Dr Angela Spinney 🇬🇧🇦🇺

@MarinaHyde An excellent article. Well done to Saorise Ronan for raising this reality & Marina Hyde for backing her stance. A worthy topic for the That’s Entertainment podcast - as Saorise pointed out it’s an issue for all women including those in the entertainment industry

My column on Saoirse Ronan burning the chat show circuit down theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Do read this brilliant, complex, passionate, lyrical, humane essay by Zadie Smith. newyorker.com/news/essay/shi…

@Baddiel This has moved be to tears because it’s so true, and it’s what I feel, and it’s expressed so very well, and it’s all so very sad

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@BuiceElaine @MikeSington It’s not a work title, it’s a life title like Mr, Mrs, Revd etc. Dr is not used just for work

New York Times portrays Melania Trump as one of the laziest, most disengaged First Ladies ever: “Jill Biden wanted to keep teaching. Melania Trump just wanted to go home.” “The outgoing First Lady (Melania Trump) had taken to wearing terry cloth bathrobes during the day and sorting through an office aides referred to as her ‘swag room’, a locked room filled with key chains, crystal bookends, and trinkets.” “Over four years, Mrs. Trump showed how pretty much every aspect of being First Lady, which carries no salary and no formal job description, is optional.” “For months, Mrs. Trump had taken to walking around the Executive Residence in hotel-style terry cloth robes.” “According to several former aides, Mrs. Trump had visited the East Wing, where the First Lady has an official office and staff, so infrequently that her empty office had been converted into a gift-wrapping room.” “Described by several former aides as checked out and exhausted.”

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@mayngo2 Isn’t it!

Motherhood: conditioned to believe it's the most boring, 'natural', uninteresting thing in the world, only to discover it's the most cosmic, dramatic, emotional and the most political thing I've done in my life.

@mayngo2 Many congratulations May; you both look wonderful x

I won't do an end of year list of publications, mostly because 2023 was spent producing my greatest 'accomplishment', my daughter. The depths of terror, pain, joy and love in becoming a mother. What a year. Here’s to 2024!

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@Baddiel @SBSOnDemand @sbsaustralia A really interesting intelligent thought provoking programme

Dearest Australians. This is going out on @SBSondemand @SBSAustralia from today.

@fesshole It is their title (and mine) . You are incorrect.

I work for a council and when leaseholders email in and sign it off as "Dr" I always change it to Mr or Mrs in my reply. Your education has nothing to do with a leak in your kitchen.

@SheaSwauger What level are you graduating at? I got alumni library access after my PhD

I honestly don't know what I'll do once I lose my institutional library access after graduation. I've had an academic library since I was 18. I'll be 41 when I graduate. I'll have had library access for the majority of my life. What do people do?

@ownedbyhoundies @sarapascoe It was great wasn’t it!

@sarapascoe loved your show tonight at Hamer Hall, Melbourne!

@melnickjeffrey1 We were certainly using it in the ‘70’s

I’m reading a novel that takes place in 1974 and a mother asks her daughter if she is “PMSing” and this seems a little anachronistic to me: was it in common usage that early?

@monkeyfist17 @imaginmatrix @kmellis My grandmother taught me Every Good Boy Deserves Food

@imaginmatrix @kmellis It's kinda a non sequiter, but I've been waiting to share for years that a kid I knew in middle school decided that EGBDF was Elephants Go Bouncing Down Freeways

@RevRichardColes The A14 does need resurfacing!

@leighthinks That makes sense to me - it’s hard to get all the benefits of uni such as peer support and sense of belonging through non synchronised teaching methods

@leighthinks Has the quality of their work gone down? If it hasn’t we may need to query why they need to attend .