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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

a German word for the feeling when you never meant for a perfectly nice dress to become your go-to funeral outfit, and it feels somehow unfair on the dress, but it's just too much effort to pick out something else.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FOMI: when you’re sitting in a meeting thinking “omg just imagine the other things I could be doing right now” that’s called “fear of missing in”

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 26/09/2026

My old editor used to tell me off for tweeting “fuck off Janice” every time she posted a column. But was I wrong?

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not to go all Walt Whitman in my multitudes, but: Friday night film - Sentimental Value (2025) Saturday night film - Anaconda (1997)

Norwegian poster for Sentimental Value - tasteful, subtle, Skarsgård

poster for Anaconda - JLo, Ice Cube, insane John Voigt

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'The stigmata surrounding sex'

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Week 1, when the actual teaching and time with colleagues was complete joy, but everything else was such a toxic bin-fire that I'm willingly watching the 50 Cent boxing drama for a bit of catharsis, and sulking that it isn't violent enough.

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so

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Samhain’d Lad @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

2016: we have reached humanity’s nadir 2020: we have reached humanity’s nadir 2023: we have reached humanity’s nadir 2025: we have reached humanity’s nadir 2025 (again): we have reached humanity’s nadir 2026: we have found some extra space beneath humanity’s nadir

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Literally hours later, although at least nobody was killed.

MSF International 2
@MSF
On 13 September, an MSF bus carrying 10 humanitarian staff in Gaza City was damaged by an Israeli airstrike on a targeted vehicle just two metres away. One of our colleagues was injured in the strike.
The bus was clearly identified as an MSF vehicle, with a large MSF sticker visible on its roof. Once again, Israeli forces have shown a blatant disregard for the safety of humanitarian and medical personnel.
Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Civilians, healthcare workers and humanitarian staff must be protected. Clearly marked medical and humanitarian vehicles must be spared from attacks.
14:32 • 14/09/2026

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just so we understand: “right wing wanker campaign to claim Doctors Without Borders are terrorists” means “the IDF is going to kill aid workers this week”.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the things that Brighton university management has decided it simply… no longer recognises? it also no longer recognises UCU or Unison? again: how is this legal!!!!

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

trying to work out how worried to be when sick dog hasn't eaten all day, and it is impossible to calibrate between how this sounds in the abstract (ok so she's a bit poorly but no other symptoms) and how it sounds to anyone who has met her (Asha refused FOOD? Why aren't you already in an ambulance?)

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

entirely my own fault, but term in minus two weeks, all the usual admin detritus piling up, and *I STILL NEED TO READ FUCKING PAMELA*

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VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

when you're gregor AND the bed he woke up in

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Considering that they enrolled so many students that some are being deferred, this is the least they could do. Really they should probably hire more staff and give the current ones a pay rise

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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Huge. Huge testament to the power of organising. Huge relief for Exeter friends and colleagues. Huge waste of time and resources. Huge reputational damage done. Huge warning to universities who want to treat their staff like they don’t matter.

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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Great piece from my PGR colleague @zkadodz.bsky.social about the cuts, "A supervisor is not an abstract academic who can be replaced at a moment’s notice. My supervisors are the foundation of my whole project". Working with PhDs is SO central to academic life: they've not been considered at all 😧

zamirkadodia.substack.com

My supervisors can't be replaced

A PhD student's perspective on the University of Exeter redundancy situation

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

He's very much entitled to the grudge (and this is very much no defence of her), but something weirdly quaint about Tyler doing a 'fuck that bitch' chant re: Theresa May in *2026*

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Daytrip for Frida, The Kahlo and Tyler, The Creator

Self portrait by FK at the Tate Modern exhibit

Best of a bad bunch of photos of Tyler performing at All Points East

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Christie Time @christietime.com · 23/08/2026

COVER REVEAL!!! The #SwingingChristies: How Agatha Christie Conquered the 1960s, by Mark Aldridge and Gray Robert Brown, coming next February from HarperCollins, and it has a RAD NEW LOOK! Pre-order now: harpercollins.co.uk/products/the... #AgathaChristie #booksky

THE SWINGING CHRISTIES book cover, designed by HarperCollins using elements from Bartlett Studio

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Geologists and evolutionary biologists do not have to debate creationists. Astronomers do not have to debate pre-Copernican theories of the heavens. Doctors do not have to debate anti-vax nuts. Climate scientists do not have to debate industry-funded deniers. All that goes for racists times ten.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Too, the idea we should debate everything is usually proposed by those whose rights and humanity are not subject to debate. Debate amplifies and legitimizes false and abhorrent views plus it's a bullshit sport weaponized by the likes of Charlie Kirk, not a sound method of arriving at truth.

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Me: the light is so golden and our shadows are so tall - nice moment for a photo? Asha: 🤪🤪🤪

Brindle dog licking her own nose with her absurdly large pink tongue

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Enjoying a lovely flock of normal balloons when up floats this abomination...

Several hot air balloons in a summer sky

Monstrous scarecrow(?) shaped hot air balloon looming over houses

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Elspeth Van Veeren @evanveeren.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Another excellent example of just how incurious and limited the UK press has been about this crisis. Not one mention of the cuts to humanities that Bristol’s own VC is trying to push through at the moment in this article about her position on the cuts 🤔🙄. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Florence Welch’s mother says cuts to arts and humanities ‘absolutely tragic’

Exclusive: Prof Evelyn Welch, vice-chancellor of Bristol University, believes her daughter’s success shows value of arts education

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

the man knew how to keep it dapper in a heatwave... (from www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...)

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Jo @beda.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Wait he put on his shoes after the union suit but before putting on the rest of his clothes?

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Dracula in a boater might be even more of a literary fashion upset than the time I read The Maltese Falcon and decided to google 'union suit'...

Extracr from The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade getting dressed: 'He put on a thin white union-suit, grey socks, black garters, and dark brown shoes'

Vintage advert for the union suit, onesie-underwear for men.

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's been a point that's been argued to a brick-wall my entire professional life but if you take a cold hard look at the relative successes, compounding economic benefits, and global standing of British industries the treatment of the performing arts is a completely mad kind of self harm

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It's been nearly 30 years of bosses trying to entice me to events with pizza and I always think... But I've got a job, so I can afford to buy pizza and eat it on my own somewhere nice.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Persuasion is basically the second half of a much longer novel. Austen just decided not to write the first part. This is why it is her best novel

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Today, in tiny diamond shoe problems: friend took me as guest to an idyllic outdoor lake with a 5000 person waiting list, and despite my own membership of a very fancy lido, I've never felt more like Frasier Crane realising there's another VIP area.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 23/06/2026

I am once again begging universities to realise that staff - academic, professional services, estates, all of them - are the product they are trying to sell. Without staff there is nothing to sell. No amount of flashy buildings will replace staff in universities. UKHE is in freefall.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

is this heat stroke or shock ask hundreds of University of Exeter employees this evening

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

peak basingstoke, a story in two n-grams: 1. Palgrave Macmillan relocates to London, 2014 2. MLA becomes the first style guide to abandon place of publication, 2016 experts fear that the next generation of students won’t even know what a basingstoke is

N gram of Basingstoke shows steady growth in its prevalence up to around 2016. The cursor hovers over 2014 to show where it falls

N gram of Basingstoke shows steady growth in its prevalence up to around 2016. The cursor hovers over 2016 to show where it falls

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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Frankly it's a failure of governance that university leaders can still get away with this genre of bland whimpering.

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Lovely day out with Tracy, Ray, and (best til last, but talking too much to remember a photo) @drkatiecoops.bsky.social ❤️

Collage of Tracy Emin art, Ray Lamontagne gig sign, river Thames in the sun

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

props to an otherwise very daft TV series for having a woman character lose her dad and talk about how much she'll miss him being there for a professional milestone, rather than yet another sodding wedding aisle monologue

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

[take an unscheduled marking break] Introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live Leonard Cohen Kendrick Lamar Nancy Sinatra Pulp Bob Dylan Yasiin Bey Placebo Tori Amos Robyn* Tyler, the Creator* (*not technically seen yet, but too excited about upcoming tickets to exclude)

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

a weirdly affectionate moment of memory rush for the Tub of Lard, which child me thought was the funniest thing she'd ever seen on TV - to the point of being bitterly disappointed when it was later advertised as a returning guest and replaced with Salman Rushdie

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Simon MacEwan @theblastedheath.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

My partner just said, "you know, instead of making postcards about your feelings towards the boring tasks you have to do, you could just do the tasks" Me - 🫤 ....☄️😀

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Siân Harris @sianlouh.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

the absolute plethora of people this could apply to - 2026, you really are spoiling us.

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