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Allison Stratford
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Proud Associate Director Corporate Communications at @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Tweeting about the place and the people. I love latte and 🥕 cake.
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Read what our @unisouthampton.bsky.social colleague Louis says about scary stories here 👇🎃
October 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Really chuffed to be featured. Lovely work led by @gruiformabi.bsky.social. @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social
devbiol.bsky.social Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · Oct 14
#DBfeature
Micro-CT 3D structures provide new criteria can be used to identify medullary bone and female individuals in the avian fossil record.
Crane A H @gruiformabi.bsky.social, Baldry C J, Rankin K E, Clarkin C E @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social, Williams K A, Gostling N J @neilgostling.bsky.social
Diagram showing he differences between a healthy female bird bone with medullary bone and a pathological bird bone with avian osteoporosis. For each there is a global scan of tibiotarsi whole bone in lateral view, a micro-CT 3D cube reconstruction, and microCT cubes highlighting osteocyte lacunae. In between a box with writing "Differences include: Structural anisotropy, Connectivity density, Trabecular thickness, Osteocyte lacunae orientation".
October 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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"Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew" by Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations theconversation.com/synagogue-at...
Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew
Manchester Jewry has maintained an extraordinarily strong local identity, but is notable in its diversity.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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A great example of the remarkable work of our #academic colleagues here at @unisouthampton.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #SiliconPhotonics
unisouthampton.bsky.social University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social · Oct 1
What if the computers of the future ran on light? 💡

Senior Research Fellow Colin Mitchell from the Optoelectronics Research Centre explains how silicon photonics makes it possible and why it matters 👇

#Innovation #STEM #SiliconPhotonics
October 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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@unisouthampton.bsky.social colleague Tom Chapman writes for @timeshighered.bsky.social #AcademicSky 👇
September 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Today is World Listening Day so it's a good time to share this again...
An underlined quote in a book that reads as follows… “The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply. – Stephen R. Covey” And I feel it is important to mention here that I was not the one that highlighted this quote (because I’m not a monster). Again, just to reiterate, I, Adam Sharp, do not, now or ever, go around highlighting passages in books like some kind of savage.
July 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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@unisouthampton.bsky.social #Graduation starts today! We'd like to send our very best wishes to all those students graduating.
The photograph shows Southampton students in July 1964.
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Black and white photograph of students sat in rows in graduation robes with University officials processing down the aisle
July 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Graduation officially kicks off today, and we're so proud to be celebrating with you! 🎓 🫶🏻

This moment marks the end of one incredible chapter and the start of an exciting new journey. Here's to the Class of 2025!

#WeAreUoS
Large blue letters spelling "UoS" are displayed in front of the Guildhall. The sky is bright blue with scattered clouds. A group of six graduates in caps and gowns pose outdoors under a bright, partly cloudy sky. Behind them is a modern building with large glass windows. A group stands smiling outside the Guildhall, under a clear blue sky. In the center, three people in graduation gowns and caps with their family standing next to them. Four individuals in graduation gowns and caps stand in front of the Guildhall, under a blue sky. Colourful flags are visible on either side.
July 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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In this welcomed (third) mini heatwave please please put out a shallow dish of fresh water for wildlife. You will be a life saver!! 💦 🐝
July 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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What a treat!! Saw the very first before a live audience show tonight of ROTAS (receptionist of the United States) at @museumofcomedy.bsky.social before it goes to #EdinburghFringe excellent Leigh Douglas 👏 looking forward to reading rave reviews at the Fringe
Leigh Douglas performs her new one woman show of ROTAS receptionist of the United States.
July 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Exciting news! We’re proud to launch the new Institute for Medical Innovation alongside @uhsft.bsky.social

The IMI will put Southampton at the heart of medical discovery, bringing experts together in one brand new building to deliver life-changing breakthroughs.

