alírio

very small megafauna, very big potato. a luta continua. organizer @MimbresSchool. black studies at warwick. they/ele

[alírio @thereriver]

i am just here to complain

[✒️ @Literariium]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID

[Jon Brady @_jonbrady]

BBC: "have you ever been to Clacton?"

@CountBinface: "no, because I understand from the current incumbent that is part of how you do the job."

politics is BACK, baby

[inefficient rhubarb snackowski @snackowska]

humanities studies demand a high tolerance for what one of my profs would call "non-mastery." you have to be okay with reading things you're not in a position to understand. eventually you put together enough ground to grasp it better, but it still escapes at the end of the day

[alírio @thereriver]

if it is also true that all academics do is watch corny tv shows, there may be a horrible solution to this problem

[drumm colin @drumm_colin]

basically everything nearly anyone has ever written about coins is wrong. at first it was strange, then annoying, then it really started to make me quite upset, now i feel exhausted because i know that even if i tell them true things about coins, they are unlikely to change

[jerome @_jrrdy]

gave a talk last year, where in the q&a, i used var as an example of how a technology, cast in a light of objectivity, can perturb a social institution in ways unrecognizable and thus agonizing to participants. how "certainty" can feel as shocking and unfair as uncertainty

[alexa @alexadoingstuff]

Was getting a little flustered thinking I overcooked the potatoes and my bf goes “potatoes are very forgiving” and it was just so powerful I hope everyone can one day experience the forgiveness of a potato

[S. I. Rubinstein @si_rubinstein]

At some point academics will surely have to take the fight to the Admin Class. Say straightforwardly to VCs that if cuts have to be made, then it’s time to liquidate the lanyards.

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

I am continually astonished at the number of academic administrators who cannot read a balance book and do not realize that cutting the subjects that cross-subsidize others can never mathematically save them money.

[Dr Daisy Dixon @daisyldixon]

so many of us academics in the UK, especially in the arts & humanities, are constantly undervalued, having to always fight for our jobs, and justify our existence.

This seemingly unending battle just to teach, research and write for our ancient disciplines - that are imperative for critical thinking, imagination, empathy, future employment, and political participation - often feels futile and is causing widespread distress and disillusionment within the higher education sector.

The funding model and wider political climate is what’s wrong with the university sector - not its tireless, brilliant workers.

Sending solidarity to colleagues at Exeter, Nottingham, and Dundee.

[alírio @thereriver]

@drumm_colin let me retweet

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

Check out "The Problem of Passing" by Sandra Harvey, which reframes passing narratives as mythologies that invent and police blackness across historical contexts. Read the introduction now for free. https://t.co/EIBr9Wy1Q9

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

broadly i think you can categorise all cats into cats that think they are people, cats that know they are cats, and cats that will never know a single thing their entire lives

[Judith Butler Bible Thumper @philosophysux]

gay people talking about their favourite pop star:

[Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🕊️ 🇵🇸 @portraitinflesh]

I suppose it was inevitable that poor Moo Deng would eventually be supplanted by a younger model. Such is the vicious, ageist world of baby hippo politics.

[a relentless necessity @CapenerSean]

i am once again begging people to learn to distinguish between what an author says they are doing and what they are actually doing

[alírio @thereriver]

@Arbeitologist i like when nandos is invoked, a south african fast food chain producing a bastardised version of a food the portuguese bastardised from mozambicans. feels very apropos in a way

[alírio @thereriver]

@_jrrdy perhaps i am just stupid but why are none of the authors (straw and regular alike) from the universities the report is ostensible from

[csz @cszabla]

new levels of strikebreaking at edinburgh: docking pay for the people not participating in the strike for not working extra hard as scab labor on top of their other responsibilities

[ROAPE journal @ROAPEjournal]

A reminder that ROAPE is looking for two affiliates to join the journal’s Editorial Working Group for a year starting from September 2026.

Please apply by 9 June - all details are in the post!

https://t.co/Jflyd94wqT

[Erin Risch Zoutendam @erin_zoutendam]

Ask yourself whether you want to be treated by a self-educated doctor. Of course not. Drive over a bridge designed by a self-educated engineer? No thanks. Why not? We intuitively know that a self-educated "doctor" or "engineer" is likely to have massive gaps in their knowledge. +