UoY PhD Student @TFTI_UoY, occasional artist, Academic in Progress. Working on superheroes, trauma, anxiety, and the networked self
York, England
Joined January 2012
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Value of women in sports, and the responsibilities of internet search engines.
Google summary for Phil Tufnell: Cricketer
Matt Dawson: Rugby union player
Sue Barker: British former television presenter
Barker is a multiple WTA title and Grand Slam winner
Is this gender bias in automated descriptions or is it based on what the subject is most well known for? And if it is the latter, is there not a responsibility to adjust descriptors?
After all, Barker is presumably a sports television presenter because of her sporting career.
I'm not here often because I'm on the CModS account instead but this match and what it represents was brilliant and I'm so glad they're not stopping.
I played for the Y6 girl's team when I was in Y5 because I loved it and was good enough. At secondary, I couldn't play any more.
"We see this as only the beginning."
An open letter from our #Lionesses...
ALT An open letter from our Lionesses.
Hey gender and identity people; who am I looking for if I want an inbetween of Butler's performativity and an essentialist viewpoint? Who argues that the self is the product of both performance and an inner, essential selfhood/"core doer behind the deed"? #AcademicChatter
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We're very eager to fund as much as we can! If you have any questions, please contact our director JT Welsch ([email protected]) who is also happy to help with developing applications.
Please share far and wide! Funding details here: bit.ly/3LfQOCk
ALT A plant sprouts in a glass jar filled up with coins.
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✨Exciting news! Our funding application deadline has been extended to the 1st of July.
That's for all research events held before the 31st July, and proposals for any new research strands to begin next academic year. £300 and £1000pa available respectively per project!
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Although I've had to tweet about the #REF2021 results over on the department's twitter page, take a look at this depressing statistic
"White researchers are nearly 59 per cent more likely to receive funding for their research than ethnic minority researchers, according to a summary of data about seven UK research councils."
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newscientist.com/article/222…
What a great panel! Many thanks to our wonderful chair @scifizoe, and my fellow panelists @CoopeyLouise and @damienpollard for your fantastic talks, questions and answers! #BAFTSS2022
Excited for this! You can check out our abstracts here sites.google.com/view/baftss…
Applicable to so many situations
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Tweeting this again because seeing posts/tweets that don’t mention disability pay gap. Wonder why disability is frequently forgotten?
Some summaries of @ucu action only mention gender & ethnicity in relation to pay gaps but just a reminder that there’s a disability pay gap too. #WhyImStriking I’m also striking because of the dreadful affects of casualistion & workload @ULivUCU2
![A screen shot of the UCU webpage outlining the action with some text highlighted. The headline says “UCU members are taking action over falling pay, [highlighted] the gender and ethnic pay gap [end highlighting], precarious employment practices, and unsafe workloads.” In the main text it says “University employers consistently fail to address these issues. We need them to:
address the scandal of the [highlighted] gender, ethnic, and disability pay gap [end highlighted text]
end contract casualisation and job insecurity
tackle the rising workloads driving our members to breaking point
increase to all spine points on the national pay scale of £2,500.”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFguKpZWUAIP0fs.jpg?name=orig)
ALT A screen shot of the UCU webpage outlining the action with some text highlighted. The headline says “UCU members are taking action over falling pay, [highlighted] the gender and ethnic pay gap [end highlighting], precarious employment practices, and unsafe workloads.” In the main text it says “University employers consistently fail to address these issues. We need them to: address the scandal of the [highlighted] gender, ethnic, and disability pay gap [end highlighted text] end contract casualisation and job insecurity tackle the rising workloads driving our members to breaking point increase to all spine points on the national pay scale of £2,500.”
Hoping to get more replies on this idea today! #uss #UCUstrike
Genuine question as I don't know the specific pension ts and cs; is there a reason a collective withdrawal from the USS pension scheme wouldn't work?
I know it might mean a drop in contributions for a bit but it would hit USS directly?
@ucu
@UcuYork
#USSmess #UCUstrike
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I'd absolutely love to read commentary from informed folk on this question.
(The short answer would appear to be "because you immediately lose the employers' contribution". But USS governance has gone so far rogue that I would not like to discount alternatives out of hand.)
Genuine question as I don't know the specific pension ts and cs; is there a reason a collective withdrawal from the USS pension scheme wouldn't work?
I know it might mean a drop in contributions for a bit but it would hit USS directly?
@ucu
@UcuYork
#USSmess #UCUstrike
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My genuine question (to which there is probably an obvious answer I haven’t thought of) is why can’t UCU take this to the courts? I don’t think raising funds would be impossible.
Thread investigating threat of collective withdrawal from #USS pension scheme, will be updated as I get time.
From what I can see, if members fully withdraw, they lose the below for the time they are unenrolled. Will invesitgate and add "enhancements" soon! #UCUstrike @ucu
