Mid april. Still wrong coat.

What Happened to the Black Women Trump Purged From the Federal Work Force? Over a year later, they are struggling to find financial footing and make sense of the racist backlash that displaced them.

"of the almost 300,000 federal jobs slashed in 2025, Black women were a stunning 33 percent of those cuts." @natalieymoore.bsky.social shares the stories of four Black women laid off from federal jobs at CDC, USDA, USAID, and DOJ under DOGE.
hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

Very exciting that our paper on qualitative researchers' experiences of the peer review process has struck a chord and is the third most downloaded article from an APA journal in 2025! @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @jeffnz.bsky.social @andrealamarre.bsky.social @joannasemlyen.bsky.social

The Sheriff in Cumberland County, Maine confirmed that ICE detained a U.S. citizen who is a Black corrections recruit.

This is racial profiling, unchecked power, and state violence happening in real time.

#AbolishICE #Maine #FDT

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

When someone cites you and you realise you said something quite clever.. :)

young people’s capacity for agency is “socially, relationally and materially constituted, rather than being an essential quality or production of the individual child” (Callaghan et al., 2025, p. 8).

Beautiful ochils today. Glensherup (ben shee, scad, tarmangie, innerdownie). Nine icy cold miles!

It is also physically impossible (the metaphor)...

See also this recent article by
@ginnybraun.bsky.social
@janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @andrealamarre.bsky.social
@joannasemlyen.bsky.social
@jeffnz.bsky.social

#PhilSci #Epistemology #OpenSci #MetaSci

I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist

Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill

Or about who bought his house in Frinton

Must Scotland consult Nostradamus to find out how we hold another referendum? The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves says there won’t be another vote even if the SNP wins a majority at Holyrood in May – that’s a democratic…

What’s Scotland supposed to do? Consult Nostradamus to find out how we have another referendum?

Rachel Reeves says that even if the SNP wins a majority on its own at Holyrood the UK government will still not permit another vote.

It’s a democratic outrage

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

A pencil drawing of a girl, with one side of her face looking fine, and the side with torchlight shining on it, showing a bruise, a cut and tears in her eye.

#16days 🎨 This artwork by a young person we've worked with,

💬"visualises how someone can look completely fine if they want to, but once a light is shone on their life it can become visible that something might be going on in their life, such as abuse"
- Girl, age 16

💜Shared with permission 💚

Child Sexual Abuse Language Guide - The National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse This guide provides victim and survivor-informed language and definitions that are respectful, inclusive and trauma-informed.

Child Sexual Abuse Language Guide: This guide is designed for anyone working in child protection, policy, practice, education, healthcare, research, justice or communications. Reflects the perspectives of 100+ victims and survivors of child sexual abuse
nationalcentre.org.au/resource/chi...

Amazing work by Barnardos Ireland.

bsky.app/profile/barn...

Dogs not fogs lol

Gorgeous walk up the back of the dumyat with my fogs this morning.

Gorgeous walk up the back of the dumyat with my fogs this morning.

Nesting :)

The predator's predator.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

“The Burden of Truth is Just Very High: Inequalities in Institutional Responses to Family Violence” - Journal of Family Violence Purpose This paper explores how institutions meant to help victims exacerbate the physical, psychological, and emotional harms of family violence that result from broken or enduring family bonds. It f...

For victims, the burden of truth is high.

For perpetrators, any old bullshit seems credible.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Well #sophiefromromania and I are tangoing #strictly

Yeah living within *whose* means, defined by *whom*.

"another word for austerity is living within our means"

So how come in the "5th richest country in the world" (as we're often told), it's the poorest whose kids are dying from mould & the disabled clobbered to death by the govt? How come the most precarious die and the richest are just fine? #bbcqt

If you ever have to get top up insurance for a young driver, don't bother with Veygo

Tay crashed my car 3 weeks ago. These jokers havent even got it out of storage yet.

£750 excess, no customer service, no sense of urgency.

It is so bad it borders on a scam.

“You’re a kid, you don’t know where you are”: the voiced experiences of nonbinary youth navigating discursive realms of legitimacy Nonbinary youth’s gender identities are often dismissed and continue to be marginalised due to growing transphobic discourse. This article explores how youth navigate these developmental and gender...

New paper, the amazing luke ward

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Quite bizarre. Why turn away from the very thing that has made teen vogue relevant.

ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties.

Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan.

Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.

Very disappointing to see such political interference in the curriculum. Whatever one might think about aspects of the existing curriculum (and I certainly have my own criticisms of it), it must be remembered that many individuals and communities gave their time and expertise in its development.