One of the questions in our @rainbowr.org 📊 workshop, was "could you make the beeswarm chart interactive?" 🐝 The answer is "yes, you can" and here's how: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/interac... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #VisLGBTQ

Gov is a hop skip and a jump from requiring every adult to provide credit card or photo ID info to access the internet…primarily via third party organisations. Nothing could go wrong here 🙃

Inspired by #TidyTuesday & LGBTQ+ History Month myself and @kenglish.bsky.social are challenging people to produce visualisations using UK census data on LGBTQ+ people 📊 Share your #DataViz and code via GitHub or on here using #VisLGBTQ Here's one we made in today's @rainbowr.org workshop 🐝

Inspired by Tidy Tuesday & LGBTQ+ History Month myself and @nrennie.bsky.social are challenging people to produce visualisations using UK census data on LGBTQ+ people. Share your visualisations and code via GitHub or on here using #VisLGBTQ github.com/nrennie/rain...

At 7 myself and @nrennie.bsky.social are running a workshop for visualising the UK’s LGBTQ+ population for the @rainbowr.org conference. The workshop will introduce participants to the LGBTQ+ data produced by the UK 2021/22 censuses and them participants create visualisations with it.

The new Peaches album is getting me through my big horrible spreadsheet tasks this week 🙃✨

Coming up on the 2nd March, this panel, organised through the Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary and Trans Studies (GLINTS), with @kenglish.bsky.social, gives aspiring researchers a chance to talk with others and to get support with their projects.

Was great getting to talk about my chapter in Queer in a Wee Place. I discuss how Scotland’s census is arguably world leading in terms of LGBTQ+ data representation but that doesn’t translate to positive outcomes for our community. Thank you to @yvettetaylor.bsky.social for putting this together!

If anything this verdict just increases the absolut mess that is the Supreme Court judgment /EHRC guidance. Thank you to the GLP for continuing to fight this. What I’m most worried about currently is how the confusion may be weaponised to mistreat trans folk further.

Been given the big task of allocating supervisors for Sociology dissertation students. There was some stressful admin to start with but I’m actually really enjoying getting to see all the students research ideas. I’m lucky that most of the assessments I work on are student led research projects.

Alongside @nrennie.bsky.social I’m running a (#TidyTuesday inspired) workshop on "Visualising the UK’s LGBTQ+ population" on February 25th 7pm–9pm UTC as part of the rainbowR conference!

Everytime I have to do something admin based at work my appreciation for my admin colleagues grows. I am not cut out for it and don’t know how they can manage it for multiple courses at once 🤯

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

Not only have I found time to write tonight but it’s going well???? What is this? This never happens! How do I not scare it away???😮

Been missing my local library while it gets refurbished but on the up side it meant I visited Polokshaws Library for the first time & it’s really nice!

There is always an XKCD

Dear First Bus, I feel like the lights inside the bus don’t have to shine into every dark crevice of my soul at this ungodly hour. Yours overstimulated, Ken

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

Feel like I’ve been drawing this for ages. It’s annoying when work gets in the way of important stuff like my pigeon comic 😤 Anyway this is Pat the Pigeon in the Hostile Toon. Join Pat and co as they connect on ways their city has became less hospitable for them.

Soooo many ways: -Chipped my ankle jumping the last step on a hill -Fucked the skin on my face for a year using eye liner for kiss makeup -Got glass in my hand and cut my arm cause I slipped coming out the bath holding a glass - I broke my pinky toe running for a pee & stubbed it against the bath

Read 34 books in 2025. The highlights were: -Fiction: Model Home -Non-fiction: Code Dependant -Comic: Lunar Boy

2026 Ins & Outs: In: - Drinking more water - Seeing friends - Journaling once a week - Monthly cinema trips - Set aside time for academic reading -Set aside time for academic writing / graphic social science work - Cooking more - Using the dumbbell I got from the charity shop

Some of my favourite stationary/ art supplies of the last few years: -Galen leather notebook (started in April 2023) -Pith sketchbook (go through 1 every 2-3 months) -Tsbi eco -Blackwing pencil -Kaweco Sport -Pentel multi 8 pencil -Lumos refillable pen -Faber-Castel eraser + sharpener

My partner got me the coolest 2nd Anniversary/ Christmas present ! Wanted Love Bites for years but being out of print it’s very hard to find. It was also heavily banned when it first came out. It’s talked about a fair bit in the Rebel Dykes documentary.

