Submit your papers for Post-Pandemic Imaginaries conference by 10 May organised by Centre for Culture and Everyday Life University of Liverpool 5-6 Sept – am already looking forward to being one of the keynotes along with Stef Craps 🕊️ ccel.uk/postpandemic-i…

I pay £190 a month for specialist physiotherapy. Can’t wait to ask my physio if she will accept food vouchers instead. And of course: PIP IS NOT AN OUT OF WORK BENEFIT!!

PIP payments help people with the week-in-week-out extra costs of living with disability. Those costs don't magically go away just because the Tories have given all the money to their rich friends, who can't bear to share it with the less fortunate.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The main downside of post-surgery pain relief I’ve discovered so far is that it has totally unshackled the “I deserve a little treat” part of my brain. Rent £1000, bills £200, little treats £7 million. Someone help me budget this, my family is starving!

Bit worrying that it took a doctor 14 years to realise that the Tories will always destroy the NHS (and presumably vote for every cut that has so obscenely damaged public health). I can only assume the threat of defeat at the next election helped speed up his thinking.

I am slated to do a paid speaking engagement at a university that has just started a Gaza solidarity encampment🇵🇸.

Does anyone have thoughts on whether in solidarity I should:

a) cancel and cite divestment,
b) still speak to the students & express solidarity, or
c) other?

Westminster City Council Bull Inn Court opens onto the pavement at Maiden Lane. There is no dropped kerb. 15 & 16 Maiden Ln both have tables completely obstructing the pavement. 15 Maiden Ln said, 'we have a licence' & refused to move the tables.

Excited to see the Special Issue of Humor (De Gruyter Brill) on ‘Humour and Religion’ that I co-edited with Paul Martin is now available! A number of the articles are open access: degruyter.com/journal/key/hu…

Winner highlight - This year's Hart Publishing - SLSA Prize for Early Career Academics - went to Jess Smith Jess Smith - Law, Registration, and the State: Making Identities through Space, Place, and Movement (2023) Routledge. Link to the book below. Congratulations Jess!🥳

Warwick Palestine if you want to show your support you can

follow and RT Warwick Palestine
they do not currently need donations, but have said you can make donations to Medical Aid for Palestinians
and if you're around then go to campus and join their events. here's the schedule:
x.com/WarwickUCU/sta…

Sincere apologies to my anaesthetist who just wanted some lighthearted “isn’t it funny that we now also ask men if they’re pregnant” banter & was not prepared to be subjected to a full intro to sex & gender lecture by a patient. Assume this is why I was suddenly very unconscious

Another shout out for my open offer of a chat for anyone who is applying for academic jobs (as quite a few have been advertised over the last few weeks).

If some feedback or advice would help, please just drop me an e-mail and I'll do my best!

Professor Julia Black, President of the British Academy, reflects on the situation facing humanities departments at many UK Universities - read more: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/just-like…

In need of a specialist on family law in Bosnia & Herzegovina for a rapid and short piece of paid research. If anyone can help please get in touch.

Hot off the press our blogpost about how the shift to online legal processes leaves many behind, based on our recent book. blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2… Arabella Kyprianides Ben Bradford Jonathan Jackson Nuffield Foundation

whenever i hear about mass graves i think about this time back home when they had discovered a new mass grave & i had to call the person on site (some of whose family members were still missing) & ask how many bodies they had uncovered
& he said
it's not bodies, it's body parts

'Many of us have spent our entire lives defending human rights for everyone, everywhere, often in the face of great opposition. Our critics know this. What they really oppose is our desire to build a more equal, sustainable and peaceful world for all.'