This is SOOO out of date (after slow start to my bluesky journey) but what a joy to come on today and be reminded of a joyful day and an amazing accomplishment!
13.06.2025 09:31 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0
A reminder that the entire #DisabilityStudies team at Liverpool Hope (my former colleagues) are threatened with redundancy. Devastating not just for individuals, but for the field. Students have written this powerful open letter about the impact. #SaveHopeDisabilityStudies
02.06.2025 16:34 β π 19 π 17 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks so much! And interesting point about universities
13.06.2025 09:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Six voices on the search for meaning in the modern world
How should we navigate existential questions in our increasingly secular society? We asked six people for their perspectives
Are we experiencing a crisis of meaning and purpose in the west?
In the first edition of our new Voices section, we asked six people for their perspectives.
Hear from @andrewcopson.bsky.social, @domipalmer.bsky.social, @loielee.bsky.social and more
09.06.2025 15:43 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
SUCCESS: Mubarak Bala is free!
President of the Nigerian Humanist Association Mubarak Bala is finally free after nearly four-and-a-half years of imprisonment for βblasphemousβ posts on Facebook. Mubarak was jailed in 2020 and convi...
Delighted to hear the news that Mubarak Bala (president of the Nigerian Humanist Association) has been released, after being imprisoned on blasphemy charges.
This case is a reminder that blasphemy & apostasy laws should be repealed, so everyone has the freedom of religion or belief.
10.01.2025 08:46 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
This is a really important point about the very low number of academic texts available in audio format. I often use a screen reader but citation practices, pdf formatting etc means they donβt work well for academic work. To be truly open access, academic publications must have audio versions.
24.11.2024 15:57 β π 20 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1
Humourous translations of academic jargon like "it has long been known" might mean "I didn't look up the original reference."
Academic jargon, translated
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Chart showing that "the number of references in papers has steadily risen over time, with papers in the sciences now including more than 40 on average."
The average social science journal article now cites five times as many references as such an article did back in 1960
www.nature.com/articles/d41... π§ͺ
#AcademicSky
25.11.2024 02:43 β π 89 π 26 π¬ 5 π 6
DPhil in Population Health scholarship for pandemic research
Are you interested in applying for a DPhil that focusses on pandemic research? Apply for Oxford Population Health's DPhil in Population HealthΒ by Tuesday 3 December 2024 and you could be offered aβ¦
Are you interested in applying for a DPhil that focusses on pandemic research? https://buff.ly/4fHGfI2 The Pandemic Sciences Institute is offering a scholarship for Oxford Population Health's DPhil in Population Health to work with PSI Investigators on a PSI-related project, apply by 3 Dec.
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Two year post-doc at LSE's International Inequalities Institute working on inherited inequality and social mobility - deadline Dec 1st
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Free thinking in an age of extremes. Follow for independent journalism on ideas, culture, politics and science. Published since 1885.
www.newhumanist.org.uk
PhD in non-religion, apostasy & asylum | Sociologist exploring identities, human and refugee rights & (de)coloniality | ESRC Postdoc at Uni of York | PGR Officer for SocRel
Independent/retired, undistinguished ex-professor. Aortic dissection survivor currently living with long covid. He/him.
Philosopher at University of Southampton
Motherhood/ Parenthood, Pregnancy, Deontological distinctions.
She/her
she/her, Writer, Learner, Mythologist, chronically ill with #MECFS
I host community peer groups www.co-resting.org
#PWME #Mythology #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigue #CFS #Resting #CoResting #Pacing #PEM #MCAS #NEISvoid
I am a Prof of Comp Sci at Uni of Manchester, UK. UCU NEC disabled member rep (2023-24). UCUCommons. All posts are my own behalf alone. He/him/they.
Philosopher, feminist, ethicist, cyclist.
Dean of Arts, University of Guelph.
My ErdΕs number is 3.
My pronouns are she/her.π
http://linktr.ee/sjbrennan
Professor of Human Geography at Uni of Liverpool, research on chronic illness, energy limiting conditions, fat embodiment. Feminist, Fat Activist, Spoonie, PwME, Friend, Sister, Daughter, Person. Hobbies: SF, cats, knitting/crochet. she/her or they/their π³οΈββ§οΈ
Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
Chief features writer, Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, βWin Every Argumentβ
British-American
Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor Leading Civic Missions on Right to Food & Sanctuary at Kent & Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Associate Director for Faculty Programming, WashU CTL. Sociologist of culture, cognition, religion, and other fun things whoβs out in the wild trying to help support teaching & learning.
And also the Benevolent Overlord of Cynomys ludovicianus π
Interdisciplinary research center based at the University of Oxford and Oxford Population Health - disrupting and realigning #demography. Funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social
https://www.demography.ox.ac.uk/
Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics β¦ love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
