mine has only just duscovered he's got hands 🤣 I can't imagine what he'll be like as a teenager!

I am glad you enjoyed it, thank you for joining us! I just have a few minor edits to do and want to include translations of the poems, but hopefully it won't be too long before it is published!

Sorry you missed it! Hopefully it will be on Youtube soon and I will also make onlt a few quick edits before sending it to the Journal, so hopefully that will be out soon as well!

oh my it is indeed beautiful, but I can't really manage anything cimplicated right now! I am actually struggling to finish a garter + rib stitch blanket! Post pictures of the finished shawl please :)

Huge thanks to @afrayn.bsky.social and @chriskempshall.bsky.social for organising and for allowing me to have my newborn and childcare with me - ECRs should never turn down amazing opportunities because of parenthood and I felt very supported by the Society and Edinburgh Napier Uni tonight!

that is stunning Jessica! Please share the pattern *.* and thank you so much for listening and for your support as ever!

Almost exactly 20 years later, that friend is my partner, we are embarking on the hugest project ever together, and I get to do cool stuff like that for a living. Black Sabbath has definitely shaped my life, and it was a privilege to see them one last time!

It was obviously Baudelaire. I can't remember which poem I presented, but the song was Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. It was also the first project my then best friend and I did together.

I would therefore have to present the main characteristics of symbolism to the whole class. I looked it up - it screamed Black Sabbath. I figured it would be a great opportunity to force some good music upon my classmates, who hated metal. I just had to find a symbolist poet to compare with Sabbath

And if gender and representations of women warriors is more your thing, check this one out: youtu.be/dtMcAjCMQzg?...

Thanks! I haven't really "announced" it, but felt like SFS needed a shout out :) baby should be here next month, so not long to go now!

Pregnancy mostly impacts early and mid-career female scholars, precisely the demographics for whom conferences like SFS can be career-defining, and I am glad their inclusive ethos allowed me to present a project I'm passionate about while also prioritising my family!

We've reached a point where baby can come at any time so I thought about withdrawing but wonderful Conference Officer Kate Foster allowed my partner to come with me for support and 'just in case', found a room for him to have meetings and was just generally awesome!

couldn't have done it without you!