Angela Cassidy
@angecass.bsky.social
Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
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Angela Cassidy
@angecass.bsky.social
· Nov 13
We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky!
It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...
>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...
🧵 below
It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...
>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...
🧵 below
The Researcher’s Guide to Bluesky – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
blogs.york.ac.uk
Please please, GIVE ME A SIGN YOU'RE REAL!
"1. Fill out your profile BEFORE you start following people: issue is that accounts with generic avatars and no biography or introductory text are perceived as likely to be bots, so users not only eschew following back but they may even automatically block"
"1. Fill out your profile BEFORE you start following people: issue is that accounts with generic avatars and no biography or introductory text are perceived as likely to be bots, so users not only eschew following back but they may even automatically block"
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Anyway, a reminder that in the brutal world of higher ed the smallest acts of thanks can lift someone's day. I try to remember this although I'm not good at doing it.
So, I just got an email that a colleague nominated me for an internal "thanks for going over and above" recognition thing for helping them at the start of their job & with a big teaching role and so I have a letter from the senior management team saying 'thank you' and I honestly had a bit of a cry.
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Anyway, a reminder that in the brutal world of higher ed the smallest acts of thanks can lift someone's day. I try to remember this although I'm not good at doing it.
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Last class today. 8 students showed up (out of 19) but all engaged, thoughtful, etc. Theme was 'Making Nature', so had them read start of @desfitzgerald.bsky.social book, went Outside to show them how to analyse campus as a 'source/text' and then shared some mince pies. I'll take that as a win.
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Last class today. 8 students showed up (out of 19) but all engaged, thoughtful, etc. Theme was 'Making Nature', so had them read start of @desfitzgerald.bsky.social book, went Outside to show them how to analyse campus as a 'source/text' and then shared some mince pies. I'll take that as a win.
Last class today. 8 students showed up (out of 19) but all engaged, thoughtful, etc. Theme was 'Making Nature', so had them read start of @desfitzgerald.bsky.social book, went Outside to show them how to analyse campus as a 'source/text' and then shared some mince pies. I'll take that as a win.
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Last class today. 8 students showed up (out of 19) but all engaged, thoughtful, etc. Theme was 'Making Nature', so had them read start of @desfitzgerald.bsky.social book, went Outside to show them how to analyse campus as a 'source/text' and then shared some mince pies. I'll take that as a win.
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Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020.
Now, I'm not completely sure, but I think this might be bad.
Now, I'm not completely sure, but I think this might be bad.
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020.
Now, I'm not completely sure, but I think this might be bad.
Now, I'm not completely sure, but I think this might be bad.
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It’s arrived! The new ExCASES biodiversity mission: Cultivating communities who care for urban #trees.
Access resources designed to offer insights, audience-specific guidance, inspiring stories & replicable models for practitioners & community members alike.
renewbiodiversity.org.uk/urban-trees/
Access resources designed to offer insights, audience-specific guidance, inspiring stories & replicable models for practitioners & community members alike.
renewbiodiversity.org.uk/urban-trees/
December 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It’s arrived! The new ExCASES biodiversity mission: Cultivating communities who care for urban #trees.
Access resources designed to offer insights, audience-specific guidance, inspiring stories & replicable models for practitioners & community members alike.
renewbiodiversity.org.uk/urban-trees/
Access resources designed to offer insights, audience-specific guidance, inspiring stories & replicable models for practitioners & community members alike.
renewbiodiversity.org.uk/urban-trees/
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One of the best things being an editor for @envhistnow.bsky.social is to have the pleasure (+luck!) to work with texts like this.
I’ve learnt fr and resonated so much with @critical-lycan.bsky.social A beautiful piece meditating on the (exclusionary..) taxonomies of species and sexology. Go read!
I’ve learnt fr and resonated so much with @critical-lycan.bsky.social A beautiful piece meditating on the (exclusionary..) taxonomies of species and sexology. Go read!
We're thrilled to share a breathtaking new essay today from @critical-lycan.bsky.social on multispecies sanctuary, queerness, and wolfdogs #envhist #envhum
Queering Sanctuary and Un/Becoming with Wolf/Dogs
If there is anything to be salvaged from the fraught concept of “wildness,” it is in the wily tenacity and audacious hopefulness of these queer taxonomic renegades.
envhistnow.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
One of the best things being an editor for @envhistnow.bsky.social is to have the pleasure (+luck!) to work with texts like this.
