Cat obsessed Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media. All views from inside my brain; most should have stayed there. She/her
York
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I’ve just joined the other place (@annafbd)… can’t quite bring myself to close this account completely, but won’t be posting or logging in here anymore.
Very excited to share that from 1st Feb (yes, Saturday) I will be the Head of Creative Technologies in School of Arts & Creative Technologies at University of York. Not quite what I had planned for 2025 a fortnight ago, but very much looking forward to it all the same 🎉
Beyond thrilled that my project to develop an Anti-Ableist Research Methods Toolkit has been funded. We will be running surveys, interviews and co-creation workshops with disabled people and researchers. Next semester has gone from very busy to ridiculously busy, but I’m excited!
Dr Anna BD retweeted
We wonder why the employment rate for blind people is so low, and then I read tweets about Chris on strictly saying he's amazing because can you imagine walking across a room with your eyes closed, and I have the answer. People really think so little of our lives.
It’s Halloween so by law I have to share the spookiest, creepiest twins.
ALT Split frame image. On the right pane are the two creepy twin girls from the Shining. They are staring at you with blank expressions than burn deep into your soul. On the left pane are two small tabby cats next to each other on a bean bag. They are staring at you with the same blank expressions that burn deep into your soul. You are next. And they are making sure that you know it.
Waiting in the queue to see Rocky Horror Picture Show… I drove into the city so am not drinking, I fear this may have been an error of judgement.
Right… if someone emails you and explicitly says “please let me know if this will cause a problem”, and it does not cause a problem, do you
a) email them to say “this does not cause a problem” or
b) not email, because they said “email if it causes a problem” and it does not.
I have just pressed “submit” on my first big grant application as Project Lead!
I will celebrate by doing all the work that I haven’t been doing because I’ve been writing the grant. And this afternoon by attending a 3 hour meeting that definitely could have been an email.
Front loading the teaching on my module has meant for a very hectic start of semester. But, somehow I’m 2/3rds of the way through my teaching already. Grant deadline next week and then I can breathe 🤪
No one asked for it, but here is my hot take on the accessibility accommodations discussion because I have thoughts….
A short 🧵
I sent an email to someone yday saying that as a disabled staff member, I could do with a staff support plan to help me manage the student support plans because they are so badly designed for use as an academic. I was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but the processes
Back in May I was awarded promotion, but it doesn’t actually apply til the 1st October. So, I’m looking forward to respawning as a Senior Lecturer tomorrow (yes, I’ve been using the title since week 0, because it’s silly that it doesn’t apply at the start of the academic year).
