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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Cfps for Leeds IMC 2027, including Normans!

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New academic year so far: one popped dog poo bag and a crashed laptop before 9am.

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just had to track down the resources from my PhD (awarded in 2015). I really wish I'd properly filed everything like I tell people today, instead of the panicked sprint to submission chaos/ backing up that I'm reviewing

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Any students interested in pursuing a digital heritage PhD do get in touch

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

No milk delivery this morning. No milk > no milk for tea > no tea. Not a good portent for a Monday morning

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I've finally given in a bought a pair of baggy jeans and feel like I'm cosplaying a fatter, more tired version of 16 year old me. Cue excessive Levellers on repeat this afternoon as no one else is in residence at my end of the corridor

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

2 weeks and 2 hours of teaching to go and I think I might be 90% biscuit, and 10% coffee. But I'm about to go teach some archaeology that isn't GIS, and I get to go to Stonehenge and visit the city I was born in next week.

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I'm 75mins into a 2.5hour training session on AI and Careers and I'm unsure I've seen any actual content

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

You know what gamification does not make GDPR training more fun, at this point it mostly makes it less accessible

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Forvtheircweek on heritage and place, I took the MA Heritage students to 'Hear Us', the graffiti-style installation at Canterbury Cathedral. They were both receptive and critical. We had a great discussion of intention, inclusion/exclusion, theology of questions etc. 1/

Green Street art-style vinyl on the wall of Canterbury cathedral's ambulatory that reads 'What is the architecture of heaven?'

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing. I’m sure many of you might be interested. #STS #HPS #HistSci www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

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LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I've a classic September chaotic mix today of meeting incoming first year students, while also trying to finish marking MA dissertations before the new term starts. Both are exciting things, just a wish there was a bit more separation

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I think my love affair with flat whites might be ending 💔

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Finally have access to all my blackboards for this semester. Next challenge, making sure students are enrolled on them.

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Also feeling very smug that I've not only submitted an abstract to TAG on time, but I've also booked a room at my favourite York pub with rooms for the princely sum of £45 a night.

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A dissertation student stopped by to drop off some books I lent them. I'm so proud of him, he had a rough year but pulled off a cracking dissertation and submitted in time for autumn graduation! A nice little reminder before the dread kicks in that that is the point of all of this

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Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

In case you haven't spotted it: **Historical Association Bursary Scheme via @royalhistsoc.org ** Open to early career and mid-career applicants £1,500 research support to produce an article Deadline 15 August 2025 royalhistsoc.org/calendar/his...

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History: The Journal of the Historical Association – Bursary Scheme (Early Career and Mid-Career Routes) – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | RHS

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

If you are teaching a course that includes digital ethics, what are your go-to texts? I need a refresh of my reading list, and I'm looking for any recent papers that stand out

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Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The FfWG (Funds for Women Graduates) Theodora Bosanquet Bursary is available to postgraduate women studying History or English Literature to finance up to 4 weeks of basic student accommodation in London during the summer of 2026 to support their research studies. www.ffwg.org.uk/grants/theod...

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Theodora Bosanquet Bursary – Funds for Women Graduates

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The Castle Studies Trust @castlestudies.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The building survey we funded of Leybourne, revealed that the castle was likely commissioned by a woman. She wasn't alone as @racheldelman.bsky.social explores in this blog from 2020 on Mary of Guelders and her commissioning of buildings including castles: castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2020/10...

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Mary of Guelders and Ravenscraig Castle – Castle Studies Trust Blog

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

We're showing off our visualisation of Canterbury Castle today as part of Canterbury's Medieval Pageant. @katiemcgown.bsky.social @lvhicks.bsky.social @castlestudies.bsky.social

Poster about Visualising Canterbury Castle with an image and extra small text

One intern discussing the castle model with two guest all looking at a touch screen

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I've spent my whole career telling people that archaeology is not like Indiana Jones, while at the same time often watching 1 & 3 (largely, I think, to sing the theme tune) and I have never considered the point made in this thread. I'm seeing loads of archaeologists joking about the reboot >

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

One of the great placements we offered on Applied Humanities this year!

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Research day, research day! I have 3 different castles papers to work on and need to figure out where to start

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I wish people would just accept a correction in pronunciation and leave it be. "No it's not a spelling mistake" "Yes the O is silent" "It's Scottish actually", "Just call me Cat". Very few people use my real name because it's easier for me to give them a nickname than explain this every time.

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Low key panicked when I saw how this thread started out.

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This was a delightful update last night!

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I’m still on the lookout for a paper on new work in castle studies for the session I have organised at Leeds next month. Get in touch if you have Qs! Please share, too!

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Finished my last batch of marking early this morning, on to the final mopping up of late submissions and marksheets. I'd say research is imminent but there are some big admin jobs to negotiate before the end of next week. The hope is there though

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I submitted an application for something today and the importance of having a person to remind you not to downgrade the work you've done is really important. Big love to @lvhicks.bsky.social in this case for reminding me "this is not the place to be modest"

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We kicked off our first co-design workshop for the @castlestudies.bsky.social funded Visualising Canterbury Castle Project yesterday, bringing together Castle experts, game designers, medievalists, educators and heritage professionals to develop a digital model of the building.

Room of people looking at a screen with Visualising Canterbury Castle slide

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Found this lovely chap when tidying up the garden today. I've tried to make a new home at the shady end of the garden and hope he sticks around

Toad sitting in a patch of soil under a plant pot

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Classroom teaching finished for the year! Onto crafting our paper for #CAA2025 next week, also thinking if I can sneak a Pickle photo in

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I had my first experience of being an internal examiner for a PhD yesterday. It was wonderful being part of such an important day, and a great experience to see someone talk with such authority about their subject

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A sunny day, perfect for drying pots outside and for Mother Nature to inspect the pots! Can you see what happened to my replica Roman Mortarium? 🏺

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Excellent advice from Sarah here. Leaving my academic job last summer was such a good decision. It has been a huge mental and emotional shift that has taken a lot of processing, but I'm much happier as a result. If you're facing these hard decisions, you will find your way 💓

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

To put the nail in the head of a really crappy year, I've just discovered the ragdolls (they were strategically replaced when I wore them out) my mum made me growing up have clothes moth. Think I'm going to have to bury them, can't face the idea of throwing them out.

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Dr Daisy Abbott @daisyabbott.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Are you interested in reshaping how we remember Glasgow’s history? Learn about the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow and tell us your stories & perspectives. We have a pair of workshops in Woodlands, Glasgow, 5-7.30pm, March 13th & 20th Find out more! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-ret...

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Empire Retold: Glasgow’s 1938 Empire Exhibition in Augmented Reality

Participate in a creative workshop to share your stories and perspectives of Glasgow’s 1938 Empire Exhibition and receive a voucher.

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Think it might be a 3 screen kind of day. I'm going to redesign my L4 GIS tutorials, and already feeling 2 screens isn't going to do it

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Green spaces group meeting this morning. Around the HE chaos at our Institution it's lovely to think about research opportunities and planning for a future

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I must say Sainsbury's chocolate coated malted milk are inferior to Waitrose

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The Castle Studies Trust @castlestudies.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

In our latest round of grant awards we have awarded a record £42,000 to five applicants. To see what we have funded, including two excavations please go here: castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2025/02...

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I spent a day looking at landscapes and buildings near Scotney. It was lovely to go back to a place I didn't end up looking at as much as I'd wanted

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

A good critique from @chattyplatty.bsky.social here. It's really concerning to see the issues so clearly brushed over, and chatgbt used as a source... I can't see how AI will ever beat well researched and presented reconstructions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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How accurate are the viral TikTok AI POV lab history videos?

Can AI resurrect the past, or are these videos a polished, modernised version of history designed for engagement?

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Normally I approve of extra curriculars, but when they involve hammering shields in the terrace house next door I'm less convinced they're useful academically.

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Wild experience this morning of a student listening to music in class. I feel like I've gone full school teacher for the first time ever!

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We're in course redesign and encountering a sticking point. I'd love to know how your institution manages it: How do you deliver an MA dissertation for part time students. E.g. how do you split the credits over time? Half in trimester 3 and the other half in trimester 6? Or something else.

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I dreamt last night I was working for an archaeological unit, it feels quite appealing at the moment. Grass is greener and all

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