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Kerstin Sailer
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Professor in the Sociology of Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Founder of brainybirdz. Blogger. Speaker. Long Covid disability advocate.
Love books, food, photography, data visualisation, art.
Also @kerstinsailer@sciences.social
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Kerstin Sailer @kerstinsailer.bsky.social · Oct 10
My inaugural professorial lecture on 'Architectures of Care' at the #BartlettSchoolOfArchitecture #UCL from March 2024, is available here:

vimeo.com/925814729

#ArchitecturalResearch #WorkplaceResearch #workplaceDesign #userExperience #EvidenceBasedDesign #SpaceSyntax #disabilitystudies
Professor Kerstin Sailer Inaugural Lecture
Kerstin Sailer delivers her inaugural professorial lecture, hosted and introduced by Christoph Lindner, Dean of The Bartlett Faculty. Architectures of Care: From…
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orla-hegarty.bsky.social
Great thread & a peek into how architects are trained. It’s not just about bricks & mortar; it’s about human behaviour, experience, & culture; balancing climate, environment & energy; practical functions & durable materials; design for changing needs & use over the long term
kerstinsailer.bsky.social Kerstin Sailer @kerstinsailer.bsky.social · 15h
Last week, we discussed school buildings. Students made a sketch (from memory) of the secondary school they attended.
So many great examples from all over the world - from a small school in Chile boasting a slide from classrooms to playground all the way to a large Silicon Valley campus
Series of hand-drawn sketches of school buildings all around the world Series of hand-drawn sketches of school buildings all around the world
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
kerstinsailer.bsky.social
Two favourite sessions with my MSc students at the Bartlett School of Architecture @thebartlettucl.bsky.social in a row discussing buildings and social relationships 🫶🏼

Short 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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thellpsx.bsky.social
lithub.com/remembering-.... read this achingly beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social I keep thinking, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was irreplaceable but she nurtured a whole-ass huge forest (or series of forests). No one can replace her, except for all of us doing the work she nurtured in us.
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I  was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
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November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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ipaintbirbs.bsky.social
disco tits AND MORE, now in the shop :)

lizclaytonfuller.com/pages/shop
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
kerstinsailer.bsky.social
Great comprehensive report on the effects of #hybridWork and working from home #WfH on the economy and people - proud to have contributed evidence to this
hlhomeworking.parliament.uk House of Lords Home-based Working Committee @hlhomeworking.parliament.uk · 7d
How have remote and hybrid working affected the UK’s working landscape? Here’s some of our findings below: 👇
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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longcovidsos.bsky.social
Thanks to our amazing volunteer @helenld.bsky.social for speaking up about just how awful #LongCovid *still* is for so many of us.
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
kerstinsailer.bsky.social
So looking forward to this - get ready for #ArtAdventCalendar 2025 and enjoy a beautified timeline. Exactly what I needed today 🫶🏼
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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sophiecarr.bsky.social
Waves crashing against the basalt columns this morning at Reynisfjara beach. This is handheld at 1/10th sec - great to have a camera with inbuilt image stabilier :)

#Iceland #CanonR6MarkII
Waves crash against black vertical basalt columns. The exposure is slowed down so you can see the water spray radiating out smoothly.
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
we're snailposting, post your snails
drandrewthaler.bsky.social Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 12d
Do you ever just stop and take a moment to think just how weird it is that we live on the same planet as snails?
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
kerstinsailer.bsky.social
A bit late to the snailposting party but here we are...

#art #pencilDrawing
Drawing of a snail from above that makes its way through green grass. The snail is broken down onto triangles and coloured so that no two adjacent areas are in the same hues. Polychromos and fine liner on white paper
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
kerstinsailer.bsky.social
CfP on transdisciplinary workplace research
Just a few more days until abstracts are due (14 Nov) for the 5th TWR (Transdisciplinary Workplace Research) conference, to be held in Zurich, 2-5 September 2026
More info and how to submit:
www.zhaw.ch/de/lsfm/inst...

#CfP #FutureOfWork
5th Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR) Conference | ZHAW Institut für Facility Management IFM
www.zhaw.ch
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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olivia.science
AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins."
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social

LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...

www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
One, we're never going to shut up about this. Two, this isn't an "I told you so." Here's a simple fact that those making an AI inevitability argument do not want to reckon: it's not too late. Resistance thrives on chaos, and this brand of unmonitored chaos has never met the friction and revolutionary spirit of academic freedom-perhaps the very thing that will cause us to collectively remember that generative AI has no meaningful place in writing pedagogy, no ability to be implemented with integrity, and isn't even passably slay at writing. It is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecоdestroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins. Not only are writing faculty allowed to resist, we are now called to do so by our own morals and steadfast, unabashedly idealistic belief in creative craft. Make mine a pour over.
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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melaniedusseau.bsky.social
Hoping my op ed in IHE will spark conversations on BlueSky about AI resistance & refusal in creative writing education, publishing, & writing pedagogy.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

#AIinEducation #Edtech #EduSky #AIArt #Technology #creativewriting #writingpedagogy #insidehighered
Burn it down: a license for AI resistance (opinion)
Resistance is not futile, Melanie Dusseau writes.
www.insidehighered.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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hillthalisaup.bsky.social
@emfarrelly.bsky.social spot on;
“Architecture is the most public of the arts, yet the least publicly discussed. That’s not a high bar: across the arts in general, the public conversation is unedifying at best. But in architecture, it is all but non-existent”
architectureau.com/articles/arc...
Architecture has a talk problem
Whatever public conversation there is about architecture is dominated by celebrities and enthusiasts, who “promote” it without enhancing anyone’s understanding of the difference between the good, the ...
architectureau.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
kerstinsailer.bsky.social
Very proud to have my research on health and wellbeing featured in the latest edition of @ucl.ac.uk UCL's alumni magazine Portico alongside a stellar group of @thebartlettucl.bsky.social colleagues including Fiona Zisch, Claire Heaviside and Haim Yacobi

magazine.ucl.ac.uk/autumn-2025/...
magazine.ucl.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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elisaperego78.bsky.social
"No further delay should be acceptable."

