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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I need to start a thread called 'things i cannot say in the school group chat' or else explode. Here is #1: DID YOU KNOW THE GIRL GUIDES WERE USED BY IMPERIAL AUTHORITIES AS PART OF ITS COLONIAL PROJECT TO IMPOSE BRITISH MORAL AND CIVIC VALUES ON INDIGENIOUS CHILDREN.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just a reminder as the new academic year kicks off - the UK government has deliberately, ruthlessly, throttled the recruitment of international students, solely to pander to racists, and the resultant 25%+ fall in numbers can and will only accelerate some universities into bankruptcy.

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've decided to make a colleague my friend, and honestly I feel kinda bad for them.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

What's gender go to do with it? Within UK SHAPE disciplines, women are 51% of academic staff (39% of professors). In STEM, that's 45% of all academics (27% of professors). What are the impacts of disproportionate SHAPE redundancies on those stats? Is anyone attending to gender equality? 1/2

Cover of Tina Turner's single 'What's Love Got to do with It', featuring the artist wearing a short black dress and sitting astride what looks like a rock wrapping in a tan-coloured blanket.

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 26/05/2026

A quarter of young children now live in the private rented sector. In fact, children are now more likely than adults to do so. 🏠 More in our latest Housing Outlook➡️ buff.ly/SNjZ77G

Figure showing the growing number of children living in the private rented sector.

While fewer than one-in-ten under-11s lived in the PRS in 2000-01, by 2024-25 it was one-in-four. The number of children living in the private rented sector has tripled – from 1.1. million children in 2000-01 to 3.2 million in 2024-25. As a result, children are now more likely than adults to live in the tenure (23 per cent compared to 22 per cent).

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The trans woman in question was RAEWYN CONNELL. People are furious that RAEWYN CONNELL had the audacity to speak about misogyny. RAEWYN CONNELL. Burn it all down. www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-r...

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BBC Woman’s Hour sparks fury as trans woman dissects misogyny - 'disgrace'

The BBC radio show sparked outrage.

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It's 2040. Peter Mandelson - who fled to the UAE following accusations of misconduct in a public office - has returned to the UK to take up the roles of 'Leader of the House of Lords' and 'Women's Minister'. He starts a podcast that wins an award for jovial back slapping.

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SGSSS @sgsss.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

We are live! Our 20+, fully funded, PhD projects are now live for applicants! For more on these great positions, please use this link: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships...

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

It's almost as if, even if you embed yourself like a tick into the carotid artery of capitalism, you're still going to find race & gender being used to fuck you over. Hilariously, of course, this kind of money-shuffling has SCREAMED about individual talent being its ONLY criterion for decades...

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

To future R2. The plural of ethos is ethe, and that is not my fault. I played no part in this decision, but spellcheck is policing it. Thank you.

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Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

31st March, University of Edinburgh: “Understanding & shaping a digital welfare state in Scotland" with research presentations, practice discussions, & an aim of co-producing some principles for digital welfare in Scotland. We've a great line up, free but places limited, sign-up here edin.ac/4qFme9S

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Understanding and shaping a digital welfare state in Scotland

A collaborative event to discuss digital and technological approaches to the design & delivery of welfare services in Scotland and the UK

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GENDER.ED at the University of Edinburgh @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

New on the blog! GENDER.ED has a new core team! Rebecca Hewer and Kaveri Qureshi have now begun as Co-Directors. In this blog, they introduce themselves, their motivations and hopes for GENDER.ED. Visit: edin.ac/4pIeG5J

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

“Are you worried about juvenile crime and immigration?”

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The senior leadership team at @edinburghuniversity plan to cut staff expenditure by £90m, which is more than 10%. This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line. www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

does anyone else ever feel personally victimised by their eyesight?

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I was born almost 40 years ago, very close to this view.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

London Skyline developed somewhat, in 40 years.

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It would be so helpful if - every so often - we could just sent out a general communication saying "I think I have caught up on email, if you are still waiting for me to respond I have forgotten, please get in touch." That would make my life measurably better.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues] Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Hi @theguardian.com - unclear why this article is written as if domestic abuse and domestic homicide is a gender neutral phenomenon. The Women’s Aid article clearly identifies those guilty of child murder as fathers. Questionable journalism. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Majority of family court cases in England and Wales feature domestic abuse, watchdog says

Commissioner’s review found 87% of cases uncovered physical, psychological or sexual abuse of a family member

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 01/10/2025

Relative child poverty has remained stubbornly high over the last twenty years and has risen over the past decade. Without action, levels will soon break records. Scrapping the two-child limit in full would be the most targeted and cost-effective way of reducing child poverty.

chart showing Relative child poverty has
remained stubbornly high over the last twenty years and has risen over the past decade,
from 27 per cent in 2013-14 to 31 per cent in 2023-24. As things stand, child poverty is on
track to reach record highs within this Parliament

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

How many times a day do we have to ask of Wes Streeting, "is he an idiot or is he evil"?

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Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

“I don’t think the government can afford to bury our heads in the sand about the fact that trans people in our country today feel less safe than they did 10 years ago.” Do you think he practiced that in the mirror?

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Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This week is a 5 day strike at University of Edinburgh in response to management decisions and practices around £120m cuts & UCU’s concerns around workloads, teaching, and research quality.

Pink and purple circular sticker saying “we’re at breaking point. UCU”

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The things we refuse to learn are always reflections of power settlements. Take for example the 'great man' fallacy, repeatedly undermined by so-called great men, and yet just relentless in its persistence. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘A class act’: Tim Allan, the former Blair ‘smoother’ recalled to Downing Street

Described as inscrutable and smart, the PR man has a job on his hands to turn around No 10’s communications effort

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Gwyneth Lonergan @drglonergan.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I'm very excited to share that the next SSAHE webinar will be a celebration of my new book - Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - and of Bordering Social Reproduction by Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson. Please register and join us online, 9 October, at 5pm #AcademicSky ssahe.net/2025/09/03/n...

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Next webinar: Bordering/Mothering, 9 October

Register on EventBrite to receive a Zoom link. In this event, we will celebrate two new books by SSAHE members: Bordering social reproduction: Migrant mothers and children making lives in the …

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Alongside Dr. Ganguli-Mitra, the postholder will develop a project related to epistemic and structural injustice in abortion care, informed by intersectional and transnational feminist approaches, as well as relevant data from practice, governance and activism in relation to care in abortion.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

A university's most precious long-term asset (faculty) is the same population of workers that most universities do everything they can to render precarious, anxious, and isolated. I'm a consultant now, give me a million dollars

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Meryl Kenny @merylkenny.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

My dad died last week, and he was - by any objective measure - the very best. You can read about him here: obituaries.startribune.com/obituary/wil...

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Will Kenny Obituary | Minnesota Star Tribune

View Will Kenny's complete obituary, share memories, and explore 2 tribute posts from the community.

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I wrote a haiku about returning from my sabbatical My diary was empty But now it is full I yearn for the in-between

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

This is your annual reminder that industrial action is more than a protest, it is a withdrawal of labour with the intention of leveraging that withdrawal for improved working conditions.

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

This is being retweeted by numerous academics on my feed shocked that the figure is so low. This is unsurprising as the majority of hardworking academics I know (including me) are driven by spite.

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Today I became a Senior Lecturer!

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

This year my child's nursery fees rose by 14% and my pay rose by 1.4%.... that seems a bit on the nose

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

hey does anyone need a 12ft by 11ft woolen map of Ireland

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This week the Department for Work and Pensions explicitly ignored my research findings, instead of implicitly doing so (or being totally unaware of them). REF Impact Case Study?! I think so. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

questions-statements.parliament.uk

Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament

Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The release of the 2025 two-child limit statistics statement makes for interesting reading, not least because (unlike in previous years) it includes demographic data. Most notable is that 98% of impacted households included at least one female claimant, whilst only 47% contained at least one male.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

You have to laugh, really.

One Downing Street figure said McSweeney had harboured reservations over the welfare bill in the first place.

“Everyone with any understanding of either the welfare system or PLP was arguing against it,” they said. “Morgan saw that it could be painted as balancing the books on the back of the poor.”

Chancellor Rachel Reeves cut the winter fuel allowance last July after the election to bolster the public finances, claiming the previous Conservative government had overspent.

“It was something the Treasury had been trying to get away with for ages,” said a former senior government figure.

They said Morgan McSweeney, then Starmer’s head of political strategy but now chief of staff, “pretty much hung his head in his hands” when he learned of the decision “because he knew what it meant politically”.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

oh no someone done a political music call the police

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I AM CERTAIN ACADEMICS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM WILL BE HERE IN JUST A MINUTE TO DEFEND PALESTINE ACTION. certain

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"The task that doesn't have to be done but really should be done to secure the emotional and physical well-being of a person or community" is one of the most insidious technologies of gender injustice.

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Hold yourself with the confidence of a French philosopher from the middle of the twentieth century.

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

2 things. 1) imagine if the media reported on assessment regulations across HE. What a ride that would be. 2) that resits are controversial at Cambridge is an indictment. What a fantastically dumb commitment to inhumanity & incredulity & randomness. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

telegraph.co.uk

Cambridge University considering exam resits for the first time

Final year students ‘affected by illness or grave cause’ may be able to take papers again under proposed ‘reassessment opportunities’

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GENDER.ED at the University of Edinburgh @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

@beckshewer.bsky.social summarizes her important new report exploring UK health and social care professionals’ thoughts about assessing and certifying eligibility for the two-child limit’s ‘non-consensual conception’ exception, colloquially known as the ‘rape clause’. bit.ly/44WvejT

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Rebecca Hewer @beckshewer.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The recent rise in abortion-related police investigations and prosecutions in the UK is incredibly concerning and should be read in the context of a global assault on reproductive freedom. This story is horrible, this poor woman. Urgent reform is needed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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‘Utterly traumatised’: anger at ordeal of UK woman accused of illegal abortion

Calls for law change after ‘cruel and unnecessary investigation’ into Nicola Packer that CPS brought to trial

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University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science @uoe-sps.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Report Launch 📣 The Rape Clause: How Health and Social Care Professionals Administer the ‘Non-Consensual Conception Exception’ to the Two-Child Limit by Dr Rebecca Hewer

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