Paraorchestra | Bristol Beacon A music charity, renowned venue and award-winning music education hub. We're here to help make space for music every day, with everyone.

Looking at the Proms line up and Steve Reich's Music for 18 musicians played by Paraorchestra is going to be pretty special. Lucky Bristol!

bristolbeacon.org/whats-on/bbc...

A penne for your thoughts?

I have fixed the pop-up plug in the bathroom sink. Life, as they say, doesn't get much better than this.

Congratulations to colleagues at the Fitzwilliam museum for making the shortlist of Museum of the Year 2026.

www.artfund.org/museum-of-th...

My great-grandmother wrote 'Out of Work' for her adult daughter (aged 17) but census enumerator changed it to 'Home Duties'. Women can't be unemployed!
#1926census

A Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: “To help councils provide public services like toilets we’ve made over £78bn available for council finances, with local leaders free to decide for themselves how best to spend the majority of this.”

What a quote.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Congratulations to colleagues at the Fitzwilliam museum for making the shortlist of Museum of the Year 2026.

www.artfund.org/museum-of-th...

A Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: “To help councils provide public services like toilets we’ve made over £78bn available for council finances, with local leaders free to decide for themselves how best to spend the majority of this.”

What a quote.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Watching Antiques Roadshow: Royal Special.

Looking forward to someone turning up with a 2001 Pizza Express menu.

First reed warbler!

First swallow!

Yuli Sømme - Textile Artist | Bellacouche Yuli Sømme is an environmentalist and master craftsperson with over 30 years' experience creatively using natural textiles to make thoughtful hand-made products. Yuli creates comforting funeral produ...

More about Yuli Sømme and her woollen shrouds here.

Günter Grass: ‘When the time comes, we will rest on leaves’ An exclusive extract from the Nobel prize-winning author’s final work describes how he and his wife imagined their farewell

Watching a shroud-maker at work on a programme about Dartmoor reminded me of this lovely extract from Günter Grass' last book.

Person cycling to the Alison Richard Building.

We are hiring 💼

Join the Centre for Pandemic Risk Management as a Postdoctoral Research Associate

The Centre brings together a team of scientists, social scientists and public policy researchers to inform and build pandemic risk policy and practice

Apply by 3 May 2026
https://bit.ly/4dSnxiP

The Darwin-Wedgwood family tree is full of so many influential figures.

Cambridge wouldn't be Cambridge without it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%...

Happy Cambridgeshire Bloomsday!

Call for art.

📣 Call for art

Artists and creatives - submit your work to CRASSH's 25th anniversary exhibition!

The theme is 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' and can be interpreted broadly, from personal to global

Deadline 31 July 2026
Find out more at bit.ly/4svggKv

whoever this is, they are amazing

Bouge de là - Part. 1

Which has to followed by Bouge de là.

open.spotify.com/track/24Pxaq...

Foxbase Alpha

One of those perfect spring albums. Shocked to see it turns 35 this year. I doubt 17 year old me would think that I would still be listening to it.

open.spotify.com/album/3NWRCk...

I see social infrastructure has arrived on the agenda at UKREiiF.

2026.ukreiif.com

Our Annual Conference tackled some of the biggest policy challenges of our time.

From AI’s potential to transform public services to the realities of driving economic growth, discussions focused on research & practical solutions.

Watch the sessions: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/conference

Two wooden pints lying low in the water at the margins of the river Cam. The trees overheard are reflected in the water. The mood is elegaic.

Scuttled punts.

Forest City 1 | Britain's Next Great City Britain needs millions of homes. We have a plan and a team to build them, east of Cambridge, as a beautiful, permanently affordable city.

Interesting to see the next phase of thinking on Forest City 1 over the border in Suffolk.

Bit more work needed on the name tbh.

We’re looking for a writer We’re hiring a writer who can make the world’s largest problems understandable to our large Our World in Data audience.

Please help share what must be one of the best jobs ever. We are looking for a writer to join @ourworldindata.org to work with our fantastic team including @maxroser.bsky.social and @hannahritchie.bsky.social. £80k - £120k / ideally full time / location flexible
ourworldindata.org/hiring-write...

Sensational PhD opportunity here

University of Exeter and University of Cambridge Libraries & Archives - Collections Connections Communities

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.

#PhDsky

University of Exeter and University of Cambridge Libraries & Archives - Collections Connections Communities

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.

#PhDsky

Same as us humans tbh.

Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

We live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate & destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment & ecological negligence.
Join Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire at @algorithmickitchen.bsky.social next month
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859...