DHDexter
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Associate Professor of International Politics (interested in feminist peace), mum, knackered. Here to learn and avoid marking. She/her.
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We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday.
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
Working in Higher Education in the UK is utterly heartbreaking.
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Working in Higher Education in the UK is utterly heartbreaking.
I too am disappointed not to have won the nobel peace prize.
October 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I too am disappointed not to have won the nobel peace prize.
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This is echoing what many have been advocating for decades. Focusing on interventions around admissions is pointless if wider inequalities remain and efforts aren't made from the start of school to support pupils.
Poverty makes a huge difference here, but other barriers also remain firmly in place
Poverty makes a huge difference here, but other barriers also remain firmly in place
Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades | British Politics and Policy at LSE
Students of private and grammar schools are over-represented in elite universities, but only part of that is explained by better grades.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This is echoing what many have been advocating for decades. Focusing on interventions around admissions is pointless if wider inequalities remain and efforts aren't made from the start of school to support pupils.
Poverty makes a huge difference here, but other barriers also remain firmly in place
Poverty makes a huge difference here, but other barriers also remain firmly in place
A woman next to me at the GP surgery is very upset that there is a leaflet with a diagram showing how to do a vaginal swab. She brought one over to me, pointed at the diagram and said, 'There is too much of it around! Too much!'
October 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
A woman next to me at the GP surgery is very upset that there is a leaflet with a diagram showing how to do a vaginal swab. She brought one over to me, pointed at the diagram and said, 'There is too much of it around! Too much!'
Grateful for the 'defender' keyring being given out on campus this week by security. Excuse me whilst I go and find the 'try not to attack anyone' stall.
September 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Grateful for the 'defender' keyring being given out on campus this week by security. Excuse me whilst I go and find the 'try not to attack anyone' stall.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The cycle is:
Enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so the legislature says terminate the program.
Enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so the legislature says terminate the program.
As usual, this is being done under the guise of “fiscal responsibility”, but imposing minimum numbers of degrees granted for a program to survive is shortsighted and may cost more long-term, as programs are closed at the whims of the legislature and universities can if respond if demand shifts again
July 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The cycle is:
Enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so the legislature says terminate the program.
Enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so funding for teaching is cut so fewer courses are offered so enrollments slightly decline so the legislature says terminate the program.
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Everything feels like this now
May 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Everything feels like this now
Lots of Land Rovers identifying as busses this morning.
May 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Lots of Land Rovers identifying as busses this morning.
My boyfriend is watching MobLand whilst I am helpfully telling him about Mothers, Monsters, Whores and how every woman in the show fits the narratives Sjoberg identified. He keeps rolling his eyes but I think he really appreciates it.
April 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My boyfriend is watching MobLand whilst I am helpfully telling him about Mothers, Monsters, Whores and how every woman in the show fits the narratives Sjoberg identified. He keeps rolling his eyes but I think he really appreciates it.
Dear NHS 7 day blood pressure diary, This morning as I read more meaningless AI policy, I wondered whether the soul of higher education was lost for ever and if, as I have dedicated my adult life to HE, my soul was also diminished… 158/90.
April 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Dear NHS 7 day blood pressure diary, This morning as I read more meaningless AI policy, I wondered whether the soul of higher education was lost for ever and if, as I have dedicated my adult life to HE, my soul was also diminished… 158/90.
The markets are down. The markets have rallied. The markets are down. The markets have temporarily recovered. The markets are down. Has anyone checked whether the markets are also perimenopausal?
April 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The markets are down. The markets have rallied. The markets are down. The markets have temporarily recovered. The markets are down. Has anyone checked whether the markets are also perimenopausal?
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Solidarity to anyone who has just realised it is World Book Day on Thursday. My son has just announced he wants to go as King Louie from the Jungle Book. So I've 48 hours and zero skill to put that together
March 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Solidarity to anyone who has just realised it is World Book Day on Thursday. My son has just announced he wants to go as King Louie from the Jungle Book. So I've 48 hours and zero skill to put that together
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Two lovely Research Associate roles with Wales Centre for Public Policy wcpp.org.uk/about/job/re...
Research Associate (2 posts)
We are seeking to recruit two outstanding individuals to contribute to our work with public services and the Welsh Government. The post offers a unique opportunity to manage and conduct high...
wcpp.org.uk
February 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Two lovely Research Associate roles with Wales Centre for Public Policy wcpp.org.uk/about/job/re...
Found this toad at 7am this morning in the middle of a carpark. We were both awake too early, I think. It did not want to move.
February 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Found this toad at 7am this morning in the middle of a carpark. We were both awake too early, I think. It did not want to move.
This evening at B&Q my boyfriend asked me what colour we should paint the skirting board and I said 'I just don't have the bandwidth to deal with this tonight'. We are both silently wondering who I've become.
February 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This evening at B&Q my boyfriend asked me what colour we should paint the skirting board and I said 'I just don't have the bandwidth to deal with this tonight'. We are both silently wondering who I've become.
Solidarity to everyone at Cardiff Uni. Awful news.
January 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Solidarity to everyone at Cardiff Uni. Awful news.
After 11 days without heating or hot water Anwar from British Gas is coming today. Anwar is already a hero to our family.
The kids are excited. I'm emotional.
The kids are excited. I'm emotional.
January 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
After 11 days without heating or hot water Anwar from British Gas is coming today. Anwar is already a hero to our family.
The kids are excited. I'm emotional.
The kids are excited. I'm emotional.
Sorry for the slow reply, I bought an electric lint remover and have become obsessed with shaving bobbles off my clothes.
January 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Sorry for the slow reply, I bought an electric lint remover and have become obsessed with shaving bobbles off my clothes.
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Top 4 misconceptions about science
1. It fills knowledge-gaps (discoveries are unknown unknowns)
2. It proceeds along a straightforward path (discoveries are not predictable)
3. It looks for answers (new questions are crucial)
4. It is only rational (requires night science leaps)
1. It fills knowledge-gaps (discoveries are unknown unknowns)
2. It proceeds along a straightforward path (discoveries are not predictable)
3. It looks for answers (new questions are crucial)
4. It is only rational (requires night science leaps)
December 27, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Top 4 misconceptions about science
1. It fills knowledge-gaps (discoveries are unknown unknowns)
2. It proceeds along a straightforward path (discoveries are not predictable)
3. It looks for answers (new questions are crucial)
4. It is only rational (requires night science leaps)
1. It fills knowledge-gaps (discoveries are unknown unknowns)
2. It proceeds along a straightforward path (discoveries are not predictable)
3. It looks for answers (new questions are crucial)
4. It is only rational (requires night science leaps)
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Provide me with a technology that enhances human flourishing & makes our societies demonstrably better & I’ll adopt it enthusiastically. Provide me with an ethical tool that improves learning & teaching & I’ll use it tomorrow. LLMs, in their present forms, do the opposite.
December 27, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Provide me with a technology that enhances human flourishing & makes our societies demonstrably better & I’ll adopt it enthusiastically. Provide me with an ethical tool that improves learning & teaching & I’ll use it tomorrow. LLMs, in their present forms, do the opposite.
My coffee advent calendar gave me decaf for the 24th. Decaf for xmas eve??
December 24, 2024 at 9:05 AM
My coffee advent calendar gave me decaf for the 24th. Decaf for xmas eve??
It would be today, Fri Dec 20th, that water starts to come through the ceiling 🙄
December 20, 2024 at 10:34 AM
It would be today, Fri Dec 20th, that water starts to come through the ceiling 🙄