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Katy Stoddard

@katy-bird.bsky.social

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Researcher developer at Sussex Uni. academia • culture • media • archaeology • genealogy • sea swimmer • stitcher Brighton northerner, ex-librarian @ Guardian. She/her

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Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · Nov 13

Late to the party is v on brand!

I’m interested in all things researcher development and ECR/PGR support, plus info literacy, libraries and HE comms. Fan of gamification and playful learning.

Currently obsessed with archaeology and genealogy, stitching and craftivism.

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Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · 10d

As one of Sian’s constituents I fully support her actions

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 16d

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · 28d

It’s easy to feel powerless but Zahid Pranjol (Sussex) & Aleks Palanac (Leicester) shared so many ways we can take action individually or institutionally (see slides). Ask Gazans what they need then respond.

Aleks’ Padlet has lots of crowdsourced resources 2/2 padlet.com/alekspalanac...

A slide showing statistics on impact of war in Gaza on academia - 90,000 students have lost access to HE, over 80% of schools destroyed or damaged.

A slide showing short term actions to support HE in Palestine, including providing online materials or recordings, access to library resources, supervising Masters theses, guiding PhD students, donating towards education or e-SIMs or for release certificates, providing mental health support.

A slide showing mid term actions to support HE in Palestine, including financial help like tuition fees or to rebuild tents, full access to online courses or CPD training, ODL, virtual training.

A slide showing long term actions to support HE in Palestine (after ceasefire), including academic partnerships and knowledge exchange, curriculum development and research support, faculty development and capacity building, mental health support, policy strengthening, branch international campuses to train locals, scholarships to fund local research, free movement for HE.

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Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · 28d

Yesterday’s #EasternArc session on HE in Palestine felt like a direct call to action - so much can be achieved if we put effort into working with/round clunky university processes - pooling open resources, giving Gaza students honorary fellowships to enable library access… 1/2

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Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · 28d

My key takeaway from today is that co-creation/inclusion is the only way to properly and effectively support communities. We can take the first step, propose ideas, enable institutional actions… but then we need to ask what’s actually needed and design solutions collectively #EasternArc

Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · 28d

Great to hear about the importance of peer-led support from UEA University of Sanctuary students, who co-organise a regular community kitchen (cookbook to come!). Involving displaced students in activities is essential to build trust for those who may not reach out for formal help #EasternArc

Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · 29d

Vicki Tennant from UNHDR sets out a vision of sanctuary as a pathway to inclusion, not a place apart - where refugees can join new communities or return to their home community. Policy shift and cultural change are needed. We must raise our voices and take action now #EasternArc

Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · 29d

Prof Geoff Gilbert from @essexuni.bsky.social reminds academics ‘nothing about us without us’ - if we’re not involving (co-creating with?) displaced persons in our research, from the design to the dissemination, then we’re stealing #EasternArc @easternarc.bsky.social

Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · 29d

Excellent keynote from @krishk.com on engaging with right wing media to understand their language, how they generate outrage and set the political narrative. And the power of proximity, when we stop othering people, to break down barriers and enact positive change #EasternArc #SanctuarySolidarities

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CHASE DTP @chase-dtp.bsky.social · Aug 19

We're hiring: Senior EDI Officer – CHASE (Part-Time, Fixed-Term) Are you passionate about shaping inclusive academic communities? Your main duties include coordinating and consolidating EDI best practice relating to Postgraduate Research and additional research where necessary.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · Aug 12

Deleting 1,000 emails would have a carbon benefit of about five grams CO2e. Using a laptop for 30 minutes to delete those emails would emit about 28 grams of CO2e.

Destroying the corporations responsible for climate collapse would be so much more fun and effective.

Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · Aug 12

sorry you're experiencing record breaking temperatures and drought. Have you tried deleted some of photos of your grandmother about it?

UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought

As Britain experiences one of its worst droughts in decades, its leaders suggest people get rid of old data to reduce stress on data centers.

www.404media.co

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Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · Jul 25

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The Gaza students with scholarships to UK unable to take up their places

Visa obstacles threaten to dash the hopes of 40 students due to start in September. Here are some of their stories

www.theguardian.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 24

'In February 2024, in response to an independent review of research bureaucracy, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology urged UKRI to consider alternative options on the collection of research impact data, “including no longer using Researchfish, from 2025 onwards”.' 1/3

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Jul 24

UKRI renews contract with Researchfish, despite the government last year urging the funder to consider alternatives to the impact-tracking service.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

UKRI renews contract with Researchfish - Research Professional News

Science department had previously urged funder to consider alternative options on impact tracking

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · Jul 24

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

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Andrew Porter @retropz.bsky.social · Jul 4

New #ResearchCareers article from @cancerresearchuk.org about their initial Bridge to Academic Leadership programme which took #ECR #postdocs on a guided journey of skillsets, mindsets & growing confidence in taking the next steps (by Ally Walters)

news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/07/01/r...

Research careers – bridging the gap between postdoc and group leader - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News

Ally Walters reports back from our initial Bridge to Academic Leadership programme and talks skillsets, mindsets and growing your confidence...

news.cancerresearchuk.org

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Edinburgh Open Research @edopenresearch.bsky.social · Jul 4

Missed out on the Edinburgh Open Research Conference, or just want to rewatch the talks? No worries - we have you covered! Recordings, slides and abstracts are all available on the EOR journal:
journals.ed.ac.uk/eor/issue/vi...

Vol. 4 (2025) | Edinburgh Open Research

Edinburgh Open Research | ISSN 3050-2934 (Online)

journals.ed.ac.uk

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · Jun 15

Please share :)

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.

www.bloomsbury.com

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Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · Jun 14

For #FamilyHistoryDay a gorgeous wax embossed seal on a will from 1869, part of my Dad’s collection of family documents that he only shared with me last week 😍 It’s ‘stitched’ in with paper/vellum, the whole structure is beautifully crafted

An old will from the 1860s, handwritten on vellum and with a large, embossed paper and wax seal stitched in with paper below.

An embossed seal on an old will, showing the shield of the Durham Court of Probate.

An old, folded Probate of the Will document handwritten on vellum. It reads ‘In Her Majesty’s Court of Probate, Durham District Registry, Probate of the Will of Mr Alexander Powell deceased. Dated 1869. Extracted by Thomas Thornton, Solicitor, Bishop Auckland’.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Jun 12

"During a period of major economic challenges for the UK’s higher education sector, the N8 statement highlights the unsustainable nature of the current publishing ecosystem and calls for alternatives that are financially viable, transparent, and aligned with the values of open research."

N8 Research Partnership calls for urgent reform of scholarly publishing models - N8 Research Partnership

The N8 Research Partnership – the collective body for the North of England’s eight research intensive universities – has released a landmark new statement urging fundamental reform in the way scholarl...

www.n8research.org.uk

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Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · Jun 12

This has reminded me I haven’t posted my photos of my favourites yet! I brought so many back

Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · Jun 12

There’s a gachapon shop in Brighton too

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Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · Jun 11

Classics! My mum would bring her school’s BBC Micro home in the holidays for safekeeping. We’d hook it up to an old black and white TV, it was just the keyboard processor iirc

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · Jun 11

Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”

L.A. Protests Prompt
Calls for Police Restraint After Journalist Injuries

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · Jun 10

Welcome to the archives.

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Katy Stoddard @katy-bird.bsky.social · Jun 10

Calling in the National Guard was inflammatory in the 1950s and 60s and it’s inflammatory now. After Newark in 1967, and other clashes over the ‘Long Hot Summer’, commissions reviewed failures in policing and systemic causes of unrest so it didn’t happen again. We’ve slid right back there.