Jennifer Aston
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Jennifer Aston
@drjenniferaston.bsky.social
Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
It has ever been thus...look at domestic appliances. The hoover, oven and washing machine in domestic settings didn't bring homemakers more leisure time, it just made them available for different labour. It's stupid and frustrating on so many levels.
November 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
In fairness, this could be my failure but after 40+ instructions and 2+ hours it didn't seem a good use of time.
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
😂😭 I couldn't get it to make pdf slides so gave up.
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
My kids both became veggie when they made the connection 😬
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Postdoc. It's a really hard thing to see PhD students coming through at the moment. It was always tough but it's Hunger Games level now.
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I changed faculties from mostly individually taught modules to nearly all team taught modules & I love it. I enjoy the collegiality & having other people to bounce ideas off. It also helps to have other people to shoulder some of the organisation/admin load if we we want to try something new.
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Me too. It was as if half the article (and the most interesting half) was missing.
November 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Actually just laughed out loud on the train. I would love this 😂
October 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I went 0.2 of my time to get a 1.0 FTE 21-month PDRA contract (from a 2 year project). It is hard (near impossible) to accurately charge for the hours spent.
October 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Congratulations Elsa!!! 😍 🍾 🥂
October 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM