iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

As it's Chesterton's birthday I'd be remiss not to re-up this blog post. One thing I've tried to convey in all my work on Father Brown is how sophisticated, searching, and strange it is: the reverse of cosy. The same applies with the demonic bestiary he assembles here to convulse an Oxford college.

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profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Is there anything better to read, when you’re poorly, than p g Wodehouse?

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profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Crikey tana French is such a good writer, isn’t she?

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The call for MSCA postdoc fellowships is out and the deadline is 10th September. More generally, people should apply! More specifically, if you'd like to come work in York with me I'm happy to support applications from awesome people 🙂

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Postdoctoral Fellowships

The information provided on this page is a summary of the main rules and requirements for Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs) and who can apply for them.

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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

New Research! @creativepec.bsky.social state of the nation on "Arts, Culture and Heritage: Recent Trends in UK Workforce and Engagement in England" pec.ac.uk/state_of_the... (will do a summary 🧵 later this week)

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Arts, Culture and Heritage: Recent Trends in UK Workforce and Engagement in England - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre

A State of the Nations research report into arts and culture engagement in England and the arts and culture workforce.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Or to put it another way, overseas students now subsidise the cost of teaching each UK undergraduate by an average of £2,500 each. Take them away and you've got an absolutely existential crisis for universities. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

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How universities were sent over the edge

UK higher education institutions did as the government asked and took on more students. Now many face collapse

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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The Bee includes this thebeemagazine.com/publishings-... by me! Asking what’s changed since the landmark publication of @kitdewaal.com’s Common People & highlighting some new @creativepec.bsky.social research too

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Publishing’s Class Problem

When you’re a child, your social class doesn’t determine how good you are at reading and writing. Yet half of our published writers are from middle-class backgrounds, and only 10 per cent are working ...

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Killing off the university sector once and for all for a politcal battleground which Labour will never win… instead of reclassifying the immigration statistics as we always should have to reflect the fact the vast majority of foreign students leave the UK. Stupid. Unserious. Utterly self-defeating.

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• The largest contributor to non-EU immigration (39%) was study, which was largely unchanged compared with YE June 22; however, while historic evidence has shown that more than 80% of students typically left within 5 years, analysis of more recent cohorts is suggesting that more are staying for longer and transitioning onto work visas.

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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

All welcome! I’ll be presenting some amazing new data with a focus on local authority level insights!

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26/04/2025

I've long said that my ideal birth plan is to turn up to to hospital with "one of every drug then open me up like a pinata" written in permanent marker across my face

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profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

opening sentence of a piece in student newspaper where I work: 'Have you heard of the band Prefab Sprout? If you haven’t, you probably weren’t raised by cool parents who grew up in the 80s'

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Wow! @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social is screening this Turn of the Screw prequel, the only film to star Marlon Brando and Thora Hird + Stephanie Beacham. Alas, it’s “directed” by Michael Winner “with its over-insistent use of the zoom” and “its unerring eye for the wrong camera set-up.” Unmissable.

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

2 new posts in English Literature in our School of Critical Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social: * Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer... *Lecturer in Postcolonial or Indigenous Literature www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer... #AcademicSky

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profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Very pleased to discover, 35 years after the event, that there is a second Frasier Chorus album

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profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My honour and pleasure to lead on this important review of children’s creativity. Please read and share!!

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word!

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profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

New creativity report - much work has gone into this!

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...

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Neuro4Pros summer school

NeUroscience Computational LEAdership Retreat (NUCLEAR): happiness and success

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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

MY WIFE WENT TO INDIA AFTER READING A CLASSIC NOVEL ABOUT IT FORSTER? NO - SHE WENT OF HER OWN ACCORD!!!!!!!! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

are we all listening to the new Gemma Hayes album? It's a banger

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profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

@ecourtem.bsky.social finally caught up with your podcast episode and I absolutely loved it!! Durham comparison was brilliant, and the episode title… chefs kiss!!

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Kate Macdonald 📚 🧶 @kateem.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Have spent an hour checking and scheduling the massive price drop for the Grand Closing Sale of Handheld Press online. Starts tomorrow, folks. Get in line. 💙📚 www.handheldpress.co.uk

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Homepage - Handheld Press

Handheld Press sells wonderful stories from the past and the present. Our books are beautiful, designed and laid out with care.

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

First obituary of Eleanor Maguire Fitting that it comes from a neuroscience community publication. Very grateful to Calli McMurray for writing this lovely piece on who Eleanor was and what she achieved in her dazzling career:

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profsimonjjames.bsky.social @profsimonjjames.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Finding Elden Ring quite stressful. When I was Spiderman, everyone wants to high-five me. Here, EVERYONE wants to kill me.

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Kelly Jakubowski @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Dear musician friends, My PhD student, Aliya, is doing a survey asking musicians to describe how they use imagining music in their heads in their work. It will likely take you less than 20 minutes, and you can win an Amazon voucher. Thanks in advance! durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

New paper out, led by Alex Easton, where we argue that context only really makes sense at the point of retrieval, so it can't be encoded: Context in memory is reconstructed, not encoded #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition

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Context in memory is reconstructed, not encoded

Context has long been regarded as an important element of long-term memory, and episodic memory in particular. The ability to remember not only the ob…

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