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Allison Stratford
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Proud Associate Director Corporate Communications at @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Tweeting about the place and the people. I love latte and 🥕 cake.
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Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.
Mnemonic   Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. Unless a leap year is its fate, February hath twenty-eight. All the rest hath three days more, excepting January, which hath six thousand, one hundred and eighty-four. Brian Bilston
January 23, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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Great information piece from @unisouthampton.bsky.social academic Simon Boxall.
January 23, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Great to see another @uk.theconversation.com article from @michaelghead.bsky.social and @unisouthampton.bsky.social colleagues
January 15, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Our astronomers have discovered something never seen before in space - a mysterious shock wave surrounding a white dwarf star.

Read more: tr.ee/T2K834

@russellgroup.bsky.social @spacesouthcentral.bsky.social @engineering-soton.bsky.social @eso.org
A vast starry sky with a white dwarf star glowing brightest in the centre. The star's radiant glow contrasts with the dense backdrop of smaller, twinkling stars scattered across the dark expanse. Professor Christian Knigge in a red shirt and glasses sits at a desk, smiling and looking at the camera. Behind them, a large computer monitor displays a colourful, close up image of how a star looks in space. Another monitor shows a text-based interface. The room has a window with a blurred snowy landscape outside.
January 12, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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Great thought leadership post from @unisouthampton.bsky.social 🚢
January 9, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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#IYKYK
A white women in an orange hazmat suit holding up a sign that says “when is bins?” Behind her are other people wearing hazmat suits.
December 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Delighted to see @unisouthampton.bsky.social colleague @philactive.bsky.social published for a second time in @timeshighered.bsky.social Campus
timeshighered.bsky.social Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Dec 22
Universities must be able to measure and demonstrate the social value that their sport and physical-activity programmes create for students and beyond, writes Phil Malatesta from the University of Southampton: https://ow.ly/KOz350XLzyT #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
December 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
If you find🎄 hard due to grief,trauma,family stuff,wonky self esteem,neurodivergence &/or an urge to throw Christmas down the loo, become a reclusive pagan & maybe make a small hat out of mistletoe at a push,then hi,me too.Here are some good twigs & I’m sending gentle thoughts. It’s only a few days🌿
A collection of late autumn/winter berries in a black chipped enamelled background & with hand written labels. The colours of the berries graduate from one side of the photo to the other
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Happy Solstice, Bluesky lovelies! As the light returns, may people round the world, allow it to enlighten our hearts & minds & actions with kindness & empathy. Each new day,is a new opportunity for each one of us to share light, in our own way. ☀️🕊️♥️
December 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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unisouthampton.bsky.social
Day 1 of Winter Graduation is complete.

Congratulations to the Class of 2025, and thank you to all who joined us in celebrating 🎓

#WeAreUoS
A woman in a graduation cap and gown stands between two people, posing for a photo. The group smiles while standing outside a building with stone columns. Other people are seen in the background. Graduation ceremony on stage with people in academic robes seated; fireworks burst from the floor, and a screen displays "Congratulations" against a blue backdrop. Two graduates in academic gowns and caps smile, standing shoulder to shoulder amidst a crowd. A modern building with large windows is in the background. A young woman in a graduation cap and gown stands smiling beside a man in a suit holding a folder. They are outdoors in a formal setting with other graduates and attendees visible in the background.
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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We’re pleased to announce that @unisouthampton.bsky.social will be joining our UK Summer Schools consortium from 2026!

Students can now apply to Sutton Trust summer schools at the University of Southampton from January ⤵️

www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...
December 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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A small reminder, especially if you struggle with low mood in the winter, that this is just 8 or 9 weeks away, fewer in some cases 👇🏼🌱🌱
A photo I took of a dense patch of snowdrops against a dark fence, with rays of sunlight shining down on them and sunlight illuminating their petals from behind.
December 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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The entire academic system is being held up by coffee
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Check out this brilliant #
podcast by @unisouthampton.bsky.social colleague Jessica Spurrell. If you are interested in #History and/or/both #DrWho.
The real history behind Dr Who episodes. #EduSky
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Early Career Researchers wanted!

Apply to speak/perform at next year's British Science Festival #BSF26. We'll be at the University of Southampton.