Proud to co-author this #LongCovid declaration to demand urgent action to fully recognise, treat and prevent Long Covid

with @thewhn.bsky.social @winslowsp.bsky.social @togetherwemask.bsky.social et al
October 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
kerstinsailer.bsky.social
#CallForPublicHealthAction

Two page PDF to hand to your doctor so that they take #LongCovid seriously - courtesy of @drseanmullen.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻
taniaspencer.bsky.social Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · May 8
"Tired of being gaslit about your Covid precautions in healthcare facilities or #LongCovid?

Download this 1-page letter which includes key studies on brain, heart & immune damage—perfect for printing (double-sided) & handing to your doctor":

uofi.app.box.com/s/9llu70jkrf...
Still Masked Still Right Fact Sheet - 05072025.pdf | Powered by Box
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October 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
kerstinsailer.bsky.social
Quite funny and beautifully written: the driven, overworked academic as being infected

Interestingly, it took an actual infection (with Covid), triggering #LongCovid in my body to cure me from academic madness

Still not recommended though - wish I could have found slow scholarship by myself
gpollara.bsky.social Gabriele Pollara @gpollara.bsky.social · 24d
Well, this is a brilliant #IDSky article that cuts close to the bone! 😬

Reframes #academia as an infection for which the causative organism may be less easy to define, but that can be just as insidious on affected individuals (clinical academics)!

#AcademicSky #MedSky 🧪 @cidjournal.bsky.social
Infected With the Academic Bug
It starts innocently. A paper you’re proud of, the thrill of seeing your name on PubMed. Everyone is genuinely happy for you; you’re a threat to no one. Bu
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October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
kerstinsailer.bsky.social
Spatial analytics job alert - go and work with my wonderful colleague @kimonkrenz.bsky.social
kimonkrenz.bsky.social Kimon Krenz @kimonkrenz.bsky.social · Oct 16
🚨 Hiring: Research Fellow in Secure Spatial Analytics @ UCL. Privacy-preserving spatial data science for env-health research. Strong R/Python welcome. 0.5 FTE to 31 Aug 2026; FT short-term possible. Deadline 28 Oct. Work with UCL, Liverpool & NHS England! Apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
kerstinsailer.bsky.social
German article in newspaper 'Die Zeit' on a housing project of Sauerbruch Hutton that understands architecture as a place of possibilities

#giftLink

#architecture #housing #connection #community #loneliness

www.zeit.de/2025/44/mann...
Franklin Village Mannheim: Das beste Zimmer hat kein Dach
Eine schicke Wohnung mit cleveren Funktionen für acht Euro pro Quadratmeter? In Mannheim steht Deutschlands bestes Neubauprojekt. Doch wer dort lebt, muss Nähe aushalten.
www.zeit.de
October 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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sophiecarr.bsky.social
Golden icebergs, seen on this day in 2021.

Fellsjara, Jökulsárlón #Iceland
Icebergs sit on a black pebbly beach with waves crashing over them. The icebergs look golden as the sun is rising behind; the sky is peachy. Close up of the surface of an iceberg, which looks golden in the sunrise light. Close-up of the surface of an iceberg at sunrise. It looks very golden, and partly metallic or glassy. The sun seen rising behind an iceberg on the beach, which looks pink with the light behind. The sky is peachy.
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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fuchskind.bsky.social
Heute ist Tag der unsichtbaren Behinderungen und Erkrankungen 💜.
Comic Illustration: Ein frech grinsender Waschbär, coloriert in den Disability Pride Farben (Grün, Blau, weiß, gelb, rot). They trägt eine violette Lederjacke, auf dem Rücken der Jacke steht auf englisch: Invisible Disability Club. Die Jacke hat am rechten am einen Pin mit den der Disability Pride Flagge. Der Hintergrund ist gelb orange.
October 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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london.gov.uk
I want every single child to breathe clean air in and around their school.

This new £2.7 million City Hall initiative will provide indoor air quality filters to at least 200 schools across all London boroughs, benefitting tens of thousands of children.
Air filters to be rolled out to 200 London schools
The Mayor of London has launched a £2.7 million programme to improve air quality in schools by installing indoor air filters across the capital. At least 200 schools will receive High Efficiency Part...
airqualitynews.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
kerstinsailer.bsky.social
This is a lovely review of my latest Buildings&Cities paper @bceditors.bsky.social on clinic layouts at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust @moorfields.bsky.social

sustainableconstructionreview.com/2025/06/12/m...
Moorfields Eye Hospital Redesigns Patient Flow with Architectural Innovation
In the bustling corridors of Moorfields Eye Hospital, a silent revolution is underway, one that could reshape how we think about patient flow and clinic design. At the heart of this transformation is…
sustainableconstructionreview.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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chikki1324.bsky.social
'ʇǝʇɥɔɐɹʇǝq sɹǝpuɐ lɐɯ ǝƃuᴉp'

Tolle Perspektiven gibts heute auf #FotoVorschlag
fotovorschlag.de FotoVorschlag @fotovorschlag.de · Oct 16
'Perspektivwechsel' #FotoVorschlag
October 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM