Dr Naomi Jacobs

AHRC Celtic Crescent: Creative Economy Doctoral Focal Award

Celtic Crescent is recruiting its first cohort of 6 fully-funded PhDs supported by AHRC through its Doctoral Focal Awards. (October 2026)

We are holding a webinar for interested applicants Friday 13 March. Access the webinar by registering here & for more info:

www.bangor.ac.uk/celtic-cresc...

Image posted by MMU Visual Resources Centre to their Flickr page in 2011 https://www.flickr.com/photos/mmuvisualresources/5552325993/in/photolist-9sD85v-9EoXm5-bk8G5o

I don't suppose any of my followers have access to the MMU (Manchester Metropolitan University) Visual Resources Centre, do they? The Centre has a slide that, if rescanned in high-res, could relieve my obsession. When I last asked, they couldn't find it.
But it *must* be there somewhere, right?

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

Also if you didn’t know, there is a livestream every day on the #crufts YouTube, showing all the events. You should watch! You get to see lots of different dogs having a great time doing lots of different things!

I'm giving a talk on Wed 25th March about fanfiction as an example of digital cultural heritage. Do come along if you're in Edinburgh (booking details below).

Thank you for the reminder I'm almost out of dried yeast.

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

Fungi in SFF Special Issues call for non-fiction submissions

Strange Horizons is open to non-fiction submissions for our March 30th special issue which will be all about Fungi in SFF!

More information about our submission guidelines and how to submit ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

I am advertising two postdoctoral researchers to join the team on the ERC-funded Live Platforms project - one in online creation and the other in location-based work. See the thread for more information. Do share and apply. Deadline is March 20 1/3 #jobfairy #postdoctoralresearch #platformwork

We’re inviting game makers, artists, researchers, manifesto makers, and creatives of all kinds to make zines about sustainability and digital tech “otherwise”. The zine jam is one way we’re bringing diy + critical and divergent perspectives to tech and sustainability.
#zines #games #diy #jam

I thought perhaps you were referring to all the big open spaces and glass on the ground floor but when I got to it I said 'Oh No' aloud.

Starting tomorrow, you can watch fish traffic via an underwater camera livestreaming from an Utrecht canal. If you spot waiting 🐟, you can ping an operator to open the Weerdsluis lock gate & let them through. Highly recommend this for easing elevated stress levels, or if you just like helping fish

I'm addicted to these videos from a bakery in Uzbekistan

this bread is beautiful

Today is St David’s Day: patron saint of Wales, of course, but also of vegetarians and poets. He was reputed to have helped introduce bees to Ireland. He is famously quoted as saying “Gwnewch y pethau bychain”, meaning “Do the little things”. Small changes and good choices matter, especially now.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

I'm so sorry, Dani

In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

My first experience of an online (fan) community space was a Red Dwarf forum. Or technically, a MSN Bulletin Board. It's where I first met folks like @magslhalliday.bsky.social and @tlknoell.bsky.social. My life, and career, would arguably have turned out very differently otherwise. RIP Rob Grant.

Post by three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat I love how Leverage went Here's the cat burglar. She wears comfy clothes and has zero social skills. She has sex appeal but only if you're into a very specific type of woman, and crucially she has zero idea she has it. She probably doesn't know what an innuendo is. Here's the hacker. He's a Black nerd, and also the most moral character of the bunch. He's a nerd but also not socially awkward; in fact, he's the second best at grifting, right after the person who's been doing it for decades. Here's the muscle. In his heart of hearts, he is a chef. He is tough and manly but he uses that to look out for the working class and children and everyone else the system leaves behind. He's feared by politicians and he reminds his friend to tip the delivery person. Here's the femme fatale. She's over forty years old, and she's the one seducing the mark. She's the heart of the team. Her calling is to be a director. She loves attending her own funeral. Here's the mastermind. He's the only one who doesn't start out as a career criminal. He manipulates his own crew, kills two people after promising them he won't, and takes deals behind their back. He was in seminary school. Also, here's their nemesis. He's Mark Sheppard.

Man, Leverage was something else.

Oh *that's* why I have a bunch of new followers, hello folks! Do note my pinned posts, though.

yes I think I have to write something about 'failing quietly' vs 'failing loudly'

when the electricity in your house goes out, that is failing loudly. you know at once.

when an AI fails, it mostly fails quietly. the bad incorrect answer gives no warning that it is different to the good useful one

Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️) YouTube video by Avie Sheck

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

If I'm remembering right it was you who put me on to the chocolate ones last year.

Oh my, I'll need to get my hands on some of these.

I honestly don't know how to explain it to anybody who isn't fully immersed in Jewish tradition that it's supremely important to know what the Law expects of us, but also there's no divine enforcement mechanism at all. God's not gonna punish you. He's just... gonna be really, really disappointed.

I've been watching a lot of Taskmaster lately (having never engaged with it before) and I read a fascinating article which discussed how it was pitched specifically at bringing some sitcom elements into a panel show - having the same contestants across a series builds investment, there's narrative.

Some variety of chicken tray-bakes: quartered birds roasted with veg/lemon/wine/herbs/spices/potatoes etc etc

Looking to hire anyone with a first aid certificate who can overwatch a hedgelaying course *tomorrow* from 10-4 in Powys (near Knighton).

You don’t need to get involved in the course unless you’d like to learn. You’ll get paid either way.

I’ve got three other corners of the country to be in.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.

USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+

NOT.

A.

DRILL.

www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

It's been a while since I found out a breaking news story because my students were discussing it as we waited for the last few people to file in to start the class.