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Cat Mahoney
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Senior Lecturer Communication and Media at University of Liverpool. Researching television, gender, collective memory, convergence and Dungeons & Dragons. Common or Garden Nerd.
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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Dec 19
I'm super excited to have been awarded an IAA grant from the AHRC to explore accessibility and inclusion in Dungeons and Dragons. I'll be working with the fantastic Bulwark Games so if you're a D&D player, DM, venue, society etc. and have thoughts about creating inclusive gaming spaces get in touch!
a cartoon of a monster with many eyes flying through the air with rays coming out of its eyes .
ALT: a cartoon of a monster with many eyes flying through the air with rays coming out of its eyes .
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catmahoney.bsky.social
Fave thing about Doom: The Dark Ages so far is the "yes, I'm aware the King is about to be overrun by a demon hoard, but there's a plushy hidden in this tower and I NEED IT" vibe.
July 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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My 7 1/2-month-pregnant-ass now that the weather has finally broken
a man is dancing in the rain in front of a store that says mayout
Alt: Gene kelly is dancing in the rain in front of a store that says mayout swinging an umbrella back and forth. From singing in the rain
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June 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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livuninews.bsky.social
NEWS I Launched today in the @sotauol.bsky.social library, a vital new online safety resource for political parties and their communications teams. Read more ⬇️

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/09/u...

@digipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @jocoxfoundation.bsky.social @local.gov.uk
June 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
catmahoney.bsky.social
I'm excited to attend the launch event of the Safer Politics Online Safety Tool Kit, headed up by my brilliant colleagues in @commmedia.bsky.social @harm365.bsky.social @rosalynd.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
catmahoney.bsky.social
Check out this opportunity to work in our dept with my fantastic Media and Politics colleagues. They're really good eggs. Closing date 30th June.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...
@commmedia.bsky.social
Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Prof Diane Negra to give the Keynote address at our COSME PGR conference. @commmedia.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
catmahoney.bsky.social
So @expedition33.bsky.social lives up to the hype, huh? Stunning.
a man with a beard is holding a gun in front of a building
Alt: a man with a beard reaches out to grab a falling flower petal Infront of ruined buildings. A red haired woman stands behind him
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May 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
catmahoney.bsky.social
Registration now open!! COSME PGR conference, Disruption, Resistance and Change in Screen Media Industries, University of Liverpool, 19th May. Keynote speaker Prof Diane Negra.
Programme & registration: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cosmepgrconference2025
@commmedia.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
catmahoney.bsky.social
Hey, @therookandtheraven.com please can I message you about an outstanding order? I tried to email but it keeps bouncing back. Thanks!
May 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social members striking today. ✊✊✊✊
April 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
catmahoney.bsky.social
As someone who plays a Swarmkeeper, I endorse this message.

youtu.be/CwCyTt8fSAU?...
Baldur’s Gate 3: The Final Patch - An Animated Short
YouTube video by Larian Studios
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April 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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By complete accident, I happen to be in #Sumy this week in my personal capacity, visiting friends I made as part of an academic exchange between Sumy State University and the University of Liverpool.
April 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
catmahoney.bsky.social
My Brilliant colleagues doing brilliant things
commmedia.bsky.social Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool @commmedia.bsky.social · Apr 11
It's Publication Friday! 🚨 And we've got some cracking eggs from 🐣 from our team!

We've had so many recently, it's going to be a 🧵, but take a look if you're interested in some of the work we do! Abstracts and links below 👇

(Sorry to the co-authors I've cut for the word count)

#commsky
April 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
catmahoney.bsky.social
Daredevil Born Again continues to absolutely slap. Bullseye is *such* an epic villain.
April 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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uniteucu.bsky.social
It gets worse…

Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes.

In what trade union world is this acceptable?
Extract from email to members threatening disciplinary action if they mention strikes in future out of office replies.
April 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Dept of History, University of Liverpool - two fully-funded (fees and maintenance) PhD studentships; one studentship will be ring-fenced for Black applicants; the other for History of Race, Health and Medicine, 1700 - present. www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la... #skystorians 🗃️
Postgraduate research | School of Histories, Languages and Cultures | University of Liverpool facebookThe Original RedbrickUniversity of Liverpool on FacebookLivUni on InstagramLivUni on YouTube...
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April 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
catmahoney.bsky.social
The trailor for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 looks INSANE and I am so here for it.
a group of people are dancing in a room with a sign that says t on it
Alt: a gif of the bridge crew of the Enterprise from Strantge new Worlds dancing on the bridge
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April 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
catmahoney.bsky.social
📢📢📢 CALLING ALL PGRS 📢📢📢
Check out the #CFP for our forthcoming conference: 'Disruption, Resistance and Change in Screen Media Industries' with Keynote speaker Prof. Diane Negra!
Abstracts and bio to cosmepgr@liverpool.ac.uk. Deadline Friday 18th April.
commmedia.bsky.social Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool @commmedia.bsky.social · Apr 2
Big news from our COSME PGR centre who are launching the CFP for their Conference "Disruption, Resistance and Change in Screen Media Industries"! 🎥

May 19th, UoL Campus.

