Dr Alison Mayne
@knitrospective.bsky.social
Doctor of yarn and wellbeing, methods nerd, textile history devotee. Co-founder Woolly Good Edinburgh yarn festival.
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I've been running informal Redundancy Buddy groups over the last 6 months with UK uni staff at risk of dismissal. There are several key things people are shocked by which I'm sharing here so others who're precarious feel less alone and recognise what to prepare for. Please add your ideas. A thread 🧵
April 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I've been running informal Redundancy Buddy groups over the last 6 months with UK uni staff at risk of dismissal. There are several key things people are shocked by which I'm sharing here so others who're precarious feel less alone and recognise what to prepare for. Please add your ideas. A thread 🧵
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Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Palestinian Scholarship
www.gold.ac.uk
April 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Well, this sounds fab
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! My first adult novel since the Obama administration. A love story of two men over different genres and time periods, as one refuses to accept the ending the author has written. It’s called MERIDIAN. Out early 2027. Terrible pic of me.
www.thebookseller.com/rights/canon...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/canon...
Canongate falls for 'genre-bending' new novel by Patrick Ness
Canongate has fallen for a 'genre-bending' new novel following one 'phenomenal love story' by Patrick Ness.
www.thebookseller.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Well, this sounds fab
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SCIENCE IS POLITICAL! We're decades past entertaining this nonsense that it's not. The Royal Society are actively excusing M*sk's deliberate attempts to destroy science infrastructures, funds, career paths, the environment, and people's health. Also political.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
‘It would be seen as political’: why the Royal Society is torn over Elon Musk
Many fellows feel the billionaire has breached its code of conduct, but others say scientific neutrality is at stake
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
SCIENCE IS POLITICAL! We're decades past entertaining this nonsense that it's not. The Royal Society are actively excusing M*sk's deliberate attempts to destroy science infrastructures, funds, career paths, the environment, and people's health. Also political.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Paid commission (£2,500 per commissioned paper, paid in 2 instalments). Papers to be written for a practitioner/policy-maker audience, c. 4,000 words (5,000 max).
Deadline for this 2nd call is 14 April 2025. If you're informed about global order & disorder, this commission might be for you.
Deadline for this 2nd call is 14 April 2025. If you're informed about global order & disorder, this commission might be for you.
The British Academy and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace have recently launched a new multi-year international policy programme on Global (Dis)Order. Find out more and apply to the second call for discussion papers: https://buff.ly/4bflPF0
February 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Paid commission (£2,500 per commissioned paper, paid in 2 instalments). Papers to be written for a practitioner/policy-maker audience, c. 4,000 words (5,000 max).
Deadline for this 2nd call is 14 April 2025. If you're informed about global order & disorder, this commission might be for you.
Deadline for this 2nd call is 14 April 2025. If you're informed about global order & disorder, this commission might be for you.
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Thrilled to say that the Royal School of Needlework is hosting its first ever academic conference, in conjunction with @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social! Here is the call for papers for “Stitched Together,” which will be held on 21-22 August at Hampton Court Palace. Please share!
February 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Thrilled to say that the Royal School of Needlework is hosting its first ever academic conference, in conjunction with @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social! Here is the call for papers for “Stitched Together,” which will be held on 21-22 August at Hampton Court Palace. Please share!
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Gaelic Songs in Fife & The Herring Gutters
1 March, Anstruther – free, ticketed
Meg Hyland discusses the Scottish women who worked as herring gutters & the linguistic & musical exchanges between speakers of Gaelic, Scots & English in the fishing industry
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-gaeli...
1 March, Anstruther – free, ticketed
Meg Hyland discusses the Scottish women who worked as herring gutters & the linguistic & musical exchanges between speakers of Gaelic, Scots & English in the fishing industry
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-gaeli...
Talk: Gaelic Songs in Fife and The Herring Gutters
Join Meg Hyland and hear Gaelic
songs sung by herring gutters. Learn about
musical exchanges that occurred in the fishing
industry.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Gaelic Songs in Fife & The Herring Gutters
1 March, Anstruther – free, ticketed
Meg Hyland discusses the Scottish women who worked as herring gutters & the linguistic & musical exchanges between speakers of Gaelic, Scots & English in the fishing industry
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-gaeli...
1 March, Anstruther – free, ticketed
Meg Hyland discusses the Scottish women who worked as herring gutters & the linguistic & musical exchanges between speakers of Gaelic, Scots & English in the fishing industry
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-gaeli...
