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Matilda Fitzmaurice
@matildaf.bsky.social
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Bi. Geographer & lecturer: int. climate politics, (non)reproduction and the Anthropocene. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 25/26 Equality Chair
UCU Commons, queerness, food, ABBA. Vera enthusiast.
My views. She/her

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · Aug 12
Bumping this for mid-August reading - I put so much into framing the argument in just the right way, and it's indebted to so many wonderful scholars: Geoff Mann, Joel Wainwright, Stuart Hall, Meera Sabaratnam, Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Ida Danewid and many others
matildaf.bsky.social
No it fucking doesn't
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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qmucu.bsky.social
If journalists & MPs wonder how uni finances are so leaky: have a look at all that public money going to commercial consultancies

Just at QMUL
agencies: www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/recr...
recruitment: www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/recr...
data
ranking www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/paym...
Image description long list of agency spent in 2022-23. it's 8,116,258.14 in total Please can you provide me with the total value of spend on non academic staff with recruitment agencies, which agencies were used, and how much was spent with each agency for the academic year 2022/2023 for each department within the university for temporary, fixed term and permanent recruitment. The total amount August 2023-April 2024 was £7,461,189 the two management consultancies QMUL spent money on in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. I's 358,820.4 in total screenshot of an excel sheet titled "FOI F385 ranking agencies 2022" there's about 200,000 to the QS group and more than 900,000 to IDP, the people of the Complete University Guide. Another 15,000 to the Guardian, and 31,000 to Times Higher Education world ranking insights
June 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
matildaf.bsky.social
This is a truly shocking decision
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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ruthh.bsky.social
Cycling to the local community garden to collect some apple juice... and spotted a random chunk of Hadrian's Wall outside Kwik Fit. Unexpected encounters with bits of Roman archaeology in everyday locations is one of my favourite #TinyJoys of living in this area.
A fairly large section of ruined wall with a Kwik Fit sign next to it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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opinionhaver.bsky.social
"only MDs are allowed to go by doctor" discourse is negatively polarizing me into being one of those "actually they STOLE the title from academics cranks"
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
matildaf.bsky.social
Latvian speakers: how do you pronounce Tautumeitas?
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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hagenilda.bsky.social
Does anyone have access to an e-book/PDF of Thom Hartmann: 'The Edison Gene: ADHD and the gift of the hunter child'?
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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paulbernal.bsky.social
Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.
yougov.co.uk YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%

Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%

yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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helenm40.bsky.social
Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.

One wonders what *would*.
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
matildaf.bsky.social
100%
markpendleton.bsky.social Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 19h
The framing here is limited; language literacy provides many useful functions, including to help reduce conflict. But the diagnosis is not wrong. We are becoming a sad, little isolated island, with ever less meaningful ways of engaging with the world. To reverse this we need investment, not cuts.
timeshighered.bsky.social Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 20h
Opinion: “More than ever before, we need British diplomats, spies and soldiers to speak the language of our adversaries. We need universities like Nottingham to be pumping out Russian and Mandarin graduates each year, to work across Whitehall.”

🖊️ Ian Proud

https://ow.ly/N6yw50XwM3X
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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malwaretech.com
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
matildaf.bsky.social
Today is such a 'boy you can tell we're in the 8th week of a 10-week academic term' day
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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ali-alkhatib.com
children are not objects for adults to use for personal growth goddamn lol
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
matildaf.bsky.social
if anyone knows any easy, interactive seminar activities that might help students think critically about LLMs, please let me know!
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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lauropea.bsky.social
A bit late for tdor but reposting Emilia's article anyway, as most cis people have no idea what long, complicated, cruel and arbitrary bureaucratic nightmares their trans friends have to go through just for recognition of who they are
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥

We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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markpendleton.bsky.social
Into week 2 of our strike action @sheffielducu.bsky.social as we fight for no compulsory redundancies and a pause to the programme of unjustified reviews and restructure. Donations from branches/orgs/individuals very welcome as we financially support members to stay out: tinyurl.com/yxrz3p5d
Donate to the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund
What is the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund, and how to contribute.
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
matildaf.bsky.social
the film poster for the Alan Partridge film 'Alpha Papa', a UK comedy film starring Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge.
November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
matildaf.bsky.social
Always the litmus test
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d
Why is transphobia the default state for so many arseholes?
Perhaps more than anything, Lord Glasman wants a return to sanity. He is repulsed by the officious, rules-based, professional classes who preach that “up is down, men are women, right is wrong”. Who tell us that truth is subjective and must be suborned to kindness. He recently took part in a Newsnight panel alongside a doctor. “In the lift afterwards, I asked him, ‘If a bloke comes to you with a penis and says they’re a woman, you’ll accept that?’ And he replied, ‘Of course.’ This is bonkers.”
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Why is transphobia the default state for so many arseholes?
Perhaps more than anything, Lord Glasman wants a return to sanity. He is repulsed by the officious, rules-based, professional classes who preach that “up is down, men are women, right is wrong”. Who tell us that truth is subjective and must be suborned to kindness. He recently took part in a Newsnight panel alongside a doctor. “In the lift afterwards, I asked him, ‘If a bloke comes to you with a penis and says they’re a woman, you’ll accept that?’ And he replied, ‘Of course.’ This is bonkers.”
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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mikeyearworth.bsky.social
“Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, said Dennis Bertram, head of cyber insurance for Europe at Mosaic. “It’s too much of a black box.”

www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
matildaf.bsky.social
Words...have more than one meaning?
danielsohege.bsky.social Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
Even the term “progressive” makes Lord Glasman shudder. His mother died of progressive supranuclear palsy. “Every word of that condition is terrible. She lost all her bodily functions, yet her brain remained intact, leaving her a mute witness to her own demise. It took six years to kill her, and to cure me of any fantasy that ‘progressive’ is desirable.”
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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strongmisgiving.bsky.social
Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
Lyrics on a karaoke machine: I guess it rains down in Africa I guess it rains down in Africa I guess it rains down in Africa
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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k2mey.bsky.social
I've not been enjoying the new iteration of moral panic around ultra-processed food today. There's loads to say but the main one for me is that as an autistic person sometimes I can't cook from scratch because I can't tolerate the smells. Or sometimes particular textures are unbearable
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM