thesmallplaces.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

What are your marking rules this season? Mine are: 1. For every one essay marked you can send a tweet 2. For every two essays marked, you can have a marshmallow 3. For every four essays marked you can replenish your caffeinated beverage. Am in breach of rules 1, and 3 already. Back to it...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Yesterday, for reasons I won't go into, I spent three hours at the foot of a wind turbine. They are massive and majestic and if anyone wants to put one in my backyard they are welcome.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Lovely review of Skinner's new book on liberty and republicanism, if you're that way inclined www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... cc @tomoshea.org @bevclough.bsky.social @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

The Bureaucracy Prayer Grant me the patience to endure the rules I cannot change, The nerve to challenge the ones I can, And the wisdom to know when it's just not worth the endless email chain, paperwork and meetings.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I am on a one-woman mission to make people use the Word headings functions. It doesn't just look better, save you time, help you structure things better, it's about accessibility people! You don't have to stick with blue titles, you can change the design, but seriously, invest in learning this!

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

We're deep down an evil rabbit hole in the US...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Just had my final disability studies class of this academic year. Undergraduate policy, childhood studies and criminology students in their final year. It's been such a privilege and pleasure to teach them. They'll do great things! Here's their courses bristol.ac.uk/study/underg...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The published data on restrictive interventions for Seni's law is not exactly easy to use (for my students) - does anyone know of any published report or analysis on this? cc @centreformh.bsky.social Thanks! digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Labour were elected on growth and repairing public services devastated by Tory cuts. Everywhere I look there's job losses, redundancy fears and terror around benefits cuts. Now hospitals: Hundreds of jobs to go at Bristol's hospitals as government cuts hit www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

submitted 27 days ago • 195 comments

We're hiring a Policy Adviser! You'll work across policy areas (work, care, housing and more) to generate ideas that address the challenges underpinning poverty in the UK. 📍 Hybrid (York/London) Salary: £37,546.60 (+ LDN weighting) 9 Months FTC Find out more and apply now: bit.ly/4jdaWGn

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Academics and authors - has Meta eaten your work for its AI? (Probably). I asked it some basic questions about my research and key cases I discuss in it, and it gave the weakest answers. (Students take note!!) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Similarities between 'private' (i.e. charitable) early years education, and Higher Education, institutions being on the brink because the fees they can charge are capped by government, whilst their outgoings increase with cost of living and NICs... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday, a Government press release claimed the number of people “considered too sick to work” had "quadrupled" since the pandemic (a "383% rise"). This is incorrect. In fact, it’s not even close. It's more like 40%. This thread explains why 🧵1/7

submitted 48 days ago • 15 comments

Our complaint re the growth in health benefits has been upheld: osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/corresponden...: "The statement that the number of people claiming disability elements of Universal Credit has increased by 383% presents an entirely misleading picture to the public."

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

Yesterday was a great April Fools day for student run papers. University sector in such chaos many seemed plausible. Apparently Oxford's new pangolin topped college is for real though.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Waiting for the day Co-Pilot can re-format a word document in line with the specific formatting and citation requirements of different academic journals. That is cognitive labour I'm very happy to outsource to an AI...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Disabled activists, disability studies and disability rights folk - does any country other than the UK prefer the term 'disabled people' (reflecting social model) to 'persons with disabilities'? Ta!

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

🧵 1. The new official poverty stats came out at 930 Astonishingly bad numbers confirm the UK is in the grip of a building crisis of penury www.gov.uk/government/s...

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

The Government’s plans to reduce access to disability and incapacity benefits will drive more people into poverty and cause significant risks of harm to mental health. Read our full statement: www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/news/item/sp... #SpringStatement

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

The DWP appear not to have modelled the impacts on local authority social care services and local authority budget of the cuts to PIP and other disability related benefits assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e3fa...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Powerful post from @gillloomesquinn.bsky.social for @openjusticecop.bsky.social about judges 'calling out' public bodies and professionals for the 'glacial slow speed of progress' in care planning openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/03/25/i...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Hi there. Universities make a loss on teaching home undergraduates, doing state-backed and charity-funded research, and also on PhD students. So that's it really, game over. What else are we supposed to do? www.timeshighereducation.com/news/phd-fee...

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

📢As network supporting professionals working with parents with learning difficulties & disabilities moves from @uob-policystudies.bsky.social to RiP, we celebrate 18yrs of work that has made a real difference to ensure rights and support for these parents: bristol.ac.uk/sps/news/2025/wtpn-2025.html

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

There's now a live map of job losses in Britain's universities. As the retreat unfolds hour by hour, hopefully we'll be able to follow it here. Or maybe not hopefully. ☹️

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments