Catherine Sloan
@csloanox.bsky.social
Historian of childhood & youth, Oxford. Love podcasts, bad TV, sugar. Ireland & Scotland. she/her
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You'd be working with some excellent material and with our wonderful Chair, Anne Summers.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
You'd be working with some excellent material and with our wonderful Chair, Anne Summers.
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"Labour are happily - gleefully - building up the infrastructure an authoritarian regime would find useful. It's a good job a right wing extremist party isn't topping the polls and stands no chance of winning the next election."
Labour's Continued Attacks on Liberty
Here is a story that won't stick in the headlines for more than a day. David Lammy has unveiled plans to curtail the right to jury trial for...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"Labour are happily - gleefully - building up the infrastructure an authoritarian regime would find useful. It's a good job a right wing extremist party isn't topping the polls and stands no chance of winning the next election."
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I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
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I mean, I wouldn’t want to have to be the go-to scholar to explain what is wrong with the VP all the time but it would be nice to be asked.
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I mean, I wouldn’t want to have to be the go-to scholar to explain what is wrong with the VP all the time but it would be nice to be asked.
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Made my day to read this great post and see this!
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Made my day to read this great post and see this!
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You can hire me to edit for you! I provide fast, professional, and personalised proofreading, copy editing, and developmental editing services
www.wellreadherring.com/editing
www.wellreadherring.com/editing
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
You can hire me to edit for you! I provide fast, professional, and personalised proofreading, copy editing, and developmental editing services
www.wellreadherring.com/editing
www.wellreadherring.com/editing
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What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
“To be sat there with this material in front of you that is just really not worth anyone’s time, when you could be spending that time actually engaging with something worthwhile, is really frustrating,” he said.
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
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It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
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Just appalling. Nurses and teachers do far more valuable jobs than almost anyone earning £125k.
Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Just appalling. Nurses and teachers do far more valuable jobs than almost anyone earning £125k.
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This thread - exactly why I'm terrified about the intense and often unquestioned push by education systems and schools and teachers to integrate AI everywhere. It's, by design, toxic to learning
Consider learning an instrument, badly.
Bad habits become engrained, movement is inefficient and slow, and it takes a *lot* of time and effort to unlearn those engrained bad habits.
Bad habits become engrained, movement is inefficient and slow, and it takes a *lot* of time and effort to unlearn those engrained bad habits.
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This thread - exactly why I'm terrified about the intense and often unquestioned push by education systems and schools and teachers to integrate AI everywhere. It's, by design, toxic to learning
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Mahmood using her own ethnic background to legitimise stripping away migrants’ and refugees’ rights prompted me to revisit this piece I wrote a couple of years back on minorities on the right.
Minorities on the Right
The presence of members of minority groups on the right poses a challenge in both understanding how they got there and discussing the matter with due sensitivity.
academicbubble.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Mahmood using her own ethnic background to legitimise stripping away migrants’ and refugees’ rights prompted me to revisit this piece I wrote a couple of years back on minorities on the right.
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Swedish musician Elfrida Andree (1841-1929) is #Radio3 Composer of the Week 🎉 Andree has a lot of fans on here. A brilliant composer (I especially love her piano trios) her output included opera, symphonies and much more. Also a pioneering female musician and feminist activist.
#Womencomposers
#Womencomposers
I confess I knew nothing of Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée’s (1841-1929) music until producer Luke Whitlock suggested her. But then I went down an #Andrée rabbit hole - and what riches! Join Donald Macleod for Composer of the Week 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Swedish musician Elfrida Andree (1841-1929) is #Radio3 Composer of the Week 🎉 Andree has a lot of fans on here. A brilliant composer (I especially love her piano trios) her output included opera, symphonies and much more. Also a pioneering female musician and feminist activist.
#Womencomposers
#Womencomposers
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“Baby” I say, dragging my butt across the carpet. “It’s not a worm”
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“Baby” I say, dragging my butt across the carpet. “It’s not a worm”
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Behind the weasel words and prevaricating euphemisms, Britain's politics of immigration are rooted in an antipathy to the presence of negatively racialised people in this country *on any terms*. If we'd confronted that reality decades ago, and faced it down, we wouldn't be where we are now.
the video goes on and on about illegal immigration and yet the new proposal will target legal migration by confirmed refugees
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Behind the weasel words and prevaricating euphemisms, Britain's politics of immigration are rooted in an antipathy to the presence of negatively racialised people in this country *on any terms*. If we'd confronted that reality decades ago, and faced it down, we wouldn't be where we are now.
Dublin schoolchildren on the President - past and present vm.tiktok.com/ZNdKuoXQU/ #histchild
TikTok - Make Your Day
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November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Dublin schoolchildren on the President - past and present vm.tiktok.com/ZNdKuoXQU/ #histchild
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"As someone working in law, it’s heresy to say this, and it might even kill my chances of a career... But as a trans person, and someone fighting for the rights of my community, I refuse to remain silent. To me it just seems obvious: a heavily prejudiced society produces prejudiced institutions."
It’s no surprise that only 31% of trans people trust a legal system built to enforce prejudice, says Jess O’Thomson.
