Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas
@drkcarrutherst.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary academic, podcaster, 'A Feminist Family History in Eight Lives' https://open.spotify.com/show/3wQk4knM8L8P8FSZ52FJqg Into creative research dissemination and supporting academic writing. www.thinkthreeways.com
Sorry not sorry for raging posts which may emerge from me over next few days following UK COVID 19 enquiry report.
November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Sorry not sorry for raging posts which may emerge from me over next few days following UK COVID 19 enquiry report.
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UK Covid Inquiry concludes: 23,000 deaths could've been prevented if the March 2020 lockdown had been imposed just a week earlier.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
UK Covid Inquiry concludes: 23,000 deaths could've been prevented if the March 2020 lockdown had been imposed just a week earlier.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
Words cannot express my rage at this incompetent man and his cronies.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Words cannot express my rage at this incompetent man and his cronies.
Six months on my Bluesky feed remains a mash up of US dystopia and genealogy. Thinking I need to change it up somehow.... 🤔
November 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Six months on my Bluesky feed remains a mash up of US dystopia and genealogy. Thinking I need to change it up somehow.... 🤔
Watched as @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social graduates filed out into sleety conditions this morning encountering @ucu.org.uk pickets protesting job cuts and financial mismanagement. Two interlocking sides of UK #HigherEducation.
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Watched as @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social graduates filed out into sleety conditions this morning encountering @ucu.org.uk pickets protesting job cuts and financial mismanagement. Two interlocking sides of UK #HigherEducation.
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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He’s have an inconvenient journalist chopped up with a bone saw in a nanosecond if he could.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
He’s have an inconvenient journalist chopped up with a bone saw in a nanosecond if he could.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
In view of the endless Storm Claudia-inspired rain today I thought it was permissible to share this shot of the Camino del Salento taken a month ago on the heel of Italy. Thank you.
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
In view of the endless Storm Claudia-inspired rain today I thought it was permissible to share this shot of the Camino del Salento taken a month ago on the heel of Italy. Thank you.
The second session of @srhe.bsky.social #AcWriMo2025 is today! Regular #writing means the thinking can continue more easily between sessions. #HigherEducation #academia 🤓
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The second session of @srhe.bsky.social #AcWriMo2025 is today! Regular #writing means the thinking can continue more easily between sessions. #HigherEducation #academia 🤓
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
Reposted by Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Reposted by Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas
Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
It was good to run the first of four @srhe.bsky.social #AcWriMo2025 sessions this week with academics appreciating protected time to #write. It's NOT a given in our workloads even though it's expected and part of performance management. Next session is Monday. #HigherEducation # academia
November 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It was good to run the first of four @srhe.bsky.social #AcWriMo2025 sessions this week with academics appreciating protected time to #write. It's NOT a given in our workloads even though it's expected and part of performance management. Next session is Monday. #HigherEducation # academia
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Every year on #Halloween we carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃
We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Every year on #Halloween we carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃
We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
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October 31, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
I have a chapter in the forthcoming edited collection from Policy Press: Grant & Kara 'Using Documents In Research'. My chapter discusses the creation of a digital archive (www.deardiaryresearch.co.uk) from diary entries/interview transcripts. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/using-docume...
October 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I have a chapter in the forthcoming edited collection from Policy Press: Grant & Kara 'Using Documents In Research'. My chapter discusses the creation of a digital archive (www.deardiaryresearch.co.uk) from diary entries/interview transcripts. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/using-docume...
#OutOfOffice on while I travel by train and back to the heel of #Italy.
September 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
#OutOfOffice on while I travel by train and back to the heel of #Italy.
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September 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
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Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
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In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
September 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
Fictionally sandwiched between Rachelle Atalla's #ThirstyAnimals (omg claustrophobic from p1) and Jane Smiley's 3rd of 3 #GoldenAge. A tome. Dare I pack it as my holiday reading? Think I have to! Thank you #SheffieldLibraries 💜
September 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Fictionally sandwiched between Rachelle Atalla's #ThirstyAnimals (omg claustrophobic from p1) and Jane Smiley's 3rd of 3 #GoldenAge. A tome. Dare I pack it as my holiday reading? Think I have to! Thank you #SheffieldLibraries 💜