My second session of day three bought things right up to date with discussions that moved us ‘beyond genre’. Three great papers. @NclUniMusic IASPMUKI-2024

Hats off to this troop for bringing all things virtual spaces and online practices to the final session of the final day. All fantastic papers. @nclmunimusic IASPMUKI-2024

And that’s a wrap. The plenary panel for IASPMUKI-2024 brought a fantastic, insightful and inspiring three days to a close. Thank you to the @nclmunimusic committee for their hard work and expertly deployed organisational prowess!

To all of my musicology, cultural studies and media and culture chums! Call for Papers: Taylor Swift companion. All details on images below. Feel free to share and contact me if you have queries that I can raise for you, or Katy Wareham Morris direct. #cfp #swiftstudies #fandom

Well now…

Such an interesting approach. True to form and savvy as heck to let the conveyor belt of content do the work…

#AcademicTwitter 😂😂 #phdlife #phdvoice

It’s almost getting a bit Field of Dreams/Waynes World with all of these reunion tour announcements (reference as old as the average audience for these shows a myself included!)

Academic chums- Leanne is excellent and opening her books for new proofreading work. Please share

"I've lost the bloody reference..."

It’s time for Labour to remember its roots and reinstate the right to peaceful protest. Thanks to Chris Packham for the narration Location: HMP Wormwood Scrubs

So, for the newbies, this is how you do the election. Here's a results tracker. You can watch the results come in from individual districts, in real time. It's lots of fun. (if you're a numbers geek) Here's CNNs but there are loads of them out there. And the results don't lie.

#USAElection2024 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Trump's apparent victory has 5 big implications for the UK: 🧵 1️⃣ It can happen here. He will back Farage, the Musk propaganda machine will crank up against Labour; the Tories will remould themselves into Trump-lite Islamophobes ...

sleepy joe you’ve got two months. go crazy. eliminate all student debt. legalize marijuana. make tampons and condoms free. ban cybertrucks. shit in the oval office’s air vent. kidnap barron. the world is your oyster buddy

Over half of white women in the US looked at that marmalade rapist and thought, yeah - he's the one for me. OVER HALF. Tell it to your daughters and granddaughters when they need reproductive care.

Germany: “Please Not the Horror-clown”

louah.bsky.social Is my Bluesky handle. I am hoping to see the good and people of my timeline over there. This forum is endlessly disappointing and little more than a hate vessel.