Cat Mahoney

Fave thing about Doom: The Dark Ages so far is the "yes, I'm aware the King is about to be overrun by a demon hoard, but there's a plushy hidden in this tower and I NEED IT" vibe.

a man is dancing in the rain in front of a store that says mayout Alt: Gene kelly is dancing in the rain in front of a store that says mayout swinging an umbrella back and forth. From singing in the rain

My 7 1/2-month-pregnant-ass now that the weather has finally broken

NEWS I Launched today in the @sotauol.bsky.social library, a vital new online safety resource for political parties and their communications teams. Read more ⬇️

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/09/u...

@digipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @jocoxfoundation.bsky.social @local.gov.uk

I'm excited to attend the launch event of the Safer Politics Online Safety Tool Kit, headed up by my brilliant colleagues in @commmedia.bsky.social @harm365.bsky.social @rosalynd.bsky.social

Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

Check out this opportunity to work in our dept with my fantastic Media and Politics colleagues. They're really good eggs. Closing date 30th June.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...
@commmedia.bsky.social

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Prof Diane Negra to give the Keynote address at our COSME PGR conference. @commmedia.bsky.social

a man with a beard is holding a gun in front of a building Alt: a man with a beard reaches out to grab a falling flower petal Infront of ruined buildings. A red haired woman stands behind him

So @expedition33.bsky.social lives up to the hype, huh? Stunning.

Registration now open!! COSME PGR conference, Disruption, Resistance and Change in Screen Media Industries, University of Liverpool, 19th May. Keynote speaker Prof Diane Negra.
Programme & registration: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cosmepgrconference2025
@commmedia.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Oh ok perfect! Thank you ☺️

Hey, @therookandtheraven.com please can I message you about an outstanding order? I tried to email but it keeps bouncing back. Thanks!

Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social members striking today. ✊✊✊✊

YouTube video by Larian Studios Baldur’s Gate 3: The Final Patch - An Animated Short

As someone who plays a Swarmkeeper, I endorse this message.

youtu.be/CwCyTt8fSAU?...

By complete accident, I happen to be in #Sumy this week in my personal capacity, visiting friends I made as part of an academic exchange between Sumy State University and the University of Liverpool.

My Brilliant colleagues doing brilliant things

Daredevil Born Again continues to absolutely slap. Bullseye is *such* an epic villain.

Extract from email to members threatening disciplinary action if they mention strikes in future out of office replies.

It gets worse…

Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes.

In what trade union world is this acceptable?

Dept of History, University of Liverpool - two fully-funded (fees and maintenance) PhD studentships; one studentship will be ring-fenced for Black applicants; the other for History of Race, Health and Medicine, 1700 - present. www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la... #skystorians 🗃️

a group of people are dancing in a room with a sign that says t on it Alt: a gif of the bridge crew of the Enterprise from Strantge new Worlds dancing on the bridge

The trailor for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 looks INSANE and I am so here for it.

📢📢📢 CALLING ALL PGRS 📢📢📢
Check out the #CFP for our forthcoming conference: 'Disruption, Resistance and Change in Screen Media Industries' with Keynote speaker Prof. Diane Negra!
Abstracts and bio to cosmepgr@liverpool.ac.uk. Deadline Friday 18th April.

A wooden chest carved to look as though it has teeth and eyes to look like a Mimic from Dungeons and Dragons.

A wooden chest carved to look as though it has teeth and eyes to look like a Mimic from Dungeons and Dragons. The lid/mouth is open.

I got a Mimic for Mother's Day. This is peak happiness.

D&D with friends is good for the soul.

A letter that reads the following: Petition from scholars of film and media to reinstate early moving image works on TMDB and Letterboxd 13 March 2025 Dear Travis Bell (TMDB) and Matthew Buchanan (Letterboxd), We are scholars of film and media writing to you as representatives of The Movie Database (TMDB) and Letterboxd to express our dismay at the decision taken by TMDB to remove photographic motion studies/chronophotography from its database. Following an update in February 2025, TMDB’s New Content Bible began listing “photographic motion studies (chronophotography)” among the list of types of content not allowed in the database. Shortly thereafter, these works began to be removed from the database. We are writing to request that this decision be reversed. TMDB and Letterboxd, which uses the former’s database, are preeminent resources in film cataloging, used globally by millions each year. Up until recently, one of the great advantages of this database has been the extensive number of entries documenting early moving-image experiments by the likes of Charles Comte, Georges Demenÿ, Étienne-Jules Marey, and Eadweard Muybridge, among others. Whereas TMDB’s New Content Bible, in its justification of these works’ removal, draws attention to the fact that there are over 100,000 works by Muybridge, we fail to see how this renders them unsuitable for the database. Instead, such a figure only reveals the extensivity of these moving-image works and encourages curiosity around them. We are well aware of the debates around when cinema can be said to have begun, what constitutes film, and the disagreements that persist on these topics. Rather than act as the arbiter of what among early moving-image cultures constitutes film and what does not, we urge you to take a more capacious approach. Such an approach would be in line with TMDB’s ethos as a “community built” endeavour and Letterboxd’s articulation of itself as a network for “ grass-roots film discussion and discovery”; t…

Sincerely, 1. Richard Abel, Emeritus Professor, University of Michigan Ann Arbor 2. Dr. Leslie Abramson 3. Prof. François Albera, Université de Lausanne 4. Lauren Alberque, film archivist, Kimbell Art Museum 5. Yousef Alghawi, University of Southern California 6. Jacopo Barbero, University of Amsterdam 7. Dr. Cory Barker, Penn State University 8. Prof. Martin Barnier, Université Lumière Lyon2 France 9. Giorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan 10. Erica Biolchini, University of Amsterdam 11. Assoc. Prof. Amy E. Borden, Portland State University 12. Marta Braun, Emeritus Professor and Director, Toronto Metropolitan University 13. Quin Bright 14. Dr. Cüneyt Çakırlar, Nottingham Trent University 15. Nick Carbone, New York Public University 16. Diana Cardenas, UCLA Film & Television Archive 17. Prof. Erica Carter, King’s College London 18. Bárbara Carvalho, CESEM/NOVA University of Lisbon 19. Barbara Cattaneo, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence 20. Asst. Prof. Palita Chunsaengcha, University of Minnesota 21. Laurel Day, George Blood LP 22. Asst. Prof. Doğa Çöl, Istanbul Medipol University 23. Prof. Allison Cooper, Bowdoin College 24. Dr. Keith Dando 25. Prof. Nicholas de Villiers, University of North Florida 26. Eileen DiPofi, University of Southern California 27. Prof. Kevin Donnelly, University of Southampton 28. Stephanie Dykes 29. Desirae Embree, Texas A&M University 30. Dr. Jacob Engelberg, University of Amsterdam 31. Dan Erdman, Media Burn 32. Dr. Victor Fan, King’s College London 33. Dr. Kathy Feeley, University of Redlands 34. Augustin Ferrari Braun, University of Amsterdam 35. Assoc. Prof. Allyson Nadia Field, University of Chicago 36. Asst. Prof. Roberto Filippello, University of Amsterdam 37. Dr. Ian Fleishman, University of Pennsylvania 38. Dr. Charles Forceville, Universiteit van Amsterdam 39. Dr. John Fullerton, Emeritus Professor, Stockholm University 40. Luis Alonso García, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 41. Dr. Philippa Gates, Laurier University 42. Dr…

47. Prof. em. Thomas Gunning, University of Chicago 48. James Haberl, Niles North High School 49. Dr. Gert Jan Harkema, University of Amsterdam 50. Benjamin Harry, Brigham Young University 51. Sarah Hartzell, The Ohio State University 52. Mirko Heinemann 53. Prof. Maggie Hennefeld, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 54. Scott Higgins, Wesleyan University 55. William E. Hill III 56. Prof. Laura Horak, Carleton University 57. Amanda Howard, CA, University of Arizona Libraries 58. Prof. Daniel Humphrey, Texas A&M University 59. Dr. Rhys Steven Jones, University of Amsterdam 60. Tien-Tien Jong, University of Chicago 61. Tara D. Kelley, Rutgers University 62. Dr. Laurence Kent, University of Bristol 63. Jane Keranen, University of Chicago 64. Susan Kerns, PhD, Milwaukee Film 65. Prof. em. Dr. Frank Kessler, Utrecht University 66. Ben Kiem, University of Toronto 67. Dr. N.H. de Klerk, Utrecht University/Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History, Wien 68. Katerina Korola, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 69. Reto Kromer, AV preservation by reto.ch 70. Prof. Thomas Lamarre, University of Chicago 71. Christine Lamy 72. Mary Lane 73. Dr. Michael Lawrence, University of Sussex 74. Dr. S. Lenk, Philipps-University Marburg 75. Jim Leonard 76. Kristin Lipska, Prelinger Archives 77. Loiseau, freelance researcher 78. Hugo Ljungbäck, University of Chicago 79. Letícia Magalhães 80. Dr. Cat Mahoney, University of Liverpool 81. Anne-Marie Malthête-Quévrain, Cinémathèque Méliès 82. Andronika Martonova, Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 83. Michael Mazzacane 84. Dr. Robert J. Mills, University of Southampton 85. Juliëtte Molenaars, Universiteit van Amsterdam 86. Prof. Daniel Morgan, University of Chicago 87. Charles Musser, Yale University 88. Gary Needham, University of Liverpool 89. Arcadio Andrea Oranday, University of Chicago 90. Prof. Federico Pierotti, University of Lausanne 91. Eric Pitz, UCLA 92. D Plumer 93. Prof. Karen Redrobe, University of Pen…

94. Valentine Robert, Maîtresse d'enseignement et de recherche, University of Lausanne 95. Steve Ruffin 96. Daniel Sánchez Salas, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 97. Kendra Lee Sanders, University of Chicago 98. Dr. Maria San Filippo 99. Michael Seeber 100. Dr. Martha Shearer, University College Dublin 101. Dr. Elyse Singer, City University of New York 102. Dr. Thomas Slater, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 103. Dr. Hannah Spaulding, University of Liverpool 104. PD Dr. Simon Spiegel, University of Zurich 105. Prof. Aurore Spiers, Texas A&M University 106. Dr. Katherine Spring, Wilfrid Laurier University 107. Distinguished Prof. Shelley Stamp, University of California, Santa Cruz 108. Prof. dr. Eliza Steinbock, Maastricht University 109. Alex Thelen 110. Dr. Michael L. Thomas, University of Amsterdam 111. Maria Tortajada, Professeur ordinaire, Université de Lausanne 112. Prof. Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool 113. Prof. em. William Uricchio, MIT 114. Dr. Tjalling Valdés Olmos, University of Amsterdam 115. Dr. Gwendolyn Waltz, independent scholar 116. Vanessa Weller, Michigan State University 117. Dr. Grant Wiedenfeld, Sam Houston State University 118. Dr. Maryn Wilkinson, University of Amsterdam 119. Prof. Michael Williams, University of Southampton

119 film and media scholars from 61 institutions across 16 countries have written to Travis Bell (The Movie Database) and Matthew Buchanan (Letterboxd) to make the case to reinstate early moving image works in their catalogues. Thank you to everyone who signed.

Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from...

In these hard times it's good to find things that offer hope. If you're anywhere near London's Euston Road do call in to the Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice exhibition at the Wellcome Library. Inspired by Dr Lea Cooper's PhD.
wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...

“The majority of people who are forced to come to our food banks are disabled.. there is an incredible level of hardship out there & we are appalled the government looks at that situation & appears to be deciding to make huge cuts to the support people get"

Helen Barnard @trusselluk.bsky.social

THE MEMES WRITE THEMSELVES AT THIS POINT.

(also: UUK: that's your job.)

A poster giving details and scannable QR codes to recruit participants for a research project at the University of Liverpool into the creation of accessible and inclusive spaces and resources for TTRPGs.

📢📢 WE ARE RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS📢📢

If you are interested in Dungeons and Dragons or TTRPGs more generally and would like to be involved in research seeking to create accessible and inclusive games and resources for players and GMs then check out this #CFP

@commmedia.bsky.social

patrick star from spongebob squarepants holding a green flag and a yellow glove that says " i am not okay " Alt: patrick star from spongebob squarepants holding a green flag and a yellow glove that says " i am not okay "

Opening of #DaredevilBornAgain

New Connections Schedule Information about research talks in 2025 is given below. We would like to thank our ECR members for applying to take part and colleagues at the various host universities for being so welcoming. ...

The 2025 @baftss.bsky.social New Connections Schedule is now available! Showcasing research undertaken by ECRs in Film, Media and Screen Studies, providing them with bursaries to present their work to new audiences. Thanks to our sponsor Manchester University Press www.baftss.org/new-connecti...

Poster in the style of such initiatives (smiley faces and pastel colours) referencing the University's feel good February scheme but adding the voluntary severance and mandatory return to campus policies rather than the bake sales and yoga sessions you'd usually see. It ends with Join your union

Feelin Good! Definitely Not Demoralised! ##FeelGoodFebruary

Distracted boyfriend meme. Boyfriend is 'university of liverpool'. Girl he's dis by is '60% mandatory return to work and voluntary leavers scheme'. Girlfriend is 'staff Wellbeing'

Gru meme. First three pages of his plan say 'demand 60% return to campus. Offer no valid reasons. Announce voluntary severance scheme'. The final one where is realises the plan is going wrong says 'motivate more staff than ever to join a union'

Ryan Gosling hey girl meme. Text says 'hey girl happy Valentines Day. Have you thought about voluntarily leaving me? Oh cuz I've thought about you voluntarily leaving me'. Tim Jones the VC is Ryan here

This is fine 🔥🔥🔥