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Timothy Monteath

@twm.bsky.social

Assistant professor at Warwick University in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Data, visualisations, finance, housing and maps among other things: timothymonteath.space

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Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The *maximum* maintenance loan for students nowhere near enough to live on. And there's just no honesty about it anywhere. Will people please concentrate on the absolutely huge public policy disaster unfolding in front of them? wonkhe.com/blogs/a-fres...

A fresh cost of living crisis is coming for students. You'd never know

With OfS's proposed fairness condition under consultation, Jim Dickinson audits what universities tell applicants about costs – and finds silence, archaeology or arithmetic that doesn't add up

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3mo ago

"contemporary understandings of Open Science, as both an epistemological orientation and a set of practical tools, may be strengthened by more clearly connecting them to the scholarship and practices developed by women throughout the history of the social sciences." — @maddipow.bsky.social

Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026

Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...

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Caroline Ball@heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 7mo ago

Morning #UKSG2026 plenary about the Big 5 negotiations. I would love to see Jisc’s energies going into supporting collective funding and community-based publishing alternatives, alongside (preferably instead of!) inequitable negotiations with commercial behemoths. But that’s just me. 🤷‍♀️

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“In practice research needs to be messy and heterogeneous...because that is the way it—research—actually is. And also, and more importantly, it needs to be messy because that is the way the largest part of the world is: messy, unknowable in a regular and routinized way.” #STS #PhilSci #Methodology

Felicity Callard@felicitycallard.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Jay (first author of our Sullivan Review paper) in their thread discusses one of the lesser known parts of the Review: its offensive against established principles surrounding ethical review, research governance, and community involvement rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️@jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Sullivan Review & Ethics: A Thread A key problematic of the Review is its significant consequences for ethical principles/governance. Its 2nd report recommends universities consider ‘paring back the scope and power of ethics committees’ in varied ways Read them below doi.org/10.1111/tran.70057

Text from Sullivan Review Report 2 that reads - 13. The expansion and politicisation of ethics committees poses serious risks to research, including research on sex and gender, potentially affecting researchers working from any perspective on this issue. To address this: a. The terms of reference of ethics committees should state that it is not within their remit to prevent researchers from using the concept of sex, collecting data on sex, or using sex-based language. b. Ethics committees should not refer researchers to ask advice from EDI committees. c. Universities should consider paring back the scope and power of ethics committees, including removing the requirement for low-risk research which does not involve any medical or other experimental intervention or contact with children or vulnerable populations or genuine risk of harm to research participants or researchers or potentially unlawful acts to undergo formal ethical review by default.
Felicity Callard@felicitycallard.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Jay Todd @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I have published today in @tibg.bsky.social a critical response to the UK Government-commissioned "Sullivan Review" of sex and gender in data and research collection rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ABSTRACT This intervention argues that the UK Government-commissioned independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender (the ‘Sullivan Review’) implicitly promotes the erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research and data collection protocols and carries worrying implications for the inclusion of trans people within UK institutions and for critical social science research. Set in a context where trans and gender diverse people's rights are being rolled back in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, the Review attempts to install a singular model of binary, immutable, ‘biological’ sex as incontrovertible across data gathering on sex and gender across public bodies including government, universities, the health service and research organisations. It does so via appeals to science and to ‘clarity’, and by proposing to limit or even in certain cases remove default ethical review processes. The intervention argues that the Review can be situated within broader attempts to erase critical inquiry into the complex, intersectional production of social categories including sex, gender and sexuality, as well as inquiries that extend what ethical principles and governance involve. In sum, we contend that the Review carries deleterious consequences for geography and other social scientific disciplines and call upon scholars to refuse its vision and implications.
Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️@jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'
Timothy Monteath@twm.bsky.social · 11mo ago

So amazing to have been part the Atlas of Finance team and to have been at the @bcsmaps.bsky.social award ceremony today - with a special private viewing of some the treasures from the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk vast map collection!!!

British Cartographic Society@bcsmaps.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Behind the scenes at the BCS Awards in Person Presentation at the Bodleian library for Stanfords, Collins Bartholomew, and the overall BCS Award. Winning entry is the Atlas of Finance! Congratulations to all involved

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺@katherineschof8.bsky.social · last yr.

I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs. This tax will kill us. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Student visas crackdown and new levies to cause ‘£1.8bn loss’ to UK economy

The Government has proposed a 6 per cent tax on international student tuition fees and a reduction in graduate visas

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Timothy Monteath@twm.bsky.social · last yr.

Starmer's appointment of Minouch shows he understands exactly what the economy needs (more bashing LGBTQ rights and violently suppressing the peaceful protest of a genocide).