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Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New students arriving this weekend and I realised it’s 30yrs since that was me. I would never have imagined that in 30yrs I’d be teaching in the same department. Choosing @livuninews.bsky.social @livunigeog.bsky.social was one of the best decisions I made. I wish the best for the new students

A young me with long brown hair wearing a brown T-shirt standing in a halls of residence kitchen

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Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Absolutely brilliant book and deserved winner. Congratulations @catamaroon.bsky.social

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Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Partial eclipse. Anyone know why the birds stop singing? (Even the seagulls)

The sun with the lower part eclipsed by the moon. In the foreground flowers

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

📝Take part in the Annual Disabled Students Survey 2026! By taking part you join thousands of students around the UK in improving Higher Education accessibility. Deadline: 31st August Share your experiences 👇 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/dsuk-resea...

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The Annual Disabled Student Survey 2026 | Online surveys

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, Online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I don’t know if people elsewhere realise how bad this is but I’m in Liverpool and I can’t open my windows because the air is so smoky outside.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/07/2026

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A piece I wrote for the @isrfoundation.bsky.social blog series on the current state of HE. In it I reflect on ableism and a sector running on exhaustion. Based on research with @alisonallam.bsky.social and @equihealthfutures.bsky.social Illustrations by @stacybias.bsky.social

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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

What is the human impact of the current crisis in UK higher education? Bethan Evans draws from the experiences of academics with energy limiting conditions to show how universities function as an 'exhaustion economy' Check out the latest from our Dispatches series

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The exhaustion economy: Seven illustrations of life at UK universities

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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If you would like to help, you can add your voice here:

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Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Many are following this. Those at risk here on Exeter's Cornwall campus include myself and colleagues in Geography, Environmental Science, Marine Science, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Maths, Humanities, and 1/2 the Environment and Sustainability Institute. I really hope this can be resolved.

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University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

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Nicholas Lees @ndmlees.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We are recruiting several colleagues in politics and internationsl relations. In a tough job market, this is a significant expansion and could be a great opportunity. Please share with potential candidates! tinyurl.com/4zmcmy6a tinyurl.com/3nse3a48

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Job Specification

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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🌞 Art inspired and commissioned by UoL Humanities scholars from the @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social project will be on display at Saatchi Gallery this summer, as part of the major exhibition ‘The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial’. 🌙

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Liverpool humanities research in spotlight at Saatchi Gallery - University of Liverpool News

Liverpool humanities research in spotlight at Saatchi Gallery

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 18/04/2026

By the time we see the Code of Practice, it will be too late to make sure it's trans inclusive. We have very little time. Reach out to your MP now 👇

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Strong agree. I’ve always brought up the EDI problem of short time frames. 4 weeks will be near on impossible for stretched research support teams too. TBH 8 weeks always seemed problematic enough - it will always favour existing networks & teams made up of people with low teaching commitments.

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EDI Caucus @edicaucus.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Call for survey participants - Current & past part-time PhD students - AND their supervisors. Looking at experiences of PT PGRs. Run by U of Salford. If your institution gets >30 responses, you get a findings report specific to your institution. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/st...

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Student Survey Exploring Part-Time Doctoral Student Experiences

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Please join us at SOAS and online for HOW WE APPEAR AND HOW WE ARE FELT: A Conversation w Dr Khairani Barokka about ANNAH, INFINITE. Can’t wait to be in convo w Dr Anandi Rao and with all of you via Q and A. JAN 29, 5-7PM BST, Register via QR code www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

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States of Precarity @statesofprecarity.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography. Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work. Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change. Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT): www.rgs.org/events/upcom... Read report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...

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States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography

Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3

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Early Career Researcher Network

An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences

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Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My top 2025 fiction read: ‘When There are Wolves Again’ by EJ Swift. Beautifully written exploration of ways of living with more-than-human others in the context of climate change. I highly recommend for geographers & env sci/humanities folk as well as SF fans. It deserves to win all the awards.

Book cover for When there are wolves again by E J Swift. Shows a wolf and trees.

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ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 24/12/2025

1) Moving paper by young ME/CFS researcher Katherine Cheston. She was aware of the great disability it causes but "encountering the reality of this suffering first-hand was still shocking and deeply saddening." She gives examples of patients who do not get appropriate care.

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Gail Davies @gailfdavies.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Screenshot of the front page of an article published in the journal Social and Cultural Geography called Remapping the body: an autoethnography of pain, paraesthesia, and the co-production of functional neurological symptoms

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Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Thanks to @elainagmamaril.bsky.social for inviting @alisonallam.bsky.social @thelrm.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social Ana Bê Periera and I to discuss creating inclusive research cultures for people with energy limiting conditions as part of this brilliant podcast series

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Dr Élaina is cripping out @elainagmamaril.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

In this episode, we discuss: - The management labour needed to create a disability-inclusive workplace - Access intimacy - How disabled-led research informs collaborative and co-production relationships

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Dr Élaina is cripping out @elainagmamaril.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Disabled researchers are here now. Bethan Evans, Anna Ruddock, Alison Allam, and Morag Rose have developed inclusive methods for researchers and participants with energy limiting conditions and illnesses, showcasing what research led by disabled scholars can look like.

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Dr Élaina is cripping out @elainagmamaril.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A brand new episode of #CrippingResearchCulture, a Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture podcast, is out now! Listen to “Disabled-led Research with Bethan Evans et al” wherever podcasts are found. lnkd.in/e-dgr7Md

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

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Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

What’s happened to Research Rabbit? It’s gone from one of my most frequently recommended tools to utterly unusable 😩

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Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Even in the rain Glow at Bridgewater gardens is beautiful. Well worth a visit, and all bar a tiny bit wheelchair accessible

Night time photo of a lake in the foreground with a fountain, surrounded by trees and grasses lit up in different colours, reflected in the lake

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Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This article suggests the possibility of training AI on pre-existing proposals and their review reports, scores and related decisions. I.e. training them on a system which is known to preferentially award larger amounts of money to white men. What could possibly go wrong?

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Anna Jackman @ahjackman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This event was really important and informative. If you have not done so, please check out the 'creating more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions' guidance. The webinar was recorded and will be posted on the project website soon exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/

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Guidance - Cripping the Exhaustion Economy

Cripping The Exhaustion Economy Radically Reimagining the Neoliberal Academy from the Sick Bed Guidance We have produced two guidance documents […]

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Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

This is on Monday. Do join us if you can and are interested in more inclusive academic workplaces

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Rachael Squire @squirerachael.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures. www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social

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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 15/11/2025

🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1

Woman with dark hair and bright red lipstick, wearing a royal blue cardigan over a black shirt and shiny black puffer pants, seated in a motorized wheelchair with tubing from medical equipment visible, holds up a copy of "Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life" by Alice Wong.

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This article broke my heart, and underlines the shocking state children’s mental health care today - the erosion of children’s and parents’ rights, unqualified and inexperienced staff, corporations who don’t care, and so much more. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her

Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. Ho...

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Angela Last @mutablematter.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

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Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social

Image of a person buried under a pile of marking, grant deadlines and meeting requests. Logos of University of Liverpool and Independent Social Research Foundation. Text reads: Creating more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions. Webinar and guidance for academics with ELC, line managers & HR professionals, EDI & union representatives, funders, publishers & conference organisers. Monday 24th November 2-3pm.

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Solidarity to colleagues at Leicester Uni: "all academic staff in the film studies and modern languages departments have been placed at risk, with "large numbers of staff" in chemistry, geography, geology & the environment (GGE) and history specialisms "uncertain if they will retain their jobs"

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University of Leicester confirms formal redundancy consultation

The University and College Union's local branch says staff are planning strike action.

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Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Looking forward to #TheFeministArtofWalking in #Nottingham 2morro @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/the-f... the pics are from last night when I had an ace time @waterstoneslpl.bsky.social with @drbevans.bsky.social @livunigeog.bsky.social #BookTour #psychogeography #Walk

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Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

really looking forward to this, I will be in conversation with @drbevans.bsky.social @livunigeog.bsky.social so please do come and join us @waterstoneslpl.bsky.social on Tuesday November 4th if you can (NB: no Beatles will be in attendance but I may invoke Yoko Ono. IYKYK) #TheFeministArtOfWalking

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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Coming up on 24 Nov, join this online event 'Creating Inclusive Workplaces for Academics with Energy Limiting Conditions', launching new guidance on systemic changes and individual adjustments for those with ELC. From CHASE & @drbevans.bsky.social