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Anna Grey

@annamgrey.bsky.social

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By day Director of Research and Innovation at Dundee University. By night, usually asleep. Data geek and research management guru. Plus knitting, singing and cat servant. Comments are in a personal capacity.

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 8h

Not the best picture, but apparently it's an oil rig coming in for decommissioning. Not your average view from the office

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 1d

I might accept it arriving by carrier pigeon or a puppy. If I get to keep the puppy.

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Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Good gracious! Something of a surprise to realise this is the amiable Harry Rée whom I knew a bit at York uni in the 1980s.

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 1d

Or those fabulous internal mail envelopes with 50 spaces for name and department. (I await the first cyber breach because someone has hacked the AI automated response systems)

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 1d

We have the reached the cyber security point where we dare not click on any link or document in an email, thereby rendering sending stuff by email null and void. Back to paper memos it is then. (Alternatively, you need to send an email to say you are sending an email)

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

No! Tonight is choir night. Will watch when I get home. But I'm not a fan of University Challenge, so don't mind missing that one.

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

Oh grim. Did you watch Hinterland? The celtic-noir filmed in Aber?

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

Oh that must have been a drive and half and not that great by train. Dundee to Southport is also a very long way, not helped by the lack of any decent route once you get off the M6 and into Preston.

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

Ha, West Midlands has been carefully plotting to declare UDI for years. Those aren't random motorways, they are actually barricades. (M6 becomes the A74/M74) at Gretna Green)

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 2d

Potsdamer Platz, 1970.

Photo: Maschke, Herbert / Stadtmuseum Berlin

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

And while I'm being grumpy, can we stop with fallacy of PS/admin divide as if we never talk to each other. Pretty much all we do gets run through committees, pretty much made up of the academic community.

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, and hello from the impact community, but the evidence is that most professional based groups don't read academic papers, but read the practice based ones. Hence all the work we do to encourage non-standard publications and alternative routes to dissemination beyond conferences.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'While researchers typically publish in academic journals and books, the authors found, higher education managers are more likely to consult practice-oriented journals, newsletters, conference inputs and social media platforms such as LinkedIn.'

Physician, heal thyself.

HE research ‘rarely informs administrators’ decisions’

Knowledge transfer should include the university itself, says thinktank after identifying disconnect between managers and those who study them

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry. I can only blame my lack of Only Connect and the fact that the road number changes when you cross the border.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 3d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

Well, that's my schedule all out of kilter.

Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

How am I supposed to know it's Monday, if it isn't quiz night?

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Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social · 2d

Lancaster, though it's more that it's right next to the M5? I remember walking somewhere which included negotiating a ring road. Had a feeling it was Manchester Met.