Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas
@drkcarrutherst.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary academic, podcaster, 'A Feminist Family History in Eight Lives' https://open.spotify.com/show/3wQk4knM8L8P8FSZ52FJqg Into creative research dissemination and supporting academic writing. www.thinkthreeways.com
The second session of @srhe.bsky.social #AcWriMo2025 is today! Regular #writing means the thinking can continue more easily between sessions. #HigherEducation #academia 🤓
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The second session of @srhe.bsky.social #AcWriMo2025 is today! Regular #writing means the thinking can continue more easily between sessions. #HigherEducation #academia 🤓
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
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Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
It was good to run the first of four @srhe.bsky.social #AcWriMo2025 sessions this week with academics appreciating protected time to #write. It's NOT a given in our workloads even though it's expected and part of performance management. Next session is Monday. #HigherEducation # academia
November 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It was good to run the first of four @srhe.bsky.social #AcWriMo2025 sessions this week with academics appreciating protected time to #write. It's NOT a given in our workloads even though it's expected and part of performance management. Next session is Monday. #HigherEducation # academia
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Every year on #Halloween we carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃
We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Every year on #Halloween we carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃
We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
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October 31, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
I have a chapter in the forthcoming edited collection from Policy Press: Grant & Kara 'Using Documents In Research'. My chapter discusses the creation of a digital archive (www.deardiaryresearch.co.uk) from diary entries/interview transcripts. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/using-docume...
October 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I have a chapter in the forthcoming edited collection from Policy Press: Grant & Kara 'Using Documents In Research'. My chapter discusses the creation of a digital archive (www.deardiaryresearch.co.uk) from diary entries/interview transcripts. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/using-docume...
#OutOfOffice on while I travel by train and back to the heel of #Italy.
September 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
#OutOfOffice on while I travel by train and back to the heel of #Italy.
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September 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
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Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
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In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
September 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."
Fictionally sandwiched between Rachelle Atalla's #ThirstyAnimals (omg claustrophobic from p1) and Jane Smiley's 3rd of 3 #GoldenAge. A tome. Dare I pack it as my holiday reading? Think I have to! Thank you #SheffieldLibraries 💜
September 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Fictionally sandwiched between Rachelle Atalla's #ThirstyAnimals (omg claustrophobic from p1) and Jane Smiley's 3rd of 3 #GoldenAge. A tome. Dare I pack it as my holiday reading? Think I have to! Thank you #SheffieldLibraries 💜
Inspiring visit to #Abbeydale #IndustrialHamlet yesterday as part of #Sheffield #OpenHeritage. Secret recipe for forged #steel #scythes On our doorstep. A fantastic project to conserve and open up Sheffield's industrial history.
September 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Inspiring visit to #Abbeydale #IndustrialHamlet yesterday as part of #Sheffield #OpenHeritage. Secret recipe for forged #steel #scythes On our doorstep. A fantastic project to conserve and open up Sheffield's industrial history.
Timeline cleanse. Wheelwright's counter, Folk Museum #ShibdenHall.
September 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Timeline cleanse. Wheelwright's counter, Folk Museum #ShibdenHall.
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Silhouetted remains of the High Court Banksy
creating a curiously medieval quality...as if depicting Thomas a Becket being attacked in the crypt
'It is dangerous for men in power, if no-one dares to tell them when they go wrong'
Thomas A Becket 1118-1170
creating a curiously medieval quality...as if depicting Thomas a Becket being attacked in the crypt
'It is dangerous for men in power, if no-one dares to tell them when they go wrong'
Thomas A Becket 1118-1170
September 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Silhouetted remains of the High Court Banksy
creating a curiously medieval quality...as if depicting Thomas a Becket being attacked in the crypt
'It is dangerous for men in power, if no-one dares to tell them when they go wrong'
Thomas A Becket 1118-1170
creating a curiously medieval quality...as if depicting Thomas a Becket being attacked in the crypt
'It is dangerous for men in power, if no-one dares to tell them when they go wrong'
Thomas A Becket 1118-1170
Post-conference in #Manchester sunshine. Phew. Enough for now!
September 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Post-conference in #Manchester sunshine. Phew. Enough for now!
Congratulations and thanks to @drhelenkara.bsky.social and her brilliant team for hosting and mosting #ICRMC Number 3. Lots of new faces and lovely to catch up with the veterans! Ideas, inspiration and warmth. Here's to #ICRMC26!
September 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Congratulations and thanks to @drhelenkara.bsky.social and her brilliant team for hosting and mosting #ICRMC Number 3. Lots of new faces and lovely to catch up with the veterans! Ideas, inspiration and warmth. Here's to #ICRMC26!
Great first outing for The #HECareerGame prototype at #ICRMC2025 with an inspirational group of #female #academics. Many insights, ideas and suggestions. Thank you all!
September 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Great first outing for The #HECareerGame prototype at #ICRMC2025 with an inspirational group of #female #academics. Many insights, ideas and suggestions. Thank you all!
Super soft launch of my new #gender and #HE project tomorrow at #ICRMC25 Manchester! Workshopping The HE #CareerGame (might look familiar but with added features!).Very happy to get @britishacademy.bsky.social funding to take this around the sector next year 🤓. @bcu.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Super soft launch of my new #gender and #HE project tomorrow at #ICRMC25 Manchester! Workshopping The HE #CareerGame (might look familiar but with added features!).Very happy to get @britishacademy.bsky.social funding to take this around the sector next year 🤓. @bcu.bsky.social
So proud to be part of the Editorial Advisory Board for this new journal! And looking forward to the launch! #CreativeMethods @drhelenkara.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social
Our newest @brisunipress.bsky.social journal is here! We are so grateful to the fantastic editorial team. Launch event in Manchester on Monday at the International Creative Research Methods conference led by the exceptional @drhelenkara.bsky.social, Founder and Consulting Editor 🎉👏
The future of research is creative, collaborative, and boundary-breaking! From speculative fiction to visual data storytelling, this groundbreaking collection showcases how creative approaches are transforming research across disciplines!
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
September 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
So proud to be part of the Editorial Advisory Board for this new journal! And looking forward to the launch! #CreativeMethods @drhelenkara.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social