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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 1h

Got a little pink ballot in the post from @ucuglasgow.bsky.social Did a little pink vote. Going to take it to a little red post box. Every academic job I’ve had has been in the shadow of redundancy & uncertainty. Welcome “permanent” colleagues. We’re all precarious now. Vote yes for something better

A pink ucu envelope. Partially inside is a ucu ballot statement on the dispute. The top line reads “Vote yes to defend jobs and promotions at Glasgow”

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 21h

Who amongst us hasn’t had a little nibble on the young people’s productive lives? Nom nom nom. All the humanities and social science students I know have incredible skills. They question the world around them from injustices to mis/disinformation. And most of them work to cover their living costs.

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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SRO Sage Prize Nominee Harvey Humphrey et al.’s article, 'As Is and Co-creating Theatre from Research to Stage', looks at the staging of an 'ethnodrama' based on research with trans, intersex and LGBTI activists doi.org/10.1177/1360... @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social and @uofgsociology.bsky.social

Image text refers to a journal article about the staging of an ethnodrama

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s National Poetry Day. Please enjoy this poem I wrote called ‘The Research Interview’ [text in alt text on image]. It was published in 2022 in the feminist journal, Cultivate, and you can see it with all it’s publication pals here: www.cultivatefeministjournal.com/_files/ugd/7...

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

First week of in person teaching. @academicdiary.bsky.social gave our methods students an excellent guest lecture on research questions. & I’ve just had 2 groups of seminars alive with students’ engaged reflections on fieldwork fables videos (referenced in this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Very niche question for other folks in Scotland who are still entitled to Covid vaccines. Are you getting a really reduced list of locations when you login? Folks entitled to only flu jabs seem to have more options. Is this a Covid jab thing? A health board thing? A Harvey can’t work websites thing?

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This makes me really sad. The robots are apparently ‘citing’ my work & they’ve found an article that really carefully plays with temporality and flow of the text using footnotes. It’s meant to be a really fun read. I feel like it being hoovered up by the chatbots means it loses some of that magic.

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Meg Fereday is recruiting participants @meg-fereday.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Research participants needed! I’m looking into young queer and neurodivergent people’s experiences using TikTok and Instagram. Interested, or know someone who might be? Contact me at nqresearch@soton.ac.uk, or find all info at linktr.ee/nqresearch.s... (ERGO: 103967)

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Brilliant talk on “doomscrolling in a vortex of anti trans content” on trans youth social media use from @drews.bsky.social as part of the Create/Connect Trans & Queer Youth Creativity Community & Resilience Symposium. Similar ideas coming out of our (@paulreilly.bsky.social & Judas) work in Ireland

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I just said “I love when you see a ghost buster out in the wild” alone in my own home to myself. I think I was a bit loud. I am now concerned the man with the leaf blower outside heard me. Please keep me safe from the ghosts and/or leaves. I promise never to mock your profession again.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So I have a “phone voice” which I think is polite. I don’t use it very often. Phone calls are a lot. I just had to phone the repairs company for our flat (joys of renting). And my phone voice has changed! It is both lower and possibly slightly less English. Welcome to dull things I find fascinating.

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 10/09/2026

For the first time in my career I worry about my ability to reach new clients. So many in the engagement/Researcher Development space are flooding socials with well performing ChatGPT content that I feel I’m getting lost in the tide.

Piece of paper. “Can’t draw + don’t want to use AI”

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Out now: my book, about the institutional and localized impact of anti-trans campaigns in the UK. C1 + 4 analyse the anti-trans outputs of JKR and R.Gervais; C2 + 3 about GC ideology and anti-trans campaigns on a uni campus; C5 about media; C6 about the beauty and magic of being trans in Edinburgh.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Looks pals I’m a real sociologist! Award nominated! 😮 If trans, intersex & LGBTI activism are your thing check out the work. If sociologically informed creative outputs are your thing you’ll love it. Either way it’s got a film and some pictures so might be fun journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today 1 of my PGT students came to say bye before moving home. He brought me a coffee & a gift of coffee&tea to say thanks for being his supervisor &providing generous feedback. Lovely& not needed. More importantly I learnt there’s a group chat where my students talk about how great my feedback is😮💚

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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Brilliant to see this recognition, from @socresonline.bsky.social and @britsoci.bsky.social, for the creative, critical and profoundly innovative work being done by our own @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social and co-authors.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fun work announcement. Our “As Is & Co-creating Theatre From Research to Stage: The Play’s The Thing” was nominated for the SAGE Prize for Innovation & Excellence for a paper in Sociological Research Online. Full list: www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie... Nice to get recognition for creative queer work

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SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

For those of us outside Wales - now is the time to be following Wales trans organisations and activists, and keeping an eye on how we might act in solidarity. Also potentially writing to our own local representatives and expressing our concern.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In terms of protesting the Welsh trans surgery ban, I definitely recommend looking to local community organisers rather than someone in Scotland like me! But I would suggest directly targeting decision-makers - e.g. Plaid politicians, NHS Wales management, Cardiff and Vale Health Board.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I didn’t really get Charli xcx’s (I just had to check if those letters were capitalised) ‘brat’ album. I felt far too old & uncool to appreciate what appeared to be a going out album. I am really enjoying her new ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ album. Maybe I’m cool now. Maybe she’s entering her 6music era.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Spook School are back from the moon! New album coming in January and a single streaming from today. What an excellent piece of news. The kind of band who can make an optimistic soundtrack for the end times we’re living in.

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Come & do a funded PhD with me & Prof Matt Smith at Strathclyde! We are looking for a historian with an interest in activism who wants to design a cool project on unorthodox health movements in Britain after 1948. #histmed #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Didn’t get the emergency alert (in scotland), which is good because my hearing aid is connected to my phone and I think that would have caused some issues. It’s ok a friend sent it to me so now I know not to set off a firework. Important use of the system for emergencies there.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I love Mmmbop by Hanson. And Dawson’s Creek. I am not and have never been cool.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s A Level results day & I am an academic on BlueSky. I could tell you I did well (in 1 subject) & badly (in the rest) & turned out alright (have a PhD) or not (& a fixed term contract in a dying sector). Instead I would like to share the books I still have from my A Levels that I wrote all over 🧵

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I am On Holiday! I did approximately 2 weeks work this week which really shouldn’t be how this works. But I’m now on holiday until the 20th when I’m back for one day. Then I’m away until August 31st. If I owe you anything I’d love to say I’ll do it on the 20th but obviously that day is already full🙃

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We‘ve been watching the Lockerbie BBC/Netflix show. It’s quite good. There are locations that are meant to be FBI offices in Quantico. It’s the Pathfoot building at Stirling Uni. Definitely outside & rooms inside near an entrance. Pretty sure it’s A corridor too (I haven’t visited in over a decade).

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Mitch Travis @profmitchtravis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A few weeks ago, after a 7 year delay, the UK government quietly dropped the results of their 2019 Call for Evidence on variations in sex characteristics The results are striking but will of course seem deeply familiar to anyone working in this field. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Variations in sex characteristics (VSC): experiences of life in the UK for people with VSC and those who care for them

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’m starting to get draft videos in for my students’ news projects. They are brilliant. I’m so impressed by what they are producing in just a few months. A fun highlight is how many contributors I personally know. Very grateful for colleagues & friends (some from my own student days) who took part.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Excellent writing and reflection on 20 years of trans protest and possibility from the wonderful @notrightruth.bsky.social I hope trans pals reading it get the same sense of hope I did. If you’re a cis ally of some kind I ask you to read this section (in image with alt) if nothing else:

Some of this is about solidarity work from cis people. All that endless work of education over the past decades has not been in vain, however much the politicians and hateful people of this world would like it to be. Through incessantly speaking out and demanding change, and in joining with others to support their struggles, trans people have made allies everywhere. Teachers and lecturers, doctors and nurses, administrators, hospitality workers, lawyers, and many more are more likely to have access to information through their family or friends or trade unions, which help them in turn to support trans people in a hundred thousand little ways every day.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Important update from my Dad. The local paper is reporting that Ely is getting a Greggs! In the centre. This is bigger than when Ely got a Sainsbury’s.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Today in my very full post-holiday inbox there’s a competition for PhD students to describe their research as a dessert to win boxes of ice cream. Where are the ECR ice cream contests?! In unrelated news a nurse told me my diabetes score is low. My ice cream consumption hasn’t come for me yet.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

We know that despite advances for disabled students, access issues still drive withdrawals from study. UK universities are responding to 'market' forces and government policies by shrinking access to degrees that afford disabled students good access to university. That's a problem, isn't it? 5/5

