Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺

At home. I’m in Vancouver

I miss my dog

The hysterical thing about the manufactured woke banknotes furore is …

when was the last time you saw a banknote?

Because I use contactless for EVERYTHING and I can’t remember the last time I saw one in the wild.

NEW

Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence

What a close reading of public domain documents tells us about two concerning contract awards

Detailed post by me, following-up on my FT column

emptycity.substack.com/p/land-and-e...

Creative arts graduates aren't the problem – they're the subsidy Johnny Rich argues that low graduate salaries in the arts aren't a sign of poor courses – they're a sign of an industry that profits from exploiting its workforce

'some creative arts graduates don’t appear to earn a significant graduate premium, but the UK’s creative industries are worth £125bn a year or, to put it another way, more than £1 in every £20 in the UK economy – a larger proportion of the nation’s wealth than almost any other country on earth.' 1/3

We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

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Oh Canada….

here I come! Heading for the Association for Asian Studies conference in Vancouver, where my book will be awarded the 2026 Coomaraswamy Prize ❤️

looking forward to running along the beautiful waterfront too, and seeing one of my oldest bestest friends Gage Averill.

This is amazing Jo - congratulations

WIN: High Court throws out £8m lawsuit over tax avoidance investigation | Good Law Project We have successfully defended award-winning journalist Dan Neidle from an ‘oppressive’ claim which tried to silence him – but the law still needs reform

We've won the UK's first ever SLAPP suit - acting for @danneidle.bsky.social - and made some really important law protecting the right to call out barristers whose misconduct facilitates aggressive tax avoidance.

‘The shine has been taken off’: Dubai faces existential threat as foreigners flee conflict Tens of thousands of residents and tourists have left UAE since the US and Israel started bombing Iran two weeks ago, leaving beach bars, malls and hotels eerily empty

Oh boy, the Schadenfreude is strong

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I love hugging

Immediately! 😱

Me: always

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This one’s for British people, or the “cosmopolitan elites” at any rate:

What happened to the double kiss on greeting? I always used to do it. Was it Covid that got us all out of the habit?

TBF anything’s better than “raft”

<stares at a huge number of people I used to know>

Whoever that is I had already blocked them. No loss.

🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms

"I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"

Historian narrator: no we won’t. Not remotely unprecedented. Crack a book.

This, very hard.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Research Assistant / Post-Doc Researcher, Music - Maynooth, Ireland job with MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY | 408256 The Music Department at Maynooth University invites applications for a 12-month position as either a Research Assistant (Level 2) ...

The ERC-BROKENSONG project at Maynooth University, Ireland, is hiring (two positions - this is the second)! I'm also looking a new research assistant/postdoc to conduct image analysis of the medieval Insular music corpus recovered within the project. See: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

I can't compete with this.

SUCH a great thread. My grandmother didn’t get paid to work after she married, but she married a clergyman. Everyone knew that was a twofer. She worked full time unpaid in the parish as the minister’s wife (and mother of four).

My other grandmother bred horses and ran the dairy.

Thanks David. It went some way.

🚨 APPLICATIONS CLOSE THIS THURSDAY 🚨

Permanent Lecturer in 18C Music History
2-yr Lecturer in Performance
18-mo Lecturer in Screen Composition

@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs

Oh you have to give us a bigger clue. Cheer us all up

I think about this a lot

It’s second Sunday of the month, and this afternoon just off of Trafalgar Square, I’ll be running Captain Dan’s laundry for homeless, vulnerable, and/or destitute asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants