Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn

Also, I have found the *best* quick & simple crumble recipe and it is a boon for using up fruit and, yes, we also have crumble tonight.

For the USHE crowd, fathom this: the systemic pattern in UKHE the past few years has been to CUT the best, most award-winning, most-grant-getting, most-publishing programs.

Feeling *extremely* smug and satisfied with this evening's dinner, not to mention once again impressed with how good Riverford recipes are. #TinyJoys

Bless academia, where someone, somewhere, has *always* come up with a scale of measurement for what you want to measure.

It really isn't their fault, a lot of the time, but it's a problem that we find particularly with the US practice of uploading BA honours theses to institutional repositories which then get scraped on the assumption that everything in the repository is at the same academic level.

I'm trying to encourage their use as a source of extra bibliography, but it's so hard to make the distinction clear when this stuff turns up on the library catalogue without any warnings.

Reading about qualitative data analysis this afternoon, because there is that MA which still needs to be done...

Look at @katharinehayhoe.com channel her apocalyptic optimist as she describes the fossil fuel swan song that we just witnessed at COP30. For the full conversation with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and me, tune into COPOut Episode 5, which airs TOMORROW!

I’m a cis woman who not infrequently gets mistaken for her (cis) husband on the landline. None of this stuff is consistently obvious.

(I also have a butch cis friend who has been unpleasantly challenged in the loos, and the scenario did not play out in the way the LGBAlliance promises).

This is a pattern that pervades the post REF2021 era. See also for example Kent, or at UoA level History, where the top 4 performing UoAs have all faced significant redundancies after their high results.

What does the White Paper (and DSIT/UKRI) mean by advocating 'specialism' in this context? 2/2

'It is notable that in the last Research Excellence Framework exercise the Department of American Studies at Nottingham was ranked third in the Area Studies unit of assessment and was one of the top-performing units across the whole of the University of Nottingham.' 1/2

Hallard Croft, flamboyant Cambridge don who waged war on Hugh Trevor-Roper at Peterhouse Amid the Hitler diaries furore, the Master of Peterhouse was also under siege from a cabal of reactionary dons known as the ‘vampires’

@rogger.bsky.social Don't know if you've got Telegraph access but this is a rather splendid obit of a Peterhouse fellow which we have very much enjoyed over lunch:

A WARRIOR FEARS NOTHING, NOT EVEN ASKING FOR HELP.

The finger of God in the spine.

It *is* very good! Although I had a hilarious moment with t'other half who said 'have you read that fantasy one with kaiju?' to which I went 'no! I haven't!' and then realised I had, because I hadn't... made the kaiju link. Because my reading brain and thinking brain apparently do not link up.

My theory is that they've put this last so that the gravelly voice required for the singing doesn't mean a sore throat for the rest of the musical numbers. #Strictly

Not quite sure what that first move was - just throwing George onto the floor in case he made a run for it? #Strictly

Was there some expectation that parish registers would be put somewhere in the church where they could be easily consulted at this period? (She writes as a non-historian but a generally interested human.)

"He bought a cummerbund specially for tonight!"
"I don't even know what that is..."

For many reasons this is joy. #Strictly

Well, I think we are all very much looking at Alex, and which of us has not wanted to have a group of young persons in bowler hats to catch us when we lean? Full Shirley Bassey vibes. #Strictly

Loving Alex's husband's duck T-shirt. #Strictly

I've been enjoying getting to know Karen so much. She's so collaborative and team-orientated and modest and ALSO so committed to doing the absolute best that she can. I would love for her to make it to the final. #Strictly

Good heavens. Carols had fun choreographing that one. Such an excellent piece of music for a paso. #Strictly

Tarot and fortune telling on this series of #Strictly? I may have Views.

#puer has just noted he would trust neither of his grandmothers in Blackpool. #Strictly

NINJA GRANDMOTHER! #Strictly

This doesn't surprise me. I would happily give her a cup of tea and a scone.

Was wondering how they were going to use extra dancers in a meaningful way for an Argentine and - yes, yes, that would do it. #Strictly

Not entirely sure about the goth Singing In The Rain vibe here. #Strictly

Tess living the dream. #Strictly