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New national survey finds disabled students’ satisfaction rising but access failures still driving withdrawals

Disabled Students UK (DSUK), the UK’s largest disabled student organisation, are proudly launching the findings from our Annual Disabled Student Survey (ADSS) in partnership with the Snowdon Trust. Fo...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

What happens if we place the UK university crisis in the Humanities (and some Social Sciences) within the context of students with known disabilities? We know that regional cold spots increasingly limit HE choices for many disadvantaged students. What do the stats suggest for disability? A 🧵 1/5

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

We downloaded the @tinybookshopgame.com game for PlayStation last night and have played it all day today. Think I might understand this gaming thing now. You drive around a little town with a bookshop trailer recommending books. There are queer vibes. Everything about it is great.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 06/07/2026

We need your help! We’re carrying a giant quilt through London with London Trans+ Pride on Saturday July 25th, and we need volunteers to join us in making a big, beautiful statement of trans community and strength. Volunteer 💪 🏳️‍⚧️ goodlawproject.org/campaign/the-tra…

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Everyone - can you help us carry all 96m of the @transunityquilt.bsky.social through central London as an enormous statement of trans strength and solidarity? Can you help us find people who will? Saturday July 25th with London Trans+ Pride - sign up at the link below from @goodlawproject.org

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's always been when it happens to the elite universities then it's an actual problem. My professional body put out an open letter opposing cuts in one institution all while the post-92 provision of our subject was decimated.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The University of Manchester is hiring a full time fixed-term (11 month) Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies (Teaching & Scholarship) to cover for colleagues on Research Leave. The application deadline is 14 July. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies:Oxford Road

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“Many reported feeling anxious, overworked and unsure about their future in academia. Early-career researchers in particular said they often feel isolated and lack consistent support from their institutions, and international researchers faced added risks when discussing their LGBTQ+ identity". 3/3

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

'The study was carried out by researchers from Sheffield Hallam University, Swansea University, the University of Bristol, and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and is presented in a report titled Is All Publicity Good Publicity?'. 2/3

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Is all publicity good publicity? Addressing Public Harassment in LGBT+ Research Impact and Engagement | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Is all publicity good publicity is a research project funded by the EDICaucus and a collaboration between Tig Slater, Sheffield Hallam University, Charlotte Jones, Swansea University, Rosie Ola-Marie,...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

“Academics want to promote their research outside of the university....However, in an increasingly queerphobic and transphobic public environment, this is becoming more difficult and riskier for researchers working on LGBTQ+ topics and they often face a backlash.” (Dr Charlotte Jones) 1/3

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Academics researching LGBTQ+ topics face hostility and career risks, study finds

They say all publicity is good publicity, but new research has revealed the significant challenges academics researching LGBTQ+ topics face when bringing their work into the public eye.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I’m on a research trip in Dublin for an LGBTIQ+ project (looking at youth and mis/disinformation on social media) with @pauljreilly.bsky.social & Judas from @uofgsociology.bsky.social. It’s just before pride. And it’s like the whole city is set up to welcome us/our research. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

A large Dublin sign on a stand in pride colours

The pride archway welcoming you to outhouse with window posters saying “love has no gender”, “trans rights are human rights” and “be proud of who you are”

“Queer joy is resistance” on the wall inside outhouse

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Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Interested in how disabled people experience rest & free time? Do you self-identify as a disabled person (&/or chronically ill, neurodivergent, or other similar self-identifying terms), are over 18, & live in the UK? Consider this research questionnaire: breadrosesdisability.uk/questionnaire/

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Invitation to complete the Rest, Free Time, and Disability Questionnaire – Bread & Roses: The Politics of Rest and Free Time

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I’m in a hotel and the live BBC feed has been showing the door of number 10 with not much happening. But now a podium has been wheeled out. So I assume Kier is stepping down or Larry the cat has launched a coup.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Father’s Day to my Dad. I got him a T-shirt that says “Got any Gauhaus? Got any Gauhaus?” much to the amusement of both of us.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Got some snail (what is time?) birthday gifts from @kenglish.bsky.social and now I need paper submissions for things so I can stamp snails onto them. Moodle could never.

A snail sticker with the shell in the trans pride flag colours sits on a desk in front of a stamp and a snail pin badge. The background of the desk is messy

A snail stamp. Behind are some messy green post it’s with eligible hand writing

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