Rebecca Jones
@remembermyhat.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, Sexuality and Ageing at the Open University, UK (she/her). Also often tweeting and retweeting about: academic writing | SRHR and sex ed | creative methods | Long Covid/Chronic Fatigue
I love Spanish trains! So fast, so comfortable. I don't understand the ticket pricing system - I've twice got tickets significantly cheaper than my travelling companions despite them booking in advance and me buying at the station just before travelling, but it's a total bargain for my prices!
April 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I love Spanish trains! So fast, so comfortable. I don't understand the ticket pricing system - I've twice got tickets significantly cheaper than my travelling companions despite them booking in advance and me buying at the station just before travelling, but it's a total bargain for my prices!
I have just spotted that Maricel is the figure in the photo I took in the cloister at La Seu Vella last night.Thanks so much Maricel and team for a great conference.
April 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I have just spotted that Maricel is the figure in the photo I took in the cloister at La Seu Vella last night.Thanks so much Maricel and team for a great conference.
Summary of Bulgarian ageing policy shifts. 1950s sounds like UK policy for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems - large fairly self-sufficient institutions in the countryside. But only for men. @enas-agestudies.bsky.social
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1950s rewarding labour: large institutions only for old men
1960s Addressing needs: in-home services and clubs for active retirees
2000/after COVID Specifying needs: social cafes and therapeutic groups.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qs44ol47yschy6a4lzogd4hw/bafkreidkzt57m2wmejaz5pnlvyxr2tljwkoxdzkxezarr42noqjpnrejfi@jpeg)
April 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Summary of Bulgarian ageing policy shifts. 1950s sounds like UK policy for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems - large fairly self-sufficient institutions in the countryside. But only for men. @enas-agestudies.bsky.social
Yes! @socbarb.bsky.social's manifesto for her plenary. @enas-agestudies.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Yes! @socbarb.bsky.social's manifesto for her plenary. @enas-agestudies.bsky.social
I also love this use by @nicoledalmer.bsky.social of floorplans to make things more concrete, to enable young people to imagine tech in their later life. Really interesting findings too @enas-agestudies.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I also love this use by @nicoledalmer.bsky.social of floorplans to make things more concrete, to enable young people to imagine tech in their later life. Really interesting findings too @enas-agestudies.bsky.social
I love this idea for a serious game. And not just for the rhyme in the name in French!
April 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I love this idea for a serious game. And not just for the rhyme in the name in French!
And the award for the most comfortable lecture theatre chairs goes to ... the University of Lleida @enas-agestudies.bsky.social So comfortable! I could sleep here (but will not, due to intellectual stimulation)
April 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
And the award for the most comfortable lecture theatre chairs goes to ... the University of Lleida @enas-agestudies.bsky.social So comfortable! I could sleep here (but will not, due to intellectual stimulation)
'Ages of women' cartoon in a sex shop window in Lleida. I always find these fascinating for normative ideas about ageing and gender. They were really popular in the 18th and 19th century but I've not seen many modern ones that are not jokey. I don't think this one is jokey? But I may be misreading
April 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
'Ages of women' cartoon in a sex shop window in Lleida. I always find these fascinating for normative ideas about ageing and gender. They were really popular in the 18th and 19th century but I've not seen many modern ones that are not jokey. I don't think this one is jokey? But I may be misreading
Mood: trying to set aside many deep anxieties and be more like my cat.
February 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Mood: trying to set aside many deep anxieties and be more like my cat.
Now this is an age-friendly (and also disability-friendly and small-kids-friendly)city - a bus stop style schematic map of all the public toilets along Málaga seafront.
January 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Now this is an age-friendly (and also disability-friendly and small-kids-friendly)city - a bus stop style schematic map of all the public toilets along Málaga seafront.
A colleague remarked that on Teams calls they can tell when I'm having a bad health day because I'm always leaning my face on my hand. It's become one of my characteristic poses. #LongCovid #ChronicFatigue I didn't realise I was doing it when this photo was taken (not on a Teams call!)
January 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A colleague remarked that on Teams calls they can tell when I'm having a bad health day because I'm always leaning my face on my hand. It's become one of my characteristic poses. #LongCovid #ChronicFatigue I didn't realise I was doing it when this photo was taken (not on a Teams call!)
'Happy Families' is a rubbish card game but the cards from this 'Progress Edition' from www.etsy.com/shop/Rainbow... are a joy to look at for the wonderfully diverse family forms shown. Representation matters, even in terrible Victorian card games!
January 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
'Happy Families' is a rubbish card game but the cards from this 'Progress Edition' from www.etsy.com/shop/Rainbow... are a joy to look at for the wonderfully diverse family forms shown. Representation matters, even in terrible Victorian card games!
Christmas has come early for the cat. The rest of us are out of luck. Handily, there's going to be brandy butter as well.
December 23, 2024 at 11:01 AM
Christmas has come early for the cat. The rest of us are out of luck. Handily, there's going to be brandy butter as well.
Wow, Christmas tree baubles have got very niche. I presume this one is for broken-hearted bisexuals.
December 20, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Wow, Christmas tree baubles have got very niche. I presume this one is for broken-hearted bisexuals.
I hope everyone at BiCon 2024 is having a good time - I wish my energies permitted a trip to London. Huge thanks to the volunteer organisers. Even a non-residential BiCon is a huge amount of work, partly because BiCon tries so hard to be inclusive of people's very diverse needs.
November 30, 2024 at 11:57 AM
I hope everyone at BiCon 2024 is having a good time - I wish my energies permitted a trip to London. Huge thanks to the volunteer organisers. Even a non-residential BiCon is a huge amount of work, partly because BiCon tries so hard to be inclusive of people's very diverse needs.
Is bread pudding (pictured, usually bought in a bakery, often with demara sugar on top, heavy on the mixed dried fruit and spices) distinct in your mind from bread-and-butter pudding (a more custardy less fruity dessert eaten at home or a restaurant, often served with custard? Where did you grow up?
November 29, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Is bread pudding (pictured, usually bought in a bakery, often with demara sugar on top, heavy on the mixed dried fruit and spices) distinct in your mind from bread-and-butter pudding (a more custardy less fruity dessert eaten at home or a restaurant, often served with custard? Where did you grow up?
My cat got the memo.
November 22, 2024 at 7:02 PM
My cat got the memo.
Little-and-often is how I get most of my papers written. Some stages of writing need bigger chunks of time, I find, but you can achieve a lot with regular chipping away at it. Or knitting another row, a better metaphor. This particular image perhaps represents multiple authored papers!
November 15, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Little-and-often is how I get most of my papers written. Some stages of writing need bigger chunks of time, I find, but you can achieve a lot with regular chipping away at it. Or knitting another row, a better metaphor. This particular image perhaps represents multiple authored papers!
@sakurabyrne.bsky.social Hello! Lovely to see you over here. Here's a virtual cup of tea in an appropriate (practically vintage) mug until we can have at least a Teams catch up over a cuppa.
November 13, 2024 at 8:40 PM
@sakurabyrne.bsky.social Hello! Lovely to see you over here. Here's a virtual cup of tea in an appropriate (practically vintage) mug until we can have at least a Teams catch up over a cuppa.
Stop press update! (My life is very boring at the moment). After I took the photo I thought 'what's that upside down book at the end?' & it was 'End of Term'! Which I have clearly owned for about 10 years and never realised (I inherited all of them from a friend who died so they came in as a batch)
November 12, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Stop press update! (My life is very boring at the moment). After I took the photo I thought 'what's that upside down book at the end?' & it was 'End of Term'! Which I have clearly owned for about 10 years and never realised (I inherited all of them from a friend who died so they came in as a batch)
Reader's dilemma: I'm re-reading all Antonia Forest's Marlow books while I'm off sick but I don't have a copy of 'End of Term' and it's rare, so more money than I think is worth paying. I've never read it but I know broadly what happens. Do I just skip or try other routes to obtaining? WWYD?
November 12, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Reader's dilemma: I'm re-reading all Antonia Forest's Marlow books while I'm off sick but I don't have a copy of 'End of Term' and it's rare, so more money than I think is worth paying. I've never read it but I know broadly what happens. Do I just skip or try other routes to obtaining? WWYD?
This one is kind of speaking to me, if 'reigns' refers to VCs rather than monarchs.
October 23, 2024 at 2:44 PM
This one is kind of speaking to me, if 'reigns' refers to VCs rather than monarchs.
Breakfast of champions: apple crumble and custard, with a large mug of black coffee.
October 21, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Breakfast of champions: apple crumble and custard, with a large mug of black coffee.