Lizzie Reed
@lizziereed.bsky.social
Associate Prof of #Sociology at Uni of Southampton. Queer lives, visual methods, kinship & identity.
Ask me about my queer feminist trans agenda. She/they 🌈🏳️⚧️
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0885-2908
Ask me about my queer feminist trans agenda. She/they 🌈🏳️⚧️
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0885-2908
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Lizzie Reed
@lizziereed.bsky.social
· Oct 29
Failure hurts. How can the concept of bipolar time help us understand it?
@lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6
@lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6
It's a real delight to be published in such an exciting journal which platforms such exciting and diverse work. So grateful for all the responses we've received so far to our article
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Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers
February 5, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers
"you cannot scale intimacy. You cannot be a personal mentor to 200 people without burning out." www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/what-...
What I wish I’d known before becoming a programme leader
Becoming a programme leader means learning to lead without line management, protecting your boundaries, and playing the long game. Here, Tom Chapman reflects on what he’s learned during two decades in...
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:28 PM
"you cannot scale intimacy. You cannot be a personal mentor to 200 people without burning out." www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/what-...
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When people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, there’s a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not ‘real’ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why that’s wrong.
Everything in this report reflects on what we value, for communities, for peripheral places, for young people, for education, for the future - and it looks like we’ve got it all wrong.
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:07 AM
When people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, there’s a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not ‘real’ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why that’s wrong.
"protective silences are easily confused with those imposed by stigma...‘If I don’t talk about my diagnosis...it’s not because I’m ashamed. It’s because I know not everyone deserves to access that part of me.’"
Such a good piece from @ddegerman.bsky.social
psyche.co/ideas/for-so...
#bipolar
Such a good piece from @ddegerman.bsky.social
psyche.co/ideas/for-so...
#bipolar
For some with mental illness, it’s not always good to talk | Psyche Ideas
Well-meaning campaigns urge openness and conversation about mental health struggles. But there are those who cherish silence
psyche.co
February 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM
"protective silences are easily confused with those imposed by stigma...‘If I don’t talk about my diagnosis...it’s not because I’m ashamed. It’s because I know not everyone deserves to access that part of me.’"
Such a good piece from @ddegerman.bsky.social
psyche.co/ideas/for-so...
#bipolar
Such a good piece from @ddegerman.bsky.social
psyche.co/ideas/for-so...
#bipolar
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My complaint to the Biological Broadcasting Corporation
January 30, 2026 at 6:34 PM
My complaint to the Biological Broadcasting Corporation
It's completely unacceptable for Catherine O'Hara to have died. Completely. Unacceptable.
a woman in a silver sweater is sitting in front of a laptop with #schittscreek on the bottom
ALT: a woman in a silver sweater is sitting in front of a laptop with #schittscreek on the bottom
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:23 PM
It's completely unacceptable for Catherine O'Hara to have died. Completely. Unacceptable.
"Too often, a shiny new rebrand is unveiled before anyone realises it isn’t accessible."
*cough* Warwick *cough*
wonkhe.com/blogs/sleepw...
*cough* Warwick *cough*
wonkhe.com/blogs/sleepw...
Sleepwalking into criminal liability? Accessibility and the future of universities
With new global standards reshaping expectations, Ayala Gordon and Sarah Lewthwaite argue that accessibility must move from compliance afterthought to strategic priority across every part of the unive...
wonkhe.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:57 PM
"Too often, a shiny new rebrand is unveiled before anyone realises it isn’t accessible."
*cough* Warwick *cough*
wonkhe.com/blogs/sleepw...
*cough* Warwick *cough*
wonkhe.com/blogs/sleepw...
Based on true events:
Me: nobody seems to have made a plan for lift access during renovations
Then: we noted it was an issue, we just didn't do anything about it. We will now
Me: ok, and maybe tell people?
Then: on it!
Me: nobody seems to have made a plan for lift access during renovations
Then: we noted it was an issue, we just didn't do anything about it. We will now
Me: ok, and maybe tell people?
Then: on it!
January 28, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Based on true events:
Me: nobody seems to have made a plan for lift access during renovations
Then: we noted it was an issue, we just didn't do anything about it. We will now
Me: ok, and maybe tell people?
Then: on it!
Me: nobody seems to have made a plan for lift access during renovations
Then: we noted it was an issue, we just didn't do anything about it. We will now
Me: ok, and maybe tell people?
Then: on it!
The idea of Ye going through bipolar subreddits for solace is kind of wild, because all the ones I'm in have fairly regular memes about Ye and psychosis. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Kanye West takes out full-page ad apologising for antisemitic behaviour and denying he is a Nazi
Rapper, now known as Ye, apologises to his family and to the Black community and says he loves Jews, blaming his bipolar disorder for his ‘poor judgment and reckless behaviour’
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:18 PM
The idea of Ye going through bipolar subreddits for solace is kind of wild, because all the ones I'm in have fairly regular memes about Ye and psychosis. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Student just sought me out to see if I wanted to talk about Heated Rivalry (I did). Not even teaching this student this term, they just KNEW (because of all the smut I spent last term teaching them)
January 26, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Student just sought me out to see if I wanted to talk about Heated Rivalry (I did). Not even teaching this student this term, they just KNEW (because of all the smut I spent last term teaching them)
Would have been happier if Red Panda and Artic Fox were out tonight, not least of all because I like having people we haven't reliably guessed still in the competition #MaskedSingerUK
January 24, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Would have been happier if Red Panda and Artic Fox were out tonight, not least of all because I like having people we haven't reliably guessed still in the competition #MaskedSingerUK
Oh snap, that's definitely Anton Du Beck #MaskedSingerUK #articfox
January 24, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Oh snap, that's definitely Anton Du Beck #MaskedSingerUK #articfox
I don't have hearing loss, but I do find it really difficult to hear in loud/busy environments and when I don't know the person. The shitty attitiude you get when you can't hear or mishear (especially in shops and bars) is so fucking wearing.
January 22, 2026 at 11:46 AM
I don't have hearing loss, but I do find it really difficult to hear in loud/busy environments and when I don't know the person. The shitty attitiude you get when you can't hear or mishear (especially in shops and bars) is so fucking wearing.
Two posts open at a local (Soton) LGBTQ+ youth charity (the sort that I 100% would have applied for 10 years ago before getting locked in to academia)
Operations manager (28 hours per week) breakoutyouth.org.uk/job-opportun...
Admin officer (18 hours per week) breakoutyouth.org.uk/job-opportun...
Operations manager (28 hours per week) breakoutyouth.org.uk/job-opportun...
Admin officer (18 hours per week) breakoutyouth.org.uk/job-opportun...
January 20, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Two posts open at a local (Soton) LGBTQ+ youth charity (the sort that I 100% would have applied for 10 years ago before getting locked in to academia)
Operations manager (28 hours per week) breakoutyouth.org.uk/job-opportun...
Admin officer (18 hours per week) breakoutyouth.org.uk/job-opportun...
Operations manager (28 hours per week) breakoutyouth.org.uk/job-opportun...
Admin officer (18 hours per week) breakoutyouth.org.uk/job-opportun...
This article in the NewYorker about one woman's vanishing schizophrenia, and broader questions about how psychosis is responded to and treated, is super interesting. Big questions for psychiatry. web.archive.org/web/20250729...
Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t
Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?
web.archive.org
January 19, 2026 at 1:57 PM
This article in the NewYorker about one woman's vanishing schizophrenia, and broader questions about how psychosis is responded to and treated, is super interesting. Big questions for psychiatry. web.archive.org/web/20250729...