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The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.
Kemi Badenoch this morning: "A country cannot be successful if its people and intellectual elite don’t believe in it. This means dealing with the poisoning of minds through higher education."
February 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.
More good things in Glasgow…
CFP: THREADS OF EMPIRE: MODES, MATERIALS AND THE MAKING OF TEXTILES
Commodities of Empire Workshop, University of Glasgow, 8-9 Sep. 2025. Deadline: Mar 28 #MaterialCulture commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/
Commodities of Empire Workshop, University of Glasgow, 8-9 Sep. 2025. Deadline: Mar 28 #MaterialCulture commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/
Events - Commodities of Empire
For details of our past events, click here. THREADS OF EMPIRE: MODES, MATERIALS AND THE MAKING OF TEXTILES Call for Papers Download Call for Papers as PDF Commodities of Empire Workshop, University o...
commoditiesofempire.org.uk
February 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
More good things in Glasgow…
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Keep Telling of Gaza with Professor @alisonphipps.bsky.social on 17th February. If you do not want to miss this conversation, here’s the Eventbrite link for registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keep-telli...
Keep Telling of Gaza with Professor Alison Phipps
Let's gather to hear Professor Alison Phipps share stories and insights about Gaza that we must continue to pass on.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Keep Telling of Gaza with Professor @alisonphipps.bsky.social on 17th February. If you do not want to miss this conversation, here’s the Eventbrite link for registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keep-telli...
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Omar El
Akkad was on @channel4news.bsky.social yesterday, talking about Palestine, western moral vacancy and his book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. This clip is powerful; the full version, which airs on Wed, is even more so. Please do watch.
www.channel4.com/news/omar-el...
Akkad was on @channel4news.bsky.social yesterday, talking about Palestine, western moral vacancy and his book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. This clip is powerful; the full version, which airs on Wed, is even more so. Please do watch.
www.channel4.com/news/omar-el...
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February 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Omar El
Akkad was on @channel4news.bsky.social yesterday, talking about Palestine, western moral vacancy and his book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. This clip is powerful; the full version, which airs on Wed, is even more so. Please do watch.
www.channel4.com/news/omar-el...
Akkad was on @channel4news.bsky.social yesterday, talking about Palestine, western moral vacancy and his book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. This clip is powerful; the full version, which airs on Wed, is even more so. Please do watch.
www.channel4.com/news/omar-el...
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Last week @davidolusoga.bsky.social gave the annual National Humanities Lecture at the University of London. This was a superb account of how public history promotes and communicates academic research beyond HE.
David's lecture is now available and is highly recommended bit.ly/3Qd1x5i #skystorians
David's lecture is now available and is highly recommended bit.ly/3Qd1x5i #skystorians
The National Humanities Lecture | Professor David Olusoga | 4 February 2025
The National Humanities Lecture is a major new annual event that celebrates the vital role of the humanities in public life. We are honoured to welcome historian, author, and award-winning filmmaker David Olusoga as our inaugural speaker. In his lecture, Professor Olusoga will make the case for the humanities and explore how new ideas about humanities, heritage and institutions are emerging – from virtual museums, to hyper-local history projects and alternative city tours. What is the public role of the historian in an age of populism and digital disruption? How might museums adapt to our more interconnected world and to the phenomenon of 'contested heritage'? How can the humanities adapt to an era of Podcasts and Substack? And what are the broader intersections between the humanities and public life? Drawing together thinking from history, political culture and public humanities, he will ask what new forms our cultural institutions might take, and how they might support a more equitable, connected society.
bit.ly
February 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Last week @davidolusoga.bsky.social gave the annual National Humanities Lecture at the University of London. This was a superb account of how public history promotes and communicates academic research beyond HE.
David's lecture is now available and is highly recommended bit.ly/3Qd1x5i #skystorians
David's lecture is now available and is highly recommended bit.ly/3Qd1x5i #skystorians
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Curtis Brown Creative offer a series of breakthrough scholarships, bursaries, courses and mentoring for new writers, writers of colour and writers on low income and others.
Details in the link.
Please share :)
Details in the link.
Please share :)
Breakthrough Scholarships | Curtis Brown Creative
Our scholarships provide regular funded places on our courses to talented writers facing barriers to entry.
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk
February 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Curtis Brown Creative offer a series of breakthrough scholarships, bursaries, courses and mentoring for new writers, writers of colour and writers on low income and others.
Details in the link.
Please share :)
Details in the link.
Please share :)
Billie Eilish’s hat highlights a significant issue in the marketing of Scottish wool; a business as big as whisky on the world stage but without the legislative / policy protections. There’s a fine group of people working across farming, industry, education,& academia to change that here in Scotland
February 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Billie Eilish’s hat highlights a significant issue in the marketing of Scottish wool; a business as big as whisky on the world stage but without the legislative / policy protections. There’s a fine group of people working across farming, industry, education,& academia to change that here in Scotland
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To mark the Representation of the People Act getting Royal Assent #OTD 6 February in 1918, we’ll be sharing some of our blogs about people who campaigned for the vote.
First up, “With thanks to the woman who did the typing” by Lucienne Boyce.
womenshistorynetwork.org/with-thanks-...
#GenderHist
First up, “With thanks to the woman who did the typing” by Lucienne Boyce.
womenshistorynetwork.org/with-thanks-...
#GenderHist
With thanks to the woman who did the typing – Lucienne Boyce
In 1938 Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, one of the leaders of the Women’s Social & Political Union (WSPU), published her autobiography, My Part in a Changing World. In it she noted, “My thanks are d…
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February 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
To mark the Representation of the People Act getting Royal Assent #OTD 6 February in 1918, we’ll be sharing some of our blogs about people who campaigned for the vote.
First up, “With thanks to the woman who did the typing” by Lucienne Boyce.
womenshistorynetwork.org/with-thanks-...
#GenderHist
First up, “With thanks to the woman who did the typing” by Lucienne Boyce.
womenshistorynetwork.org/with-thanks-...
#GenderHist
Keir Starmer, perhaps take some notes…
WATCH: "We're going to stand up to a bully.”
Mark Carney, the favourite to be the next Canadian prime minister, hits back at Donald Trump after the President imposed tariffs on Canada.
#Newsnight | broadcast 31.01.25
youtu.be/yV101ei8mu8?...
Mark Carney, the favourite to be the next Canadian prime minister, hits back at Donald Trump after the President imposed tariffs on Canada.
#Newsnight | broadcast 31.01.25
youtu.be/yV101ei8mu8?...
"We're going to stand up to a bully" | Mark Carney on President Trump’s Canada trade tariffs
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
youtu.be
February 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Keir Starmer, perhaps take some notes…
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Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times
theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i...
Free, gentle, practical and bonding suggestions for anyone impacted by university changes, cuts, closures, threats and dangers
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDSky #gradschool #PhDChat #PhDHelp
theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i...
Free, gentle, practical and bonding suggestions for anyone impacted by university changes, cuts, closures, threats and dangers
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDSky #gradschool #PhDChat #PhDHelp
Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times - The Research Companion
Science, healthcare and education are threatened worldwide. Here are some starter ideas for ways to work together to share and save vital information. And to care for one another.
theresearchcompanion.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times
theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i...
Free, gentle, practical and bonding suggestions for anyone impacted by university changes, cuts, closures, threats and dangers
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDSky #gradschool #PhDChat #PhDHelp
theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i...
Free, gentle, practical and bonding suggestions for anyone impacted by university changes, cuts, closures, threats and dangers
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDSky #gradschool #PhDChat #PhDHelp
I loved writing for MAI. Here’s their latest CFP
#academicsky
#academicsky
New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky
CFP: Happy 50th Birthday, Medusa! Celebrating Women's Writing
With this focus issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, we aim to further the dialogue on women's writing: words, and artistic practices.
maifeminism.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I loved writing for MAI. Here’s their latest CFP
#academicsky
#academicsky
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Sneaky little cover reveal: here's @carriem.co.uk's Small Town Joy: From Glam Rock to Hyperpop: How Queer Music Changed the Sound of Scotland!
We love the cassette tape look, all thanks to Kara McHale: www.karamchale.co.uk
Pre-order your copy now, coming in April: www.404ink.com/store/p/smal...
We love the cassette tape look, all thanks to Kara McHale: www.karamchale.co.uk
Pre-order your copy now, coming in April: www.404ink.com/store/p/smal...
January 31, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Sneaky little cover reveal: here's @carriem.co.uk's Small Town Joy: From Glam Rock to Hyperpop: How Queer Music Changed the Sound of Scotland!
