Emily Brown
@embo78.bsky.social
Frustrated sewist, knitter, baker, runner. Loves great research.
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For those who would like to see me dorking out over Christina #Rossetti's 'In the Bleak Midwinter' on Xmas telly, I give you:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Lucy Worsley's Christmas Carol Odyssey
Lucy Worsley reveals the surprising stories behind our favourite Christmas carols. From pagan rituals to religious conflicts, French dances and the First World War, carols reflect our history.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
For those who would like to see me dorking out over Christina #Rossetti's 'In the Bleak Midwinter' on Xmas telly, I give you:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
REF2029 unpaused.
-PCE replaced by Strategy, People and Research Environment
- Disciplinary -level statements in CKU and E&I, gone
- CKU: 55%, E&I: 25%, SPRE: 20%
- Max 5 outputs recommended per researcher but can be exceeded
-PCE replaced by Strategy, People and Research Environment
- Disciplinary -level statements in CKU and E&I, gone
- CKU: 55%, E&I: 25%, SPRE: 20%
- Max 5 outputs recommended per researcher but can be exceeded
Coming Soon
statements.in
December 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
REF2029 unpaused.
-PCE replaced by Strategy, People and Research Environment
- Disciplinary -level statements in CKU and E&I, gone
- CKU: 55%, E&I: 25%, SPRE: 20%
- Max 5 outputs recommended per researcher but can be exceeded
-PCE replaced by Strategy, People and Research Environment
- Disciplinary -level statements in CKU and E&I, gone
- CKU: 55%, E&I: 25%, SPRE: 20%
- Max 5 outputs recommended per researcher but can be exceeded
"The 1992 reforms did not “invent” research in the ex-polytechnics. They recognised it – opening the door to participation in the RAE, quality-related funding and Research Council grants. Once given visibility, excellence surfaced quickly. It did so because it had always been there."
Super piece on REF history, why it matters and why specialisation is not the panacea that it seems.
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
Labour must not repeat history by sidelining research in post-92 universities
The abolition of the binary divide in HE made visible the wealth of research excellence in what became known as the post-92 part of the sector. Katie Normington worries that forcing specialisation ris...
wonkhe.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"The 1992 reforms did not “invent” research in the ex-polytechnics. They recognised it – opening the door to participation in the RAE, quality-related funding and Research Council grants. Once given visibility, excellence surfaced quickly. It did so because it had always been there."
Super piece on REF history, why it matters and why specialisation is not the panacea that it seems.
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
Labour must not repeat history by sidelining research in post-92 universities
The abolition of the binary divide in HE made visible the wealth of research excellence in what became known as the post-92 part of the sector. Katie Normington worries that forcing specialisation ris...
wonkhe.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Super piece on REF history, why it matters and why specialisation is not the panacea that it seems.
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
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@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
warwick-careers.tal.net
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
#history #envhistory #earlymodern
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Very excited to share that today is publication day for my first monograph!! Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration is published as a part of Bristol University Press's Law, Society, Policy series.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
Queering UK Refugee Law
Queering UK Refugee Law - Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration; In the context of a global backlash against migrant and LGBTIQA+ rights , this book examines the experiences of LGBTIQA+ people in...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Very excited to share that today is publication day for my first monograph!! Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration is published as a part of Bristol University Press's Law, Society, Policy series.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
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Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
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2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) at University of Warwick
Discover Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM
2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
At some point, the men in my life may realise I'm no longer upstairs... Until then I'm going to sit quietly on the sofa for as long as I can.
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
At some point, the men in my life may realise I'm no longer upstairs... Until then I'm going to sit quietly on the sofa for as long as I can.
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The problem was never that Boris Johnson studied classics...
Perennial favourite reader's letter from 2021.
Perennial favourite reader's letter from 2021.
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The problem was never that Boris Johnson studied classics...
Perennial favourite reader's letter from 2021.
Perennial favourite reader's letter from 2021.
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General registration is now open for our upcoming conference The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment and Identity at London College of Fashion, 8-9 January!
Visit our website to register: www.thevictorianhand.uk/conference
Visit our website to register: www.thevictorianhand.uk/conference
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
General registration is now open for our upcoming conference The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment and Identity at London College of Fashion, 8-9 January!
