Saorfhlaith Burton
@drfloraposte.bsky.social
Lecturer in Criminology at RGU; Visiting Lecturer at Newcastle Sociology. I write and research on hauntings, ghosts, graveyards, the wilderness, and other sundry death things. Book forthcoming with MUP.
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Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
June 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
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The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?
June 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?
Thank you to all the amazing @britsoci.bsky.social staff for putting on such a lovely event this year! #britsoc25
3 days, 15 streams, 700 presentations, our annual conference is our biggest UK sociology event – this year on the theme of Social Transformations #britsoc25
April 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Thank you to all the amazing @britsoci.bsky.social staff for putting on such a lovely event this year! #britsoc25
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Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool
April 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool
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Research by Newcastle, Northumbria & Durham universities reveals gaps in police custody healthcare, sparking calls for healthcare for those in custody to be brought under the NHS remit.
Read more @the-independent.com tinyurl.com/5cjwf66d
Our animation for Newcastle Uni illustrates the findings.
Read more @the-independent.com tinyurl.com/5cjwf66d
Our animation for Newcastle Uni illustrates the findings.
April 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Research by Newcastle, Northumbria & Durham universities reveals gaps in police custody healthcare, sparking calls for healthcare for those in custody to be brought under the NHS remit.
Read more @the-independent.com tinyurl.com/5cjwf66d
Our animation for Newcastle Uni illustrates the findings.
Read more @the-independent.com tinyurl.com/5cjwf66d
Our animation for Newcastle Uni illustrates the findings.
On my way to #britsoc25 and ofc my first train of the day is cancelled 🤦♀️
April 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
On my way to #britsoc25 and ofc my first train of the day is cancelled 🤦♀️
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Looking forward to the @britsoci.bsky.social conference this week. l'll be giving the plenary 'What Can Sociology Say about Right-Wing Extremism & the Mainstreaming of Racism & the Far-Right?' and @bsaecf.bsky.social masterclass 'Teaching & Researching the Far-Right & Extremism'
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BSA Annual Conference 2025: Social Transformations
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April 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Looking forward to the @britsoci.bsky.social conference this week. l'll be giving the plenary 'What Can Sociology Say about Right-Wing Extremism & the Mainstreaming of Racism & the Far-Right?' and @bsaecf.bsky.social masterclass 'Teaching & Researching the Far-Right & Extremism'
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tinyurl.com/bdhcmhhp
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so they're mycoblogging
April 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
so they're mycoblogging
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amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down
April 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down
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They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
April 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”
They are so afraid of us.
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'Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?’ - Judith Butler
The 'impartial' Alice Sullivan saying Trump is right about trans people
March 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
'Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?’ - Judith Butler
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Off to Newcastle Sociology today to host this event - with wonderful speakers including Les, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, @katesang.bsky.social, Anoop Nayak, Alison Phipps, and @britsoci.bsky.social’s own Alison Danforth.
#AcademicSky #Sociology
#AcademicSky #Sociology
In Newcastle to speak at this the BSA event Coping, Thriving Progressing? What Happens After ‘Early Career’. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... Also, going to do a ‘This Cultural Life’ conversation with the inimitable Miranda Iossifidis for the Sociology Seminar.
Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’?
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March 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Off to Newcastle Sociology today to host this event - with wonderful speakers including Les, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, @katesang.bsky.social, Anoop Nayak, Alison Phipps, and @britsoci.bsky.social’s own Alison Danforth.
#AcademicSky #Sociology
#AcademicSky #Sociology
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In Newcastle to speak at this the BSA event Coping, Thriving Progressing? What Happens After ‘Early Career’. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... Also, going to do a ‘This Cultural Life’ conversation with the inimitable Miranda Iossifidis for the Sociology Seminar.
Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’?
www.britsoc.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
In Newcastle to speak at this the BSA event Coping, Thriving Progressing? What Happens After ‘Early Career’. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... Also, going to do a ‘This Cultural Life’ conversation with the inimitable Miranda Iossifidis for the Sociology Seminar.
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March 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I was made very welcome today at Topping & Co Edinburgh. *Sixty* copies of Pathfinding have now been signed, alongside quite a few copies of Wanderers. Pop in if you’re in the area and fancy an autographed first edition of my new book!
March 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I was made very welcome today at Topping & Co Edinburgh. *Sixty* copies of Pathfinding have now been signed, alongside quite a few copies of Wanderers. Pop in if you’re in the area and fancy an autographed first edition of my new book!
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Leadership from UC Berkeley.
"...we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, & freedom of expression.... we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values."
"...we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, & freedom of expression.... we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values."
March 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Leadership from UC Berkeley.
"...we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, & freedom of expression.... we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values."
"...we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, & freedom of expression.... we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values."
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Solidarity with our Newcastle University members on strike today ✊
The 6th day of strike action this month fighting against hundreds of job cuts 💪
The whole union is behind you 🪧
Read more: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1391...
The 6th day of strike action this month fighting against hundreds of job cuts 💪
The whole union is behind you 🪧
Read more: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1391...
March 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Solidarity with our Newcastle University members on strike today ✊
The 6th day of strike action this month fighting against hundreds of job cuts 💪
The whole union is behind you 🪧
Read more: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1391...
The 6th day of strike action this month fighting against hundreds of job cuts 💪
The whole union is behind you 🪧
Read more: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1391...
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🚨🚨 An ECF workshop is going to be hosted at Newcastle University on 21 March 2025: "Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’?" Hope to see you there! 🚨🚨
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’?
www.britsoc.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨🚨 An ECF workshop is going to be hosted at Newcastle University on 21 March 2025: "Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’?" Hope to see you there! 🚨🚨
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
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Me: *reading Wuthering Heights at age 10*
Mum: I mean, at least she’s reading, what’s the worst that could happen
Me: if it’s not necrophilia, it’s not true love!
Mum: I mean, at least she’s reading, what’s the worst that could happen
Me: if it’s not necrophilia, it’s not true love!
March 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Me: *reading Wuthering Heights at age 10*
Mum: I mean, at least she’s reading, what’s the worst that could happen
Me: if it’s not necrophilia, it’s not true love!
Mum: I mean, at least she’s reading, what’s the worst that could happen
Me: if it’s not necrophilia, it’s not true love!
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words I never imagined writing in my lifetime.....
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
March 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
words I never imagined writing in my lifetime.....
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
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I feel like David Lynch deserved more than 5 seconds of a montage, and Shelly DuVall deserved more than to be nearly cropped out of the frame, hovering above the orchestra, and Tony Todd deserved literally anything. I guess sometimes I wish the Oscars were a funeral to celebrate those lost.
March 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I feel like David Lynch deserved more than 5 seconds of a montage, and Shelly DuVall deserved more than to be nearly cropped out of the frame, hovering above the orchestra, and Tony Todd deserved literally anything. I guess sometimes I wish the Oscars were a funeral to celebrate those lost.
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Week 2 of our industrial action to save jobs at the University of Dundee begins now.
Come and join or visit our friendly picket line at the Tower Building, every day from 8am.
Here’s what we have achieved in the first week.
Come and join or visit our friendly picket line at the Tower Building, every day from 8am.
Here’s what we have achieved in the first week.
March 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Week 2 of our industrial action to save jobs at the University of Dundee begins now.
Come and join or visit our friendly picket line at the Tower Building, every day from 8am.
Here’s what we have achieved in the first week.
Come and join or visit our friendly picket line at the Tower Building, every day from 8am.
Here’s what we have achieved in the first week.