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Cathrine Degnen

@_catdeg

Anthropologist, question-asker. Likes dilemmas, the socio-cultural sort. Views mine. https://xitter.gq/t.co/4SDgHQqG9D & Instagram: @covid19_brexit_identity

 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Joined August 2012
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Important thread re. generation and the pandemic, and again something we’re exploring in our fieldwork. #Covid had profound impacts across generation and this is reflected in moments of intergenerational understanding/solidarity existing alongside discourses of division/tension.
Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) profile pictureLewis Goodall
@lewis_goodall23 Mar 2021
Yet more evidence from ONS of the profound generational imbalance of the economic effects of the pandemic. Of the Feb 2020-Feb 2021 annual decrease in employee jobs (down 693,000 overall) 63.1% (437k) were under 25 25.2% (174k) were 25-34 50-64s? Net increase of 32,000 jobs.
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Earth, Venus and Jupiter seen from Mars.
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Amanda@Pandamoanimum22 Feb 2021
February 2020 vs February 2021
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Dr Aisha Ahmad@ProfAishaAhmad4 Feb 2021
Last week, my university advertised a "pandemic productivity" seminar. Today, I got the "due to unforeseen circumstances" cancellation message. Unforeseen? Really? This little example shows why we need to change the narrative about productivity amid crisis. 🙏🏽 /Thread
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@womensart12 Feb 2021
Moon Catcher, c.2014 by Victo Ngai, artist from Hong Kong #womensart
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#soc1027 students, I have one word for you: #ritual Such a shame our virtual exchange with @IUPUI anthropology students is over - this national tradition would be a belter to discuss!
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@OmarJimenez2 Feb 2021
Groundhog Day 2018 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Maybe the weirdest (but most fun?) assignment I’ve ever had.
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A devastating yet beautiful tribute to so many lives lost.
Ros Edwards 🕯🌱 (@RosEdwards2) profile pictureRos Edwards 🕯🌱@RosEdwards231 Jan 2021
Our balcony. I long for the day when I don’t have to climb out there to add another ribbon.
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Van Jones
@VanJones687 Jan 2021
How can thousands of mostly white insurrectionists tear up the Capitol and practically nobody go to jail? #CapitolRiots #Insurrection #BlackLivesMatter
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So damn tired of living in a country that treats Black grief as a threat and white rage as a sacrament
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“It is a false economy and a catastrophic error to exclude civil society from knowledge and decision making; it undermines trust, which compromises compliance. It squanders communal efforts which people were ready and willing to make.” #soc1027
@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social (@zoesqwilliams) profile picture@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social@zoesqwilliams4 Jan 2021
In the three hours between filing this & it going online, the government has swung in with what we all already knew, that schools will be closed till February. They’re a month behind Mumsnet chat boards, always, on everything theguardian.com/commentisfre…
The lack of honesty over school closures in England has eroded what little trust was left | Zoe...

The lack of honesty over school closures in England has eroded what little trust was left | Zoe...

If parents were told how long to expect school gates to stay shut due to Covid, they could better plan for their kids’ education, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Fergus Hewison@BBCFHewison30 Dec 2020
This BBC article (though now out of date in terms of the areas it lists as being in Tier 4) explains what the restrictions are in Tier 4 areas. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.c…
Covid: What is the guidance across the UK now?

Covid: What is the guidance across the UK now?

Almost all of the UK's Covid rules have ended, two years after they were introduced.

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@womensart121 Dec 2020
Contemporary Northumberland printmaker Rebecca Vincent #womensart #WinterSolstice
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Our awesome PGR @GemmaMolyneux1 has blogged about developing a new approach to her research during Covid19. Life is a rollercoaster - read all about it! #PhD #Research blogs.ncl.ac.uk/pgrsociology…
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Today we remember the 383 men and boys killed in the worst coal mining disaster in English history. The 12th & 13th December 1866 are dark days in Barnsley's history, underground explosions at The Oaks Colliery left few survivors, the youngest victim was just 11 years old.
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Struck me while reading this (The Guardian, 12.12.20, Ikea latest firm to suffer shortages and delays due to clogged UK ports) how seldom I have seen the country mapped according to its ports & how revealing crisis becomes in our understanding, experience & knowledge of place 1/2
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I know the observation is so obvious in many ways...but both #brexit and #COVID19 are really slamming it home. @brex_n_belong #soc1027 @BrExpatsEU
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Another screen grab, this one that shows the UK borders and port locations better. Image credit « Guardian graphic. Source: Resilience360, Department for Transport »
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I mean...just wow.
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@womensart111 Dec 2020
Winter landscape by Canadian born printmaker and artist Carol Collette #womensart
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We are recruiting! We currently have two vacancies for an Office Manager and a Volunteer Project Manager. See the news page of our website for details on how to apply to join the team at WERS! wers.org.uk/welcome/news-and…
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