Tanti auguri al Molleggiato che festeggia gli 88 anni oggi! Perfect reason to share this banger again: youtu.be/fU-wH8SrFro?...

Cold and crisp walk along the canal

Chilling whilst listening for snacks (asleep and snoring with one ear open)

It was 72 years ago today - 3 January 1954 saw the inauguration of national television broadcasting in Italy

2026: could be the year of the ice cream

Happy New Year! Washing off 2025 🐰

The #Beatles with Patrizia Wachter, daughter of Leo Vatcher the impresario who brought them to Italy, in Rome June 27, 1965.

👀👀 (Yes this - I feel seen!)

RIP to the Kessler twins

Language cold spots are emerging: the East Midlands provision is vulnerable if threats of closure at Leicester and Nottingham are carried out. Please sign their petitions! Links in comments.

Deadline extended: 28 November Apply now! bsr.ac.uk/research-pra...

Happening everywhere - not just Nottingham but also Leicester now. On the horizon: more cold spots in languages provision and (crucially) access to HE language teaching for those who need to study close to home. We should be widening access, not narrowing it. Solidarity to colleagues affected ✊

Pinched from another site and I’d love to know if this is accurate. Please let it be accurate!

Our students get it. Why doesn't the administration? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You might have heard that the University of Nottingham plans to suspend all languages courses. This is very disappointing and heartbreaking. Here you can find their petition aimed at protecting Modern Languages at Nottingham. You can show your support by signing it. www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

Happening everywhere: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... News like this makes me even more determined to carry on writing about Italian popular music as an act of defiance against a sector that seems less and less interested in languages and music. Solidarity to all affected at Nottingham.

Applications are now open for BSR Humanities Awards 2026–27! Fellowships and awards for scholars at all career stages. Deadline: 14 Nov 2025. Apply: bsrome.slideroom.com More info: bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...

Addio to Pippo Baudo, a great of Italian TV. To mark his passing, I’m resharing the episode of my podcast that I dedicated to him last year - tvitalianstyle.wordpress.com/2024/08/12/p...

🏆 Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 University of Leeds Teaching Awards, recognising the outstanding contributions of colleagues in delivering high-quality teaching and learning. 👏 Read about our winners and their inspiring work: 🔗 Staff Intranet bit.ly/4kYiNbs 🔗 OD&PL site bit.ly/4m9vkd0

What might a work of history look like and sound like if it were shaped in music? 🗃️🎵 In our new podcast David Archibald discusses the role of music in Glasgow’s working-class past and the historical links between music and radicalism.

We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships. We provide three years of funding for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a significant piece of publishable research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...

A rare opportunity for a permanent lectureship in German in our fabulous School! Please circulate to your networks. @ucfl-eca.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

Last few spaces left for the MFL teacher conference on 20th June at the University of Leeds! Registration is free but places are limited! With presentations from @joedale @rashasoliman04 & many more!! Have a look at our programme! 👇artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our-activiti... #mfl #mfltwitterati

📢 TIPS Community: Festival of Learning and Teaching 🗓 23–26 June 2025 There's still time to sign up! Join us for 4 days of creativity, collaboration & innovation in teaching. Explore global learning, sustainability, experiential teaching, digital innovation & more. 👉 bit.ly/TIPSFeLT25

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University 👉Sign the petition: chng.it/K2zRY6Jqqt 👉Share the petition with family/friends/networks. 👉Send emails outlining your objections. For details and templates visit the website: www.stopcutsinmlatbangor.uk/home/

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University - Sign the Petition! chng.it/9vtymFBVFh

'Identity, Interculturality, and Language Learning on British Television' by @rahaworth.bsky.social is popular this week - read the full article #OA via MLO: bit.ly/3wpWBDQ @iniis.bsky.social @studyemmir.bsky.social @journalics.bsky.social @language-learn.bsky.social @innovationllt.bsky.social

Yes this

Colleagues @universityofleeds.bsky.social, come join us for the inaugural TIPS Community Festival of Learning and Teaching and celebrate all the fantastic student education practice at our institution!

Thank you to the @royalhistsoc.org for electing me as a Fellow. I have added FRHistS to my email signature and am very pleased and proud to do so.

Quite literally happening everywhere. And the toll that this takes on the individuals involved and those left behind is very very high.

It’s the #LeedsAssessmentMatters conference today and we’ve got a rich programme of papers, round tables, and discussions and some great insights into how students experience assessment and feedback! Thank you to everyone who has presented and supported the conference

I'm doing a webinar with @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social on May 7th about How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book. If you're an academic looking to break into trade publishing, this is for you! Sign up here! courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/trad...

Bookmarking

I’m reposting this to help me get better at alt text. I also like capybaras

Sneak preview of my poster for the SIS conference in June on the ‘Digital Turn in Italian Studies’. My poster is about my TV Italian Style podcast - and having started reading about podcasting as research method and as public humanities project, I wonder if I should write this up somehow…

More afterlives of Prisencolinensinainciusol (I will write about this song one day) youtube.com/watch?v=henl...

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2025. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component. 📅 Deadline 30/06: www.openlibhums.org/...

OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...

Shhhh bunny sleeping

The ear thief has struck

Snoozy Saturday

Check out our flexible Online Courses in Interdisciplinary Humanities: PgCert Heritage & Memory Studies on.abdn.ac.uk/degrees/heri...; PgCert Visual Studies & Popular Cultures on.abdn.ac.uk/degrees/visu...; & our Decolonising Society & Politics short course: on.abdn.ac.uk/courses/deco...

Escaped to New York this afternoon

Today we launch a new funding programme: Scouloudi Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK Grants will support collaborative projects between historians in Higher Education and those in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sectors, as well as community history groups. #Skystorians 1/2 👇

Design sprinting today and tomorrow at a @universityofleeds.bsky.social design sprint for academic personal tutoring. Interesting ideas about how might we start to answer some of the big questions that exist about providing effective tutoring for all involved.

Read our collection of articles published as part of the #OLHJournal "Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery" special collection, guest-edited by Angela Dressen: olh.openlibhums.org/...

I’m at the NYU-Roma tre seminar series on Religious diversity in Italian urban history. I’m responding to Brenda Fedi’s paper on the ‘Concerto del Primo Maggio and the jubilee of workers. The interaction between religious institutions and Italian unions in the year 2000’. Looking forward to it!

"There’s been a lot written about the crisis in the humanities. There’s been far less written about the humanities during a crisis." For @insidehighered.com I wrote about how we've forgotten how the humanities kept us sane during an existential crisis. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Call for Proposals: Islands of Innovation 2025: ‘Theme Parks of Innovation’ deadline for submissions is Fri 21 Feb 2025 Keynote: The Playful University Rikke Toft Nørgård & Nicola Whitton; online event on Friday 9 May 2025 More info, submission &registration via www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-for-i...