@lauriestras.bsky.social
Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton; director @musicasecreta.bsky.social
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
We should be honoured to host, teach and learn from these people not exclude them. I'm ashamed of our government.
I might come along just to say hello? @vidda.bsky.social and I will be working on our patch when she comes to stay next week 😍
Great to see a chapter by @cnlester.bsky.social in this important new book on Strozzi www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
I was going to say, TWO chapters!! so great and so chuffed to see the glittering company you keep.
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair
so good
Wowsers, congratulations!!
Holy cow
He thinks it's noteworthy that a politician 'shows signs of having been not wholly honest, or naive, or both' at one point in his life. Really?
Given that the incident in question was a set up by a Sun 'journalist' should we also pretend to be shocked that the journalist was 'not wholly honest' >
Let's play a game
Your pet gets chosen to be immortalised on a banknote
Which picture are you submitting?
No you didn’t, but that’s v cool.
What surprised me is that it's not a precursor to pride, at least not in these treatises. It's a sin against the vow of chastity, so it makes sense that monks were also admonished. If you aren't chaste, you can't sing the cantica nova with the angels...
Ever wondered why singing nuns were always criticised for vanity? When I realised I wasn't going to be able to go to Florence 😭😭 I made a video of my conference paper. Here it is, in all its #nuntastic wild-sources-strung-together-with-gossamer-threads-of-musicology glory.
youtu.be/N6O2qFQZ3G8
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Saw this headline and thought @unamcilvenna.bsky.social has made the news! Apparently not, but it's part of the same tradition.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
This is gonna be like a missing tooth all day. 'What is the point of this question and the underlying policy logic' is not a hard question to answer, and the minister of state *should be able to reach it from first principles* and *from being across the policy area*.
If you'd told me maybe three years ago that a UK news channel would be platforming someone to set out openly racist, far right, violent conspiracy theories, I'm not sure I'd have believed you. And yet here we are.
Remembering when Call the Midwife had a multi-series storyline about back street abortions. We’re not going back
@amnestyfeminist.bsky.social @stephenmcgann.uk
It doesn’t escape me that these are named after a woman and a teenage girl. It does not escape me that medical misogyny continues to kill.
Finally it's publishable (if not perfect - spot the mistakes!). Open access until March 17 #nuntastic #earlymodern #womeninmusic #skystorians #earlymusic
What day is it today? It's
* Bandcamp Friday AND
* nearly International Women's Day
so to celebrate #GirlsGotPolyphony it's time to go to our Bandcamp page and grab lots of #nuntastic music
It's also time for a big, HUGE announcement! Sneak a peak at our Linktree for a clue
linktr.ee/musicasecreta
Stop doom scrolling and have a listen:
[Plague, war, privation, nuns!]
Finally it's publishable (if not perfect - spot the mistakes!). Open access until March 17 #nuntastic #earlymodern #womeninmusic #skystorians #earlymusic
Laurie's Element *Music at a Florentine Convent* is finally available to read Open Access until at least March 17! So grab a copy of our album *Ricordanze* and settle in for a tale of plague, war, privation and the not-so-quiet lives of nuns in the Tuscan hills. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Heh.
Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.
Wow, this is wonderful!! Congratulations!