Michael Larkin

@ipanalysis.bsky.social

1.5K followers 1.4K following 1.2K posts

Researcher, phenomenologist, parent to various creatures, some sort of musician, baker, reader, breaker of stuff, liker of seas and hills, sufferer of Boro.

https://collaborativeresearch.co.uk/

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Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 19h

Kenny - meet Kenny!

Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 1d

Phew!

Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 1d

I was late - Tornado ish - but it's a rare joy when you start listening to someone, and discover there's a whole back catalogue of stuff at the same high standard to work through!

Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 1d

Love that record

Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no!

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder: you are NOT unusual, weird, or unlovable if you have:

- no one to see on Christmas Day,
- no presents, or
- no contactable relatives.

Very few people live the idealised version on TV. Those of us who live differently—whether by choice or trauma—matter as much.

Reposted by Michael Larkin

Jeremy Bearimy @satyric.bsky.social · 2d

It’s like if Creative SoundBlasters were keeping the banks open.

Reposted by Michael Larkin

Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been teaching medical students stimulants treat hyperactivity by “stimulating” the brain’s attention systems, but it turns out I was wrong. Stimulants mimicked the effects of getting more sleep and anticipated reward, not attention.

Maps showing brain regions whose connectivity is most affected by stimulants and by sleep duration. The maps are very similar, r = 0.58.

Reposted by Michael Larkin

Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 3d

OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062

Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact

From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...

petition.parliament.uk

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Lucy Munro, Michael Larkin

Franglaise @franglaise.bsky.social · 3d

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas

He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic

Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates

He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Dark attic room with stone walls, cardboard on floor with single mattress & antique coffee table (random)

Reposted by Steven French, Fabián Muniesa, Richard Pettigrew , and 1 more Steven French, Fabián Muniesa, Richard Pettigrew, Michael Larkin

Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 4d

Publication day! It’s been a long journey to get to this point, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s supported that, and to @routledgebooks.bsky.social for publishing it.

Me looking at the camera and smiling, holding up a copy of my book Epistemic Injustice An Introduction

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Katrina Navickas, Michael Larkin

Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 4d

I think it’s really important we do *not* attribute this failure to “fossilized thinking” on the part of academics, but on the part of business studies-led management teams who value “internal markets” over education.

Reposted by Michael Larkin

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 4d

Bok bok

A fancy chicken on a gold background on a postcard

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 4d

Hear Bad History Month's benefit cover of roommate Dust From 1000 Years' "The Fighters"

Bad History Month Covers Dust From 1000 Years' "The Fighters": Listen

Every few months you can count on Bad History Month’s Bandcamp page to update with some high-quality artisanal small-batch indie rock. Recently, that has involved a lot of covers of the same band. On ...

stereogum.com

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 5d

The films of the year: 26 discoveries, 10 old favourites, 7 bad movies, 6 re-appraisals and 5 obsessions. Feat. all your faves: Linda Fiorentino, Joan Micklin Silver, Sinners, Wallis Island, Argentinean child noir, and really quite a lot of John Ford. advicetothelovelorn.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...

Amy Irving and Peter Riegert in Crossing Delancey (Joan Micklin Silver, 1988), my favourite discovery of the year

Henry Fonda in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

James Spader making Maggie Gyllenhaal spit something into his hand in the execrable Secretary (2002). I have low-key registered my contempt for the film by not bothering to find a hi-res still

Reposted by Michael Larkin

Dudley Colley @thecorpo.bsky.social · 5d

2nd last ever Click Clack on 2XM now streaming here,
www.rte.ie/radio/2xm/cl..., sob. Last ever one goes out on Stephen's day, save some of your selection box 'til 1PM Friday and bid farewell with me!

Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 6d

This is excellent

Andi Fugard @andifugard.info · 6d

Policy #evaluation inherits concepts from multiple disciplines, and somewhere along the way many of them have become muddled. This blog post sketches what I think are seven of the most irritating myths.
andifugard.info/seven-persis...

Seven persistent myths about evaluation – Andi Fugard (∧⇒)

andifugard.info

Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 6d

We did some codesign work with DA survivors, support orgs, and West Mids Police, pre-pandemic, and education about relationships (but in *primary schools) was something all three advocated for.

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 6d

Presumably the notion that there’s an epidemic of violent misogyny in our society, and that what the perpetrators overwhelmingly have in common is being men, would interfere with the narrative that it’s an imported problem caused by foreigners

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 6d

This is the second story in three days The Times has carried arguing against misogyny lessons in schools, which it describes as "some weird feminist attack on male children".

Reposted by Michael Larkin

Andi Fugard @andifugard.info · 6d

Seven persistent myths about evaluation – Andi Fugard (∧⇒)

andifugard.info

Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 6d

Furious!

Reposted by Steve Peers, Michael Larkin

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 6d

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 6d

This is the second story in three days The Times has carried arguing against misogyny lessons in schools, which it describes as "some weird feminist attack on male children".

Camilla Long. Britain has found a new ideological enemy: 14-year-old boys. There is no evidence telling children not to be misogynists will stop them attacking women.

Misogyny lessons will now be rolled out to 11-year-old precrimers by the end of this parliament. I’m sorry, but in what way isn’t this some weird feminist attack on male children? They’ll be taught about AI and “deepfakes”. They will be told about “involuntary celibates (incels) and misogynistic influencers”. “External providers” will come in and provide, I’m guessing, a whole load of damaging ideological slurry. How did that work out for trans?

Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 6d

Looked like he was trying to play himself out of their options!

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PhenoLab @phenolab.bsky.social · 7d

🎉📌🗓️3rd PhenoLab Summer School in Umbria (Italy)
"Phenomenology and Medicine. Exploring the Lived Experience of Illness and Care"
June 8-12, 2026
Palazzo Mauri in Spoleto (PG)
Call for papers available here: phenolab.blogspot.com/2025/12/3rd-...

DEADLINE: February 15, 2026

3rd PhenoLab Summer School in Umbria (Italy)

Phenomenology and Medicine. Exploring the Lived Experience of Illness and Care When : June 8-12, 2026 Venue : Palazzo Mauri in Spoleto (PG...

phenolab.blogspot.com

Reposted by Gilles Louppe, Michael Larkin

Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 7d

Doing a PhD is - at heart - one long discussion with your mentor. The discussion changes over time - with unexpected turns and ups & downs - but through it all is a pair of people discussing a topic endlessly to make sense of it.
PhD students: choose someone you like to talk to!

Reposted by John Drury, Jill A. Jacobson, Michael Larkin

Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 8d

ECR looking for a change in the New Year?

We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social !

If you’d like to talk about life in the Department, please do feel free to get in touch.

Deadline 8th Feb - More details below 👇

cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Lecturer in Psychology (2303) - Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck

cis7.bbk.ac.uk

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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 8d

I guarantee, I absolutely guarantee, the people making the "disabled people are faking it" are not disabled themselves nor indeed do they have disabled people in their social proximity. Otherwise they'd understand that disabilities take infinite and often non-visible forms, and that the "advantages"

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher, Michael Larkin

Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 9d

This year, @annayahprosser.bsky.social, Tamarinde Haven, Nicki Lisa Cole, and I have tried to envision the ideal, utopian future for open qualitative research.

We've had community workshops, talks, a charter, grant apps, a special issue, all to build "Qualitopia" for 2026✨ qualitopia.my.canva.site

Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 10d

I've been part of a team contributing to this project about understanding young people's experiences of high-follower TikTok influencer accounts posting about mental health. Excited to be chairing the Mental Elf webinar in the new year: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wtf-this-i... #qualitative #linguistics

"WTF, this is so dangerous!" Social media influencers & youth mental health

Join our event and hear youth-led insights on what good and bad mental health communication looks like online.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell.bsky.social · 10d

What's notable about Aviv's Sacks article is not so much that he fictionalised (although you can argue about the extent to which this was appropriate for any particular case), but that he fictionalised using his own story to fill other people's stories.

Reposted by Andreas Ortmann, Wim Van Lancker, Patrick S. Forscher , and 3 more Andreas Ortmann, Wim Van Lancker, Patrick S. Forscher, Veli‐Matti Karhulahti, Paul Nightingale, Michael Larkin

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 10d

You remember that Nature Aging paper about how multilingualism protects against accelerated aging? Well…

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