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Rosalynd Southern

@rosalynd.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Pol Comm at UoLiverpool. Online Pol Comm / Elections / Gender. UCU Rep. Socialist. Feminist. She/her. Views mine

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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 23/02/2026
AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero…
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AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investemtns are translating into US GDP growth.
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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.
She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor
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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
📢 I am recruiting 2 fully funded PhD students to join my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, “Invisible Burdens, Visible Gaps: The Mental Load and Gendered Citizenship” @uniofbath.bsky.social ! 🌍 Intl applications welcome 📅 Deadline: 1/12/26, for Oct 27 start www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Invisible Burdens, Visible Gaps: The Mental Load and Gendered Citizenship at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Invisible Burdens, Visible Gaps: The Mental Load and Gendered Citizenship at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com
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RDCK98 @comradekenobi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nice little nugget of horror buried in there
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We need an inventory of what's being lost so that we can rebuild.
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The TIP newsletter is out 👀 📩 ➡️ TL;DR - We held our "Growing Up Digital" workshop on Sep 16, big success, debrief coming soon! - Our first research brief 📃 is now live! @cynthiang.bsky.social explains the device controls landscape - CfP for #PSA27 deadline 12 Oct - Jobs & more!
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The TIP Newsletter: We did a thing(s)
Your regular Technology, Internet, & Policy updates, News Bytes, Members News & More
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Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oooh this sounds superb
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?
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Marta Zboralska @martazb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Look how cute these are 😭
Teddy bear in a life jacket decoration 
Polar Bear in Sou’wester Decoration
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Labour government could easily stop the boats if there was a political will to do so, but it’s not by “closing the southern border”, it’s by reopening the legal asylum routes closed by the conservatives.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I did say Shabana Mahmood would be on the side of the thugs. Burnham keeping her in post was an utter disgrace. Labour supporters should be brave enough to say so. So should Labour MPs.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
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The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race.

Underneath is an extremely English-looking man in a suit sitting in front of a large bookshelf.

There are 6.2 thousand comments compared to 6 thousand likes.
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STC @blobbystc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well fuck www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...
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Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Brilliant title 😅
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monarch of ashes @cephalopod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
very funny to pretend that bluesky takes toxicity seriously when their lead engineer is openly posting like this lol
@katelynburns.com: Literally do not have tome for that every month. That's just not how humans work.

@why.bsky.world: You’re a podcast host, you have enough free time to talk to the latest chatbot every so often

@katelynburns.com: you think I do my podcast full time?

@why.bsky.world: Well I assumed “freelance journalist” was just a euphemism for unemployed “influencer” so yeah

