I find my cat annoying because she spends all day screaming, yowling, and begging for a pinch of Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend, but one day no one in this home will scream, yowl, or beg for Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend and I will be sad

Efficient storage

Getting my course material ready for semester two, and it's been pointed out to me that the fake tutor bio I wrote for my cat is longer than my own, supposedly real, academic bio...

Hi friends, @dnbetts.bsky.social and I are looking for 2 more social work educators/academics to interview for our study on the relationship between hope and burnout for social workers. Are you a social work educator in Australia? If so, we want to talk to you!! Please message me for more info 👩‍🎓👨‍🏫

This morning, in my rearview mirror, I saw another driver take down an entire hardboiled egg in one gulp, maybe one chew. I've been thinking about it ever since, and I've come to the conclusion that it was a threatening power play.

📣 Registration open: 6th International Sexuality and Social Work Conference - sexualityandsocialwork.com/conference #SWSexuality25

... Americans I know it's hard but you gotta learn to say 'Kiwifruit' because this is a COMPLETELY different sentence

New article out in the Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work Journal - "Exploring the role of pets in social work research: Enhancing qualitative methodologies through the researcher-participant-pet dynamic" - with Annika Herb. anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/articl...

Super event at my uni (Oxford Brookes) for LGBTQ+ History Month . . . Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵 Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke... #LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay

date night

Once again desperately wishing the Culture would just contact us and give us the chance to live in the luxury automated gay space communist utopia we all deserve

Thrilled to be working with Dr Jamie Budnick (Cornell University) on a new research project: Gay Numbers: The Use and Misuse of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in the UK and US 📊 #LGBTQ #data #UK #USA #queer #sexuality #stats www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/news/n...

🔔 Out now: Handbook of Research Methods in Social Work by Margaret Alston, @pennybuykx.bsky.social, Wendy Foote & @dnbetts.bsky.social 🆓 chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... #SocialWork #Sociology #SocialPolicy #ResearchMethods

Really excited to see that our latest book, the Handbook of Research Methods in Social Work, is now published @elgarpublishing.bsky.social! www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

“Quick burg at the hospital before we take grandpa off life support” is one of those phrases I know is going to stick with me the rest of my life (From r/burgers)

I'm really happy to share - as we start to wrap up for the year - that I have been promoted to Senior Lecturer! My time so far at the University of Newcastle has been really rewarding, and I'm hoping to continue my work with queer social work studies when we pick things back up in 2025. 🌈 🎄 🎉

Spotify Wrapped calling me out for being the absolute worst and annoying person you know

Santa Paws 🎅🎄

I will repeat myself and say: Better Call Saul where everyone‘s a Muppet except Bob Odenkirk

My parents carefully positioning my old, dirty, and run-down childhood soft-toy dog when I come to visit them serves as a depressing reminder of how old, dirty, and run-down I've become myself

Getting ready to head to the SAANZ conference next week and I think I've finished packing

Join the super friendly and supportive LGBTQ+ Research Network for people researching LGBTQ+ topics. We meet regularly online to share ideas and research. Share your username in the comments to be added. @dradambrett.bsky.social go.bsky.app/S2RmnYf

Hey academics! There's a new LGBTQ research feed for you to follow thanks to @philjones.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you have not purchased “Beethoven Blues” by @jonbatiste you literally are missing musical genius. The vinyl experience is extraordinary.

Hello current and possible friends! I’ve had a go at creating a “starter pack” of queer scholar activist types who I know (so forgive all the omissions). It’s a small and growing list. Let’s build a fab and fun queer scholarly-activist community! 🌈✨ go.bsky.app/Ke4Ctey

Lovely to see a review of my book "Social Spaces for Older Queer Adults" out now in the Australian Social Work journal! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Catching up on some classic literature

The trick to garlic bread is to make at least 5 times too much of it then eat it all hunched over in the corner of the basement like a rat

Putting together a list of people working in LGBTQ+ Psych 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ broadly defined because I haven’t come across one yet. Reply or message if you would like to be added 😊 👋 go.bsky.app/LsshH49 #lgbtqpsych #transhealth #lgbtqiaa

Academics, my colleague Kyle had just joined who runs a really great podcast where academics passionately and clearly explain theory! Super useful for teaching 👇🏼👇🏼

Created a little mechanism to let people know when I'm working at my (hidden away) cubicle

My author copies have arrived!! 📚📚

It was so nice to be awarded two College Excellence Awards tonight, in ‘Teaching & Learning’ and ‘Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion’ – it was also great to hear about some of the amazing work my colleagues around the College are doing as well! (Gertie has also given her approval 🐱)