Please re-share and forward to relevant people.

#commsky #AcademicSky #FilmSky

www.liverpool.ac.uk/communicatio...

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Disruption, Resistance and Change in Screen Media Industries | Department of Communication and Media | University of Liverpool linkedinyoutubeinstagramThe Original RedbrickUniversity of Liverpoo...
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April 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
catmahoney.bsky.social
I got a Mimic for Mother's Day. This is peak happiness.
A wooden chest carved to look as though it has teeth and eyes to look like a Mimic from Dungeons and Dragons. A wooden chest carved to look as though it has teeth and eyes to look like a Mimic from Dungeons and Dragons. The lid/mouth is open.
March 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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D&D with friends is good for the soul.
March 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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jacobengelberg.bsky.social
119 film and media scholars from 61 institutions across 16 countries have written to Travis Bell (The Movie Database) and Matthew Buchanan (Letterboxd) to make the case to reinstate early moving image works in their catalogues. Thank you to everyone who signed.
A letter that reads the following: Petition from scholars of film and media to reinstate early moving image works on TMDB and Letterboxd 13 March 2025 Dear Travis Bell (TMDB) and Matthew Buchanan (Letterboxd), We are scholars of film and media writing to you as representatives of The Movie Database (TMDB) and Letterboxd to express our dismay at the decision taken by TMDB to remove photographic motion studies/chronophotography from its database. Following an update in February 2025, TMDB’s New Content Bible began listing “photographic motion studies (chronophotography)” among the list of types of content not allowed in the database. Shortly thereafter, these works began to be removed from the database. We are writing to request that this decision be reversed. TMDB and Letterboxd, which uses the former’s database, are preeminent resources in film cataloging, used globally by millions each year. Up until recently, one of the great advantages of this database has been the extensive number of entries documenting early moving-image experiments by the likes of Charles Comte, Georges Demenÿ, Étienne-Jules Marey, and Eadweard Muybridge, among others. Whereas TMDB’s New Content Bible, in its justification of these works’ removal, draws attention to the fact that there are over 100,000 works by Muybridge, we fail to see how this renders them unsuitable for the database. Instead, such a figure only reveals the extensivity of these moving-image works and encourages curiosity around them. We are well aware of the debates around when cinema can be said to have begun, what constitutes film, and the disagreements that persist on these topics. Rather than act as the arbiter of what among early moving-image cultures constitutes film and what does not, we urge you to take a more capacious approach. Such an approach would be in line with TMDB’s ethos as a “community built” endeavour and Letterboxd’s articulation of itself as a network for “ grass-roots film discussion and discovery”; t… Sincerely, 1. Richard Abel, Emeritus Professor, University of Michigan Ann Arbor 2. Dr. Leslie Abramson 3. Prof. François Albera, Université de Lausanne 4. Lauren Alberque, film archivist, Kimbell Art Museum 5. Yousef Alghawi, University of Southern California 6. Jacopo Barbero, University of Amsterdam 7. Dr. Cory Barker, Penn State University 8. Prof. Martin Barnier, Université Lumière Lyon2 France 9. Giorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan 10. Erica Biolchini, University of Amsterdam 11. Assoc. Prof. Amy E. Borden, Portland State University 12. Marta Braun, Emeritus Professor and Director, Toronto Metropolitan University 13. Quin Bright 14. Dr. Cüneyt Çakırlar, Nottingham Trent University 15. Nick Carbone, New York Public University 16. Diana Cardenas, UCLA Film & Television Archive 17. Prof. Erica Carter, King’s College London 18. Bárbara Carvalho, CESEM/NOVA University of Lisbon 19. Barbara Cattaneo, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence 20. Asst. Prof. Palita Chunsaengcha, University of Minnesota 21. Laurel Day, George Blood LP 22. Asst. Prof. Doğa Çöl, Istanbul Medipol University 23. Prof. Allison Cooper, Bowdoin College 24. Dr. Keith Dando 25. Prof. Nicholas de Villiers, University of North Florida 26. Eileen DiPofi, University of Southern California 27. Prof. Kevin Donnelly, University of Southampton 28. Stephanie Dykes 29. Desirae Embree, Texas A&M University 30. Dr. Jacob Engelberg, University of Amsterdam 31. Dan Erdman, Media Burn 32. Dr. Victor Fan, King’s College London 33. Dr. Kathy Feeley, University of Redlands 34. Augustin Ferrari Braun, University of Amsterdam 35. Assoc. Prof. Allyson Nadia Field, University of Chicago 36. Asst. Prof. Roberto Filippello, University of Amsterdam 37. Dr. Ian Fleishman, University of Pennsylvania 38. Dr. Charles Forceville, Universiteit van Amsterdam 39. Dr. John Fullerton, Emeritus Professor, Stockholm University 40. Luis Alonso García, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 41. Dr. Philippa Gates, Laurier University 42. Dr… 47. Prof. em. Thomas Gunning, University of Chicago 48. James Haberl, Niles North High School 49. Dr. Gert Jan Harkema, University of Amsterdam 50. Benjamin Harry, Brigham Young University 51. Sarah Hartzell, The Ohio State University 52. Mirko Heinemann 53. Prof. Maggie Hennefeld, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 54. Scott Higgins, Wesleyan University 55. William E. Hill III 56. Prof. Laura Horak, Carleton University 57. Amanda Howard, CA, University of Arizona Libraries 58. Prof. Daniel Humphrey, Texas A&M University 59. Dr. Rhys Steven Jones, University of Amsterdam 60. Tien-Tien Jong, University of Chicago 61. Tara D. Kelley, Rutgers University 62. Dr. Laurence Kent, University of Bristol 63. Jane Keranen, University of Chicago 64. Susan Kerns, PhD, Milwaukee Film 65. Prof. em. Dr. Frank Kessler, Utrecht University 66. Ben Kiem, University of Toronto 67. Dr. N.H. de Klerk, Utrecht University/Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History, Wien 68. Katerina Korola, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 69. Reto Kromer, AV preservation by reto.ch 70. Prof. Thomas Lamarre, University of Chicago 71. Christine Lamy 72. Mary Lane 73. Dr. Michael Lawrence, University of Sussex 74. Dr. S. Lenk, Philipps-University Marburg 75. Jim Leonard 76. Kristin Lipska, Prelinger Archives 77. Loiseau, freelance researcher 78. Hugo Ljungbäck, University of Chicago 79. Letícia Magalhães 80. Dr. Cat Mahoney, University of Liverpool 81. Anne-Marie Malthête-Quévrain, Cinémathèque Méliès 82. Andronika Martonova, Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 83. Michael Mazzacane 84. Dr. Robert J. Mills, University of Southampton 85. Juliëtte Molenaars, Universiteit van Amsterdam 86. Prof. Daniel Morgan, University of Chicago 87. Charles Musser, Yale University 88. Gary Needham, University of Liverpool 89. Arcadio Andrea Oranday, University of Chicago 90. Prof. Federico Pierotti, University of Lausanne 91. Eric Pitz, UCLA 92. D Plumer 93. Prof. Karen Redrobe, University of Pen… 94. Valentine Robert, Maîtresse d'enseignement et de recherche, University of Lausanne 95. Steve Ruffin 96. Daniel Sánchez Salas, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 97. Kendra Lee Sanders, University of Chicago 98. Dr. Maria San Filippo 99. Michael Seeber 100. Dr. Martha Shearer, University College Dublin 101. Dr. Elyse Singer, City University of New York 102. Dr. Thomas Slater, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 103. Dr. Hannah Spaulding, University of Liverpool 104. PD Dr. Simon Spiegel, University of Zurich 105. Prof. Aurore Spiers, Texas A&M University 106. Dr. Katherine Spring, Wilfrid Laurier University 107. Distinguished Prof. Shelley Stamp, University of California, Santa Cruz 108. Prof. dr. Eliza Steinbock, Maastricht University 109. Alex Thelen 110. Dr. Michael L. Thomas, University of Amsterdam 111. Maria Tortajada, Professeur ordinaire, Université de Lausanne 112. Prof. Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool 113. Prof. em. William Uricchio, MIT 114. Dr. Tjalling Valdés Olmos, University of Amsterdam 115. Dr. Gwendolyn Waltz, independent scholar 116. Vanessa Weller, Michigan State University 117. Dr. Grant Wiedenfeld, Sam Houston State University 118. Dr. Maryn Wilkinson, University of Amsterdam 119. Prof. Michael Williams, University of Southampton
March 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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billt.bsky.social
In these hard times it's good to find things that offer hope. If you're anywhere near London's Euston Road do call in to the Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice exhibition at the Wellcome Library. Inspired by Dr Lea Cooper's PhD.
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Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice
Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from...
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March 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
“The majority of people who are forced to come to our food banks are disabled.. there is an incredible level of hardship out there & we are appalled the government looks at that situation & appears to be deciding to make huge cuts to the support people get"

Helen Barnard @trusselluk.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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qmucu.bsky.social
THE MEMES WRITE THEMSELVES AT THIS POINT.

(also: UUK: that's your job.)
March 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
catmahoney.bsky.social
📢📢 WE ARE RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS📢📢

If you are interested in Dungeons and Dragons or TTRPGs more generally and would like to be involved in research seeking to create accessible and inclusive games and resources for players and GMs then check out this #CFP

@commmedia.bsky.social
A poster giving details and scannable QR codes to recruit participants for a research project at the University of Liverpool into the creation of accessible and inclusive spaces and resources for TTRPGs.
March 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM