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Matilda Fitzmaurice

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Bi. Geographer & lecturer: int. climate politics, (non)reproduction and the Anthropocene. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 25/26 Equality Chair UCU Commons, queerness, food, ABBA. Vera enthusiast. My views. She/her Website: https://linktr.ee/matildafitzmaurice

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · Aug 12

Bumping this for mid-August reading - I put so much into framing the argument in just the right way, and it's indebted to so many wonderful scholars: Geoff Mann, Joel Wainwright, Stuart Hall, Meera Sabaratnam, Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Ida Danewid and many others

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · Jul 18

so this came out yesterday! First article from my PhD. Long slog but it was worth it. academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Whiteness as Epistemological Orientation in International Climate Change Discourses

Abstract. This article argues that in contingent and context-specific ways, international climate change discourses reproduce whiteness as a form of signif

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 2d

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 5h

I'm a Generation X cis male presenting as a cis male; discussing pronouns feels like a fairly recent thing for me. It doesn't hurt to include a he/him in email signatures etc, and normalising this to help others to not get misgendered is a good thing, so I'm doing it. #InternationalPronounsDay

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 6h

I am They/Them, but don't mind He/They too much, and fully understand why people would automatically default to He/Him so don't get annoyed when it is a genuine mistake, I do when they continue if, and I rarely do offline, I have corrected them.
#InternationalPronounsDay

__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 6h

I'm She/Her, but I don't mind being They/Them either.

It's so simple and doesn't cause anyone any harm.

#InternationalPronounsDay

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 5h

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7h

'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 21h

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.

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‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News

Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 18h

[no tonight spoilers please, I haven't watched] Eastenders is going in really hard on their manosphere storyline

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Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social · 1d

FE ballots will be landing from today onwards! Look out for a bright pink envelope. Vote Yes! Return your ballot ASAP and then encourage your colleagues to do the same.

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 2d

Right, talk to me:

I want to know what you'd like from me and the team at @aat-transcribes.bsky.social as a freebie or offer under £10 that might add value either in the context of transcription or closed captioning OR in addition to it.

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

Me: oh I've got a few minutes, I'll have a quick look at jobs.ac.uk see what the score is...

Existential dread: time to descend!!

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

every job is boring sometimes guys. Including academic ones.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d

Well done stigmatising a badly understood mental illness for clout because you havent heard of intrusive thoughts, academic community. 10/10

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 1d

struggling to budget both myself & a decent post-doc under the ukri grant caps (given the massive overheads unis charge) & wondering how others are managing. Then I see all the 0.4 fte for 15 months precarious post-docs being advertised & realise that’s the only way to do it. I hate it, thanks.

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.myatproto.social · 2d

I like Sultana, but I'm getting SWP vibes off YP at this point.

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Jude Doherty @judedoherty.bsky.social · 2d

On Thursday 2nd October, I spoke at the UCU rally at the University of Nottingham - not to complain about lost lectures, but to stand up for what's right.

#UCU #Nottingham #StudentsSupportStaff #FairnessFirst #UoN #SaveOurStaff
#EducationNotCuts #StandWithUCU @ucu.org.uk

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

It would be funnier if Swedish House Mafia weren't actually Swedish, though, wouldn't it

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

It would be funnier if Swedish House Mafia weren't actually Swedish, though, wouldn't it

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 2d

Please consider donating to support one of the @gaza40.bsky.social in their studies @qmul.bsky.social. They’ve won a prestigious studentship but cost in London and high.

Donate here: chuffed.org/project/1522...

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

My Hot Statue Take is that we should take down all statues of individuals, so

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

Atrocious

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

I just don't get it. Either you want freedom and safety for all, or you don't.

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

anti-imperialist, but no self-determination and bodily autonomy for trans people obvs

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk