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Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A whole week - who can forget this insight on Johnson

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Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

When I was at primary school we thought we would be travelling to work by jet pack

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 14/01/2026

🎙️ In the final episode of this season of Radical Museums, Simon Stephens speaks to Nelson Cummins, curator (legacies of slavery and empire) at Glasgow Museums, about the impact of empire on society today and why it's important to address its legacies: ow.ly/K1tw50XWNQX

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism 2026 is now open for entries. Are you trying to make your name in arts journalism? Write a review of any new work in the arts for your chance to win £3000 and publication in the Observer. Enter now: www.anthonyburgess.org/observeranth...

Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism: Enter Now

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Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Thanks to everyone at @policypress.bsky.social for their support The International Anthony Burgess Foundation for hosting a fantastic launch, and everyone who came. Shop early for Christmas 😉

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 25/08/2025

How do mothers who have experienced child removal use tattooing to cope with their pain? @lisamorriss.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social and Siobhan Beckwith @huddersfielduni.bsky.social on Sara Ahmed, maternal connections and grief. #OnlineFirst @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/QrP2lD2

Lisa Morriss and Siobhan Beckwith
Marking motherhood: Tattooing and willfulness as a response to and a way to survive child removal
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251359845
The Sociological Review journal #OnlineFirst

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Jennifer Jacobs @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Asked what his "unconditional surrender!" post meant for Iran, Trump says: "Very simple -- unconditional surrender. That means I've had it. I've had it. I give up, no more. Then we go blow up all the nuclear stuff that's all over the place there."

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 03/04/2025

SHELF LIFE: our latest book reviews 📘 Duane Ebesu on gentrifying Brooklyn 📗 Baris Cayli Messina on Russian criminals 📕 @danieljwoodward.bsky.social on social murder in the DWP 📙 @driancummins.bsky.social on social work 📕 Laura Hamilton on UK feminism 📗 Ningxiang Sun on H20 & humans buff.ly/gp4RZAl

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

🔴Patient surveillance system Oxevision is just on dozens of NHS trusts - and it has been involved in at least four deaths among mental health patients Really important investigation from my colleague @lucasamin.bsky.social (also in today’s Observer) open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

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Is it safe? Is it spying? Disquiet over NHS ‘magic eye’ surveillance camera in mental health units

Campaign calls for investigation into the use of Oxevison amid concerns over care and its effect on

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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is a truly exceptional book.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 28/03/2025

“Garrett argues that critical social theory provides tools to question common sense perceptions of social work, asking questions about its role and wider society.“ @driancummins.bsky.social reviews Paul Michael Garrett’s “rigorous and challenging” study. Out now in the Magazine. buff.ly/MJqNbUo

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us

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Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order

Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’

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Reuters @reuters.com · 07/03/2025

Exclusive: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links reut.rs/4ivfaZA

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Exclusive: US CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.

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Dr Ian Cummins @driancummins.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

PM on R4 taking Trump Gaza seriously rather than reporting it as a genocidal breach of international law 🙄

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

"More people died from homelessness than homicide in Nashville this year.” A friend shared this photo from yesterday's memorial at Riverfront Park.

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Reform is a party by and for men born in 1967 who believe they were personally gassed at the Somme.

Women have to deal with periods, pregnncy, and menopause. What do men have to deal with?

Lee Anderson MP: Try the Battle of the Somme.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 09/12/2024

Lmao they're so scared, this is deranged

An email from a health care company about making their employees sign a pledge

An email from a health care company about making their employees sign a pledge swearing they think for-profit health insurance and executives are important

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Kanchan @kayehm.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

35 years ago,when I was in my first year of engineering school, 14 Canadian women were killed in another Canadian engineering school, because they were women. #16Days Learn more about them here: www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

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