Liz Beddoe

YouTube video by Virginia Braun Dr Braun(love) - or: how I learned to stop worrying and love GenAI (yeah nah)

Here's a talk I gave as a keynote for the BPS @qmip.bsky.social conference (July 2025) - the result of @vicclarke.bsky.social & I recognising we needed to "dive in" & grapple with the beast that is GenAI & qualitative/(reflexive) thematic analysis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...

Mass protests against Donald Trump, line of protestors hold sign that says “Scotland against Trump”

Mass protests against an international criminal and Epstein associated rapist travelling to Scotland.

The title of the paper set on the colours of the trans flag: "Anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-gender: The transphobic turn of the “freedom movement” during COVID-19" by Max Soar, Sophie Beaumont & Alex Ker, set o

Winston Peters' transphobia is back in the news, so here's our recently published (open access) research on recent moral panics about gender in Aotearoa.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

IFSW Education Commission Defends the Right to Speak for Justice: Standing with Professor Lavalette It is with great concern that we have learned that Professor Michael Lavalette has been summoned by the police for an interview under the Public Order Act, following his public expressions of solidari

Long time social work academic and activist investigated for standing up for Palestine. www.ifsw.org/ifsw-educati...

Funny what people reserve their outrage for.
A. Children getting blown to bits in cold blood?
B. Scootering into an RAF base to spray some paint on a plane?
Decisions, decisions ....

sensational

Exactly. We’re used to his attacks which are totally inane but also dangerous. But this one on Anaru really pisses me off.

Absolute disgusting attack on a distinguished and respected Māori scholar and teacher.

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‘Flooding the Zone’ diverts our attention from Regulatory Takings - Reimagining Social Work in Aotearoa A guest post by Luis Arevalo In 2018 Steve Bannon, who was once Trump’s chief strategist, described the act of overwhelming the opposition political party, the media, and society in general with copio...

reimaginingsocialwork.nz/2025/06/17/f...

Stop conflating being transgender with being sick This week, RNZ reported on a tragic death. In the process it perpetuated many harmful messages about young trans people.

thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-0...

Melissa McEwan • @Shakestweetz "Billionaire" isn't a qualification. It's the description of a person who is hoarding more resources than they could use in 100 lifetimes while other people are starving. It's the name for a human dragon sleeping on its pile of rubies and gold.

Luxon on RNZ equating billionaires with hard work. There is not one LivingWageEmployer on the rich list, the govt has stolen the chance of decent pay from 300,000+ actual hard working women, & the PM wants to celebrate the folks who don’t want to pay their fair share of tax or decent wages.

There is no 'Māori problem', there is a 'white people problem' | E-Tangata “If Pākehā people want something different, or want an end to the ‘Māori problem’, it’s our white-centric social and economic structures that must change, and the way we view the world.” — Elizabeth A...

“If Pākehā people want something different, or want an end to the “Māori problem”, it’s our white-centric social and economic structures that must change, and the way we view the world” #Nzpol

Unsettled Bliss - whiteness
in Aotearoa by Elizabeth Ann Cook looks well worth a read Pākehā ma.

Safeguarding from Power: Trauma, Violence, and the Case of Israel I don't usually write long posts or articles here, but this occasion calls for it. Please read, share, and sign our petition.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/safegu...

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.

You’re in organized crime.

Not paying authors and other creative artists for use of their work will kill them! 💀 ⚰️ ⚱️

Using Intellectual Property requires Consent, Acknowledgement and Payment. There are authors dying of medical conditions they can't afford to treat, and suffering from lack of payment by #AI thieves!

You can’t make this up!!

Big Alcohol blocked pregnancy warning labels for 20 years. Now they’re helping write the FASD plan

Whānau live with the harm while lobbyists write the rules.
This isn’t public health - it’s an industry free-for-all

#WTFGovt #PublicHealthHijacked #NZPol #FASD #TePātiMāori

#nzpol The pay equity decision today – just before Mothers Day – takes employment law back decades. It will likely impact the earnings of hundreds of thousands of women, often working in some of the most poorly paid work. It will cost us all in the long-run. A 🧵 www.beehive.govt.nz/release/chan...

Part of what really disturbs me about the sudden end of pay equity is the democratic implications - National did not say before the election that they would do this. It is now being passed under urgency, the same day as announcement, with no public input. NZers quite simply have not had a say.

Pay equity legislation could save 'billions' for government - PM Christopher Luxon said the upcoming Budget was not the motivation for rushing through the legislation.

The government will save billions through this decision. But we should be clear that this is money that has come directly out of the pockets of low-paid female workers. I didn’t think the National Party would stoop this low to pay for it’s tax cuts. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Have a blanket Sorry about the terrible policies and legislation

drbex.substack.com/p/have-a-bla...

Trump administration texts Barnard professors, asking if they are Jewish The Microsoft Office form asked current and former employees of Barnard whether they identified as Jewish, Israeli, had Jewish/Israeli ancestry, or “practice Judaism.”

Trump Adm texts Barnard profs, asking if they are Jewish
“The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister,” said Debbie Becher, a Jewish associate professor of sociology at Barnard
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I have used them a few times and they’re amazing! Quick and very good! Please help if you can!

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Ms Slater encapsulating terfy thinking by defining women by some ludicrous tradwife criteria.

Jeff Bezos has more money than any human could spend and he's just wasting it on planet-wrecking joyrides to space while people on Earth starve.

Why don't we just tax the super-rich and use that money to fix wealth inequality AND the #ClimateCrisis?

#TaxTheSuperRich

📢 The British Journal of Social Work Appoints New Co-editors!

Congratulations to @carlenefirmin.bsky.social and @stkong.bsky.social who will officially start in their new role as co-editors on 1 July 2025.

Find out more 🔗 new.basw.co.uk/articles/bri...

A deeply frustrating line-by-line reading of Casey Costello’s letter to Health NZ Does the associate minister of health know that sex and gender are two different things? Her letter suggests no.

Good reporting from the spinoff, making an important point: specific language like "people with a cervix" is good for everyone. Not every woman - or cis woman - has the same body parts or needs the same type of care. Being specific about the bodies we talk about is good.