Dr Natalie Jester
@nataliejester.bsky.social
Lover of food, sci fi and dogs 🥨 Feminist. Lecturer @ Uni of Gloucestershire: militaries, arms manufacturers, gender, digital things. Co-convenor @cawpbisa.bsky.social [she/her]
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Thought I'd make a thread of all of my publications, for easy access! First up is 'Army recruitment video advertisements in the US and UK since 2002: Challenging ideals of hegemonic military masculinity?' in Media, War and Conflict doi.org/10.1177/1750...
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From tomorrow, Friday 30 January, ballot papers will start to arrive by post for VP (HE and FE), and several key positions on our NEC.
We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU
We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU
January 29, 2026 at 3:12 PM
From tomorrow, Friday 30 January, ballot papers will start to arrive by post for VP (HE and FE), and several key positions on our NEC.
We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU
We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU
Watching The Muppet Show and eating garlic bread: the perfect evening.
miss piggy from the muppet show is wearing a pearl necklace and pink gloves and is asking a question .
Alt: miss piggy from the muppet show is wearing a pearl necklace and pink gloves, saying "moi?"
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February 6, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Watching The Muppet Show and eating garlic bread: the perfect evening.
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📢📢We are very excited to announce our first virtual seminar as a BISA working group! 📢📢
Join us for this excellent talk with
Dr Shadi Mokhtari on her current book project examining the human rights politics surrounding Iran’s 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement.
Join us for this excellent talk with
Dr Shadi Mokhtari on her current book project examining the human rights politics surrounding Iran’s 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement.
February 4, 2026 at 12:32 PM
📢📢We are very excited to announce our first virtual seminar as a BISA working group! 📢📢
Join us for this excellent talk with
Dr Shadi Mokhtari on her current book project examining the human rights politics surrounding Iran’s 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement.
Join us for this excellent talk with
Dr Shadi Mokhtari on her current book project examining the human rights politics surrounding Iran’s 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement.
I've thought a lot about whether or not to post this, because I wasn't sure it was my place, but it occurred to me that people may never know otherwise: I'm very sorry to say that my wonderful colleague Vicky Randall passed away unexpectedly recently @vrandall.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I've thought a lot about whether or not to post this, because I wasn't sure it was my place, but it occurred to me that people may never know otherwise: I'm very sorry to say that my wonderful colleague Vicky Randall passed away unexpectedly recently @vrandall.bsky.social
I'm doing a writing retreat and have reached my writing goal a day early! My chapter now stands at 8,025 words. I guess tomorrow can be an editing day now!
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .
Alt: Kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter
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January 8, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I'm doing a writing retreat and have reached my writing goal a day early! My chapter now stands at 8,025 words. I guess tomorrow can be an editing day now!
Starting 2026 as I mean to go on: by watching Muppets Treasure Island
a frog and a pig are standing next to each other and saying well hello looooong john
Alt: Kermit and Miss Piggy are standing next to each other and saying "well hello looooong John"
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January 2, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Starting 2026 as I mean to go on: by watching Muppets Treasure Island
Happy new year from the UK! My next new year's resolution is to eat pasta shapes I have never tried before (suggestions welcome...)
two cartoon dogs are sitting at a table with a plate of spaghetti
Alt: two cartoon dogs are sitting at a table with a plate of spaghetti
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December 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Happy new year from the UK! My next new year's resolution is to eat pasta shapes I have never tried before (suggestions welcome...)
Please enjoy this outstanding fact
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Please enjoy this outstanding fact
Out now! This new article, by @veronicabarfucci.bsky.social is well worth a read, I highly recommend it:
Militarizing Femininity on Social Media: Female Empowerment and Heteronormative Logics in the Representation of the Japan Self-Defense Forces
doi.org/10.1093/ips/...
Militarizing Femininity on Social Media: Female Empowerment and Heteronormative Logics in the Representation of the Japan Self-Defense Forces
doi.org/10.1093/ips/...
December 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Out now! This new article, by @veronicabarfucci.bsky.social is well worth a read, I highly recommend it:
Militarizing Femininity on Social Media: Female Empowerment and Heteronormative Logics in the Representation of the Japan Self-Defense Forces
doi.org/10.1093/ips/...
Militarizing Femininity on Social Media: Female Empowerment and Heteronormative Logics in the Representation of the Japan Self-Defense Forces
doi.org/10.1093/ips/...
Google Scholar tells me that I've just reached my 150th citation 😃
December 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Google Scholar tells me that I've just reached my 150th citation 😃
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I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
Please enjoy the Christmas decorations on the @wshed.bsky.social tree
December 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Please enjoy the Christmas decorations on the @wshed.bsky.social tree
One more day of writing retreat left and it needs to be a good one 😬 4,000 words written so far!
a black and white cat is typing on a laptop
Alt: a black and white cat is typing on a laptop
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December 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
One more day of writing retreat left and it needs to be a good one 😬 4,000 words written so far!
