Noreen Masud
@noreenmasud.bsky.social
Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
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Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US
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You'd never know it from these headlines that she lost all her claims on the actual substance of the case, claiming that trans people must be banned from bathrooms.
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
You'd never know it from these headlines that she lost all her claims on the actual substance of the case, claiming that trans people must be banned from bathrooms.
everyone's linking this to Clippy. this is my moment to say how much I loved Clippy, & how much time I spent choosing alternative incarnations of Clippy. see image. I thought the earth which spun and glowed when you stimulated it was the HEIGHT. OF. SOPHISTICATION.
December 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
everyone's linking this to Clippy. this is my moment to say how much I loved Clippy, & how much time I spent choosing alternative incarnations of Clippy. see image. I thought the earth which spun and glowed when you stimulated it was the HEIGHT. OF. SOPHISTICATION.
Copilot is the setback
2) offering 'rituals to help me bounce back from a setback to start afresh'
(this is my work laptop btw)
(this is my work laptop btw)
December 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Copilot is the setback
things Copilot has tried desperately to help me with this morning: a thread
1) suggesting '10 compelling titles' for a spreadsheet I use to log student attendance
1) suggesting '10 compelling titles' for a spreadsheet I use to log student attendance
December 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
things Copilot has tried desperately to help me with this morning: a thread
1) suggesting '10 compelling titles' for a spreadsheet I use to log student attendance
1) suggesting '10 compelling titles' for a spreadsheet I use to log student attendance
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This is pulling the ladder up after them - it is SO vital and I came through a route that did precisely this for me. I then went on to a fully funding nurse training that gave me and my daughter enough to live off... Talk about removing ladders from poverty.
it's gutting to see access and widening participation initiatives being binned across the university sector. ELCE here at Bristol, Essex Pathways here. nothing pushes my personal, visceral buttons like the idea of denying academic study to someone whose life it could change
In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
December 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This is pulling the ladder up after them - it is SO vital and I came through a route that did precisely this for me. I then went on to a fully funding nurse training that gave me and my daughter enough to live off... Talk about removing ladders from poverty.
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Media attention is rightly focused on Southend and the 400 job losses: those are the big headlines, and that's what's been confirmed in writing. But the VC isn't sharing shocking details like this publicly.
We only know about Pathways because a colleague pressed her on it at an all-staff meeting.
We only know about Pathways because a colleague pressed her on it at an all-staff meeting.
December 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Media attention is rightly focused on Southend and the 400 job losses: those are the big headlines, and that's what's been confirmed in writing. But the VC isn't sharing shocking details like this publicly.
We only know about Pathways because a colleague pressed her on it at an all-staff meeting.
We only know about Pathways because a colleague pressed her on it at an all-staff meeting.
it's gutting to see access and widening participation initiatives being binned across the university sector. ELCE here at Bristol, Essex Pathways here. nothing pushes my personal, visceral buttons like the idea of denying academic study to someone whose life it could change
In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
December 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
it's gutting to see access and widening participation initiatives being binned across the university sector. ELCE here at Bristol, Essex Pathways here. nothing pushes my personal, visceral buttons like the idea of denying academic study to someone whose life it could change
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In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
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everyone can do this, not just the welsh! send any self addressed envelopes back, empty, don't put a stamp.
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
everyone can do this, not just the welsh! send any self addressed envelopes back, empty, don't put a stamp.
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Do I know anyone on here who might be able to get me a digital image of a page (or a few) of a manuscript in the Library of Ahmed III (in Istanbul)? The library doesn’t appear to have digitized much (or any) of the collection?
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December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Do I know anyone on here who might be able to get me a digital image of a page (or a few) of a manuscript in the Library of Ahmed III (in Istanbul)? The library doesn’t appear to have digitized much (or any) of the collection?
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stop what you're doing and go kiss your cat
December 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
stop what you're doing and go kiss your cat
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To be entirely selfish, what is really irritating about events at Essex is that, after years of precarity (and a year with no job) I’ve finally been getting back-on-track with research. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Essex to shut Southend campus and cut 400 jobs - BBC News
The Southend-on-Sea campus is home to the award-winning East 15 drama school.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
To be entirely selfish, what is really irritating about events at Essex is that, after years of precarity (and a year with no job) I’ve finally been getting back-on-track with research. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
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Can anyone from Cardiff, Oxford, Cambridge or Suffolk unis get hold of this article for me please?
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Can anyone from Cardiff, Oxford, Cambridge or Suffolk unis get hold of this article for me please?
I have only had a handful of students who've had the temerity to do this and each time I was so livid I physically could not see out of my eyes
Students putting meetings on my calendar that are supposed to take place outside of office hours, without emailing / consulting me first: no
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I have only had a handful of students who've had the temerity to do this and each time I was so livid I physically could not see out of my eyes
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Stuck on this gutting sentence on the Women’s Institute decision. For young people it’s watching the world close to them before they’ve had a shot at life, for older women it’s watching half a century of progress vanish. Either way it’s grossly, unbearably cruel.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Stuck on this gutting sentence on the Women’s Institute decision. For young people it’s watching the world close to them before they’ve had a shot at life, for older women it’s watching half a century of progress vanish. Either way it’s grossly, unbearably cruel.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I was one of my local Scouts first intake of girls. It was the 90’s. I can’t believe (well, actually I can) how far backwards anti-trans obsessives want to take us.
December 4, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I was one of my local Scouts first intake of girls. It was the 90’s. I can’t believe (well, actually I can) how far backwards anti-trans obsessives want to take us.
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The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.
me: [goes compulsively again and again to the places designed for people to shoot their mouths off]
me: why won't everyone shut the fuck up
me: why won't everyone shut the fuck up
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
me: [goes compulsively again and again to the places designed for people to shoot their mouths off]
me: why won't everyone shut the fuck up
me: why won't everyone shut the fuck up
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Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
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this has reminded me that a few years ago I realized administrators in effect consume faculty time, so the more of them hired, the less time we have. probly obvious but wasn't to me, the thought was very startling to me.
June 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
this has reminded me that a few years ago I realized administrators in effect consume faculty time, so the more of them hired, the less time we have. probly obvious but wasn't to me, the thought was very startling to me.
trying to think of good UK-Based Nature Phenomena. so far I got:
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
trying to think of good UK-Based Nature Phenomena. so far I got:
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England
what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
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all academic applications should have consolation prizes.
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
December 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
all academic applications should have consolation prizes.
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”
doesn’t have to be much, like a mug that says “i applied for leverhulme 2020”
or a t-shirt “UKRI reject 2023”