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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just checked in to the European Sociological Association conference and received a first for me in terms of conference swag

Photograph of an apple with “polish sociological association” branded on it with large building with pillars in the background

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

My new msp is a Glasgow City fan 🧡

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School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow @uofgshw.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Join hub groups, research teams and community partners for our annual Byres Hub Community Day on Saturday 28th March! -Fun challenges -Community info stalls -Building tours -Music and games -Refreshments More info and optional registration: byreshubcommunityday2026.eventbrite.com

Byres Hub Community Day poster with image of the Clarice Pears building. The theme is 'A prescription for change' and it takes place on Saturday 28th March, 12-4pm.

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I respect that though it is clearly possible to have basically any flat soled shoes converted for use in curling (eg like the American man in mixed doubles and his airforce ones), most people just solidly stick to postman pat shoes.

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Been thinking about this quite a bit recently. According to google ngram viewer the change happened about 2006. Can't help but feel that this House of Commons committee report section (publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...) on the distinction misses the point!

Google Ngram Viewer graph comparing "violence against women and girls" and "violence against women and children"

Section of report titled "A definition of violence against women and girls": "6. We welcome the long-term commitment by the Government to halve VAWG in a decade, but without a standard definition used across government, police and third sector organisations, performance against this commitment will remain difficult to measure. There is a broad definition that is used in the sector: VAWG is violence and abuse that disproportionately affects women. It includes, but is not limited to harassment, stalking, rape, sexual assault, murder, honour-based abuse including female genital mutilation, and coercive control. While men and boys also suffer from many of these forms of abuse, they disproportionately affect women.9 However, VAWG is defined differently by different organisations. For example, some definitions include victims and survivors who are men and boys, whilst others do not.10 On our visit to Vienna, we heard that in many countries VAWG is defined as violence against women and children, including boys. There is no statutory definition of VAWG—domestic abuse does have a definition in law, and this is only one type of VAWG.11 The Domestic Abuse Commissioner has argued that a standardised definition of VAWG services is required.12 To ensure that funding of VAWG services has the most impact and meets the Government’s target, the Home Office should be clear on what it is measuring and seeking to reduce."

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Older generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more. via The Economist

Parental guidance
US parents*, minutes per day spent on child caret, by generation, 1975-2018
Fathers
Mothers
160
120
• Millennial
Gen X
Millennial
Gen X
Silent
80
40
0
Baby-boomer
Baby-boomer
20
30
Silent
ㅜ
40
Mother's age
40
Father's age
50
60
*Who live with partner and at least one child under 18
*Controlling for children under five
Source: American Heritage Time Use Study
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30
50
60
160
120
80
40
0

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

There’s a pronunciation of Greenwich that is specific to people who are from within about a two mile radius of it. I only learned of as an adult, having grown up 10 miles away.

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Got this yearbook through the post today as a freebie because I contributed to the Glasgow City page. Really nice to see and the type of thing I would have loved as a child but was ofc not available in the 90s

Front cover of “the women’s football fan yearbook 2026”.

Double page spread of the page in the book on Glasgow City

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

As someone with a bunch of Irish emigrants dotted about my family tree, this nationalist/ ?anti-immigration march was a pretty wild thing to stumble across in Dublin today

A crowd of people in central Dublin holding the Irish tricolour flags and other banners and flags including a pro trump one, one that says “Blessington hold the line”

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Wild that two ex swpl players scored in this and Kirsty howat wasn’t one of them. Palace are basically swpl fc this season though

Screen grab from bbc sport showing result of Crystal Palace v Southampton (4-4). Scorers for palace- Larkin, vanhaevermart, weerden. Scorers for Southampton- mcalonie, Brazil, bourne, collett

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

On my way home now from a great #MedSoc25 thanks to all the presenters, the committee and the BSA staff for making my last one as co-convenor, and part of the committee, a good one. Hopefully see you all next year!

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Ding ding ding! Yeah couple of mine are there

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

en.wikipedia.org

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Getting ready to spend 7 hours trapped on a tidal island with a bunch of crusty punks and no toilet #crammondislandpunkfest

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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I am doing the audio for No is Not a Lonely Utterance. My no is getting croaky but is coming out one way or another! I wrote a post collating 10 pieces (itself included) on g-c feminism & the broader anti-woke & anti-edi ideological landscape. Last for a bit. Solidarity! substack.com/home/post/p-...

substack.com

Blanking

On the distortion of feminist histories (and collecting some critiques of “gender critical” feminism in one post)

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Hurt my wrist playing in goal a while back- thought it was a sprain. After swelling went down I noticed a lump over the end of the bone so thought I’d better get it x-rayed in case of small fracture.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Oh my GOD GROW UP

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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 29/04/2025

Attendees at the #RDconf last Saturday voted on an emergency motion to show their opposition to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. Read the motion below 👇 BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.

