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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We're in the big 2026 and I'm still seeing reading lists for social science courses that only feature one or two texts by women (out of 30+ mandatory and recommended texts), and it makes me feel like I'm banging my head against a wall.

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Transphobic lobbyists rely on people being too uninformed about the law to assert the rights of trans people. Their scaremongering tactics work by making pre-emptive compliance the 'easy' option. Don't let them get away with this! Not within your workplace, not within your communities, not anywhere.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

not now kitten, Daddy has to lock in and come up with a joke about Wes Streeting that will get 5 likes on a third-tier social media app

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

academic group chats are so funny because there'll be someone on there whose monograph completely changed the way you look at life, and once in a while you'll get a text from them like 'there's extra sandwiches in the staff fridge for whoever wants them :)'

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Proud to share my article for the inaugural issue of re:wave! In it, I discuss how tempting it is to present 'marginalised' knowledge as a solution to the flaws of the academic status quo, but how we nevertheless should resist this temptation towards simplicity 📚 rewave.press/eating-epist...

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Eating epistemologies and tending to tension: against the romance of intellectual ease - Pippa Sterk — re:wave press

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Agree. This is the rub. Students want to skip work with AI but hate when profs use AI to skip work (and vice versa). People want to sell LLM art but don't want to pay money to read other people's LLM art. You want to use AI to write boring work emails, but not receive AI work emails. Etc.

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Charlotte “Chuck” Planet, Local Internet Celebrity @charlotteplanet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

like with the invention of dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, and dryers: technology doesn’t save us labor, it only raises the standards by which our labor is judged. if AI makes you more productive, you will simply be expected to produce more!! with a smile!!

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

In the uk giving your child a haircut they want not approved by the government is considered child abuse. Also calling them what they want to be called, you need a license for that

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

how to support care in group learning? @lboungr.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social and I co-organised a project on “growing group care” and cocreated a zine with our students Abi Abosejo, Adja Seck, cong fu, Ellie Jennings, Kesara Ariyapongpairoj & Louis Saha 🌱✨ jonathangray.org/2025/11/25/g...

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zine on growing group care

Liliana Bounegru, Pippa Sterk and I recently organised a project on “growing group care”. As part of the project we cocreated a zine with our students - Abi Abosejo, Adja Seck, Cong Fu, Ellie Jennings...

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Same tactics all the way down: -complain that there's no evidence base to prescribe young people puberty blockers. -get puberty blockers banned until evidence is available. -argue that any puberty blocker study would be inherently unethical. It's not about 'evidence' and it never was.

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Gonna need the general public + journos to properly reckon with how much of the social/legal policing of space is done purely on vibes. Invoking a 'common sense' approach to who deserves to be in a space, only serves to reinforce who is thought of as the 'common' body and who is seen as aberrant.

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

KCL AI policy defines AI as "any technology or system that can reason and/or adapt, sometimes on its own" which is kind of like saying that airplanes can fly 'on their own' because the pilots are not physically pushing the vehicle forward flintstones-style.

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This ESEA History Month, let's all do a fun little thing where we're honest and realistic about who events / scholarship / communities are actually for! I know calling something ESEA looks nice on funding applications but some of you are absolutely kidding yourselves

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

When people talk about the 'sentience' of AI, it just sounds to me like they're admitting that they think of other people as controllable entities that they can feed an input in order to gain a predictable output. Real pickup artist mentality, very gross!

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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Our first podcast - defending the spirit of youth work. Thanks to "It's Just Research" team for lovely conversation on youth work, policy, social haunting, and creative collaborative research. www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res... @kingsecs.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social

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School of Education, Communication and Society at King's @kingsecs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

📢 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 📢 We talk to Dr Tania de St Croix and Louise Doherty about their collaborative research project that sought to address the impact of rising evaluation of youth work and how policy threatens the spirit of youth work. www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...

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It's Just Research, Season 2 Ep 6: Defending the spirit of youth work

In this episode, hosts Sara and Pippa interview Dr Tania de St Croix and Louise Doherty about their research on measuring the impact of youth work.

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Queer Pages is back for Pride month!! In this episode we discuss the joys of reading work by independent publishers, through the novella Andrion. We're getting back on the podcasting horse, so subscribe to hear about new episodes! @knighterrantpress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6iDL...

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Andrion - Queer Ancient Greece and Small Press Publishing #16

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Had a great time presenting at the UCU LGBT+ research conference last Friday, catching up with colleagues I hadn't seen in-person for a long time, and meeting new scholars doing LGBT+ related research 🌈 📚

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

absolutely wiiiild how often pro-genAI positions within pedagogy are framed as just being 'realistic'. It speaks to such a lack of imagination, trust, and accountability, when it seems a foregone conclusion that students WILL use genAI and there is no way we can put up even the slightest boundary.

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Dr Dyi D. Huijg @drdyidhuijg.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

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Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia

We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...

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School of Education, Communication and Society at King's @kingsecs.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

📣 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 📣 How do we deconstruct military identity in the UK psyche? 💭🪖 This is the question that Dr Antonia Dawes interrogates in her research. Listen to the latest episode of the 'It's Just Research' podcast. ➡️ bit.ly/4jPoHLT

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The worry that now cis male police officers are going to use the new regulations to strip search cis women (and then claim he thought she was trans) overlooks the fact that strip searching is and has ALWAYS been a way of legalising and legitimising sexual violence.

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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Young people won't let youth work disappear! Thanks It's Just Research podcast @kingsecs.bsky.social for inviting me and Louise Doherty to discuss our recent article "Embers, and Fragments: Social Haunting in Youth Work, Impact Measurement and Policy Networks" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Michael Lee Witchardson 🎃 @hrfmichael.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

But, one thing: almost everyone I know is trans, I only know two people with GRCs. It's a barbaric, bureaucratic system with no room for anything that makes life worth living. Once again, we are forced to defend the absolute worst version of what anyone would want. Another world is fucking possible.

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

having read it, my fellow cis readers, i can tell you that it is 400 pages of "maybe" and "if/then" statements that rely on inference from the maybes. when it does cite data, it's old studies or ones with tiny sample sizes. it uses terms of art in a colloquial sense to obscure meaning. it's trash.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Also it’s extremely non-inevitable if: - it doesn’t work - it pollutes its own dataset - action is taken against illegal data theft - the VC money runs out and it turns out to be prohibitively expensive to use without subsidy - we don’t use it for stuff it can’t do - it’s too environmentally costly

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Yeah, I've been experimenting with fusion cuisine lately (put chilli crisp on a baked potato)

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 19/03/2025

We condemn the reported harassment of KCL staff. We will continue to defend academic freedom and the right to peaceful activism without intimidation. Solidarity 👇

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Pls fund me to create a training course where I go round with a buzzer making a loud noise whenever USAmerican scholars fail to declare where their research takes place. The US is not the global baseline, actually! Research done in the US is just as culturally specific as research anywhere else!

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In the latest episode of It's Just Research, @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social and I talk to Dr Sophie Perry about her research on environmental education. We also discuss what life is like just after the PhD, and the fallacies of grind culture in Higher Education 🎙️ shows.acast.com/its-just-res...

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Season 2 | It's Just Research

The necessity of unlearning

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Pippa Sterk @pippasterk.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Since October, I have been part of this year's cohort of Barbican Young Film Programmers. Alongside learning more about curation in general, together we have produced the Chronic Youth Festival, taking place on 26/27 April. Tickets are now online! 🎥 www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

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Chronic Youth Film Festival 2025 | Barbican

Chronic Youth Film Festival 2025 presents Against All Odds: Resilience, community, and memory on screen.

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Ze Freeman @zefreeman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

our first Interdisciplinary Open Research Lunch was today! @pippasterk.bsky.social and I wanted to make a space to talk about approaches to open research across disciplines at King's, made possible with the generous support of the Improving Research Community Builder Award @orbenamy.bsky.social

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