Hope everyone has a great day! 💐

Royal Mail lost a handmade clay item I posted via recorded delivery, spent two months investigating, then compensated me with £13 worth of stamps and a letter saying, “I hope you are happy with the outcome.” Reader, I was not. 📮

Philomena Famulok

Aquarium 📷 #MobilePhotography

I made this little resin turtle with shell fragments and semi-precious stones, and I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. I also made a sea-themed coaster using resin and black sand. I’ve been finding crafting really helpful for unwinding lately. #crafting #resin

I think I was around 20 here. #nostalgia

Happy New Year all! 💫

Just incredible. youtu.be/zedfSOSQZcY

Marc Chagall ~ Soleil d'Hiver (M. 716), Winter Sun (coloured lithograph) #MarcChagall

Got a new cat hat for the holiday period. #festivecat 😹🎅

I have been having some fun making these animal-themed Christmas decorations from air-dry clay over the past couple of weeks! 🎄#crafting #christmas #handmade

I’ve been thinking recently about how poetry can function as an aesthetic act of survival. I don’t have any firm conclusions about what it means to take this idea seriously as yet but I’d be grateful for any thoughts or resources others might want to share.

The Christmas decorations are up!🎄 #Christmas

He is ready.

Picked up a copy of Recalibrating Stigma after a fantastic launch event in Edinburgh last week. Very much looking forward to reading the chapters and drawing on the analysis in my own work. Great work @gmthomas.bsky.social, @oliwilliams.bsky.social, Tanisha Spratt and @amychandler.bsky.social.

ME and ME-like symptoms affect approximately 1.35 million people in the UK. Find out how @kacheston.bsky.social, from our Department of Sociology and @durhamimh.bsky.social, is collaborating with @actionforme.bsky.social to understand the impact of this condition: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Actual footage of my dog bravely surviving his nail-clipping appointment. 💅👀 (Painting by Sano di Pietro).

Another line of theory/evidence on this: MOHO influenced in part by Drew Leder’s The Absent Body, who was influenced in turn by Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception. He construed the body as an “I can”, when things are going smoothly, in absence of illness or disability. Goes back to Husserl.

I’m wondering whether anyone uses Twitter or Bluesky for social connection and community rather than primarily for networking.

This is Melissa - wondering if there are any fellow dog and/or pet lovers in the #epistemicfamily and #poetry community who'd be interested in collaborating with me on a volume of poems about pets with the proceeds being donated to the rescue I volunteer with? Inspired by @1dgrn.bsky.social

The feeling of striving for progress in the humanities, as captured by Fiona Apple in 1998.

Had the absolute pleasure today of going to New York University's London Campus to deliver two guest lectures to Dr. Alexandra Lee's students on Medicine, Health and Disability in Ancient Egypt. I've been fortunate enough to come back and lecture for multiple years now. Always a pleasure. :)

So excited tomorrow I will finally announce my book! However, using the word "announce" feels slightly inaccurate since I pretty much have no fans except my dog. So, basically I'm announcing it to my dog

Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026! Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) & Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick) For more details 👇

I submitted a poetry chapbook yesterday. I’m not particularly optimistic about the outcome, but submitting my work regularly encourages me to keep refining and strengthening my writing.

Today's mood is all glittering frost and iced-over mud.

I picked up a new version of this cardigan in pink. Knitwear is basically my emotional support for winter. 👛

Blue Hydrangea for Blue Monday #blueskymonday #eastcoastkin #photography

On Becoming Invisible #contemporaryartist #contemporaryphotography

We didn’t get Books Council Wales funding, it would've meant 5 years of stability. It’s a blow, and it means a rockier road ahead, but our commitment to ambitious, inclusive, working-class publishing stays firm. If you want to help: buy a book, spread the word, or donate: ko-fi.com/brokensleepb...

COMING UP… - Open mics - A workshop - Two Silver Branch writers - A book of the month - A Christmas anthology - TopTweetTuesday - Pushcart nom’s - and more And, of course, bonhomie! #poetry #writing #poetrycommunity

Here’s a pressed-flower resin tray I made for my mother a while ago. With winter approaching, it’s definitely crafting season again - I’m looking forward to getting started on some new resin and clay pieces soon. #crafting #handmade #resin

- where the light breaks -

The recent debate on Twitter has worn down the thin layer of optimism I’d been clinging to about the world and about how people generally relate to one another. Some might say that’s healthy, but I’m not sure. There’s a point where realism ceases to be grounding and starts to become paralysing.

Exploration of a landscape that started with the sketch of a tree branch. Vintage papers, found and painted papers, and hand drawn sketches. #collage #mixedmedia #vintagepapers

I recently bought this polka dot Cider jumpsuit in two separate colours - brown as well as black. It’s suitable for everyday wear but has the comfort level of a pair of pyjamas, which is a plus in my book! I’m quite partial to buying multiple colours of the same item when I find something I like. 😂

Loved seeing people post their graduation pictures today, so throwback to my Genetics master "Just look at the degree on that chick"

We commonly equate vulnerability with outward struggle and interpret visible success as evidence of security. Yet partial or earned privilege such as educational attainment can mask deep structural precarity.

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

I wasn’t expecting it but this is one of the best live performances I have ever seen: m.youtube.com/watch?v=_I0z...

The lesser-spotted Minkosaurus Rex (also known as Thee-Rex). #halloween #dogcostume #chihuahua

Here is my Lana Del Rey inspired Halloween look — “Lana from Temu.” 😂 I went to a silent disco this Halloween for the first time, which was pretty fun!

Some Halloween decorations I made from air-dry clay (two black cats and a raven)! 🐈‍⬛ #halloween

Making the most of the sunshine! ☀️

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over the course of a month.

Good morning folks. Enjoy the rest days: “If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.” Baldwin -