becki nash

Bad Apple

Met Police back in the news for being utter fucks as per. How many bad apples?

What this means is that government and UUK want to impose contract changes on vast swathes of academic staff to reduce research time, and ultimately make vast numbers of staff redundant.

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Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol 19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

Please help. Our department runs a groundbreaking part-time degree programme in English Literature and Community Engagement, known as ELCE, designed for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. The University of Bristol has decided to close it.
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

Police arrest 365 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London Met officers and other UK forces form ‘significant presence’ in largest protest since group was proscribed as terrorist organisation

365 people arrested for opposing the UK government proscribing the non-violent Palestine Action group as terrorists.

Labour’s legacy is this. Congrats to Starmer

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Oh my god!!

Global: Caster Semenya’s Court Victory a Win for All Athletes In a landmark case for athletes’ rights, Caster Semenya, the star South African runner, won her case at the European Court of Human Rights.

Global: Caster Semenya’s Court Victory a Win for All Athletes
www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

"The report by Prof Alice Sullivan"... Ah yes. We can all stop reading right there then, can't we?

Excited for this screenshot to be used to blame feminism for the war.

An advert for a company called Magibook. The headline reads "Turn HARD books into EASY books with Magibook! Maximize your reading potential and avoid difficult language today." Underneath is two covers of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Above the first cover is the original version of the opening sentence (captioned "Turn Hard Books"), which reads "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since." Above the second cover (captioned "into Easy Books") is a simplified version, which reads "When I was young, my dad told me something that I still think about."

THE BELL JAR

HARD ❌

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York

EASY ✅

That summer was sizzling, and so were the Rosenbergs

A man shouted Britain First as he shot an MP dead and Britain First are not proscribed.

Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing Ride-sharing platforms like Uber market themselves as enabling `flexibility' for their workforce, meaning that drivers are expected to anticipate when and where the algorithm will allocate them jobs, ...

New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278

Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/

When Joseph Lister began advocating germ theory in the 19th century, his critics ridiculed him. One man would walk into the operating theatre, slam the door, and say: "There, Mr. Lister's germs can't get in!" Never thought when I was writing THE BUTCHERING ART that we'd be backsliding into the past.

Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment This article enquires into the cosmetic procedures industry, a growing economic field which offers individuals a variety of professional services to aesthetically enhance their bodies. Expanding th...

Happy to see this new article published! Written with Anne-Mette Hermans, the article analyzes and theorizes the rise of the cosmetic industry through the novel theoretical framework of enrichment

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

Ah this looks SO interesting!! Looking forward to reading! :)

This always bears repeating. Getting a GRC is supposed to be the final confirmation, not the first step. Saying you shouldn't live as your acquired gender until you already have a GRC is a bit like saying you shouldn't live in the UK until you're already a British citizen.

Russian blue cat lying with his face buried in his outstretched legs. Giving side eye.

Shan’t.

#caturday

Call for contributors: the Bloomsbury handbook of queering research methods: methods and methodologies across the research process.

Image repeats text in the body of skeet.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods.

We welcome a vast range of different interpretations of what it means to queer research and esp seek contributions from individuals whose lived experiences and perspectives have been marginalized, excluded or erased.

PDF zine: But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic This is the latest version of a zine I have distributed at wormboys gigs over the last couple of years. I’ve recently updated it to address recent events, including the April 2025 Supreme Cou…

I made a new zine! It's full of advice on how allies can work alongside trans people to take action in the current moment, lovingly cut-and-pasted over the words of my enemies. Plus lots of nice pictures and memes.

Available as a free PDF! Read online or print your own copy! Share with everyone!

Reminder:

If you support Harry Potter in any way, you are directly funding legal attacks on trans people.

There is no separating the art from the artist in this case.

Thank you so much Silke 🥰

Cosmetic gatekeepers: Negotiations of beauty and (re)shaping bodies by medical aesthetic practitioners Aesthetic practitioners who administer (non-)surgical medical cosmetic procedures play a central, and growing, role in the (re)shaping of predominantl…

So pleased to see this article out in the world! Anne-Mette Hermans and I explore how aesthetic practitioners function as cosmetic gatekeepers when administering non-surgical treatments like Botox and dermal fillers, and the frequent tensions between medicine, aesthetics and commercialism. It’s 🔓!

A headline that reads: “Cow escapes on way to slaughterhouse, smashes metal fence, breaks human’s arm, and swims to uninhabited island where she still lives.” There’s a photo of a brown cow looking at the camera.

Finally, some good news.

"pspspspspspspsps piss off Tim"

If you want to live in the UK, you should speak English. That's common sense. So we're raising English language requirements across every main immigration route.

Spain, you could do the funniest thing right now...

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.

That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.

Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

Grey goose lurking behind woman, hoping for food (maybe)

Sometimes a little too close…

Gosling looking for food in the grass, with 3 goslings in the background

Oh they’re just the best 🥰 LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE WINGS AND BEAKS. Fortunately the geese nearby are pretty friendly and get quite close…

A very new gosling walking around on grass

Sometimes all you need is a little gosling butt to alleviate the morbs

fuck the home office, fuck the labour party, and fuck yvette cooper specifically.