I’ve learnt fr and resonated so much with @critical-lycan.bsky.social A beautiful piece meditating on the (exclusionary..) taxonomies of species and sexology. Go read!
I’ve learnt fr and resonated so much with @critical-lycan.bsky.social A beautiful piece meditating on the (exclusionary..) taxonomies of species and sexology. Go read!
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As in so many things, the British public is wrong.
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
As in so many things, the British public is wrong.
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Congratulations to @crpr-exeter.bsky.social student Maeve Leith, who has been awarded a national ‘Centenary Award’ bursary from the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust to support her work to explore how land use decisions are made
www.nfumutual.co.uk/news-and-sto...
www.nfumutual.co.uk/news-and-sto...
The NFU Mutual Charitable Trust Centenary Award 2025
The Centenary Award is a long-term scheme, run by the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust, and was launched in 2010 to celebrate the 100th birthday of NFU Mutual.
www.nfumutual.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Congratulations to @crpr-exeter.bsky.social student Maeve Leith, who has been awarded a national ‘Centenary Award’ bursary from the NFU Mutual Charitable Trust to support her work to explore how land use decisions are made
www.nfumutual.co.uk/news-and-sto...
www.nfumutual.co.uk/news-and-sto...
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Tah-Tah, Tom Stoppard.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xI...
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) - Playing Questions Scene (2/11) | Movieclips
YouTube video by Movieclips
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November 30, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Tah-Tah, Tom Stoppard.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xI...
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Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all
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The Observer: Tom Stoppard 1937-2025 #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The Observer: Tom Stoppard 1937-2025 #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Farewell, Tom Stoppard. I studied Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead at school, and even though I graffitied the cover of my copy so it read "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Daleks," I very much enjoyed the play.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88
The King and Queen pay tribute to a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Farewell, Tom Stoppard. I studied Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead at school, and even though I graffitied the cover of my copy so it read "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Daleks," I very much enjoyed the play.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
RIP Tom Stoppard.
two men are standing in front of a table with pots hanging from the ceiling
ALT: two men are standing in front of a table with pots hanging from the ceiling
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard.
Have been doing similar stuff with my Biosocieties students this autumn: in-class source analysis (documents, films, images, bread, the campus); shared reading folder for annotating PDFs; setting a reading I know, plus one that's new to me; reading together and sharing vulnerability of uncertainty..
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Have been doing similar stuff with my Biosocieties students this autumn: in-class source analysis (documents, films, images, bread, the campus); shared reading folder for annotating PDFs; setting a reading I know, plus one that's new to me; reading together and sharing vulnerability of uncertainty..
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There's something mesmerising about Badenoch's combination of supreme intellectual confidence and "Jesus? Didn't he play for Real Madrid?" command of detail.
It's like somebody spliced the certainty of Margaret Thatcher with the work ethic of Boris Johnson.
It's like somebody spliced the certainty of Margaret Thatcher with the work ethic of Boris Johnson.
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
There's something mesmerising about Badenoch's combination of supreme intellectual confidence and "Jesus? Didn't he play for Real Madrid?" command of detail.
It's like somebody spliced the certainty of Margaret Thatcher with the work ethic of Boris Johnson.
It's like somebody spliced the certainty of Margaret Thatcher with the work ethic of Boris Johnson.
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I am so looking forward to spending time with the next generations of STS scholars in South Korea next summer (I'll be keynote instructor)! It's a great opportunity especially for those who are STS-curious, and may not have strong training in the field.
Join us! Applications close on December 10th.
Join us! Applications close on December 10th.
Applications for the 2026 Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School close 10 December 2025. The event will be a meeting point of interdisciplinary dialogue, spanning 4 days of seminars, workshops, keynotes and fieldtrips. 22-25 June 2026, Seoul, Korea. Visit sthvschool.org for more info ⏰ ⏰ ⏰
Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School
sthvschool.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I am so looking forward to spending time with the next generations of STS scholars in South Korea next summer (I'll be keynote instructor)! It's a great opportunity especially for those who are STS-curious, and may not have strong training in the field.
Join us! Applications close on December 10th.
