Do subtitles really help children learn to read? 📺 New research from @rhulpsychology.bsky.social shows that using subtitles to help children read doesn't always work, despite worldwide campaigns. Read more: ow.ly/Qv1050XBQiE

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

"For the 1st time, RSF has classified the state of press freedom globally as in a 'difficult situation' & following several years of decline, conditions for journalism are now rated poor in 1/2 the world’s countries". The top country for press freedom is Norway. UK is 20th, Canada 21st, US 57th.

“Every year, when I see 14 beams of light projected into the sky above Mount Royal, I have to catch my breath. “36 years ago, 14 young women were murdered in one of the most violent examples of misogynistic terrorism Canada has ever known.” An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social. #December6

It's almost the weekend...Enjoy this conversation between Elizabeth Orcutt [guest editor of our current issue MAI15] and performance artist Bobby Baker www.maifeminism.com/domestic-sci... #feminism #performance #art #academicsky

Today we mark the 50th yahrzeit of Hannah Arendt, z”l, who died on December 4, 1975.

A petition to allow trans women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️☘️ c.org/GzNJ4vSB87

The show goes on 🎭 New research led by Professor @danrebellato.bsky.social from our Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance shows how UK theatre reinvented itself following the Covid-19 pandemic. More: ow.ly/kieo50Xz1ti

In the current issue of MAI 15 Intersectional Selves: Feminist Self-Portraiture, Oriana Fox explores two works of performance art by Nando Messias and Cassils which share activist/aesthetic responses to hate crimes www.maifeminism.com/no-innocent-... #feminism #performance #academicsky

"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it." - Stoppard, Arcadia

Can anyone recommend creatine gummies in the UK that definitely contain creatine?

The extraordinary theatre maker and political activist Margaretta D'Arcy has died. May her memory be a revolution. www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--...

Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...

Meanwhile... we could have seen this coming: Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS > Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Tomorrow is the 11 year yahrzeit, death anniversary, of movement ancestor Leslie Feinberg Z”L. Leslie was a trans and working class lesbian Jew who stood in lifelong solidarity with Palestinians and viewed her/hir work for LGBT and Palestinian liberation as deeply connected.

I remember a minor scandal when Bauman, by then long retired, was accused of self-plagiarism. Does anyone actually care about this now? (For transparency, I don't and never have. It's a matter for you and your publisher to negotiate.)

Bugs Matter citizen science survey report by Buglife shows an ongoing insect decline. The UK's 18 resident bat species all feed on insects. www.buglife.org.uk/news/new-dat...

This year we wil be gathering at University of Plymouth's Jill Craigie Cinema for Trans Day of Remembrance. Thursday 20th Nov, doors open at 18.30. www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/tra...

Europe could see up to 8 months of summer by 2100. A new study led by @celiavarves.bsky.social provides important insights for future climate projections. Read more at www.nature.com/articles/s41... #COP30 #ClimateChange #RHULGeogResearch #Palaeoclimate #ClimatePolicy @royalholloway.bsky.social

Protecting trans parents' rights Dr Suki Finn, Lecturer in Philosophy and Gender Studies, is researching the social and political implications of trans pregnancy and parenthood, and the legal and medical frameworks that shape these experiences. More: ow.ly/CHUO50XqXFp

🎤 🎧 🎶 Are you interested in radio art, art radio, audio arts, sound art, community radio, accessible media, media commons or all of these? 📼 🎛️ 🎙️ Soundart Radio is looking for people to join their Board of Directors. 🔊 📢 EoIs by 5pm on Friday 28th November: soundartradio.org.uk/community/Di...

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @royalholloway.bsky.social Founded in 1879 by Thomas Holloway, who had made his fortune selling patent medicines, it was one of @londonu.bsky.social's colleges for women If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Have only just realised that I've always taken my style notes from Pinky Tuscadero.

Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students. Please contact us on [email protected] if you would like to be involved.

Royal Holloway has announced its arts & humanities studentship competition for PhDs starting in Sept26. More info here. I'm interested in supervising research on climate crisis & creative industries (esp in the performing arts) or on bodies & gender in performance (esp through practice-research).

A movie I've seen more than 7 times with a GIF

Statues as engaged fathers in Sweden

Join us on 6 Nov at 1pm for a talk by Professor Madeline Balaam (KTH, Sweden): “Design explorations at the intersection of intimacy, the intimate body and technology”, exploring how design and emerging technologies shape our experiences of touch, care, and the body. 📍CDT Room, Bedford Building

Milo Rau's production of the Pelicot Trial has been pulled from the Belgrade International Theatre Festival, seemingly linked to his public criticism of Serbia's environmentally damaging mining practices.

Wole Soyinka's US visa has been revoked. He doesn't seem too bothered.

“Reliably excellent.” – The Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory Interested in contributing to the Methuen Drama Engage series, edited by Mark Taylor-Batty (@cupofassam.bsky.social) & Enoch Brater? We’re welcoming proposals now. Details here: https://bit.ly/3T7T6tG

'Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama' by @anjahartl.bsky.social examines the forms and functions of political drama in what has been described as a post-Marxist, post-ideological, even post-political moment. Read online via Bloomsbury Collections this #OAWeek: https://bit.ly/43vGRwl

New role being advertised: Lecturer in Filmmaking at Kingston University 📽️ 🎞️ deadline 6 November jobs.kingston.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Learn how generative dance improvisation systems are created, support dancers' learning/agency, and affect change. See free preprints below or paperback in bookstore. 'It is a profound call to recognize the power of embodied performance' (TRiC) 'that would benefit any dance educator' (Dance Edu.).

Katie Mitchell: “most opera houses in the UK & Europe do not have fully functioning systems for managing sexism & because of this I can feel unsafe in the workplace...My reflections are not levelled at any 1 opera house; they reflect problems across the whole opera industry that need urgent action.”

New Substack from Elizabeth Pearson: "Navigating gender in research on the far right" bit.ly/4huAI9K Also see her Conversation piece: “Elon Musk and the phoney far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women” bit.ly/47kwEUO Debate continues with Dr Elsa Bengtsson Mueller's talk, 25 Nov 3pm, Founder’s LT.

For those who were picky eaters as children, as well as for the carers of picky eaters. Here's a lovely long read essay for you (especially resonant for this Gen X, 2nd generation Canadian)

Caridad Svich: "Care is part of art-making... care of construction - be it plot, character (if working with character), and other dramatic elements - does matter because it’s for an audience and fellow practitioners. (for the record: i think of audiences as theatre-makers too)." 🫶🏻

Yay, new Peaches track 🍑🦞👄

📢 Scholar of the Month! The Gender Institute invites you to our first talk of the term with Dr Asiya Islam 🗓️ Tuesday 21st October 🕒 3–4 PM 📍 Bedford 0-07 ✨ “‘Working women’: Gender, work, and the politics of refusal”

Need something to reboot your Sunday? www.youtube.com/watch?v=E81c...

Oh Tigers. 😞🐯

When will presence equal power and visibility? In this original @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social blog post for UK Black History Month, Pamela Jikiemi reveals the inspiration behind her new book Out of the Black Box. Read now: https://bit.ly/3KH9pwA

🎙️ New episode! Neurodivergence Support & the PhD 🎙️https://theotherkindofdoctor.wordpress.com/episodes/

You can read 'Caryl Churchill's Eco-Socialist Feminism' by Elaine Aston (published by Cambridge University Press) for free online until 22 October: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Are you a live artist or practitioner eager to explore how and why you make? Applications for Do It Together are now open! tinyurl.com/49ce24w4 ⏰Deadline to apply: Wednesday 12 November, 5pm #DIT2026

Phenomenology Friday Insofar as I have a body, I am not a pure consciousness, but am engaged in the world through this body with the aid of which I perceive. […] The role of philosophy is to make us rediscover this bond with the world that precedes thought itself. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty

A lovely story about raves put on by deaf people for deaf people 💓

Chris Goode's voice dominated the theatre blogging culture of the 2010s. @alicesaville.bsky.social reflects on how the abusive theatremaker used his writings to hide in plain sight Alice points to the need for greater transparency in the theatre industry. In that spirit, this post is free to read