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matildaf.bsky.social
Geographer & lecturer: int. climate politics, (non)reproduction and the Anthropocene. UCU NEC casualised rep. UCU Commons Queerness, food, unions, ABBA. My views. She/her Website: https://linktr.ee/matildafitzmaurice
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someone at work, fairly senior and with English as his second language, said in a meeting "we've got to bite it in the bum" and it's the best thing he's ever done

submitted 13 hours ago • 17 comments

They are only m&m's if you eat them in pairs, wake up sheeple!

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Gillespie has been called "an absent landlord" 🔥

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Something I found lovely about yesterday was that allies really showed up. I was in the queue for parliament with a mother meeting her MP on behalf of her trans child & a cis man meeting his on behalf of his trans brother. A father of trans kids met my MP before me. People are fighting this with us.

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

This should be much, much bigger news in Germany. It should be a lead item on the national news. "A four-year-old Black boy died in a fire in a house in Wilhelmshaven occupied exclusively by people of recent immigration background...The public prosecutor's office is now investigating the arson."

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

This is the greatest photo I have ever seen. The flying man, the crystal ashtray and cigs, the garden chairs:

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

guess who has successfully grown POTATOES

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There's one week to go to complete the Equality and Human Rights Commission consultation - closing Monday 30th, just before midnight. If you want to fill in, try & set aside 10-30 mins to do so this week, and email your MP! For more info: www.scottishtrans.org/emailfortran...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

big shout out to the Open Access support team at my work for being extremely kind and helpful

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I’m very proud this has carried on since April 2020 when we set it up.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

As a @york.ac.uk grad, I have many friends who've taught at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, and know from them what valuable work it does. Awful news for the city!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Well I do know why, really, because, the 'impact agenda' is a disciplinary tool

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

JOB: Lecturer in the Politics of Climate Change This is a permanent post, based here in the School of Politics and International Studies at Leeds. Application deadline 30 June, so please spread the word! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... @polisatleeds.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

love the guy on Channel 4 news right now on telly with his bow tie and with his CD rack behind him, the brat album faced out

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

love train wifi that's so bad you can't even send a powerpoint via email

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

There's been a skip labelled 'fixed-term contact academic bin' for ages

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A small ask, as a transgender who values his mental health, can we not all screenshot Rowling and post it here whenever she decides to tweet something hideously transphobic? Logged on this morning and my entire feed was Rowling screenshots. If I wanted to see that, I’d still be on Twitter.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

if you editorialise, are you any longer a newsreader?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

applied for a job (academic) over the weekend and the employer only asks for references if an offer of appointment is made!! More of this please!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

UK higher ed has External Examiners, thousands of qualified people who provide their labour, *almost unremunerated* to check the actual quality of actual teaching & assessment, every year. In the "national debate on quality assurance", they might as well not exist. wonkhe.com/blogs/qualit...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Surely newcomers as rich as this could be liable for MILLIONS in tax. Reform think paying £250k is enough.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

senior management should not be able to take their published restructure plans with them to their new employer

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

gcn.ie/uk-puberty-b...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Laura Kuennsberg manufacturing consent for bombing Iran by citing amongst other things same-sex relationships. Nothing justifies the bombing of Iran by Israel and the US - homonationalism and the BBCs use of it to legitimise mass murder is abhorrent. #BBCLauraK

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Bringing back all the greatest hits of the Iraq War www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

Too humid. Broken (or as I strongly suspect) fridge-freezer. How to cheer myself up

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent thread.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

It's a day for all those kaftan-adjacent dresses that were fashionable a few years ago

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This whole thread is full of truth. ECRs are the single-use plastic of the UKHE sector and no-one is doing a damn thing about it.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Can't fault this as advice TBH

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments