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Adam Melvin

@adammelvin.bsky.social
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Composer, lecturer, writer. Talks music & other stuff for Ulster Univ. From NW England. Lives in NW Ireland. soundcloud.com/adam-melvin-1

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Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
On the HGN blog: an interview with @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social & Dr Victoria McCollum @ulsteruni.bsky.social on the amazing Witches of Islandmagee project. Huge thanks to Kirstin Mitchell (HGN Research Assistant Extraordinaire) for leading this conversation! www.historicalgames.net/interview-wi...
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Interview: Witches of Islandmagee Project | Historical Games Network
This interview features Dr Victoria McCollum and Dr Andrew Sneddon (Ulster University) in conversation with Kirstin Mitchell (PhD student with Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru/Research Assistant...
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Daniel Walzer, Ph.D. @danielwalzer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Admissions are open for the Music Therapy Ph.D. at Herron (IU Indianapolis) for Fall 2027! It's the only fully online music therapy PhD in the US (or on campus). Requirements: MT-BC 3+ years clinical practice DM me or email hadmit@iu.edu. #MusicTherapy #PhD #IUIndianapolis
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dad's a legend. #BookSky
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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
6-year fully funded research and teaching assistant job at University of Ghent in the fields of English literature/cultural theory, history/translation history, linguistics, language acquisition, communication. Own projects are welcome! Details: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-As...
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Assistant English
Assistant English
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Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really sad to hear this news today
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My contribution to ‘Paste, Present, Future’ project, celebrating 35 years of @bigissueuk. Signed, numbered versions of available at Big Issue shop. Lots of other pieces from amazing artists, 25% of sales going to Big Issue. Massive thank you to @grow_up_art_ 👇👇 www.bigissueshop.com/collection/p...
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 10/09/2026
The evidence is clear: countries with lower NEET rates than the UK get there almost entirely through higher rates of post-18 education. In these countries, more young people stay in education for longer and often combine it with work.
Comparison of OECD countries’ differences from the UK in 2024 for 18–24‑year‑old participation in education or work
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Adam Melvin @adammelvin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Jazz legend Cassandra Wilson remembered by Jon Bastite
Jazz musician Cassandra Wilson died on Wednesday at her home in Jackson, Mississippi at the age of 70.After learning of the tragic death, Jon Batiste said in a Facebook post that he “learned...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/08/2026
⚠️ Brexit cost UK creative industries £208 million and 2,490 jobs between 2022 and 2024, according to the government's own research
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Brexit 'cost thousands of jobs and £208 million in creative sector' | LBC
The decline in touring by British musicians in Europe is estimated to have resulted in losses of £1.04 billion in EU mem
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/08/2026
Trump Pushes To Rename Sexual Attraction To Children ‘Americaphilia’
Trump Pushes To Rename Sexual Attraction To Children ‘Americaphilia’
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
British universities are now gripped by the ultimate madness. Some unis are bankrupting everyone else accepting students they can't even take and have to leave in limbo... While putting everyone on redundancy notice! It's crazed. Still no-one will intervene. thetab.com/2026/08/24/u...
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University of Exeter offers deferred places following shortage of student accommodation
The university said it has not been able to offer accommodation to all students
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The Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland @cmcireland.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
📣 Age & Opportunity and Clare County Council invite applications for a new music commission for a Clare-based musician aged 50+, offering a bursary of €15K to support the creation of an original work that will premiere at the Bealtaine Flagship Festival 2027 in Ennis. Find out more: buff.ly/ZheAUhl
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sigue Sigue Sputnik at a Newcastle bed and breakfast, photo by Homer Sykes, 1986.
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Karen Melvin @kitmelvin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Couldn't agree more. "It feels like when there are projects to be scrapped or cuts to be made Magee is first in line"
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Adam Melvin @adammelvin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Air Dome plans at Ulster University's Magee campus scrapped www.itv.com/news/utv/202...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Funding for UK researchers to attend a research collaboration symposium on the broad theme of ‘Humans and Nature: More resilient towards the future’.
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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
4 nations, but ultimately 1 major UK crisis.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Leverhulme Trust, as part of its major (£100 million) centenary investment in UK research, has announced 3 new partnerships designed to enhance opportunities for underrepresented groups at the early stages of research careers. @leverhulme.ac.uk Terrifically good news, and sorely needed. 1/3
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Investing in the future of UK research | The Leverhulme Trust
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The terrible, stupid waste of UK universities policy continues. Your cash down the drain. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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New Ulster University buildings will ‘sit gathering dust’ if job cuts go ahead, council told
Over 400 positions are set to go from April 2027 at Ulster University as it tackles £25m deficit
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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 29/07/2026
RIP Kavinsky. THE song of the early 2010s: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3...
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Kavinsky - Nightcall (Drive Original Movie Soundtrack) (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Record Makers
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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
📣 We're hiring: Conservator (AKII) 2-year fixed-term contract Join the National Library of Ireland to help conserve nationally significant collections, including parchment, manuscripts and early printed works relating to the Normans in Ireland. ⭐ Info + #apply by 31 July: ow.ly/X9Op50ZkZKj
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Adam Melvin @adammelvin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Without saying your age, what‘s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18. #18movies
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Al Pacino & Robert De Niro in Heat
ALT: Al Pacino & Robert De Niro in Heat
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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Only three days left to apply! I started on a similar position here and it really helped me get my feet + teaching/admin experience after finishing the PhD. It's a fantastic place to work and our students are great! ✨ 🚨 Deadline ➡️ 23 July #envhist #envhum #histstm
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Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Come and do #DH at Leeds! #digitalhumanities #digitalmedievalstudies #medievalsky
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Alex @skyblue1967.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
RIP King Kev. Thanks for giving me my best season as a match going fan when you were Man City's manager in 2001-02.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 19/07/2026
This isn’t halftime entertainment. Halftime entertainment is two blokes dragged from the stands and wearing replica shirts two sizes too small for them trying and failing to score penalties past the club mascot in the hope of winning a free oil change from the garage that is matchball sponsor.
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Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Fun conference collab with @adammelvin.bsky.social , riffing on the synthesised soundtrack and embodied/4E cog via a Joy Division opening ref. And on what would have been Ian Curtis’s 70th birthday too. Plus one of the nicest conferences I have been to!
Selfie and Title side for ‘Touching from a Distance: Embodied Space, Schemas, and Crosstalk in the Synthesised Soundtrack’ by Adam Melvin and Brian Bridges, Ulster Uni
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redinallthings.bsky.social @redinallthings.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Please God may we never have another World Cup in the USA.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Dear FIFA Never have a halftime show ever again. Yours Football
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Adam Melvin @adammelvin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Leaving sunny Manchester behind with @bridgesbb.bsky.social after a superb MSMI/Sound on Screen Conference. Brilliant way to round off the semester (and v nice to be 'home' too)
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Adam Melvin @adammelvin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
And as fate would have it, I find myself back home, in Manchester (for the first time in yonks) and scheduled to give a paper at the RNCM entitled Touching from a Distance.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ian Curtis was born in Stretford Memorial Hospital, Seymour Grove, on this day 1956. I was also born there, 14 months earlier.
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James Denis Mc Glynn @jdmcglynn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Exciting and funded PhD opportunity at @unibirmingham.bsky.social (distilling an unusually specific intersection of my own research interests, in fact) See below, if you are interested in exploring synthetic media and contemporary hip-hop as part of this exciting ERC-funded research project
birmingham.ac.uk
Synthetic Media in Contemporary Hip-hop PhD - University of Birmingham
PhD scholarship covering stipend and tuition support, exploring synthetic media and AI in contemporary hip-hop, within an ERC-funded research project.
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The University of Guelph (near Toronto) welcomes applications for a Fulbright Fellowship in Digital Humanities 2027-2028. US$25K for 4 months, aimed at academics with tenure or tenure track position. Application deadline Sept 15 2026. www.fulbright.ca/programs/ame...
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Research Chairs - All Disciplines
Award 271429-CA Research Chairs - General and interdisciplinary COMPETITION OPEN Awards to be taken up in the  2027-2028 Academic Year...
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026
This is NUTS. Our theatre & entertainment sector brings so much money into this country and so many people to this country to see it. £11.5bn in '22.
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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Solidarity & love & respect & dignity to the family and loved ones of Lyra McKee today. #Spéirghorm
Belfast mural of Lyra McKee: “It won’t always be like this. It’s going to get better.” Uachtarán na hÉireann embraces Sara Canning, Lyra’s partner, outside St. Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast and the day of Lyra’s funeral.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
upon news that Michael is the highest grossing biopic of all time, leaving this here: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
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10 Undeniable Facts About the Michael Jackson Sexual-Abuse Allegations
The author, who spent more than a decade covering the scandal for V.F., shares the key revelations and insights that viewers of the new HBO documentary Leaving Neverland need to know.
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Adam Melvin @adammelvin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Next Station is Baking Street — Green Peace UK ecological activists went underground and renamed several tube stations with large stickers. Shell is one of the biggest actors of global warming —naturally other stickers inform passengers of it. Collab GreenPeaceUK and LondonStreetArt
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
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Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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Jules Rawlinson @julesrawlinson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Job: Lecturer in Music at Edinburgh Uni. Musicology or Music Psychology, 2yrs Fixed Term, Part-Time 24.5 hrs/wk @edincollegeofart.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Lecturer in Music
The Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh is seeking to recruit a Lecturer in Music on a fixed term, part-time basis.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3
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University of Exeter cuts an ‘existential threat to humanities’
Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go
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Alexander Glass @alexanderglass.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
At the University of Adelaide, you can apparently do a masters in mansplaining.
Large poster advertising the University of Adelaide shows a man explaining something to five (bored looking) women.
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Tim Pelan @johnneyred.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
One Perfect Shot OPPENHEIMER
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Adam Melvin @adammelvin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
So UK immigration wouldn't allow this born & bred Northerner to take their flight to Belfast last night. Thanks to the nice lady at KLM, I was transferred onto a flight to Dublin, jumped on the bus To Belfast and am back home in picturesque Donegal. Robust system you've got there UK border control!
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Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing as Jay Gatsby
ALT: Leonardo DiCaprio Laughing as Jay Gatsby
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The Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland @cmcireland.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
📥️ Applications are OPEN for TU Dublin's Master of Music - Composition Programme. The MMus in Composition is designed to provide a tailored learning experience, specific to each student, while enabling a mastery of music creation. Find out more and apply 🔗 buff.ly/sfZfB63
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Adam Melvin @adammelvin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
So it appears i'm not allowed to check in for my flight because i'm not allowed to land in the UK without a visa even though I was born and work there. Thanks Brexit.
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Ulster University @ulsteruni.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s Festival of PhD Research. Across 9–10 June, our PhD community showcased an incredible breadth of creativity, innovation, and scholarly excellence. Your work continues to shape meaningful conversations and push the boundaries of discovery.
Diverse group of adults attentively listening during a classroom or seminar session with notebooks and devices on desks.Colourful paper flowers arranged in clusters on a carpeted floor with scattered small paper pieces in between.Two men discuss scientific posters displayed on blue boards in a conference or academic setting.Diverse group of students attentively listening in a modern lecture hall with red and gray tiered seating.
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
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The quiet collapse of British universities
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
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