Something so chic about writing your thesis in a coffee shop.

One thing about me, I will give a talk at midnight.

All the scientific breakthroughs honoured here are incredible, and have potential to transform many lives. While the gene therapy highlighted won't work for all causes of #sightloss, it is a huge step forward and powerful proof of principle of what can be done with relatively minimal investment

Essay Marks have been moderated and made ready for release.

Zora Neal Hurston titling her text ‘Tell my Horse’ is so good, when you know that devotees in many Afro diasporic religious traditions are called horses in a ritualised sense.

Augustina’s research uses Health Data and Artificial Intelligence tools to address health inequalities in various kinds of cancer including leukaemia and breast cancer among female Black Africans. @uofgmvls.bsky.social @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social

As a JMS Scholar, her research will focus on exploring the role of health inequalities in cancer diagnosis, treatment and outcomes, with focus on Triple Negative Breast Cancer in the Black African female population.

Her research will tackle breast cancer disparities in Black women across Africa and the UK, improving early detection, highlighting underrepresentation in datasets and building AI tools to reduce inequities in cancer outcomes.

👋🏽 - I’m a postgraduate researcher looking at Afro Diasporic Religious Practices, focusing on how these practices impact practitioners’ daily lives. My work also looks at bodies of water as means of knowing. Let’s connect! #academicsky

Wonderful to see this in print! I wrote the chapter on decolonisation in Interrogating the Global Social Challenges, a collective effort by @uomsociology.bsky.social showcasing the breadth of our research and its political urgency.

Expressions of Interest are OPEN! Are you an early career researcher in the arts & humanities with bold ideas? Apply for the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship through UoM and join a world-class research community. EOI deadline: 26.1.2026 www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...

My mother: I hope you’re not going to play chess all night Me who was about to play chess all night

Her contributions have been recognised with awards including UofG Future World Changer (2018) and Top 50 Women in Engineering finalist (2022).

Sofiat is also the founder of Computer Science Academy Africa (CSA Africa), which has trained 700+ young Africans in Python programming across Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya, and online.

We’re thrilled to announce that our next guest in the JMS Network series will be Dr Sofiat Olaosebikan in conversation with JMS Scholar in Physics, Roselyn Nmaju. Join us in the Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre in-person or online on Thursday 27 November 6-8pm.

Nkechi First is a filmmaker, writer, and media practitioner with a passion for storytelling, gender representation, and African cinema. We're delighted that she will join the JMS PhD Scholarship Programme in the School of Culture & Creative Arts. @uofgculture.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

The research critically examines how women in the industry challenge traditional narratives, reshape cultural perceptions, and navigate a male-dominated filmmaking space.

Through a combination of film analysis, interviews, and industry case studies, she highlights the creative and social impact of Nollywood’s women filmmakers. This work contributes to broader discourses on African cinema, feminist film theory, and representation in global media.

One of adulthood’s most painful things is realizing someone you think of as a friend doesn’t consider you a friend. There is no malice or acrimony or anything bad about it. It’s just a difference of some apt “German” word I don’t know.

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Come to our next JMS Network with Marlene Smith and Chizu Anucha! We're delighted to invite you to join us at Kelvin Hall or online next Thursday 27 March 6-8pm for another edition of our JMS Network in-conversations.

Marlene Smith is a British artist and curator, and one of the founding members of the BLK Art Group. She was director of The Public in West Bromwich and UK Research Manager for Black Artists and Modernism and Middlesex University.

Her solo show, Ah Sugar, opened in August 2024 at Cubitt Gallery, London and toured to the Reid Gallery at Glasgow School of Art: t.co/Fmx0XbUh2e

My students are truly brilliant. Omds, these essay plans - yes, sociology will be just fine!

🚨 Drastic cuts to global health funding are leaving millions without essential HIV services. Young people, key populations, and marginalized communities are being abandoned. Millions are at risk. Act now, save lives! Learn more: 🔗 bit.ly/41CDnrD #ZeroDiscrimination

Call for abstracts--Chicanx/Latinx Studies and the University. I'm co-editing a special issue of American Studies on the intersections between Chicanx/Latinx Studies and Critical University Studies. We'll be reviewing abstracts beginning April 15th! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My students are very funny and I love that for me

Basically

Ready!

Oh the treadmill had me today

ABBA to start the day

I don’t even know how to access my messages on here 🫤

On thing about my Godchildren, they will ring my phone until I pick up

Consequences of our 'woke' government in Scotland .. "Scotland’s relative success – its child poverty rates are projected to be 10 percentage points lower than England’s by 2029 – is attributed by JRF to Holyrood’s more generous child benefits and its plans to scrap the two-child benefit limit."

Get your ticket - see you on Thursday

The storm is still on 😳

I learn so much from my students, and they’re like “you can google it” 😭

I need to plan out my week, to maximise productivity, and leisure time.

30 years old today - so thankful 🙏🏽!

Oh hello there Bluesky! 👋🏾 I'm Brielle and I'm a neuroscientist and assistant professor @harvardmed.bsky.social and @bostonchildrens.bsky.social. The Ferguson lab studies how brain circuits shape and guide attention, and how that changes in diseases like autism, epilepsy, schizophrenia, and ADHD.

New blog by @meshachlee.bsky.social from @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social, describing experience at his first international conference, the European Society for Vector Ecology meeting in Montpellier @4sove.bsky.social. Great ad for #ESOVE meetings #MosquitoScotland naturallyspeaking.blog/2024/12/18/e...

Get your tickets, guys!

Happy New Year, everyone, I’ll try to post more on here

no work today!

Why am I receiving all this backlash from Zeplin?

Looking to connect with folks exploring sacred arts. #skysacredarts #africandrums #africanastufies