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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It’s been a while since I hopped on to BlueSky! Yesterday I passed my PhD viva with minor corrections. A challenging, informative, and affirming 2.5 hour journey. With huge thanks to my viva panel, Prof. Mat Flynn & Dr Sam Murray & my wonderful supervisors @stane.bsky.social and Dr James Mooney.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

As the world bears witness to Israel's deliberate starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, the Knesset yesterday voted overwhelmingly to annex the West Bank. It is a moral imperative for our government to immediately recognise the State of Palestine. History will not forgive us.

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

An excellent week at @iaspmofficial.bsky.social conference at the Sorbonne Nouvelle campus in Paris. I’m hugely grateful to have been there to speak about my research on @tomrosenthal.bsky.social ‘s cover of ‘Home’ and cover versions as Coronamusic. A joy to see so many fab people there.

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IASPM UK and Ireland @iaspmuki.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

We're now on Bsky 👋 This account will be used to share CFPs, news, and opportunities in the field, and maybe the occasional photo or two from conferences. For any formal enquiries, visit Contact Us on our website to reach the relevant committee member.

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FEMINIST @feminists.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. 🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

What a shitty week for popular music legacy. Losing Sly Stone and Brian Wilson in the space of two days is such a kicker. I’ve always loved this track, the sounds captivated me from the first time I heard it: music.apple.com/gb/album/fam...

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Family Affair by Sly & The Family Stone on Apple Music

Song · 1971 · Duration 3:05

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Brian Wilson & the Beach Boys are a huge part of my own understanding of popular music. I discovered them as a nerdy, muso teen. Brian was the highlight of Glasto 2005 for me and I walked down the aisle to this glorious track. Nobody wrote pop like Brian wrote pop. music.apple.com/gb/album/god...

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God Only Knows by The Beach Boys on Apple Music

Song · 1966 · Duration 2:55

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The Madleen and crew have been intercepted after being sprayed with what seems to have been a deterrent to reduce their ability to see and breathe properly. They are unarmed civilians. When will the world act…

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The Madleen is edging closer to Gaza. Reports on Aljazeera live state that there are plans to intercept the ship this evening. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liv...

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

For those less familiar with Ireland, the Independent would not be a newspaper of the left - quite the contrary. It's an issue that transcends right -left in Ireland.

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Job rejections are never easy are they, no matter how long the shot taken in application process. Feeling so much like I’m stuck in a strange liminal position where I’m simultaneously over yet under qualified. Too old yet too inexperienced. Too expensive yet too dispensable. #phdsky #academicsky

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Can’t help but think that if Starmer was more focused on what’s good for the country and the HE sector here that he’d be taking advantage of this kind of surge in applications too.

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

*Emerges from dim fog of marking malaise*… *Rubs eyes*… “Can someone just locate the plug for ChatGPT, and pull it. Please?!”

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I’ve only missed one Eurovision since my first one in 1990. I was fully prepared to boycott the whole thing next year when Israel were sitting at the top. UK public vote handing 12 points to Israel was only marginally sweetened by an LGBTQ+ winner. Congratulations Austria #eurovision2025

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Pleased to say that the committee for IASPM UK & Ireland PGR conference have extended the deadline for our conference CfP to Friday 23rd Mar 2025 (5PM BST). #academicsky #phdsky #UKHEsky #musicologysky Full CfP in link below: iaspmpostgraduateconference2025.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/c...

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Call for Papers

IASPM UK & Ireland Postgraduate Conference: Popular Music and Crisis University of Leeds – 4/5 of September 2025 The UK and Ireland Branch of IASPM is delighted to announce the retu…

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/05/2025

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 06/05/2025

The right actually lost votes in the election. All the Reform gains were cancelled out by the Tory losses--with a difference of a whole one (1) seat. And Labour running as a right wing party lost 160-odd seats, while Lib Dems and Greens won more even than that loss. The electorate moved to the left.

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Jenessa Williams, PhD @jenessawilliams.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Reminder that the fully-virtual Fan Studies North America conference is still open for submissions on the theme of 'REPUTATION: Influence, Power, and Capital'. This year we're open to academics of all stages including undergrads - please share with your students! fsn-northamerica.org/fsnna-25/

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Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

In the context of this week’s local elections Labour would be well advised to address the problems in UK higher education. University cities like Lincoln are havens of Labour support in an otherwise threatening electoral landscape. #localelection2025

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🎤🫳 On another year of Associate Lecturer madness! Seems mega early to be stepping into ‘Summer’ despite the mercury rising. Here’s to a few months on deep focus on the PhD- even a finish line on the horizon?! #phdlife #academicsky #musicologysky #mytime

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This is the single best piece I've read about gen AI because it outlines precisely how it's a *fucking scam* and the "industry" persists because it is a bubble willed into existence by venture capitalists desperate to market a series of dogshit products wrapped in gold foil.

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Jack @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Remember when Farage said he takes up his rifle against the government if Brexit didn't happen, and nobody in Labour or the Tories gave a fuck?

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=20TD... I’m loving the Lambrini Girls fem punk sentiments right now. More of this!

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Lambrini Girls - Cuntology 101 (Official Video)

YouTube video by Lambrini Girls

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Spent my bank ‘holiday’ Monday caking for the soon to be double digit, birthday boy in my life. A cake for his anime phase (Gojo, ‘Jujitsu Kaisen’- he’s never seen the show though!)

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies."

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/03/2025

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Would love get my hands and eyes on a copy! Thanks for making the offer, Christina 🤞

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/03/2025

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I’ve so many excellent new books to work my way through. There really aren’t enough hours in the day for me to read everything I would like to! #PhDSky #MusicologySky #PopularMusic #PhDlife

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Why DOGE and not Department Of Unqualified Cunts Harming Everyone (DOUCHE)

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I’ve taken over a block of politics lectures for the next few weeks- top comment of the day: ‘why have we had to wait all year for this content? It’s the best politics lecture had all year’ Capitalism, Punk and the Summer of ‘76 was my Monday vibe. #AcademicSky #UKHigherEd #PhDSky

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Every time I try to locate a book on my shelves I curse myself for not organising them better. I’m definitely in the 45% here; haphazard at best. I’ll be honest, organisation by colour sets off some kind of biblio-anxiety inside me. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Assuming a similar rate of loss, it will break 100 in 2.5 weeks and be 10 by May 1. Junk stock, junk company.

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

‘Thank you for your attention to this matter’?!! It’s reached beyond ‘what the fuck’…

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Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

“If British music is one of the most powerful exports we have, why have you treated it like an after thought for so many years?" — Myles Smith at the #BRITs The line about grassroots venues was spot on!

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Human Artistry Campaign @humanartistry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Brian May, the former lead guitarist for Queen, calls out the UK government on their invasive AI proposals, saying that he fears it won’t be long before AI completely takes over the music landscape, leaving little space for human creators. www.nme.com/news/music/q...

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Queen's Brian May claims “nobody will be able to afford to make music” if “monstrously arrogant” tech companies continue under UK government's AI copyright rules

Brian May states that planned changes in UK copyright law involving AI will result in nobody who can "afford to make music from here on in".

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It’s about time for the protest song to make a comeback.

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Dr Lou Aimes-Hill @louah.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I can’t even begin to comprehend how we see it though the rest of this year financially. Everything is broken.

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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The impact of decades of right-wing governments, accelerated after 2010, on display here. And, let's be clear, Reeves and Starmer are not going to make any of this better with their current approach. They may slow the increase in households under MIS, but they are not going to reverse it #austerity

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