Are they absolutely sure that's Marcella Detroit because...my goodness her voice has changed 😬 #MaskedSingerUK
January 17, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Are they absolutely sure that's Marcella Detroit because...my goodness her voice has changed 😬 #MaskedSingerUK
Turnitin 'feedback studio' not having an embedded spell checker is a malicious move designed to make me look like a fool. In other news, I just discovered I don't know how to spell "inaccuracy" so that's a horrible irony when writing criticisms of student work.
January 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Turnitin 'feedback studio' not having an embedded spell checker is a malicious move designed to make me look like a fool. In other news, I just discovered I don't know how to spell "inaccuracy" so that's a horrible irony when writing criticisms of student work.
Specifying in assessment guidance that students MUST include a statement of what they will argue in the introduction to their essay not only makes them write better essays, it makes marking so much more enjoyable.
This insight brought to you by week 2 of marking.
This insight brought to you by week 2 of marking.
January 14, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Specifying in assessment guidance that students MUST include a statement of what they will argue in the introduction to their essay not only makes them write better essays, it makes marking so much more enjoyable.
This insight brought to you by week 2 of marking.
This insight brought to you by week 2 of marking.
I'm 20 mins from the end of the much pimped "Bowie: The Final Act" and we're on 2004. It's been a miserable parade of talking heads saying cliched rubbish. The narrative as a whole is of a career in the dumps in 1990s which was
January 11, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I'm 20 mins from the end of the much pimped "Bowie: The Final Act" and we're on 2004. It's been a miserable parade of talking heads saying cliched rubbish. The narrative as a whole is of a career in the dumps in 1990s which was
If the clues had been full of people shouting at hotels and attacking Black musicians, I'd have had no trouble guessing if was Lydon. #MaskedSingerUK
January 10, 2026 at 8:27 PM
If the clues had been full of people shouting at hotels and attacking Black musicians, I'd have had no trouble guessing if was Lydon. #MaskedSingerUK
That footage of the Macclesfield win today is proper bottled joy stuff. What an amazing night that town will have
January 10, 2026 at 5:48 PM
That footage of the Macclesfield win today is proper bottled joy stuff. What an amazing night that town will have
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It’s not true that Grok will still generate CSAM if users pay for it
It’ll do it for free
It’ll do it for free
No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature
X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
www.theverge.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:59 PM
It’s not true that Grok will still generate CSAM if users pay for it
It’ll do it for free
It’ll do it for free
Know any 16-21 year olds who are interested in queerness and neurodiversity that might be interested in my PhD student, Megan's project? Participation is an online interview and 'scroll along' on TikTok/Instagram. Info sheets and sign up etc here; linktr.ee/nqresearch.s...
Neuroqueering Online - Study | Instagram, TikTok | Linktree
PhD research project - participants needed!
ERGO: 103967
linktr.ee
January 7, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Know any 16-21 year olds who are interested in queerness and neurodiversity that might be interested in my PhD student, Megan's project? Participation is an online interview and 'scroll along' on TikTok/Instagram. Info sheets and sign up etc here; linktr.ee/nqresearch.s...
"I love Christmas, it's the one time I can sit next to a dead tree, eating candy out of my shoe, without feeling guilty"
Incredible script from Champagne Problems. Stunning national caricatures. A Paris where every road leads to the Eiffel Tower.
Incredible script from Champagne Problems. Stunning national caricatures. A Paris where every road leads to the Eiffel Tower.
December 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"I love Christmas, it's the one time I can sit next to a dead tree, eating candy out of my shoe, without feeling guilty"
Incredible script from Champagne Problems. Stunning national caricatures. A Paris where every road leads to the Eiffel Tower.
Incredible script from Champagne Problems. Stunning national caricatures. A Paris where every road leads to the Eiffel Tower.
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Althusserian Santa simply yells “hey you, nice person!” and gives gifts to whoever turns around.
December 22, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Althusserian Santa simply yells “hey you, nice person!” and gives gifts to whoever turns around.