Say the quiet part out loud about “family voting” & “South Asian-type election practices”. These assume Brown men are telling their wives how to vote & that Muslims, by nature, violate democratic norms. Trope of Muslim women being oppressed and unable to participate fully in democracy is tiresome

I'm talking at Egenis on Monday 23rd about moral and truth regimes in maternity care - it's mostly ended up about NHS England's Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle, but do come along if that's of interest. :) www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai...

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

I once dropped my wallet. Someone transferred 1p to my bank account and added their mobile number as the reference *and* called my bank to pass on their details if I called to cancel the card. Reunited the next day.

If any of you metropolitan liberal elites are wondering what’s going on outside London, the answer is: mud. Roads: mud. Pavements: mud. Footpaths and fields and beaches: mud, mud, mud. The ground floor of my house: mud.

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Redshanks Alighting’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

i didn’t realise that Malthus was still alive, much less that he was supervising PhDs at Essex

My research on male broodiness was the inspiration for today's #BBCRadio4 #Sideways www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Find out more @berghahnbooks.bsky.social #book: On sale until Feb 28: 25% off Ebook/PB with code HAD25, 35% off HB with code HAD35 Get your copy here: bit.ly/3ZXBofH #Anthropology

quick moment here also to reflect on how stressful this has to be for the *students* who are being targeted here

This is big.

We have now started the next stage of our project: focus groups with (1) birth doulas, (2) healthcare professionals involved with birth and (3) people who have used or considered using a doula during birth in the past 5 years. Please do share with networks! @annanelson95.bsky.social

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I have now lived in the British countryside for most of my five decades on earth, within which time I have come to know it well. I thought, for newcomers to the place, I'd write a short guide to some of its more interesting aspects. You will find them in this thread. 1. EXCITING VILLAGE EVENTS.

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

'UKRI did not respond directly when asked about funding available for MRC grants, but referred RPN to a previous statement about the agency changing the way some of its investment is directed to align with national priorities and efforts to boost economic growth.'

Reminder for my fellow UK dual/multi nationals that from 25 Feb 2026 you MUST travel into the UK on a UK or Irish passport. You will no longer be able to travel to the UK on another passport — quite the change from the status quo, and problematic for those of us who travel frequently…🧵

if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good

A few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access. Here is their reply. 🧵 1/n

So while preparing slides was once again been reminded of this little mystery....Huge gender gaps in support for 2 parties - Reform and Greens. Both genders are more likely to support the Greens, and gender gap in Green support is larger. But all the discussion focuses on young men & Reform

Following @jamesdaustin.bsky.social lead, here’s my starter pack of women journalists to follow. Apologies to any women I’ve inadvertently missed off. It’s not a slight. I’m just one woman, working in a specific area & region! go.bsky.app/RaopwNN

Feels very smol bean government to brief about how everything gets in your way and not be able to say "Every department and minister off the CSAM website by 5pm".

The government should not only be stopping using the platform they should also be issuing urgent safeguarding advice to all institutions not to post pictures there.

Despite the limitations of the term 'bereavement leave', I'm so pleased the #EmploymentRightsAct at the very end of 2025 means #pregnancy ending before 24-week viability for any reason now entitles people to leave from work. #pregnancyloss #miscarriage #abortion #TOPFA #TFMR

Have also written to my (Labour) MP. In all the current mess, a small positive step would be to act regarding X.

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

This is a lovely and moving piece of writing by @lucyallengoss.bsky.social. I especially recognise the minimisation of the 'reality' of the Tudor Queen Mary's pregnancy, still prevalent today, and the invisibility of the hard work of IVF. And thank you for the shout out, Lucy.

I wrote this post in recognition of the introduction of bereavement leave for pregnancy losses up to 24 weeks, which is long overdue and vital. Thanks to @almiddlemiss.bsky.social for her amazing book, which makes the case more strongly that I ever could. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/why-not-ha...

"If HCWs wear N95 respirators and surgical masks throughout, the total infection risk can be reduced by 94.7 % and 53.9 %, respectively Increasing the ventilation rate from 1 ACH to 6 ACH reduced the infection risk. ." FYI NSW Health & @racgp.bsky.social et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some thoughts on this thing, which I've seen pop up a lot of times today. I'm often confronted with nervous, insecure adolescent students who are early on their musical journeys, have been bitten by the bug a little and have now become intimidated by the idea that they expect something of…

This year, I published my first monograph—a comprehensive exploration of breast cancer in Europe, based on 10 years of ethnographic research. I would love to discuss my research further in seminars and classrooms, and if you want to review it, I still have physical copies I can send!

Britain could have joined Erasmus five years ago; an agreement on funding was completed between negotiators but vetoed “at the very last minute” by Boris Johnson. From Stefaan de Rynck’s book

Masks on everyone.

For avoidance of confusion, that’s just about all academic staff, excluding Heads of Dept and- of course - Senior Management Team.

Nothing wrong with having help for childcare, I wish everyone could. Definitely something wrong with being a billionaire snake oil salesman and pretending that the human help you rely on for childcare is actually done by your snake oil

Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.

Overall, the combination of tax rises and giveaways since last year’s Budget is progressive. Incomes for households in the bottom half of the distribution have increased by 1.0 per cent and incomes for households in the top half fell by 0.7 per cent.

If you are a PhD student working in the history of health, medicine or adjacent topics and disciplines, and you would like to present your research in an engaging and friendly environment, the online CHSTM postgrad seminar series is the right place!

Overlooked infertility care should be part of national health services, says WHO reut.rs/48grjzH

God help me, I'm gonna actually defend "AI" a bit here: this stuff is like tracer dye revealing how corrupt and decrepit so many of our institutional processes already were long before this garbage came along.

So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.

So we are clear welfare spending in this country is NOT “out of control”. It’s risen very little in 10+ years. Small increase due to ageing & ill population. But benefits to working age families & children have been cut severely. Over 70% of children in poverty live in working families #Budget2025

Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society

I am very grateful to all the library assistants of the world and especially to Francesco at Welwyn Garden City Central Library

'The [Vitae] survey of over 13,000 staff from 53 institutions found that while 94 per cent of research and teaching staff hold permanent contracts, only 46 per cent agree that their future is secure. 1/2

I find the conclusion line of UK's covid inquiry poor - "be more prudent next time" has zero actionable value - Rationale put forward relies on counterfactuals and does not include that measures only delay never avoid However, most of the report's critique is equally poor 1/

Odd coverage of the #covidinquiry by the Today Programme.