Congrats 2 you! Agree Walter was a great champion of PH, and an early champion of workplace equality - gave me job when I was 7 and a half months pregnant at a time when academic contracts were even more precarious than they are now and there was no right to keep your job after maternity leave.
Great band. Great MSc.
What a splendid, and peaceful, way to stop hate spreading in our communities.
Oh missed you...we were with the ucu gang. Twas a good turnout.
Hello to my pals @southamptonucu.bsky.social ....
Thanks Trish. Remembering that you and your Mum also had a horrible time thanks to the terrible decisions made by the Johnson government. Sad for you and all the families who suffered.
Still have DMs ...but new thing is a typesetting course with old wood typeface - been making posters with the word 'resist'
Thanks.
No. And my story is by no means the worst.
Mum hospitalised in 1st wave, Dad died; she never came home, got decanted to care home, put in solitary confinement. Unspeakable misery. Boris and crew made terrible decisions, fuelled by hubris and a desire to party. I'm incandescent with rage. (Thank you Christina for making sure we don't forget).
The full report into our study into the use of restrictive practice on people living within dementia in hospital is now available:
www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/GJKF0714
OBHC conference: remember that the early bird registration ends on 28 Feb (with last registration 23 March). Register now. www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/organ... @cjpope.bsky.social
For music I do bandcamp as the least worst option. Partly cos they do bandcamp Friday and give back to musicians. resources.onestowatch.com/ethical-spot....
For pods am trying free pocket casts one. Was owned by USA public radio til 2021 and now by Automatic who developed wordpress... pocketcasts.com
Little boycotts that soothe my soul, part of an ongoing life project... I finally got round to deleting my #spotify account. (Yes I know it's taken me ages...) "#NoMusicForGenocide
"we are at risk of losing both the argument and the election. But it doesn’t have to be this way – it’s time to take back control."
Thank you @stellacreasy.bsky.social. if only the cabinet were listening...
An illustration of a man laying on a prison floor mattress. Under his pillow is an MP3 player tucked away. From the speaker: "From WBEZ Chicacgo, it's THIS AMERICAN LIFE. I'm Ira Glass... Stay with us..."
Jailed during the 2021 coup in Myanmar, American journalist Danny Fenster passed the time by meditating and listening to podcasts that had been smuggled in.
Read the comic Notes from a Burmese Prison: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
It's almost time for Ramadan, as Muslims tonight peered to the crescent moon to see if the month of Ramadan starts tonight or the day after. As with every year, I'm starting this thread so that people can ask questions, and learn about Ramadan from one person's perspective of it.
Delighted to see the TrumpActionTracker feature in this @timeshighered.bsky.social profile by @patrickjack.bsky.social today :-)
was great to chat to him about it!
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mathema...
Ditto. I'm doing/struggling with polish language for similar reason.
Migration reforms are unkind and, it turns out , also stupid...."You don’t have to deter very many high earners to have a significant [fiscal] cost [ ] people most likely to leave the UK as a result of the policy changes were high flyers with other career options, rather than the lowest paid."
More reasons to respond to this consultation www.gov.uk/government/c... which also uses the illegal migrant terminology.
As a pick-me-up for rainy February and March I can highly recommend Spiers and Boden... currently on a splendid foot tapping tour www.facebook.com/100046525253...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
UK people - this is your chance to point out the cruelty and unworkability of the current government's proposals on leave to remain. You have until 12 Feb. #migration
UNRWA has the capacity, expertise and reach to provide essential services across the #Gaza Strip — but systematic restrictions are hindering this work.
Full op-ed by UNRWA’s Sam Rose:
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Lots of great lines in this furious piece but this, on McSweeney asking if PM could be US ambo part time, replacing Karen Pierce, is 👌
“This gives you a good indication of Westminster’s relative assessment of value: One full-time experienced woman is worth less than a part-time inexperienced man.”
If you've cancelled your Washington Post or NY Times subscription but HAVEN'T subscribed to an independent news media organization - consider doing that today.
Some options: @propublica.org, @theappeal.org, @thenarwhal.ca, @404media.co, your local public radio or independent newspaper.
Brilliant letter from the Fawcett Society CE, Penny East. About ALL THIS SHIT.
us5.campaign-archive.com?e=7cf967225b...
St. George's flag being removed, next to the E4 bus stop. It is dark.
Local residents removed 8 flags hung around Oxford last night in response to an organised campaign from a group calling themselves the ’Raise the Colours Oxford’, who brought activists from the Midlands and Sheffield to ‘make Oxford look patriotic’
*chilling note in one of the reviews here dctheaterarts.org/2017/07/15/r....
"Beneath the surface, of course, Cabaret is another story, a tale of a country spiraling downward – defeated by war and economic depression – while fascism, in the form of the Nazis, is on the rise."