Day 24 of #ResearchAdvent - In 2026 3 of my biggest tasks/aims are: 1. Getting the Queering Research Methods Handbook through the 1st & 2nd drafts + co writing the book & second intro Im responsible for 2. Designing a new postgrad Understanding Data course 3. Do more graphic social science work

Why did you transition, wrong answers only I wanted to create panic for cis people trying to figure out what name to call me

Day 23 of #ResearchAdvent - Scholars Im fortunate enough to work with a lot of fantastic scholars. Want to give a shout here to @echomikeromeo.bsky.social without whom GLINTS wouldn’t have formed. Also loved his community focused trans history workshops.

Had a hellish few weeks but at least my marking is done untill January so I can get some much needed rest 🙃

Day 22 of #ResearchAdvent - Gift For my PhD grad my partner got me this beautiful kaweco sport fountain pen with Dr K English engraved on it. Use it every day. It’s by far my favourite pen (which is saying a lot cause I LOVE pens)

Day 21 of #ResearchAdvent - Motivation When I was at school my pastoral care teacher said there was no point in me going to a Glasgow Uni open day. I got my undergrad & PhD there and now lecturer there full time. So yeah my motivation is spite 🤷‍♂️

Day 20 of #ResearchAdvent - Theory Love reading theory but struggle to write about it. I’m much more of a methods person. I get how to structure my thoughts around empircal work but with theory I have a tendency to tie myself in knots trying to restructure my arguments again and again.

Day 19 of #ResearchAdvent - Analysis Most of my work has focused on data production thus far. However I am wanting to start focusing more on how population estimates relating to sex,gender and sexuality are analysed and utalised.

Yeah i watched that gremlin in Gremlins 2 drink the hormone potion and turn into the lady gremlin and then i was trans

How do we solve these mega waiting lists for the gender clinics??? Just dont do the gender clinics and just have GPs prescribe hormones and refer for surgeries Gender clinics exist to soothe scared cis people not to help trans people transition

Day 18 of #ResearchAdvent - Inspiration Queer a Graphic History by Meg-John Barker & illustrated by my pal @julesscheele.bsky.social inspired me to get into graphic social science. Managed to get little bits of drawing into my work. Recently applied for a related opportunity so 🤞 for that.

Reviewing my ins and outs for 2025: In: -Reading consistently✅ -Sketching consistently✅ -Swimming at least once a week✅ -Cooking more often❌ -Trips✅ -Seeing friends🟧:Not as much as I would like -Cinema trips at least once a week❌ -Drinking more water❌ -Journaling once a week❌ -Co-writing sessions❌

Sci-fi , horror, furbys , muppets, animation, space, dinos, drawing, comics, pigeons, cats & dogs ✨ Last night finished inking the second issue for my comic series Pat the Pigeon that brings together a lot of these interests.

Day 17 of #ResearchAdvent - Found 2 findings from my work: ✨ Many LGBTI+ people don’t fit within one gender or sexuality box & it makes little sense to force us into one ✨My participants were for data representation as long as there was a communicated purpose that was in their best interest

Managing to lock myself out of my work computer during the buissiest marking week of the year is honestly impressive 🙃

*Screams into my marking rubric*

Day 16 of #ResearchAdvent - Change This is a slide I use when explaining the range of “queer” perspectives on data representation and how my perspectives on this changed throughout my PhD & now given the current political climate.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Day 15 of #ResearchAdvent - Place My wee home office where the magic usually doesn’t happen as I find myself working from my sofa most of the time when I’m working from home 😅

Day 14 of #ResearchAdvent - Scholarship Got a couple upcoming scholarship pieces: ✨Co authored book chapter with @sharongreenwood.bsky.social & @joedsonferrie.bsky.social on ethical knowledge production, methods teaching and its relation to feminism and disability studies

Day 13 of #ResearchAdvent - Friends Very fortunate to have lots of great friends at work but two of my faves are @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social & @drsoapsub.bsky.social ! We regularly have coffee + toast “meetings” where we unpack all of the weeks chaos. Always appreciate their insights!

Day 12 of #ResearchAdvent - Thinkers This blog post from @notrightruth.bsky.social is one of those pieces of writing that captures what many of us were thinking, presenting & progressing it beautifully. Its one of the best reflections on our community responses. ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

Day 11 of #ResearchAdvent - Excitement Early next year the first chapter drafts for the Queering Research Methods Handbook are due in! Can’t wait to read them! I am co-editing this alongside @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social @kathbrowne.bsky.social & our fantastic team of section editors.

Just watched the Common People episode of Black Mirror. I watch/read a lot of dark stuff but Christ that was a hard one!