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Lauren Redhead
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Music. Running. Dog walking. Vegetables.
Today a PhD student passed their viva (hooray!).

It turned out neither they nor the examiners knew the thing about the snake.
Is the snake Very Online?
Does everyone not know of the snake?
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
If you are free in Manchester on 2nd December you may like to go to this concert!
There may be a surprise piece by me among all this other excellent music!

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Empty Dreaming: Contemporary Piano Nocturnes
Composer-improviser Henry McPherson premieres experimental works inspired by night and darkness. Music by Brown, Sappho, Cheung, and more.
urldefense.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I have quite a lot of questions about ghosts. 👻
I’ve decided to make them into a thread in case anyone who knows about ghosts can provide some information.

Thanks in advance.
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Really need new publicity photos! The ones I keep using are 12 years old.
So I also need someone to take the photos and ideally do this without my knowledge or I’ll look weird.
If anyone has come up with the answer to this dilemma please let me know.
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Seeing the Unseeable | Public discussion w/Rachel Bearon, Emily Howard, Elaine Chew, Marcus du Sautoy & Lauren Redhead

📆 Mon 24 Nov 2025
🕖 7-8:30pm
📍Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre KCL
🔗 marc.kcl.ac.uk/2025/11/seei...

@kingsnmes.bsky.social
@marcusdusautoy.bsky.social
@laurenredhead.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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November Noise Upstairs This Thursday!
NOVEMBER NOISE UPSTAIRS!
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
c.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.

It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The news about Nottingham Music is awful. I hope the means to resist this can be found. I feel like every day in HE we’re dealing with some decision or other that is part of this whole picture. What will be left when everything is cut? It’s impossible.
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Today is a synth day!
Been looking forward to this for a while:

capstone.hope.ac.uk/whatson/levi...
capstone.hope.ac.uk
November 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This petition has nearly 10,000 signatures:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

You could help this by signing, if you aren’t a terrible person who hates animals
Petition: Limit the sale of fireworks to those running local council approved events only
Ban the sale of fireworks to the general public to minimise the harm caused to vulnerable people and animals. Defenceless animals can die from the distress caused by fireworks. I believe that permitt...
petition.parliament.uk
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It’s the time of year where for weeks on end I get to spend my evening calming down the dog who is beside himself at every loud bang.
Yes, we have every single ****ing thing marketed to calm down dogs.
The thing that would work is banning fireworks.
There’s no argument in their favour.
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Statement on the Proposed Cancellation of the Initial Teacher Training Bursary for Music

https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/31/statement-on-the-proposed-cancellation-of-the-initial-teacher-training-bursary-for-music/
October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
this Ozymandias thing: do I want to understand or should I not ask?
October 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Big thanks to The Quietus for the support and kind words.
Here's a little interview and feature preview of Boundaries...Share it if you can.

Cheers
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October 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Since allowing the dog to sleep in the bedroom I’ve discovered that the reason he spends his whole day sleeping in different dog beds is that he definitely doesn’t spend the night sleeping.
And now he goes in the bedroom at night it’s going to be work to make him go back in his dog bedroom.
October 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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NOVEMBER NOISE UPSTAIRS!
October 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This captures my sentiment today
No. What he would do was this. He would put on the record of bagpipe music. He would listen to it, every last banshee wail of it.
October 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Using ChatGPT
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
August 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Thanks to Stephen Weigel for having me on his podcast! (The picture is not of one of my instruments)

youtu.be/oB8Wh4hJovw?...
Now and Xen Podcast: 092 Stephen Altoft
YouTube video by Now and Xen Podcast
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October 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Manchester half marathon this morning. I lost 6 weeks of training due to a hamstring injury and spend last week feeling ill and run down - I wasn’t confident in my goal of Having A Nice Time. Nevertheless I had a lovely run at a better pace than predicted so I am happy.
October 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
October 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I’ve received an AI-written email response. I suspect this because it mostly repeats the email that I wrote first back to me. Even worse, no reply was needed or if the person wanted to they could have just written “thanks.” This is how the robots get us: by wasting our time until we die.
October 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Music and/as Process deadline has been extended to Sunday 5th Oct. (midnight). #MusProc2025 takes place across 2 dates/venues in November: Goldsmiths (7/11), Edinburgh Napier (8/11).
Info via website: musicandasprocess.org/conference-2...

Submission form: shorturl.at/njhmC

#practiceresearch
conference 2025
Save the date! Our next conference will be the 7th and 8th of November 2025, split between London Goldsmiths and Edinburgh Napier. The call for proposals is now live, see here for more information …
musicandasprocess.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
October.
I see I haven’t written anything since the rapture.
I’m out of things to say.
#rrecommit
October 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM