Stephanie Harris
@mllesharris.bsky.social
Lawyering, contracting, research funding. Formerly of universities, now Senior Contracts Manager NIHR. Photos of my cats and garden.
Pretty sure I’m out of a job if Reform get into power. Which is not the worst thing that would happen under that government but it does annoy me.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Pretty sure I’m out of a job if Reform get into power. Which is not the worst thing that would happen under that government but it does annoy me.
I just hope they put their winter tires on
'Driving home...' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #WomensArt
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I just hope they put their winter tires on
The great thing about being a dual citizen is you get to be bitterly disappointed by two governments. At least my Canadian MP seems to have some integrity.
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The great thing about being a dual citizen is you get to be bitterly disappointed by two governments. At least my Canadian MP seems to have some integrity.
Labour what the fuck is wrong with you
The flat fee of £925 is a 6% levy on fees of £15,419 - a higher rate on lower costs, a lower rate on higher cost degrees. This will have a smaller impact than a 6% levy on the 19 institutions who thought it could cost them > £10m as their average international fees are above £15k
The government will charge universities £925 per international student for each year of study from August 2028, in a blow to cash-strapped higher education institutions. Helen Packer reports #Budget2026
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/international-student-levy-set-ps925-student-2028
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/international-student-levy-set-ps925-student-2028
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Labour what the fuck is wrong with you
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Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers
An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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and I really am old enough to remember those far-off days before 2011 or so when most people *didn’t* assume that big tech was the Face of Creeping Evil - tech fucked up bad! by means of actually being evil all the time!
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
and I really am old enough to remember those far-off days before 2011 or so when most people *didn’t* assume that big tech was the Face of Creeping Evil - tech fucked up bad! by means of actually being evil all the time!
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🍂👀LEAF HUNTING🙌🍁
In Japan 'autumn foliage', depending on the reading, is known as 'momiji' (紅葉) or 'kōyō' (紅葉).
Originally the terms referred to any tree that changed colour for autumn, but over time they became synonymous with the maple (楓 'kaede')🍁
#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #紅葉 #楓 #momiji
In Japan 'autumn foliage', depending on the reading, is known as 'momiji' (紅葉) or 'kōyō' (紅葉).
Originally the terms referred to any tree that changed colour for autumn, but over time they became synonymous with the maple (楓 'kaede')🍁
#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #紅葉 #楓 #momiji
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Ah, humanity. Famously over-reliant on Earth.
Jesus, famously risk averse.
Jesus, famously risk averse.
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Ah, humanity. Famously over-reliant on Earth.
Jesus, famously risk averse.
Jesus, famously risk averse.
RNLI > US coast Guard
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
RNLI > US coast Guard
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Cats as co-authors is an entirely reasonable part of scholarly practice.
Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Cats as co-authors is an entirely reasonable part of scholarly practice.
For goodness sake Labour, do something about the cost of electricity. My house is freezing. I grew up in Canada where it regularly gets to -20 and we heated our homes with electric radiators without a second thought.
November 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
For goodness sake Labour, do something about the cost of electricity. My house is freezing. I grew up in Canada where it regularly gets to -20 and we heated our homes with electric radiators without a second thought.
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Most impewtant threat you’ll read today
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Most impewtant threat you’ll read today
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Not holding my breath to see him sue them for one billion dollars
Remember when Trump insisted that there were riots on the streets of Portland? It's because Fox News deliberately spliced footage of the 2020 riots into contemporary footage.
It's kinda funny, but the fact that the most powerful man in the world can be so easily manipulated is a bit 😬
It's kinda funny, but the fact that the most powerful man in the world can be so easily manipulated is a bit 😬
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Not holding my breath to see him sue them for one billion dollars
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"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
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3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.
Slow clap to Canada
#Canada announces that it has indeed lost its #measles elimination status.
(Feels timely to receive the announcement while in Toronto, watching the #ASTMH @astmh.bsky.social session on recent outbreaks of emerging & re-emerging viruses, which kicked off with...measles)
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
(Feels timely to receive the announcement while in Toronto, watching the #ASTMH @astmh.bsky.social session on recent outbreaks of emerging & re-emerging viruses, which kicked off with...measles)
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Slow clap to Canada
Ok but I read this in the voice of Jamie McCrimmon
Well now, would you look at that?
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Ok but I read this in the voice of Jamie McCrimmon
Oh I was not prepared to see this
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Oh I was not prepared to see this
This is very interesting. What particularly resonates is the discussion of the need to demonstrate academic impact and the (ahem) impact that has on messaging.
This is a really fascinating discussion of changing linguistic conventions and how women are expected to write differently.
debuk.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/e...
debuk.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/e...
Enough already!!! Punctuation, silly women and soundbite science
One of last week’s media talking points was a study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (JESP), which attracted attention mainly because of its claim that women use exclamati…
debuk.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This is very interesting. What particularly resonates is the discussion of the need to demonstrate academic impact and the (ahem) impact that has on messaging.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
At this time of remembrance we in Britain focus on what really matters
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
At this time of remembrance we in Britain focus on what really matters
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Some thoughts on why Remembrance is so important, and why attempts to police it should be resisted.
One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests.
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Some thoughts on why Remembrance is so important, and why attempts to police it should be resisted.
Years ago, when I was hoping for a career in museums, I did an internship at the Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne in the Somme. A lovely museum that looks at the war from the French, German, and British perspectives. It had this incredible art by Käthe Kollwitz.
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Years ago, when I was hoping for a career in museums, I did an internship at the Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne in the Somme. A lovely museum that looks at the war from the French, German, and British perspectives. It had this incredible art by Käthe Kollwitz.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