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Marie Thompson

@joyousnoises.bsky.social
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University worker. Tinnitus/noise/sonic cyberfeminisms. Currently writing about sound reproduction and reproductive crisis.

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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 10h
I mean I spend a lot of time complaining about trains but today was the first time I have been bitten (hard) by a ferret on one....
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026
Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A silent-but-sharp-intake-of-breath moment when the kid is adamant they want a Raymond Briggs bedtime story
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Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m sorry I can’t remember who said it so I can credit them, but I saw a post earlier today that said that Macklemore was the first instance of needing to separate the art from the artist but in reverse.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"There are brilliant schemes and brilliant people doing the work, but eventually you hit the economics. You cannot outreach-programme your way out of London rent, and you can’t diversify a workforce while refusing to talk about who can afford to stay in it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
I co-founded an orchestra 18 years ago. Since then, I’ve seen doors close for working-class musicians | Robert Ames
I have lost patience with the sector’s talk of diversity when it refuses to acknowledge those people who can’t afford to keep playing, says conductor and composer Robert Ames
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Classic academic's wikipedia page arc
Early life, education, and career
Contributions
Criminal conviction
Awards
Other honors and positions
Pumpkin growing
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
'The number of students taking A-level music is at a record low: under 5,000, a drop of nearly half from 15 years ago....Music GCSE entries have also fallen. It has the widest attainment gap for disadvantaged students of any subject.'
theguardian.com
The Guardian view on music and drama education: reversing elitism starts at school | Editorial
Editorial: The number of students taking creative subjects at A-level and GCSE is at a record low. The arts must not become the preserve of the most privileged
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Top one seems about right
The word universities painted on a wall and crossed out
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In the latest edition of *adventures in musicalized wellness*, I came across some NHS guidance for perinatal mental health, for those 1 year postpartum, that advises *learning to play a musical instrument*. First year. Postpartum.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s striking that all of the severe and quite extreme problems Britain has now as a direct result of political malfeasance is all just chucked on the “oh well, what are you going to do, it’s just how it is” pile. These things were done by people with names and addresses.
bbc.co.uk
Scotland's universities face 'bleak' future as £200m funding gap revealed
A new report paints a 'bleak' picture of falling income from Scottish students and an over-reliance on international tuition fees.
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton. Prolific songwriter, remarkable musician, fascinating cultural cipher, and (extremely conditional) anti-work icon.
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
why are you bothering me, i built you a perfectly functional wire mother
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Always good to let the three year old pick the record
A child holding up a record of English Heretoc's Plan for the Kidnap of Princess Anne
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wondering who has a worse understanding of social construct...channel 4 or the Duke-industrial theorists a decade ago
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
That fifa anthem is giving Laibach
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 15/07/2026
it's funny how for decades the RIAA would carbomb teenagers for downloading one (1) song yet now these dudes are just allowed to do this shit like it's nothing
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It's happening again....
Four large striped courgettes
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 22/05/2026
How does being able to "live with dignity" and be "treated with respect" square with this polite call for clearer guidance on how organisations may legally discriminate against marginalised people?
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 22/05/2026
A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
!!!job!!!
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The cat has just made a noise that has made me weirdly nostalgic for a 1990s Gateway 2000 pc
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
BAD: being stuck at Tamworth yet again thanks to train fails GOOD: deep breaths and this soundtrack billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/how-to...
billorcutt.bandcamp.com
How to Rescue Things, by Bill Orcutt
7 track album
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Looks like Nottingham are trying to run a university without staff. Or rather, staff that aren't senior management. This is so brutal even by their already dismal standards. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy
Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
On my way to Brussels to take part in this years Oscillation Festival: I'm going to be speaking on sonic surrogates and "activating" Sonia Saroya and Edouard Sufrin's sound installation, L'Archipel, with Diane Barbé. oscillation-festival.be/2026
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I forgot to share this but another thing I've been working on of late (with lots of amazing other people) has been a creative toolkit for tinnitus support groups, meant to help support often tricky conversations about experiencing tinnitus tinnitusarts.co.uk/toolkit
tinnitusarts.co.uk
Toolkit - tinnitusarts.co.uk
Sharing Tinnitus: A Creative Toolkit for Tinnitus Support Groups Research shows that creative activities can help people to understand, reflect on and talk about their tinnitus in new ways. Sharing Ti...
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Hey, so I'm out of practice with 'announcements' but: I wrote a book and it's coming out in November. It's called The Sonic Surrogate and it's about sound reproduction, reproductive crisis and the proliferation of music technologies that promise to take care of us www.ucpress.edu/books/the-so...
ucpress.edu
The Sonic Surrogate by Marie Thompson - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Historical gripe: Luddism was clandestine working class organizing. No Luddite would have signed a letter with their own name! That's the whole point.
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The closing date for our (fees-only) PhD studentship is fast approaching...
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
They call it world book day because it makes you hate both books and the world.
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 04/03/2026
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BRISMES @brismes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
#AcademicFreedom | We have written to The @openuniversity.bsky.social to express our profound concern about the university’s response to a letter from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) regarding the use of the term ‘#ancientPalestine’. Read our letter: bit.ly/4r0j68L 1/3
The image shows page 1 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestineThe image shows page 2 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestineThe image shows page 3 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestineThe image shows page 4 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestine
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
do you tell the sun to shine less brightly
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Reb v. Wade @rsl318.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
here's a piece i wrote back in 2017, about Radigue's Biogenesis bsky.app/profile/vanm...
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
RIP Éliane Radigue. A performance of this remains one of my favourite ever concerts
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eliane radigue - Ψ 847 (version concert)
YouTube video by ryan burns
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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Well now, doesn’t feel like gaslighting at all that individual programs are being made “accountable” for the future earnings of their graduates. !!!!
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Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Those of us who like to say things like “popular culture is a complex space of ideology and antagonism, repression and resistance” really eating shit today: “The group that should be in the streets has been bought off by Jay Z” - Jes Stanley, CEO of Barclays
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026
It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
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Not Anime @notanime.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
“The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job.”
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lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Up the BL workers.
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I'm currently producing some teaching involving both jazz and disco and it's really bringing home the proximity of music to the "make/let die"
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📣📣📣 fees-only PhD funding for Music at the OU 📣📣📣
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Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
My dear, dear baritone wielding friend has a new album out and it is [complementary] absolutely demonic rekemrecords.bandcamp.com/album/best-w...
rekemrecords.bandcamp.com
Best Wishes,, by Kar Pouzi
7 track album
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Ok fine.
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Google AI is like an Eric Adams quote generator
Al Overview

Men in New York have done countless things throughout history, from building the city to participating in major events like the Stonewall riots and the September 11 attacks. Their actions have ranged from daily life and economic hardship during the Great Depression to playing significant roles in the city's political and social landscape, such as the assassination of Malcolm X or the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
An amazing day of solidarity with staff, students, and community members saying NO to compulsory redundancies and unnecessary course closures.
A panoramic photograph of the many people standing on today's picket line.A photo of two people at our picket line holding signs.A photo of someone holding up a solidarity fist at our picket lineA photo of a banner that says We Are The University with picketers standing behind it.
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