@katelynburns.com:  Lol

@why.bsky.world: Claiming to be a journalist while refusing to do some pretty basic research is some clown shit
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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Absolutely disgusting. When will this vandalism end.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
'Academic leaders have reacted with dismay to comments by the science minister about arts and the humanities, saying it is “staggering” he did not appear to realise the extent of his brief.' A brief that includes research funding and policy for the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.
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British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We have shared the below statement on the death of Professor Jason Arday. We stand with Professor Arday’s family, friends, students, colleagues, & all who mourn him. baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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BAAS Statement on the Death of Professor Jason Arday - British Association for American Studies
The BAAS community has been deeply saddened by the death of Professor Jason Arday. We stand with Professor Arday’s family, friends, students, colleagues and all who mourn him during this difficult…
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Generative AI is dangerous to humans, not in the Asimovian way the Anthropic creeps are carping on about, but in the way that it is literally poisoning our air and water www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 10/08/2026
How could things in UK higher ed possibly get worse? Hello for-profit universities run by a firm owned by the Bettencourt family and Canada's biggest pension fund. www.ft.com/content/f094...
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Labour's renewed approach to humanities and social sciences - Beatings will continue until morale improves: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just a reminder as the new academic year kicks off - the UK government has deliberately, ruthlessly, throttled the recruitment of international students, solely to pander to racists, and the resultant 25%+ fall in numbers can and will only accelerate some universities into bankruptcy.
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PSA Technology, Internet, & Policy (TIP) @techpolicy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thrilled to have won this grant! 🎉 And excited to be running our workshop "Growing Up Digital: Young People & Technology" w @psampg.bsky.social *THIS* Wed 16 Sep, bringing together practitioners & academics to discuss and deliberate digital policy in the UK and its (potential) impact on young people
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Like I can't stress enough that this tension is at the heart of everything and if you try and get round it your analysis is going to fall apart. You need wages to live. The people who own everything don't want to pay you. That's it. Everything else is commentary.
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Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ah. Sounded like you were saying uuk employed lots of world class researchers 😆
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Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wonder if the Daily Mail are starting to have a few thoughts about their decades-long campaign of stoking racial hatred? Side note but it really is amazing to see how differently the police *can* treat protesters in certain circumstances
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas
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Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They literally never ask actual academics for any help with anything or ask our views on how the sector should work so no they don't tbh
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Israel has murdered 12 year old Lana and 8 year old Bana along with their mum and dad. Hind Khoudary reporting.
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“The idea that you could be here for the next 10, 15 years and you’d still have no legal right to remain in the country … how the hell do you plan?..It cuts across any effort to integrate at all.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary
Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Nobody: Universities: what if we kept trying to expand while having fewer and fewer staff
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/09/2026
it's a very old rule of moderated digital spaces that you need an "i know it when i see it" clause for harassment or else bad actors will aggressively toe the line without ever technically going over. that's why i don't think the "why cant you give me an exact definition" replies will go anywhere
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In my case, what would have happened if the accounts responsible were banned was that it would have further characterised as me being a special birthday boy smol bean who could dish it out but not take it, when the issue was actually that I didn't dish anything out in the first place.
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covucu.bsky.social @covucu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
CU's VC celebrates his nomination for the University Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award, despite his “dynamic, future-focused” transformation involving 2,788 staff moved to subsidiaries, hundreds of redundancies & stripping of national agreements and collective bargaining. Quite an achievement #UCU
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Michelle Legro @michellelegro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I've been thrilled that @theonion.com is back, with a new/old business model, a healthy subscriber base, and the vision to buy InfoWars. @samblum.bsky.social dug deep into how @bencollins.bsky.social and team plan to reimagine Alex Jones' former media empire. www.inc.com/sam-blum/the...
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The Onion's Audacious Plans for Infowars Are Not a Joke
Owner Jeff Lawson, CEO Ben Collins, and comedian Tim Heidecker tell Inc. how they found themselves owning goblinlove.net and selling gay frog plushies, and what it means for the future of 'The Onion.'
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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm glad someone wrote about the epic missed opportunity of Enough is Enough. As someone who was deeply involved in organising (ucu) strikes at that point, I'm not surprised but the details are shocking and show a true failure of leadership and democracy. novaramedia.com/2026/08/24/w...
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Whatever Happened to the ‘Enough Is Enough’ Campaign? | Joe Todd
Enough Is Enough launched in the summer of 2022 with the promise of turning anger at Britain’s cost of living crisis into action. But just a few months later, it was pretty much over. Joe Todd spoke t...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Every time the press lads disastrously and culpably fuck up, usually with malice of forethought. Every time, without fail.
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A great example of what always happens when the lads are asked to consider their own deep, immediately obvious guilt: like the Iraq War or austerity or Brexit, it turns out it was everybody's fault. And if it's everybody's fault, nobody is really to blame
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Five Months ago I made this TikTok about him getting hired at UGent and I stand by everything I said.
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The birds are so happy about the rain 😭
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Critical Discourse Studies @critdiscstuds.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New #OpenAccess Research Article>> Sonny Osman: News, elites and sex crimes: victim-blaming structures in media portrayals of Virginia L. Giuffre v Prince Andrew www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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News, elites and sex crimes: victim-blaming structures in media portrayals of Virginia L. Giuffre v Prince Andrew
This paper considers media portrayals of the case of Virginia L. Giuffre v Prince Andrew as a means of exploring the hegemonising qualities of news discourse. Informed by theoretical accounts of he...
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Someone pointed out that the internet's most rabid terfs were frothing at the mouth re. the pile on of Dr Jason Arday. Good that after all their attempts to obfuscate and do damage control, Nathan just lays it out there
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Less than one per cent of professors in the UK black, this is a fact - not a debating point Despite this, the British media - particularly columnists - have spun a narrative that academia is full of unqualified black people at the top who are there simply because of they are black This is racist
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
it's hilarious how every article about how universities are terrible places you should avoid is by someone with 2 degrees who made like 17 phone calls to make sure their kids are also in uni
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s notable how much of day-to-day news is just things that you’d expect to read about on a corrupted computer in the bombed-out basement of Poseidon Energy in Fallout 4.
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@MetroUK
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Hundreds of beachgoers fall sick after swimming in UK waters
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This. Our recent survey found that 70% of people felt they would find it difficult or impossible to avoid AI even if they wanted to. We cannot meaningfully consent to something that is baked into everything by default, whether it's used by us or on us. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/over-40...
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Over 40% of people are limiting AI use, as popularity starts to wane | King's College London
People are increasingly choosing to limit or reject the use of AI tools, according to a new report published today by the Digital Futures Institute at King’s College London and Responsible AI UK.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
'“Black British academics – like Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Hazel Carby and Isaac Julien – punch way above their weight globally. The idea that this one incident in some way reflects Black British academia in general is bonkers,” one academic said.'
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‘Old racist wine in a new bottle’: Black academics respond to Jason Arday affair
Figures in higher education feel double standards are being used to delegitimise work of minority groups
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HWUCU @hwucu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WE HAD A DEAL! Watt happened? HWUCU back on strike today because our employer has signalled they won't keep their side of a deal made in June to protect jobs. No Compulsory Redundancy. @ucu.org.uk @joshpizpom.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @theferret.scot @ucuscotland.bsky.social
WE HAD A DEAL banner being hammered by 'worker bee'.
Two people in UCU hats hold a large banner, while a picketer in a bee costume hits the word deal with a mallet.Picketers in front of the Heriot-Watt sign protesting employer double cross.
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