Karla
@krohde.bsky.social
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025
-got a PhD (corrections pending)
-started work on an NIHR-funded study
But also
-did not get promoted
-am not yet being paid for the funded study
Thank you for reading this edition of 'tell us you're an academic without saying you're an academic'
-got a PhD (corrections pending)
-started work on an NIHR-funded study
But also
-did not get promoted
-am not yet being paid for the funded study
Thank you for reading this edition of 'tell us you're an academic without saying you're an academic'
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small
- got a new book contract
- started teaching my own courses for Continuing Ed at Liverpool uni
- won 'teacher of the year' at the Regency academe
- got small research funding
- wrote a collection chapter on new research
- got a new book contract
- started teaching my own courses for Continuing Ed at Liverpool uni
- won 'teacher of the year' at the Regency academe
- got small research funding
- wrote a collection chapter on new research
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025 no matter how small
- got snr management to come down and speak to my team mid-implosion and engage with us. Things now on the up
- applied to the HWA (just sent off my royalties evidence)
- Published fiction
- New mini podcast series out
- got snr management to come down and speak to my team mid-implosion and engage with us. Things now on the up
- applied to the HWA (just sent off my royalties evidence)
- Published fiction
- New mini podcast series out
December 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025
-got a PhD (corrections pending)
-started work on an NIHR-funded study
But also
-did not get promoted
-am not yet being paid for the funded study
Thank you for reading this edition of 'tell us you're an academic without saying you're an academic'
-got a PhD (corrections pending)
-started work on an NIHR-funded study
But also
-did not get promoted
-am not yet being paid for the funded study
Thank you for reading this edition of 'tell us you're an academic without saying you're an academic'
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Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and please complete your mandatory e-learning by 31 December.
December 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and please complete your mandatory e-learning by 31 December.
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OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...
petition.parliament.uk
December 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062
I FEEL SEEN
By the 24th December you should have at least 1,442 internet browsing tabs all of which are for things you didn’t buy because you forgot about them.
December 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I FEEL SEEN
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Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
Why yes, there has been gin.
Saturday in December, innit.
Saturday in December, innit.
December 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Why yes, there has been gin.
Saturday in December, innit.
Saturday in December, innit.
HURRAY!
ACCIDENTALLY BOUGHT CHRISTMAS WRAITH. EVERYONE DEAD.
December 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
HURRAY!
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British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
December 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.
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I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
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Please feel free to share! We want to understand how to better support autistic and or ADHD undergraduate students at UK universities. The entire study team is neurodivergent (as you can imagine we had some excellent meetings!)
We are a team at the University of Manchester researching what UK undergraduates with ADHD and/or autism would like to see in university staff training on ensuring undergraduate courses are accessible to them.
Study link: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
Study link: www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Please feel free to share! We want to understand how to better support autistic and or ADHD undergraduate students at UK universities. The entire study team is neurodivergent (as you can imagine we had some excellent meetings!)
I confess myself bemused at the idea that you would even think you needed to...? That's just normal behaviour, right...?
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re under no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you decide to spend the entire day reading books and eating cinnamon rolls.
December 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I confess myself bemused at the idea that you would even think you needed to...? That's just normal behaviour, right...?
Oh, you utter, utter bastards.
@robinince.bsky.social is a complete fucking star.
@robinince.bsky.social is a complete fucking star.
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Oh, you utter, utter bastards.
@robinince.bsky.social is a complete fucking star.
@robinince.bsky.social is a complete fucking star.
Have done carolling.
Now approximately 87% Stollen.
Send savouries.
Now approximately 87% Stollen.
Send savouries.
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Have done carolling.
Now approximately 87% Stollen.
Send savouries.
Now approximately 87% Stollen.
Send savouries.
bej00tiful.
Yuletide Borders, scanned by us from a 1960s Riscatype catalogue.
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/y...
These were small lead units that would be arranged in a printing tray to create patterns etc.
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/y...
These were small lead units that would be arranged in a printing tray to create patterns etc.
December 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
bej00tiful.
😍😍, quite frankly.
Just been reminded of this heartwarming picture of a rabbit and an eagle. Morning all
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
😍😍, quite frankly.
Yes, and can confirm.
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental but have you had stollen in bed at 7:30am.
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Yes, and can confirm.
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Standing Together also includes trans and LGBT people. The far right uses the same dehumanising language and ‘divide and conquer’ playbook.
Don’t let trans people be left out in the cold!
👉 notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Don’t let trans people be left out in the cold!
👉 notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Standing Together also includes trans and LGBT people. The far right uses the same dehumanising language and ‘divide and conquer’ playbook.
Don’t let trans people be left out in the cold!
👉 notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Don’t let trans people be left out in the cold!
👉 notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Me: I do not need a new Christmas jumper.
Hema: HOLD MY BEER.
Oh, Hema. I fucking love you.
Hema: HOLD MY BEER.
Oh, Hema. I fucking love you.
November 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Me: I do not need a new Christmas jumper.
Hema: HOLD MY BEER.
Oh, Hema. I fucking love you.
Hema: HOLD MY BEER.
Oh, Hema. I fucking love you.
Holiday highlight (one of many): this absolutely feckin terrifying small, cyanided child
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Holiday highlight (one of many): this absolutely feckin terrifying small, cyanided child
REGINALD KNOBHEAD KING OF SWEDEN
Reginald Knobhead
www.findagrave.com/memorial/159...
www.findagrave.com/memorial/159...
Reginald Knobhead (1100-1126) - Find a Grave...
King of Sweden. His years of birth and death are approximate as given, and his origin has been much debated and argued about for hundreds of years. Either he has been considered to be the son of an ob...
www.findagrave.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
REGINALD KNOBHEAD KING OF SWEDEN
Dear BBC, this is very cute and all but (like most of Japan) Hokkaido is nowhere near Mt Fuji. Sloppy.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
November 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Dear BBC, this is very cute and all but (like most of Japan) Hokkaido is nowhere near Mt Fuji. Sloppy.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
I want this so much
Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I want this so much
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Join us for Cafe Autistique 3 Dec at @contactmcr.bsky.social. Talks from: Niamh Farrell on transgender autistic individuals' experiences with social communication & Busra Besdere on primary school teachers’ experiences supporting autistic student mental health. Reserve a spot tinyurl.com/4x9974fc
Café Autistíque - 3rd Dec 2025
A space where autism researchers can discuss their recent work with the public. In an inclusive space with tea and biscuits.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Join us for Cafe Autistique 3 Dec at @contactmcr.bsky.social. Talks from: Niamh Farrell on transgender autistic individuals' experiences with social communication & Busra Besdere on primary school teachers’ experiences supporting autistic student mental health. Reserve a spot tinyurl.com/4x9974fc
So I got this from @levparikian.bsky.social 's Six Things and it is pretty funny anyway, but I'm sharing it because I'm a smug J-type and get the joke (such as it is):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB8q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB8q...
OREO #jotaro
YouTube video by OHIOBOSS SATOYU
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
So I got this from @levparikian.bsky.social 's Six Things and it is pretty funny anyway, but I'm sharing it because I'm a smug J-type and get the joke (such as it is):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB8q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB8q...