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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 5d

One evening my daughter vommed on the carpet and then, in quick succession, her friend pooped on it. That was a really glamorous day.

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 7d

Relative child poverty has remained stubbornly high over the last twenty years and has risen over the past decade.

Without action, levels will soon break records.

Scrapping the two-child limit in full would be the most targeted and cost-effective way of reducing child poverty.

chart showing Relative child poverty has
remained stubbornly high over the last twenty years and has risen over the past decade,
from 27 per cent in 2013-14 to 31 per cent in 2023-24. As things stand, child poverty is on
track to reach record highs within this Parliament

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 7d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_AM...

The Thick of It - Quiet Batpeople

YouTube video by TheOncomingStorm

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 7d

How many times a day do we have to ask of Wes Streeting, "is he an idiot or is he evil"?

Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 9d

102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons

27,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries

31 million people visit GPs every month a similar number have haircuts

You can see the problem @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social judging by Wes’s trim he is going to the hair salon a lot more than his GP unlike many

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 7d

I immediately read this as "list of things middle class mums do in small villages", which presumably means I am the intended recipient... which is concerning.

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Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social · 21d

“I don’t think the government can afford to bury our heads in the sand about the fact that trans people in our country today feel less safe than they did 10 years ago.”

Do you think he practiced that in the mirror?

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22d

Wes Streeting has called it “laughable” that rising racism and homophobia is a sign of free speech in a strongly worded intervention suggesting Labour needed to step up its defence of minorities

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We must tackle rising tide of racism and homophobia claiming to be free speech, says Streeting

Exclusive: Health secretary says Labour cannot afford to ignore far-right protests as Starmer under pressure

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social · 29d

This week is a 5 day strike at University of Edinburgh in response to management decisions and practices around £120m cuts & UCU’s concerns around workloads, teaching, and research quality.

Pink and purple circular sticker saying “we’re at breaking point. UCU”

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · Sep 3

Also the Labour Party doesn't have a PR problem, its got a total-lack-of-integrity problem.

Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · Sep 3

The things we refuse to learn are always reflections of power settlements. Take for example the 'great man' fallacy, repeatedly undermined by so-called great men, and yet just relentless in its persistence.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘A class act’: Tim Allan, the former Blair ‘smoother’ recalled to Downing Street

Described as inscrutable and smart, the PR man has a job on his hands to turn around No 10’s communications effort

www.theguardian.com

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Gwyneth Lonergan @drglonergan.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm very excited to share that the next SSAHE webinar will be a celebration of my new book - Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - and of Bordering Social Reproduction by Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson. Please register and join us online, 9 October, at 5pm #AcademicSky

ssahe.net/2025/09/03/n...

Next webinar: Bordering/Mothering, 9 October

Register on EventBrite to receive a Zoom link. In this event, we will celebrate two new books by SSAHE members: Bordering social reproduction: Migrant mothers and children making lives in the …

ssahe.net

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Sep 3

Alongside Dr. Ganguli-Mitra, the postholder will develop a project related to epistemic and structural injustice in abortion care, informed by intersectional and transnational feminist approaches, as well as relevant data from practice, governance and activism in relation to care in abortion.

Medicine without Doctors @medicinewithoutdoctors.org · Aug 26

Postdoctoral Fellow working on Abortion Care, based in Law and working with Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra. @agomoni.bsky.social

Apply here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

The Law School within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on the Wellcome funded Discovery Award Medicine without Doctors.

elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · Sep 1

A university's most precious long-term asset (faculty) is the same population of workers that most universities do everything they can to render precarious, anxious, and isolated. I'm a consultant now, give me a million dollars

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Meryl Kenny @merylkenny.bsky.social · Aug 26

My dad died last week, and he was - by any objective measure - the very best. You can read about him here: obituaries.startribune.com/obituary/wil...

Will Kenny Obituary | Minnesota Star Tribune

View Will Kenny's complete obituary, share memories, and explore 2 tribute posts from the community.

obituaries.startribune.com

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · Aug 21

I wrote a haiku about returning from my sabbatical

My diary was empty
But now it is full
I yearn for the in-between

Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · Aug 19

This is your annual reminder that industrial action is more than a protest, it is a withdrawal of labour with the intention of leveraging that withdrawal for improved working conditions.

Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is being retweeted by numerous academics on my feed shocked that the figure is so low. This is unsurprising as the majority of hardworking academics I know (including me) are driven by spite.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · Aug 13

6% of Britons say they have a nemesis

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · Aug 14

saw this earlier and immediately thought of you

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thank you for saying so! I heard in May, so it all feels a bit anticlimactic. But also unreal? What a funny old thing life is.

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today I became a Senior Lecturer!

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