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Hi Twitter: some personal news. I left my job at Middling Culture (which is an amazing project with amazing people - this was very much a me thing not a them thing) last month, and will be starting a non-academic job in professional services at the University of Essex next week
'But even though the solution to fatigue is quite simple, which is to get more sleep' - I can almost hear the collective scream of insomniacs
theguardian.com/science/2023…
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"Westminster has a long boys-only history, but says it wants to fully reflect the diversity of the 21st century"
Are girls... new?
telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03…
Was looking at my own photo roll for March 2020 and found this schedule we wrote of who got to work when as two full-time workers with a two year old and no childcare. Much worse was going on elsewhere but I'd forgotten this particular grimness...
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Devastated that Succession is ending too soon to mock this
Rupert Murdoch to marry for fifth time at 92: ‘I knew this would be my last’ theguardian.com/media/2023/m…
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Insightful and oh so depressing
“What feels to many (and has looked to others) like a personal crisis is only now being recognised as a national one.”
@SEMcBain on the childcare crisis.
Free to read for a limited time 🔓 newstatesman.com/the-weekend…
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Just a quick reminder that if you're an academic and your socialist praxis and strike against the system is being unpleasant to professional services staff you may, in fact, just be unpleasant
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The first student whose undergrad dissertation I ever supervised (on the Tudor queens!) publishing his first book is 99% amazing, 1% making me feel very old all of a sudden! Huge congratulations @courtingscandal
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I rarely miss research - I'm kept busy now but other, different things - but this has given me such an intense nostalgic longing for a morning spent in the peace of the MSS room followed by a cup of tea and a cheese scone with a friend
The UL Tea Room is now open for business - and yes, we have cheese scones!
ALT A selection of cakes and pastries at the newly-opened UL Tea Room
ALT An image of the new UL Tea Room counter
ALT Cheese scones for sale at the new UL Tea Room
ALT Customers being served at the new UL Tea Room
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Ceri Law retweeted
“Zara believed that a woman should be able to walk home.”
Please, take the time to read every word of this tribute to Zara Aleena by her family. I’m not sure I’ve read anything quite like it before.
Can I get a bit of working parent solidarity from twitter - I went away for work for THREE DAYS and my littlest one learned to walk in that time. He's trolling me, right?!
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This has prompted much discussion in my home, where it turns out neither of us has been using the word 'unprepossessing' correctly
Holy fuck did I really just read in a letter of recommendation that the woman in question is "unprepossessing in person but is nonetheless a strongly independent, critical, and creative thinker." Just don't do this ever.
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Ceri Law retweeted
Kay writes about women as if they are a collection of body parts, no more | @TanyaGold1 unherd.com/2022/02/adam-kays…