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Didn't win the research award I was nominated for, but I did get something better: a Students' Union award for exceptional support beyond teaching, decided upon following nominations from students across the whole university! 🥹
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Didn't win the research award I was nominated for, but I did get something better: a Students' Union award for exceptional support beyond teaching, decided upon following nominations from students across the whole university! 🥹
This sounds very cool!
We're so excited to announce our new lecture series for 2026 "Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World"
Please do join us online for an incredible selection of talks by leading scholars working on #womeninphilosophy
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Please do join us online for an incredible selection of talks by leading scholars working on #womeninphilosophy
Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/8V5WjGG3hN
![Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World
Lecture Series 2026 Cultures of Philosophy, University of Exeter
Thursday 29 January 4 pm UK | 5 pm Italy Natalia Zorrilla Sirlin (McGill University | Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) Origin Stories of Gender Inequality in early modern Feminist Philosophy
Thursday 12 February 4 pm UK | 5 pm Sweden
Cecelia Rosenberg (University of Gothenburg)
Women as Agents of the Enlightenment in 18th-century Gothenburg
Thursday 19 March 4 pm UK | 5 pm Italy
Natacha Fabbri (University of Siena | Galileo Museum)
Claiming the Heavens: Women, Astronomy, and Intellectual Authority in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Thursday 16 April 9 am UK | 6 pm Sydney Dalia Nassar (University of Sydney) Diotima’s Daughters: Women Philosophers on Love, Beauty, Goodness and Truth in the Early Romantic Period
Thursday 30 April 4 pm UK & Ireland Derval Conroy (University College Dublin) Constructing a Philosophy of Celibacy: Gabrielle Suchon's Le Célibat Volontaire ou la Vie Sans Engagement (1700)
Thursday 14 May 4.30 pm UK |11.30 am ET Ann Pang-White (University of Scranton) Two Early Modern Women Thinkers of China: Empress Renxiaowen and Madame Liu
Thursday 18 June 9 am UK | 5 pm South Korea Hwayeong Wang (Duke Kunshan University) Women Writing Confucian Philosophy in Late Joseon Korea: Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang
This work is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:peyr652ptzk3m4gf3dgs4gmk/bafkreien444tmrwcrvxqdiwtuj6doa5hevnnsy7bdi45p5fm2avwigbaou@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This sounds very cool!
Voluntarily inducing Whamageddon myself today, because Last Christmas is an excellent song and I will not stand for any anti-George Michael sentiment in this house
December 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Voluntarily inducing Whamageddon myself today, because Last Christmas is an excellent song and I will not stand for any anti-George Michael sentiment in this house
Dear Microsoft Word,
If I start to type "cal" in the font box, I do not want Calibri Light. I have never wanted Calibri Light, which is inferior to its Calibri sibling.
Love,
Me
If I start to type "cal" in the font box, I do not want Calibri Light. I have never wanted Calibri Light, which is inferior to its Calibri sibling.
Love,
Me
November 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Dear Microsoft Word,
If I start to type "cal" in the font box, I do not want Calibri Light. I have never wanted Calibri Light, which is inferior to its Calibri sibling.
Love,
Me
If I start to type "cal" in the font box, I do not want Calibri Light. I have never wanted Calibri Light, which is inferior to its Calibri sibling.
Love,
Me
I've been shortlisted for a University of Gloucestershire Staff Award by my colleagues and the statement is really lovely 😭
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I've been shortlisted for a University of Gloucestershire Staff Award by my colleagues and the statement is really lovely 😭
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RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
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SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Yesterday was a University of Gloucestershire open day, and it was lovely!
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Yesterday was a University of Gloucestershire open day, and it was lovely!
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Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
This is devastating news. Alice Wong was such a fantastic thinker and advocate for disabled people. Like others, I learned a lot from her, and the world is a lot poorer without her
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is devastating news. Alice Wong was such a fantastic thinker and advocate for disabled people. Like others, I learned a lot from her, and the world is a lot poorer without her
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It's a lifeline, not a comprehensive solution to the crisis, but if you're a UK-based PhD (or equivalent) in a SHAPE subject within 10 years of your viva, do join the British Academy's ECRN. It's free, has resources & you don't need to be employed in research or academia to be a member. 3/3
Early Career Researcher Network: key information for ECRs
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November 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It's a lifeline, not a comprehensive solution to the crisis, but if you're a UK-based PhD (or equivalent) in a SHAPE subject within 10 years of your viva, do join the British Academy's ECRN. It's free, has resources & you don't need to be employed in research or academia to be a member. 3/3