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Educator, artist, writer. Stuff & the troubles of belonging. Views my own. www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/angela-pic… Also @BureauButch @37Looe

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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This week seems like a good time to point to Christine Dallaire’s 2015 article ‘Assessing the sociology of sport: On national and ethnocultural communities in Canada’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 26/01/2026
400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close. This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it. 📍 Southend rally | 5 February
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. Material media for repairing worlds? www.unesco.org/en/days/audi...
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World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2025
27 October
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
International Home Movie Day. 11am-3pm. Sat, 18 Oct 2025. The Box, Plymouth. This year's theme: Lesbians in the Attic! Help us to show hidden histories and (maybe) add to the archive!
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
INTERNATIONAL HOME MOVIE DAY 18.10.2025 11.00-15.00 THE BOX Free event! www.linkedin.com/posts/angela... Are there lesbians in your attic? Come to The Box for International Home Movie Day to celebrate Plymouth’s lesbian past and present! www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/ [Img: CND protest © The Box]
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. municipal council votes unanimously to ask Ottawa to impose arms embargo on Israel | CBC News
Councillors in Burnaby, B.C., have unanimously passed a motion that asks the federal government to impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel amid the current war in Gaza.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 31/07/2025
“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
@gwr.com On the 10.03 pm LDN to BRS TM, w/ my nearly 80-yr-old mother-in-law. It's really busy. We know how British trains can't cope. But we've travelled by train today a long way through Europe - she's tired. Business men not giving up seats. Can we please shame then into action via the tannoy?
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Water Action actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
actionnetwork.org
Ask your MP to show their support for a people-first future for our water!
We can make our water work for people - not shareholders - but water lobbyists are working hard to shut this solution down. Will you make sure your MP hears about it?
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Gullfest is back! 30 May-1 June. Visual art, performance, moving image, music, creative writing, workshops, rituals, processions and tarot readings. 37 Looe Street gallery + Almanac Cafe, Plymouth. Opens @ 6pm, Friday, 30 May @ Looe Street 37looestreet.org Follow on Insta @gullfestplymouth
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 26/05/2025
"It is shameful that university cuts have become so severe under a Labour government that our union is now laying the ground for a trade union dispute with the education secretary." @drjogrady.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-thr... #ProtectEducationNow #StopTheCuts #ucu2025
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UCU threatens government with national strike over HE funding
UK’s biggest academic union eyes showdown with Labour minister as it tries to respond to wave of university cuts
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Wonderful PhD students have started this petition www.change.org/p/stop-the-c... 10,000 people will lose their UK HE jobs this year. Thousands more in other sectors. This level of brute-force joblessness is what causes us to be strangers, Keir Starmer - not immigrants @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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Sign the Petition
Stop the cuts to Arts, Design & Architecture courses at University of Plymouth
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Being back in Vancouver for just 1 day reminds me why Starmer's 'island of strangers' comment is so awful. I grew up in an imperfect city, but it's a city & country that celebrates its diversity. The UK fails to see immigration as a positive part of its identity. It could so easily do otherwise
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 08/05/2025
“If Labour acts like Reform-light, universities could go under." @drjogrady.bsky.social Over 10,000 jobs are at risk and international student numbers are under threat from short-sighted immigration policy. Staff are rallying in London this Saturday to #ProtectEducation bit.ly/3Sfq2jz
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Universities under 'severe financial stress', says UCU in response to HESA and OfS data
The University and College Union (UCU) has today responded to the publication of data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and Office for Students (OfS).
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
And so it's arrived www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout... @ucu.org.uk
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Hundreds of Plymouth Uni jobs, gallery and cinema at risk
'The proposals we’re considering could affect around 200 roles'
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
'Bodies utter and words move' arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/fles...
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Bodies in Flight: Flesh and Text - Arnolfini
Here Bodies in Flight return to the very space where it all began in 1989 – Arnolfini, to mark the publication of their book Flesh and Text that celebrates over 30 years of making performance.
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
In all the tumult, North of North is making me happy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_o...
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North of North - Wikipedia
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"We’re building a biomatter-powered low-cost webserver... This design will focus on low-carbon approaches to webdesign, reducing computational load, bypassing data center architectures, and experimenting with new graphical formats and protocols to create a form of web design minimalism..."
wesleygoatley.substack.com
#15: Critical Climate Computing
A brief introduction to a new research group I've co-founded at UAL for critical practice at the intersection between technological and climate crises.
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Finally made it to The Story of Emily thestoryofemily.com. Cornish activist Emily Hobhouse reported on the horrors of the British concentration camps used in the Boer wars. This starvation-as terror-technology inspired Hitler and is now echoed in Gaza, ICE detention centres and so on 1/2
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the story of Emily
Emily Hobhouse was an extraordinary Cornish woman, who challenged the social norms of her time, to advocate for the welfare of others. Step back in time to 1875 and explore the Victorian world of the ...
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Wearing my CBC socks to cast postal vote in the Canadian federal election. Bristol>Ottawa. Mood = Lauren Berlant's cruel optimism rather than hope
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
When I saw Star Wars trending on the other site I thought that it was being banned by the Americans for being Antifa
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Brilliant 3 days in Maastricht! Sefryn Penrose and I (ButCH - Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic) honoured to have been invited to present Swan Out at Regenerate janvaneyck.nl/calendar/mac.... Thanks to Claartje Rasterhoff and Christian Ernsten for being such wonderful hosts!
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
ButCH, Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic: Investigating Arts and Heritage since 2019. We love finding bridges
A photo of a group of women in a fallen log in a forest in early spring. The log is creating a bridge. Three women are standing, one is sitting with one foot up on the log. The ground is covered with brown leaves and mossy branches.
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Forget the anthropocene and the pyrocene, we're now in the evilfathercene. Maybe darthocene, but that makes all those awful, crazy rich men sound way cooler than they are
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
So telling that at the same time as UK universities are all gunning for 'future curricula' focused on digital media, film, TV, games, the bottom of the job market is falling out www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m.... Maybe the future is analog?
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Senior TV producers take shelf-stacking jobs as UK industry remains in crisis
Experienced figures doing entry-level roles amid prolonged work drought since Covid and rise of online content
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Alanis Obamsawin's Kahnesatake: 270 Years of Resistance. More recent history of the complexity of colonial borders & land grab of Indigenous territories. Here, both Canada & the US are the bad guys - always useful to be reminded www.nfb.ca/film/kanehsa...
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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that …
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Wondering why @fcdoinclusion.bsky.social pages for LGBTQ+ and women travellers haven't been updated since 2023 www.gov.uk/guidance/les... www.gov.uk/guidance/adv... and disability since 2019 www.gov.uk/government/p.... Current situation in US especially concerning?
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender: foreign travel advice
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) advice for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people travelling abroad.
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Thinking of the weaponisation of borders and trade wars this 1969 documentary is a good place to start. Thanks for sharing @angelapiccini.bsky.social www.nfb.ca/film/you_are...
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You Are on Indian Land
Released in 1969, this short documentary was one of the most influential and widely distributed productions made by the Indian Film Crew (IFC), the first all-Indigenous unit at …
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
In another space, am posting abt the radical power of past visions of futures that haven't come to be. Man with a Movie Camera. Dir: Dziga Vertov; Ed: Elizaveta Svilova. 1929: Kyiv, Kharkov, Odessa and Moscow. The 'peace between man and machine' youtu.be/7ZkvjWIEcoU?...
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Man with a Movie Camera (Alloy Orchestra) 1929 - Человек с киноаппаратом
YouTube video by Alpha M
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Moved to Plymouth 4 years ago. An incredible city w/ creative & LGBTQ+ communities that punch above their weight. Sure, lots of challenges, small-city cronyism & needs more community-involved policy & planning. Thankfully, more folk w/ ideas are moving here from everywhere. We're all Janners now
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Thinking abt geopolitics of global higher ed crises. News sees it as region-specific but in both UK & across Canada costs of running are up while numbers are down w/ anti-immigrant rhetoric. In the States, add to that DOGE/Tr**p asset stripping. Interesting that now's the time to wreck universities?
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
And then they came for the archivists
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
So happy to host Henry again on this side of the ocean! Weds, 5 Feb, from 1pm www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/cre... Henry Daniel (Professor Emeritus in Dance, Performance Studies and New Media Technologies) is a practitioner-researcher specialising in dance, theatre, and new media ALL WELCOME
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
LGBTQ+ History Month is upon us! Phat Feb queer vibes at 37 Looe Street from Sat, 1 Feb. Hosting @pride_in_plymouth archive. Come by between 12 and 5. See the archive, meet the archivists, be the archivist, bring your own queer stories, and join in the conversation!
Poster describing LGBTQ+ archive month at 37 Looe Street
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Petition Bristol City Council to divest from Israel digital.bristol.gov.uk/moderngov
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ModernGov - bristol.gov.uk
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/11/2024
Looks like the people who use @hf.co haven't reacted well to the original backlash - there are now six new large datasets of Bluesky posts uploaded onto the site, including one with 20x the amount of data as the original dataset that caused the issue huggingface.co/datasets?sor...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“Longtermism might be one of the most influential ideologies that few people outside of…Silicon Valley have ever heard about.” Worth reading to understand the extremely dangerous philosophy of our new tech oligarch overlords. By former longtermist @xriskology.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/why-l...
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Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays
It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 22/11/2024
Would you like to develop tools or methods that can support online researchers? Do you have a project idea that could benefit the open source research community? Bellingcat’s Tech Fellowship could be the opportunity to do just that, apply here: www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-t...
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Bellingcat Tech Fellowship Opportunity - bellingcat
November 21, 2024 We will be reviewing applications for the fellowship on a rolling basis, and expect to interview applicants in the first week of December (2-6 December 2024) Would you like to develo...
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University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below
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The Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 11/11/2024
Professor and Head of Curatorial role at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKP248/h...
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Head of Curatorial: Professor at University of Cambridge
Explore an exciting academic career as a Head of Curatorial: Professor. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Louise Duckling @louiseduckling.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Calling all women's studies scholars: please spread the word about the bursary from the Women's Studies Group 1558-1837. £750 available to fund research in the field. #funding #ECR #PhD #AcademicWriting Applications open until 15 December. See website for details. womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/
An image of a fountain pen laid across a notebook
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AAPiccini @angelapiccini.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Finally posting - what better way than joyful end to activateCHAT! 70 of us (from Chile to Orkney) converged in Plymouth to share contemporary & historical archaeology & art that engages with ACTIVATE & BUSY. Ending with Ines Rae's soundwork on the Cremyll Ferry activatechat.chat-arch.org
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