Katie Alcock

My kids always liked seeing the teachers' costumes. I think it's fun, a kind of Lord of Misrule day.

Doctors fear young at risk from ‘black-market trans hormones’ Medics call for an urgent investigation into trans community groups offering support on accessing supplies for self-medication

'Trans activists advising young people how to self-medicate using black market cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers must be “urgently investigated”, doctors have said.'
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The Dark is Rising series - Susan Cooper.

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

IWD 2026: The case for including trans women “Dos and Don’ts” for International Women’s Day 2026, and why trans inclusion strengthens women’s rights in Australia and beyond.

No
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I was spoiled for choice actually. I was thinking of Angela Carini (sp?) after fighting Imame Khelif (also AP?) or the No Thank You weightlifter.

I know, how will they cope if some women don't believe their fantasy?

Green Party faces gender-critical group lawsuit over trans ‘witch-hunt’ Green Women’s Declaration claims discrimination after Zack Polanski’s party banned its stall at last year’s conference

Oh look, the Green Party is being sued by GC women, I do hope they win. The Greens have accused them of putting other party members at risk? I presume they mean male members pretending to be women, poor little fellas.

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Nurse! Nurse! He's out of his cell!

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

I'm pretty sure if it does the world will end.

Has the industry tried smiling more

I read something yesterday that said Corgis were herding dogs and I'm like, wouldn't the herded animals just laugh?

That tracks.

The project could look at either young adults or at children at the point of entering secondary school, depending on the candidate’s interests. Questions? Email me at k.j.alcock@lancaster.ac.uk

We will examine cognitive and social features of autistic people’s lives and use latent class analysis to see if certain aspects of autistic thinking and social life might influence this link. We will also look at whether there might be more than one pathway between the two.

Why are autistic people more likely to suffer from gender dysphoria?

Supervisors: Katie Alcock – Developmental/Cognitive Psychology; Gabriel Wallin - Statistics (School of Mathematical Sciences)

Project description: This project combines Cognitive Neuropsychology and Statistics

PhD - Lancaster University

My PhD post is live! #psychology #phd #phdfunding
lancaster.ac.uk/psychology/study/phd/#other-funding-opportunities-406250-5

I spent the morning on several "wasn't me guv a big AI model did it and ran away" meetings and I feel you.

Interesting thread.

Imagine what could have been discovered/invented/cured by now if women hadn't been subjugated. (See also: India's caste system.)

They are going to say that everyone was impacted by FWS while neglecting that we said it was great.

Dundee University professor embroiled in puberty blocker storm after 'support' for Fife nurse Calls have been made to reinstate Professor Jacob George after he was removed from the study for "gender critical" social media posts.

“We urge you to reinstate Prof George with a full apology in order to clear his name and to reassure your other staff that those expressing gender-critical views are not at risk of similar discrimination and harassment.”
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This is beautiful.

For #womenshistorymonth, here are some of the best books by women about women which I drew on when writing Red Duchess. Eleanor Rathbone, Edith Summerskill & Thelma Cazalet-Keir are all fascinating. (There's no biog of Florence Horsburgh & there really ought to be, for anyone in search of a subject)

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

I think the word you are looking for is "homage".

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

Later on she was able to give up housekeeping for her brother because, guess what, he got married. She was the first paid female astronomer (I am sure if I dig deeply I can find the first unpaid one!).

rather than get an education. At least in England she was educated though of course she was STILL her brothers' housekeeper.
I am not an astronomer though she appears to have discovered, well, a load of stuff, including comets, nebulae etc. etc.