Tom Witney
@twiterney.bsky.social
Chief superintendent for Miss David Mittens, Cats Protection Senior Cat of The Year
Medical sociologist at UCL interested in sexual health, HIV and relationships 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Running Hackney Half 2025 for Positive East 💟 https://bit.ly/TWHH2025
Medical sociologist at UCL interested in sexual health, HIV and relationships 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Running Hackney Half 2025 for Positive East 💟 https://bit.ly/TWHH2025
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We're back to Question 3 of Tony Benn's five questions to ask those in power about transparancy and accountability:
1) What power have you got?
2) Where did you get it?
3) *In whose interests do you exercise it?*
4) To whom are you accountable?
5) How do we get rid of you?
1) What power have you got?
2) Where did you get it?
3) *In whose interests do you exercise it?*
4) To whom are you accountable?
5) How do we get rid of you?
February 3, 2026 at 7:59 AM
We're back to Question 3 of Tony Benn's five questions to ask those in power about transparancy and accountability:
1) What power have you got?
2) Where did you get it?
3) *In whose interests do you exercise it?*
4) To whom are you accountable?
5) How do we get rid of you?
1) What power have you got?
2) Where did you get it?
3) *In whose interests do you exercise it?*
4) To whom are you accountable?
5) How do we get rid of you?
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Know any UK based LGBTQIA+ mathematicians (or other STEM people!) who deserve some credit for their work??? Vote for them by the 1st of March!
In April, #PrideinSTEM turns 10! We will have a celebration for it, and we would like to recognize individuals who have had a positive impact on LGBTQIA+ People in STEM, here in the UK!
Do you know someone who fits that description?
Nominate them here:
prideinstem.org/2026/01/27/n...
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧪🔭
Do you know someone who fits that description?
Nominate them here:
prideinstem.org/2026/01/27/n...
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧪🔭
Nominations open for our Decadal Awards | Pride in STEM
prideinstem.org
January 28, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Know any UK based LGBTQIA+ mathematicians (or other STEM people!) who deserve some credit for their work??? Vote for them by the 1st of March!
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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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My complaint to the Biological Broadcasting Corporation
January 30, 2026 at 6:34 PM
My complaint to the Biological Broadcasting Corporation
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We want to ask anyone who comes across this study to avoid and not to participate in it.
www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaan...
www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaan...
From the traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2 community on Reddit: PSA: Ayagdos study
Explore this post and more from the traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2 community
www.reddit.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:49 AM
We want to ask anyone who comes across this study to avoid and not to participate in it.
www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaan...
www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaan...
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Petition for Mountain Rescue to put them back.
January 26, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Petition for Mountain Rescue to put them back.
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EXCLUSIVE: Anti-trans activists are negatively impacting scientific research by pushing for 'the existence of trans people to be an impossibility' in data gathering, according to a new study
Anti-trans 'data vandalism' is damaging scientific research, study finds
www.thenational.scot
January 21, 2026 at 2:55 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Anti-trans activists are negatively impacting scientific research by pushing for 'the existence of trans people to be an impossibility' in data gathering, according to a new study
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Entirely typical of the BBC's treatment of trans people that it presents Michael Foran, who is literally on the advisory Board of the Sex Matters hate group, as an independent expert.
How the NHS became the battleground in the trans debate at work
What's next for employers and their staff in the aftermath of the Darlington nurses ruling?
www.bbc.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Entirely typical of the BBC's treatment of trans people that it presents Michael Foran, who is literally on the advisory Board of the Sex Matters hate group, as an independent expert.
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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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Vera looked around the room. Not another chicken anywhere. And then it struck her—this was a hay bar.
January 2, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Vera looked around the room. Not another chicken anywhere. And then it struck her—this was a hay bar.
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it's deeply funny that the "Free Speech Union" sued to stop someone from publishing their donor list.
none of these fuckos believe in free speech
none of these fuckos believe in free speech
January 11, 2026 at 12:58 PM
it's deeply funny that the "Free Speech Union" sued to stop someone from publishing their donor list.
none of these fuckos believe in free speech
none of these fuckos believe in free speech
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I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?
January 11, 2026 at 9:26 AM
I wonder what Londoners know that the rest of the country don’t?
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African descended people are walking around with surnames like McCalmont and Mcdonald but you're saying it's European culture facing erasure 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
January 11, 2026 at 11:43 AM
African descended people are walking around with surnames like McCalmont and Mcdonald but you're saying it's European culture facing erasure 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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‘If a drug boasted such benefits [as the arts] governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector.’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 10, 2026 at 4:37 PM
‘If a drug boasted such benefits [as the arts] governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector.’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I'm organising a trans history workshop session as part of the @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social conference in July. Details below. Do get in touch by end of next week if you have any questions or would like to register your interest, and pass on to anyone you know who might be keen to participate.
January 8, 2026 at 12:32 PM
I'm organising a trans history workshop session as part of the @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social conference in July. Details below. Do get in touch by end of next week if you have any questions or would like to register your interest, and pass on to anyone you know who might be keen to participate.
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ME (Terrified, tearfully repeating this over and over again under my duvet):
January 2, 2026 at 4:01 PM
ME (Terrified, tearfully repeating this over and over again under my duvet):
23 years apart! Still snoozing on the sofa with us. Love my old lady
January 3, 2026 at 10:49 PM
23 years apart! Still snoozing on the sofa with us. Love my old lady
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Misread these creme eggs (3rd January too early for easter eggs btw) as saying "WHITE EGG - SAME GOD" and was momentarily stopped in my tracks.
January 3, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Misread these creme eggs (3rd January too early for easter eggs btw) as saying "WHITE EGG - SAME GOD" and was momentarily stopped in my tracks.
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This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Walking into 2026 like…
December 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Walking into 2026 like…
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Nothing comes out of these water jets but lies and insinuations. Why did I buy a j'accuzzi?
December 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Nothing comes out of these water jets but lies and insinuations. Why did I buy a j'accuzzi?
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Is it still necessary to point out that “human rights are a Soviet plot to use the inferior races to undermine and destroy white civilisation” is literal Mein Kampf stuff, by the way? I would like to think people can spot Nazi ideas when they see them, but it’s hard to be confident any more.
Absolutely standard stuff here printed in the Times, which has been doing various versions of “human rights are a Bolshevik plot cooked up between Marxist intellectuals and Muslim terrorists” for decades now, at escalating volume and intensity archive.ph/6IWIw
December 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Is it still necessary to point out that “human rights are a Soviet plot to use the inferior races to undermine and destroy white civilisation” is literal Mein Kampf stuff, by the way? I would like to think people can spot Nazi ideas when they see them, but it’s hard to be confident any more.
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No idea who Laurent Brindeau is, but isn’t this caricature of @zackpolanski.bsky.social in today’s @dailymailpolitics.bsky.social ragingly antisemitic?
December 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
No idea who Laurent Brindeau is, but isn’t this caricature of @zackpolanski.bsky.social in today’s @dailymailpolitics.bsky.social ragingly antisemitic?