An infographic with weighing scales showing that the majority of universities not on X outweigh those still using the platform
If you are part of a university or UK facing research organisation, publisher, funder, learned society and they are still posting on X - they're in a rather uncomfortable minority now. Perhaps point them to the eXit.
My piece for the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
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03.03.2026 15:12
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I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
03.03.2026 11:58
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Lisette Model, “Afterparty in Marshall Stearns’s hotel room with Ollie McLaughlin and others, Newport, Rhode Island, July 5-7” (1956) (© Lisette Model Foundation; courtesy Eakins Press Foundation/Baudoin Lebon)
Model was eager to publish these images as a book, a relatively unusual move at the time, given that the fine art photo book didn’t become a mainstream practice until the 1970s. In 1952, she commissioned Langston Hughes to write an essay for it, though this was never completed — her project came to an abrupt halt as the 1950s Red Scare reached a fever pitch. As Sands explains, she, like many fellow Jewish refugees in the New York City jazz scene (including the founders of Blue Note Records), was an outspoken leftist. Furthermore, jazz was the site of radical integration, as Model’s images of a jubilant, racially mixed 1956 party, for example, demonstrate. Laying out the “racialized dynamics” of McCarthy’s attacks, Sands explains “how deeply McCarthyist red-baiting was intertwined with anti-Black racism” as he persecuted civil rights champions under the guise of fighting Communism.
The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced @hyperallergic.com
hyperallergic.com/the-jazz-pic...
03.03.2026 11:19
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Fancy being killed by yr endpin!
21.02.2026 13:04
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Charlie Talks About His Bass (Live)
YouTube video by Charlie Haden - Topic
Very interesting, but probably just to bassists. Charlie Haden talking about his bass, and about basses in general, as well as talking about some of the challenges of touring with a bass.
#music #musicsky #jazzmusic #jazzsky #doublebass
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFXM...
20.02.2026 22:29
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Red capital letters spelling New Adventures with a slash between the two words
Matthew Bourne's New Adventures are looking for a Development Officer to support Matthew Bourne’s artistic vision by working to maximise voluntary income.
Closing - 09 Mar
Location - London
££ - £33K-£35K
disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...
19.02.2026 16:15
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Foo Mony Cubits?
Ken Morrice
The sun’s been tint for weeks. Deid maybe.
Likely drooned. Water’s aaplace, teemin doon
gutters and branders, rinnin aff the slates,
floodin pavements. Fowk near droon
waitin for the bus. Fit an onding!
Weet skites up yer troosers, drips doon yer sark.
Fa wis it prayed for rain? Lord, eneuch’s eneuch.
Caa back the sun, or help’s build an ark!
The sun’s been tint for weeks. Deid maybe.
Likely drooned. Water’s aaplace, teemin doon
gutters and branders, rinnin aff the slates,
floodin pavements. Fowk near droon…
—Ken Morrice, “Foo Mony Cubits?”
from Selected Poems (Keith Murray, 1991)
#poetry
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/foo-mon...
15.02.2026 14:01
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Heading over to Birmingham tomorrow to join this symposium as part of the new Eastside Jazz Festival. Great programme, inc speakers from Manchester Jazz Festival & Brick Lane Jazz Festival www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir... PS counted again: it's [sigh] 30 not 20 years ... #jazzstudies #jazzresearch
11.02.2026 14:53
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And what’s our positions? @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @sainsburycentre.bsky.social #beninbronzes
08.02.2026 11:38
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The Loch Ness Monster’s Song
by Edwin Morgan
Sssnnnwhuffffll?
Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl.
Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl –
gm grawwwww grf grawf awfgm graw gm.
Hovoplodok – doplodovok – plovodokot-doplodokosh?
Splgraw fok fok splgrafhatchgabrlgabrl fok splfok!
Zgra kra gka fok!
Grof grawff gahf?
Gombl mbl bl –
blm plm,
blm plm,
blm plm,
blp.
Sssnnnwhuffffll?
Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl.
Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl…
—Edwin Morgan, “The Loch Ness Monster’s Song”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#WyrdWednesday #poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...
04.02.2026 12:58
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Norwich Firsts
If you should watch a Hitchcock With dashing Archie Leach
Remember it was Norwich Where he began to reach Towards the name of Cary Grant Tanned charmer of Palm Beach
But Norwich first, in Norwich first, He bowed in Norwich first
If you should get a letter Addressed to NRx
Remember it was Norwich In the days of hats and cheques Where they solved the magic cipher That with a line connects
The universe, but Norwich first, They sorted Norwich first
If tintinnabulation Should reach you from a tower Remember it was Mancroft
Where men first proved the power
Of ringing sweet-swung changes On church bells by the hour
That peal rehearsed in Norwich first, By Norwich Scholars first
If you should have a vision That shakes your blood and soul Remember that in Norwich
A woman saw the whole Of love inside a hazelnut
And watched her words unroll
As in this verse, through Norwich first, Revealed to Norwich first
On Cary Grant's birthday, a poem by Norwich poet Ron Nevett which begins with the fact that the city was the first place he performed, as a teenage acrobat. (Further local boasts include the first postcode, the first bellringing peal, and the first book in English by a woman, Julian of Norwich)
18.01.2026 20:19
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Wonderful debut concert tonight by Musical Keys Ensemble @norwichartscentre.bsky.social #improvisation #disability #communitymusic
15.01.2026 20:19
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aerial view looking down on a maze that has overgrown but is still looke after thelines and patterns have started to meld into one another
'Four centuries old Topiary in the cloister garden at Pazo de San Lorenzo in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.'
www.pazodesanlorenzo.com/en/pazo/
15.01.2026 08:27
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1906 OS map extract showing the Moot Hill site in Wymondham.
The Moot Hill logo which shows the shape of the hill including the water filled ditch and the ponds.
New site acquired by Norfolk Archaeological Trust, lot of hard work involved over a long period of time, years so I’m told, to achieve this. It’s Moot Hill in Wymondham.
www.norfarchtrust.org.uk/project/moot...
12.01.2026 20:18
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11.01.2026 12:16
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Slightly stunned to turn the radio on and hear TWO songs by the great lost English singer-songwriter Kevin Coyne. Brilliant, more please @cerysmatthews.bsky.social #marjoryrazorblife
11.01.2026 12:15
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‘Extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links
Bronze instrument or carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans
what a local story! This trumpet/horn found in Norfolk could date from Boudicca time of Iceni rebellions against the Romans. It probably was played vertically, the horn 3-4 feet above theplayer, with the skilled musician possibly needing to use circular breathing www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
07.01.2026 09:04
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Welcome to the Public Domain, I GOT RHYTHM (1930) 🎷
Rhythm changes + a swinging 32-bar progression x now free for everyone to play = remix & rediscover!
Who could ask for anything more?
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #CopyrightFree
01.01.2026 17:01
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2/2 In medieval English church art, St Lucy is often shown holding her disgorged eyes either in a bowl or on a book, as here at Eye in Suffolk, appropriately enough, where she also holds the disgorging knife. She's the patron saint of the blind.
Eye: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/eye.htm
13.12.2025 07:55
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‘Parliamo Glasgow’: Stanley Baxter’s most loved sketch from 1989
YouTube video by STV News
RIP Stanley Baxter. I saw him as a wee boy at King’s Theatre Glasgow in the 1960s. Probably the first time I ever went to the theatre #parliamo youtube.com/shorts/tk2QZ...
13.12.2025 09:35
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‘clear joy in C major’. Gonna try to wake up like that tmrw morning
03.12.2025 10:37
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If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
03.12.2025 08:14
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Happy International Day of Disabled People #IDDP25. A group of 25 people of different ages, ethnicities and cultures, all in the same cartoon style. They are celebrating and smiling. 1 is a manual wheelchair user. Background is a blue gradient fading to purple and then pink.
This International Day of Disabled People, we’re reminded that disability justice is deeply connected to every other fight for equity.
Our struggles connect us. Our solidarity is our strength! 💥
#IDDP
03.12.2025 10:22
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