@echomikeromeo.bsky.social
Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
@mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.socialThe people holding up the internet https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet
@onnigust.bsky.socialReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social41% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking.
@echomikeromeo.bsky.socialI found this so moving and thought-provoking!!
@goldsmithsucu.bsky.socialReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social1/8 Now in our 15th week of indefinite strike action against the next phase of staff cuts, we are calling for urgent fundraising support from across UCU and all trade unions to help us through one of the longest and most difficult disputes in our branch's history.
opencollective.com/goldsmithsmu...
@eicathomefinn.bsky.socialReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social'In response to the era of artificial intelligence, and the questions it raises about culture, copyright and corporate power, the academics behind the Stuart Hall Archive Project have barred AI bots from accessing the data.'
@eicathomefinn.bsky.socialReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social'In the 1980s and 90s Lincoln, like many cities, was struggling as its long-established engineering factories closed down, while a lack of higher education opportunities led to many young people moving away.' Which history will repeat itself at Lincoln?
@echomikeromeo.bsky.social(we did, however, learn what a gerund is)
@echomikeromeo.bsky.social(apologies to Walt for the invidious comparison in the service of a tired millennial lecturer's bad joke)
@echomikeromeo.bsky.socialYouth of Today update: told my queer history undergrads yesterday that this Whitman poem reminded me of the L Word theme song and they all stared blankly at me
@nathankhensley.bsky.socialReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read???
@echomikeromeo.bsky.socialYes!!!!
@echomikeromeo.bsky.socialIt’s us!!
@eicathomefinn.bsky.socialReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social'The Future Nottingham programme, approved by the university’s council on 5 October, will cut 560 jobs, close departments including modern languages and music, and increase staff-student ratios.' The future is bleak.
@ucuglasgow.bsky.socialReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.socialBALLOT LAUNCH TODAY! Our local ballot opens today, and your ballot will be arriving to your mailing address this week. Make sure to vote and post your ballot as soon as you can! Our ballot window is from Oct 6 to Nov 10. We recommend you Vote YES to strike action and Vote YES to ASOS!
@notrightruth.bsky.socialReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.socialTürkiye's government is violently cracking down on LGBTQ+ civil society, targeting trans women especially. Among the groups attacked are Kaos GL, who previously translated and republished some of my work in their journal.
I am grateful therefore for this statement of solidarity from @ucu.org.uk.
@iamdylanlewis.bsky.socialReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.socialAnother year of Queer Bibliography— please share widely; we are looking forward to this!
@chrismillard83.bsky.socialReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.socialthe number of ethical, privacy-based, and practical problems with feeding grant applications into LLMs for triage without human confirmation is dizzying “a machine can never be held accountable, so a machine must never make a decision” has never been more apt
@ginagwenffrewi.bsky.socialReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.socialSolidarity to UCU staff at the University of Edinburgh as they fight to save jobs against a relentless senior management 'downsizing' crusade.
@ucu.org.ukReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.socialOur members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.
@ucu.org.ukReposted by @echomikeromeo.bsky.socialColleagues at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian are all on strike today over job cuts. Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.
