Lori Watson
@loriwatson.bsky.social
Musician & Researcher @ Scottish Studies UoEdinburgh | trad/folk arts performance & creativity | artistic research, ethno(musico)logy || loriwatson.net | tradmus.com
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Great turnout at the Edinburgh UCU rally at parliament to demand an end to the University of Edinburgh management reckless budget cuts and redundancies!
#StopStaffCutsatUoE @ucu.org.uk
#StopStaffCutsatUoE @ucu.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Great turnout at the Edinburgh UCU rally at parliament to demand an end to the University of Edinburgh management reckless budget cuts and redundancies!
#StopStaffCutsatUoE @ucu.org.uk
#StopStaffCutsatUoE @ucu.org.uk
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Calling all staff and students at UoE, and all those who care about its future: join us on the picket lines!
Teach outs, picket locations, bake sale... see our FAQ
#UCU
#WearetheUniversity
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
Teach outs, picket locations, bake sale... see our FAQ
#UCU
#WearetheUniversity
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
Industrial Action FAQ — UCU Edinburgh
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Calling all staff and students at UoE, and all those who care about its future: join us on the picket lines!
Teach outs, picket locations, bake sale... see our FAQ
#UCU
#WearetheUniversity
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
Teach outs, picket locations, bake sale... see our FAQ
#UCU
#WearetheUniversity
#StopStaffCutsatUoE
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
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#StopTheCuts and divest from genocide! #StopStaffCutAtUoE
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
#StopTheCuts and divest from genocide! #StopStaffCutAtUoE
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Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!
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📣 Strike at University of Edinburgh 17-19 November against unjustified compulsory redundancies @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
📌 JOIN OUR RALLY AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, Wed 19 November 1 pm 🙏🏼 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rally-to-s...
ℹ️Info about the dispute 👉🏻
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
📌 JOIN OUR RALLY AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, Wed 19 November 1 pm 🙏🏼 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rally-to-s...
ℹ️Info about the dispute 👉🏻
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
Local Industrial Dispute FAQs — UCU Edinburgh
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
📣 Strike at University of Edinburgh 17-19 November against unjustified compulsory redundancies @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
📌 JOIN OUR RALLY AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, Wed 19 November 1 pm 🙏🏼 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rally-to-s...
ℹ️Info about the dispute 👉🏻
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
📌 JOIN OUR RALLY AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, Wed 19 November 1 pm 🙏🏼 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rally-to-s...
ℹ️Info about the dispute 👉🏻
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
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Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian.
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
Elspeth King obituary
Museum director and curator of the People’s Palace in Glasgow who reshaped it into a living record of the city’s social history
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social has written an obituary for Elspeth King in The Guardian.
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
King transformed how Scotland’s museums told the stories of everyday people—https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/elspeth-king-obituary
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Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Have you read Journal of American Folklore Vol. 138, No. 549? Featuring new articles, perspectives, book reviews, and more! With work by @mathildelind.bsky.social, @gurotekopp.bsky.social, @loriwatson.bsky.social, and others.
Read now on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55307
Read now on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55307
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Have you read Journal of American Folklore Vol. 138, No. 549? Featuring new articles, perspectives, book reviews, and more! With work by @mathildelind.bsky.social, @gurotekopp.bsky.social, @loriwatson.bsky.social, and others.
