Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I live in Liverpool. Everyone here looks like a Beatle. 110
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. 020
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 26/12/2025What 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 0143
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 26/12/2025I 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 050
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Unlike 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...theguardian.comOur king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de WeckSince 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 120
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Fellow 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 240
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Bacup, West Yorkshire, has a barbers called Ali Barber's and a vape shop called Planet of the Vapes 010
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Do I dare leave the house with no jacket today....? Stay tuned! 000
Reposted by Nessa JohnstonForward Democracy @fwddem.com · 27/04/2025It’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 /5stopreformuk.voteStop the Tories and ReformYour vote is your power. Use it tactically to get the Tories and Reform out, then influence your new MP and the next government. 713462
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The 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 030
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Love 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...warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.comThe Nation's Most Central Location., by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan8 track album 050
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 12/03/2025TIL 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. 010
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Very excited to be part of this in Dublin next month. Just a few tickets left! nialler9.com/a-love-from-...nialler9.comA Love from Outer Space's Sean Johnston and Cian Ó Cíobháin play a B2B set in Dublin next month | Nialler9After 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 080
Reposted by Nessa JohnstonThe Black Dog @theblackdog.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Remembering The Guv 0403
Reposted by Nessa JohnstonAltmetric @altmetric.com · 16/02/2025THREAD 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 2197121
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 09/02/2025From 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" 050
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 24/01/2025The Oxford Handbook of Blimey Someone Edited a Whole Book Just on That 020
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Looks 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 010
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Invigilating an exam is a bit like DJing, but much quieter and more stressful 020
Reposted by Nessa JohnstonPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025This sounds grimly plausible theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks... 821297
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Oh wow, I've got a meeting at work tomorrow of the Memory Group. Nearly forgot! 010
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 22/01/2025The 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/...liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukContents | Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 18, 2The 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 ... 030
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Still 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. 000
Reposted by Nessa JohnstonLiam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 05/01/2025A 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...liverpoolecho.co.uk'It is beyond broken' - inside our terrifying NHS crisisSpecial report: Patients waiting in ambulances for 24 hours, exhausted and desperate staff feeling helpless and a health service now on life support 1012357
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Why 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...theguardian.comWhy supporters of South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol are flying US flagsThe 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 000
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Everyone's girlfriend is called Lisa, Kate, or Sarah 000
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 30/12/2024There's a film on Netflix called Carry-On and every time it pops up I think "Carry On What?" 021
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 26/12/2024I wonder if I'm the only person who has deliberately gone for mini-breaks in both Skipton and Ibiza? They are opposites. The Skipton trip was with two female friends and we were on an 'old lady' holiday. Narrowboat cruise, National Trust properties, real ale... 030
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Yesterday 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 140
Reposted by Nessa JohnstonMichael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 19/12/2024For 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 🧵 66416
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Back to posting about public transport, and sadly it's the more normal moan post 😔 000
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 14/12/2024What's your least favourite train station and why is it Manchester Oxford Road? 120
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 14/12/2024I'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 ♥️ 030
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 13/12/2024It also got me reflecting on how we only really post about public transport on social media when it's going wrong, which reflects the broader problem with social media really! 010
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Seriously though, it got me reflecting on how much I love surface transportation including the really mundane forms I've depended on as a commuter. Not just the scenic trips I've taken on holiday. Isn't that nice? (2/2) 120
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 13/12/2024No 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) 120
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 12/12/2024BONUS POST, DAY 21: Metrocable, Medellin, Colombia 😍 020
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Thank you for following! Yes 15 is very special and I recommend it highly. 000
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Day 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. 020
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Day 18: Amtrak Empire Builder from Portland to Minneapolis 030
Nessa Johnston @nessjay.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Day 17: Merseyrail train from Liverpool Central to Ormskirk 020
Reposted by Nessa JohnstonPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024WOW! 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! 😀democracyforsale.co.ukDemocracy For Sale - Safeguard DemocracyA survey to make a people-powered plan to safeguard Britain's democracy from leading investigative journalists who write about lobbying and dark money 15642