Emergency motion on the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' from RDC conference 2025

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

First celeb spot in nyc was Ricky gervais in Central Park ☹️

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Genuinely surprised that any amount of cocaine while driving is allowed???

Text from a bbc article about a fatal rta which states: “A blood sample was taken from Feelie at a police station after the incident and it was found to contain 67mg of cocaine per litre of blood. The specified limit is 10mg.”

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Are you a UK based self-funded post grad researcher? (PhD, MRes etc) If so, I'd like to send you a copy of my book. I have *five* to give away. Please share and drop a note below or DM me. I'll announce next Friday (from the pub) 🐕 📖 🍺 more info - www.immersiveresearch.co.uk/bookshop

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Forgot to post this at the time but we did a @glasgowcoa.bsky.social (bus stop versions) as our contribution to the window wanderland thing 🐦🌳🔔🐟

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Come and join us at the next MedSoc! Call for abstracts now open 😎

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Another great football day! Glasgow City beat Celtic to progress in the Scottish cup (at a game attended by a duck???), palace men beat man united at old trafford and palace women got a hard earned draw

Trixie the tiger, Glasgow city’s cuddly costumed mascot, poses with the Scottish cup

Glasgow City players Samantha van Diemen and Brenna Lovera at the edge of a football pitch greeting a live white duck on a lead. The players are wearing football kit and the duck has a Celtic fc branded ribbon on their back

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

What an annoying bunch of jokers

News report from Goal with headline “Celtic and Rangers ‘hold preliminary talks’ over shock move across English-Scottish border to WSL”

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Tbh 2024 was a pretty difficult year for me, for mainly personal reasons, including nearly losing all my sight to optic neuritis. On to 2025 though right?

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Just had a look at the BSA annual conference programme grid and have seen that there is another Hilary Collins presenting (spelled with one L). Hopefully I might benefit from confused extra attendees at my talks haha

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Glasgow city beating rangers 3-0 and palace (men’s) beating Brighton 1-3. What a day 🥲

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

It’s just really nice that the only comment I’ve seen on Bluesky related to this news is basically to the effect of BB being a baller and this award is richly deserved ☺️

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Come on and Shine! Shine! Shine like a star

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 21/11/2024

Calling all researchers: if you are interested in retrieving and analyzing data from Bluesky to study online communities and public discourse, @communalytic.org, our computational social science research tool can help. No coding is required. #commsky #academicsky communalytic.org/docs-categor...

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Often think Bunny Shaw is reduced to goal hanger, or a target woman, which ignores the intelligence of how she plays. But you can’t argue with a certified banger like that

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Look I just think palace are a better team than Celtic and Chelsea put 7 past palace in the early, rocky days of the season, including a bronze screamer. So by rights, there should be at least 5 Chelsea goals this half

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Lucy bronze scoring before I even got the live stream working haha

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

City conceding for only the second time from open play this season. Also annoying

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Cannot believe Villa are choosing this game for their first win of the season. Rude tbh.

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I find it quite interesting that Abbie Larkin has become such a talismanic figure- she’s 1 of 2 women on sky ads about Ireland national team sponsorship on Irish tv but for her recent clubs (palace and Glasgow City) she has never been a regular starter

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I was frustrated trying to find chat about women’s football closer to home so have had a go at making a starter pack. Lmk about ither accounts that should be added! go.bsky.app/Kh5Jen8

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: 1) Shoe shop assistant 2) bar staff in a pub 3) ticket office in an art house cinema 4) nurse 5) pa to a professor

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Fair enough it is a lol that they play ‘it’s a grand old team’ at Celtic women’s games, a club formed in… 2007

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Like, I’m pleased for Celtic and want them to do well in the WCL, and for Scotland’s coefficient to be boosted. But also people can be annoying and Scotland has such an incredible women’s club football history

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Also before people start being annoying about that being the first goal for a Scottish club in Europe- it’s the first goal for Celtic sure but Julie Fleeting scored for Ayr United (!) in 2001 (!), the first year of a eufa women’s comp, and Emma Black scored for city in 2005. Hibs had some too

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Hilllary Collins @hilllary.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

woah woah woah Celtic taking the lead against Chelsea. Surely Chelsea should have been expecting counter attacks/ breaks? Can’t see the lead lasting long tbh

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