Associate Prof Energy & Social Sciences, UCL Energy Institute. Director of Ethics, Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources. Agent #26623. Own views.
Oct 22 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
🧵Censored by academic colleagues for using a 10yo Socratic-style teaching exercise, I then explored reports of how the #PRChina - #CCPChina is curtailing the #AcademicFreedom of overseas Chinese students. Thank you for speaking to me @LeeAlanHall @BritishThgtLdrs .
How did a 10yo Data Detectives exercise suddenly become controversial? Hundreds of Chinese & many hundreds of other students have benefitted from this exercise, which helps them think deeply about factual claims and secondary data. Here's the class: /2
Banned. Cancelled.
UCL lecturer warns #AcademicFreedom at risk as module removed after student complaints - about a question designed to help their critical thinking skills.
Thank you @esadiya @SkyNews .
1/21 news.sky.com/story/ucl-prof…
No wonder the UK has slid down #AcademicFreedom rankings:
. Most of Europe is in the top 10%.
. Taiwan is in the top 20-30%.
. UK now in the “top 30-40%”.
. China is in the bottom 10% along with Saudi Arabia & Iran. 2/ academic-freedom-index.net/research/Acade…
Mar 9 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
BANNED and cancelled for asking Masters students a challenging question. I’m grateful to Telegraph for putting my story on today’s front page :
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Huge thanks to @BenBarryJones @toadmeister @SpeechUnion for the emotional, moral and practical support they’ve given me the last few months. And to my @lucaf_london and UCL Academic Freedom colleagues who were there for me when I hit rock bottom. 2/
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Abridged email responding to an opportunity "open to all women, including trans women”: /1
This definition of woman (as including trans women) may be illegal and is certainly contentious. /2
And 🧵 of part of the discussion on @marksandspencer changing room policy.
Ends w a Q from a trans inclusive Rabbi who asks if I want to segregate Muslims because I want single sex change rooms!
Aug 26, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Highly abridged email I've just sent re opportunity for people who identify as female or LGBTQIA+ :
1. How can one identify as female?
Female is a sex class not an identity (Hilton et al 2021). In addition to having a biological sex, some people (not all) have a gender identity and in some cases that gender identity does not align with their biological sex.
Jul 20, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
@HJoyceGender Surely the trust’s mistake was to grant this transwoman (M) access to F changing rooms?
It is completely inappropriate for anyone to make derogatory comments about TW.
But it seems the underlying issue was F objecting to:
a) M observing undressed F.
b) M being undressed around F.
@HJoyceGender Bearing in mind that:
~ 2/3 of transwomen are attracted to F.
~ 90% of transwomen have not had genital surgery.
~ 50% of M admit at least one act of voyeurism & 60% would like to. There is no reason to think TW would be different to other M in that regard.
Thus F want privacy.
Apr 26, 2022 • 24 tweets • 8 min read
Sex in Toilets 🧵
How being inclusive of M in F toilet nearly cost me my life.
& how Josh Dixon @JoshDixonTweets of Haringey Liberal Democrats @HaringeyLibDems in Crouch End heard this & said M belong in F spaces if they are trans.
Please RT. #LocalElections2022 #RespectMySex2/ I asked his definition of a woman.
Josh said he’s not a biologist.
I winced & said he’s also not a US Supreme Court Nominee dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… ]
He then said a woman is whoever identifies as a woman.
