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Dr Sarah Byrne

@sarahbyrne.bsky.social
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Film & Theatre scholar - Livecasting, remediation, intermediality, medium identity. Thesis: Both Grand and Intimate - UK Livecasting From 2009 to Now Actually autistic, sometimes writer, cat person. (She/Her)

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 18h
A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.
ADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says report, as author warns of rise in mental ill health
Summary
• An official review in England finds there is a risk of people being over-diagnosed with
ADHD and autism - three key findings from the report
• As well as neurodevelopmental conditions, the review looks at mental ill health, particularly in younger people. Our health correspondent explains the difference
• It was commissioned earlier this year after Wes Streeting, then the health secretary, said there was an "over-diagnosis" of mental health conditions
• Speaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, review chair Prof Peter Fonagy said Streeting was "with respect, completely wrong"
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
time to update my default out of office message
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Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The most recent episode of Bake Off was A Lot
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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FQ’s celebration of its 80th volume has begun with our Fall issue! Free-to-read articles include a dossier on Mulholland Drive at 25, an interview with Christian Petzold, and the inauguration of FQ’s new poetry section: online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/80/1
online.ucpress.edu
Volume 80 Issue 1 | Film Quarterly | University of California Press
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Farewell to Eva Marie Saint, the sharpest and sexiest of the Hitchcock blondes who got to wear one of the best dresses in cinema history
Full shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dressSide mid shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dress, sharing a drink with Cary GrantThe open back of the red roses dress
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'Amanda Spielman, who previously led education watchdog Ofsted from 2017 to 2023, warned too many people are being misled by the allure of university courses that fail to result in improved economic and life outcomes.' Ofsted has such a sterling reputation.
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Bad degrees ‘eating up’ young people’s lives – shadow minister
Students left underoccupied and ‘kicking their heels’ at university, according to former Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don’t tell Reform but here’s George slaying the dragon in Genoa, above Italian and EU flags. St George’s Cross was used as the flag of The Republic of Genoa long before it was adopted by England.
Fresco of George slaying dragon on front of a grand palazzo, with Italian and EU flags below.
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Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Finishing the @britishacademy.bsky.social 5th Anniversary day with a live podcast recording
Live podcast recording: Elevate and Kindling Ventures

Dr Lucie Cluver in Coversation with Chris Fellingham.

Two people, a man and a woman, sit on stage in front of a power point presentation with the above words.
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you." "Love Never Dies" gives a rose to films like BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, THE HUNGER & THE SHAPE OF WATER, all about coupling with the monster, figuratively and literally. @editrixemma.bsky.social @beaconpress.bsky.social www.beacon.org/Love-Never-D...
The cover of the book "Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies" with a drawing of two happy skeletons facing each other, surrounded by flowers and a frilly portrait border.
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Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pre lunch has been a look back over the first five years of the network and then a session on networking! @britishacademy.bsky.social
BAECRN 5th anniversary 
Five academics on a panel: The first Five Years, looking back, looking ahead. Chair: Prof Mike Heffernan FBA. Pannellists: Prof Simon Swain FBA, Dr Alex Lewis, Ricky Marlow and Dr Liese Perrin.
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Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Big thanks to @britishacademy.bsky.social for organising, not just today but this whole valuable resource. Here's to the next 5 years.
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Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Having a blast so far at the ECRN 5th anniversary conference
British Academy ECRN 5th Anniversary event at University of Birmingham.
Welcome banner in front of a stained glass window above a stage.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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🎃Marley, a Werewolf of Wall Street 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✍️🌕🐺 @marleywrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m convinced that AI companies started with generative images and text as a con. They needed people to think their product was more revolutionary than mere SaaD/B2B tech. They needed mega hype to justify the cost before it became clear most people wouldn’t use this stuff.
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Jaundiced Brains @johnnymains.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Today is World Rabies Day - here are five artworks depicting it throughout the years. First up: "Harry saves the girls from the mad dog" - Johan Schonberg (1888)
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
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The Open University Library @oulibrary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy Autumn Equinox! 🍂🦔
Cozy autumn scene with pumpkins, a warm scarf, spiced drink, pie slice, and fall leaves surrounding 'Hello Autumn' text.
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
all of the openers for Ed Sheeran’s tour have now canceled thanks to Robert Kraft but he will be adding a new opening act, The Streisand Effect
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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This cheers me enormously.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One of the biggest lessons of the past 10 years is that a vast % of the powerful and influential - politics, journalism, entertainment, tech etc - are the thinnest skinned whiny babies known to humanity, who absolutely cannot tolerate 1 moment of being (told they’re) in the wrong.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The British press has been extremely hostile towards Amnesty International, Medicins Sans Frontiers, Oxfam and others for decades because *they offer rival narratives that the public might listen to*, and that is not acceptable, to them.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Pedagogy is not some new, unsolved problem awaiting its Silicon Valley disruptor. If you want good teaching in any given subject, it’s there to be had. If you just don’t want to pay for it, then all we’re really talking about is how much you want something for nothing. That’s nothing new, either.
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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I preordered this book, and cannot wait for its release next Tuesday. Klein has always managed to channel both rage and hope, a tough and vital balancing act these days.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Ray Harryhausen didn't film his actors doing a choreographed fight with thin air and then use backscreen projection and double exposure to add an army of skeletons interacting with identical miniatures of the set and props just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable." bsky.app/profile/ani-...
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026
This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...
a photo of a hand holding a cuneiform tablet
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
chess dot com probably doesn’t have much money but they clearly have enough to own the world’s richest man
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 05/09/2026
#caturday
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gerard McCarthy's response to Maureen Lipman is so fucking good
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 05/09/2026
The United Nations General Assembly voted on September 4, 2026, to back a resolution spearheaded by several African countries to adopt a map that makes their continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe. Photo: Equal Earth/AFP.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026
This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.
anyhumanever.com
Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Filing away for lecture purposes...
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OK, when is James Orr going to leave his role with Cambridge University? Are we still doing that?
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Eddie Robson is at Fantasycon @eddierobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Have to say, if I was in charge of a regulatory body, and someone had been caught on camera calling us "completely useless... dumb and ineffective" while boasting about breaking the rules we're meant to enforce, I would be doing everything I could to make that fucker rue the day he said it.
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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What should a university do when their guy is deliberately using his position to recruit students into the organisation for whom he seemingly does electoral crime?
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Is this "the Establishment" of which I hear so much?
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Spencer Green @spencergreen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinem
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today we are holding a major conference on the future of public service media in a platform era. Lots of international perspectives represented through the day, and we are currently hearing from Baroness Kidron who talks of the information ecosystem as a matter of national resilience and security
The British Academy
Public Service Media in the Platform Era
- Towards
Public Digital Infrastructures
Conference programme of events
Thursday 3 September 2026Baroness Kidron
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Iain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 03/09/2026
The unedifying sight of a BBC journalist literally standing in the English Channel yelling at minority ethnic people on a boat: "Why are you doing it like this? Why aren't you doing it legally?"
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Well this is timely. Check out the report I recently co-authored for the Screen Berkshire skills cluster which shows the train has most definitely NOT left the station: tinyurl.com/Aiskillsreport
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Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
AI skills in film and television: A research report commissioned by Screen Berkshire, a skills cluster of the BFI I am excited to share this report that brings together fascinating insights from professionals! The use of AI tools in production is NOT what we expected. tinyurl.com/Aiskillsreport
tinyurl.com
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Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
An absolutely fascinating read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Clue is on YouTube for free If you are like me and missing our boy Tim today youtu.be/PT02T3kXDJY?...
youtu.be
Clue
YouTube video by YouTube Movies
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Simon Briercliffe @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Heads up to anyone interested in learning Irish in the Midlands: enrolment now open for Conradh na Gaeilge courses in Birmingham: gaeilge.uk/learning-irish I've done these the last couple of years and they've been fantastic - great teachers, non-stressful format and pace, just loads of fun.
gaeilge.uk
Learning Irish - Conradh na Gaeilge Birmingham
Learning Irish Our Irish Courses Our Beginners’ Course: Learn Irish Now! A1.1  Conradh na Gaeilge Birmingham is delighted to announce that […]
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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chefs kiss
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So is being able to read and write—and universities, when it comes down to it, teach it. I don’t think ‘the humanities’ are over.
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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The comedies of long ago don’t always work for us, but this one very much does. Several lovely roles for women, too.
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