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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 13d

As covered in his book, 'Windrush Cricket', Dr Michael Collins @uclhistory.bsky.social reflects on the role of cricket clubs as safe spaces for the #WindrushGeneration.

He also considers the impact of a 1982 game between the Met Police CC and Brixton West Indies CC.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cricket's healing role after the Brixton Riots

A year after the Brixton riots, the Brixton West Indies Cricket Club and the Metropolitan Police came together.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · Aug 2

From 1959 to 1965, Wynn Bullock created amazing abstract color images on 35mm Kodachrome slides. The process, which he developed himself, involved complex multi-layered colored glass and objects, plus the creative and subtle use of depth of field.

Color Light Abstraction 1094
#WynnBullock

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · Mar 17

Queer AF* (*as fungi) - a snapshot from our walk beyond binaries on the Wanstead Flats with fungi futures this weekend.

A ground level view. A woman in scarf, gloves and long coat crouches down in long grass to examine the bracket fungus on a log. A group of people stands around her looking at the log.

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Kate Mason @katejmason.bsky.social · Feb 23

💚💫🍂🌾🌼 ‘Summer Flowers’ - Wolff Architects - beautifully evocative exhibition on at #uclurbanroom #BessieHead #SouthAfrica #UCLEast #Eastbank #HereEast #wolffarchitects #stratford #uclscci #ilzewolff
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/creative-cul...

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qUCL @qucl.bsky.social · Jan 3

Lunch Hour Lecture | 'Cancel culture' in queer and trans online worlds
11 February 2025, 1pm-2pm
Dr Kyrölä explores what happens when conflict or disagreement arises within queer and transgender communities online.
www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...

Lunch Hour Lecture | 'Cancel culture' in queer and trans online worlds

Dr Kyrölä explores what happens when conflict or disagreement arises within queer and transgender communities online.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · Dec 30

2025❗means publication of this team effort from Playing the Archive exploring play past and present informed by the Iona and Peter Opie archive #folklore #archives. Chuffed to co-author chapters for this @uclpress.bsky.social book with @drjuliabish.bsky.social, Kate Cowan and Alison Somerset-Ward.

Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · Dec 6

Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the Digital Playground is now available to pre-order from @uclpress.bsky.social It features the Time Telephone by @vsigno.bsky.social on the cover, and our chapter, From Interfaces to Memories, on transmitting memories of play uclpress.co.uk/book/playing...

Playing the Archive

Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the digital playground reflects on a major study inspired by the work of citizen scholar folklorists Iona and Peter Opie. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Opies built...

uclpress.co.uk

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Dan Raven-Ellison @danravenellison.bsky.social · Dec 3

Slow Ways is a giant citizen initiative to develop an inspiring national walking network... and we're looking to recruit a tech team to take us to the next level!

Could that be you? See beta.slowways.org/Page/job-vac... for more details.

@slowwaysuk.bsky.social #SlowWays 🐌💫

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Dec 7

👀 lots of folks QT'ing to say: women — submit your manuscripts! I think what has to come first is: universities, fix your gendered service and teaching inequities, and society, balance out your care work, so women *have time* to write the damn manuscripts. So many women colleagues are BURNT OUT.

Laura Davulis @davulis.bsky.social · Dec 6

There are still a few weeks left in the year (though December is generally a quiet month for book proposals), but it looks like I’m going to close out 2024 with around 80% of total book proposals coming from men, 18% from women, and 2% from persons whose gender was not apparent/obvious.

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · Dec 6

Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the Digital Playground is now available to pre-order from @uclpress.bsky.social It features the Time Telephone by @vsigno.bsky.social on the cover, and our chapter, From Interfaces to Memories, on transmitting memories of play uclpress.co.uk/book/playing...

Playing the Archive

Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the digital playground reflects on a major study inspired by the work of citizen scholar folklorists Iona and Peter Opie. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Opies built...

uclpress.co.uk

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · Dec 4

I’m honoured to get to work with so many dedicated, skilful and generous local partners. Special thanks to LBN Youth Empowerment, Rabbits Road Press, Young V&A, Queer Circle, Thames Life, British Red Cross, Royal Docks.

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · Dec 4

A whole team effort! Thanks to Connected Environments for showing up to cheer me on tonight. I loved hearing about all the collaborative, co-creative practice happening at UCL East. Massive respect to our engagement team for their unwavering support and care to make this work possible.

Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Dec 4

Wahoo! Congrats Leah - Engagement Leader Award winner at the inaugural UCL East Engagement Awards cc @casaucl.bsky.social @leahlo.bsky.social

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Catriona Wilson @catrionacurator.bsky.social · Nov 21

*Amazing Job Opportunity!*

Head of Museums and Cultural Programmes, UCL

Permanent, full time
£66,711–£72,370

Closes 18 December 2024

Come work with me!

www.linkedin.com/posts/catrio...

