Dr. Lucy Neville

Can’t help but reflect on the *5 years of strikes* we did to defend our pensions, on this, the day USS announce their £10 billion surplus.

Exploring Young Trans and Non-binary People’s Strategies and Spaces for Navigating Marginality in the United Kingdom: A Novel Resilience, Resistance, and Restoration Framework Amid recent, unprecedented sociopolitical scrutiny and hypervisibility of young trans people in the United Kingdom, this article considers how trans youth develop individual and collective mechanis...

Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government

Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

“Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice… Otherwise, the state will keep using the same fascist playbook: target sex workers and the most marginalized first, then expand its reach to others” #sexworkiswork
truthout.org/articles/sex...

Having a Cultural Evening with @drbluestocking.bsky.social Celebrating the AMAZING #LauraHarris Collaborative Art Installation at the John Hansard Gallery #SoProud #BuildingsThatMove 😍❤️🥂🥂🥂

Universities have ‘lost sight of responsibility over public money’ Baroness Smith says institutions failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from government

I have never seen people run away from the scene of a public policy disaster quicker than this one. Astonishing and disgraceful. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

Introducing Our University’s New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure Since the founding of our august institution, we have awarded promotion and tenure based on how many pages of your research we could read before fa...

Introducing Our University's New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/int...

The Deaths—and Lives—of Two Sons The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.

“No matter how long we get to parent our children, there are only limited numbers of “I love you”s we can say to them. That, too, is a fact.”

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Text: Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and INsecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out. -Gabino Iglesias

Legit! #writers #booksky #writingcommunity

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

"The real project was always us: the work of understanding, and not the accumulation of facts... No amount of peer-reviewed scholarship, no data set, can resolve the central questions that confront every human being: How to live? What to do? How to face death?’" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams

“That’s the problem with paralysis – it gets into everything. You can’t look at the news, but you know it’s still there... Frozen feels preferable to adapting to a new reality. Sometimes you don’t have to look for it – trouble will find you anyway”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Witch’s Bridle | The Manifest Station Scot seems to recognize that the tall tale is actually an instruction for controlling and disciplining women. Bridle the woman before she bridles you. Violate the woman before she violates you.

“We have our own witches – women who like the witches of old cannot live in the boxes they are put in. Women who are shamed and doubted in public, regardless of who is wrong or right. I could not live in the box I had been put in”

www.themanifeststation.net/2025/02/14/t...

Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.

“Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the ‘Woke’ Parts” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities The entire arts and heritage sector in the UK will be irreparably damaged

“If I were to ask “What makes you proud to be British?”… I would put money on many of your answers being the very subjects that are currently under threat at our universities. Our history, theatre, music, language, literature – our culture” - @whoresofyore.bsky.social inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...

It’s fun starting a new hobby with ADHD because I never know if I’ve found a new lifelong passion or if I’m going to spend $2000 on stuff and immediately lose all interest

Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage

“While there is every reason to be outraged, we cannot let that outrage flood us and stop our minds” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Romantasy and BookTok driving a huge rise in science fiction and fantasy sales The subgenre helped increase the market share by 41.3% last year aided by bestseller Fourth Wing from Rebecca Yarros while food and drink topped nonfiction sales

“Romantasy and BookTok driving a huge rise in science fiction and fantasy sales” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Incredible review from the wonderful InCommon of the exhibition on now in Winchester @miloustella.bsky.social

Shaping pleasure, shifting boundaries: a roundtable on the future of porn studies The roundtable, ‘Shaping Pleasure, Shifting Boundaries: A Roundtable on the Future of Porn Studies,’ took place in June 2024 via Zoom and was recorded, transcribed and then edited to cut digression...

“Shaping pleasure, shifting boundaries: a roundtable on the future of porn studies” #PornStudies www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NVIW4...

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

Here are the words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump’s orders National Science Foundation staff have been combing through thousands of active science research projects, alongside a list of keywords, to determine if they include activities that violate Trump’s ex...

I.e. the exact stuff I do! So not trying to belittle how awful this is for US academics. Just that it doesn’t look to be a blanket ban.

The Washington Post has reported on it: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Seems like it’s not the case that funding will be pulled from/denied grants featuring these words, rather that the occurrence of these words will trigger a “human review”. So mentions of statistical bias, blood-brain barrier &c will be fine. It’s specifically “EDI” research that will be defunded.

Personal Essay: What It’s Like to Date a Serial Cheater Jake seemed too good to be true. He was.

“When you teach your daughter…that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind & accepting, that she must not rock the boat, you are NOT strengthening her prosocial sense, you are damaging it—& the first person she will stop protecting is herself” www.seattlemet.com/news-and-cit...

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE 🎉 ✨️ 🎉🎊 My Book Is Officially Out 🥂😍💃💃AND The Best Part Is It's #OpenAccess Can't Believe I am Starting 2025 as a Published Author 🤓🤓 6 Years of Hard Work has Officially Paid Off 🍾🍾🍾