Also something I appreciate about reviewing: it’s teaching me that it’s worth submitting work in progress for publication because review can be where useful feedback and improvement happens

reviewed a paper for a journal last night and it’s quite nice realising I can still think about things that aren’t like, marketing and sales and management and all of that

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I say that but every Saturday without fail we go to our local city farm and romp around lots, and we've usually got some kind of Sunday playdate, so it's not like they're not out and busy

I keep meaning to do more craft with my kids but at the moment we are just getting through daytime outings or childcare, then making dinner and managing some laundry or other and the smallest of cleaning accompanied by a movie, then dinner and bed, rinse repeat

I’ve been only work posting because this week has been soooo busy — unusually I’ve had full days of client meetings on my childfree days, we’ve had registration meetings for the littlest’s new nursery place starting next week, primary visits, internal biz meetings, and ofc the usual mummy happenings

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New article out! We rethink ‘meritocracy’ not as a fixed belief but as practical, embodied knowledge transformed through experiences of social and geographical mobility onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/6

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

snowing in london 😳

All. The. Time.

feeling slightly guilty that I am not Doing Bedtime with the kids and am instead listening to music while trying to write socials posts and run my business

I know some of you regularly still post music but I stopped a long time ago!

reminiscing about old twitter days and also very much tempted to just post the whole Qveen Herby discography as I do a deep dive through her various albums, also in the spirit of Old Twitter

NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting www.404media.co/airlines-wil...

My bus driver just called out the people watching videos on speaker and I think we should make him mayor

TIL Ruby Bridges is only 71 years old. man alive Jim Crow was just yesterday

words! WOOOOORDS!

how many times have I said that finance learned the wrong lessons from the Great Recession? my addendum is that they *were allowed to* do so.

You know what to do!

Oh I’ll RT—oh no there’s no alt Oh that looks interesting I’ll repost— oh no wait there’s no alt

Alt text your images pls, booboos

It’s not just that people don’t know there are simpler ways to do things. It’s that they’re being TOLD to integrate Ai into everything. I’m reminded, again, of the radium craze. Radium is not magic and nor is Ai. Both are, unfortunately, harmful. Original from @mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

Cost saving, they said, not realising the cost would be our souls…

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Remember, folks: family policing and white saviourism lead to legalized child trafficking.

why the fuck am I cursed to hear Phil Collins everywhere, goodness

"we have to do what they want or they'll hit us" is just such a deeply contemptible message to send to those who rely on you for protection

In an A Level class yesterday at my kid’s college, the teacher used a Gen AI image in a PowerPoint, and the whole class booed. Yeah. You’ve got Gen Z on board, guys. Looking rosy.

Reposting with alt text

A machine built to eat people will eat people.

Hey we the living: @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app has a fundraiser for some badly needed disability and getting out of hell needs. www.gofundme.com/f/support-my... check it out and support if you can.

Of course the NYT erases and minimizes Alice. She was never a teller of comfortable fictions for the elite.

A new Christmas romcom with Alicia Silverstone and Melissa Joan Hart? Why yes please and thank you

'Fewer than half are even fully aware that universities conduct research.' Real indictment of universities' strategies and comms this. An own goal that could and should be rectified. Engaging broad publics with research is not rocket science. And if it were, universities have rocket scientists. 3/3

'Graduates are overwhelmingly positive about universities – 81 per cent say universities have a positive impact on the nation. Among non-graduates, that figure drops to just 55 per cent.' (Interesting that it's that high). 1/3

@justmegi.bsky.social hey!

Time to re-up that classic piece, Who Goes Nazi, I see

The resonances of this are almost too dark to be accidental.

Quick question: what the fuck is wrong with everyone?

NEWS JUST IN! A new book will in fact solve all your problems

Right beloveds we had so little uptake of this that I’ve extended the deadline indefinitely — if you’re someone who loves sales and marketing and wants to work for my small but mighty disabled-majority social enterprise, please apply!

Woken up slightly haunted by the unfinished clause in the mailout I sent yesterday

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

I will never stop banging this drum! 🥁 There 🥁 is 🥁 no 🥁 AI 🥁 in 🥁 the 🥁 predictive 🥁 policing 🥁 in 🥁 Minority 🥁 Report! Its three psychics in a paddling pool!!

periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

UNESCO has launched an impressive Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects - an immersive digital space that brings together over 240 stolen and missing cultural objects in 2D and 3D from 50+ countries — and the voices of the communities they were taken from. www.linkedin.com/posts/unesco...