It’s no surprise that only 31% of trans people trust a legal system built to enforce prejudice, says Jess O’Thomson.
goodlawproject.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"As someone working in law, it’s heresy to say this, and it might even kill my chances of a career... But as a trans person, and someone fighting for the rights of my community, I refuse to remain silent. To me it just seems obvious: a heavily prejudiced society produces prejudiced institutions."
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GLASGOW (TDOR)
7pm Thu 20th Nov
Glasgow University Cloisters
7pm Thu 20th Nov
Glasgow University Cloisters
🏳️⚧️ Glasgow - GULGBTQ+ are hosting a vigil in the Glasgow University Cloisters, with readings after in the Gilchrist Postgraduate Club. 20th November, from 7pm. www.glasgowunisrc.org/events/7435/...
Transgender Day of Remembrance: Memorial Vigil
Join us on Thursday 20th November for Transgender Day of Remembrance for our candlelit memorial vigil, in collaboration with the Students' Representative Council (SRC), as we remember and commemorate lives lost due to transphobia.
www.glasgowunisrc.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
GLASGOW (TDOR)
7pm Thu 20th Nov
Glasgow University Cloisters
7pm Thu 20th Nov
Glasgow University Cloisters
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We are delighted to welcome Dr Kate Gibson (Manchester) on Wednesday 12 November, 3.30-5pm in Forum Seminar Room 10 and on Teams for the following CEMS seminar:
'Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain'.
Full description attached. Please join us! @lsangha.bsky.social
'Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain'.
Full description attached. Please join us! @lsangha.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We are delighted to welcome Dr Kate Gibson (Manchester) on Wednesday 12 November, 3.30-5pm in Forum Seminar Room 10 and on Teams for the following CEMS seminar:
'Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain'.
Full description attached. Please join us! @lsangha.bsky.social
'Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain'.
Full description attached. Please join us! @lsangha.bsky.social
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I guess this the season for ‘what’s up with Remembrance these days’ so i suppose i should suggest an analytical framework. Three phases
1/At the early 1990s Remembrance Day was becoming pretty low key but it starts a big revival in 1994. This was initially to do with the D-Day 50th anniversary.
1/At the early 1990s Remembrance Day was becoming pretty low key but it starts a big revival in 1994. This was initially to do with the D-Day 50th anniversary.
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I guess this the season for ‘what’s up with Remembrance these days’ so i suppose i should suggest an analytical framework. Three phases
1/At the early 1990s Remembrance Day was becoming pretty low key but it starts a big revival in 1994. This was initially to do with the D-Day 50th anniversary.
1/At the early 1990s Remembrance Day was becoming pretty low key but it starts a big revival in 1994. This was initially to do with the D-Day 50th anniversary.
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Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Labour, Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer specifically, have made the NHS cause intentional harm to trans people.
This is so much worse than before and in a just world they would face consequences.
This is so much worse than before and in a just world they would face consequences.
"They know this is likely to cause suicides. They don’t care! We jumped through every hoop for years and we followed what the government asked of us. I’m in Surrey, her doctor is in Brighton, you can imagine what this is doing to us."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
NHS threatens GP practice over trans care
With NHS reply – a GP practice in Brighton and Hove is under investigation for legally providing gender affirming care to trans teens
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Labour, Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer specifically, have made the NHS cause intentional harm to trans people.
This is so much worse than before and in a just world they would face consequences.
This is so much worse than before and in a just world they would face consequences.
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Here we go - just imagine, Seven Dials in the 1920s...
Helena Bonham-Carter, Martin Freeman, and Mia McKenna-Bruce lead the starry trailer for Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, a new Netflix murder-mystery series.
WATCH THE TRAILER: www.empireonline.com/tv/news/agat...
WATCH THE TRAILER: www.empireonline.com/tv/news/agat...
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Here we go - just imagine, Seven Dials in the 1920s...
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This is disastrous; hospices do such important work, not only to give people a good death, but to provide pain management and other services to people with terminal conditions. The staff in hospices work so, so hard and the fact that these institutions depend on charity to operate is a scandal.
Hundreds of hospice beds and staff cut in England amid funding crisis
Hundreds of hospice beds and staff cut in England amid funding crisis
National Audit Office reports nearly two-thirds of independent hospices in deficit in 2023-24 as demand increases
Hospices in England are cutting hundreds of beds and staff because of a funding crisis, despite a sharp rise in demand for palliative care, a damning report warns.
People needing end of life care faced a postcode lottery because access to services was so patchy, the National Audit Office (NAO) reported. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
This is disastrous; hospices do such important work, not only to give people a good death, but to provide pain management and other services to people with terminal conditions. The staff in hospices work so, so hard and the fact that these institutions depend on charity to operate is a scandal.
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I mean, she very much did do that
Pan Macmillan has apologised to its former author Kate Clanchy three years on from parting company with the writer after she was accused of racial stereotyping, an accusation she denies 👇
Pan Macmillan apologises to Kate Clanchy three years after controversy
www.thebookseller.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I mean, she very much did do that