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Lizzie Reed

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Associate Prof of #Sociology at Uni of Southampton. Queer lives, visual methods, kinship & identity. Ask me about my queer feminist trans agenda. She/they 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0885-2908

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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · Feb 12

This is the VERY exciting project I've been working on since Aug with an incredible team. Give us a follow to stay up to date as it grows!

Create/Connect @createconnectccr.bsky.social · Feb 12

Create/Connect is run by the Creativity, Community and Resilience research team. You can find out more about the project by visiting our website: www.createconnectproject.co.uk

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you both

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 17h

Would you be able to just ctrl+f "lingerings, wayward paths, and fertile delay" and see if you strike gold?

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 17h

I need a page reference for a book I don't have access to anymore. Does anyone have ebook access for Bond Stockton's 'Queer Child/Growing Sideways' who could just look up one half sentence for me so I can stick a page number down? #AcademicSky

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 1d

The adverts are making me ragey. We're always in some phase or other of telling people their food choices are morally wrong.

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 1d

So to recap Starmer's position;

Protests calling for an end to genocide in Gaza and government action to enforce international law = "anti Semitic hate marches"

White nationalist rallies calling for mass deportations = "legitimate concerns"

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 2d

Streeting is a hateful haunted wax work of a man & this is so consistent with everything he has done for 20+ years.

Picking one relevant stat? It takes an average of 9.5 years for someone to receive a bipolar diagnosis. But the money is going on 'overdiagnosis'?

www.bipolaruk.org/bipolar-comm...

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I really would!

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 2d

That is incredible

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 5d

Who amongst us hasn't learnt this the hard way?

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 5d

About 90% sure I just saw a classmate, as he was in '98, in the audience for Ghetto Supastar. Are you out there Luke? Was it you? #totp

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 5d

The greatest suprise to me in that piece is that some people apparently believe friendship happens without any effort.

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 5d

Like, students are feeling this lack too. I've had students describe feeling illiterate in the face of some fairly average social theory texts. It's no wonder GenAI starts looking so appealing

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 5d

Literacy of UG students has declined so much in the last ~10 years. It has huge implications for what counts as an accessible text. Non specialist language like "hitherto" and "epoch" are completely unknown to them. I learnt most vocab from reading for leisure and I wonder if that's the big shift?

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 7d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 7d

People say international solidarity cannot work, and yet eduroam.

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 8d

This is a good response

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 8d

Read our response to the Government’s announcement that university maintenance grants will be reintroduced for certain courses, funded through a levy on international student fees
https://bit.ly/4gPz7uO

British Academy responds to government announcement on university maintenance grants

The British Academy has issued a response to the government's announcement on using a proposed levy on international students to fund maintenance grants.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership @scdtp.bsky.social · 9d

Please help to spread the word! A chance to get your PhD funded through ESRC SCDTP to study @ Brighton, Chichester, Portsmouth & Southampton

@unisouthampton.bsky.social @uniofbrighton.bsky.social @chiunipress.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social @uoseducation.bsky.social

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 13d

Great cardi, as well

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 13d

It's ideologically incoherent, as a series. Which is sad and makes me long for the 90s movies which felt mildly subversive. The asylum-prison is narratively lazy as well as offensive.

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 13d

Super! Congratulations. This sort of thing is SUCH a lot of work and so valuable.

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 13d

Blimey

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 14d

Precisely! It takes all the worry out of ethical recruitment because it's _objective_ in it's discrimination

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 14d

Sushi is yummy though, farmer can't argue with that.

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 14d

You're absolutely right. Better to prep students to use Gen AI to screen out 300 applicants to a graduate scheme (an example this person gave of employability skills). Absolutely no equality considerations there.

Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 14d

"but not all of your students go on to do PhDs [so what other employability skills do you teach]"

It's been an amount of days and I still cannot process the idea that understanding inequality is an abstract, academic-only pursuit and not relevant to the very fabric of our world - and workplaces