I was repeatedly told how impressive my CV was by academics in generations above my own. But by comparison to my peers? It got me two interviews out of many, many applications. There are no jobs, but there are many qualified academics, and there are students desperate to learn. Ridiculous.
I like my cities to be sittable, shittable, and public transittable.
Alright, today's 🏴☠️ drop is depressing but necessary
Here are both episodes of LEAVING NEVERLAND (2019), the documentary the Jackson Estate and HBO don't want you to see:
Oh you just summarised my last three years....I'm absolutely stuck in this cycle, trying to escape boom and bust
This is the sort of perverse disincentive that arises from an obsession with means testing.
I got my permanent job at a university in 2008 (after 8 years hourly-paid) and now face redundancy. My salary has declined in real terms for my entire career.
The graph for senior management pay in a broken sector looks very, very different. This is not an accident.
I had the most horrendous dream, and I'm just going to start my whole day on the back foot. And everything is OFF.
brianna wu is determined to feel bad about herself and, quite frankly, she should
"Why nobody ask for a free book Mr Harry?"
"I just don't know Stouffer"
Have you listened to the CBC podcast on that? It's honestly very good, got the central people to talk - from the women who pled guilty to Raniere's lawyer. I never really *got* how a cult sucked people in before
Mini penne With a photo of a mall miniature penne pasta
*Sean Connery voice
Reposting again to convince more people to come see me on Saturday talk about violent dragon transformation! Faces get ripped off, it’s blood and guts and all things fun! Come along for some Old Norse body horror and theories of monstrosity
#medievalsky
god this is fucking powerful
We talk a lot about getting people to consume historical content or to pick up employable “skills” for other uses
We talk a little about alt-ac, as an excuse for keeping grad programs going
We don’t talk about the fact that soon, nobody is going to be around to produce new knowledge in our fields
High performing degrees taught by dedicated experts which support loads of students to be culled in the name of governmental shrugging and “adding value” managerial parasites bluffing their way through the next generic PowerPoint
We all need to lodge an official complaint. It takes no time at all, and I've dropped a link to BBC Complaints in the comments. This is shocking.
Hey @scottishgreens.org can you do better than this as a party please?
There are no words that adequately describe how much I miss being able to go out to gigs, to parties, to festivals, just having a basic normal social life.
Long Covid took all that from me, and it could take it from anyone.
If London South Bank is doing this from financial distress then it should have notified OfS that there’s a serious danger of bankruptcy so students can be protected.
If it’s not, then this is simple asset-sweating cartoon capitalist evil and their leaders need to be sacked. Like mine.
I mostly know cat people - it's a goth thing 😆
That's so cool!! If a colleague or friend needs a headshot, now I have a recommendation 😁
You have such cool professional photos. Love it!
Ok, but not the balsamic vinegar ones? Now I'm beginning to have doubts again about the superiority of the lifestyle again
strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news
Ok that's unhinged, and I love it.
“Grandpa, what does ‘awesome’ mean?”
“Well, back at one point, it was a word used to describe the planet’s great unfathomable wonders, although now it generally means ‘Thanks for emailing me that PDF’.”
Oh, I finally get it. I too will sell my soul to the corporate overlords - I did not realise there was unlimited pick'n mix behind the doors of the elite spaces
The so-called Labour party of the UK needs to die. Now. It needs to be trounced into oblivion, worse than the Lib Dems post coalition.
Oh brilliant, apparently I've developed the kind of sensitivity that makes flickering light on TV deeply uncomfortable to watch. It's just a ceiling fan, calm down brain.
Would be grateful for any non-binary folks from the UK filling in some new research on non-binary experiences of family support.
Many thanks!