Catriona W. on LinkedIn: UCL – University College London

*Another Job Opportunity!* Head of Museums and Cultural Programmes Permanent, full time £66,711–£72,370 The Head of Museums and Cultural Programmes…

www.linkedin.com

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Maren @paarsec.com · Oct 31

Reminder that this poem exists:

The Tiger by Nael, Age 6

826dc.org/student-writ...

By: Nael, Grade 1
The Tiger

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

Originally published in “They’re Singing a Song in Their Rocket” and “You Will Be Able to Say a Thousand Words”

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Ben Campkin @bencampkin.bsky.social · Nov 19

An update on the campaign to save Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club in Tower Hamlets. An important case in the struggle to protect London’s social infrastructure, cabaret and LGBTQ+ inclusive venues. Read and sign! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/op...

Open letter to Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman: Buy Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club!

In response to an application from Equity, the Principal Planning Officer for Tower Hamlets has confirmed the position of the Local Authority, saying "any proposed development which would not retain t...

www.megaphone.org.uk

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · Nov 25

Our 6th and final paper making workshop at the Institute of Making, UCL East - using leftover kozo, cotton and sisal from previous sessions, and pulling one massive sheet between three of us. Thanks to artist Mandy Brannan for a wonderful course!

Large sheet of just pulled paper laid out on a faded pink towel and white interfacing. The paper has a colour gradient from ochre on the left to sea green on the right. There are darker blotches of yellow in the middle.

Two sheets of hand pulled paper laid out on a sheet of interfacing. The papers are made with longer kozo fibres, and both have a subtle green gradient on one edge.

Five sheets of hand made papers of various sizes drying on a window. All have natural kozo fibre bases, and are layered with green cotton of different shapes to give a gradient effect.

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · Nov 25

A moving postcard from the Information Age - thank you @djdunc.bsky.social

Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Nov 25

A little video of our class trip to Science Museum now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd-L... along with a little note on the blog www.iot.io/blog/2024/11... cc @casaucl.bsky.social and @leahlo.bsky.social

CASACE 2024 Science Museum visit

YouTube video by UCL Connected Environments

www.youtube.com

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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · Nov 21

say I’m beaming
not beautiful

said the lighthouse
to the waves

21.XI.24

dailies, a daily poem on substack

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Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social · Nov 23

One of the fun things we get to teach our MSc students is to develop historical and scientific knowledge of their field of study - the Information Age exhibit at the wonderful @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social covers the laying of the first telegraphic cables to mobile tech - ta @leahlo.bsky.social

2024 MSc Connected Environments students at Science Museum London - Information Age exhibit.

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Charlie Tweed @charlietweed.bsky.social · Nov 22

The call is open for the Digital Ecologies III: Machine / Material / Land symposium and exhibition taking place on July 24-25 2025 in Bath. I am curating the Machine Futures strand.

sites.google.com/view/digital...

#digitalecologies #artandtechnoligy #soil #land #food #machines #criticalai

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Kerstin Sailer @kerstinsailer.bsky.social · Nov 21

I've created a starter pack for colleagues and graduate students at the #Bartlett #UCL Faculty of the Built Environment including @timwaterman.bsky.social @willjennings.bsky.social @djdunc.bsky.social @adamdennett.bsky.social and others
- who am I missing? Suggestions welcome

go.bsky.app/8tVcce6

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · Nov 21

A starter pack of the lovely folks based at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL - follow for spatial data science, connected environments, and place-based storytelling.

Adam Dennett @adamdennett.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thanks to @frogo.bsky.social for this! go.bsky.app/Bue7EXj

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · Nov 21

Well, now I like it here even more 🍄‍🟫❤️

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Nov 19

7. Bluesky's data servers are named after mushrooms! Some of them include morel, enoki, shiitake, puffball, oyster... 🍄

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · Nov 19

This, from Navajo weaver and maths teacher Marilou Schultz, is incredible (via @thisiscolossal.com) 🐡 www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/11/mari...

Marilou Schultz Weaves Computer Processor Patterns in Traditional Navajo Tapestries

What does Intel's Pentium computer chip have in common with Navajo textiles? More than you might think.

www.thisiscolossal.com

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Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · Nov 19

Bio aspiration - mushroom tickler

Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · Nov 15

These little white protrusions from the dead wood are candle snuff fungi. They are bioluminescent (fairy lights!) and they release little clouds of spores when tickled.

A close up of a section of decayed dead wood with small, white tipped fungi protruding from the gaps and troughs of the wood. In the corner of the image, a hand with painted nails tickles the tips of the fungi.

Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · Nov 19

Thank you!

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