Emily Doolittle
@emilydoolittle.bsky.social
Researcher & Lecturer in Composition, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Writes music & words with & about animal songs, zoomusicology, folkore, gender, parenthood & creativity, interdisciplinarity. Plays oboe with whippets: https://tinyurl.com/2wyxc4st
The 10 year old: "I want neeps [turnips]! I want NEEPS! I WANT NEEPS NOW! #parentingproblemsididnotforesee #scottishparenting #unexpectedturnipemergency
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The 10 year old: "I want neeps [turnips]! I want NEEPS! I WANT NEEPS NOW! #parentingproblemsididnotforesee #scottishparenting #unexpectedturnipemergency
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I enjoy Spelling Bee, but I also find the allowable words so arbitrary. Why is puppylike a word but eellike isn't. And why is eely a word but elky isn't? And don't get me started on all the excellent Scottish words it omits! I am feeling a bit elky about this!
October 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I enjoy Spelling Bee, but I also find the allowable words so arbitrary. Why is puppylike a word but eellike isn't. And why is eely a word but elky isn't? And don't get me started on all the excellent Scottish words it omits! I am feeling a bit elky about this!
I enjoy Spelling Bee, but I also find the allowable words so arbitrary. Why is puppylike a word but eellike isn't. And why is eely a word but elky isn't? And don't get me started on all the excellent Scottish words it omits! I am feeling a bit elky about this!
October 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I enjoy Spelling Bee, but I also find the allowable words so arbitrary. Why is puppylike a word but eellike isn't. And why is eely a word but elky isn't? And don't get me started on all the excellent Scottish words it omits! I am feeling a bit elky about this!
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All the Scottish cafes now serve pumpkin spice lattes in the fall, which seems very out of place because no no one eats pumpkin pie here, so pumpkin spice is not a thing. But haggis spice is pretty similar -- nutmeg, allspice, mace. Why don't they sell these as haggis spice lattes? Sounds delicious!
October 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
All the Scottish cafes now serve pumpkin spice lattes in the fall, which seems very out of place because no no one eats pumpkin pie here, so pumpkin spice is not a thing. But haggis spice is pretty similar -- nutmeg, allspice, mace. Why don't they sell these as haggis spice lattes? Sounds delicious!
All the Scottish cafes now serve pumpkin spice lattes in the fall, which seems very out of place because no no one eats pumpkin pie here, so pumpkin spice is not a thing. But haggis spice is pretty similar -- nutmeg, allspice, mace. Why don't they sell these as haggis spice lattes? Sounds delicious!
October 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
All the Scottish cafes now serve pumpkin spice lattes in the fall, which seems very out of place because no no one eats pumpkin pie here, so pumpkin spice is not a thing. But haggis spice is pretty similar -- nutmeg, allspice, mace. Why don't they sell these as haggis spice lattes? Sounds delicious!
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PRANKSTER SLUG news! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of German apartments turns out to be a slug
People suspected teenagers playing ding dong ditch and called police, who found animal crawling on the door panel
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
PRANKSTER SLUG news! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
A collaboration between me, @amsouth.bsky.social & Lesley Harrison, performed at @rethinkingfable.bsky.social (www.rethinking-fables.org.uk). Lesley & Alex weave together pieces by me and Alex and a poem by Lesley to create a new fable, "The Gannet and the Whale". www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55d...
The Gannet and the Whale (May 24, 2025, Rethinking Fables)
YouTube video by Kaori Nagai
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August 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A collaboration between me, @amsouth.bsky.social & Lesley Harrison, performed at @rethinkingfable.bsky.social (www.rethinking-fables.org.uk). Lesley & Alex weave together pieces by me and Alex and a poem by Lesley to create a new fable, "The Gannet and the Whale". www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55d...
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GIANT STICK INSECT news! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia
The 40cm-long insect, named Acrophylla alta, weighs slightly less than a golf ball and may be the heaviest insect in Australia
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
GIANT STICK INSECT news! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Thank you Federica Simone for featuring me and my work on the @sahavoice.bsky.social podcast! It was a pleasure talking with you!
To mark #WorldMusicDay, we interviewed Dr @emilydoolittle.bsky.social , a composer, zoomusicologist, and Athenaeum Research Fellow and Lecturer in Composition at @rcsofficial.bsky.social
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A SAHA Conversation with Dr Emily Doolittle
SAHA Conversations · Episode
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June 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thank you Federica Simone for featuring me and my work on the @sahavoice.bsky.social podcast! It was a pleasure talking with you!
Thank you Federica Simone for featuring me and my work on the @sahavoice.bsky.social podcast! It was a pleasure talking with you!
To mark #WorldMusicDay, we interviewed Dr @emilydoolittle.bsky.social , a composer, zoomusicologist, and Athenaeum Research Fellow and Lecturer in Composition at @rcsofficial.bsky.social
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A SAHA Conversation with Dr Emily Doolittle
SAHA Conversations · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Thank you Federica Simone for featuring me and my work on the @sahavoice.bsky.social podcast! It was a pleasure talking with you!
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Apparently it's #invertefest #invertfest, which seems like a good time to share our in-progress series of films about marine invertebrates, Animoceans, made in collaboration with @neilbanas.bsky.social, Clubhouse Animation, Greenlight Creative. vimeo.com/1006905555
Animoceans - showreel
Stop-motion experiments exploring Scottish ocean micro-worlds. Crochet rockpools by Emily Doolittle (who also composed the score) and origami plankton by marine…
vimeo.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Apparently it's #invertefest #invertfest, which seems like a good time to share our in-progress series of films about marine invertebrates, Animoceans, made in collaboration with @neilbanas.bsky.social, Clubhouse Animation, Greenlight Creative. vimeo.com/1006905555
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If you want your own personal #invertefest, remember that there are #origami #copepod diagrams available at origamiplankton.org! Also #diatoms for the copepods to eat and #bowhead #whales to eat the copepods.
April 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
If you want your own personal #invertefest, remember that there are #origami #copepod diagrams available at origamiplankton.org! Also #diatoms for the copepods to eat and #bowhead #whales to eat the copepods.
Apparently it's #invertefest #invertfest, which seems like a good time to share our in-progress series of films about marine invertebrates, Animoceans, made in collaboration with @neilbanas.bsky.social, Clubhouse Animation, Greenlight Creative. vimeo.com/1006905555
Animoceans - showreel
Stop-motion experiments exploring Scottish ocean micro-worlds. Crochet rockpools by Emily Doolittle (who also composed the score) and origami plankton by marine…
vimeo.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Apparently it's #invertefest #invertfest, which seems like a good time to share our in-progress series of films about marine invertebrates, Animoceans, made in collaboration with @neilbanas.bsky.social, Clubhouse Animation, Greenlight Creative. vimeo.com/1006905555
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Mr Trevelyan said: "Those who know me well know I was eventually going to build a giant curlew. She's a real beauty. I wanted to represent curlews well because they're such a beautiful bird."
April 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Mr Trevelyan said: "Those who know me well know I was eventually going to build a giant curlew. She's a real beauty. I wanted to represent curlews well because they're such a beautiful bird."
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GIANT CURLEW COSTUME news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Man sets off on Nidderdale walk dressed as a curlew
Matt Trevelyan made the Eurasian curlew costume out of polystyrene and bamboo.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
GIANT CURLEW COSTUME news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is the kind of news I am here for: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Man sets off on Nidderdale walk dressed as a curlew
Matt Trevelyan made the Eurasian curlew costume out of polystyrene and bamboo.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is the kind of news I am here for: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What a pleasure to attend a rehearsal of my piece Varia, played by Alan Kitchen, at the stunning 828-year old Glasgow Cathedral. Concert is on April, we pieces by Ailie Robertson, Kenn Tay & others. Hope to see you there! www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/pre... youtu.be/HqD9pYKh-3M
Varia (21) by Emily Doolittle
YouTube video by Emily Doolittle
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March 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
What a pleasure to attend a rehearsal of my piece Varia, played by Alan Kitchen, at the stunning 828-year old Glasgow Cathedral. Concert is on April, we pieces by Ailie Robertson, Kenn Tay & others. Hope to see you there! www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/pre... youtu.be/HqD9pYKh-3M
My inbox (presumably everyone's inboxes) is basically a classic game of 1970s Space Invaders. You successfully fight off one group of aliens/emails only to find that the next group comes even faster and more lethally/urgently!
March 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
My inbox (presumably everyone's inboxes) is basically a classic game of 1970s Space Invaders. You successfully fight off one group of aliens/emails only to find that the next group comes even faster and more lethally/urgently!
What a pleasure to attend a rehearsal of my piece Varia, played by Alan Kitchen, at the stunning 828-year old Glasgow Cathedral. Concert is on April, we pieces by Ailie Robertson, Kenn Tay & others. Hope to see you there! www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/pre... youtu.be/HqD9pYKh-3M
Varia (21) by Emily Doolittle
YouTube video by Emily Doolittle
youtu.be
March 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
What a pleasure to attend a rehearsal of my piece Varia, played by Alan Kitchen, at the stunning 828-year old Glasgow Cathedral. Concert is on April, we pieces by Ailie Robertson, Kenn Tay & others. Hope to see you there! www.rcs.ac.uk/whats-on/pre... youtu.be/HqD9pYKh-3M
I'll play!
