Allison Owens

Tate workers vote in favour of week-long strike - Museums Association More than 150 members of PCS union will take industrial action later this month

News | Tate workers vote in favour of week-long strike, as Science Museum formally recognises union that won pay rise for security guards.

More than 150 members of PCS union are due to walk out later this month.

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Yes! My favourite moments are always when meme of the day hits icebox plums 😁

So good to see #LavLang32 being shared so widely! Join us for the annual Queer Linguistics conference, which in 2026 travels to Scotland for the first time thanks to @christianilbury.bsky.social and University of Edinburgh lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

SynTeach Focus Group Interest Form SynTeach is a project researching peoples' experiences teaching and learning syntax in higher education. We have conducted surveys of the field including syntax instructors and students, and we are pl...

SynTeach is a project looking at how syntax is taught in higher ed. Our next stage is FOCUS GROUPS—whether you loved or hated syntax, we'd love to talk to you! Sign up to be contacted as we're recruiting now: forms.gle/PiBYpVPr1yg2... #linguistics

📣 UWS HAS RULED OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES

After 8 days of strike action from EIS, and a further 12 days planned from Monday which UCU were due to join, management has today announced that CR has been taken off the table 🎉

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

From the NYT: "According to a preliminary internal report circulated inside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, federal and local officials recovered ammunition with the rifle that appeared to be engraved with statements “expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology" But a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that report had not been verified by A.T.E analysts, did not match other summaries of the evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted. In fast-moving investigations, such status reports are not made public because they often contain a mixture of accurate and inaccurate information."

if you see people parroting the "trans ideology on the bullet" theory, send them this

An orange Subaru Crosstrek with a giant pumpkin stem made of pool noodles and green duct tape rigged to the roof rack.

Been threatening to do this for ten years and I finally made a Halloween costume for my car.

Don’t like to have to keep doing this, but management has left us again with no choice. We will vote again to take action and massive numbers will again be out on picket lines. And like last year, management will again back down. All of that can be prevented if management chooses to negotiate.

STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics

star-linguistics.org

But Gen AI is fine?

Madgwick on University Challenge wearing a knitted jumper and matching hat.

a rare and excellent deployment of Double Knitwear! (I assume they were very cold) #UniversityChallenge

My 34 followers should know that I’m very proud of my wonderful partner who is captaining this year’s Manchester #UniversityChallenge team

It's likely that M&S inboxes will be flooded by angry GCs in the next few days. The smartest thing we can do is send some emails of our own and make it clear to M&S that screwing us over isn't cost free.

You can contact M&S on retailcustomer.services@marks-and-spencer.com

Example template email:

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

My 29 followers should know that I’m very proud of my friends on this year’s Sheffield #UniversityChallenge team

Solidarity with all my friends at Sheffield on strike! Great to see my old home of Geography represented and some familiar faces 😎

National Linguistics Day - November 26th. Let's get people thinking, talking and learning about the science of language!

National Linguistics Day (UK) - Tue 26th Nov! www.linguisticshq.co.uk/national-lin... Spread the word about what an exciting discipline it is to study!
Some ideas on how to participate at awareness-days.co.uk/awareness-da...
#NationalLinguisticsDay #Linguistics please share!

On Thursday, in an all-staff meeting with over 1000 attendees online and in person, 944 attendees participated in a vote with 93.3% saying they have “no confidence” in the VC and University Executive Board.

Mother criticises ‘agenda from above’ after release of Cass report Parent of trans girl says report promotes agenda that ‘things need to be made more difficult’ for children with gender dysphoria

Some important voices to hear from - young trans adults and parents of trans kids - on the day that the Cass Report is published. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Festive Traditions - Part 2, The Present This is part two of a two-part set, please see https://everythingallison.wixsite.com/everything-allison/post/festive-traditions-part-1-the-past for part 1. In the first part of this 'duology' of sorts...

Go check out my latest blog post - I’ve been thinking about Christmas traditions

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Hey. It's been a while hasn't it? The last time I wrote, it was February, the final semester of my undergraduate degree had barely started. I'd not even begun writing my dissertation. Now, it's nearly November and the year is drawing ...

The blogging returns. You can also enjoy my favourite bit of corporate pride (the gay tram). See below my latest post!

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