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S.E.MacRae

@semacrae.bsky.social

Digital sociology ECR researching the interplay between education, politics and the digital. Own views, she/her.

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Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

The Campaign to Force Genital Exams on Girl Athletes Soon Washington State could require sex-verification tests for those playing sports in schools. Portrait of Andrea González-Ramírez By Andrea González-Ramírez, a senior writer for The Cut who covers systems of power. Those physicals, Maria explains, are usually perfunctory: “Like, Are you walking normally? Are you lightheaded? I have never had to take any clothes off. I’ve never felt uncomfortable or violated.” If IL26-638 were to pass and Maria were still in school, she says she would likely drop out of her team. (We’re withholding Maria’s real name to protect her privacy.) “I honestly don’t know if I would be able to do these tests,” she adds. “It would also make me question, If I do it, are all my teammates going to too? Or would I just play with the three or four girls who are willing to or have access to do it?”
Dr Phoenix CS Andrews@thatdocphoenix.com · 7d ago

That @paulcornell.bsky.social was always correct about the canon or lack of it and why it’s so freeing. Any new showrunner keeps what they want to and ditches what they don’t and each new Doctor or companion gives a new jumping on point, as should every season opener. The show always needs freshness

Dale Smith@dalesmithonline.com · 7d ago

The only people who think Who needs a reboot are the fans who wrongly think Doctor Who has a canon, and that it contains something they don't like (maybe a female Doctor or two?). Who has stories it references, and stories it doesn't, and stories jump between the two lists at random. Not a canon.

S.E.MacRae@semacrae.bsky.social · last wk.

My 91 year old friend from the heritage group I belong to died today. I sit typing this in a house that he built in the 1960s. If you can volunteer locally I wholeheartedly recommend it, as you connect to your community in ways that you would never have expected. Rest in peace Pete.

Gav Maclean@gavmaclean.bsky.social · last wk.

Honestly ludicrous that debate about AI's resources ends up being "well, meat production uses more" or "how about transport" when we're potentially adding almost 200% extra energy demand in this country which can only come from fossil fuel currently at a time when Europe is literally burning

Datacentre projects could face fees for grid access to ease connection queue, Ofgem says

Energy regulator’s plan would mean upfront fees or financial security via letters of credit, bonds or cash deposits

theguardian.com

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · last wk.

Webinar coming up today 👇 If you can't make it, check out Celso's work, including his ERC-funded project answering an important question: "The study of human genetic differences is rapidly changing science, but how can we study these differences without promoting racism and social harm?"

Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 3w ago

1/ 🧬⚖️ New Brunel CCE/CCN Shared Horizons talk: When is a methodological choice an ethical problem? @celsoneto.bsky.social joins @brunelpsy.bsky.social to unpack ancestry, racial stigma and human population genetics Wed 29th July, 2-4pm | ESGW Beldam | also online via Teams 🔗👇

Abby Innes@abbyinnes.bsky.social · last wk.

Investors need to understand that there is no ‘bailout’ for cascading ecological - foundational - breakdown. The biosphere is the bearing floor. The current mental models and methods of risk diversification urgently need replacing: they are backward facing and wholly inadequate to this new reality🤔

Euronews@euronews.com · last wk.

EU officials have warned that "extreme conditions" are looming across parts of Europe, with the wildfire situation expected to worsen in France, Spain and Portugal. #EuropeNews

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh FFS! Instead of worrying about your summer holidays, you should be worrying about a 2.8°C to 3°C hotter southern Europe in 2050 and where all those millions of displaced people are going to be living? And what a 4°C Europe is going to do to your children? 🤷‍♂️

How will wildfires in Europe affect your summer holiday?

Travel expert Simon Calder shares his advice for those travelling to France and Spain this summer as devastating wildfires ravage western Europe.

news.sky.com

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · last wk.

Call to incorporate feminist theory into evolutionary psychology research on incels: "By looking at how men's expectations are constructed in society, EP could offer solutions that do not reaffirm sexual marketplaces but emancipate men from the discourses that suggest they must function in them"

Feminism is for every (academic) body: A critical commentary of evolutionary psychology incel research - Stu Lucy, 2026

Involuntary celibates, or ‘incels’, continue to receive increasing attention from a variety of academic positions. While most scholarship has added important co...

doi.org

Kate Devlin@drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 2w ago

I did an interview with the fab @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social from @bylinetimes.bsky.social and here it is, for those who have not yet heard my lengthy discourse on why genAI often sucks, why techbros definitely suck, and why a U16 social media ban is downright stupid: bylinetimes.com/2026/07/21/t...

‘There’s a Value in What We Produce Because We Feel – and an AI Chatbot Can’t Feel’

Byline Times' Editor in Chief meets Kate Devlin, Professor of AI and Society at King’s College London, to explore how relationships with AI companions aren’t particularly new, why she believes the und...

bylinetimes.com

Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Obstinate memory: the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings’ by Ken Fero, Jodie Bradshaw and Samantha Patterson. 📕 Lead article for July Race & Class 🗣️ Listen to Samantha Patterson, one of the authors, and co-founder of The People's Tribunal tell us more in this video ⤵️

Sue Cowley@suecowley.bsky.social · 3w ago

This guidance really is a bullies' charter and I don't see how schools can possibly implement it and claim to be inclusive. I'd like to see #EduSky calling @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social out about this. Do colleagues not remember the damage done by Section 28? Does the Labour party not remember ffs?

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reposting this; Labour’s new schools’ “Section 28” for trans kids should really be called Labour’s “Ambient Conversion Therapy”. It is way, way worse than Section 28 ever was. We must never allow anyone to forget Starmer’s & Philippson’s culpability (& Burnham’s if he fails to change it).

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 3w ago

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of: improved recognition changing help-seeking behaviour institutional incentives pressures within existing service pathways Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including: real increases in distress in some groups improved recognition of previously unmet need changing expectations about support systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services. The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.