Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Does anyone else feel like were living in the flashback scenes of a post- apocalyptic or dystopia movie/series? 🤔 Like there are warning signs in the background, on the news etc but we have no idea what's coming? 👀 (Apologies for a not so cheery post!) 010
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 27/08/2026PhD Thesis Submitted! ✅ ✍️ 89,393 Words 📖 450 pages 📸 77 images Time to celebrate @ my favourite festival SHAMBALA (before starting my new Head of D&T job on Tues & months of viva prep!) But 1st, breathe & dance… Positive Vibes to all! ✌️🤩✌️ PS – Thank you again @nikki-fairchild.bsky.social & co! 130
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Late night last minute prep for Shambala festival. (And a potential carnival costume change too) The festivals annual Dolly Yoga session is going to be a super emotional one this year 💖💖💖 #Shambala #ShambalaFestival #LastPartyofTheSummer 010
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 19/08/2026My first meal using vegggies sourced entirely from the garden 🤤 Gochujang stir fry made with: 🌱Courgettes 🌿Kohlrabi 🥒Cucumbers 🍃Covolo Nero 🥬Curly Kale And other random leaves from kohlrabi, brocoli and chard, plus smoked tofu 👌 Bloody delish! #HomeGrown #KitchenGarden #SelfSufficiency #Vegan 040
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I've been away for 2 weeks and thanks to my polytunnel timed watering system I'm going to need a jungle-style machete to get to the courgettes at the back!! 🥒🍅🥔🌶🥦🥬 I won't be needing to buy veggies for a while! 🙌 #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #Polytunnel #SelfSufficiency #VeganHeaven! #Vegan 040
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Round 2 of final thesis edits: Biggest contribution to knowledge? I now fully know that I will never, ever do a PhD again because it involves more than playing with fabric and encouraging tiny revolutionaries. @nikki-fairchild.bsky.social 🙏 020
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Just found this note in my "don't forget to check" folder 👇 Makes sense to me! 😂 000
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 23/07/2026#AcademicSky: Can I finish a contribution to knowledge section of my #PhD thesis conclusion with: "....because it's awesome." 🤔 Because that's about all I can manage right now...😂 No? 😆 (View from my garden because I'm supposed to be in WOMAD festival running workshop right now 😭) 120
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Just had an insight to what much of August will involve. I've spent the last hour removing & adding commas to "et al" & replacing "and" with "&" to all parenthetical citations in my 324 pg working thesis. Good lord. 🫠 Bring back the "cat fairys" & other mythical creatures of justice! 😺 🧚 ✊ 020
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Never has a #Research quote been more applicable. This image only shows *key* transcription quotes* from 8 monthly workshops in 1 location (1 year). My original #PhD intention = workshops in 3 different locations over 3 academic years! 👀 But it was mega fun! 😅 🙏 @drhelenkara.bsky.social & co! 030
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Fancy a Friday giggle? Here's me, just me trying to crack on with my data analysis... How the hell I've managed to get this far, with this lot, I have no idea! 🤦♀️ Happy Friday 🙃 #WorkingFromHome #WorkingWithHens #RescueHens #RescueChickens @bhwt.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Helen O’SullivanJayne Bryant for Casnewydd Islwyn @jbryantcymru.bsky.social · 09/06/2026National Grid Electricity Distribution’s Community Matters Fund is offering £250,000 in grant funding to help charities and community groups improve green spaces and support biodiversity in their communities. 111
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 14/05/2026It really was quite inspirational to see and hear from so many people championing a more sustainable option of consuming clothes, especially those at the “top”. We hope to do it all again soon! 🙌 #SCTCymru #SeneddWales #SustainableFashion @sustfashwales.bsky.social E/🧵 131
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I particularly enjoyed finally meeting the super star @sarah4bridgend.bsky.social MS in person after 4 years! 🤩 And hearing from @huwirrancadaviesms.bsky.social (now Llywydd of the Senedd) who closed the event with his stories of secondhand fashion & hand me downs 🙌🙌 #SCTCymru #Senedd 4/🧵 120
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 14/05/2026We were so thankful for the MS’s who came along to support and chat to about the socio-environmental impacts of fashion. But as we all love a positive spin, we got to also discuss all the amazing organisations, educators, individuals and businesses doing good here in Wales! 🏴🙌 #SCTCymru 3/🧵 100
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 14/05/2026We also had young designers sustainable fashion designs on display from my 6-9 y/old PhD participant, L3 Gower College & undergrads students from Cardiff Met! We hosted a panel discussion including Dr Stephanie Matthews, Play it Again Sport, Phoebe from Repair Cafe Wales, Claire Johns and me! 2/🧵 210
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 14/05/2026#ThrowbackThursday to exactly 2 years ago today when myself and others from the #SCTCymru coalition took over the @senedd.wales Neuadd (main hall) for our huge #SustainableFashion event! The event included: 📢Panel discussion 🪡Workshops 📚Education KS2 - BA 🛍Local businesses 1/🧵 111
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 08/05/2026In other news... Wishing Sir David Attenborough a very happy 100th birthday via @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social digital card! An absolute inspiration and a national treasure. If you can be anything in the world, be more Attenborough 💚 Sign the card now: act.gp/4uis6YUact.gpWish Sir David Attenborough a happy 100th birthdayWe are putting together a 100th birthday card from all of us who care about people, nature and planet as much as David does, to celebrate this incredible milestone. Will you add your name today? 000
Reposted by Helen O’SullivanThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/05/2026Sir David Attenborough 'overwhelmed' by 100th birthday greetings – audiotheguardian.comSir David Attenborough 'overwhelmed' by 100th birthday greetings – audioSir David Attenborough has released an audio message thanking the public for the flood of goodwill messages sent in the run-up to his 100th birthday. The veteran broadcaster said he had expected to celebrate quietly, but expressed gratitude for the well-wishes he had received. Attenborough, who was born on 8 May 1926, joined the BBC in 1952 and went on to become one of the world's most respected and influential wildlife presenters * Tiny parasitic wasp named after David Attenborough for his 100th birthday Continue reading... 15658196
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I have a feeling today will be the last day for a while that I wake up proud to be Welsh. I really hope I'm proved wrong, but it feels like Brexit again... Come on Cymru! 🏴 #SeneddElections 🏴 #WelshElections 151
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Today may be #InternationalDawnChorusDay (which I listened to from the camper) but here it's also buzzing bee day! 🐝🐝🐝 Hundreds of them absolutely loving the wysteria all day! 🐝🐝🐝 #ProtectThePollinators #ProtectTheBees (Sound ON!) 010
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Today I marked #FashionRevolutionWeek AND #EarthDay2026 (both every day/week for me!) by giving a presentation to the Sustainable Fashion Consumption Research (SFCN) network members about my use of #Practivism as an emerging pedagogical approach! #CollectiveAction is the medicine we all need!! ✊️✊️✊️ 000
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 18/04/2026My perfect friday evening... Beach sunset in the campervan 🌅 Two MASSIVE hedgehogs in the garden 🦔 Hot tub under the stars ✨️ The drama of a missing hen who decided she was going "camping" in the brambles at 9:45pm was not ideal though 😆 #Sunset #Hedgehog #WeekendVibes 010
Reposted by Helen O’SullivanEdge Foundation @edgeuk.bsky.social · 15/04/2026We look at the cultural, economic, and systemic barriers young people from low-income backgrounds face in terms of academic achievement, read more in our recent blog from Edge CEO Alice Gardner - www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...edge.co.ukWhat does the evidence say about policy and white working-class aspiration? 031
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Bit late for #Caturday but I was going through all my old pics last night and found this. The first and most recent photo of Alfie - 15 years apart. 🥰 He's just too cute, then and now 🥹 #CatsofBluesky #FurBaby 0100
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Thanks @nikki-fairchild.bsky.social - I love it too! 😍 But not loving that each row has an 8 meter circumference!! 😅 010
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I've been quote poorly recently so have been distracting my noisy mind from not being able to work on the thesis, by working on this... 😍🧶😍 At 130cm across it's the largest crochet creation I've ever made! Just a couple of rows left 😅 #CrochetSky #Crochet #CraftSky #MindfulMaking #MandalaCrochet 360
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 10/04/2026If only we still had the ability to grow, weave and manufacture our clothes here in the UK. Or any other self-sufficient industry for that matter. "The price of polyester, a petroleum-based fibre, has also risen by about 25% since before the war." www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...bbc.co.ukHow holidays, food and clothes soon cost you more - despite the Iran ceasefire - BBC NewsFuel costs have already soared, flights and mortgages are also rising - and food could soon do the same 000
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 08/04/2026NHS Appreciation Post... 🕗 8:15am: GP appointment request (4 week chest infection/pneumonia) 🕘 9am: GP appointment Given more antibiotics & x-ray referral at local hospital (walk in) 🕚 11am: X-ray done and back home! And none of it cost me a penny. Thank you #NHS! 🌈🏥🌈 020
Reposted by Helen O’SullivanCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is 332930689
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Suddenly want to listen to Pink Floyd! 🌗 (Which is usually everyday anyway) 'Something we have never seen before': Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon' www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...bbc.co.uk'Something we have never seen before': Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of MoonAstronauts on the Artemis II mission are on the third day of their journey around the far side of the Moon. 000
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Buying measured items in the UK 👇 👀🤔 = 🍳🧠 The struggle is real... #MetricVsImperial 000
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 30/03/2026After waking up in a panic about a thesis writing dream (yep, those are a thing now) and feeling well for the first time in over 2 weeks I thought I'd start my annual leave with a sunrise kettlebell & hot tub sesh! Recharged & ready for the thesis - yep, annual leave for thesis is also a thing now! 000
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Hearing about the potential 8% inflation on food costs (thanks to the mad orange king) on the news earlier, I thought it would be a great reminder to start prepping some veggies for the polytunnel. Perfect #BST (typically raining) activity too 🌱🌞🌿 010
Reposted by Helen O’SullivanDemocratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026AMAZING #nokings 311480480
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Sending solidarity to my American friends and those protesting #NoKings / #NoTyrants across the globe today ✊️ Find a protest near you... share.google/2Yq45h1dad3o... 000
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Join me in calling for UK supermarkets to stop using fast-growing Frankenchickens, who are bred to suffer. PS - No chickens should live like that, they should live like these little ladies 🐔🥰🐔 actnow.thehumaneleague.org.uk/page/173985/... 000
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 26/03/2026On a scale of 1-9 of Alfie looking after me yesterday, how are you feeling today? #CatNurse #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky 040
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Sunday Vibes 🥰 Thanks for the tunes @cerysmatthews.bsky.social 000
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Oh no! It looks like you had some wonderful adventures though 😍 Mine is due for an MOT soon, hopefully it lasts another year! 010
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 21/03/2026After 9 days of a chest infection, this👇 is exactly what I need! Hello spring!🌞😎 100
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Happy Ostara! Or cyhydnos y gwanwyn here in 🏴 🌻🌱🐝🌞🦋🌿🌼 010
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Yes @dawnbowden.bsky.social and Yes Cymru! 🙌🙌 Wales becomes the first UK nation to remove profit from children's homes, fostering, and secure accommodation @nation.cymru share.google/kKoJqqfNovGA...share.googleWales becomes the first UK nation to remove profit from children's homes, fostering, and secure accommodationIn less than a month, new providers of children’s homes, fostering services and secure accommodation will no longer be able to make a profit in Wales — making it the first nation in the UK to take thi... 020
Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Wooohooo! This September (once the PhD is finally done) I’ll be heading back to the classroom as Head of Design & Technology at a fantastic Cardiff school! 🥳 I can’t wait to put my #CriticalPedagogy research into practice and help show the real-world impact of #DTEducation, #Sustainability & #CfW 🙌 010