Visit our website to register: www.thevictorianhand.uk/conference
Visit our website to register: www.thevictorianhand.uk/conference
Use of the REF 2029 logo by HEIs withdrawn following "fresh legal advice" 🙄🤯
November 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Use of the REF 2029 logo by HEIs withdrawn following "fresh legal advice" 🙄🤯
Contender for least surprising news of this month
Breaking: REF team delays research culture pilot results ahead of ‘reset’.
Pilot report pushed to December “to avoid pre-empting decisions”, with Research Excellence Framework on pause.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Pilot report pushed to December “to avoid pre-empting decisions”, with Research Excellence Framework on pause.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
REF team delays research culture pilot results ahead of ‘reset’ - Research Professional News
Pilot report pushed to December “to avoid pre-empting decisions”, with Research Excellence Framework on pause
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Contender for least surprising news of this month
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For UK academic folk, in case you don’t know about this service, the AHRC does publish all panel outcomes, with figures for numbers of applicants, numbers of successful awards etc. There is a lag, though, so the most recent info is from January 2025.
AHRC panel outcomes and attendance
Details of the outcomes of applications and panel membership relating to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) panel meetings.
www.ukri.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
For UK academic folk, in case you don’t know about this service, the AHRC does publish all panel outcomes, with figures for numbers of applicants, numbers of successful awards etc. There is a lag, though, so the most recent info is from January 2025.
October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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On behalf of introverts everywhere: talking to people is exhausting enough, don’t make me spend all day talking to an anthropomorphised calculator.
This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
On behalf of introverts everywhere: talking to people is exhausting enough, don’t make me spend all day talking to an anthropomorphised calculator.
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'Now, Alexandra Wilson’s new book, Someone Else’s Music, unpicks the myth that opera is alien to the working class. For much of the past century, Wilson shows, opera was a hugely important thread in working-class lives.'
It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...
The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book
observer.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
'Now, Alexandra Wilson’s new book, Someone Else’s Music, unpicks the myth that opera is alien to the working class. For much of the past century, Wilson shows, opera was a hugely important thread in working-class lives.'
HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA > www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science...
The seven stages of your workplace getting obsessed with AI then realising it's bollocks
ANYONE with a job is likely to have witnessed managers gushing about AI then quietly ditching the idea. See where your employer is in the cycle of AI hype.
www.thedailymash.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA > www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science...
Imagine the outcry if it were steel > BBC News - Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens
University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Imagine the outcry if it were steel > BBC News - Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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If you are in the North West, check out this talk. It's a panel and a book launch. It's a fantastic topic. Please repost!
How might hands reveal an inner self – a soul, a character, an identity?
Join us on 12 November at Lancaster University to explore this question with Professor Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales) as she presents her book, Decoding the Hand.
Tickets: thevictorianhand.uk/alison-bashf...
Join us on 12 November at Lancaster University to explore this question with Professor Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales) as she presents her book, Decoding the Hand.
Tickets: thevictorianhand.uk/alison-bashf...
October 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you are in the North West, check out this talk. It's a panel and a book launch. It's a fantastic topic. Please repost!
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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I am so tired of dudes like this lecturing the rest of us about how 'Discipline is everything'. So tell me, Harvard, who is managing the rest of your life so you can observe this ridiculous routine? Which I note does not include cooking, chores, or looking after anyone else for EVEN ONE SECOND.
September 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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My eldest stood for school council with a manifesto promising to ban broccoli from school dinners. He wasn't elected sadly but "you know mummy, maybe some kids just like broccoli?"
Welcome to his TEd Talk.
Welcome to his TEd Talk.
September 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
My eldest stood for school council with a manifesto promising to ban broccoli from school dinners. He wasn't elected sadly but "you know mummy, maybe some kids just like broccoli?"
Welcome to his TEd Talk.
Welcome to his TEd Talk.
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Wonderful blog post!
Time feels tangible in these casts...
Over on the Victorian Hand project blog, our Research Associate @helenvmurray.bsky.social reflects on her trip to Watts Gallery to research their extensive collection of plaster cast hands..
www.thevictorianhand.uk/blog-touchin...
Over on the Victorian Hand project blog, our Research Associate @helenvmurray.bsky.social reflects on her trip to Watts Gallery to research their extensive collection of plaster cast hands..
www.thevictorianhand.uk/blog-touchin...
September 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Wonderful blog post!