Emma Parkinson
ejparkinson.bsky.social
Emma Parkinson
@ejparkinson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor - crowded places, emergency management. Coventry, UK.
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"Women are not physically inferior
versions of men, and our function is not one of broodmares. We repudiate the
equation of women with reproductive function as profoundly misogynistic." UCU women members not messing about in their response to the Supreme Court ruling.

www.ucu.org.uk/media/15028/...
www.ucu.org.uk
June 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Fascists 0: Birmingham 1.
May 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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@disastersdecon.bsky.social are back! Season 10 is starting this week, when @vonmeding.bsky.social & I will be joined by our friends @jcgaillard.bsky.social & @ajfaas.bsky.social😍
You can watch the livestream on our YouTube Channel & on our Facebook page.
March 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
@themerl.bsky.social Hello MERL - a friend found this amazing contraption on a walk and we’d love to know what it is. Do you have any ideas?
February 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Our website on mutual aid groups has a huge amount of resources:
- lessons from activists
- stories of community solidarity
- mutual aid toolbox
and more

www.sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...
Community support and mutual aid : Groups and COVID : University of Sussex
www.sussex.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do…

We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com

Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘
Gulf Map Generator - MapQuest
Explore and customize your own Gulf region map with our interactive map tool.
gulfof.mapquest.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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“Emails with international counterparts that are scientific in nature and involve the exchange of scientific data must also be submitted for review.” Yeah, that’s gonna be a problem. 🧪

www.cbc.ca/news/science...
U.S. scientists say their work is under attack. Here's what that means for Canada | CBC News
Some U.S. government scientists have been told they can no longer travel for meetings or even join virtual calls with international counterparts, putting a hold on Canadian research and sending a deep...
www.cbc.ca
February 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This is mind-blowing. As an emergency planner my heart goes out to US colleagues.
I AM LOSING MY MIND.

Musk just took FEMA funds out of NYC’s bank account?!?!?!?!??
Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)
February 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Such sad news. Darren achieved that rare thing of translating enthusiasm for crowd safety into industry-wide action. He’ll be missed.
February 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
What with the flu and the state of… //gestures at absolutely everything// …this is the first thing to make me crack a smile in a week…
"The big problem is that the stairway is infinity feet tall. It goes all the way to heaven. I didn’t even know they made those. I cannot get it into the house. It already breaks every kind of building code and zoning rule."
A Note from the Contractor Working on Robert Plant’s Ambitious Home Remodeling Project
Dear Mr. Plant, I wanted to talk with you in person, but you haven’t been around much lately. Hair salon or at J. R. R. Tolkien book club, I’m told...
buff.ly
February 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Exploring the relationship between shared identity and interoperability: a mixed methods analysis of discussion-based multi-agency emergency response exercises
doi.org/10.1080/1043...
February 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Sick of being up-to-the-gills in low-rent crowd simulation papers based on lazy tropes and with no thought for their risk in application, for *years* I’ve been banging on about making maths and comp sci students do mandatory ethics courses. And here we are.
February 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions
But when it comes to cutting aid budgets no one says “let’s spend less money on Israeli or Egyptian military capacity”. Instead you want to start by taking healthcare and education away from people who have been made vulnerable by the structural injustices you create and benefit from.
February 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM