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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton)

@lisacolton.bsky.social

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Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 5d

Closing date 19 October, still time to apply!

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 6d

All I want for today is to match this fox's joyous energy.

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Faculty of Music, Oxford University @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social · 6d

The Faculty of Music seeks to appoint a Betts Fellow in Organ Studies, who is responsible for creating an enhanced profile for organ activities and study at Oxford, and for fostering a community amongst organ scholars across the collegiate University.
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 6d

🎧 Looking for a lunchtime listen? Our latest 'researcher in focus' podcast features Grace Goodwin from our Music Dept sharing her work tackling gender and regional inequalities in the music business. Smash the system here 🤘 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 8d

I have some ideas….

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 8d

And it was never policy in the first place. It’s become a myth now even believed by Labour, who are busying themselves to distance from the idea they once said it.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 12d

Karen Carney, La Voix and Ellie Goldstein were my favourites tonight, but everyone was brilliant. Bring on Autumn #Strictly

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 16d

I think the top left has been renamed as the Shape of War, or something.

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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 17d

🥳 This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572!

Find out more:
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Your distribution questions answered

This week, we will pay 31,487 members their share of £11,588,572. Get answers to your most pressing questions about our latest distribution.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 18d

Sundays now that we’re back to one child with football matches and the other desiring karaoke duets (both teens though) 🎤 ⚽️

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 19d

Apply to be a University Teacher in Music Technology! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT479/u...

University Teacher in Music Technology - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

Discover an exciting academic career path as a University Teacher in Music Technology - Grade 7 at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 21d

Were you there? Last Friday, we mean, when researchers from UoL worked with pop fans to help chart Liverpool's lost music venues. If you want to find out how it went, listen to Richard Anderson chat to Ngunan Adamu on Radio Merseyside(1hr 32mins in). #BSF25

UK Black with Ngunan Adamu - 12/09/2025 - BBC Sounds

Music, good vibes and stories from our African and Caribbean communities.

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Senate House Library @senatehouselib.bsky.social · 21d

After 80 years, Senate House Library has reunited a rare 14th-century manuscript looted in WWII with the Chandon family. Thanks to expert detective work, MS541 will remain accessible for study, preserving its history for future generations.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 24d

First coffee in my #LightbulbMoments mug! The exhibition opened last week at the Victoria Gallery & Museum @livuninews.bsky.social and is worth it as much for the dolphin skeleton as seeing the original manuscript of Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D on display.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Todd Lambert @toddlambert.com · Sep 3

I guess I have to pull this one back out... 🙄

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Sep 2

The first eight books in our new partnership with ‪@livunipress.bsky.social have just been published – and with them, we are proud to offer new ‘delayed Open Access’. Find out more: https://bit.ly/46opK0r

First books published under new partnership with Liverpool University Press – with new 'delayed Open Access'

Eight new British Academy books are the first to be published with Liverpool University Press as part of a new partnership this year.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Sep 2

Dr Sarah Price @livuninews.bsky.social is a classical music audiences researcher, I’m sure she could help.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Sep 1

If it's not too late for a New Year's Resolution, I firmly resolve to stop writing people's names onto post-it notes without further explanation, then covering up said notes with sedimentary layers of paper, thereby removing any chance of remembering why I wrote the name down in the first place.

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Aug 31

Both in full use up here. In terms of priorities, the particular ways HEIs have been directed by government to perform & measure certain functions is probably at play, e.g. TEF & REF metrics

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thank you for sharing the joy! 🤩

Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Aug 30

Composer of the Week was Domenico Scarlatti and it turns out that harpsichord sonatas are an excellent commuting soundtrack. The clatterier the better. Jean Rondeau’s A minor is fabulous, but he may damage your harpsichord www.warnerclassics.com/release/scar... @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social

Scarlatti Sonatas | Warner Classics

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Aug 28

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 28

Activists blend science and folklore as they try to revive Somerset’s eel population

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Feargal Sharkey back campaign to save the animal, which once inspired placenames, songs and stories

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 28

Activists blend science and folklore as they try to revive Somerset’s eel population

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Feargal Sharkey back campaign to save the animal, which once inspired placenames, songs and stories

www.theguardian.com

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Aug 27

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · Aug 26

Worth reading: a brief evisceration of the BBC's expensive historical bin-fire #kingandconqueror. There's too many historical inaccuracies to fully list! historiamag.com/review-king-...

Review: King & Conqueror – Historia Magazine

Historian Annie Whitehead reviews BBC TV's King & Conqueror. How unhistorical was it? And does that matter? In this case, she says, it does. "It seems to be a pale imitation of Game of Thrones/The Las...

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Aug 25

I'm enjoying various threads about King & Conqueror more than the programme itself so far. My main issue is that it is TOO DARK and that everyone is dressed in brown all the time. The horse hairstyles are awesome, and I'm glad they had some women musicians.

Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · Aug 25

I'm not saying "King and Conqueror" is lazy horseshit which is cynically attempting to cash in on the "tits and dragons" market, but would it have killed the programme makers to have given the right king a moustache???

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · Aug 22

Celebrating the many, wonderful musical contributions of Duncan Druce, a concert on 20 September at St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield, 5pm. No tickets but donations to MSF welcome.