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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦

@drfionamoore.bsky.social

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BSFA Award winning SFF author represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Anthropologist who wandered into a business school. Author of Management Lessons from Game of Thrones (2022).

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Fiona Moore is a Canadian academic, writer and critic based in London (UK). She is best known for writing works of TV criticism, short fiction, stage and audio plays, and academic texts on the anthropology of business and organisations. Her research work has been described by Professor Roger Goodman at the University of Oxford's Nissan Institute as "engaging head-on with the growing and increasingly complex literature on transnationalism and globalisation and relating it constructively to key ideas in symbolic anthropology." A graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, she is Chair of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Shorter Fiction, and in 2023 she won the BSFA Award for Short Non-Fiction. .. more

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · Sep 22

Updated my calling card again.

A blue shading to purple card with a picture of Fiona Moore at the centre and three pictures, of a miniature cabinet, a cat and some flatbread with eggs, at the bottom. The text outlines my recent work which you can find at www.adoctorofmanythings.com or by following @drfionamoore on social media.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 7h

Age verification? Computer Science class involved shoving us in a room with 30 Commodore Vic20s and leaving us there for an hour unsupervised.

Laragh @laragh.bsky.social · 9h

Age verification? I know how Caecilius and his missus died

Line drawing from Cambridge Latin Course - Metella and her cook Grumio hanging out. She is clearly very impressed with his cooking. Proper chef’s kiss.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 8h

I am baffled by the idea of removing "Black music" from a cheerleader music playlist. Surely literally all popular music from the 1900s on is Black music? Do they expect cheerleaders to do routines to Vivaldi?

Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 15h

That’s what’s up.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 9h

South Bank! My favourite brutalist dystopian arts venue!

Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 12h

12 years later than some of us would have liked, but totally worth it

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Laragh @laragh.bsky.social · 9h

Age verification? I know how Caecilius and his missus died

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 12h

12 years later than some of us would have liked, but totally worth it

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 15h

That’s what’s up.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

Back in pre-AI days, I knew a guy who thought that since romance is "just formula", he would try his hand at writing them and make decent money. He abandoned the effort after a few chapters, and developed a new respect for "formula" romance writing.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

The New Fabio Is Claude

www.nytimes.com

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

Tracks with my own feelings about the collection. I thought the first story was strong, and I think I liked the second more than you as a rumination on how experience changes people. The third did nothing for me, and the last one I just found frustrating and way too long.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely, yes. I found them great reading.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

I do give him points for, as a cis White male Golden Age writer, casually giving us a book with a Black Muslim protagonist set mostly in the developing world.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

There are also some books that I initially avoided as a newbie because they were Old, but was pleasantly surprised when I did actually read them. "Dracula" leaps to mind (who said the Victorians couldn't do feminism, queerness and some very teenager-friendly blood, guts and violence?)

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

I have an in-house rugby consultant who vets the sport side of it for me :).

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

Literal #tinyjoys: I am currently customising a Rolife A-frame kit into my dream summer cottage. There are tiny plants.

A hand holding a miniature brown wooden window box of green plants of various kinds.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

My apologies, to you and to everyone in Wales! I try and remember proper spellings but sometimes old memories slip through.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

Oh and no one has mentioned Doctor Strangepork, who would be that one emeritus professor who is friends with everybody and has written a ton of well-cited books and yet everyone knows his research was CIA funded back in the 1960s.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

Miss Piggy and Link Hogthrob would totally be hawking academic software “solutions” in the booth alleys. Scooter would be the local committee chair.

Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test @adamrothman.bsky.social · 3d

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test @adamrothman.bsky.social · 3d

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly. When I’m setting out the class AI policy, I cite all the moral, reputational and intellectual reasons— and then I reveal that using AI shows you failed to learn the key message of the class.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 3d

Spike Milligan, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Lemon Jefferson. Possibly Homer.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 3d

John Lydon, Ian Dury, Michael Flanders, EW Hornung.

Cape Cod Demon Hunter @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3d

They've disabled quotes but Beethoven, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Goya, Matisse, Cyprián Majerník, Dorothy Stanton Wise

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 3d

This is the main reason why using AI in my Sustainability Management class is banned…

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3d

Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3d

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Cape Cod Demon Hunter @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3d

They've disabled quotes but Beethoven, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Goya, Matisse, Cyprián Majerník, Dorothy Stanton Wise

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 5d

Two Japanese comfort-food dishes come to mind: Cat Rice, which is rice topped with bonito flakes, and Butter Rice, which is rice with soy sauce and butter, and which, when stirred into rice, combine to produce a flavour which is delicious and nothing like either primary ingredient.

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 5d

If this is something that appeals, you can hear me talking to Kenny Smith about my latest book, the Black Archive on the 1966 Doctor Who story The Ark, on the Power of 3 podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/4...

493: The Black Archive - The Ark

Podcast Episode · Power of 3 · 04/02/2026 · 32m

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, if trans athletes have an unfair advantage over cis athletes, how come almost no trans athletes have medaled?

Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 6d

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds

Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

www.independent.co.uk

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 6d

New on my blog: party food from one of the oldest genre tie-in cookbooks, the Alice in Wonderland Cookbook. The “Eat Me” jokes just write themselves.

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I Cook These Things So You Don’t Have To: Cheshire Cat Cheese Straws (Alice in Wonderland)

I’ve posted recipes before from the oldest known genre tie-in cookbook, The Peanuts Lunch Bag Cookbook. I’ve since found out about another, later but still very early, example: The Alic…

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 6d

I live in Surrey and for a while there was a local man who would take a sheep for a walk, on a lead. I used to see him when I was biking to work in the mornings.

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 6d

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation.

Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements

The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.

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Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 6d

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds

Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

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