iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's very important to remember that some students will suffer from resting witch face and your lecture isn't just really dull

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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

I was hunting for something similar a couple of months ago when writing about digital archives and ended up just citing the BL's report and responses. It's interesting to see how other people have approached this subject

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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

You and me both. I've just printed off an MA dissertation to review 😬

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

I still have folders of hard copy articles from the project I don't want to throw "just in case". I loved that ticking off bit, so satisfying! Think that stuff was all digital by the point of the sprint finish for me.

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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 · 05/05/2026

It was lovely to see you, lots to think about after your presentation!

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

I'd hope so.... Or at least there will at least be tea at some point

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

At least there are flints, and is the spider friendly?

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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 don't know 😭 I suspect I might be heading back towards basic black coffee... I'm happy for recommendations that don't include matcha or surgery syrups

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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

I hope your new AI policy is better than our new AI policy.

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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

Only a semester of teaching before we get there!

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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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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

We're not quite in egg territory yet, but I hope security hurry up before I start to feel guilty

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Catriona Cooper @catrionacooper.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I mean they're one of many individuals who have been evicted in recent months... But perhaps this is the most appropriate move

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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

Usually a range of things, but often riffing off a similar set of ingredients or leftovers depending on what's in the fridge. Or I cook one thing but switch it out with stuff I've cooked in previous weeks

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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 · 03/06/2025

I use it to mean basically making all my meals for the week or getting them to the state they don't need much effort to cook. It's not for calories, just I find it hard to have the energy to do much more than shove stuff in the oven during the week.

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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 · 14/05/2025

Thanks for coming! Your support was hugely appreciated

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