We love the cassette tape look, all thanks to Kara McHale: www.karamchale.co.uk
Pre-order your copy now, coming in April: www.404ink.com/store/p/smal...
We love the cassette tape look, all thanks to Kara McHale: www.karamchale.co.uk
Pre-order your copy now, coming in April: www.404ink.com/store/p/smal...
I’m coming to the end of an amazing project: clinical medicine as experienced by real people communicated to / experienced by clinicians in that sector in order to improve patient care, empathy & understanding. All this comes through art practices/ working with artists. Collaboration is team’s MO.
'To create the skills needed, the UK has to grow, not squeeze, its teaching and research ambitions. The risk of underplaying the contribution of the arts and humanities is that we underplay the investment needed...We have been trying to do 21st century humanities with a 20th century mindset.' 2/2
January 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I’m coming to the end of an amazing project: clinical medicine as experienced by real people communicated to / experienced by clinicians in that sector in order to improve patient care, empathy & understanding. All this comes through art practices/ working with artists. Collaboration is team’s MO.
Free link for a few more days - @isabellarosner.bsky.social knows her stuff and is a good egg - go read
Two rare textile discoveries connect #18thcentury Barbadian schoolgirls to England.
🔓 𝗜𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗻𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀
buff.ly/4ayKNil
🔓 𝗜𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗻𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀
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Following Threads to Colonial Barbados
buff.ly
January 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Free link for a few more days - @isabellarosner.bsky.social knows her stuff and is a good egg - go read
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This seems to me to be an excellent list of principles
January 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
This seems to me to be an excellent list of principles
I’m finalising my abstract today - who else is hoping to go? No matter what, I’ll attend this event honouring the memory of Prof Stana Nenadic
CFP deadline extended to Feb 7!
There’s still time to submit an abstract for Material Scotland. Abstracts of 200 words and bios of 50 words can be sent to me at sally.tuckett@glasgow.ac.uk
See post below for more details.
There’s still time to submit an abstract for Material Scotland. Abstracts of 200 words and bios of 50 words can be sent to me at sally.tuckett@glasgow.ac.uk
See post below for more details.
CFP: Material Scotland, Stana Nenadic Memorial Conference, 15-16 May 2025, University of Edinburgh.
Celebrating the career of Prof Nenadic (1954-2024) papers invited on Scottish material & visual cultural history. Deadline for proposals 31 Jan. ECR and postgrad particularly welcome. Please share!
Celebrating the career of Prof Nenadic (1954-2024) papers invited on Scottish material & visual cultural history. Deadline for proposals 31 Jan. ECR and postgrad particularly welcome. Please share!
January 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I’m finalising my abstract today - who else is hoping to go? No matter what, I’ll attend this event honouring the memory of Prof Stana Nenadic
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Last week I updated my mega-post "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" with new links to analysis and evidence.
I have no illusions about the current political landscape. It will likely take years to undo Cass' act of sabotage. But I am in this fight for the long haul and hope you are too.
I have no illusions about the current political landscape. It will likely take years to undo Cass' act of sabotage. But I am in this fight for the long haul and hope you are too.
What’s wrong with the Cass Review? A round-up of commentary and evidence
[last updated 23/01/25] Wednesday 10 April 2024 saw the long-awaited publication of the final report of the Cass Review. This report was commissioned by NHS England, and provides a review of eviden…
ruthpearce.net
January 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Last week I updated my mega-post "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" with new links to analysis and evidence.
I have no illusions about the current political landscape. It will likely take years to undo Cass' act of sabotage. But I am in this fight for the long haul and hope you are too.
I have no illusions about the current political landscape. It will likely take years to undo Cass' act of sabotage. But I am in this fight for the long haul and hope you are too.
And more and more … loads of mopping up with encouraging of voluntary severance and redundancy for anyone on part-time short-term contracts (👋🏻). Years of unfunded arts, humanities and social sciences in UK has starved us and we are now marked as DNR
Four UK universities announce plans to cut over 750 jobs www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u... - it'll probably be way more than 750 jobs once these cuts bite. And spread across the sector. Hard to stress how awful this is.
Four UK universities announce plans to cut over 750 jobs - Research Professional News
Cardiff, Durham, Kent and UEA the latest institutions to join wave of sector redundancies
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
And more and more … loads of mopping up with encouraging of voluntary severance and redundancy for anyone on part-time short-term contracts (👋🏻). Years of unfunded arts, humanities and social sciences in UK has starved us and we are now marked as DNR