Lecturer in teacher education at University of Glasgow. Cis-woman, she/her. Opinions entirely my own. @catlaughing@mastodon.social
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Dr Catherine Reid retweeted
Just 16 MPs attend debate on disability rights, days after hundreds vote for assisted suicide
#AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide #UNIDPD
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Such a lovely day at my #InHeadship graduation at @UofGlasgow. Heartfelt thanks to @UofGHeadship for all your support - it is much appreciated. Congratulations to all in cohort 7 - you’re a fabulous bunch 🥰💙! #Ambition
I like to listen to Handel's Messiah at this time of year. And every year, I have to look up why 'he gave his back to the spiders'
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Just refused access by a member of staff at Sainsbury’s on Great Portland Street didn’t even mean to go into Sainsbury’s
"First they came for the journalists,’ says a demonstration placard, drawing on Martin Niemöller’s poem, which I first saw translated into Arabic and pinned on an Egyptian activist’s wall in Cairo in the 1990s. ‘We don’t know what happened after that,’ it concludes."
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Happy 90th Alan Garner !!!
1 for @Dr_Dimitra_Fimi & @RealTomEmanuel
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On Alan Garner's 90th ....
I would pay so much money for a web browser subscription that let me set filters like 'no video tutorials'
Computer games as opportunities to fashion one's gender - match-three and find-the-object phone games versus CoD. Is this something to do with the gamer-girl problem (gender transgression/invasion of 'male' spaces) and does it show I'm reading Judith Butler just now?
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Continuing #worldanatomyday celebrations & #BlackHistoryMonthUK - our students created posters to recognise important work by historical individuals of colour. Today we honour Myra Adele Logan, the first woman to perform open heart surgery
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The government’s been trying to introduce forced medical treatment in exchange for continued access to benefits for years. Which, well. Almost every disabled person I know has a horror story about doctors imposing damaging treatments already. It would make that So Much Worse.
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Right then. I think we've reached a watershed point in the waging of culture wars, and Conservatives ought to see it, and act on it. I wrote this today: What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind
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Lord Kelvin @RoyalSocEd #Edinburgh 🏴 celebrating his 200th Birthday 🎂 this year #Kelvin200 #physics #engineering
