Dr Claire McGee

Heated blanket, paracetamol, stuffy nose and a cough… and yet I’m attempting to stay up for #BenitoBowl

Still got it, ludicrous.

#LastFourWatched

Volunteers wanted to live on Skomer Island and count puffins Successful applicants will spend several months helping conservation efforts on Skomer Island, off the Pembrokeshire coast.

Back up plan: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This morning’s view 🌍 #MonaHatoum

Oh I’m inherently very annoying

Turns out I’ve got that wretched bug going around 🤧

Metal Music Studies 11.3 is out now!

Including ‘The heaviness of metal music: The sublime and religious experience’ by Marek Vodička.

Access the issue via discover 👉
https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/mms/11/3

Have spent my life a fan of cold weather, I fear I'm turning into someone who would like to escape to sunnier climes in the winter months... if only for the sake of my aching joints. Alternating between heatpads and hobbling around the flat making groaning noises like some kind of Victorian spectre

A workflow diagram: Have great idea Finish project Start project Tell everyone The finish project is missed out.

Morning

Here are the UEA Centre for African Art and Archaeology lectures this semester:

Doctoral Training Programme: What's Not There? Absences in Collections | Museums and Collections Explore techniques to research 'against the grain' and uncover marginalised stories.

Are you a PhD student interested in using museum collections in your research?

Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections.

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/doc...

If you need me, I’ll be gazing lovingly at my MoMA collab coffee machine #artnerd

Today is my last day temping for the PAL/Library and Learning Enhancement Team at UEA 😢

Fantastic Centre for African Art and Archaeology lecture this evening by Prof. Raymond Silverman: ‘Reflections on Visual Piety in 21st Century Ethiopia’ at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social #sainsburyresearchunit

This has reminded me of the lemon one that my Mum would get us as a treat, I found the whole idea of boiling the tin fascinating as a child

We actually have some AHRC PhD funding! www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Image of Kermit in a sweater with caption ‘I’m so lucky, but this is still really hard’ by SillyLilyArts

Incredibly grateful to have studied for, and achieved, a PhD… but the ‘career’ job hunt really is demoralising 😥

Early Career Researchers wanted!

Apply to speak/perform at next year's British Science Festival #BSF26. We'll be at the University of Southampton.

Award Lectures are available in seven areas incl. social sciences, and seek to highlight the interdisciplinarity of science, research and innovation:

MA Heritage and Museum Studies with Professional Placement - Heritage and Museum Studies Degree | University of Essex MA Heritage and Museum Studies with Professional Placement offers a unique opportunity for you to gain relevant work experience within an external business.

We're offering our MA in Heritage and Museum Studies as a two-year degree with placement from next autumn. I'm very happy to talk to anyone interested in taking it: www.essex.ac.uk/courses/PG01...

Always coordinate your water bottle to your shoes 🧡

Back working with PAL in the gloriously brutalist Main Library

After 2 years… I’ve finally got the news I’ve been waiting for, my ankle is no longer broken and the tendons, although heavily scarred, are healed!! I need more physio and OT, but it’s amazing news, especially as I’m finally starting to feeling like myself again ☺️

Refracting Resilience: Tesfaye Urgessa’s Dialogues with Memory and Flesh - ART AFRICA Magazine At the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, painting bears witness to trauma, displacement and the slow work of healing. Tesfaye Urgessa, The Fragile Mind, 2025. Oil and lacquer on canvas. Copyright of the arti...

Refracting Resilience: Tesfaye Urgessa's
Dialogues with Memory and Flesh -
At the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, painting bears witness to trauma, displacement and the slow work of healing. artafricamagazine.org/refracting-r...

"If we gave up now, it would destroy our scene." Botswana's death metal cowboys Overthrust are flying the flag for African metal Botswana's Overthrust have overcome hardship and tragedy to fly the flag for African metal

"If we gave up now, it would destroy our scene." Botswana's death metal cowboys Overthrust are flying the flag for African metal www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...

Endoscopy done, currently feel
mashed off my face… roll on the results - Fingers crossed for no coeliacs 🤞

Currently 3/5 through a really lovely temping contract atm. I went into it thinking it’d be standard admin and it’s ended up being an amazing insight into a section of the uni I knew little of before. Not only is it a warm & welcoming team, but I’ve been able to collaborate a little on a project ❤️

Archaeologists to excavate Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters Kelvingrove park is site of Scotland’s first skatepark, Kelvin Wheelies, which has been covered in rubble for decades Scotland’s first outdoor skatepark – currently buried beneath rubble in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove park – will be excavated next week in an attempt to preserve its legacy. Archaeologists at the University of Glasgow are inviting volunteers to join them as they begin their excavation and survey work at the former Kelvin Wheelies park, which has been underground for more than three decades. Continue reading...

Archaeologists to excavate Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters