Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown
@earlymodlancs.bsky.social
Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Green Party Member
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Green Party Member
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
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November 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Blackstone Edge, East Lancashire, painting by Herbert F. Royle, 1870-1958 (Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds). #LancashireDay
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Blackstone Edge, East Lancashire, painting by Herbert F. Royle, 1870-1958 (Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds). #LancashireDay
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Happy #LancashireDay. To be ecumenical, here's Yorkshire Street, Oldham, Lancashire, c.1935, painting by Harry Rutherford, 1903-85 (Gallery Oldham).
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Happy #LancashireDay. To be ecumenical, here's Yorkshire Street, Oldham, Lancashire, c.1935, painting by Harry Rutherford, 1903-85 (Gallery Oldham).
Thomas Browne at work
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#SurfaceStudies
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(and I adore @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social posts - thankyou (
#SurfaceStudies
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Thomas Browne at work
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(and I adore @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social posts - thankyou (
#SurfaceStudies
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(and I adore @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social posts - thankyou (
#SurfaceStudies
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'Universities are communities of people and those within Scotland’s universities play a critical role in shaping our regions, our nation and our international reach and impact.'
Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3
Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
'Universities are communities of people and those within Scotland’s universities play a critical role in shaping our regions, our nation and our international reach and impact.'
Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3
Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3
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'Due to the “very significant amount of public funding” at stake, the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) is placing conditions on the money across five areas, according to a letter from its chair Cara Aitchison to Iain Mair, Dundee’s acting chair of court published on 26 November.' 2/3
www.sfc.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
'Due to the “very significant amount of public funding” at stake, the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) is placing conditions on the money across five areas, according to a letter from its chair Cara Aitchison to Iain Mair, Dundee’s acting chair of court published on 26 November.' 2/3
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'The University of Dundee has been told it cannot make any compulsory redundancies until it has a three-year recovery strategy in place as part of conditions placed on its bailout from the Scottish government.' 1/3
Bailout conditions restrict compulsory redundancies at Dundee
University told to come up with a plan for financial recovery before it enforces more job losses
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
'The University of Dundee has been told it cannot make any compulsory redundancies until it has a three-year recovery strategy in place as part of conditions placed on its bailout from the Scottish government.' 1/3
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Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
In November 2024, we celebrated 60 Years of the now defunct Department of English Literature & Creative Writing.
As we now try to regroup, I'm reeling from what's been lost
youtu.be/D3UPN5VCfns?...
As we now try to regroup, I'm reeling from what's been lost
youtu.be/D3UPN5VCfns?...
The English Literature & Creative Writing Department at 60
YouTube video by Lancaster ELCW
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
In November 2024, we celebrated 60 Years of the now defunct Department of English Literature & Creative Writing.
As we now try to regroup, I'm reeling from what's been lost
youtu.be/D3UPN5VCfns?...
As we now try to regroup, I'm reeling from what's been lost
youtu.be/D3UPN5VCfns?...
@jameswallace.bsky.social
Ah, thanks for the reminder of RND's production of "Lust's Dominion" !
I was in the audience and it was terrific!
Ah, thanks for the reminder of RND's production of "Lust's Dominion" !
I was in the audience and it was terrific!
November 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
@jameswallace.bsky.social
Ah, thanks for the reminder of RND's production of "Lust's Dominion" !
I was in the audience and it was terrific!
Ah, thanks for the reminder of RND's production of "Lust's Dominion" !
I was in the audience and it was terrific!
Some snail news 🐌
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News share.google/CFFJ1dGpXmlA...
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News share.google/CFFJ1dGpXmlA...
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News
A team is hunting for the finger-sized snail along the River Thames to help recover their numbers.
share.google
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Publication day! Delighted to make my first post here to celebrate this new volume, Care and Contagion in Shakespeare's Changing World. So grateful to my co-editor, Rebecca Totaro, to @ardenpublisher.bsky.social for the stunning production, and to all of our amazing contributors.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Publication day! Delighted to make my first post here to celebrate this new volume, Care and Contagion in Shakespeare's Changing World. So grateful to my co-editor, Rebecca Totaro, to @ardenpublisher.bsky.social for the stunning production, and to all of our amazing contributors.
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White Narcissus, Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610 (Rijksmuseum)
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
White Narcissus, Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610 (Rijksmuseum)
Some snail news 🐌
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News share.google/CFFJ1dGpXmlA...
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News share.google/CFFJ1dGpXmlA...
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News
A team is hunting for the finger-sized snail along the River Thames to help recover their numbers.
share.google
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Some snail news 🐌
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News share.google/CFFJ1dGpXmlA...
Conservationists unite to save London’s rare 'German' hairy snail - BBC News share.google/CFFJ1dGpXmlA...
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📢 Register now for our next ASLE-UKI Seminar, Ecopedagogy as Method on 12th December, 4-5:30pm!
Speakers:
Laura Albertini
Hugh Dunkerley
Petra Hansson
Jasmin Kirkbride
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
Speakers:
Laura Albertini
Hugh Dunkerley
Petra Hansson
Jasmin Kirkbride
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
📢 Register now for our next ASLE-UKI Seminar, Ecopedagogy as Method on 12th December, 4-5:30pm!
Speakers:
Laura Albertini
Hugh Dunkerley
Petra Hansson
Jasmin Kirkbride
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
Speakers:
Laura Albertini
Hugh Dunkerley
Petra Hansson
Jasmin Kirkbride
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...
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It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
Coda:
My post below refers only to academic staff
My PS colleagues are subject to another timescale
Solidarity ✊️
My post below refers only to academic staff
My PS colleagues are subject to another timescale
Solidarity ✊️
There's still *so much* to do and uncertainty remains in the long-term.
BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future
Onwards and Solidarity
BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future
Onwards and Solidarity
What a gorgeous photograph !
Taking this vibe into the new week
Taking this vibe into the new week
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Coda:
My post below refers only to academic staff
My PS colleagues are subject to another timescale
Solidarity ✊️
My post below refers only to academic staff
My PS colleagues are subject to another timescale
Solidarity ✊️
There's still *so much* to do and uncertainty remains in the long-term.
BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future
Onwards and Solidarity
BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future
Onwards and Solidarity
What a gorgeous photograph !
Taking this vibe into the new week
Taking this vibe into the new week
African buffalo are one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. They can way 900 kg and are apparently considered grumpy.
I’d be grumpy too if I had to carry a bunch of yelling red-billed oxpeckers around all the time!
This bull was slowly eating his way down the Sabi River in Kruger Park, SA
I’d be grumpy too if I had to carry a bunch of yelling red-billed oxpeckers around all the time!
This bull was slowly eating his way down the Sabi River in Kruger Park, SA
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
There's still *so much* to do and uncertainty remains in the long-term.
BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future
Onwards and Solidarity
BUT...very grateful to my local union exec @lancasterucu.bsky.social and my LUCU colleagues for getting my employers to remove CR in the very near future
Onwards and Solidarity
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In honour of Delia Derbyshire Day, a little post about her collaboration at the BBC with the poet Rosemary Tonks @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/i-stop-bei...
"I Stop Being Human"
Rosemary Tonks, Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
someflowerssoon.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
In honour of Delia Derbyshire Day, a little post about her collaboration at the BBC with the poet Rosemary Tonks @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/i-stop-bei...
Here's the latest pic of "Daphne"
(17/11/2025)
(17/11/2025)
November 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Here's the latest pic of "Daphne"
(17/11/2025)
(17/11/2025)
An especially brilliant issue of the always brilliant 'Green Letters ' @asleuki.bsky.social
arrived in the post this week 👇
#OvidAlert
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arrived in the post this week 👇
#OvidAlert
share.google/5bgc3TP9XQFg...
Green Letters
Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach to Classics. Volume 29, Issue 2 of Green Letters
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November 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
An especially brilliant issue of the always brilliant 'Green Letters ' @asleuki.bsky.social
arrived in the post this week 👇
#OvidAlert
share.google/5bgc3TP9XQFg...
arrived in the post this week 👇
#OvidAlert
share.google/5bgc3TP9XQFg...
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“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
My university colleague Jess Davies on the importance of soil sustainability 👇👇👇
#Soil_Imaginaries
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#Soil_Imaginaries
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How soil could help us reach climate targets
From Paris in 2015 to Belem in Brazil in 2025, soil is slowly becoming part of climate policy but more can be done.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My university colleague Jess Davies on the importance of soil sustainability 👇👇👇
#Soil_Imaginaries
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#Soil_Imaginaries
share.google/1yzGPByQiaLm...
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As the climate emergency begins to bite a few world leaders meet with a lot of fossil fuel lobbyists and can't even agree that fossil fuels are a problem. Truly frightening. We need radical action not weak willed leaders scared to stand up to the rich and powerful.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
COP30: UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises
Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aimed to commit the world to take more action on climate change.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
As the climate emergency begins to bite a few world leaders meet with a lot of fossil fuel lobbyists and can't even agree that fossil fuels are a problem. Truly frightening. We need radical action not weak willed leaders scared to stand up to the rich and powerful.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...