Read now on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55307
Read now on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55307
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📣PLEASE SHARE 📣 Call for Writers! Two 8-month residencies (2026) at AGA & @aowensarchive.bsky.social exploring Neglected Voices. Supported by Creative Scotland. £12k fee, flexible structure. Apply by 4 Dec 2025 👉 sorcha@thealasdairgrayarchive.com, Link on website to application brief & criteria✍️
November 3, 2025 at 7:17 AM
📣PLEASE SHARE 📣 Call for Writers! Two 8-month residencies (2026) at AGA & @aowensarchive.bsky.social exploring Neglected Voices. Supported by Creative Scotland. £12k fee, flexible structure. Apply by 4 Dec 2025 👉 sorcha@thealasdairgrayarchive.com, Link on website to application brief & criteria✍️
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Speedrun through an interactive songscape feat. transformations of traditional Scots song Fause, Fause performed by @loriwatson.bsky.social. Now with elements that develop the AV aesthetic. Audio made with @cycling74.bsky.social MaxMSP & @audiokinetic.bsky.social Wwise @edincollegeofart.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Speedrun through an interactive songscape feat. transformations of traditional Scots song Fause, Fause performed by @loriwatson.bsky.social. Now with elements that develop the AV aesthetic. Audio made with @cycling74.bsky.social MaxMSP & @audiokinetic.bsky.social Wwise @edincollegeofart.bsky.social
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Edinburgh Uni AV Digitisation Technician job: "Digitising a range of AV and sound material from across the University’s heritage collections, with a focus on but not limited to, the collections of the School of Scottish Studies Archive" #digitalhumanities elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
AV Digitisation Technician
We are looking for an AV digitisation professional to join our team on a permanent basis, to undertake programmatic and on-demand digitisation of the University’s AV heritage collections.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Edinburgh Uni AV Digitisation Technician job: "Digitising a range of AV and sound material from across the University’s heritage collections, with a focus on but not limited to, the collections of the School of Scottish Studies Archive" #digitalhumanities elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
JOB AV Tech (closes 30th June) Please share! #archives #ScottishStudies @edinburghup.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
AV Digitisation Technician
We are looking for an AV digitisation professional to join our team on a permanent basis, to undertake programmatic and on-demand digitisation of the University’s AV heritage collections.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
JOB AV Tech (closes 30th June) Please share! #archives #ScottishStudies @edinburghup.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Happy #MothersDay! 💐Check out a special issue of Visual Arts Research 48.2 on "motherscholars," highlighting the work of scholars and artists who are also mothers and caregivers. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/var/issu...
May 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Happy #MothersDay! 💐Check out a special issue of Visual Arts Research 48.2 on "motherscholars," highlighting the work of scholars and artists who are also mothers and caregivers. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/var/issu...
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If you think coworking might work for you but would be tempted to chat if you organize it yourself with a friend, A Meeting With Your Writing might help. Virtual. Professional. Microcoaching available to get you unstuck.
💡 academicwritingstudio.co.uk/a-meeting-wi...
💡 academicwritingstudio.co.uk/a-meeting-wi...
April 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
If you think coworking might work for you but would be tempted to chat if you organize it yourself with a friend, A Meeting With Your Writing might help. Virtual. Professional. Microcoaching available to get you unstuck.
💡 academicwritingstudio.co.uk/a-meeting-wi...
💡 academicwritingstudio.co.uk/a-meeting-wi...
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Source material here is @loriwatson.bsky.social Fause, Fause (with thanks!) loriwatson.bandcamp.com/track/fause-...
Fause, Fause, by Lori Watson
track by Lori Watson
loriwatson.bandcamp.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Source material here is @loriwatson.bsky.social Fause, Fause (with thanks!) loriwatson.bandcamp.com/track/fause-...
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Close to releasing some loop-finding-folk-records interactive scenes, just a few props to add here.Thanks to the brilliant @loriwatson.bsky.social for letting me work with her songs! Uses @audiokinetic.bsky.social #Wwise for audio @edincollegeofart.bsky.social #computermusicfeed vimeo.com/1073691066
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April 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Close to releasing some loop-finding-folk-records interactive scenes, just a few props to add here.Thanks to the brilliant @loriwatson.bsky.social for letting me work with her songs! Uses @audiokinetic.bsky.social #Wwise for audio @edincollegeofart.bsky.social #computermusicfeed vimeo.com/1073691066
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A Meeting With Your Writing isn’t a remedial program for academics with no willpower. (Yes, I’ve met your gremlin.) It’s a support that successful academics use to make sure that writing happens in busy schedules. Find out more here: academicwritingstudio.co.uk/a-meeting-wi...
