Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneMark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 18hA 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”. 28893397
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026time to update my default out of office message 443337
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneFilm Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026FQ’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/80/1online.ucpress.eduVolume 80 Issue 1 | Film Quarterly | University of California Press 042
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneTom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Farewell to Eva Marie Saint, the sharpest and sexiest of the Hitchcock blondes who got to wear one of the best dresses in cinema history 341860329
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneMargot 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.timeshighereducation.comBad degrees ‘eating up’ young people’s lives – shadow ministerStudents left underoccupied and ‘kicking their heels’ at university, according to former Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman 14529
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119115992877
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Don’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. 48316
Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Finishing the @britishacademy.bsky.social 5th Anniversary day with a live podcast recording 000
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneHorror 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... 073
Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pre lunch has been a look back over the first five years of the network and then a session on networking! @britishacademy.bsky.social 000
Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Big thanks to @britishacademy.bsky.social for organising, not just today but this whole valuable resource. Here's to the next 5 years. 000
Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Having a blast so far at the ECRN 5th anniversary conference 001
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 204190525440
Reposted by Dr Sarah Byrne🎃Marley, a Werewolf of Wall Street 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✍️🌕🐺 @marleywrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’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. 1142
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneJaundiced Brains @johnnymains.co.uk · 28/09/2026Today 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) 2134
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneMelissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I 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. 131250269
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneThe Open University Library @oulibrary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026 Happy Autumn Equinox! 🍂🦔 0115
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneAdam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026all 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 1348
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneThomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This cheers me enormously. 0253
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026One 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. 15711
Reposted by Dr Sarah Byrneflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The 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. 361017396
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Pedagogy 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. 235499
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneLarry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I 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. 320636
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Ray 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-... 330664
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneDamon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026This 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/... 11555031490
Reposted by Dr Sarah Byrneshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026chess dot com probably doesn’t have much money but they clearly have enough to own the world’s richest man 402280316
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneSarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Gerard McCarthy's response to Maureen Lipman is so fucking good 281480530
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneHong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 05/09/2026The 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. 1162
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026This 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.comAny Human EverOne life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived. 54547189
Reposted by Dr Sarah Byrnedr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Filing away for lecture purposes... 011
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneLeigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026OK, when is James Orr going to leave his role with Cambridge University? Are we still doing that? 235291
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneEddie Robson is at Fantasycon @eddierobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Have 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. 924167
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneMatt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise. 47126113781
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneRhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026What 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? 13658165
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Is this "the Establishment" of which I hear so much? 27315
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneSpencer Green @spencergreen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinem 4287105
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Today 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 053
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneIain Clark But In The Fog @iainjclarkart.com · 03/09/2026The 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?" 314143
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneThe Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As 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.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 367201339889
Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Well 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/Aiskillsreporttinyurl.com 020
Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026AI 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/Aiskillsreporttinyurl.com 100
Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026An absolutely fascinating read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comThe Wrong Kind of AmericanThe Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public. 111
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneThe Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Clue is on YouTube for free If you are like me and missing our boy Tim today youtu.be/PT02T3kXDJY?...youtu.beClueYouTube video by YouTube Movies 10267127
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneSimon Briercliffe @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Heads 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.ukLearning Irish - Conradh na Gaeilge BirminghamLearning Irish Our Irish Courses Our Beginners’ Course: Learn Irish Now! A1.1 Conradh na Gaeilge Birmingham is delighted to announce that […] 011
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneWilliam Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026So 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. 2489
Reposted by Dr Sarah ByrneAliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The comedies of long ago don’t always work for us, but this one very much does. Several lovely roles for women, too. 153