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Cat Mahoney

@catmahoney.bsky.social

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Senior Lecturer Communication and Media at University of Liverpool. Researching television, gender, collective memory, convergence and Dungeons & Dragons. Common or Garden Nerd.

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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Dec 19

I'm super excited to have been awarded an IAA grant from the AHRC to explore accessibility and inclusion in Dungeons and Dragons. I'll be working with the fantastic Bulwark Games so if you're a D&D player, DM, venue, society etc. and have thoughts about creating inclusive gaming spaces get in touch!

a cartoon of a monster with many eyes flying through the air with rays coming out of its eyes .

ALT: a cartoon of a monster with many eyes flying through the air with rays coming out of its eyes .

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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Jul 1

Fave thing about Doom: The Dark Ages so far is the "yes, I'm aware the King is about to be overrun by a demon hoard, but there's a plushy hidden in this tower and I NEED IT" vibe.

Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Jun 21

My 7 1/2-month-pregnant-ass now that the weather has finally broken

a man is dancing in the rain in front of a store that says mayout

Alt: Gene kelly is dancing in the rain in front of a store that says mayout swinging an umbrella back and forth. From singing in the rain

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University of Liverpool News @livuninews.bsky.social · Jun 9

NEWS I Launched today in the @sotauol.bsky.social library, a vital new online safety resource for political parties and their communications teams. Read more ⬇️

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/09/u...

@digipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @jocoxfoundation.bsky.social @local.gov.uk

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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Jun 9

I'm excited to attend the launch event of the Safer Politics Online Safety Tool Kit, headed up by my brilliant colleagues in @commmedia.bsky.social @harm365.bsky.social @rosalynd.bsky.social

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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Jun 3

Check out this opportunity to work in our dept with my fantastic Media and Politics colleagues. They're really good eggs. Closing date 30th June.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...
@commmedia.bsky.social

Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · May 19

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Prof Diane Negra to give the Keynote address at our COSME PGR conference. @commmedia.bsky.social

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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · May 15

So @expedition33.bsky.social lives up to the hype, huh? Stunning.

a man with a beard is holding a gun in front of a building

Alt: a man with a beard reaches out to grab a falling flower petal Infront of ruined buildings. A red haired woman stands behind him

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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · May 7

Registration now open!! COSME PGR conference, Disruption, Resistance and Change in Screen Media Industries, University of Liverpool, 19th May. Keynote speaker Prof Diane Negra.
Programme & registration: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cosmepgrconference2025
@commmedia.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · May 4

Oh ok perfect! Thank you ☺️

Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · May 4

Hey, @therookandtheraven.com please can I message you about an outstanding order? I tried to email but it keeps bouncing back. Thanks!

Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Apr 25

Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social members striking today. ✊✊✊✊

ulivucu.bsky.social @ulivucu.bsky.social · Apr 25

@uniteucu.bsky.social 💪✊️

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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Apr 16

As someone who plays a Swarmkeeper, I endorse this message.

youtu.be/CwCyTt8fSAU?...

Baldur’s Gate 3: The Final Patch - An Animated Short

YouTube video by Larian Studios

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · Apr 14

By complete accident, I happen to be in #Sumy this week in my personal capacity, visiting friends I made as part of an academic exchange between Sumy State University and the University of Liverpool.

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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Apr 11

My Brilliant colleagues doing brilliant things

Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool @commmedia.bsky.social · Apr 11

It's Publication Friday! 🚨 And we've got some cracking eggs from 🐣 from our team!

We've had so many recently, it's going to be a 🧵, but take a look if you're interested in some of the work we do! Abstracts and links below 👇

(Sorry to the co-authors I've cut for the word count)

#commsky

Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Apr 9

Daredevil Born Again continues to absolutely slap. Bullseye is *such* an epic villain.

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Apr 3

It gets worse…

Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes.

In what trade union world is this acceptable?

Extract from email to members threatening disciplinary action if they mention strikes in future out of office replies.

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Apr 3

Dept of History, University of Liverpool - two fully-funded (fees and maintenance) PhD studentships; one studentship will be ring-fenced for Black applicants; the other for History of Race, Health and Medicine, 1700 - present. www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la... #skystorians 🗃️

Postgraduate research | School of Histories, Languages and Cultures | University of Liverpool facebookThe Original RedbrickUniversity of Liverpool on FacebookLivUni on InstagramLivUni on YouTube...

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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Apr 3

The trailor for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 looks INSANE and I am so here for it.

a group of people are dancing in a room with a sign that says t on it

Alt: a gif of the bridge crew of the Enterprise from Strantge new Worlds dancing on the bridge

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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Apr 2

📢📢📢 CALLING ALL PGRS 📢📢📢
Check out the #CFP for our forthcoming conference: 'Disruption, Resistance and Change in Screen Media Industries' with Keynote speaker Prof. Diane Negra!
Abstracts and bio to [email protected]. Deadline Friday 18th April.

Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool @commmedia.bsky.social · Apr 2

Big news from our COSME PGR centre who are launching the CFP for their Conference "Disruption, Resistance and Change in Screen Media Industries"! 🎥

May 19th, UoL Campus.

Please re-share and forward to relevant people.

#commsky #AcademicSky #FilmSky

www.liverpool.ac.uk/communicatio...

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Disruption, Resistance and Change in Screen Media Industries | Department of Communication and Media | University of Liverpool linkedinyoutubeinstagramThe Original RedbrickUniversity of Liverpoo...

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Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Mar 30

I got a Mimic for Mother's Day. This is peak happiness.

A wooden chest carved to look as though it has teeth and eyes to look like a Mimic from Dungeons and Dragons.

A wooden chest carved to look as though it has teeth and eyes to look like a Mimic from Dungeons and Dragons. The lid/mouth is open.

Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social · Mar 14

D&D with friends is good for the soul.

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · Mar 13

119 film and media scholars from 61 institutions across 16 countries have written to Travis Bell (The Movie Database) and Matthew Buchanan (Letterboxd) to make the case to reinstate early moving image works in their catalogues. Thank you to everyone who signed.

A letter that reads the following:

Petition from scholars of film and media to reinstate early moving image works on TMDB and Letterboxd
13 March 2025
Dear Travis Bell (TMDB) and Matthew Buchanan (Letterboxd),
We are scholars of film and media writing to you as representatives of The Movie Database (TMDB) and Letterboxd to express our dismay at the decision taken by TMDB to remove photographic motion studies/chronophotography from its database.
Following an update in February 2025, TMDB’s New Content Bible began listing “photographic motion studies (chronophotography)” among the list of types of content not allowed in the database. Shortly thereafter, these works began to be removed from the database. We are writing to request that this decision be reversed.
TMDB and Letterboxd, which uses the former’s database, are preeminent resources in film cataloging, used globally by millions each year. Up until recently, one of the great advantages of this database has been the extensive number of entries documenting early moving-image experiments by the likes of Charles Comte, Georges Demenÿ, Étienne-Jules Marey, and Eadweard Muybridge, among others. Whereas TMDB’s New Content Bible, in its justification of these works’ removal, draws attention to the fact that there are over 100,000 works by Muybridge, we fail to see how this renders them unsuitable for the database. Instead, such a figure only reveals the extensivity of these moving-image works and encourages curiosity around them.
We are well aware of the debates around when cinema can be said to have begun, what constitutes film, and the disagreements that persist on these topics. Rather than act as the arbiter of what among early moving-image cultures constitutes film and what does not, we urge you to take a more capacious approach. Such an approach would be in line with TMDB’s ethos as a “community built” endeavour and Letterboxd’s articulation of itself as a network for “ grass-roots film discussion and discovery”; t…

Sincerely,
1. Richard Abel, Emeritus Professor, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
2. Dr. Leslie Abramson
3. Prof. François Albera, Université de Lausanne
4. Lauren Alberque, film archivist, Kimbell Art Museum
5. Yousef Alghawi, University of Southern California
6. Jacopo Barbero, University of Amsterdam
7. Dr. Cory Barker, Penn State University
8. Prof. Martin Barnier, Université Lumière Lyon2 France
9. Giorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan
10. Erica Biolchini, University of Amsterdam
11. Assoc. Prof. Amy E. Borden, Portland State University
12. Marta Braun, Emeritus Professor and Director, Toronto Metropolitan University
13. Quin Bright
14. Dr. Cüneyt Çakırlar, Nottingham Trent University
15. Nick Carbone, New York Public University
16. Diana Cardenas, UCLA Film & Television Archive
17. Prof. Erica Carter, King’s College London
18. Bárbara Carvalho, CESEM/NOVA University of Lisbon
19. Barbara Cattaneo, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence
20. Asst. Prof. Palita Chunsaengcha, University of Minnesota
21. Laurel Day, George Blood LP
22. Asst. Prof. Doğa Çöl, Istanbul Medipol University
23. Prof. Allison Cooper, Bowdoin College
24. Dr. Keith Dando
25. Prof. Nicholas de Villiers, University of North Florida
26. Eileen DiPofi, University of Southern California
27. Prof. Kevin Donnelly, University of Southampton
28. Stephanie Dykes
29. Desirae Embree, Texas A&M University
30. Dr. Jacob Engelberg, University of Amsterdam
31. Dan Erdman, Media Burn
32. Dr. Victor Fan, King’s College London
33. Dr. Kathy Feeley, University of Redlands
34. Augustin Ferrari Braun, University of Amsterdam
35. Assoc. Prof. Allyson Nadia Field, University of Chicago
36. Asst. Prof. Roberto Filippello, University of Amsterdam
37. Dr. Ian Fleishman, University of Pennsylvania
38. Dr. Charles Forceville, Universiteit van Amsterdam
39. Dr. John Fullerton, Emeritus Professor, Stockholm University
40. Luis Alonso García, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
41. Dr. Philippa Gates, Laurier University
42. Dr…

47. Prof. em. Thomas Gunning, University of Chicago
48. James Haberl, Niles North High School
49. Dr. Gert Jan Harkema, University of Amsterdam
50. Benjamin Harry, Brigham Young University
51. Sarah Hartzell, The Ohio State University
52. Mirko Heinemann
53. Prof. Maggie Hennefeld, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
54. Scott Higgins, Wesleyan University
55. William E. Hill III
56. Prof. Laura Horak, Carleton University
57. Amanda Howard, CA, University of Arizona Libraries
58. Prof. Daniel Humphrey, Texas A&M University
59. Dr. Rhys Steven Jones, University of Amsterdam
60. Tien-Tien Jong, University of Chicago
61. Tara D. Kelley, Rutgers University
62. Dr. Laurence Kent, University of Bristol
63. Jane Keranen, University of Chicago
64. Susan Kerns, PhD, Milwaukee Film
65. Prof. em. Dr. Frank Kessler, Utrecht University
66. Ben Kiem, University of Toronto
67. Dr. N.H. de Klerk, Utrecht University/Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History, Wien
68. Katerina Korola, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
69. Reto Kromer, AV preservation by reto.ch
70. Prof. Thomas Lamarre, University of Chicago
71. Christine Lamy
72. Mary Lane
73. Dr. Michael Lawrence, University of Sussex
74. Dr. S. Lenk, Philipps-University Marburg
75. Jim Leonard
76. Kristin Lipska, Prelinger Archives
77. Loiseau, freelance researcher
78. Hugo Ljungbäck, University of Chicago
79. Letícia Magalhães
80. Dr. Cat Mahoney, University of Liverpool
81. Anne-Marie Malthête-Quévrain, Cinémathèque Méliès
82. Andronika Martonova, Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
83. Michael Mazzacane
84. Dr. Robert J. Mills, University of Southampton
85. Juliëtte Molenaars, Universiteit van Amsterdam
86. Prof. Daniel Morgan, University of Chicago
87. Charles Musser, Yale University
88. Gary Needham, University of Liverpool
89. Arcadio Andrea Oranday, University of Chicago
90. Prof. Federico Pierotti, University of Lausanne
91. Eric Pitz, UCLA
92. D Plumer
93. Prof. Karen Redrobe, University of Pen…

94. Valentine Robert, Maîtresse d'enseignement et de recherche, University of Lausanne
95. Steve Ruffin
96. Daniel Sánchez Salas, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
97. Kendra Lee Sanders, University of Chicago
98. Dr. Maria San Filippo
99. Michael Seeber
100. Dr. Martha Shearer, University College Dublin
101. Dr. Elyse Singer, City University of New York
102. Dr. Thomas Slater, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
103. Dr. Hannah Spaulding, University of Liverpool
104. PD Dr. Simon Spiegel, University of Zurich
105. Prof. Aurore Spiers, Texas A&M University
106. Dr. Katherine Spring, Wilfrid Laurier University
107. Distinguished Prof. Shelley Stamp, University of California, Santa Cruz
108. Prof. dr. Eliza Steinbock, Maastricht University
109. Alex Thelen
110. Dr. Michael L. Thomas, University of Amsterdam
111. Maria Tortajada, Professeur ordinaire, Université de Lausanne
112. Prof. Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool
113. Prof. em. William Uricchio, MIT
114. Dr. Tjalling Valdés Olmos, University of Amsterdam
115. Dr. Gwendolyn Waltz, independent scholar
116. Vanessa Weller, Michigan State University
117. Dr. Grant Wiedenfeld, Sam Houston State University
118. Dr. Maryn Wilkinson, University of Amsterdam
119. Prof. Michael Williams, University of Southampton

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Bill Thompson @billt.bsky.social · Mar 13

In these hard times it's good to find things that offer hope. If you're anywhere near London's Euston Road do call in to the Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice exhibition at the Wellcome Library. Inspired by Dr Lea Cooper's PhD.
wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...

Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice

Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Mar 13

“The majority of people who are forced to come to our food banks are disabled.. there is an incredible level of hardship out there & we are appalled the government looks at that situation & appears to be deciding to make huge cuts to the support people get"

Helen Barnard @trusselluk.bsky.social

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Mar 10

THE MEMES WRITE THEMSELVES AT THIS POINT.

(also: UUK: that's your job.)

Simon @simonxix.com · Mar 10

Anakin and Padme meme:

Panel one: "We'll need 60% of workforce to hold higher education qualifications by 2035"
Panel two: "So you'll be supporting the UK higher education sector, right?"
Panel three:
Panel four: "So you'll be supporting the UK higher education sector, right?"

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