Rachel Willie

I mean, if it was Shakespeare, I’d certainly be amazed! 🤪

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Why do I ALWAYS lose the game of pedestrian, puddle bus? 🥺 🚌

[yes, I’m harassing @anitaanand.bsky.social again, but this time not about her & @willdalrymple.bsky.social doing an @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on Wales & its complex relationship with colonialism. Btw, loving the fascinating current series on Palestine]

Listening to David Hare and @anitaanand.bsky.social on PM discuss the problems faced by regional theatre and thinking they need to also chat with @rob-myles.bsky.social & his Stage Bright Idea award-winning proposals for a regional theatre network.

Shakespeare?
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_ducks_

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Also: I love the tone of the automated acknowledgement replies — so much warmer than the usual non-descript botty tone!

It’s tricky, isn’t it? Not being centralised, I imagine, gives much more autonomy; it’s a pity there can’t be a way of keeping this while reducing the inevitable duplication that comes from it.

Yup. I’m astonished at the amount of work it must be to put together all the different selection committees — especially at the same time of year as the UCAS applications are coming in.

It’s a good thing I don’t have an Oxbridge leadership role: I’d likely propose a process for centralising JRF recruitment, then assigning colleges (& respective perks) to the successful candidates via a sorting hat/first come first serve or whatever. A bloody civil war would most likely break loose.

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It’s just dawned on me that my peers and I began our PhDs in October 2005 and I’m in denial about the passage of time.

YORK!!!!!!!!

God, imagine being driven by unevidenced fears of people you've made no effort to understand, making outlandish claims about who they are and what they do, then stoking those fears in others and making it all worse.

And then making a show about witches with Alice Roberts.

Pity my mother, with offspring such as me…

Good luck. I think a school friend’s parents are still in recovery from the sleepover of 1993. And her dad went over and stayed at his mate’s house, leaving his wife to handle the situation solo.

👉 #IsCheeseRational?

[if you know, you know…]

There are also instances of women preaching and in positions of power in various sects throughout the Middle Ages and women also had a priestly role in the Early Church.

It’s astonishing that we’re hearing this from a former Human Rights Lawyer. Talk about poacher turned game keeper.

My favourite are toucan for the expert punnage and Pegasus for their scarcity. Indeed, Pegasus is so rare that I would suspect them to be mythical if it were not for sightings in Wimbledon village. Maybe the Wombles are to blame.

Zebra = white stripes on the road. Cars must give way to allow any pedestrians at the side of the road to cross.

Pegasus = crossing with the button about 2 metres up the pole, to allow those on horseback to press the button without dismounting & a green horse trotting instead of a green man walking

Pelican = your common all garden green man walking crossing

Puffin (Pedestrian User-Friendly INtelligent Crossing) = the pelican upgrade, where the green man is above button & sensors adjust the length of time to cross to suit your gait

Toucan = bikes & pedestrians. Two Can cross at the same time

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Remembering the time we tried to explain pelican, puffin, toucan, zebra and pegasus crossings to @matthewharrison.bsky.social, though I suspect he still doesn’t believe us…

Lily Dunn's 'Into Being' is a milestone text in the art of life writing. I'm looking forward to chairing a discussion with her at @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social next month. It will be a great evening about how we raise raw personal material and make it powerfully universal.

👀 @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social

Can’t believe this book is TEN????

WE ARE OFF!

If you're still on commute or school run, you should be able to pick this up later as it's recorded. But always lovely to be able to actually ask questions of our brilliant post-docs.
#SkyStorians #EarlyModern