsky.social and more (& me)? Thought so: sofizine.com/latest-editi...

A wonderful read and a collection of creative works from colleagues. Erdem’s work is particularly beautiful - a real skill for a piece that contains the words “shitfaced fairy” ❤️❤️

The new special edition of So Fi Zine is live! A beautiful collection of sociological fiction - HUGE thanks to the legend that is Ash @awtsn.bsky.social for making this possible and including my piece, and to everyone involved. Read here: sofizine.com/latest-editi...

I am as of right now on holiday. Won’t be opening my work laptop until August 25th (and I’m already quite good at only checking my email on my work laptop to have something resembling work life balance). I shall mostly be reading novels and eating snacks. Please don’t email me (just in general).

Today I have mostly done admin (updating a course guide, editing moodle, confirming second marking) BUT I also got a sneak peak at some creative academic work by some colleagues coming out soon & it’s brilliant. Very excited to see it out in the world & grateful to share this creative academic space

NEW on Wonkhe: Students made today happen. We should thank them bit.ly/4fBaxNL

This is brilliant. The generations of student activism can pass so quickly, so on important issues like this one it is worth noting the huge impact past student officers made on policy and practice in our sector.

Anyway I came on here to BEG academics to stop using AI in their journal submissions. Yes, that includes for proofing, arranging reference lists etc. I am currently staring at a perfectly decent article, written by a human being, with a useless AI-generated bibliography full of errors.

Have you read SRO’s latest special issue? Read Political Imagination and Social Change in the June issue below! journals.sagepub.com/toc/SRO/30/2

People not being able to direct message me on this app feels like a perk to be honest. I won’t be verifying my age. I am however showing my age by being delighted to be left alone on at least one of many social media apps I don’t understand.

Poetry collection is going well thanks for asking

Wes Streeting in the news announcing doctors could be offered variable levels of student debt & graduate taxes is giving NUS blueprint vibes. Add to that news about votes at 16 across the UK & I think I’ve time traveled to a 00s NUS conference. Next we’ll be arguing about trans people using toilets