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Anna Grey

@annamgrey.bsky.social

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By day Director of Research and Innovation at Dundee University. By night, usually asleep. Data geek and research management guru. Plus knitting, singing and cat servant. Comments are in a personal capacity.

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 21h

I'm sure this is a metaphor for something, just not sure what.

Board at a bus stop that should have details and times of when buses might arrive. It is, of course, blank except for some graffiti saying 'It's not coming'. Fear not, a bus did arrive.

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 1d

Broughton (in Lincolnshire). Also Immingham, but only because they struggle to pronounce it at all. As a non-local Kinguisse.

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 1d

Neither did I, but just had a training day there. Well worth looking at the website as it's pretty special

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 1d

It is the Glasgow School of Art at Forres. If you get a chance to visit, I'd strongly recommend it.

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

Think Scotland. Though it's a satellite campus and in the middle of a forest

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, UK based. It's an Italianate design, not that that helps.

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

Well this is a tough one for anyone playing where in HE am I today?

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, and I'm still only 2/3rds of the way up on the mainland.

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

Well, Inverness is rather lovely. Though if you think Dundee is North, it took a further 4 hours to get here.

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, peer review of processes for PS sections, as required by the government, including externals! It's a great idea, but is quite resource intensive. In the UK, such reviews are only for when something had gone really badly wrong, so it's nice to do one where you aren't playing 'hunt the error'

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 4d

I had a fabulous, though very tiring, few days doing an external review of their research office (interesting QA model for PS services in Ireland, one we could learn from).

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 5d

Oh hurrah #Strictly evening has made it to Bluesky. That's going to make it even better.

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 6d

Isn't it just. Too soon for mulled wine?

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 6d

It's a cold and blustery day. I could go and do something productive like unpacking a box, cleaning the bathroom or hoovering. But the cat and have agreed it is a day for hunkering down, sitting on the sofa and in my case, a bit of knitting.

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 7d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 6d

You say haphazard, others would say artisan. It will be fabulous.

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 6d

Like the colours. What are knitting?

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 6d

You've got to love a place where using the excuse of, 'need to leave before the bridge gets closed' is a normal occurrence (bridge is indeed shut, glad I left early). Fingers crossed the power holds up.

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 7d

It's 'grandmother wins nobel prize' again. Sigh

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 8d

I will probably regret eating those cheese and biscuits just before I went to bed. But they were delicious and much needed.

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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 9d

Wahey, I'm on More or Less talking about league tables!

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Lincolnshire Day. You know Lincolnshire, that really long county that stops the Midlands falling into the North Sea.

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 9d

“I found this collection of images among a much larger number of slides from the 1950s and 60s in more than twenty boxes, at a flea market in Seattle, Washington. A couple of the labels on the boxes intrigued me—’Berlin, 1956′ and ‘Hungarian Border, 1957’”

www.slowtravelberlin.com/cold-war-ber...

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Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.bsky.social · 10d

A cool way to illustrate #Viking ships? Paint them on a pane of glass and set it up by the sea.

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 10d

I have a new ergonomic keyboard at work. I've used one before and I know it will sort out some hand and wrist pains that flare up. But if my emails are a bit terse at the moment, it's because it's taking a while to get used to and boy have I got sloppy with my touch typing. So many typos.