Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Technologically advance a band iParamore

An anonymous friend left me a Cacodemon pin badge on my desk and I love him.

Slightly diminish a book Mild Expectations

Interested in coming and studying for a PhD with us? We have an opportunity in the Social and Solidarity Economy strand of the @justcentre.bsky.social We also have TWO post-doc positions which will be advertised in the next few weeks, so stay tuned. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Have I reached some kind of academic milestone by genuinely spending a few hours panicking over a deadline for a thing I'd already submitted and had forgotten I'd finished?

#skyhistorians My uni, LJMU, have announced their VC PhD scholarships. Reach out to me if you are interested in doing something on homes; philanthropy/ charity; material culture and lived religion in the long c19th. These are competitive. You do need strong marks www.ljmu.ac.uk/research/phd...

If you see this, quote post a game with a 10/10 soundtrack

Latest rose to open, I utterly adore this one. It's called 'Gorgeous', and I think it definitely lives up to its name.

Had a blast at day 1 of #aheconference25, spoke about GenAI podcasts as formative feedback on draft assessments and as opportunity for dialogue, seemed to go down well. A sold out room, in any case!

Thoroughly enjoyed this session today!

A job! Not on panel! DM me?

I've missed quite a few #RoseWednesday pictures so here's 'Churchill' to make up for it.

True story ⤵️

This is utterly hilarious, but it's also a brilliant example of how *everything* is now tacitly an advertisement, even if you already own the thing they're trying to sell. Your 'brushing experience' - it's like they can't help themselves.

I think my cat instinctively knows that I am going out all day today, and is acting up by throwing up in SEVEN (7) different places, and then staring at me insolently as if to say 'are you sure you got them all? Because I'm not.'

For this week's #RoseWednesday, here's our first flower of 2025 on 'Emma Bridgewater'.

If you use Canvas in your Institution, make sure to check out our latest blog post on creating interactive learning resources and other course materials using H5P. - www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-for-i...

It's #RoseWednesday and, in a very happy coincidence, my first rose of the year has opened up today - Desdemona. It smells beautiful!

I have spent the last three days building this and I am Pleased With It, and it therefore needs to be shared.

Tune in to our Episode #39 TreasureIslandPedagogies - the one with the Twix - now also live with blog and links, with guests with guests: Paul Astles @samfordsaunders.bsky.social Yigit Ozecelik - produced by @livunicie.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-for-i...

Had an absolute blast co-presenting the keynote at the #AULC conference last week, thank you for the invitation and to fabulous co-presenters @tundeva.bsky.social and Rob Lindsay (not on here yet, I think).

Out today for general purchase sue!

I've been running informal Redundancy Buddy groups over the last 6 months with UK uni staff at risk of dismissal. There are several key things people are shocked by which I'm sharing here so others who're precarious feel less alone and recognise what to prepare for. Please add your ideas. A thread 🧵

It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

Bookings open for the Spring SEDA Conference www.seda.ac.uk/seda-events/...

38 years until we meet the Vulcans.

Anyone want to help my lovely better half with his MSc research?

Anyone got any tips on increasing questionnaire response rates from an already-small potential pool of responders (other than, you know, actual bribery)? Having a low-level panic that results for a project I'm doing are low and I'm down to present them this summer..

A really exciting post Arts and Humanities Research Fellow House of Commons #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMG777/a...

I've been running some focus groups over the last few weeks, and something one of the participants said has got me thinking: what do we do to help students not panic when they don't understand something? How do we help students accept that it's OK, and sometimes *great*, that they 'don't get it'?

It's very interesting how MSM never talks about his age... #Resist

My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word!

Resharing my growing list of international HE educators for those looking to extend their network. bsky.app/profile/did:...

CIE is here! Give us a follow!

'See it. Say it. Sorted'.

If you support this, you’re an awful human being

Elon Musk's pinned tweet right now.

Nothing like a conference acceptance to brighten up your morning - very pleased to have been accepted to the annual Assessment in Higher Education conference in June to talk about #GenAI, podcasting and dialogic feedback.

Here's the executive order just signed by Trump. One of the defining features of fascism is that the discretionary power of the leader always prevails over the rule of law.

May we have a little Royal Commission into the Absolute State Of UK Higher Education? As a treat? (finances AND governance...)

Fantastic news indeed for postgraduate research here at the HSS Faculty!

The University of Liverpool has become the latest higher education establishment in the region to look at cutting staff numbers amid a financial crisis for the sector. The Russell Group university wrote to all staff last week to inform them that a Voluntary Leavers Scheme will be launched this week

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...

"It is well-known that most of the mainstream media do not approach a Labour Government in a neutral way. Some blatantly misrepresent what is happening, but more often they simply do not report activity, leaving people with a sense that the government is doing nothing."

GB News probably don't want you to share this... 🤔 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news

This is already over 100k but worth signing anyway as 1 of the ways to defend against less-James-Bond-more-Austin-Powers-villain(but-he’d-still-kill-us-all) Elon Musk (along with getting off X, boycotting Tesla, and taxing billionaires so they’re just millionaires again)

Extremely Photogenic Mischief agrees.

Getting walloped by another student with a walking stick.

Today I taught a seminar on the history of the death penalty in the UK, and now I'm spending the evening doomscrolling. I know how to party. Send happy things!