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Katrina Navickas

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Historian of protest, political movements and public space. Preorder my new book, Contested Commons: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons Croydon/Rochdale UCU Herts branch secretary @ruralmodernism on Insta. 🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ ally. She/her

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 5h

I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE

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Cutting Corners: a message to the next Vice Chancellor at Goldsmiths

On 1 October 2025, a short announcement was put on Goldsmiths’ website to say that Vice Chancellor Frances Corner was stepping down with immediate effect. This came off the back of an announcement …

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 6h

All I think about when reading this is how many jobs the money spent on that pile of brick and glass could have saved in smaller humanities departments - my own colleagues. It’s like building a monument of gold in a landscape of wrack and ruin.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7h

'The gleaming palace to the humanities – the single largest building project ever undertaken by the University of Oxford made possible by the largest philanthropic gift it has ever received – stands in stark contrast to the beleaguered, shrinking state of the rest of the sector.'

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

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Microsoft Visual Kei @joebaldwin.me.uk · 4d

Bellroy's "Region" field on their address form has one of the most deranged selections I've seen, I think it's just to wind up people who are really interested in local government subdivisions

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 6h

Contrasting headlines

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 18h

Mid afternoon both ways

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 18h

Yep it's still there

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 18h

Advance returns to Manc for me are c.£90. Anything north of Manc/Leeds seems to be £££

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The first time I visited Newcastle I came across the 24 hour Greggs and it all made sense

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 20h

And I have to stump up in advance and reclaim the cost later through paperwork...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 20h

I'm normally good at finding cheaper rail tickets but booking midweek off peak advance tickets to and from Newcastle has defeated me. £177. Ooof.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 21h

Bluesky never manages to enable the level of dry sarc and sh*tposting that followers used to take for granted on the old site. Here, replies take your words at face value.

Reader, I am generally being sardonic on here. Don't take me 100% seriously.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 22h

Soho, London

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I was at Soho radio studios recording a podcast about my book, and it was around the corner, ok?

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Went in the Miffy popular shop

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

When will you ever have to be asked a load of questions by an interrogative posh old man, and have to fluidly cobble together answers ?
On BBC Radio 4 for a start.

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

The one thing that an Oxford education prepares you for in life is the ability to do a podcast where you waffle on about something for an hour without any prep or even any knowledge about the topic...

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Norman Records @normanrecords.com · 1d

JUST IN! 'Public Works and Utilities' by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

The analog synthesist returns with his sixth full-length work, a concept album exploring the decline of public service and industry in the 1980s and beyond.

www.normanrecords.com/records/2113...

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Not playing Croydon Fairfield Halls though...

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 1d

This is the maddest tour I've ever seen in my life. It seems like he's doing more gigs than there are days in the year.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

Current mood

a man in a bunny costume is standing on a stage in front of a green background that says eurovision tv .

Alt: a man in a bunny costume is standing on a stage in front of a green background that says eurovision tv .

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

The Welwyn and Letchworth Mix would definitely have a Donk on it.

"Garden Cities of Tomorrow" does sound like an early Boards of Canada release.

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The two genders

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so going to miss this module when we shift, like every other Humanities department in the country it seems, to generic 30 credit skills modules...

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Today I also introduce the students to Meades Shrine

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