Join us! Applications close on December 10th.
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If you want a measure of how nothing outside London interests our media or politicians, pop up to Birmingham every few weeks as we do, and realise the bin strike is still on and… no-one outside our second city cares at all.
November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you want a measure of how nothing outside London interests our media or politicians, pop up to Birmingham every few weeks as we do, and realise the bin strike is still on and… no-one outside our second city cares at all.
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🎉Exciting news! 🏆Together with our research partner the University of Exeter, we have won in the Strategic Partnership category at the #KnowledgeExchangeUK Awards! Read more about the work researchandinnovation.co.uk/creating-rea...
Exeter Blog Creating real-world impact: The University of Exeter and the National Trust
Creating real-world impact: The University of Exeter and the National Trust
researchandinnovation.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🎉Exciting news! 🏆Together with our research partner the University of Exeter, we have won in the Strategic Partnership category at the #KnowledgeExchangeUK Awards! Read more about the work researchandinnovation.co.uk/creating-rea...
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I really enjoyed hosting this - do watch the recording below! 🦫
A month ago I participated in @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy Research Routes seminar organized by @hcraddock.bsky.social - "Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive".
Recording www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkYC...
Resource pack www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wp-content/u...
Recording www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkYC...
Resource pack www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wp-content/u...
Research Routes - Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive
YouTube video by The National Archives UK
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I really enjoyed hosting this - do watch the recording below! 🦫
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This is a key point. Where I'm hearing people praising/using AI in healthcare, education and therapy settings it's not because AI makes their work more inclusive, rigorous, ethical, or engaging. It's because they're so overwhelmed they want to offset as much work as possible just to keep swimming.
There is one more post to be written here, about how AI is now often an austerity technology, inserted into a human process to compensate for the fact that there is just not enough time and money, and many workers are expected to do more and more with less and less.
November 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
This is a key point. Where I'm hearing people praising/using AI in healthcare, education and therapy settings it's not because AI makes their work more inclusive, rigorous, ethical, or engaging. It's because they're so overwhelmed they want to offset as much work as possible just to keep swimming.
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EASST Review - the publication of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology - is looking for an editorial assistant. Duties are copy-editing and communication with authors. We have two issues every year with about 10 submissions each. Reach out if interested!
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
EASST Review - the publication of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology - is looking for an editorial assistant. Duties are copy-editing and communication with authors. We have two issues every year with about 10 submissions each. Reach out if interested!
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5 year STS post doc at ANU Canberra, with international ERC funded team jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...
Research Fellow, Ethnography and Sociology of the Artificial Cryosphere - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: ANU Academic Level BSalary package: $118,632 - $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full-time, Continuing (contingent funded)
This position is continuing (contingent funded...
jobs.anu.edu.au
November 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
5 year STS post doc at ANU Canberra, with international ERC funded team jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...
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Week 10 of teaching- each week has been a replay of me struggling up that step on my tiny hedgehog legs. So tired. One more class to go!
Week two of teaching, hard relate
Doomscrolling break. Especially for everyone facing deadlines and challenges, I offer you this small, persevering hedgehog by way of encouragement and inspiration. #TinyJoys
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Week 10 of teaching- each week has been a replay of me struggling up that step on my tiny hedgehog legs. So tired. One more class to go!
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‘Twas frymblal, and the Fexcectorn
AUC Totalbottl on Line Scoree.
Runctitional was the bottleneck
And Remech N FS-1 NC.
AUC Totalbottl on Line Scoree.
Runctitional was the bottleneck
And Remech N FS-1 NC.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
‘Twas frymblal, and the Fexcectorn
AUC Totalbottl on Line Scoree.
Runctitional was the bottleneck
And Remech N FS-1 NC.
AUC Totalbottl on Line Scoree.
Runctitional was the bottleneck
And Remech N FS-1 NC.
Week 10 of teaching- each week has been a replay of me struggling up that step on my tiny hedgehog legs. So tired. One more class to go!
Week two of teaching, hard relate
Doomscrolling break. Especially for everyone facing deadlines and challenges, I offer you this small, persevering hedgehog by way of encouragement and inspiration. #TinyJoys
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Week 10 of teaching- each week has been a replay of me struggling up that step on my tiny hedgehog legs. So tired. One more class to go!