What's the Point?

The podcast where we discuss the need for arts & humanities today! Hosted by @BF_Armstrong

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Caught a whiff of something interesting? We’ll be back soon after our hiatus 👀

[Dr Ally Louks @DrAllyLouks]

If anyone fancies learning a little more about sensory studies, smell historian Will Tullett did a great episode of ⁦@BF_Armstrong’s podcast ‘What’s the Point?’ I’ll be doing an episode in the new year too! https://t.co/behjSSLfeM

[Dr Ally Louks @DrAllyLouks]

If anyone fancies learning a little more about sensory studies, smell historian Will Tullett did a great episode of ⁦@BF_Armstrong’s podcast ‘What’s the Point?’ I’ll be doing an episode in the new year too! https://t.co/behjSSLfeM

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The internet: sees one viral PhD announcement and spends days claiming that the humanities are useless.
The humanities:

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Everything happening at Aberdeen is threatening the teaching of languages!

Listen to @ciarabgorman talk about why languages matter in our first episode ⬇️

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Hello, and welcome to 'What's the Point?'...

We're so excited to share with you our very first episode!

@BF_Armstrong is joined by @ciarabgorman to talk about language learning, gender studies and contemporary culture:
https://t.co/0OZB1Ljza4

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Solidarity with the staff at Aberdeen uni! We vehemently oppose the proposals to cut teaching and staff in A&H subjects!

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

“On the same day I was shortlisted for this award I heard my job was at risk of redundancy. The university is not the management. It is the students and staff.” 🔥

We will overturn these outrageous cuts at Aberdeen University @aberdeen_ucu

https://t.co/LFnTp7cLe1

[Noreen Masud @NoreenMasud]

guys is anyone able to add a Community Note to this explaining that Prof O’Connor received a risk of redundancy letter the same day he was shortlisted for this prize

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@DrETaylorPirie Yes, we couldn’t agree more!

[Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie dretaylorpirie.bsky.social @DrETaylorPirie]

…& (I would add) “tolerance to nuance”. As Prof Fussell so coherently puts it, the arts & hums can help us explore the depths of the “human condition”. Seems a no brainier to incl humanities training in med quals when you put it like that, doesn’t it?

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@ExeterMed
@DurhamImh
@PJMedHums
@uniofexeHLS

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“The arts and humanities help to develop medical students’ tolerance to ambiguity”

In our latest episode, Professor Ian Fussell talks to us about why the arts and humanities have to go hand in hand with medicine 🩺

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Listen here: https://t.co/haPIgCoZvs

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This is exactly why we need to shout about the need for arts and humanities today 📣

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

The UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council @ahrcpress is to cut the number of PhD students it funds by a quarter, from 425 to 300 a year
https://t.co/YM2LWDLssr

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What our pod intro means when it says, “we’re living in a time when the arts and humanities are under threat” ⬇️

[Australian Academy of the Humanities @HumanitiesAU]

We are dismayed to learn of ACU’s decision to gut its disciplines of History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Pol. Science, and the entirety of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 1/4

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🎧 Listen in here: https://t.co/zEl2nFoIpT

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"We've known about the climate crisis for decades...what we're lacking is not information. What we're lacking is a way of relating to it that changes how we behave."

In our 10th episode, Conor Brennan talks to us about how the arts and humanities are tackling the climate crisis:

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We discuss exactly this in our latest episode 🎙️

[Guardian news @guardiannews]

AI-enhanced images a ‘threat to democratic processes’, experts warn https://t.co/rw32GuBdkV

[Neil Griffiths (he/him) @_griff]

Awful talk of low ‘value’ degrees, I discussed this at length on @wtppod_ 🥖🌹

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https://t.co/lPL7e8pyC8

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Check out our episode below with @_griff who talks about the amazing work Arts Emergency does to advocate for arts and humanities