In view of the endless Storm Claudia-inspired rain today I thought it was permissible to share this shot of the Camino del Salento taken a month ago on the heel of Italy. Thank you.

The second session of @srhe.bsky.social #AcWriMo2025 is today! Regular #writing means the thinking can continue more easily between sessions. #HigherEducation #academia 🤓

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty. But beware...

It was good to run the first of four @srhe.bsky.social #AcWriMo2025 sessions this week with academics appreciating protected time to #write. It's NOT a given in our workloads even though it's expected and part of performance management. Next session is Monday. #HigherEducation # academia

Every year on #Halloween we carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃 We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃

An annual event, Paddlebuard witches Oregon US #WomensArt (Photo D.Caslick) #Halloween #Samhain

🙄

Updating my LEGO White House

I have a chapter in the forthcoming edited collection from Policy Press: Grant & Kara 'Using Documents In Research'. My chapter discusses the creation of a digital archive (www.deardiaryresearch.co.uk) from diary entries/interview transcripts. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/using-docume...

#OutOfOffice on while I travel by train and back to the heel of #Italy.

81,885 in attendance for this Women's Rugby World Cup Final 🏆 #WRWC2025 #RUGBY #RWC2025

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

I'm setting up a 2wk only WhatsApp travelogue of my forthcoming trip by #train and foot to the heel of #Italy. Scenery and food timeline cleanse. Msg if you'd like to join 😎

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

Fictionally sandwiched between Rachelle Atalla's #ThirstyAnimals (omg claustrophobic from p1) and Jane Smiley's 3rd of 3 #GoldenAge. A tome. Dare I pack it as my holiday reading? Think I have to! Thank you #SheffieldLibraries 💜

Inspiring visit to #Abbeydale #IndustrialHamlet yesterday as part of #Sheffield #OpenHeritage. Secret recipe for forged #steel #scythes On our doorstep. A fantastic project to conserve and open up Sheffield's industrial history.

Timeline cleanse. Wheelwright's counter, Folk Museum #ShibdenHall.

Silhouetted remains of the High Court Banksy creating a curiously medieval quality...as if depicting Thomas a Becket being attacked in the crypt 'It is dangerous for men in power, if no-one dares to tell them when they go wrong' Thomas A Becket 1118-1170

Post-conference in #Manchester sunshine. Phew. Enough for now!

Congratulations and thanks to @drhelenkara.bsky.social and her brilliant team for hosting and mosting #ICRMC Number 3. Lots of new faces and lovely to catch up with the veterans! Ideas, inspiration and warmth. Here's to #ICRMC26!

Great first outing for The #HECareerGame prototype at #ICRMC2025 with an inspirational group of #female #academics. Many insights, ideas and suggestions. Thank you all!

Super soft launch of my new #gender and #HE project tomorrow at #ICRMC25 Manchester! Workshopping The HE #CareerGame (might look familiar but with added features!).Very happy to get @britishacademy.bsky.social funding to take this around the sector next year 🤓. @bcu.bsky.social

So proud to be part of the Editorial Advisory Board for this new journal! And looking forward to the launch! #CreativeMethods @drhelenkara.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social

Madly prototyping the #HECareerGame for a workshop at #ICRMC conference on Monday 😬 @drhelenkara.bsky.social #CreativeMethods #research

After a v stimulating week at @rgsibg.bsky.social conference involving #gastrogeography, #storytelling, #feminist #cartographies #writing .(and more!) am over the moon to find I've got funding to develop my next #creative research project - a #boardgame entitled #TheHECareerGame. Watch this space!

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

A 7th outing @rgsibg.bsky.social conference for #PoetryInEmotion a so-called #ResearchPoem recounting the emotional labour of doing research during #COVID19. Thanks to the convenors of the #RelentlessInjustice session and for all the conversation. #Geographies #Creativities.

Not a natural stitcher but loved participating in #StitchAssemblyRGS25 this morning!

The usual mind-expanding experience of a day at @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference 🙂including a double session on theories and methods of #storytelling in which I gave a paper on telling stories through #podcasting. #geographies

I'm in #Birmingham for the always excellent @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference.Theme: #Geographies of creativity/ #creative geographies. Chaired by the inspirational Prof Pat Noxolo.Looking forward to all sorts! 🤓

BRONTOSAURUS: roar STEGOSAURUS: roar TYRANNOSAURUS: roar THESAURUS: bellow

Me embarking on major declutter project prior to house move. Sunday: art materials.

I feel privileged to live in a time when @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is writing and campaigning. Not only do her views and demands coincide with mine, her writing is consistently inspiring. Thank you.

If you need a laugh on a Monday morning this is the thread for you 🙂

Scotland

Another fantastic read - #CreationLake by Rachel Kushner with a wonderful cover by @jenniferdionisio.com. I'm mining a rich reading seam these days - a great tonic for stress and fatigue. 😎 Next up #ElizabethTaylor ( not that one!)

Today we awarded Professor @davidolusoga.bsky.social OBE an honorary degree for his outstanding work as a social historian. As someone who grew up in Tyneside we asked David what he misses most about living here, as well as his words of advice for the graduating class of 2025. #WeAreNCL #NCLGrad

There's a strong likelihood I'll be demoted once again from the #Duolingo Diamond League tomorrow and actually that's fine because a) I'm really enjoying learning Spanish this way and b) I'm on a 175 day streak! 🇪🇸

This is a great thread on imaginative and accessible bibliography.

So appreciated the non-hierarchical, unstuffy atmosphere of my 1st #SHS2025 conference at BCLM.Good to meet @sophiemhistory.bsky.social @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social @annfranjam.bsky.social, Simon Morgan, Claire Martin Jacquie Gulland and many more. Presented on #FeministFamilyHistory. A joy.

Am conferencing with #SHS2025 at the Black County Living Museum. Despite Birmingham New Street trying to spoil the fun today, arrived with a minute to spare and now know more about Co-ops, eggs and material culture than I ever did! Good fish and chips too! More to come tomorrow!

We can't wait to welcome all our attendees at #SHSConf2025 (this is our official hashtag for the event, please feel free to use it when posting!) ⏰Registration starts from 12pm on Monday 7 July 🕐AGM is at 4.15pm on Tuesday 8 July ⏲️Conference ends 5pm Wednesday 9 July

Most academic staff will read this and weep. With envy.

Gearing up for the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social #conference next week where I'll be presenting on my forthcoming #podcast series - A #Feminist #FamilyHistory in 3 generations. Really looking forward to 3 days at the BCLM!

Georgia O'Keeffe, Morning Sky, 1916 #WomensArt

Belarus: After five years in jail, opposition figure Tikhanovsky speaks out

There is a heart on the wall for every person who died of covid in this country, whether or not it has writing on it. We will never forget them. ❤️ #Monday