Award Lectures are available in seven areas incl. social sciences, and seek to highlight the interdisciplinarity of science, research and innovation:
britsciassoc.bsky.social British Science Association @britsciassoc.bsky.social · Nov 18
🎤 Are you an early career researcher passionate about communicating with the wider public? Applications for the 2026 British Science Festival Award Lectures are now open!

Next year's Festival is in Southampton, 16-20 Sept.

Find out more and apply >

www.britishscienceassociation.org/award-lectures
Award Lectures
Details on how to become an Award Lecturer at the British Science Festival
www.britishscienceassociation.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Read what our @unisouthampton.bsky.social colleague Louis says about scary stories here 👇🎃
October 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Really chuffed to be featured. Lovely work led by @gruiformabi.bsky.social. @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
devbiol.bsky.social Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · Oct 14
#DBfeature
Micro-CT 3D structures provide new criteria can be used to identify medullary bone and female individuals in the avian fossil record.
Crane A H @gruiformabi.bsky.social, Baldry C J, Rankin K E, Clarkin C E @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social, Williams K A, Gostling N J @neilgostling.bsky.social
Diagram showing he differences between a healthy female bird bone with medullary bone and a pathological bird bone with avian osteoporosis. For each there is a global scan of tibiotarsi whole bone in lateral view, a micro-CT 3D cube reconstruction, and microCT cubes highlighting osteocyte lacunae. In between a box with writing "Differences include: Structural anisotropy, Connectivity density, Trabecular thickness, Osteocyte lacunae orientation".
October 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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"Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew" by Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations theconversation.com/synagogue-at...
Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew
Manchester Jewry has maintained an extraordinarily strong local identity, but is notable in its diversity.
theconversation.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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A great example of the remarkable work of our #academic colleagues here at @unisouthampton.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #SiliconPhotonics
unisouthampton.bsky.social University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social · Oct 1
What if the computers of the future ran on light? 💡

Senior Research Fellow Colin Mitchell from the Optoelectronics Research Centre explains how silicon photonics makes it possible and why it matters 👇

#Innovation #STEM #SiliconPhotonics
October 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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@unisouthampton.bsky.social colleague Tom Chapman writes for @timeshighered.bsky.social #AcademicSky 👇
September 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Today is World Listening Day so it's a good time to share this again...
An underlined quote in a book that reads as follows… “The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply. – Stephen R. Covey” And I feel it is important to mention here that I was not the one that highlighted this quote (because I’m not a monster). Again, just to reiterate, I, Adam Sharp, do not, now or ever, go around highlighting passages in books like some kind of savage.
July 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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@unisouthampton.bsky.social #Graduation starts today! We'd like to send our very best wishes to all those students graduating.
The photograph shows Southampton students in July 1964.
[Image copyright Southern Newspapers]
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Black and white photograph of students sat in rows in graduation robes with University officials processing down the aisle
July 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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unisouthampton.bsky.social
Graduation officially kicks off today, and we're so proud to be celebrating with you! 🎓 🫶🏻

This moment marks the end of one incredible chapter and the start of an exciting new journey. Here's to the Class of 2025!

#WeAreUoS
Large blue letters spelling "UoS" are displayed in front of the Guildhall. The sky is bright blue with scattered clouds. A group of six graduates in caps and gowns pose outdoors under a bright, partly cloudy sky. Behind them is a modern building with large glass windows. A group stands smiling outside the Guildhall, under a clear blue sky. In the center, three people in graduation gowns and caps with their family standing next to them. Four individuals in graduation gowns and caps stand in front of the Guildhall, under a blue sky. Colourful flags are visible on either side.
July 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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In this welcomed (third) mini heatwave please please put out a shallow dish of fresh water for wildlife. You will be a life saver!! 💦 🐝
July 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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What a treat!! Saw the very first before a live audience show tonight of ROTAS (receptionist of the United States) at @museumofcomedy.bsky.social before it goes to #EdinburghFringe excellent Leigh Douglas 👏 looking forward to reading rave reviews at the Fringe
Leigh Douglas performs her new one woman show of ROTAS receptionist of the United States.
July 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM