Sarah Barnard

I miss google from before all the nonsense

What is going on with Portugal?

Seeing a kingfisher is a special event!

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office

The Epstein files grant us a rare glimpse into the kind of machinations that must be happening all the time. As @bylinetimes.bsky.social reveals, Trump's fixer, Steve Bannon, helped Boris Johnson overthrow Theresa May. Blatant foreign interference in our politics. 🧵
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

I havent seen exactly this in surveillance studies lit, but it made me think of when Louis Theroux did a documentary on Scientology

Student Survey Exploring Part-Time Doctoral Student Experiences Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

Call for survey participants
- Current & past part-time PhD students - AND their supervisors.
Looking at experiences of PT PGRs.

Run by U of Salford.

If your institution gets >30 responses, you get a findings report specific to your institution.
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/st...

People in the UK, if we didn't go out when it rains, would never leave the house!

The theme tune transports me back to that Sunday night, sinking stomach, shit I need to do my homework, feeling. Still love the show tho

Absolute divas

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

It's time to revisit a fave
youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

Main guy taking whatever he can get from everyone in his orbit, but in a kind of 'nice' way, awful to sit through when you've lived with someone like that

Years ago I experienced this in a different form - 'Evie getting out of the car'

Please share: One of my counselling psychology students is looking for Muslim women who are working in the UK to share their workplace experiences and any engagement they've had with workplace wellbeing initiatives. Click on the following link to find out more: uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A split-image composition featuring two historical elements side by side. On the left is an oil portrait painting of Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th-century British philosopher and advocate for women's rights. She is depicted as a young woman in her late 20s or early 30s with fair skin, rosy cheeks, and auburn hair tucked under a black cap. She wears a simple white muslin gown draped loosely across her shoulders and chest in a classical, flowing style. Her expression is calm and thoughtful, gazing to the left with soft brown eyes against a dark, shadowy background that gives the portrait a dramatic, introspective mood. On the right is a close-up photograph of the title page from the first edition of her seminal work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The text is printed in elegant 18th-century typography with black ink on aged, slightly yellowed paper. The full title reads: "A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN: WITH STRICTURES ON POLITICAL AND MORAL SUBJECTS. By MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT." Below are publication details: "LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, N° 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD. 1792." The page has a classic book layout with centered lines, decorative rules, and subtle printer's ornaments. The overall image juxtaposes Wollstonecraft's portrait with the foundational feminist text she authored, symbolizing her enduring legacy in women's rights and Enlightenment thought.

𝘈 𝘝𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 by English writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft was first published in January 1792. It is a foundational text for feminism that argued for equal education and rights for women--challenging the notion of female inferiority. #literature #litsky #booksky

Love this album, so good, reminds me of being a teenager

Academics do this as we struggle to remember what we said already

Books by Sue Townsend have good humour I think. There's a Finnish writer too - Antti Tuomainen

I found Don Quixote in places very funny

Leavitt is giving woman from Requiem for a Dream vibes

Like you are wearing an Elizabethan neck ruffle

Great song, great video 10/10

Imagine she is has cancer or a chronic health condition. She is on her own

Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

I can recommend the Hurtigruten cruise trips up the coast. Amazing experience.

Awesome! Sounds amazing. I did make it to the north norway in the arctic circle 8 years ago with my sister, who sadly passed away 6 months later. There are so many interesting places to visit in the world.

Good to hear. I'm taking my second solo holiday in Dec!

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)

RTs appreciated.

Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.

"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance."

No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reminds me of the saying No good deed goes unpunished