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Colon Musk, CEO of GaceX
@themilfmag.net
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good lord
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Dan Elphick@danelphick.bsky.social |
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Lecturer in Musicology at RHUL, working on history, music analysis, and Slavonic studies. Also a runner and TU organiser. Join a Union. Listen to Shostakovich. I wrote a book on Weinberg: tinyurl.com/5xs2h82h
danielelphick.co.uk
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Colon Musk, CEO of GaceX
@themilfmag.net
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good lord
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b_wildered 🌹🇬🇧
@bwildered.bsky.social
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Harsh.
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Going to buy a bottle of champagne for the exit poll tonight.
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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My favourite shot from Glastonbury last week - looking in to the Big Easy Jam tent from backstage, inspecting and saying 'what song they playing in there?'
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Voting is cool, folks!
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"Username Checks Out" Mark Monro 🏳🌈
@thatidiotmonro.bsky.social
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Keir Starmer's wife and children are Jewish. The Tories' big attack line is that he wants to spend Friday night with them? I dunno, lads, seems a bit...
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RMA
@royalmusical.bsky.social
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Call for Proposals: BFE and RMA Research Students' Conference 2025, University of Aberdeen
www.rma.ac.uk/2024/06/20/c...
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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'The British public values the UK’s universities more highly than the legal system or the BBC. Unis came behind only the NHS, the armed forces and the royal family in a league table of UK institutions considered to be among the best in the world by the public.'
www.theguardian.com/education/ar...
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Jake
@whiskeytown.bsky.social
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Bitcoin consumes about 2.5% of US electricity, about the same as all residential cooling. An article decrying *that* electricity usage as a personal moral failing would be much less tone deaf.
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Kevin Gannon
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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The problem isn't that AI can do your job (it can't). The problem is management thinks AI can do your job.
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Hugh Morris
@hwfmorris.bsky.social
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NEW: A Freedom of Information request by VAN has revealed how Sir Nicholas Serota, chair of Arts Council England, put significant pressure on Welsh National Opera after their music director spoke out about financial difficulties
van-magazine.com/mag/nicholas...
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Ayo
@darrylayo.bsky.social
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Using the computer to make art: 1. Email an artist 2. Offer them a fair wage 3. Voila
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James Barišić
@jamesmb.bsky.social
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Following the heartbreaking news that Rishi Sunak didn't have Sky TV as a kid, I have set up a JustGiving page.
Please give generously and also help spread the word.
Thank you.
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www.justgiving.com/page/rishi-s...
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Guess who just passed probation a year early? (after having worked at Royal Holloway for only seven and a half years!)
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Ruth Holliday We Deserve Better
@ruthholliday.bsky.social
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Ruth Holliday We Deserve Better
@ruthholliday.bsky.social
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Went to a party this afternoon with a bunch of academics from at least 6 UK universities. All but one - including RG unis - were facing redundancy / voluntary severance schemes. Some compulsory redundancies. UK unis are in free fall.
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Frovo
@frovo.bsky.social
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ME: *whispers to date while touring the sistene chapel* can you believe a turtle painted this
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Peter Sagal
@petersagal.bsky.social
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Latest poll puts Tories losing *332* seats, set to be the third party in the commons behind Lib Dems. You love to see it.
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Potentially the largest swing since 1931 - and if the poll above holds up, the largest parliamentary majority ever.
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Latest poll puts Tories losing *332* seats, set to be the third party in the commons behind Lib Dems. You love to see it.
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Kathleen E. Kennedy
@themedievaldrk.bsky.social
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A very clear long-read on the situation here in UKHE. Never thought I'd see "command and control" used w/r/t HE but here we are.
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Radio 1 listeners can hear my dulcet tones speaking about music, politics, and Taylor Swift on today's Newsbeat feature!
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Edward Morbius
@edwardmorbius.bsky.social
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There's an Apocryphal academia story my dad used tell, about a professor who got lost in Rome. He didn't speak Italian so he went up to a cop and asked for directions in Latin. The cop replied back in Latin "Sir, it seems you haven't been here in a very long time".
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Do consider contributing to this crowdfunder for an English translation of an important collection of Shostakovich letters: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/letters-fr...
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Dr Vanessa
@hpsvanessa.bsky.social
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The people who work for my union are going on strike because their employers (my union) aren’t treating them right. And this is the body that is supposed to protect me, as an employee, while my industry implodes? You could not make this stuff up.
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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨
@davidgerard.co.uk
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crime is now illegal. due to woke.
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Rev. Jesus “H" Christ, KSC
@reverendjesus.com
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Holy shit, he was convicted on Covfefe Day
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Tim Park
@timpark.bsky.social
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New Trump campaign bus spotted
#trump #felon
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Christy, Butlerian Jihadist
@birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social
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The timeline right now looks like an Ewok party after the Death Star exploded
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✨brit ✨
@britculpsapp.bsky.social
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gonna dust off this old list of reasons to call in sick to work
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will pooley
@willpooley.bsky.social
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im going to apply to one of the schemes that is inviting humanities people to use innovative AI for a groundbreaking project whose core method is: don’t
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Conor Conneally
@ernekid.bsky.social
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Turns out that ‘bring back National Service isn’t very popular with young people
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Joanna Wyld
@joannawyld.bsky.social
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Labour should counter by emphasising better mental health provision for the same age group. It's in their manifesto; now would be the time to draw attention to that policy. (I fear they won't because they don't want to alienate the idiots. They should be alienating the idiots.)
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Terry Baucher
@trabaq.bsky.social
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Another Tory policy scuppered by forgetting that Northern Ireland exists
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Neil Campbell
@astralsocialite.bsky.social
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I don't much care about celebrity birthdays, but I make an exception for the indomitable Marshall Allen @sunrauniverse.bsky.social turning 100 today. Happy Birthday!
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drewtoothpaste
@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social
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i just broke up 2 dads in a parking lot stuck in a loop of saying "Hi Dad, I'm Dad" to each other. had to put a blanket over one of em like a parrot
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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In the middle of, well, *everything* going on yesterday, I had news that a module I co-teach has been awarded a commendation in the Teaching Prizes at work! Some rather lovely news to find in my inbox.
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Pleased to have been elected Chair of Royal Holloway UCU Branch for 24/25! A vital time for strength in numbers, considering everything in the HE sector right now.
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Laura Sangha
@lsangha.bsky.social
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Take things slow - and please reach out if I can take some load off during things we have together today.
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Lomelindi12
@lomelindi12.bsky.social
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😏
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Joe Pasquale
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Glen O'Hara
@gsoh31.bsky.social
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The situation in British HE is now truly alarming. Although we long ago ran out of time to prevent widespread damage, we can at least still swerve a real collapse. I think we've got until early next year at the latest to put in place stopgap measures for 2025/26. www.theguardian.com/education/ar...
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Last call for my fundraiser for Tough Enough to Care, a mental health charity doing vital work across the UK (just £10 away from target!) www.justgiving.com/page/dan-elp...
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Fun fact of the day: if all the people living in the world joined hands in a human chain around the globe, most of them would drown. Tune in tomorrow for more fun facts!
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Open Culture
@openculture.bsky.social
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David Lynch Directs a Mini-Season of Twin Peaks in the Form of Japanese Coffee Commercials
www.openculture.com/2015/11/davi...
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RMA
@royalmusical.bsky.social
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News: nominations now open for Royal Musical Association Council. We have openings for three Ordinary Members and one Vice-President. Further details here: www.rma.ac.uk/2024/05/16/n...
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Martin D.B. Brown
@martindbbrown.bsky.social
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Wonder what happened to all those EU students?
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Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
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Run into the ground by who? Well, different governments who thought a marketised system would work for higher education, managers who embraced that system, managers who happily took on huge debts, and above all else, the politicisation of student fees, the sole income for Universities. A shambles.
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