Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺
@katherineschof8.bsky.social
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
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British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2026
Department of Music, King's College London, Strand Campus, London, WC2R 2LS
bfeconference2026.wordpress.com
The website for BFE@KCL 2026 — 9-12 April — is now up and running! Conference registration will be available in the new year.
bfeconference2026.wordpress.com
@kingsmusic.bsky.social & BFE are excited to welcome you all to London to explore with us the theme of music and the present/presence
bfeconference2026.wordpress.com
@kingsmusic.bsky.social & BFE are excited to welcome you all to London to explore with us the theme of music and the present/presence
And we’re off to Stansted! I love nothing more than travelling with my boy.
December 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
And we’re off to Stansted! I love nothing more than travelling with my boy.
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Merry gentlefolk, it is time.
Today is the day.
Today is comma-mas.
Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'.
And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it.
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Today is the day.
Today is comma-mas.
Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'.
And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it.
>
December 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Merry gentlefolk, it is time.
Today is the day.
Today is comma-mas.
Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'.
And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it.
>
Today is the day.
Today is comma-mas.
Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'.
And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it.
>
Phew! I am now on annual leave!! Dentist, then heading to Berlin for a few days with my son, followed by a quiet Christmas at home ❤️
No doubt I shall remember some work-related sins of omission that will have to be addressed before Christnas Eve, but I’m basically done for the year!
No doubt I shall remember some work-related sins of omission that will have to be addressed before Christnas Eve, but I’m basically done for the year!
a baby is laying on a couch with his hands behind his head and wearing a tom jerry shirt .
ALT: a baby is laying on a couch with his hands behind his head and wearing a tom jerry shirt .
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Phew! I am now on annual leave!! Dentist, then heading to Berlin for a few days with my son, followed by a quiet Christmas at home ❤️
No doubt I shall remember some work-related sins of omission that will have to be addressed before Christnas Eve, but I’m basically done for the year!
No doubt I shall remember some work-related sins of omission that will have to be addressed before Christnas Eve, but I’m basically done for the year!
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Prepare to smile just as much as the street dogs wagged their tails today ❤️
December 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Prepare to smile just as much as the street dogs wagged their tails today ❤️
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The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)
December 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)
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it was probably a mistake teaching him to read
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
it was probably a mistake teaching him to read
There is no point having an ethylene plant if we have no university chemistry departments left, training chemists and chemical engineers.
The government's keenness to protect "good jobs" in manufacturing contrasts with its inaction in the face of the destruction of "good jobs" in universities. What's going on here is something other than economics.
Government invests £120m to save UK’s last ethylene plant
December 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
There is no point having an ethylene plant if we have no university chemistry departments left, training chemists and chemical engineers.
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If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
There’s no point handwringing about the Arts Council’s problems if we don’t fix the Tories’ austerity-fixated destruction of the pipeline.
If arts education is not rapidly restored in UK schools & universities THERE WILL BE NO ARTS to sponsor or give grants to.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If arts education is not rapidly restored in UK schools & universities THERE WILL BE NO ARTS to sponsor or give grants to.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
There’s no point handwringing about the Arts Council’s problems if we don’t fix the Tories’ austerity-fixated destruction of the pipeline.
If arts education is not rapidly restored in UK schools & universities THERE WILL BE NO ARTS to sponsor or give grants to.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If arts education is not rapidly restored in UK schools & universities THERE WILL BE NO ARTS to sponsor or give grants to.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A reminder in advance of everyone descending upon their relatives next week: the best thing about Old Twitter — @rhodri.biz #DuvetKnowItsChristmas — has moved to Bluesky.
Post & hashtag your pics of having to sleep in the bathtub/beside the ironing/with the dog, and raise money for the homeless ♥️
Post & hashtag your pics of having to sleep in the bathtub/beside the ironing/with the dog, and raise money for the homeless ♥️
December 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A reminder in advance of everyone descending upon their relatives next week: the best thing about Old Twitter — @rhodri.biz #DuvetKnowItsChristmas — has moved to Bluesky.
Post & hashtag your pics of having to sleep in the bathtub/beside the ironing/with the dog, and raise money for the homeless ♥️
Post & hashtag your pics of having to sleep in the bathtub/beside the ironing/with the dog, and raise money for the homeless ♥️
TBF this could be about anyone on anything right now
What the absolute [expletive] was that?!?
December 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
TBF this could be about anyone on anything right now
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Again and again, the optimal position when legally threatened by Trump is to be resolute in defence and prepare for court.
You will likely not then have to go to court, as he will fold or settle.
But if you seek to settle from the off, he has got you and he will crush you.
You will likely not then have to go to court, as he will fold or settle.
But if you seek to settle from the off, he has got you and he will crush you.
Everyone should stand up to this bully.
December 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Again and again, the optimal position when legally threatened by Trump is to be resolute in defence and prepare for court.
You will likely not then have to go to court, as he will fold or settle.
But if you seek to settle from the off, he has got you and he will crush you.
You will likely not then have to go to court, as he will fold or settle.
But if you seek to settle from the off, he has got you and he will crush you.
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This is just hideous. We're speaking to specialist public and terrorism lawyers in about half an hour to see if there's anything we can do. www.thenational.scot/news/2570443...
MP vows not to leave prison protest as pro-Palestine hunger striker 'may die'
AN MP has joined a prison-gate protest, declaring she will not leave until a hunger striker alleged to be near death receives an ambulance
www.thenational.scot
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is just hideous. We're speaking to specialist public and terrorism lawyers in about half an hour to see if there's anything we can do. www.thenational.scot/news/2570443...