April 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A Meeting With Your Writing isn’t a remedial program for academics with no willpower. (Yes, I’ve met your gremlin.) It’s a support that successful academics use to make sure that writing happens in busy schedules. Find out more here: academicwritingstudio.co.uk/a-meeting-wi...
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This morning @jovanevery.bsky.social has put me in charge of the 10am Meeting With Your Writing.
We are writing for 90 minutes together. Or whatever you need a group to get academic work done.
You can join for a free trial: academicwritingstudio.co.uk/meeting-writ...
#AcademicSky
We are writing for 90 minutes together. Or whatever you need a group to get academic work done.
You can join for a free trial: academicwritingstudio.co.uk/meeting-writ...
#AcademicSky
A Meeting With Your Writing: How it works - Academic Writing Studio
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March 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This morning @jovanevery.bsky.social has put me in charge of the 10am Meeting With Your Writing.
We are writing for 90 minutes together. Or whatever you need a group to get academic work done.
You can join for a free trial: academicwritingstudio.co.uk/meeting-writ...
#AcademicSky
We are writing for 90 minutes together. Or whatever you need a group to get academic work done.
You can join for a free trial: academicwritingstudio.co.uk/meeting-writ...
#AcademicSky
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Follow @edintradfest.bsky.social Starter pack coming soon … Tag them to be included.
March 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Follow @edintradfest.bsky.social Starter pack coming soon … Tag them to be included.
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Ongoing work with loop-finding-folk-records feat. @loriwatson.bsky.social. Asynchronous loops of particular character clustered in spatial arrangements using Unity & #Wwise. Most difficult part of this was choosing the arrangement of what material leads into & out of each cluster #computermusicfeed
February 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Ongoing work with loop-finding-folk-records feat. @loriwatson.bsky.social. Asynchronous loops of particular character clustered in spatial arrangements using Unity & #Wwise. Most difficult part of this was choosing the arrangement of what material leads into & out of each cluster #computermusicfeed
In the transcription cave this week. 6mins a min. 🤘🏻🎧🎛️💻 #fieldwork #transcription #oralhistory #ethnology #ScottishStudies #tradarts #folkmusic #creativity
February 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
In the transcription cave this week. 6mins a min. 🤘🏻🎧🎛️💻 #fieldwork #transcription #oralhistory #ethnology #ScottishStudies #tradarts #folkmusic #creativity
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I'm currently making something that will blend #computermusic, traditional Scots folk song and uncanny glens, and @loriwatson.bsky.social has just sent me the most wonderful recording! I'm not sure I'll actually get any work done for listening. Listen to Lori here loriwatson.bandcamp.com/music
Lori Watson
loriwatson.bandcamp.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:44 AM
I'm currently making something that will blend #computermusic, traditional Scots folk song and uncanny glens, and @loriwatson.bsky.social has just sent me the most wonderful recording! I'm not sure I'll actually get any work done for listening. Listen to Lori here loriwatson.bandcamp.com/music
Is there an informal name for the US comma and period placed inside the closing quote mark? Do you use it and where are you based? #academia #publishing #styleguide #learningtheropes #UKbefuddlement #academic #writing
September 3, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Is there an informal name for the US comma and period placed inside the closing quote mark? Do you use it and where are you based? #academia #publishing #styleguide #learningtheropes #UKbefuddlement #academic #writing
Project Archivist has joined the project! Relieved they can bring the materials together for preservation and access. Would your life be better with an archivist? Mine would! (Decades of photos, comms, nuts and bolts of life.) #archivist #essential #allthestuff #academic #musiccollection tradmus.com
Traditional Music Research
Dr Lori Watson
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September 3, 2024 at 7:50 AM
Project Archivist has joined the project! Relieved they can bring the materials together for preservation and access. Would your life be better with an archivist? Mine would! (Decades of photos, comms, nuts and bolts of life.) #archivist #essential #allthestuff #academic #musiccollection tradmus.com