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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺

@katherineschof8.bsky.social

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Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 22h

If you want top musicians, you have to have students taking music degrees.

That includes the ones who didn't go to university, but took guitar lessons or were inspired by a school music teacher, rely on top producers or session musicians who acquired their skills on a music degree, etc etc etc.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 12m

As someone who was recently prevented from boarding a flight from Chicago to the UK - a situation that took 3.5 weeks to sort, during which I nearly ran out of vital cancer medication - this frightens me. I have family in the US, but I'm increasingly hesitant to return...

Be careful out there.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 18h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11h

'Arm’s-length bodies such as the Office for Students (OfS) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are particularly “vulnerable to political interference”, a new report has warned.' 1/3

‘Learn lessons from US’ and stop political interference, UK told

OfS and UKRI seen as particularly vulnerable to meddling from government, with report authors calling for more safeguards to ensure independence

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 57m

Absolutely. Smartphones and internet video have absolutely transformed long-distance relationships. I can see and talk to my elderly parents in Australia for as long as I like whenever I like (time difference permitting 😁).

They enhance as much as they detract.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 3h

Depends. Either email on the sofa before taking the dog for a walk, or a mad dash for the 9:09 train.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 4h

Ugh

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, we have one of those....it is, as you might imagine, baaaddd.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 5h

Love this letter!

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 9h

In @thetimes.com letters page today

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 5h

This does not surprise me at all. Mindfulnesswashing is frequently the tell that this is a company that doesn't actually give a shit about its workers' mental or physical health.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 5h

AI is a dictator's dream, and it is being forced upon us in an unnatural way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo1I...

The Dark Fraud Behind the Promise of AI: Sarah Kendzior

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

www.youtube.com

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 5h

It's no good saying "pull your socks up and go back to work" when it is a person's workplace that has made them sick.

Workplaces that treat workers fairly, with dignity, and with sufficient time off — including the right to switch off — have far less sick leave and far better productivity rates.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 5h

Mental ill health is frequently caused or exacerbated by entrenched workplace cultures of overwork and bullying.

Until all UK workplaces are forced to take their statutory workplace mental health & safety duties seriously, people with mental ill health will be unable to return to or remain in work.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 8h

Award-winning author @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social was cancelled from #UK school visits & faced online abuse for his books. For #BannedBookWeekUK, he reminds us of the importance of books in offering young people a window into the diverse world we live in: www.indexoncensorship.org/bannedbooksw...

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve made some genuinely great friends on Twitter and here — and networking and organising to help at-risk Afghan colleagues get to safety would never have happened without Twitter.

That’s Twitter, y’all. Pre-Musk, pre-X.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 8h

I honestly think the Tory party chooses their female leaders based largely on their dress sense. May, Truss, Badenoch — all excellent clothes.

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 8h

I bet

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 10h

OH MY GOD (also why was she still with him?!)

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 10h

The captain of a plane in flight is God, and they take security risks deadly seriously.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 10h

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 10h

He was drunk and high. Indonesia wouldn’t take him because no visa, so he was sedated, seated next to a doctor passenger, and offloaded in Singapore.

Singapore, which has the death penalty for drug offences.

His girlfriend stayed on the plane and cried all the way to London.

We were 8 hours late.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 10h

My very first international flight, Brisbane to London. Dude across the aisle from me kept hitting his girlfriend and slamming the seat in front, then physically threatened the passenger sitting in it. The captain of the plane got two burly guys to sit with him up the front and we diverted to Bali.

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 1d

I decided to be a field archaeologist at 5 after visiting the Coppergate excavations. I started digging at 15 but by early 20s realised digging + a family wouldn’t work, so I segued into an academic role where I could at least still train.

I’m still a digger.

Is it okay that women had to leave?

Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 13d

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#openaccess✅

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

www.cambridge.org

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 10h

This

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19h

Policy Number 2 of my new centrist party, Go Outside!, is that you can't object to a noise that has been in the area longer than you.

thebelovedaunt.bsky.social @thebelovedaunt.bsky.social · 19h

Start with every single bar that surrounds those miserable bastards in Soho that constantly whine about moving to the nightlife centre of London and finding nightlife.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 10h

For Oxford colleagues - 21 October:

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/326...

The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany: Orchestras and their Audiences

talks.ox.ac.uk

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