My wheelchair rugby team is fundraising for repairs if anyone feels inclined to chuck a few quid our way to buy new tires fundraising.spond.com/AYQMbcfXMW

I have a new OA article out in the European Journal of Social Theory that aims to consider the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study for analysing the relationship between utopia/failure in the context of disabled people's efforts to create COVID-safe spaces. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

My wheelchair rugby team is fundraising for repairs if anyone feels inclined to chuck a few quid our way to buy new tires fundraising.spond.com/AYQMbcfXMW

I suspect even at gunpoint I could not explain my work in German. Only said yes to a conference in Germany because I knew it would all be in English otherwise I would have no chance at all

I have a new OA article out in the European Journal of Social Theory that aims to consider the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study for analysing the relationship between utopia/failure in the context of disabled people's efforts to create COVID-safe spaces. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Nothing better than a picket puppy! Thank you to all who came out, handed out flyers, shared their support, and took a moment to learn more about how we are standing up for all staff members AND students at the university. Pickets may be done but the strike (and our fight) continues on!

Given that rabies is literally the stuff of nightmares this is beyond incredible!

Rumour has it I’m talking about my favourite infrastructure tomorrow. What am I going to choose?!? It’s all interesting! Sign up to the launch tomorrow or find the guide online now (shh!): #Accessibility #ActiveTravel #Disability wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/our-campaign...

And who is gonna teach these students when staff are either being made redundant, leaving the sector because it is making them ill, or giving up because precarity is impossible?

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Are people starting to catch on and speak up? There has been an air of it lately, but perhaps I'm just hallucinating. A subtle attitude shift I can't quite place, a feeling of people having enough and tentatively finding a backbone...

Primarily for accessibility but also to avoid incidents like the Susan Boyle An Album party and the Dr Who Rewatch hashtag

Anybody in the Stevenage area have available an accessible room or studio flat to rent? My daughter is starting a PhD next week and the flat that we hoped she be in by now looks like it is going to fall through. Thanks

Thank you Plymouth Culture for this interview! tinyurl.com/3pedeckk

The Call for Papers for SLSA2026 is now live! This year, alongside @sandraduffy.bsky.social, and @maxmorris.bsky.social, I will be running a current topic on "Law in the Culture Wars". If you have a paper idea, please feel free to get in touch with us! www.sussex.ac.uk/collaborate/...

Wrote this piece on the need to recognise gendered oppression - in all its forms - as always the path to #tyranny. Gendered domination is alway present but failing to confront that = also failing to see the rapid return to patriarchy as the first sign of authoritarianism dflw.ie/power-gender...

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

Very lovely news story for a change

I had forgotten how delightfully insane this show was

For context, the natural sciences are already at a low baseline, e.g. the Guardian lists 44 institutions offering physics degrees, vs 95 for history and 108 for English. I'm not sure most humanities folk realise how much science has already been squeezed. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Oxford has fallen. Repeat: Oxford has fallen… 🤖 #HigherEducation #academia

Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...

Just read a reference to working in archives as the 'second oldest' profession. am imagining the world where there are only two jobs on offer: sex worker or archivist

increasingly what i enjoy doing is thinking about how to mix art, media and 'non-academic' forms of expression with my work and this has been a cool way to play around with that. major thanks goes to @voelkerrechtsblog.org for being open to this kind of thing & to anna sophia for the visual :)

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

A reminder of our asks ahead of the Timms Review. Sir Stephen Timms is committed to concluding his review into PIP by Autumn 2026. 🧵 #DisabilityRights #PIPreview #NoToCuts

It was an honour to be asked to write the forward for this year’s Patient Experience report on NHS England. @patientlibrary.bsky.social At a time when the NHS is struggling, more than ever we need to put patients and their feedback first. Read it here: www.patientlibrary.net/cgi-bin/down...

Asked a woman if she could fold her pram as I needed the wheelchair space and got a very offended “THERE’S A BABY IN IT!!” …yes madam I did sort of assume that was the case.

An NHS doctor who was working at St. Thomas' hospital, which is on the route where the far right marched:

My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.

Brief take on AppleOS 26 Liquid Glass is unpleasant on an iPad, ok on an iPhone and largely ignorable on a Mac apart from the widgets which change colour unexpectedly It is however an actively hostile UI which makes the UX worse. The Settings function on all three remains utter nonsense.

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

Disastrous. Our @ucu.org.uk members in prison education do amazing work. What even is this government doing.

"But it never stops at just the one bin does it Mac?" Mac throws his head back & hooowowles. All the other beagles, because yes it's just beagles, begin circling as Mac's whine carries through the hall. "Shame!" "Shame!" "Shame!" They bark. Oh how they bark

Just saw the Dogs Trust describing a beagle as being on a 'weight loss journey' and now all I can think about is a Beagle Weight Watchers meeting. Everyone looking very forlorn while trying to work out how many points one round of bin diving is

has anyone done a #histmed or #histSTM study of changes to representations of health/medicine/science in the ladybird books? On a small scale feels like an amazing ug diss project, or even something smaller than that with just a few books.

So pleased that the same groups who advised universities on initiating deathspiral-cuts are now advising those same universities on how to merge with other similarly imperilled institutions.

NO RELEASE - A film based on my recent British Academy project on immigration GPS ankle monitors (aka tagging/electronic monitoring), directed by brilliant Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. Free registration. dandelion.events/e/no-release...

Law Commission 14th programme of law reform – and a vulnerable adults project on the horizon? The Law Commission of England & Wales published its 14th programme of law reform on 4 September - i.e. its proposed plan of work for the years ahead.  It includes ten new projects (alongside existing…

📘 Come to my inaugural lecture "Democratic socialism and the law", 6.30pm, 15 October: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-... 🌹 What role does the law play in democratic socialism? It rewires the defects of contract, property, corporate law + residual ‘capitalist’ elements of our law, and more... 👇

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

Disabled workers win TUC support for fight against Labour’s cuts to benefits www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-wor... via @johnpring.bsky.social

The government must give the victims of this appalling scandal the compensation they deserve. It would be a milestone for carers across the country, and a victory for all those who have campaigned tirelessly for justice.

There will be a stern email sent to all PC's parents at 8am on Monday reminding them that they always need to bring their riot kit to work with them.

Follow me for more lovely autumnal traditions such as: doubling up on my Raynaud’s medication

Celebrating the changing of the seasons by turning the Big Light on

Deeply embarrassed to realise that there's been a Big Stuck Ship in literally Franklin Strait for several days, and I've only just noticed. Still, any excuse to trot out my Beechey Island/Ever Given shitpost. nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...

One of the things that really grinds at the “elite” is that RAE/REF has shown for 30 years that research excellence really IS spread far beyond their narrow vision. They absolutely HATE it.