Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Lizzie Seal

@lizzieseal.bsky.social

1.4K followers 1.6K following 220 posts

Professor of Criminology. Primarily interested in historical criminology and crime history. Current book project is The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination. Views my own

Videos

Sociology 35%

Political science 34%

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 3d

It’s undoubtedly a strong mixture of

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 3d

What does my daughter want for tea? Chips, onion rings, Brie and olives

2 5

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 5d

Hard to get my almost 11 yr old to watch actual TV programmes as opposed to YouTube, but the answer turns out to be Miriam Margolyes

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 8d

‘Talk me through this decision’ is what my tween said to me about my outfit AFTER work (and teaching a class) today

1990s Band or Offhand Comment from My Tween About My Outfit? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/199...

1990s Band or Offhand Comment from My Tween About My Outfit?

1. Pearl Jam1 2. Old Lady Curtains2 3. Blind Melon3 4. Alice in Chains4 5. Judge Judy in a Bathrobe5 6. Garbage6 7. Smashing Pumpkins7 8. Toad the ...

www.mcsweeneys.net

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 12d

Did you try sneaking on a Dan Brown?

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 12d

Just love being bombarded by policy changes, including how attendance should be recorded, in several different emails on the first day of term 👍

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 14d

I like them, but I also like my kitchen not looking like a murder scene

1 2

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 15d

13 beetroots in the veg box. A frankly upsetting amount

1 4

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 20d

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Kafka-land at UC Berkeley

The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

www.thenation.com

2 6

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 23d

I used to think the lyric in More Than This was ‘for the leaves in the night’. Prefer it

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 26d

Anyone live in or near Rhyl? There’s a murder case from 1960 that I would like to know whether you’ve heard of

2 1

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 27d

Peter Kyle is my MP

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · 27d

I don’t understand the willingness- eagerness even - to basically rub their own voters’ noses in it. Like, the right doesn’t really do that

1 2

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 11

I hate the way, these days, ‘both sides of the aisle’ makes pretty run of the mill social democratic politics the left wing equivalent to far right politics. It’s really not. Like, ‘this person is in favour of mass deportation, this person wants better funding for schools - I guess we call it quits’

1 3

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 11

Nervously tugs collar at Sussex

1 2

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 9

Idk about the first two, but the second two are undisputed classics (from a (very) aging indie kid)

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 8

Call me unpatriotic, but Mr Whippy is what you have when there’s nothing else on offer

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 8

American Pie was in my dream last night so now it’s my mental soundtrack for at least the next week

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 5

I know. It’s like I never sit down to write an article thinking ‘This one will be really shit.’ I pretty much always intend it to be good

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 4

Playing the long game, I suppose

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Sep 4

Oh what

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Aug 31

Which were unimpressive because just a fact

1 1

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Aug 31

What from the recent past but before you were born was talked about a lot in your childhood? For me, the moon landings

1 1 1

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Films: 90 minutes
Novels: 250 pages
Songs: 3 minutes

1 2

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Aug 28

Think I’d always assumed when the USA went fascist it would be seen as a bigger deal

1 5

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Aug 26

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fac...

Faculty Meeting Icebreakers

Write down the most common intrusive thought that keeps you up at night, but don’t include your name. Then choose a table leader to read each thoug...

www.mcsweeneys.net

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Aug 25

It’s a funny one because I wasn’t taught history as primarily the accumulation of facts at school - and in my case, we’re talking about decades ago. But there seems to be a weirdly persistent perception that that’s what it is

Reposted by John Drury

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Aug 25

The one in central Brighton yesterday looked to be about 4 people

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 24

"Crowds in their masses in Birmingham" is the caption

The crowd was about 40 people

2 2 5

Reposted by Will Jennings, Lizzie Seal

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 24

"Crowds in their masses in Birmingham" is the caption

The crowd was about 40 people

36 60 330

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Aug 24

I meant stressful from the pressure of needing to think up what to say but it’s also much too personal, yes