Surely I cannot be the only person in the world who wants a schematic of the Berlin U-Bahn/S-Bahn network in their Berlin guide book?
a woman in a black lace dress is asking ya think
ALT: a woman in a black lace dress is asking ya think
media.tenor.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Surely I cannot be the only person in the world who wants a schematic of the Berlin U-Bahn/S-Bahn network in their Berlin guide book?
This is kind of fun — apparently I love saying "not" and "❤️", and the person I talk to most is @stephenkb.bsky.social xx
www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
katherineschof8.bsky.social's Bluesky Wrapped 2025
Check out katherineschof8.bsky.social's year on Bluesky!
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December 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is kind of fun — apparently I love saying "not" and "❤️", and the person I talk to most is @stephenkb.bsky.social xx
www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...
The blissful unawareness of millennials who do not remember the threat of the USSR and mutually assured destruction.
If you were 5 when the Berlin wall came down and grew up in the West in the decade of hope that was the 1990s, maybe you just have zero radar for Russian aggression.
Which is real.
If you were 5 when the Berlin wall came down and grew up in the West in the decade of hope that was the 1990s, maybe you just have zero radar for Russian aggression.
Which is real.
What are you even talking about! I am saying it is a delusional fantasy to suggest Russia is going to invade European countries like Poland, Germany or indeed the UK, which is the insane drivel currently being promoted in support of a disastrous arms race.
December 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The blissful unawareness of millennials who do not remember the threat of the USSR and mutually assured destruction.
If you were 5 when the Berlin wall came down and grew up in the West in the decade of hope that was the 1990s, maybe you just have zero radar for Russian aggression.
Which is real.
If you were 5 when the Berlin wall came down and grew up in the West in the decade of hope that was the 1990s, maybe you just have zero radar for Russian aggression.
Which is real.
A reminder in advance of everyone descending upon their relatives next week: the best thing about Old Twitter — @rhodri.biz #DuvetKnowItsChristmas — has moved to Bluesky.
Post & hashtag your pics of having to sleep in the bathtub/beside the ironing/with the dog, and raise money for the homeless ♥️
Post & hashtag your pics of having to sleep in the bathtub/beside the ironing/with the dog, and raise money for the homeless ♥️
December 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A reminder in advance of everyone descending upon their relatives next week: the best thing about Old Twitter — @rhodri.biz #DuvetKnowItsChristmas — has moved to Bluesky.
Post & hashtag your pics of having to sleep in the bathtub/beside the ironing/with the dog, and raise money for the homeless ♥️
Post & hashtag your pics of having to sleep in the bathtub/beside the ironing/with the dog, and raise money for the homeless ♥️
This man is the best of us.
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This man is the best of us.
I have a confession. My latest book — all 110,000 award-winning words of it, funded by £1M in European & British research grants — was in part spurred on by someone else's book, which was SO confidently, utterly wrong that, well
Here I stand: I could do no other
Brownie points if you guess whose 😉
Here I stand: I could do no other
Brownie points if you guess whose 😉
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
December 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I have a confession. My latest book — all 110,000 award-winning words of it, funded by £1M in European & British research grants — was in part spurred on by someone else's book, which was SO confidently, utterly wrong that, well
Here I stand: I could do no other
Brownie points if you guess whose 😉
Here I stand: I could do no other
Brownie points if you guess whose 😉
This, right here, is why I am on Bluesky. Read it, fellow academics, and weep with laughter. We all know someone a little like this but oh boy has this one jumped the shark.
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
December 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This, right here, is why I am on Bluesky. Read it, fellow academics, and weep with laughter. We all know someone a little like this but oh boy has this one jumped the shark.
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Is that an actual Italian word? (Asking as a native speaker)
December 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Is that an actual Italian word? (Asking as a native speaker)
😱 This is QUITE the bitchiest thing I have ever seen in an academic publication. Comparative law professor Pierre Legrand, take a bow:
also it’s not possible to be a Rhodes Scholar at the Sorbonne? 🤔
also it’s not possible to be a Rhodes Scholar at the Sorbonne? 🤔
December 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
😱 This is QUITE the bitchiest thing I have ever seen in an academic publication. Comparative law professor Pierre Legrand, take a bow:
also it’s not possible to be a Rhodes Scholar at the Sorbonne? 🤔
also it’s not possible to be a Rhodes Scholar at the Sorbonne? 🤔
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"Nobody is required to listen to anyone, for any reason. If someone started yelling opinions at you in the street or at a party, you’d walk away."
This is old but feels relevant again: people can use social media in whatever way they like, stop complaining that they're doing it wrong.
This is old but feels relevant again: people can use social media in whatever way they like, stop complaining that they're doing it wrong.
In defence of echo chambers
This week, some common terms from naval language, and a map of left behind places. But first, what’s the problem with filter bubbles anyway?
jonn.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"Nobody is required to listen to anyone, for any reason. If someone started yelling opinions at you in the street or at a party, you’d walk away."
This is old but feels relevant again: people can use social media in whatever way they like, stop complaining that they're doing it wrong.
This is old but feels relevant again: people can use social media in whatever way they like, stop complaining that they're doing it wrong.
Happy Chanukah to all those celebrating. May we all continue to share our light even in the darkest times.
December 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Happy Chanukah to all those celebrating. May we all continue to share our light even in the darkest times.
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7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
December 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm
His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed
A 43 year old married father of two
He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland
No experience with guns
He was walking past
He has two bullets in his arm