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Katie Alcock

@wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social
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Developmental psychologist, gender critical, lefty, the Bay area (the rainy one in England). Views my own and those of the Supreme Court, not my employer.

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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is he like those lights in offices where you have to keep waving to keep them on? If we stop waving, will he go back in his box?
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
On the evidence based/social media/where do people get their medical information from strand: NHS SUSSEX THINKS EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE IS JUST AN OPINION tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/redvers-v-... Yes, you heard right.
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Redvers v NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board & Mr Adam Doyle
Dr S Redvers (claimant), a named GP safeguarding lead is bringing a constructive dismissal case against NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board (respondent).
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'd be really interested (though of course we already know the answer, just not in quantitative terms) in how influential social media is in persuading parents that their child who likes to dress in opposite-sex stereotyped clothes is in need of medical intervention.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Did the women ask not to have paracetamol prescribed, so the doctors aren't prescribing or recommending, or were the doctors also influenced (not clear from the link)?
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Because?
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Time from invitation to review till declining to review: approx 0.02 seconds. Maybe it's the time of day/year or maybe it's the (journal formulated) way I asked.
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Grumpy Little Girl's 'Fine, Umph' Reaction
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't recall mentioning the ethnicity of my mediocre colleagues who were promoted beyond their capacity.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
H/T someone on X: JKR makes baby so excited she's born in the cinema while watching Harry Potter. Cinema have sent the family 4 free passes to see it again as they missed the end. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...,
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Baby born in cinema has Broughton Cineworld on birth certificate
Elsie Lamb was born in the Cineworld at Broughton, Flintshire, about 40 minutes into the film.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
they had not set off home yet. Oh, we're waiting for our big brothers and sisters to walk home with us. Oh, is it far? No, not far but we go over the river and it has crocodiles.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Aside: a story I tell my students about the multiple reasons for children not attending school. We were testing in a rural school in Tanzania and the grade 1s had class in the morning while the grade 2s were in the afternoon. We spotted some grade 1s playing in the afternoon and asked why
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I see that school championships are already held on the river. I wonder if the teachers get to nominate the most troublesome pupils for rowing competitions?
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Gato Cat
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Grace Hurford PhD @ghurford.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wonderful. For all my dissertation students out there…. ❤️
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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That Reform oyster bar sting in full The new Private Eye is out now.
A photo of the front cover of issue 1683 of Private Eye magazine with the caption “ON SHELVES NOW!” Heading reads “THAT REFORM OYSTER BAR STING IN FULL” and features an image of Nigel Farage eating an oyster, with speechbubbles reading: “How many would you like?”, “500,000 please!”, “Shellfish?”, “You bet I am!”, “It is not a good year for Nigel”, “Don’t swallow anything he says!”, “Watch out, he could be dodgy!” and “He’s too slimy for me!” The bottom caption reads “PUBLIC ‘NOT LISTENING’ TO FARAGE EXCUSES SHOCK!”
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UnHerd @unherd.com · 08/09/2026
‘It makes no sense to support the separation of men and women in public spaces and in the same breath describe yourself as a “proud feminist”’ | Joan Smith unherd.com/newsroom/ste...
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Stella Creasy is giving Muslim misogyny a free pass
Some ideas are just incompatible. For example, it makes no sense to support the separation of men and women in public spaces and in the same breath describe yourself as a “proud feminist”. Trying to…
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
She's not very bright.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A POX on organisations that say they will notify you of your grant outcome on a given day AND THEN DON'T.
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Blackadder
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A very good day to post this. As of today, Girlguiding is back to being single sex. The first time I've been interviewed by a church, also, and it's (partly) on my research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=led7...
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Church on Wheels: Kicked out of Girlguiding for my views on gender
YouTube video by Church on the Street Ministries
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We are on holiday. It is pretty.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's so demeaning to say any one group - Black people, women - all have a hive mind www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
No, I don't want to link Claude to Gmail and Slack. Heck, I don't want to link Claude to anything, just check the odd bit of code for errors. Can't I do that in a bunker?
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It's only me desperately trying to write a job spec for a job I may never have the money for AND a conference presentation because the conference is 2 days after I get back from holiday. In related news we bought our kids an actual typewriter this summer and it's been a hit.
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Cat Typing on Laptop in Blue Shirt
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Groan.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Why? We have men's loos, women's loos, both with space for a friend not in the cubicle, on a different floor we have a wheelchair accessible loo and single use unisex cubicles. What else do we need?
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I thought that was a picture of Count Binface.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
you just need a little bite, but then you feel obliged to buy the whole package.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My aim for today (apart from actually analysing the data) is not to install any R packages that I don't need, so that when I go back I can remember what all the packages I used are actually for. Most R tutorials are like those people in department stores who hand out tasters: here, have this one,
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 03/08/2026
Alright it’s my regular call to arms- please share and donate!! Cost per special forces interpreter is £11k (this is bargain compared to the amount govt waste) and we have only raised £5k of our £55k target. Also I’m walking up mountains for 10 hours 🙏 thank you www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £55000 to bring our remaining caseload to safety and provide the support they need. – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to bring our remaining caseload to safety and provide the support they need.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
and then came out with the papers and the reviewers weren't allowed to take copies, or substantive notes.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
One of my colleagues does top secret research that the Police/counter terrorism uses (as I'm a psychologist you can probably have a guess what area). Their research was reviewed for the last Research Excellence Framework and apparently they went into a room with the reviewers and some papers
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Incorrect, I am not about to start a new R project, I am about to update R Studio. Of course I am.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
About to start a new R project to analyse the data my students collected. Here's hoping their analysis was right, because it was pretty interesting!
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I have not but I got a message from a relative who saw one at a very significant family moment so there's that.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A local man uses them to film his cleaning of the River Lune and that's the only good use I've seen of them.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm supposed to be working but I can't stop laughing www.instagram.com/reel/Db6h1wr...
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countbinface on Instagram: "An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinfaceView all 293 comments"
An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It's not going to change anyone's skeleton.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If we make our existing three loo and three sink women's toilets into 3 unisex self contained toilets you will not be able to get a pram into any of them. At the moment you can get one into the outer space. Can't get in a wheelchair either way.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
She's also obviously female in build and body shape. As are most other women. Testosterone doesn't change the skeleton or the way women walk.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I've been using it and teaching about it for a while now. Looking at their suggested alternatives, I'm not sure there are any I'm currently familiar with but I've asked colleagues what they've used. I have data in the UK Data Archive but it's not open to everyone.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I don't want to use the term "cis". I know lots of men who neither identify as women nor have a gender identity. The reasons we don't have mass unisex facilities are many: space, money, safety, children, accompanying adults... In my workplace, we have sets of both, but no room for more unisex.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
(Rather like the distress people have because they think conspiracy theories are true). It's not my project though.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I agree it's an umbrella term, but it includes distress that people have because they THINK gender is real.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Indeed, men who don't identify as trans need to stop thinking "eww he's in a dress he's not a man" and stop attacking (we can graciously assume, though there's no evidence it happens) men who say they are women using the men's facilities. Extend that to gay men and those with disabilities too.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
They are very unlikely to be tall and broad if they are a biological female who's taken testosterone. Even less likely if they took puberty blockers before that.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you are a child why are you on Bluesky?
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The leaders of Lambeth, Hackney, Haringey, Lewisham, Southwark & Waltham Forest councils made a joint commitment to keep their services “inclusive" and ignore the EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces for women. The new Manchester Mayor has adopted the same position. They all intend to break the law.
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Local councils must obey the law of the land on trans rights
Women’s sex-based rights and their very existence as a sex class have been under attack for years
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
My colleague with the most PhD students has 3 as first supervisor and 4 as second.
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"I would be sceptical of every single claim" fixed it for you...
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Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm guessing the people who ran it through Turnitin, don't know how to use Turnitin. TBF a colleague new to our university accidentally wrote several students' worth of feedback comments on Turnitin rather than Moodle. It's not that transparent.
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