Rebecca Leach
@rebeccaleach.bsky.social
Human. Not-quite-ex-academic (social science of home, objects, consumer cultures). Cultural meddler and trustee type. North Staffordshire, but still Manc inside.
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I don't know why I bother saying these things again and again, but:
(1) Cutting won't save you, it'll make things worse and it'll be redundancies again in a couple of years
(2) You can't make national infrastructure like this depend on short-term student numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(1) Cutting won't save you, it'll make things worse and it'll be redundancies again in a couple of years
(2) You can't make national infrastructure like this depend on short-term student numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cardiff University: Hundreds of jobs under threat due to funding black hole
Meetings are being held amid concern that hundreds of jobs are under threat at Cardiff University.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I don't know why I bother saying these things again and again, but:
(1) Cutting won't save you, it'll make things worse and it'll be redundancies again in a couple of years
(2) You can't make national infrastructure like this depend on short-term student numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(1) Cutting won't save you, it'll make things worse and it'll be redundancies again in a couple of years
(2) You can't make national infrastructure like this depend on short-term student numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I used the opening scene of Blue Velvet to open up a module for about 15 years. Spoke to students about the dark mythology of ideas of “home” like nothing else. #RIP #DavidLynch
January 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I used the opening scene of Blue Velvet to open up a module for about 15 years. Spoke to students about the dark mythology of ideas of “home” like nothing else. #RIP #DavidLynch
Oh my word. Jane McDonald is back cruising on the telly. Time for the Double Entendres Drinking Game.
#JaneMcDonald
#JaneMcDonald
November 30, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Oh my word. Jane McDonald is back cruising on the telly. Time for the Double Entendres Drinking Game.
#JaneMcDonald
#JaneMcDonald
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In the 1950s, Lancashire County Council instigated a simple test to ensure its staff stayed true to the county.
Would you pass?
#LancashireDay
Would you pass?
#LancashireDay
November 27, 2024 at 11:00 AM
In the 1950s, Lancashire County Council instigated a simple test to ensure its staff stayed true to the county.
Would you pass?
#LancashireDay
Would you pass?
#LancashireDay
Thank you to the kind people reupping this with likes from my Twatter archive. And as it is evidently #LancashireDay have a good one.
Apparently it's #LancashireDay
Born: Blackburn; grew up: Manchester. Lancashire is best @ cheese; football; music; cities; fashion; art; architecture; history; weather; hills; politics; science; attitude. So there.
Born: Blackburn; grew up: Manchester. Lancashire is best @ cheese; football; music; cities; fashion; art; architecture; history; weather; hills; politics; science; attitude. So there.
November 27, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Thank you to the kind people reupping this with likes from my Twatter archive. And as it is evidently #LancashireDay have a good one.
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The 'Holden Boggart' would hang on a hedge in the shape of a rag and as people went by, would transform himself into a black dog, to terrify them
Boggart lore for #LancashireDay
#folklore #boggarts #Lancashire
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Boggart lore for #LancashireDay
#folklore #boggarts #Lancashire
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November 27, 2024 at 8:02 AM
The 'Holden Boggart' would hang on a hedge in the shape of a rag and as people went by, would transform himself into a black dog, to terrify them
Boggart lore for #LancashireDay
#folklore #boggarts #Lancashire
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Boggart lore for #LancashireDay
#folklore #boggarts #Lancashire
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My Blackburn designs have been a huge success this year.
Folk love a bit of Northern nostalgia.
Cards coming soon…
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/hometown
#lancashireday #blackburn
Folk love a bit of Northern nostalgia.
Cards coming soon…
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/hometown
#lancashireday #blackburn
November 27, 2024 at 7:56 AM
My Blackburn designs have been a huge success this year.
Folk love a bit of Northern nostalgia.
Cards coming soon…
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/hometown
#lancashireday #blackburn
Folk love a bit of Northern nostalgia.
Cards coming soon…
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/hometown
#lancashireday #blackburn
LEGEND
My first ever trip to #centerparcs in the UK - a live blog as it happened:
Everyone is wearing identical north face jackets here and I think I missed a memo or something.
Everyone is wearing identical north face jackets here and I think I missed a memo or something.
November 25, 2024 at 11:36 PM
LEGEND
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If you're a university, every home undergraduate you take *without a commensurate loss of staff* gets you deeper into financial trouble. Every £200k of research income you win means stumping up £60k you haven't got. Ergo, you cannot survive by being a university and eventually you will close.
November 25, 2024 at 8:22 PM
If you're a university, every home undergraduate you take *without a commensurate loss of staff* gets you deeper into financial trouble. Every £200k of research income you win means stumping up £60k you haven't got. Ergo, you cannot survive by being a university and eventually you will close.
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me bringing all my failed tweets to bluesky
November 19, 2024 at 12:18 AM
me bringing all my failed tweets to bluesky
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Update from the right-wing press: disruptive protests are good now. But rest assured that as soon as the landowners are finished, they will be bad again.
November 19, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Update from the right-wing press: disruptive protests are good now. But rest assured that as soon as the landowners are finished, they will be bad again.
So depressing. As well as the external market, this is also a product of creating internal markets that require subjects to live/die by bums on seats.
More disastrous news from the bin fire that is British Higher Education. The *third* of these stories today: Reading proposes to join Hull and Aston in closing its Chemistry dept. www.chemistryworld.com/news/univers...
University of Reading proposes closing its chemistry department next year
The university joins several others that are considering the future of their departments and undergraduate programmes
www.chemistryworld.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:59 PM
So depressing. As well as the external market, this is also a product of creating internal markets that require subjects to live/die by bums on seats.
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As British Higher Ed finally begins to buckle under the pressure, it'll be STEM and mid-ranking redbricks that bear the brunt. Too late to avoid now.
November 18, 2024 at 8:45 PM
As British Higher Ed finally begins to buckle under the pressure, it'll be STEM and mid-ranking redbricks that bear the brunt. Too late to avoid now.
Haha. By the power of @en.blueark.app and a few quid, my utterly pointless Tweets are being slowly dumped over here. You can enjoy boring gen election, university and random footie “wombling on” in two places now (before I delete the X content)
November 18, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Haha. By the power of @en.blueark.app and a few quid, my utterly pointless Tweets are being slowly dumped over here. You can enjoy boring gen election, university and random footie “wombling on” in two places now (before I delete the X content)
Here’s my Stoke/NuL/N Staffs interesting people starter pack. Biased towards talkers, writers, makers, researchers but pitch in and tell me who to add. I’m gonna run out of slots soon also so start the next one?
go.bsky.app/EG6u6fU
go.bsky.app/EG6u6fU
November 18, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Here’s my Stoke/NuL/N Staffs interesting people starter pack. Biased towards talkers, writers, makers, researchers but pitch in and tell me who to add. I’m gonna run out of slots soon also so start the next one?
go.bsky.app/EG6u6fU
go.bsky.app/EG6u6fU
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Really enjoyed the 14 minutes of daylight we had today.
November 18, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Really enjoyed the 14 minutes of daylight we had today.
Where are my #snow-watch BlueSkyers at? I could rely on all kinds of tech-geekery and CHARTS in the other place.
November 18, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Where are my #snow-watch BlueSkyers at? I could rely on all kinds of tech-geekery and CHARTS in the other place.
Divorce rate is gonna go up now we’ve got a Twitter-that-is-not-shit back and people can go back to ignoring their partners & ONLY TALKING TO THEM ONLINE
@crimtonyk.bsky.social
@crimtonyk.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Divorce rate is gonna go up now we’ve got a Twitter-that-is-not-shit back and people can go back to ignoring their partners & ONLY TALKING TO THEM ONLINE
@crimtonyk.bsky.social
@crimtonyk.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Stoke, take notes. Though a little bit of regen that *works* would be welcome here.
Copies of this poster appearing in Manchester this weekend.
Worth a read.
Applicable also to other British cities I am sure.
Too many vested interests have talked up the emerging urban model.
Worth a read.
Applicable also to other British cities I am sure.
Too many vested interests have talked up the emerging urban model.
November 18, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Stoke, take notes. Though a little bit of regen that *works* would be welcome here.
When we’ve all had a little lie down and a cry about how lovely everyone is here, can we go back to being a *little* bit mean?
November 17, 2024 at 11:32 PM
When we’ve all had a little lie down and a cry about how lovely everyone is here, can we go back to being a *little* bit mean?
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I absolutely love @gailmyerscough.bsky.social 's work. such beautiful prints. I am the proud owner of 2 Forton Tower cushions and more. And she has the BEST Christmas cards - go have a look (And yes I paid for them, and no this is not a paid endorsement, it's a real one!) www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 17, 2024 at 6:07 PM
I absolutely love @gailmyerscough.bsky.social 's work. such beautiful prints. I am the proud owner of 2 Forton Tower cushions and more. And she has the BEST Christmas cards - go have a look (And yes I paid for them, and no this is not a paid endorsement, it's a real one!) www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Pete Wicks can do no wrong. It doesn’t matter that he can’t dance. a. He’s an amateur HAVING A GO; b. He’s hilarious; c. He’s fit. #strictly
November 17, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Pete Wicks can do no wrong. It doesn’t matter that he can’t dance. a. He’s an amateur HAVING A GO; b. He’s hilarious; c. He’s fit. #strictly
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2 days &almost 100 followers - enjoying 🦋already - mostly posting on arts & ecologies/ biodiversity/ social and environmental justice/ retrofit for communities/ & arts and community led development. Work this week incl #mosslover & #treehugger badges #canalsidearcana project 4 #caldoncanal #UKcanals
November 17, 2024 at 10:10 AM
2 days &almost 100 followers - enjoying 🦋already - mostly posting on arts & ecologies/ biodiversity/ social and environmental justice/ retrofit for communities/ & arts and community led development. Work this week incl #mosslover & #treehugger badges #canalsidearcana project 4 #caldoncanal #UKcanals