A huge thank you to Baroness Thornton for asking an oral question in the House of Lords today. You can watch here - parliamentlive.tv/event/index/... (It is the first item on the agenda starting at 14:36:05) What do you think the government needs to do? #Dyscalculia #Dyscalculiaawarenes

A packed conference room for the first session of the first workshop held as part of the @thebiaankara.bsky.social -led, @britishacademy.bsky.social -funded ‘Researching, Writing and Publishing on Gender, Culture and Society’ project, which aims to capacity-build Turkish Early Career Researchers.

Victoria Beckham has today shared that she has both #dyslexia and #dyscalculia. It is great to hear celebrities finally opening up about dyscalculia and raising #dyscalculiaawareness! Thank you! uk.style.yahoo.com/kids-school-...

Join me, @peterjcherry.bsky.social and @isilaygursu.bsky.social next Wednesday evening for a special webinar focused on the range of grants, scholarships and other opportunities available via @thebiaankara.bsky.social - biaa.ac.uk/events/webin...

From last week 📌📌 Amy Marie Spangler on the late Leyla Erbil's novel "What Remains", published soon by @deepvellum.bsky.social The book is a complex and dark vision of Istanbul's history, sweeping from the Byzantine era to 20th century Turkey 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2025/09/02/a...

📆 BIAA LONDON LECTURE: An Arabesk Tryptych Hybrid event 🗣 Prof Martin Stokes (King's College London) 📆Friday, 5th December 2025 ⏰18:30 - 20 (London GMT) 📍Society of Antiquaries of London, London / Zoom ℹ️ REGISTER for in-person or online attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/an-ar...

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🚨📢 GRANTS AND OPPORTUNITIES The BIAA is pleased to offer a number of different funding opportunities, grants and awards to support academics at all stages of their career. Find out more: biaa.ac.uk/grants-oppor... ⏰ Deadline: November 2, 2025

That’s all for the first season of Heritage Türkiye…But there will be a second season - so stay tuned!

Apply for my @britishacademy.bsky.social funded International Writing Workshop Researching, Writing and Publishing on Gender, Culture & Society: Upskilling ECRs in Türkiye! Funding available for ECRs outside of Ankara. Deadline for applications: 13 September

🚨 REMINDER ➖ Dr Peter Cherry, BIAA Assistant Director and PI of the Ottoman Mobilities project, reminds you to check out the project — and the upcoming application deadline! ➖ 🔗 biaa.ac.uk/grants/postd...

Delighted to do this with @thebiaankara.bsky.social. The Turkish experience is a harbinger for elsewhere - including the UK….. @nottspolitics.bsky.social

Delighted to be working with my colleague @peterjcherry.bsky.social on this new @thebiaankara.bsky.social led, @britishacademy.bsky.social funded project supporting Early Career Researchers in Türkiye working in interdisciplinary gender studies: biaa.ac.uk/call-for-par...

Last Wednesday, I had the privilege of sitting in on the recording of a new episode of the @thebiaankara.bsky.social’s ‘Heritage Türkiye’ podcast, hosted by my friends and colleagues @isilaygursu.bsky.social and @peterjcherry.bsky.social. All episodes available here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

HYBRID TALK: Forests, Archives, Memory: Decolonizing Environmental Humanities through Turkish Literature 🗣Dr Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim 📆Tuesday, 25th March 2025 ⏰14:30 - 16:30 (London GMT) 17:30 - 19:30 (Ankara UTC+3) 📍BIAA, Atatürk Bulvarı 154/1 and ONLINE ℹ️ REGISTER at biaa.ac.uk/events/fores...

Just finished the excellent ‘Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age’ by @raphcormack.bsky.social - a highly readable account of fakirism, spiritualism and occultism in the 20th century, approached through the lives of two key figures: Tahra Bey and Dr Dahesh.

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

From the archive 🎧⌛️ Ozge Samanci on visualising Istanbul’s sociopolitical currents in her wonderful graphic novel “Evil Eyes Sea” (@unciv.bsky.social) turkeybooktalk.com/2024/07/16/o...

🚨📢 OPPORTUNITIES TO #FUND YOUR TRAVELS AND RESEARCH 🚨📢 The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) is thrilled to announce eight grant and scholarship opportunities for students and junior and senior researchers! Find out more at biaa.ac.uk/grants-oppor... #researchfunding #türkiyeresearch

Today is #dyscalculiaday ! Life isn’t always easy as someone with dyscalculia and there is far too little awareness of it Today @dyscalculianetwork.bsky.social launched resources for employers to support staff with dyscalculia. Proud to have been involved: dyscalculianetwork.com/dyscalculia-in…

Brilliant article outlining policy priorities on #dyscalculia by Baroness Bull. It is hard to over emphasise how important this is. If you read one thing today on #dyscalculiaday, let it be this

Great to see the BIAA, our chair James Crow, Ender Peker & Akgün İlhan featured in this article for the BBC on water sustainability in Istanbul bbc.in/3XfbfIu For more on this topic, listen to the latest episode of Heritage Türkiye with Dr Peker on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts: surl.li/lwjgze

What do you think about this mornings news of potential changes to #GCSEMaths? www.ft.com/content/85f7... What would you like to see in place for learners with #dyscalculia #mathsdifficulties ? @petetalksstuff.bsky.social @peterjcherry.bsky.social

Heritage Türkiye is back! In this episode, Dr Ender Peker talks about his research into sustainable water management across Türkiye. YouTube: youtu.be/2lyPBZ_Jz0I?si… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7l6vs8��� Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/her…

Recorded a personal conversation with @accessiblenumbers.bsky.social about my experiences of #dyscalculia. It’s taken me time to share as it touches on how deeply dyscalculia has shaped me, as always @dyscalculianetwork.bsky.social is here to help!

DyscalculiaDay is back this year bigger and better! Check out all we have going on here - dyscalculianetwork.com/dyscalculia-... We especially can't wait to launch our new children's pages and share our new mascot, Bloc!

"Conservation of Historic Sites with Aylin Orbaşlı" with Aylin Orbaşlı, Işılay Gürsu and @peterjcherry.bsky.social via @thebiaankara.bsky.social.

Interactive dyscalculia persona 👩🏻‍💼 Follow Helena as they try to pay for car mileage using an inaccessible service. Thanks to Faye Gardner and the HMRC accessibility team. So happy to be involved in this.

Dyscalculia in adulthood with @peterjcherry.bsky.social. We discuss what #dyscalculia is, the stigma around #MathsAnxiety, gender stereotypes in maths education and the need for greater awareness and acceptance. Timestamps, links and transcript: accessiblenumbers.com/dyscalculia-...

I enjoyed this conversation with @williamarmstrong.bsky.social of @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social. To download Against the Liberal Order: academic.oup.com/book/57363

Dyscalculia is persistent difficulty in understanding numbers. Roughly 4 million people in the UK are dyscalculic. 20% to 60% of dycalculics might also have dyslexia, dyspraxia, autism or ADHD. Dyscalculia is under diagnosed and research is decades behind dyslexia. dyscalculianetwork.com

Assistant Director @peterjcherry.bsky.social speaking at Sabancı University’s International Gender Studies in Turkey conference this morning on masculinities and modernities in Yusuf Atılgan’s Anayurt Oteli/Motherland Hotel (1973)

Splendid to see the great Turkish author Oguz Atay finally appear in English - and with such a high-profile publisher 🎧📚👇

Really enjoyed listening to #JohnMcManus talk about #TurkishFootball with @peterjcherry.bsky.social & #IsilayGursu on #HeritageTurkiye, the new podcast from @thebiaankara.bsky.social. John’s 2018 book on the topic, ‘Welcome to Hell?’, is even better (a.co/d/0mYWBc3) youtu.be/tPi659UVkbI?...

Started my Sunday by listening to this brilliant episode, shining a light on the history & stories behind ornamentation in Anatolia with @emmabaysal.bsky.social. The Heritage Türkiye podcast is fast becoming one of my favourite podcasts.

📰Sunday extras! "@jenhattam.bsky.social on Istanbul’s shifting cultural landscape" with @williamarmstrong.bsky.social via Turkey Book Talk.

This episode of Heritage Türkiye was a joy to make. After talking with @emmabaysal.bsky.social I don’t think I’ll ever think about jewellery in the same way. It’s a really rich conversation, including fascinating insights into status, belonging and gender and in the Neolithic period

Print Sale! 📷🖼️ continues I'm selling a range of living room friendly images from my archives, 2007-2024, at good prices. Free domestic shipping within Turkey/Türkiye. Maybe there's something that tickles your fancy, have a peek…👀👀👀 bradleysecker.myshopify.com

ONLINE EVENT: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024 ⏰ Friday 29 November 2024 📆 15:00 - 17:00 (London GMT), 18:00 - 20:00 (Ankara UTC+3) 📍 Online, Zoom ℹ biaa.ac.uk/events/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2024/

🚨📢JOB ALERT: London Office Manager The British Institute at Ankara are seeking a new London Office Manager, who will be responsible for the day-to-day administrative and operational functions of the Institute’s UK office. ⏰ 1 December 2024 ℹ️ biaa.ac.uk/grants/biaa-...

📌 New episode 📌 Jennifer Hattam (@jenhattam.bsky.social) reflects on years of reporting on Turkey’s cultural and political agenda. She also talks about wrenching changes in journalism and how she stays afloat amid Istanbul’s constant upheaval. 👇👇 turkeybooktalk.com/2024/11/19/j...

Latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! Great to talk to John McManus about how football draws on ties of family, class, ethnicity, community belonging and masculinities in 🇹🇷 And some great tips on making research accessible ⚽️ Find on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube. Links below 👇

The latest issue of Anatolian Studies has arrived! Particularly looking forward to reading about the Hittite capital of Ḫattuša, a little-known Byzantine cave monastery in Pınarbaşı, and female bodies and dynastic legitimacy in the Nereid Monument at Xanthos: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just set up an account for Turkey Book Talk 👇👇 @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social Will try to post more on BlueSky from now on 🤞

SuGender conference in Istanbul next month, I am excited to hear Peter Cherry’s take on Yusuf Atılgan, who excelled in writing about misfits, their absurdism, desires and traumas. Start reading Turkish lit. with him and you will not have inner peace after that 🖤 @peterjcherry.bsky.social

One week to go: The 100th Anniversary of the #Turkish Republic: its foreign policy yesterday, today and tomorrow Speakers: Selim Yenel, Yaprak Gürsoy, Dilek Barlas, Dimitar Bechev and Dominick Chilcott (Chair). 📍@BritishAcademy_ 📅Tuesday 17 October ⏰17:30, London ℹ️ biaa.ac.uk/events/the-1...