Des Fitzgerald
@desfitzgerald.bsky.social
<Me when the seminar tutors on my module get a teaching award>
January 16, 2026 at 7:40 AM
<Me when the seminar tutors on my module get a teaching award>
It's hard being a "social scientist" and also convinced that the world is fucked basically because of the form and culture of a single website.
January 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
It's hard being a "social scientist" and also convinced that the world is fucked basically because of the form and culture of a single website.
Weirdly, when I was in London just befor christmas, I passed Robert Jenrick with two minders on the Euston Rd. Can report that he was both short and extremely dead behind the eyes.
January 15, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Weirdly, when I was in London just befor christmas, I passed Robert Jenrick with two minders on the Euston Rd. Can report that he was both short and extremely dead behind the eyes.
Another amazing sunset at the end of a gross, rainy day
January 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Another amazing sunset at the end of a gross, rainy day
Going to become an urban wildlife normie loser but exclusively for these dolphins.
January 11, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Going to become an urban wildlife normie loser but exclusively for these dolphins.
This guy was professor of sociology at the University of Bristol as recently as 2021, and before that (up to 2018) was professor of sociology at the University of Bath.
January 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM
This guy was professor of sociology at the University of Bristol as recently as 2021, and before that (up to 2018) was professor of sociology at the University of Bath.
There's dolphins in the river!
January 10, 2026 at 11:43 AM
There's dolphins in the river!
Love to come home and crack open a nice cool can of
January 8, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Love to come home and crack open a nice cool can of
No school till 11 because of ice = marking papers with p*ppa p*g in the background 🙂↕️🔫
January 6, 2026 at 9:21 AM
No school till 11 because of ice = marking papers with p*ppa p*g in the background 🙂↕️🔫
Begging the blue sky americans to read one (1) history of the twentieth century.
January 6, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Begging the blue sky americans to read one (1) history of the twentieth century.
I'm sure this fear is sincere, but please let's not have more takes that centre Americans as imaginary victims over the actual people being killed by the US, while also constituting those people or their descendants as somehow always terrorists in waiting.
January 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I'm sure this fear is sincere, but please let's not have more takes that centre Americans as imaginary victims over the actual people being killed by the US, while also constituting those people or their descendants as somehow always terrorists in waiting.
How we are entering 2026
January 1, 2026 at 4:45 PM
How we are entering 2026
<9 hours later>
December 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
<9 hours later>
Am I in a state of cognitive decline or did transformers not used to be so insanely complicated?
December 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Am I in a state of cognitive decline or did transformers not used to be so insanely complicated?
Lol. I mean I know it's the imperial war museum, but come on. Have some respect for yourselves if nothing else.
December 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Lol. I mean I know it's the imperial war museum, but come on. Have some respect for yourselves if nothing else.
Strong start to the solstice
December 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Strong start to the solstice
Schopenhauer doing a bluesky thread about his failed tenure track job Search
December 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Schopenhauer doing a bluesky thread about his failed tenure track job Search
The holiday reading for xmas trip to the big smoke (London obvs, not "Dublin").
December 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The holiday reading for xmas trip to the big smoke (London obvs, not "Dublin").
Delighted to receive this in the post - 'Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry' by @drjamielewis.bsky.social and Andy Bartlett. This book is in the finest STS tradition of showing how an apparently marginal or obscure scientific practice opens up an entire epistemological world.
December 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Delighted to receive this in the post - 'Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry' by @drjamielewis.bsky.social and Andy Bartlett. This book is in the finest STS tradition of showing how an apparently marginal or obscure scientific practice opens up an entire epistemological world.
Fortunately, I have located a point of convergence for our usually quite distinct interests.
December 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Fortunately, I have located a point of convergence for our usually quite distinct interests.
