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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦

@drfionamoore.bsky.social

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BSFA Award winning SFF author represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Anthropologist who wandered into a business school. Author of Management Lessons from Game of Thrones (2022). www.fiona-moore.com www.adoctorofmanythings.com .. more

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Fiona Moore is a Canadian academic, writer and critic based in London (UK). She is best known for writing works of TV criticism, short fiction, stage and audio plays, and academic texts on the anthropology of business and organisations. Her research work has been described by Professor Roger Goodman at the University of Oxford's Nissan Institute as "engaging head-on with the growing and increasingly complex literature on transnationalism and globalisation and relating it constructively to key ideas in symbolic anthropology." A graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, she is Chair of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Shorter Fiction, and in 2023 she won the BSFA Award for Short Non-Fiction. .. more

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 22d

Updated my calling card again.

A blue shading to purple card with a picture of Fiona Moore at the centre and three pictures, of a miniature cabinet, a cat and some flatbread with eggs, at the bottom. The text outlines my recent work which you can find at www.adoctorofmanythings.com or by following @drfionamoore on social media.

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1h

I write academic and popular works of television criticism. The Written Archive has been an invaluable source for my research on Doctor Who and Blake's 7. I had plans for a work on the groundbreaking multiethnic 1970s series Gangsters, which it will be much harder to do without the Archives.

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1h

And again, this is a travesty of what an archive should be for.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2h

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2h

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2h

For forty light-years have we known her,
The Space Marine Chapter Master of old
And for eighty light-years shall us perish
Ere the fame of her deeds shall grow cold...

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14

People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 14h

Went to see a movie by some Mexican guy. He was there too and brought his friends. #LIFF

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 14h

Sergio Leone of course. Next question.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 22h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 20h

It has been a bit quiet today. I know yesterday was very good, but we are not funded yet so I am going to have to keep pestering you until we are. If you have already backed it, why not share it with your friends? www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)

An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

www.kickstarter.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 22h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

I liked the BSG remake, and Caprica was a series that deserved a longer run: a sort of The-Godfather-Meets-Mark-Zuckerberg story of the origin of the Cylons. Uneven but nothing that an extra season wouldn't have fixed.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

My reference point is always the original, but I heard somewhere that post-millenial readers assume he was talking about a blue sky and I've never forgotten that.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

It's outside of your sample (being American and also something of a television footnote these days), but just out of interest, the Battlestar Galactica spinoff series Caprica was shot using the multi-camera method.

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's funny that "the sky was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel" still works-- but it's shifted in meaning from dull grey to sunny blue.

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

The Stewart Lee op-ed about the flag-posters was genuinely funny.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, I know the answer, but yeah.

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

So far, I'm really enjoying The Nerve as an independent publication: give them a look.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

You know, as someone who doesn't follow sportsball, it makes me really happy when I open up Bluesky and the only things I see in the "Trending" bar are sportsball teams and athletes.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Milk
Nine Months
(Simply Having A) Wonderful Christmas Time (The Pipes of Peace are #2 on the list, looking at *you* Sir McCartney).

Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 1d

Semolina pudding
Man Bites Dog
Fairytale of New York

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

vintagerecipecards.com/2025/10/12/w... Is it from Vienna or from Holstein make up your mind, woman.

Weiner Schnitzel Holstein

4 veal cutlets, about 6 ounces each¼ cup all-purpose flour1 teaspoon saltDash pepper1 egg, slightly beaten1 cup fine dry bread crumbs¼ cup butter or margarine4 Fried Eggs, see below4 anchovy fillet…

vintagerecipecards.com

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 1d

Semolina pudding
Man Bites Dog
Fairytale of New York

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 1d

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers

"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

www.startribune.com

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! I don’t celebrate the American one, I’m too busy celebrating my birthday.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

Catch me chairing the Tolkien Panel and reading from my short story collection Human Resources on the Saturday, and come say hi anytime!

World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · 1d

The Programme for World Fantasy 2026 is now live!

worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/

Programme – World Fantasy Convention 2025

worldfantasy2025.co.uk

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

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World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · 1d

The Programme for World Fantasy 2026 is now live!

worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/

Programme – World Fantasy Convention 2025

worldfantasy2025.co.uk

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

Let's not forget that Diane Keaton directed the best episode of Twin Peaks not directed by David Lynch: twinpeaks.fandom.com/wiki/Episode...

Episode 22

"Episode 22", or, "Slaves and Masters" is the fifteenth episode of the second season of Twin Peaks, and the twenty-third episode of the series as a whole. It originally aired February 9, 1991. ―Margar...

twinpeaks.fandom.com

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Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 3d

...for reasons they can't quite grasp because they're selfish and small-minded people. But one sort of feels sorry for them nonetheless. Anyway, go read it. 2/2

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 3d

Postscript: for a really good interpretation of the Sodom and Gomorrah story, I recommend "The Wicked City" by Isaac Bashevis Singer. It's a story for children (really!) which casts Lot and his family as comfortable, selfish, bourgeois assimilated types whose easy life is ripped away from them 1/2

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