Dr Penny Hay
@penahay.bsky.social
Artist Researcher, Professor of Imagination Bath Spa University, National Teaching Fellow, Cofounder Forest of Imagination, FRSA, FCCT 💚🦋
https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/penny-hay/
https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/penny-hay/
Shiny thinking ✨
People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)
Everything changed in the last few weeks. The Republicans, assumed by themselves and too many others, to be unstoppable got stopped again and again. Public opinion manifested in many ways: as an elect...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Shiny thinking ✨
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Today is the National Gathering, ‘Leading for Creative Thinking’. Exciting! @cceengland.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Today is the National Gathering, ‘Leading for Creative Thinking’. Exciting! @cceengland.bsky.social
I love this 🦋
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I love this 🦋
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eARTh Spotlight: ‘Explorations of Poetic Activism: Inquiring into living & acting meaningfully in complex times’.
Join us on 25 Nov 12-1 GMT with our wonderful guest speaker @margigold.bsky.social co-chaired with the equally brilliant @lucyenglish.bsky.social
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Join us on 25 Nov 12-1 GMT with our wonderful guest speaker @margigold.bsky.social co-chaired with the equally brilliant @lucyenglish.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Reposted by Dr Penny Hay
Emily Corbett writes:
"A permanent Lecturer position in Children's Lit and Creative Ed is available at Goldsmiths Univ of London. Please consider applying and/or sharing with others. As the Head of the MA Children's Literature, I'll be working closely with the successful applicant! Deadline: 4 Dec."
"A permanent Lecturer position in Children's Lit and Creative Ed is available at Goldsmiths Univ of London. Please consider applying and/or sharing with others. As the Head of the MA Children's Literature, I'll be working closely with the successful applicant! Deadline: 4 Dec."
November 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Emily Corbett writes:
"A permanent Lecturer position in Children's Lit and Creative Ed is available at Goldsmiths Univ of London. Please consider applying and/or sharing with others. As the Head of the MA Children's Literature, I'll be working closely with the successful applicant! Deadline: 4 Dec."
"A permanent Lecturer position in Children's Lit and Creative Ed is available at Goldsmiths Univ of London. Please consider applying and/or sharing with others. As the Head of the MA Children's Literature, I'll be working closely with the successful applicant! Deadline: 4 Dec."
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[I like to disrupt our wordy political focus here from time to time, with the visual and natural and seasonal.]
November 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Oceanic Underwater
Howardena Pindell
Howardena Pindell
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Oceanic Underwater
Howardena Pindell
Howardena Pindell
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
‘Let the beauty we love be what we do.’ Rumi
November 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
‘Let the beauty we love be what we do.’ Rumi
This was so incredibly moving, thank you Portia and all guests.
The Neurodiverse Academic: Poetic Troublings and Academic Glimmers in Higher education with Portia Ungley
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November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This was so incredibly moving, thank you Portia and all guests.
Today! Please join us 🐙
The Neurodiverse Academic: Poetic Troublings and Academic Glimmers in Higher education with Portia Ungley
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November 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Today! Please join us 🐙
‘I know that hope is the hardest love we carry.’
Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
‘I know that hope is the hardest love we carry.’
Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield
‘The Uses of Sorrow
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.’
Mary Oliver
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.’
Mary Oliver
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
‘The Uses of Sorrow
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.’
Mary Oliver
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.’
Mary Oliver
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Three sugar cubes worth of plastic enough to kill a puffin, study finds
Three sugar cubes worth of plastic enough to kill a puffin, study finds
Scientists find tiny amounts can be a ‘fatal dose’ for marine life in the most comprehensive study of its kind
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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My Inaugural Professorial Lecture has just been published, thanks to everyone who has been part of this journey.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JNti...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JNti...
PROFESSORIAL LECTURE PENNY HAY
YouTube video by Bath Spa University
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November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
My Inaugural Professorial Lecture has just been published, thanks to everyone who has been part of this journey.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JNti...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JNti...
Imagine if education was multi-disciplinary, inside and outside, supported by innovative, creative pedagogies with clear values that nurture children and young people’s love of learning as active ecological citizens engaged in participatory democracy.
Image: Morag Myerscough, Birdsong 💚
Image: Morag Myerscough, Birdsong 💚
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Imagine if education was multi-disciplinary, inside and outside, supported by innovative, creative pedagogies with clear values that nurture children and young people’s love of learning as active ecological citizens engaged in participatory democracy.
Image: Morag Myerscough, Birdsong 💚
Image: Morag Myerscough, Birdsong 💚
I met the amazing birdgirl, Dr Mya-Rose Craig, at Avon Wildlife Trust AGM.
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I met the amazing birdgirl, Dr Mya-Rose Craig, at Avon Wildlife Trust AGM.