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Nessa Johnston

@nessjay.bsky.social
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University lecturer, DJ Dublin/Liverpool/Todmorden

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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
📽️ Having seen Sirat over the weekend I'm now convinced that it's set in the same world as Bacurau and One Battle After Another. Different geographic perspectives on the same world.
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
My latest publication
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
What I increasingly suspect is that people's use of AI isn't robbing them of their ability to think independently. Maybe it's the other way around. People's desire to surrender thought and decision making to someone or something else is what has helped GAI tools to catch on. (3/3) #academicsky
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I started teaching in 2010. Back then there would always be a few bolshy students with strong opinions and hot takes in the room. Yet even before ChatGPT, by the late 2010s students already seemed to be losing confidence in voicing their own thoughts, opinions and critique (2/3) #academicsky
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Unlike a lot of colleagues, I'm neutral about AI in universities. However, I'm sharing this article because I agree with some of the sentiments. At the same time, IMHO a lot of the gripes many colleagues have about AI and laziness miss the mark (1/2) #academicsky www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck
Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Fellow academics, do you ever feel like, even though you work at a university and are surrounded by Objectively Very Clever people, you're actually surrounded by idiots? (And yes, I am tired...) #academicsky
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Bacup, West Yorkshire, has a barbers called Ali Barber's and a vape shop called Planet of the Vapes
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Do I dare leave the house with no jacket today....? Stay tuned!
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Forward Democracy @fwddem.com · 27/04/2025
It’s important to remember that voting tactically is not an endorsement of the party you vote for. You should tell them what you really expect of them for lending them your vote… less of what we had before, not more! Check your May 1st local elections tactical vote here: StopReformUK.vote /5
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Stop the Tories and Reform
Your vote is your power. Use it tactically to get the Tories and Reform out, then influence your new MP and the next government.
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The weird obsession transphobes have with women's bathrooms as "safe spaces"... I went to an all girls Catholic high school in Dublin in the 1990s and those bathrooms were never fucking "safe" LOL
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Love the new Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan album. Like Vangelis and John Carpenter got married, moved to the north of England, and started a family. warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/the-na...
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The Nation's Most Central Location., by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
8 track album
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
TIL Greenland is geographically 8 times the size of the UK. But its population is just 56,000, comparable to towns like Macclesfield, Livingston, Kettering, Aldershot, or Castlereagh. Amazing.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A man says "sometimes, I have a fantast about being lightly grilled." A large set of tongs places the man on a hot grill. "My skin would burn, but it owuld be very pleasurable." He relaxes in the prone position on top of the grill. "And I would compare my grill marks with other grill guys." The man is at a job interview and completes the classic thought "but other than that, I would say my greatest weakness is that I'm a perfectionist."
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Very excited to be part of this in Dublin next month. Just a few tickets left! nialler9.com/a-love-from-...
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A Love from Outer Space's Sean Johnston and Cian Ó Cíobháin play a B2B set in Dublin next month | Nialler9
After putting on a couple of A Love from Outer Space (ALFOS) parties in Dublin, Pint Window is presenting a new night pairing an one Irish DJ and one
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The Black Dog @theblackdog.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Remembering The Guv
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 16/02/2025
THREAD Things that didn't make the news that will likely change our lives for the better The news is not an accurate reflection of the world. Good news doesn't get reported as much. Here are the wonderful things researchers have achieved recently. 1/24
Sunrise over the Tyrol alps

It will be alright in the end. And if it's not alright, it is not yet the end. 

#AcademicSky #ClimateSky #Altmetrics
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
From the time 3 years ago I was in Austin Texas for a few months, I still get promo emails from Torchy's Tacos. I have no idea if/when I'll ever go back, given the insane political climate in the US. But I can't bring myself to unsubscribe because every email makes me think "mmmm tacos"
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The Oxford Handbook of Blimey Someone Edited a Whole Book Just on That
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Looks like all my mates in Scotland collectively shat it when they got an alert on their phones earlier this evening. Imagine if we harness that energy somehow
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Invigilating an exam is a bit like DJing, but much quieter and more stressful
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This sounds grimly plausible theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Oh wow, I've got a meeting at work tomorrow of the Memory Group. Nearly forgot!
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The latest issue of Music, Sound and the Moving Image is on library music, and includes an article by Elodie Roy and myself. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/msmi/18/...
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Contents | Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 18, 2
The Introduction falls into three sections. The first presents the historical context for the collection and the themes that unite the articles, and provides summaries for each of the articles. The second section deals with the complex web of terminology ...
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Still don't understand BlueSky, what do you people want from me? I've got some lecturing and some DJing coming up, it's all very exciting, trust me.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
A man keels over in a chaotic emergency room, an 88-year-old woman waits for 24 hours in the back of an ambulance, a depressed and frustrated paramedic can’t face his job anymore This is the reality of the state of the NHS right now and it’s terrifying 👇 www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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'It is beyond broken' - inside our terrifying NHS crisis
Special report: Patients waiting in ambulances for 24 hours, exhausted and desperate staff feeling helpless and a health service now on life support
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Why supporters of the president of South Korea wave American flags and flags saying "stop the steal." The 2020s is the decade in which the internet made politics really weird www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Why supporters of South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol are flying US flags
The prominence of the US flag at conservative rallies reflects a complex intersection of religion, politics and identity that defines South Korea’s far-right movement
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Everyone's girlfriend is called Lisa, Kate, or Sarah
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
There's a film on Netflix called Carry-On and every time it pops up I think "Carry On What?"
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Yesterday I was on a walk through some farmland and was hit with this intense cabbage-like stink. Turned out it was coming from a field of Brussels sprouts. That stink! And enjoy sprouts with Christmas dinner, but I'll never think of them the same way again #sprouts
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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
For those outside higher ed, it's difficult to explain the full range of attacks it faces. The most obvious, of course, come from far right culture warriors, braying about "grooming" and "indoctrination". But it's impossible to overstate the internal rot -- the increasing slide of uni admins into 🧵
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
What's your least favourite train station and why is it Manchester Oxford Road?
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I'm DJing tonight at this great party at the Golden Lion in Todmorden with loads of sound people and the legendary Jon Dasilva headlining. Free in 1-7, tickets for the evening on Skiddle and the door. In aid of mental health charities ♥️
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
No more public transportation posts from me but amazingly I did make it to 20 and even did a bonus day. It did start as a shitpost but then I decided to roll with it, and got really into it. Disappointed nobody else took up the challenge - I wanna see your influential transport picks! (1/2)
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
BONUS POST, DAY 21: Metrocable, Medellin, Colombia 😍
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Day 20: the Enterprise from Belfast to Dublin
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Day 19: the Citylink coach from Glasgow to Belfast, which puts passengers on the Stena Line ferry from Cairnryan to Belfast - two modes for the price of one cheap ticket.
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Day 18: Amtrak Empire Builder from Portland to Minneapolis
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Day 17: Merseyrail train from Liverpool Central to Ormskirk
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
WOW! More than 6,000 people have now completed our Safeguard Democracy survey🔥 Can we get it to 10k to send a proper signal about need to take money out of politics? Fill it in here. democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard Do share! Thanks! 😀
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Democracy For Sale - Safeguard Democracy
A survey to make a people-powered plan to safeguard Britain's democracy from leading investigative journalists who write about lobbying and dark money
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Day 16: Lothian bus number 16, Edinburgh
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Day 15: the Linha do Douro
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Day 14: the LUAS Green line from Brides Glen to Broombridge, Dublin
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Day 13: the Edinburgh tram
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H @harimiller.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Got my outfit ready for cyborg Monday. GN
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The craziest thing about this story? It’s all legal Britain’s election laws are awful - as successive governments have been told this for years and done *nothing* And Musk has shown that he is very, very willing to funnel cash to distort democratic politics… www.thetimes.com/article/6c2c...
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Will Elon Musk give Nigel Farage $100m to make him PM?
The Tesla boss, who used his immense fortune to help Donald Trump’s campaign, is turning his attention to Britain
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Day 12: the Trans Pennine Express train from Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Oxford Road. I could have picked Northern or EMR but Trans Pennine Express has the best name.
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Day 11: the Northern Rail service from Manchester Victoria to Todmorden
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Day 10: the Glasgow Subway (or "clockwork orange" said nobody ever)
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Day 9: The number 7 CapMetro bus from Duval/41st to San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, Texas
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Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Day 8: the South Western Railway service from Bournemouth to London Waterloo
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