35 years ago we all went to a football match, full of hope, on the sunniest of days.
97 men, women and children never returned. They're not just a number, they had lives and dreams, families that love them now and always.
Us, the survivors returned, our lives changed forever, we…

Even on their darkest days those impacted by the Hillsborough Disaster are able to share solidarity with the people of Palestine & those harmed by the state

So proud to call this city home & honoured to sing YNWA amongst the strongest folk ❤️

#JFT97 today tomorrow always ✊

Are you a member of academic teaching staff at a university where arts/culture courses are being cut? Would like to hear from you. Drop me an email summarising what's being cut, impact & a contact number & will try to get back to you. Drop me a line at: [email protected]
thx

Our friends over at Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology are hosting an event with the founder of the Women Over 50 Film Festival, Nuala O’Sullivan:

🗨️“Having a senior moment” in film & TV: The Women Over 50 Film Festival fighting ageism and celebrating older women

📅17th April, 3pm
💸Free!

ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-law-…

Things people can do in the UK under 25:
At 16 you can join the Armed forces
At 17 you can hold a private pilots license
At 18 you can be elected as an MP or MSP
At 18 you can have a license to serve alcohol
At 18 you can have a commercial pilots license
At 21 you can be an MEP

Join us! We have an opening for a fixed-term 0.6 lecturer position for 6-months (maternity cover).

We're looking for somebody whose teaching focuses on the use of computational techniques for analysing online and social media platforms.

Take a look 👇

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHB208/lec…

Huge congrats to Elena Musi on winning the 2024 Best Publication Award 🏆 for her paper on Developing Misinformation Immunity! 🥳

Thanks to the University of Sussex as brilliant hosts of BAFTSS 2024, Kay Dickinson & Shelley Cobb for engaging keynote lectures, Sarita Malik’s vital insights as Outstanding Achievement Award recipient & all who joined us. See you in Warwick BAFTSS 2025!

🚨GOLDSMITHS MARKING BOYCOTT 🚨

We refuse to allow management to bulldoze through these brutal cuts.

Goldsmiths now has two weeks to stop this cultural vandalism and work with us to protect its future.

Otherwise, a marking boycott begins on 19 April. Goldsmiths UCU…

Deadline extended! Apply for PhD study at the University of Liverpool by 26 April and for the Miriam Allott PhD Studentship and Fees-Only Awards by 3 May.
liverpool.ac.uk/paying-for-you…

‘...it demonstrates that [a football club] exists in a converged media environment that sees the club as an entity optimised towards its owners’ commercial and cultural ends.’

Cluster member Christopher McMahon and Peter Templeton latest book on football: books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/co…

Publication day for mine and Peter Templeton book on fandom and ownership in English football!

Sample chapter available in the link.

YouTube style promo: Football clubs IRRECONCILABLE with the notions held by fans 😱 | Introduction Highlights

books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/co…

A fantastic second panel BAFTSS looking at emotional labour across mediums including tv and mental health (@sarahlahmTV ), gender and the workplace (@EllieTomsett - below) and in D&D (@CatMahoney1 ) #baftss2024

Lastly, Cat Mahoney talks about 'Critical Role', a group of LA-based voice actors who play Dungeons and Dragons together, and the creative labour behind it BAFTSS #baftss #baftss 2024

Big thank you to the cleaner on the 13:02 Avanti West Coast from Runcorn to Euston for helping me find a quiet seat. Definitely deserves a pay rise.

En route to #BAFTSS2024 very much looking forward to catching up and being beside seaside. BAFTSS

Any fellow vertigo sufferers out there have any tried and true (or wildly speculative - at this stage I'll try anything) remedies? Asking for a me who's sick of the world spinning.

The sector is on fire. Where are the policy interventions, where is the planning for a regeneration of the higher Ed sector? There aren’t any because this is the plan. The decay is the plan. That’s just not good enough.

Massive solidarity with Workers at Goldsmiths ✊️✊️✊️✊️✊️

Stand with us and sign the open letter in Solidarity with Goldsmiths Workers #saveourjobs #binthetp :
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