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Matilda Fitzmaurice

@matildaf.bsky.social

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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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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 11h

[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 · 17h

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 · 1d

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 · 17h

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 · 18h

every job is boring sometimes guys. Including academic ones.

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 21h

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 · 1d

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

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Jude Doherty @judedoherty.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

follow me for top-quality content

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

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

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

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

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

Please share and donate if you can afford it

QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

Atrocious

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 3d

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

Photo of Zarah, Zack Polanski, Amna Abdullatif from We Deserve Better and Abubakr Nanabawa from The Muslim Vote

Zarah speaking to a packed room at The World Transformed

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's mainly videos now tbh

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 2d

And here's me making a somewhat angry plea to teachers who are going down this (self)destructive path. engagededucation.substack.com/p/if-you-use...

If You Use AI to Grade Student Writing, Stop or Quit Your Job

Some things you can't be polite about.

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

tbh if there is such thing as a Vera Stanhope action doll I will be getting one

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

replying all and being rude is not activism, sorry

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 5d

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
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Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 4d

What the everloving fuck is this

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Creating a lifelike digital avatar on a third party platform will definitely not open teaching staff up to career destroying issues in the event of that platform being hacked.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 5d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 4d

So what is 'identity politics'?

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 4d

When women workers, Black workers and disabled workers get paid less than white male workers, how is 'identity politics' a distraction from 'economic issues'?