Find out more 👉 tr.ee/ZgQQiL
Pioneering partnership will tackle world’s most devastating diseases
Pioneering partnership will tackle world’s most devastating diseases
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July 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Another great @uk.theconversation.com article from @unisouthampton.bsky.social #AcademicSky
July 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Thought leadership and academic expertise delivered here by @unisouthampton.bsky.social colleague @janefalkingham.bsky.social #AcademicSky
June 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Read @unisouthampton.bsky.social colleague Gino Grazisno here in @wonkhe.bsky.social #HESky #WideningParticipation
wonkhe.bsky.social Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · Jun 29
Last week on Wonkhe: The government wants higher education to do more to widen access. For Paul Blagburn and Gino Graziano, we need to start by recognising where there is still work to do
Social mobility needs a whole-university rethink
The government wants higher education to do more to widen access. For Paul Blagburn and Gino Graziano, we need to start by recognising where there is still work to do The government wants higher education...
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June 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Amazing candlelit performance last night at #TurnerSims @unisouthampton.bsky.social 🎻
turnersims.bsky.social Turner Sims @turnersims.bsky.social · Jun 28
What a Saturday! The weather was fine, the music was great, with delicious food and the bar. It’s a wrap for day 2! ✨

#TurnerSims #Community #Southampton #ACESupported #LiveMusic #SummerFestival
June 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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royalsociety.org The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Jun 28
Could you find a bacteria-eating and potentially infection-stopping virus in your toilet? That’s just what happened to the BBC’s James Gallagher when he went on a phage hunt with the team from the University of Southampton: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Phage therapy: I found a bacteria-eating virus in my loo
It's hoped phages could give us new ways of treating infections which are immune to antibiotics.
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June 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Our scientists have discovered deep Earth pulses beneath Africa that are slowly, over millions of years, tearing the continent apart and forming a new ocean 🌊

Read more 👉‬ https://tr.ee/Rj8ooV
A vivid scene of molten lava flowing from a volcanic eruption. Rocky, arid Ethiopian landscape with scattered shrubs stretches towards distant rolling hills under a clear blue sky. A person wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a backpack is kneeling on sandy ground, using a smartphone to take a close-up photo of a sedimentary rock formation.
June 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Myself and @michaelghead.bsky.social are talking to #HESky colleagues next week at #UniversitiesUK about our innovative work on academic advocacy.
An event advert that informs that I am speaking at Universities UK event on 3 July called setting the agenda, how universities can regain control of the narrative. It is an in person event
June 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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@maishaislam.bsky.social good to see you here 🦋👋😊
June 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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#JaneAusten250 @unisouthampton.bsky.social
#AcademicSky 📚
devoney.bsky.social Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social · Jun 13
The Global #JaneAusten Conference just released its program. I'm blown away at this once-in-a-lifetime "Wow" gathering of brilliant scholars at the University of Southampton in mid-July. Thank you in advance to co-orgs Profs. Dow & Halsey for making this happen! www.southampton.ac.uk/leaf_content...
June 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Another great @uk.theconversation.com article from @unisouthampton.bsky.social
🦈. #AcademicSky
June 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...
June 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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#AcademicJobs #archeology #palaeoanthropology
A great opportunity to join our remarkable people at @unisouthampton.bsky.social 👇
May 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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📢 JOB ALERT!

Join our friendly team at the Public Engagement with Research unit (PERu) @unisouthampton.bsky.social as Festivals Administrator to support #SOTSEF🔍 #UoSArtsHumFest✍️ and the #UoSRoadshow! 🌈

↘️ Visit: bit.ly/UoSFestivalAdminPERu25
🗓️ Deadline: Thursday 22nd May
⏲️ Part time | Permanent
White and teal text on a black background. The text says: University of Southampton, Inspire Connect Enable, Job opportunity Festivals Administrator. Join the dynamic UoS Festival team at the Public Engagement with Research unit (PERu). Find out more and apply at bit.ly/UoSFestivalAdminPERu25. Accompanying image: a lit sparkler candle.
May 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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@pintofscience.uk and check out the video interview of our remarkable academics at @unisouthampton.bsky.social LinkedIn 🍻
unisouthampton.bsky.social University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social · May 9
Pint of Science is coming to Southampton (May 19 to 21) 🍻🔬

Where science and beer join forces for a series of wacky and insightful sessions led by our amazing researchers 🤖

Read more 👉 tr.ee/0J2MLN

@pintofscience.uk
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May 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM