Returning to my high school tradition of working on things whilst I watch football games!
T O'Donell (he/him/his)
@t-odonell.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at ANU's School of Sociology, researching trans & GD people’s desires and concerns for palliative and end-of-life care + pall. care clinicians’ experiences working with TGD+ people On unceded Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
Drinking as much water as I can before I have to fast from midnight tonight before my surgery tomorrow!
Duck Drinking Ice Water
Alt: A white duck drinking ice water out of a clear plastic cup being held by a light skinned hand
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I am quite happy with how my website (WIP) is coming along! todonell-research.neocities.org
T O'Donell: Research
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T O'Donell (he/him/his)@t-odonell.bsky.social · 2mo agoDecided to try and build my own website rather than paying for SquareSpace or similar. I did a bit of HTML back in high school and I've been using the amazing www.htmlforpeople.com to give it a crack! Funny what you do and don't remember...
My mum used to help my sister and I win Cart Surfer on Club Penguin 🐧
The old internet@theoldinternet.bsky.social · 2mo agothis is art
Decided to try and build my own website rather than paying for SquareSpace or similar. I did a bit of HTML back in high school and I've been using the amazing www.htmlforpeople.com to give it a crack! Funny what you do and don't remember...
HTML for People
HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.
htmlforpeople.com
Excited to share that I'll be presenting at FHASS Health Hub Symposium 2026 (11-12 May) My presentation will be exploring the ways material objects and spaces influence notions of 'good' deaths for trans & gender diverse people using findings from my work! wp.lancs.ac.uk/fhasshealthh...
FHASS Health Hub symposium 2026 – FHASS Health Hub
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Why I object to and reject generative AI simplysociology.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/w...
Why I object to and reject generative AI
Why I object to and reject generative AI*: the enshittification of learning, educating, thinking, writing and researching, and the loss of cognitive skills and development in those who use these te…
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Are researchers relying too heavily on the first-person vantage point? Find out at 'Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Feminist and Queer Theory', a free @bsatheory.bsky.social online event, 21 April tinyurl.com/4dw285x6
Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Feminist and Queer Theory
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Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal
Currently tuning into 'Mapping Deathways — Environmentally, Digitally, and through Repatriationscapes' hosted by @asdsdeath.bsky.social
Important thread providing more of the detail than I could be motivated to add. The '10 studies' do not merit detailed analysis of everything they get wrong - & thread is just the tip of the iceberg in what they get wrong, but a useful starting point nevertheless.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5mo agoThe reviews searched over 12,000 references. They screened 547 full-text papers for inclusion. They included 17. That's a 96.9% exclusion rate at full text. 530 studies were relevant enough to survive initial screening, then rejected by the review criteria. 6/10 reviews found 0 included studies.
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people. This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists. The study underpinning this played one particular trick. Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
New edited available for pre-order! Doing Death Research: Interviews and Career Reflections with Death Studies Scholars www.routledge.com/Doing-Death-...
Doing Death Research: Interviews and Career Reflections with Death Studies Scholars
This book brings together illuminating interviews with the most influential scholars who have shaped the interdisciplinary field of death studies. From sociological explorations to psychological frame...
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Me watching the Matildas v Philippines game tonight:
I am now a Jeep Guy (I bought a very old secondhand Jeep) which means I am now having to reassess my finances because she (the Jeep) needs repairs
Thanks for tuning into 'Out of the Pan' on Sunday to hear me talk about my PhD research project! 🏳️⚧️📻 If you missed it, you can listen back or read the transcript here: www.3cr.org.au/outofthepan/...
Thy O’ Donnell PhD study about end-of-life and palliative care for TGD+ people
Thy O’ Donnell PhD study about end-of-life and palliative care for TGD+ people email thy.odonell@anu.edu.au
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T O'Donell (he/him/his)@t-odonell.bsky.social · 6mo agoTune into 3CR Community Radio (855 AM) this Sunday 15th Feb at noon (12:00pm AEDT) to hear me chat with Sally Goldner on Out of the Pan about my PhD research project! www.3cr.org.au
Tune into 3CR Community Radio (855 AM) this Sunday 15th Feb at noon (12:00pm AEDT) to hear me chat with Sally Goldner on Out of the Pan about my PhD research project! www.3cr.org.au
3CR Community Radio
3CR community radio provides a media space enabling progressive communities to voice ideas and build their power to create social change.
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Very pleased to say that this was an excellent evening and I had a lot of fun. Also pleased to say that if you are hungry and tired, there's nothing stopping you from going home! Go home early, folks!
T O'Donell (he/him/his)@t-odonell.bsky.social · 6mo agoTrying to go on more weird "side quests" this year, and this evening i'm going to a medieval combat cage fight at the German club
Trying to go on more weird "side quests" this year, and this evening i'm going to a medieval combat cage fight at the German club
🏳️⚧️ I'm looking to talk to people who identify as transgender and/or gender diverse (based in Australia) about what their expectations and desires are for palliative and end-of-life care! 🏳️⚧️ Please share amongst your networks or scan the QR code/follow the link: forms.office.com/r/pwRUj8R6Rt.
Sadly, YOTI / KWS / BlueSky did not tell me how old it thinks I am but it did ask me to do this!
Some very timely research being undertaken by UNSW Kirby Institute about the upcoming 2026 Census, I just completed the survey and you can too! www.unsw.edu.au/research/cou...
Count Us In | UNSW Sydney
For the first time, the 2026 Census will ask everyone aged 16 and over about their gender and sexual orientation.
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CALL: seminar funding for 2026 The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for. Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking. ➡️
The Undisciplining Seminar Series 2026 Call for applications
The Sociological Review Foundation invites proposals for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring “Who and what is sociology for?”
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a good and necessary read for many
The Jewish world should honor, praise Ahmed al-Ahmed | The Jerusalem Post
Ahmed al-Ahmed belongs in that moral family tree of the "Righteous Among the Nations."
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bree 🇨🇦@goose.ski · 8mo agoi don’t like how headlines are calling ahmed al ahmed a “heroic bystander.” a hero is the very opposite of a bystander. a hero answers the call; a bystander doesn’t! and ahmed al ahmed answered that call!
