Dr Leanne Bibby @leannemichelleb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Jinu says good morning, drink water, do your daily affirmations 030
Dr Leanne Bibby @leannemichelleb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Interesting and resonant! I'd say quite strongly that translating academic experience is absolutely possible. (You will have a 2-page CV again. You think you won't, but you will.) Ten “Cultural” Obstacles to Leaving Academia karenkelsky.substack.com/p/ten-cultur...karenkelsky.substack.comTen “Cultural” Obstacles to Leaving AcademiaAn excerpt from my book-in-progress, The Professor Is Out: The Essential Guide to Leaving Academia. 110
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyLinda Hill @lindasbookbag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026From @bantambookworm.bsky.social Charlotte Langtree (editor) : The Blood Of Eziliath portable-magic.com/2026/09/30/c...portable-magic.comCharlotte Langtree (editor) : The Blood Of EziliathBlurb: When an ancient prophecy comes to pass, the splintered kingdoms of Hekalis are in grave danger. Torish, God of the Below, was warned not to dally with the dead. Now, he is gone, killed by th… 011
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyTom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Cary Grant's mugshot when he was arrested for being drunk & disorderly in 1959 92464273
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyResolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 21/09/2026The evidence is clear: countries with lower NEET rates than the UK get there almost entirely through higher rates of post-18 education. In these countries, more young people stay in education for longer and often combine it with work. 24323
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A lot of people bitching at this thread have never experienced suddenly losing their ability to type. I never expected this to happen to me, but it did. good luck if you are contemptuous of other modes of interaction with technology. At some point you will also be impaired if only from age 1217722
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is very good on the psychological damage caused by universities ripping themselves apart, but it presumes that leaders want to repair that damage. My experience is that they deny its existence or simply do not care. 611733
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyAurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 12/09/2026Euphemisation has been a key strategy for the far right to escape the margins and return to the mainstream for half a century Back in the early 90s, Jean-Marie Le Pen pushed for the term "populism" to replace "extreme right" or "fascist". It was then taken up by mainstream actors and here we are 38446
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyDr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Paper back of my book out February 2027! boydellandbrewer.com/book/onomant...boydellandbrewer.comOnomantic Divination in Late Medieval BritainDemonstrates the wide prevalence of supposedly impermissible divination techniques found in a wide range of manuscripts from medieval Britain. 2274
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyDEAD TEENAGERS out now in paperback @judedoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026People of All Genders Empowered to Maintain Delusion That They Have A Chance With Gillian Anderson 7984092492
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyLisa Rullsenberg @rullsenberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Screaming. No. LITERALLY SCREAMING.static.klipy.comSpongebob Squarepants & Patrick Star ScaredAlt: Spongebob Squarepants & Patrick Star Scared 131
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Interesting to count the number of times the words 'students', 'staff' and 'research' are (or are not) mentioned here.wonkhe.comLessons from creating the UK’s first “super-university” groupJane Harrington, Georgina Randsley de Moura, and Mark Preston set out what a year of merger-building taught them about trust, governance and communicating through uncertainty 1113
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyProf Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 01/09/2026🏥 27 AI scribes write NHS notes, unregulated Healthwatch England found scribes mishearing drugs and dropping 'null', turning 'no nerve damage' into a diagnosis. 🔗 theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/31/doctors-ai-scribes-get-names-of-drugs-and-diagnoses-wrong-nhs-watchdog-warns #NHS #AItheguardian.comDoctors’ AI scribes get names of drugs and diagnoses wrong, NHS watchdog warnsExclusive: Patients identify errors in consultation transcripts that are missed by GPs, Healthwatch England finds 2103
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours. 118313038380
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyTarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"Neutral in the culture war" 111155785317
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyDiane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I'm continually amazed at how many academics are willing to preface their reply to a thread about a study by saying that they didn't read the study. "But..." But nothing. Dude, it's your job to read studies. No opining without reading. 1636134
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyJep @nsarbutts.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The only teacher I ever really listened to at school used to say "think with ink". It has helped me unravel and calm my thoughts countless times. 1287
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 19/08/2026When I see commentators using terms like “DEI” I immediately suspect that they’re trying to ignite a US inspired (and maybe funded?) culture war here. Because the acronym used in the UK is EDI - equality, diversity, inclusion - linked to the equality act 2010. www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/1...legislation.gov.ukEquality Act 2010An Act to make provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others when making strategic decisions about the exercise of their functions to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-economi... 761720392
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyCheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 17/08/2026#NovaScotia author of Heated Rivalry — Rachel Reid has donated $300,000.00 to Nova Scotia Libraries This is amazing, Rachel is an incredible human being /1 thread www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...ctvnews.ca‘Heated Rivalry’ author donates $300,000 to Nova Scotia librariesSeveral Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors. 573139562
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM 145101642364
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyDan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 16/08/2026Stock is a poster child for the terminal rot in the UK pundit class: an entirely unremarkable academic who got on the right wing radar by monetising her bigotry and now gets to be consulted for “what she reckons” on absolutely everything from disability to race to climate change. 320352
Dr Leanne Bibby @leannemichelleb.bsky.social · 16/08/2026If you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation 010
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyThinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 10/08/2026“What causes autism?” It’s usually inherited, but actually, it doesn’t f***ing matter. Learn how to be the parent your autistic child needs. We can help. #autism #parenting #neurodiversity 1021944
Dr Leanne Bibby @leannemichelleb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026These are the loudest, most platformed voices in the media when it comes to higher education and they've been coaching swathes of the public to think and speak like this for decades. I haven't felt this devastated and scared since before I left academia. Please take care of each other. 092
Dr Leanne Bibby @leannemichelleb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Properly keep in touch with extended family and old friends, and get to know my neighbours. 0112
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyCaroline Keep @ka83k.bsky.social · 15/08/2026You can complain about the coverage of Dr Jason Arday in the news here ⬇️ newscord.org/action/jason... 22720
Reposted by Dr Leanne Bibbycon questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I met Jason Arday in induction week in my first permanent academic job, at the University of Roehampton. We had been appointed during the same mass hiring, and spent a week together in more or less useless training sessions that felt like components of some kind of deranged summer camp. 1/ 10562156
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyNatasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 14/08/2026While this was all happening, friends and I were literally listing off senior white men who were still in post despite not being able to work with students because they're actual sex offenders. 10671169
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet. 17455922065
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyKirsten the Goblin Keeper @librarykirsten.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Important point - another resource is Education Support which has a helpline for anyone working in education www.educationsupport.org.ukeducationsupport.org.ukEducation SupportThe only UK charity dedicated to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of teachers and education staff. 085
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Or, in fact, not really a news story at all. I don’t believe at all that this was nationally important and certainly not “third on the BBC 6 o’clock news” important as a story. Cofnas started all of this because he’s a racist and the media ran with it. 131192211
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyMrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Please just want to remind everyone about the reporting (or even public discussion) guidelines around suicide - suicide is not ever caused by any one reason and speculating on (or even announcing) why someone completed suicide is really unhelpful, incl. to people with suicidal ideation 319870
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026None of this shit is worth our lives. 11345223
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyDr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 14/08/2026#Mad crew, advise logging of and taking care of yourselves. 1255
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Our Higher Education system is being sabotaged. No other word for it. 69033
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Daughter’s heart pinhole camera 🖤#eclipse 373117252
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyConejo Valley Antifascists @cvantifascists.bsky.social · 12/08/2026🧵1/2 Nine years since Heather Heyer’s murder. Rest in Power. 221457
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Bluesky is sort of a dark forest for discourse, where, upon encountering a human being, you need to immediately try to take a kill shot. Anyway, please don’t accuse me of plagiarism and demand my resignation because you imagined my anti-plagiarism blog post said the opposite of what it does 2570343
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyMoney on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 01/08/2026✨ MotL 93 is live! ✨ @victorpickard.bsky.social returns to Money on the Left 6 years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. moneyontheleft.org/2026/08/01/d... Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌 * Transcript forthcoming ... 1137
Reposted by Dr Leanne BibbyEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 10/08/2026If you’re living with tricky mental health, chronic illness,not good thought pathways caused by others’ behaviour, a trickily wired brain,you’re worried about climate change or you’re just feeling shite today, then hi, me too. This photo’s for your brain-a miniature posy from my garden in a thimble: 1333008379
Dr Leanne Bibby @leannemichelleb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I loved Mairi Kidd's 'The Specimens'. Took me by surprise in a way historical novels about famous cases rarely do. Especially recommended for everybody who has finished bingeing Kate Foster's books. 000