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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Went on my first ever Bear Pride march today, kinda surreal to walk through the streets of Brussels with a little Manneken Pis dressed up as a bear! Would love to know what all the baffled bystanders thought was happening. Tysm to Belgium Bear Pride for inviting me to talk about my research!

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're at Belgium Bearpride in Brussels this weekend, you can see me as part of the programme discussing my research on #gaybears! Find us at the Discovering Bear Studies event, Saturday 11am at Grands Carmes 🐻🧔🏼‍♂️

Poster with an older white man in a field, giving info about the event

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As we have recently lost some of our amazing LBGTQ+ venues - I wanted to share some good news. The fabulous community hub, the Ledward Centre is now back open - such an important asset for our city and was great to drop in and see them over Pride weekend!

Image shows Sian, laughing with a member of staff, at the newly refurbished Ledward Centre in Brighton. She is stood across from a counter with cakes and coffee on.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026

UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reminder that I produce a podcast called Space & Sexuality! So far we have covered: - Pride and politics in Copenhagen, - Queer suburbia - Queer architectures - Queer-trans ecologies - Queer organising in Amsterdam - and more! Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/033DRqR... 🌈🎓

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Space & Sexuality

Podcast · Joe Jukes · Welcome to Space & Sexuality, a new podcast series that brings together leading and emerging scholars in the field of queer geographies to explore cutting-edge research at the in...

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Still astonished the Labour party were allowed to march in Manchester Pride given that they're both passively & actively presiding over the mass rollback of trans inclusion & healthcare. Have to wonder if they'd be allowed if they raised age of consent for homosex to 21 or eradicated HIV healthcare

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Pissing it down at Manchester Pride but this Lidl diva was making it work

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Snapshots from one of my papers at European Geographies of Sexualities Conference 2026. I'm looking into the production of bears' temporary spaces & events, & how volunteer labour, organisational processes, and communication technology were essential to 'bear' both mainstream and LGBTQ space

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Having a great time at my favourite conference, this year hosted by a fantastic team at the University of Maribor in Slovenia 🇸🇮

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 23/08/2026

📰 Today’s Sunday Times exposes just a fraction of the attacks on jobs in Universities. We know the true picture across the UK is even worse. With record student sign ups this situation is completely untenable. The government must intervene.

This table describes the level of job losses in several universities across the UK.

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Trans Pride Brighton @transpridebrighton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We have secured the future of the Trans Pride Centre! Thanks to the National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund, we have been awarded a grant of £121,278! This money is ringfenced to keep the rent paid, the lights on, and training for new volunteers covered for the next five years.

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I've just heard that the BA/BSc Geography programme is to close at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Geography and Environmental Science (CGES) in Cornwall. This programme was made up of excellent modules with original and content, taught brilliantly—often with real innovation—by extremely 1/9

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Gender + Sexuality Data Lab is hiring a Research Assistant to join its project, ‘Box Breakers: Improving Organisational Data Practices for Minoritised Communities’. Now open to all applicants | Closing date: 25 Aug | More info: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Quote from Dr Kevin Guyan, Director of the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab, which reads: "The Box Breakers project aims to transform how data professionals understand and represent people whose identities exist beyond conventional categories."

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Devastating, two of Brighton's oldest and biggest LGBTQ spaces closing next month - and ones that emphatically weren't just there to cater to hen parties

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Granted I've only seen a tiny slice of Slovenia but I cannot believe how clean and litter-free Ljubljana and its surrounds are. In the UK these green and blue spaces would be covered in garbage, with overflowing bins and every river full of human shit.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Today university fees rise again, while thousands of academics across the country face job cuts, crushing workloads and shattered morale. Students deserve better than this broken system of unfair repayment that widens inequality. Abolish fees and fund universities properly!

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Currently in Slovenia - specifically Ljubljana - for my first proper holiday in 10 years (!). Hoping to hike around Golovec, Bled, and Bohinj over the next week, but the 35° weather may do for me 🔥

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Love to Berlin Pride / CSD and Berlin's queer communities 🏳️‍🌈 Straight authorities simply love to say 'This was an attack on our society' - NO IT WASN'T. It was an attack on LGBTQ people *specifically*, he didn't drive a car into some policy think-tank did he

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Happy Brighton Pride I guess, nothing says gay rights quite like a 15ft wall around the park

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

T for me but not for thee is it 🤔🤔🤔

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Susan Stryker @susanstryker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Drop date Aug 25 in the US and UK.

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

📣New queer geographies podcast! 🌈🎓 Introducing 'Space & Sexuality': Every 2 weeks, I share conversations with leading & emerging scholars across queer/trans geographies of sex and sexualities. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to the first 2 ep's: open.spotify.com/show/033DRqR...

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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Hey Bluesky crowd! You also should be signing our petition opposing the announced redundancies at the University of Exeter. 📢 We're 17k and growing! Redundancies ARE NOT necessary and we must #DefendExeterUni 🩷 c.org/RFqMvrKb6z

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Eleanor Medhurst (she/her) @eleanormedhurst.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

It’s been a while since I’ve logged into Bluesky, so first things first: my book, Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion, is now out in PAPERBACK! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 05/06/2026

📊New data shows benefits of choosing geography at university. This includes high graduate employment rates, with geography graduates having a higher rate than average. Find out more: www.rgs.org/about-us/our-work/lates…

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Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network @aroaceresearch.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Come join is online tomorrow to learn about ace geographies!

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Spending the rest of the week at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, w colleagues Alexandre Almeida & Arnau Roig Mora who've also done research on bears 🐻 We're gonna be developing a new paper & funding bid, thinking abt bears outside the Anglo-American sphere (& also visiting some queer bars 🏳️‍🌈)

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

If I hear one more university leader say they're making "tough decisions" about redundancies or worsening our employment conditions, I will scream. They are not making tough choices, they're making the easiest decisions in the world. Tough decisions would be fighting the inevitability of job losses

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Solidarity with friends & colleagues up the road. Hot on the heels of 500+ job cuts is another 200 jobs to go this year. Government silent as the sector collapses.

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 24/05/2026

With summer approaching, now is the perfect time for students interested in geographical careers to gain work experience 💼 Explore our geographical work experience directory, virtual work experience programme with Springpod, and top tips 👉bit.ly/43kSWE7

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Everyone read the end of it: "Governments in Scotland and Wales have finally realised that a viable, meaningful higher education sector needs greater oversight and control, and cannot be left wholly to the market. Now Westminster needs to wake up to this need for joined-up thinking"

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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Ha, ha, ha! This is brilliant. Agree with every word, and not only because it has a righteous pop at Reeves. Also underlines key point, in order for there to be a way to be masculine, some boys & men aren't going to cut it, no matter how many ways/types we add. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/07...

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Against Masculinity

It’s perfectly fine to be a “feminine” man. Young men do not need a vision of “positive masculinity.” They need what everyone else needs: to be a good person who has a satisfying, meaningful life.

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Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

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Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A new low as the University of Nottingham puts 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. Cuts and job losses are not inevitable. They are political choices and the manifestation of a broken system. Where is Labour as the crisis intensifies? Sitting on the sidelines, watching it burn.

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Tens of thousands of jobs lost from UK Higher Education in recent years, causing god knows how much damage to universities' local economies - government sat twiddling their thumbs.

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

V v excited to receive a copy of Vini Flauaus' book on bear culture in São Paulo. There's a bunch of superb bear scholars across Central and South America (of whom Vini is one), publishing in Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish.

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The OfS was set up 8 years ago with the purpose of terrorising HE staff and driving Tory culture wars. It needs to be abolished!

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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

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Manbears-Manchester @manbears.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

At the Cockatoo Club, Dr Nick McGlynn will be hosting a discussion around Bear Culture and identity. He shares his findings from 8 years of academic research including a project he is currently working on with Dr Les K. Wright, author ot The Bear Book and The Bear Book II.

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

'Academic restructuring' incoming well I think we all know what that means 💀

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Liam Wignall @liamwignall.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Excited to be giving this talk - early bird tickets are available now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-psycho...

An advert for a talk in ADHD and kink delivered by Dr Liam Wignall, Sunday 17th May with Seed Talks

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Also love that bear mags go Editor's rant, Readers' letters abt how much they've cum, Many hard dicks, Big guy shows hole, 8 pages of detailed astrology, Recipe for tarte tatin, Ads of mags filling a v v slightly different niche, Hairy chests, More hard dicks, Review of the latest Annie Lennox album

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Feeling v enthused about gay print culture of the 80s and 90s after all these days in the archive. I'm guessing easy, affordable access to printing & desktop publishing software means you can have small & indie publishers, but also groups & individuals deciding to start a DIY newsletter or zine 🐻

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Knee-deep in bear and bear-adjacent magazines today. Daddy, Bear Party (w Francois Sagat!), Heavy Duty, Husky, Bear Fax, Sugar Bear's Den, Bulk Male and 100% Beef (and if the editorials are anything to go by the beef is with the publishers of Bear Magazine).

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Catch me at the @manbears.bsky.social Great British Bear Bash next month, talking about some of my older and newer research on bear culture 🐻

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Because we're doing so much work on bears, the lovely Cornell librarians brought out a 1st edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass for us to see 🥹

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Not posting much from my Bear History Project archives trip this time (too tired 😴) BUT I did finally get my hands on the legendary issue 11 of Bear Magazine w Jack Radcliffe. Interestingly he was surprisingly beefy compared to other models. Note also the original Lone Star Saloon on the back!

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I'm back at Cornell University for my final visit to explore the Bear History Project archives, along with the original bear researcher Les K. Wright. This time we're joined by filmmaker Andy Langdon, who's filming our work as part of his new documentary on bear culture 🐻 See you at Sundance! 🎥

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Can't give any spoilers, but the European Geographies of Sexualities Conference 2026 is gonna feature some of the most exciting sexualities research I've seen in ages! Registration is open & the deadline for abstracts has been extended - see you in Maribor? 🇸🇮 😁 sites.google.com/view/egsconf...

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EGS Conference 2026

Discussing from Queer Peripheries: (Un)Desiring the Centre

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Dr Nick McGlynn @nick-mcglynn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

For folk interested in research on #gaybears in the UK, my book Bodies & Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces is now available in paperback! Learn abt identities, bodies & spaces; gender politics at bear events; & why London's bear scene is the exception not the rule 🐻 www.routledge.com/Bodies-and-B...

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Bodies and Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces

Bodies and Boundaries of UK Bear Spaces is an exploration of the spaces of the UK’s Bear community – and the people who are in them. The book details a wealth of existing writing and scholarship on Be...

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