S.E.MacRae
@semacrae.bsky.social
Digital sociology ECR researching the interplay between education, politics and the digital. Own views, she/her.
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@semacrae.bsky.social
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Introduction to special section: the political life of education online | Naomi Barnes
Just published online!
A special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online" edited by myself, Keith Heggart and Dr Sheena MacRae. https://l...
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I have recently been one of the editors led by @drnomyn.bsky.social with Keith Heggart of a special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online". Naomi has written a great post here about the project and the other papers 1/7
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1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
Someone said to me recently that calculators represented the same disruption as AI does now. I pointed out the difference was that calculators worked, students were still taught how to count without them, and if they (calculators) had got 2 + 2 wrong you would have got your money back.
Found this absolute graph crime, where the dot that is lowest apparently has 48 % fail rate!?
#graphcrime #dataviz #ai
#graphcrime #dataviz #ai
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Someone said to me recently that calculators represented the same disruption as AI does now. I pointed out the difference was that calculators worked, students were still taught how to count without them, and if they (calculators) had got 2 + 2 wrong you would have got your money back.
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This research was published 14 months ago. In *Nature*.
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Evidence has now emerged of the adverse consequences of the laws banning GAHT for trans youth in both the US and UK. This includes sharp declines in mental health and increased suicide attempts among transgender young people.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01979-5
t.co
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This research was published 14 months ago. In *Nature*.
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
🚨Fantastic online conference here for digital sociologists, platforms studies, STS and surveillance studies folk 🚨
FYI: The #PlatGovNet2025 conference is free and online. You can see the fantastic full programme here: platgov.net/assets/site/...
platgov.net
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🚨Fantastic online conference here for digital sociologists, platforms studies, STS and surveillance studies folk 🚨
‘This is a sort of late-stage identity politics. A way in which the victim narrative so condemned by critics of “wokeness” remains holy and unquestionable when it is used for a purpose that isn’t equality.’ @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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November 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
‘This is a sort of late-stage identity politics. A way in which the victim narrative so condemned by critics of “wokeness” remains holy and unquestionable when it is used for a purpose that isn’t equality.’ @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
'Hear me sing, "Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you:
Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you"'
Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you"'
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
'Hear me sing, "Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you:
Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you"'
Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you"'
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The bar was low this week.
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The bar was low this week.
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He’s been revealed as an unapologetic racist antisemite at school, he took political & financial advice from Epstein, his partner’s house ownership looks like tax avoidance and his Welsh wingman was working for the Russians. Any chance any other party leader would still be in post with all this?
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
He’s been revealed as an unapologetic racist antisemite at school, he took political & financial advice from Epstein, his partner’s house ownership looks like tax avoidance and his Welsh wingman was working for the Russians. Any chance any other party leader would still be in post with all this?
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Judith Butler in 2021
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Judith Butler in 2021
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This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)
*over-reliance on earth*
Jesus wept.
Jesus wept.
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
*over-reliance on earth*
Jesus wept.
Jesus wept.
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@lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social v Lord Nigel Biggar on reparations. Now online open access:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reparation or Disavowal? The Morals and the Politics of Slavery and Racism
www.sciencedirect.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
@lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social v Lord Nigel Biggar on reparations. Now online open access:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Cute TDoR post. What are you doing for those of us who are alive and struggling?
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Cute TDoR post. What are you doing for those of us who are alive and struggling?
Alongside last night’s result this fantastic track is a much needed remedy to the November darkness.
youtu.be/vitil9qMN6A?...
youtu.be/vitil9qMN6A?...
Robyn - Dopamine (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Robyn
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November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Alongside last night’s result this fantastic track is a much needed remedy to the November darkness.
youtu.be/vitil9qMN6A?...
youtu.be/vitil9qMN6A?...
Andy Robertson breaking my heart in this interview
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Andy Robertson breaking my heart in this interview
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Yep, why not score a goal from your own half in the 98th minute?
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Yep, why not score a goal from your own half in the 98th minute?
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss
Current status 🏴
a cartoon character with sweat coming out of his face and a pink tongue .
ALT: a cartoon character with sweat coming out of his face and a pink tongue .
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Current status 🏴
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the one good thing about this guy winning his seat at the last election will be him losing his seat at the next one
Labour MP Luke Akehurst says he "wholeheartedly welcomes" Mahmood's plans "which I believe will tackle a failure by the previous government to maintain one of the most basic fundamental functions of government, which is control of our borders."
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
the one good thing about this guy winning his seat at the last election will be him losing his seat at the next one
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The issue was never polarisation
When far-right politics are on the rise and being mainstreamed, opposing them uncompromisingly is the only way forward, not the extreme of a spectrum where the status quo is the reasonable middle ground
When far-right politics are on the rise and being mainstreamed, opposing them uncompromisingly is the only way forward, not the extreme of a spectrum where the status quo is the reasonable middle ground
The ‘polarisation narrative’ simplifies complex issues by constructing a spectrum where good should be found in the middle of diametrically opposed political positions
New preprint article by @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I
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www.researchgate.net/publication/...
New preprint article by @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I
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www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) A critique of the polarisation narrative: Expanding the limits of democracy, parties and political participation
PDF | To cite: Roch J, Balinhas, D and Mondon A (2025) 'A critique of the polarisation narrative: Expanding the limits of democracy, parties and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...
www.researchgate.net
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The issue was never polarisation
When far-right politics are on the rise and being mainstreamed, opposing them uncompromisingly is the only way forward, not the extreme of a spectrum where the status quo is the reasonable middle ground
When far-right politics are on the rise and being mainstreamed, opposing them uncompromisingly is the only way forward, not the extreme of a spectrum where the status quo is the reasonable middle ground
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This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
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Countering the trend towards fascism can take many shapes and forms but it cannot take the form of a blind faith support in the status quo and mainstream elite as has been argued for too long
Some thoughts @reacpolrn.bsky.social on the latest developments in the UK
reacpol.net/fascism-no-o...
Some thoughts @reacpolrn.bsky.social on the latest developments in the UK
reacpol.net/fascism-no-o...
Article: In the fight against fascism, the middle ground is not an option (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Aurelien Mondon discusses the rise of fascism in the UK in the wake of yet another extreme right protest.
reacpol.net
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Countering the trend towards fascism can take many shapes and forms but it cannot take the form of a blind faith support in the status quo and mainstream elite as has been argued for too long
Some thoughts @reacpolrn.bsky.social on the latest developments in the UK
reacpol.net/fascism-no-o...
Some thoughts @reacpolrn.bsky.social on the latest developments in the UK
reacpol.net/fascism-no-o...
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Thought the plan was to smash the smuggling gangs not emulate them.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Thought the plan was to smash the smuggling gangs not emulate them.
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Schools in England have become testing sites for AI. I know it's common to say education is now an experimental lab for AI, but in England it's more methodologically true. 3 examples of escalating seriousness and an explanation coming up 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Schools in England have become testing sites for AI. I know it's common to say education is now an experimental lab for AI, but in England it's more methodologically true. 3 examples of escalating seriousness and an explanation coming up 🧵