Mair Rigby
@mairsrambles.bsky.social
Tea drinker, nature lover, big reader. Enjoys walking, cooking, music. Works in HE in Wales. Vol sector background. Interested in engagement, research, reflective practice & wellbeing. Views my own! 🏴 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/mairerigby
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Happy discount chocolate day to all who celebrate 🎉.
May you be blessed with bargains and that weirdly specific chocolate that only you seem to like.
May you be blessed with bargains and that weirdly specific chocolate that only you seem to like.
February 15, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Happy discount chocolate day to all who celebrate 🎉.
May you be blessed with bargains and that weirdly specific chocolate that only you seem to like.
May you be blessed with bargains and that weirdly specific chocolate that only you seem to like.
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Publishing in March! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
'A queer scrapbook' vividly illustrates the diversity of LGBTIQ+ lives across Britain and Ireland since the Second World War. 📖
Pre-order before the 28th Feb to get 30% OFF, just enter code LGBT30 at checkout on our website.
@lgbthm.bsky.social #booksky
'A queer scrapbook' vividly illustrates the diversity of LGBTIQ+ lives across Britain and Ireland since the Second World War. 📖
Pre-order before the 28th Feb to get 30% OFF, just enter code LGBT30 at checkout on our website.
@lgbthm.bsky.social #booksky
February 9, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Publishing in March! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
'A queer scrapbook' vividly illustrates the diversity of LGBTIQ+ lives across Britain and Ireland since the Second World War. 📖
Pre-order before the 28th Feb to get 30% OFF, just enter code LGBT30 at checkout on our website.
@lgbthm.bsky.social #booksky
'A queer scrapbook' vividly illustrates the diversity of LGBTIQ+ lives across Britain and Ireland since the Second World War. 📖
Pre-order before the 28th Feb to get 30% OFF, just enter code LGBT30 at checkout on our website.
@lgbthm.bsky.social #booksky
Treated myself to a bunch of Sci fi books on Kobo because having a constant supply of science fiction is essential to my wellbeing.
February 15, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Treated myself to a bunch of Sci fi books on Kobo because having a constant supply of science fiction is essential to my wellbeing.
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They say it gets easier but like…noooo
February 12, 2026 at 2:58 PM
They say it gets easier but like…noooo
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I hope this email finds you on the couch with the necessary amount of blankets, snacks, and pets
February 12, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I hope this email finds you on the couch with the necessary amount of blankets, snacks, and pets
Tonight's cooking soundtrack is 'Jukebox' by Cat Power.
February 14, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Tonight's cooking soundtrack is 'Jukebox' by Cat Power.
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We’ve seen a *massive* swing away from homeownership into expensive private renting.
Mortgaged families dropped from 30% to 17% of Unsung Britain, while private renters nearly doubled. Almost as many people live with parents (15%) as own with a mortgage (17%).
Mortgaged families dropped from 30% to 17% of Unsung Britain, while private renters nearly doubled. Almost as many people live with parents (15%) as own with a mortgage (17%).
February 14, 2026 at 12:01 PM
We’ve seen a *massive* swing away from homeownership into expensive private renting.
Mortgaged families dropped from 30% to 17% of Unsung Britain, while private renters nearly doubled. Almost as many people live with parents (15%) as own with a mortgage (17%).
Mortgaged families dropped from 30% to 17% of Unsung Britain, while private renters nearly doubled. Almost as many people live with parents (15%) as own with a mortgage (17%).
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bad news: everything
good news: sunshine outside 😍😍😍
good news: sunshine outside 😍😍😍
February 14, 2026 at 9:23 AM
bad news: everything
good news: sunshine outside 😍😍😍
good news: sunshine outside 😍😍😍
Post a tree you photographed
February 14, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Post a tree you photographed
International Research Culture Conference 2026 (IRCC26) - call for abstracts and proposals now open (deadline 17 April) warwick.ac.uk/research/ncr...
International Research Culture Conference
The International Research Culture Conference 2026 will foster meaningful conversations to help build an inclusive community for improving research culture across the globe.
warwick.ac.uk
February 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
International Research Culture Conference 2026 (IRCC26) - call for abstracts and proposals now open (deadline 17 April) warwick.ac.uk/research/ncr...
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"This report shines a necessary light on the diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’. As the findings make starkly clear, this label often serves not as a gateway to support, but as a barrier to compassion." — Alexis Quinn Survivor, psychotherapist, author and manager of the Restraint Reduction Network.
The Hidden Harm of the Diagnosis of personality disorder report - Platfform
For over 35 years, across our projects and services, we have listened to people’s experiences of the mental health system. Time and time again, we’ve heard experiences where the mental health system c...
platfform.org
February 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
"This report shines a necessary light on the diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’. As the findings make starkly clear, this label often serves not as a gateway to support, but as a barrier to compassion." — Alexis Quinn Survivor, psychotherapist, author and manager of the Restraint Reduction Network.
