I am doing two talks on Zoom on Renaissance art, as fundraisers for the bookshop - we're a bit behind with finances! They will be recorded, so you don't have to be able to watch live. Accessible, fun, gorgeous art, supporting the bookshop, can't go wrong!
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Mia Heller, an 18-year-old high school student, was looking to make a difference in her neighborhood of Warrenton, Virginia’s water quality. So she invented a transformative water filtration system that eliminates 95.5% of microplastics from drinking water. share.google/bi32LPUq0DBg...
News I'm hearing from across universities is disastrous. The sector has been falling apart for months, but the process is now continuously speeding up. Outside a small handful of institutions, HE as we've known it has basically zero future.
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“Last night we were excited for school today. The Israelis came and closed the road with barbed wire … we want to be back in school,” said 11-year-old Rashid al-Hathaleen.
What is happening on the West Bank must not be forgotten
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
NASA women save stars. 🫶🏻💫
This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'.
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“Tania Warner described the treatment of her and her daughter as “horrific” from the start. After being held for about five and a half hours at the checkpoint, they were sent to the first facility, where “every single person … was handcuffed – including children”, the mother said.”
Cleminson Street, Salford. Salford pioneered play streets, traffic-free from 8am till sunset (borrowed from New York) in the 1930s. Legislation followed: there were 700 in England and Wales in the 1950s, all but forgotten by the 1980s.
This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI.
I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills…
two weeks on how to use AI instead of 500 years of regional culture. that's not a skills gap, that's a values statement.
The Trump administration is taking another swing at Harvard University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), filing antisemitism lawsuits and launching civil rights investigations against the schools after previous efforts to halt ...
TAT: [Attacking education | Suppressing dissent]
Egyptian mother and her 5 children have spent 9 months in ICE detention. "The family, including... children ranging in ages from 5 to 18, detail what they describe as abhorrent medical care, inedible food and a disregard for their religious freedom as Muslims." www.texastribune.org/2026/03/11/e...
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center
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What a world
Calling all artists, creatives and cultural sector workers, there is an open letter about the changes to Access to Work which will be released on Monday, it’s been signed by almost 2000 people, please add your name if you can: airtable.com/appSbdVCnzZy...
A photo of Jess Thom, a white, wheelchair using woman looking into the camera with a serious expression. She is wearing a blue and green hoodie, black padded gloves and is pictured in from of a brick wall
I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
I recently chatted with @prisblossom.bsky.social about AI toys, all the things we don't yet know about them, and @drjennyg.bsky.social & my research on their impacts in the early years. Read our conversation here. 👇
So good👏🏻! Dance your research conference 2027 anyone?👀💃🏽🕺🏻
"After 1967, illegal Israeli archaeological excavations in Palestinian land mushroomed throughout the West Bank, sponsored by the religious rightwing supremacist movement Gush Emunim.. to identify places of interest for the creation of new settlement"
#CulturalHeritageManagement #colonialpractices
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.
Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth
Pictures emerging from today’s heavy bombing of Isfahan. Damages to the mirror works, tiles, floors, and carved wooden doors of Safavid palaces of Aali Qapu and Chehelsotoon. Both of these are within the UNESCO Heritage complex of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. These are 16th-17th century bldgs.
Last chance to get involved | Call for participants: wellbeing and ableism discussions 💬
As part of our research into workforce wellbeing in the sector, we’re looking for disabled museum professionals (or those who have experienced ableism) to take part in one of two online discovery discussions 👇
Virtual launch for Southern Anthropocenes hosted by Sarah Milne at the Crawford School of Public Policy Thursday March 12th 4 pm to 5 pm (+) - Canberra time.
Zoom meeting ID and QR on the poster.
Speakers: Iveta Silova and Juan Francisco Salazar.
This is what ecocide looks like.
Before universities opened their doors to women, one woman spent 7 years making a quilt of the Solar System to teach other women astronomy: www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
Wooowwwww. Cowardly and censorious.
to ease the pressure on my parent friends on world book day, i’m going to write a children’s book called ‘the child who just wore their regular clothes’
