Sarah McLaughlin
@sarahemclaugh.bsky.social
Global Expression, FIRE. Book: Authoritarians in the Academy, @hopkinspress.bsky.social (August 2025). https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53835/authoritarians-academy
Signal: sarahemclaugh.01. Go birds.
Signal: sarahemclaugh.01. Go birds.
another awful part of it is that the more time you spend with this, the less time you'll spend building (real) relationships that will without doubt bring more meaning to your own life and to the lives of others than some nightmare echo of a dead loved one
November 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
another awful part of it is that the more time you spend with this, the less time you'll spend building (real) relationships that will without doubt bring more meaning to your own life and to the lives of others than some nightmare echo of a dead loved one
Reposted by Sarah McLaughlin
I got a very nice view of it
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I got a very nice view of it
and they act like it's a personal affront if you dare to exercise the rights you have as a pedestrian or expect them to follow basic traffic law
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
and they act like it's a personal affront if you dare to exercise the rights you have as a pedestrian or expect them to follow basic traffic law
this is one of those things that really pushes me over the edge. we have normalized and tolerated bad behavior from drivers in pedestrian-heavy cities to the extent that they just don't consider the gravity of what they're doing, or why we have the damn stop signs. it sucks. shouldn't be this way
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
this is one of those things that really pushes me over the edge. we have normalized and tolerated bad behavior from drivers in pedestrian-heavy cities to the extent that they just don't consider the gravity of what they're doing, or why we have the damn stop signs. it sucks. shouldn't be this way
that’s more like it
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
that’s more like it
“Attempting to retain the business in China and publication of the [HKC] research are now untenable bedfellows.”
![For years, the university has faced a backlash in China, and falling student numbers. In the summer of 2022, China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian called the HKC – whose namesake, Lady Kennedy, has herself been hit with sanctions by Beijing because of her criticisms of China’s human rights record – a “vanguard for anti-China forces”. Around the same time, Sheffield Hallam’s websites were blocked in China. “This undoubtedly had a negative impact on recruitment in 23/24,” a university employee wrote in July 2024.
The person also wrote: “Attempting to retain the business in China and publication of the [HKC] research are now untenable bedfellows.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d52g57qhdyydkmwtuueco57q/bafkreifykl2dlbwbck6wuym5dcrnaxw2x5isy6hm3jxcfeyqckzlyivy7e@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“Attempting to retain the business in China and publication of the [HKC] research are now untenable bedfellows.”