Lydia Nicholson

Writer, researcher, book reader, burger lover, garden grower. Research development at the University of Liverpool. Views my own

[Lydia Nicholson @lidnicholson]

@emeraldfennell Ooh this looks fantastic! I can't wait!

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@GemmaOuten Ouch! Clearly less of a "rejection" and more of a "we've very quickly shortlisted the people who we had already planned to shortlist." Urgh painful all the same. Keep at it Gemma!

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@claireddean @edgehill according to Harry Potter the way to subdue an edgy book is to stroke its spine - hope it goes well! #monsterbookofmonsters

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@claireddean @edgehill Oh it looks exquisite Claire! Hope it went well!

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@PINsykes @becbecliuliu In practice-based research I've applied it as the integration of theory + practice = praxis. As praxis, findings/methods/outputs can't be reduced to being just theoretical or just practical, but are a productive, constant and delightfully fluid mix of the two.

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@zoecharlottejay @imo_weg @nteu_tas The trick is to leave the ladder in the blue stockings for the Female Southern NTEU members who come up behind you.

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Really looking forward to seeing this! Interested to see how it functions as "an ethical inquiry into the consequences of violence" as well as thinking about #convicthistory and the ethics of historical violence on screen
https://t.co/jfZdoYpMLH

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This was absolutely gripping! "The kids' Batman then was Superman... and he could fly, not like today" is my favourite line of the day

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@imo_weg I go through 'how to' early on in Semester, and also suggest if they're really struggling with a reading they at least find 3 things: a part that interested you, a part you didn't understand and a part you found boring. Then in class we can unpack what/why

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@TimHitchcock @jesbattis My goodness did you make that Tim? That's absolutely brilliant! What an impressive and lovely hobby. I knit, but not nearly as well as you make furniture.

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Weekend spent sanding a Victorian lath+plaster ceiling and sweeping up all the scraps of horsehair that fell from the plaster - a much more satisfying weekend of work than writing my next postdoc app #history #historyathome #victorianterrace #ECRlife

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Transcribing colonial Van Diemen's Land medical records and an "A. Dumbleton" keeps ordering patients to the "asylum." Makes the work much less sad if I imagine all these ex-convicts with supposed mania heading off to a secret wizard school #history #medicalhistory

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I've been in need of a new procrastiwalking podcast and this looks just the ticket. First up - #KateMosse on historical fiction. #hiddenhistories

[Lydia Nicholson @lidnicholson]

Trying to decide what to give up for Lent:
1. worrying about getting a semi-stable academic job as an ECR
2. worrying about how to navigate that whilst maintaining a life
3. garlic bread

[Lydia Nicholson @lidnicholson]

Loved this piece by @alexvtunzelmann - 'embracing complexity' is such a valuable way to frame the ways filmmakers interpret traces from the past compared to historians, with different aims, methods and conversations about ethical obligations that let us ask different questions.

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Great piece about colonial rivers as roads by @imo_weg - I loved getting the train north up to Ormskirk every day passing over the canals that would have been Lancashire's highways a hundred years ago
https://t.co/LLBSEjweoi

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@imo_weg Play with lighting, and set the scene behind you to be non-distracting but bonus points if you’re at home and can make the space (this you!) warm and personable!

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@imo_weg Don’t make the mistake of just being top-half formal even if it’s an awkward hour of the day - you may have to get out of your seat...

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Finally caught up with #doctorwho Demons of the Punjab - @VinayPatel it was marvellous! Encouraging all of my undergrad history of the British empire students to watch!

[Prof Steve Roberts @SteveRoberts_]

The ‘academic treadmill’ captured so well by Phil Cohen - #ECR researchers are entering the field with a set of demands and challenges so different from even when I started 8/9 years ago.

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