The Richard Scarry instagram account is truly a gift

From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”

Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻‍🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:

Rules for creativity and life 💜

A flagship journal in my field uses AI in the editorial process! Yes, & they even give this vacuous (described below) feedback when they reject papers. I tried pushing back and was told I'm being emotional (sexism red flag) because I can't deal with rejection (lemme laugh for a few minutes).

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

AI-assisted text is deadly for academic journal editors and reviewers. I'm detecting a lot more of it recently as an editor. It's still there in the "Frankencitations" and those little linguistic "tells" like "AI is not the cause. It's the symptom of an underlying reality." But it's more, too. 1/

Our dept is hiring!

Liv Uni Politics@livunipol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 Our Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool is currently looking to appoint up to 7(!) new colleagues. This includes 2 permanent T&R positions: lnkd.in/eVabnhrP And up to 5 fixed-term T&S positions: lnkd.in/eyYX9tN5 The deadline for applications to both tracks is 28 June!

Our dept is hiring!

Liv Uni Politics@livunipol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 Our Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool is currently looking to appoint up to 7(!) new colleagues. This includes 2 permanent T&R positions: lnkd.in/eVabnhrP And up to 5 fixed-term T&S positions: lnkd.in/eyYX9tN5 The deadline for applications to both tracks is 28 June!

@clairehanna.bsky.social : "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"

The family of the Belfast stabbing victim have released a statement saying - like the family of Henry Nowak last week - that the attack should not be used to "divide people or fuel hostility" They condemned disorder and praised the "valuable contribution" by migrants inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

Some reading and viewing for Nakba Day: our Interventions series on the Palestinian genocide antipodeonline.org/2024/03/01/i... and the 2024 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture—“Where is Palestine? Singapore on the Med, Spaceships, and the Mount of Olives” antipodeonline.org/2024/08/14/2...

How you know you're working in the proper sciency part of the university

People will always find ways to have an abortion, all bans do is entrench inequality in access

Global Abortion Rights News@globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A new Guttmacher report: Current abortion numbers remain stable nationally, with shifts in where abortions occurred. In states without total bans, abortions declined slightly from 1,049,000 to 1,036,000. In states with total bans, telehealth provision continued to increase from 74,000 to 91,000.

From 1965 to 1985, maternal mortality fell sharply across Europe. Romania was the exception, its rates increased by almost 150%. This was due to the President's political decision to ban abortion. When he was overthrown and executed in 1989, the abortion law was liberalized immediately.

The human cost of unsafe abortions

Romania’s history offers a rare natural experiment on what happens when abortion laws change rapidly. What can the rest of the world learn from this?

ourworldindata.org

Liverpool has the best sunsets

Privacy International and Women on Web have developed a guide to digital privacy for Sexual and Reproductive Justice Activists. As reproductive data is increasingly collected and policed, this resource provides advice on protecting your online privacy. 👉 privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...

Liverpool has the best sunsets

The Lonely Alphabet of Brave, Anonymous Women I’ve written in @irishtimes.com about women to whom we owe a great debt, but their names are never known. They fought for legal change, often at great personal cost, in anonymised cases - X, C, A, B, MZ, & many more. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Caoilfhionn Gallagher: X, C, A, B, MZ: I’m thinking of the lonely alphabet of brave, anonymous women and girls

No one knows who they are, what they went through or the landmark legal change they secured, but we owe them a debt

irishtimes.com

aaarrggh. Another example of law not being equal to access. #knowyourrights

Global Abortion Rights News@globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A teenager was wrongly sent from Northern Ireland to England for a termination, and was traumatised by the ordeal. The teen was sent to London by a booking provider due to a lack of public information about how to access services.

Malta abortion news: Woman handed three-year suspended sentence after court finds her guilty of inducing her own abortion using medication in early 2024. This is the second suspended sentence in the past year. #decriminalise www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/court_a...

Woman handed suspended sentence for getting abortion in 2024

Woman handed three-year suspended sentence after court finds her guilty of inducing her own abortion using medication in early 2024

maltatoday.com.mt

Malta abortion news: Woman handed three-year suspended sentence after court finds her guilty of inducing her own abortion using medication in early 2024. This is the second suspended sentence in the past year. #decriminalise www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/court_a...

Woman handed suspended sentence for getting abortion in 2024

Woman handed three-year suspended sentence after court finds her guilty of inducing her own abortion using medication in early 2024

maltatoday.com.mt

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, SIGNS put together a collection of resources on abortion & reproductive justice. For #WHM, amid ongoing anti-abortion campaigns & systematic sexual control of bodies, we hope it can inspire feminist thought, discourse, & resistance. signsjournal.org/abortion-res...

Signs Resources on Abortion and Reproductive Justice

The enraging Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is an urgent reminder of the importance of the ongoing work of feminist scholars and activists in the fight for equal rights, bodily auto…

signsjournal.org

Act Now 'installed this poster on the site of the George Mitchell statue to honour all women in NI who have experienced violence,and to remind all our institutions, whether gov., academic or religious, that those who commit such crimes should have no place to hide.' www.actnowni.org/lets-talk-ab...

'An Iranian academic living in Belfast has said her people "don't want to have a dictatorship" and would like to have their "own choices" regarding new leadership of their country. Her comments were made at an International Women's Day rally in Belfast' www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

A misty hike and a beautiful book of poetry about abortion experiences for International Working Women's Day #IWD26

A misty hike and a beautiful book of poetry about abortion experiences for International Working Women's Day #IWD26

Well worth a listen

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society@signsjournal.org · 5mo ago

To kick off #WHM, we have a new Ask a Feminist on Pronatalism featuring Nandita Bajaj and @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social! What is pronatalism? What are its links to eugenic thinking? And why is it incompatible with feminism? Read/listen at the link!

Justice for Izabela! A Polish court has sentenced three doctors to prison over the 2021 death of Izabela from sepsis during a 22-week miscarriage, after doctors refused to help. "This was a case involving extraordinary negligence, a pure disregard for the most basic and fundamental medical duties."

Polish doctors jailed for denying woman abortion

A Polish court on Tuesday sentenced three doctors to prison sentences over the 2021 death of a pregnant woman, which sparked nationwide protests and renewed scrutiny of the country's restrictive abort...

france24.com

Between 2009 and 2023, campaigners in El Salvador secured the release of dozens of women imprisoned for abortion-related charges, miscarriages, stillbirths and obstetric emergencies. But now, under the country’s "state of emergency" imposed by dictator Nayib Bukele, progress is unravelling.

Jailed for losing a pregnancy: how progress on El Salvador’s harsh anti-abortion law is unravelling

Years of campaigning led to the release of 81 women imprisoned under the country’s strict reproductive laws, but the suspension of civil rights by President Nayib Bukele is fuelling a new wave of crim...

theguardian.com

Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones

Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones

The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignore, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

theguardian.com

📢Lectureship in Politics and Public Administration Shared with @livunipol.bsky.social 3-year fixed-term £47,389 - £59,966 pa Help teach + develop the new MA in Public Administration and Policy, teach UG + PG students + carry out high-quality research ℹ️ tinyurl.com/3fcyrn24 #academicsky