Flora Cornish

The men who raised the flags Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."

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Ohhhh. What a wonderful teacher to have had ❤️

Yes. And diversity of scholarship is a public good too.

Well said. The framing in the UK that we should poach fleeing US academics with glee is really grim for our precarious junior colleagues who face a disastrous labour market. I expect US-trained folks will get a lot of the paltry jobs but the hegemony is not great.

Happy anniversary! And happy uniquenesses that make us who we are!🦉❤️

Sparking ‘Aha’ Moments: A Resource for Teaching Research Methods NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation

If you teach research methods, this is an amazing resource for inspiring approaches 🤩

www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/tr...

So clever! Love it!

Yet another way that the poor clinical understanding of symptoms of long covid produces discrimination and inequalities.

Ragged scarecrow with pumpkin jack-o-lantern head stands under autumn trees, on a carpet of dead leaves

Spooky season on Hampstead Heath

Would be lovely to see you some time though!

I'm afraid not

Why is research participation in free fall? Some thoughts, on @bsaecf.bsky.social @costoflivingblog.bsky.social Blog www.cost-ofliving.net/just-saying-...

Three ribbed hats with a folded up brim on a grey background. One is an abstract rainbow, colour block design in bright pink, ochre and a heathered navy, the next is navy with narrow pink stripes and the third is in progress, a variegated pink/turquoise and pink fading together.

Hats week for #ShowMeYourKnits I love making and wearing these soft squishy hats with malabrigo rios yarn and Two by Two pattern by Anne G. The pink, yellow and blue one is always in my coat pocket or on my head!

THIS!

Feeling a little bit of grief this morning, and a lot of gratitude, after yesterday's last ever parents evening for my 17yo 😢

Thank you secondary school teachers everywhere for nurturing, inspiring and sticking by our young people! 🙏❤️🍎

UKRI seeks your views in 2025 stakeholder survey In our third annual survey, we are asking for feedback on what we do, how well we do it and what our stakeholders think about UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

apropos of absolutely nothing, and definitely not recent FOI reports, UKRI are soliciting YOUR views on how well they work, their priorities, whose interests they best serve, etc.
www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...

RIP all the wasted effort by UK academics on grant applications. It is such a kick in the teeth 😭😭😭😭

Thank you for sharing. This is so so important for our planning and mentoring. I had been thinking it was 10-15% 😭😭

In case there was any doubt about the UK academic funding system being broken ....

Hampstead Heath swimmers! If you want to preserve the joyous inclusive atmosphere of the ponds 👇 ❤️

Thanks for sharing! I swim semi-regularly in the women's pond and adore the inclusive, joyous, respectful, friendly atmosphere. The comfortable diversity of bodies is glorious. Have also filled it in delighting in trans inclusion ❤️

Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus At the end of the Second World War, a wave of independence movements swept the British Empire. Emergency Exits focuses on three often overlooked independence movements. These were brutal conflicts bet...

This year one of the great joys of my work has been contributing to the advisory board for a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. And last week the exhibition officially opened!

Yes, exactly! It respects people as partners in a journey, with agency and investments in the process.

I guess I thought this was common knowledge, but maybe it takes some PPIE expertise, or more likely a general outlook that actually values people?

Can some of us agree that we must not treat LLMs as replacements for real, breathing, feeling, located, relational, caring, uncaring, difficult, annoying, inefficient people?

Oh my god. This makes me so sad. Devaluing the most precious thing in the world - a moment of mutual engagement, and for researchers, the possibility of learning from a real person with a different body and life situation.

Photo of a Poem on the Underground piece on the tube in London titled Epitaph on a Tyrant by W.H. Auden. Poem: "Pefection, of a kind, was what he was after. And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand. And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter; And when he cried the little children died in the streets." January 1939

Well played, London Underground.

Oh wow, spot on from W H Auden and London Underground!

Not just the uk of course. Fuck's sake, this came up right after i posted

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A plea for the ‘de-migranticization' of research on migration and integration1 Migration and integration research has been institutionalized over the last few decades. However, an increasing number of voices has been calling for more reflexivity, criticizing the nation-state-...

For researchers working on mobilities who don't want to perpetuate current weaponised discourses about "migrants":

This call for "de-migrantisation" by Janine Dahinden is v v helpful

A plea for the ‘de-migranticization' of research on migration and integration share.google/hsY9EF94Gd92...

The xenophobia of mainstream political discourse in the UK is off the scale. Shame and hellfire on all politicians who create and instrumentalise divisions.