City I like: Glasgow
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City I still need to visit: Many
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March 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'll play!
City I like: Glasgow
City I love: Glasgow
City I think is overrated: N/A
City I think is underrated: Glasgow
City I feel most myself in: Glasgow
City I still need to visit: Many
City I dream of living in: Glasgow (& now I do!)
Most inspiring city today: Glasgow
Favorite city: Glasgow!
City I like: Glasgow
City I love: Glasgow
City I think is overrated: N/A
City I think is underrated: Glasgow
City I feel most myself in: Glasgow
City I still need to visit: Many
City I dream of living in: Glasgow (& now I do!)
Most inspiring city today: Glasgow
Favorite city: Glasgow!
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I'm pleased to share this paper on Creativity, health & sustainability, co-written w my wonderful @rcsofficial.bsky.social colleagues Laura Bissell & Laura Gonzalez! @amsouth.bsky.social, @clclcc.bsky.social, @soundscotland.bsky.social, you all get a mention in here! jpaap.ac.uk/JPAAP/articl...
Creativity, health and sustainability: A wholearchy of learning
| Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice
jpaap.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I'm pleased to share this paper on Creativity, health & sustainability, co-written w my wonderful @rcsofficial.bsky.social colleagues Laura Bissell & Laura Gonzalez! @amsouth.bsky.social, @clclcc.bsky.social, @soundscotland.bsky.social, you all get a mention in here! jpaap.ac.uk/JPAAP/articl...
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Ah it was a cartoon — and a surprisingly quick google. A case of life imitating art I suppose
March 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Ah it was a cartoon — and a surprisingly quick google. A case of life imitating art I suppose
I'm pleased to share this paper on Creativity, health & sustainability, co-written w my wonderful @rcsofficial.bsky.social colleagues Laura Bissell & Laura Gonzalez! @amsouth.bsky.social, @clclcc.bsky.social, @soundscotland.bsky.social, you all get a mention in here! jpaap.ac.uk/JPAAP/articl...
Creativity, health and sustainability: A wholearchy of learning
| Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice
jpaap.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I'm pleased to share this paper on Creativity, health & sustainability, co-written w my wonderful @rcsofficial.bsky.social colleagues Laura Bissell & Laura Gonzalez! @amsouth.bsky.social, @clclcc.bsky.social, @soundscotland.bsky.social, you all get a mention in here! jpaap.ac.uk/JPAAP/articl...
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🎲 What is Indeterminacy in music? 🎲
Check out our primer and follow our catalogue tour to discover the different ways many CE composers use indeterminacy in their works!
[photo: excerpt from Aleksandra Vrebalov’s ‘Bubbles’]
whatsnew.composersedition.com/indeterminat...
Check out our primer and follow our catalogue tour to discover the different ways many CE composers use indeterminacy in their works!
[photo: excerpt from Aleksandra Vrebalov’s ‘Bubbles’]
whatsnew.composersedition.com/indeterminat...
March 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🎲 What is Indeterminacy in music? 🎲
Check out our primer and follow our catalogue tour to discover the different ways many CE composers use indeterminacy in their works!
[photo: excerpt from Aleksandra Vrebalov’s ‘Bubbles’]
whatsnew.composersedition.com/indeterminat...
Check out our primer and follow our catalogue tour to discover the different ways many CE composers use indeterminacy in their works!
[photo: excerpt from Aleksandra Vrebalov’s ‘Bubbles’]
whatsnew.composersedition.com/indeterminat...
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🐦 🦃 🦉 🦆 🦢 🦅 🦜 🕊️ 🐔 🐤
Whether through transcription of their songs, evocation of their flight, or reflections on their place in our lives (and ours in theirs), birds inspire Composers Edition composers working across a range of instrumentation and style:
whatsnew.composersedition.com/birds-in-con...
Whether through transcription of their songs, evocation of their flight, or reflections on their place in our lives (and ours in theirs), birds inspire Composers Edition composers working across a range of instrumentation and style:
whatsnew.composersedition.com/birds-in-con...
March 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🐦 🦃 🦉 🦆 🦢 🦅 🦜 🕊️ 🐔 🐤
Whether through transcription of their songs, evocation of their flight, or reflections on their place in our lives (and ours in theirs), birds inspire Composers Edition composers working across a range of instrumentation and style:
whatsnew.composersedition.com/birds-in-con...
Whether through transcription of their songs, evocation of their flight, or reflections on their place in our lives (and ours in theirs), birds inspire Composers Edition composers working across a range of instrumentation and style:
whatsnew.composersedition.com/birds-in-con...