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Future Leaders Fellowships 🫡
The aim of the scheme is to develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia and business.
www.ukri.org/what-we-do/d...
The aim of the scheme is to develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia and business.
www.ukri.org/what-we-do/d...
Future Leaders Fellowships
Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) support talented people in universities, businesses, and other research and innovation environments. They also allow universities, research institutes, independent…
www.ukri.org
February 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Future Leaders Fellowships 🫡
The aim of the scheme is to develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia and business.
www.ukri.org/what-we-do/d...
The aim of the scheme is to develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia and business.
www.ukri.org/what-we-do/d...
Early-Career Researchers’ Colloquium 2026 -Aberystwyth University | 29 and 30 June: Open for proposals
www.learnedsociety.wales/ecr-home/ecr...
www.learnedsociety.wales/ecr-home/ecr...
ECR Colloquium 2026 - The Learned Society of Wales
ECR Colloquium 2026 Days Key Information Call for Proposals (OPEN) Contact Early-Career Researchers’ Colloquium 2026 Aberystwyth University | 29 and 30 June Join the Learned Society of Wales’ Early Ca...
www.learnedsociety.wales
February 13, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Early-Career Researchers’ Colloquium 2026 -Aberystwyth University | 29 and 30 June: Open for proposals
www.learnedsociety.wales/ecr-home/ecr...
www.learnedsociety.wales/ecr-home/ecr...
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"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
John Hurt - Heat (1995)
John Hurt - Heat (1995)
February 13, 2026 at 7:08 AM
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
John Hurt - Heat (1995)
John Hurt - Heat (1995)
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Claude Cahun, known as a writer and photographic self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae to explore ideas of gender #SelfPortrait
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February 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Claude Cahun, known as a writer and photographic self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae to explore ideas of gender #SelfPortrait
awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/c...
awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/c...
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
February 11, 2026 at 5:30 AM
But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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Banger!
Veruca Salt released 'Eight Arms To Hold You' 29 years ago on February 11, 1997 | Listen to the album here: album.ink/VerucaSalt8
February 11, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Banger!
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Film people! Are there any good theoretical/critical studies of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl you would recommend?
February 12, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Film people! Are there any good theoretical/critical studies of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl you would recommend?
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🆕#ResearchCultureUncovered episode: Who Gets to Belong? LGBT+ History Month. A conversation about visibility, emotional labour, curiosity, & psychological safety - & what inclusion in science & research looks like in practice buff.ly/LZ9EfJa #LGBTHistoryMonth #ResearchCulture #EDI #InclusiveResearch
(Episode 147) Who Gets to Belong? LGBT+ History Month
Quickly and easily listen to Research Culture Uncovered for free!
buff.ly
February 11, 2026 at 12:02 PM
🆕#ResearchCultureUncovered episode: Who Gets to Belong? LGBT+ History Month. A conversation about visibility, emotional labour, curiosity, & psychological safety - & what inclusion in science & research looks like in practice buff.ly/LZ9EfJa #LGBTHistoryMonth #ResearchCulture #EDI #InclusiveResearch
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Oeddech chi'n gwybod bod Wythnos Ymchwil Agored GW4 yn rhedeg o 20 i 24 Ebrill eleni? 🔒
Prifysgol Caerdydd sy'n arwain y dathliad hwn o arferion ymchwil agored.
Cewch ragor o wybodaeth yma:
gw4.ac.uk/orw/
Prifysgol Caerdydd sy'n arwain y dathliad hwn o arferion ymchwil agored.
Cewch ragor o wybodaeth yma:
gw4.ac.uk/orw/
February 11, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Oeddech chi'n gwybod bod Wythnos Ymchwil Agored GW4 yn rhedeg o 20 i 24 Ebrill eleni? 🔒
Prifysgol Caerdydd sy'n arwain y dathliad hwn o arferion ymchwil agored.
Cewch ragor o wybodaeth yma:
gw4.ac.uk/orw/
Prifysgol Caerdydd sy'n arwain y dathliad hwn o arferion ymchwil agored.
Cewch ragor o wybodaeth yma:
gw4.ac.uk/orw/
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Did you know Gw4 Open Research Week runs from 20–24 April this year? 🔒
Cardiff University is taking the lead for this celebration of open research practices.
Find out more here:
gw4.ac.uk/orw/
Cardiff University is taking the lead for this celebration of open research practices.
Find out more here:
gw4.ac.uk/orw/
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Did you know Gw4 Open Research Week runs from 20–24 April this year? 🔒
Cardiff University is taking the lead for this celebration of open research practices.
Find out more here:
gw4.ac.uk/orw/
Cardiff University is taking the lead for this celebration of open research practices.
Find out more here:
gw4.ac.uk/orw/
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February 11, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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Daffodils, Edward H. Mitchell, 1981.
February 11, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Daffodils, Edward H. Mitchell, 1981.
Oh no, I bought light coconut milk by mistake 😭
February 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Oh no, I bought light coconut milk by mistake 😭