Sharon

Saturday evening, one sentence story/prompt
"The roses grow, but who is feeding them?"

You can always speak your truth with candour
yet not cause shrapnel sharp anxiety.
Before your breath leaves your lips, remember
words can be doves or bullets, choose wisely.
(finis)

Before your breath leaves your lips, remember,
words can be doves or bullets, choose wisely.
Soften each phrase, to kindness surrender
before your breath leaves your lips, remember.
(cont ...)

It's publication day! (I signed 240 of these yesterday, before an event with the inimitable Jeff Chang, at San Francisco's Booksmith at the Internet Archive).

One of my watercolour studies of irises

One of my watercolour studies of irises
#watercolour #watercolor #iris #botanicalart

Stories that Travel Sharing your research beyond the well-worn path A PDF guide to writing for non-academic audiencesThe exercises in this guide will help you: identify who you are mapping this story for, and where they ...

Three exercises. A clear process. A piece of writing at the end that your audience will not only understand, but want to read.
£10 introductory offer while I concentrate on completing my PhD confirmation panel.
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Stories That Travel is a short, reflective guide to help you find a different route. One someone else can actually walk with you...

The people your research could most usefully reach, community organisations, policymakers, practitioners, the curious public, often can't follow that path. Not because they're not smart. But because it wasn't made for them...

There's a well-worn path in research communication. The journal article. The conference paper. The report written for people who already speak your language.
It has its place. But it's not the only path. 🧵

‘No chips please’: how one man convinced an entire school to choose salad David Bell, a former advertising executive, knows how to sell. Having turned his attention to healthy eating, the result is the Belly Bugs, making cabbage cool

Our psychologists have joined forces with Belly Bugs to understand why kids are moved by storytelling into eating more fruit and vegetables. 🍓🥕🥬

Find out more 🔗 https://bit.ly/4bhLgay

In order to do Research Impact, of any sort, you need 3 things.
At the top is strategy – what is the goal & plan?

You need capacity – what skills do your team need to do the impact you want?

You need resources – software, hardware, pens and paper.
Factor this stuff into your grant writing.

I hope they did too - all their slides were text heavy, more like it should have been on a handout rather than a presentation

Stories that Travel Sharing your research beyond the well-worn pathA PDF guide to writing for non-academic audiencesThe exercises in this guide will help you: identify who you are mapping this story for, and where they e...

I did a thing! I'm testing the waters (and testing my courage!) But I have let loose my first PDF guide for Fuelled by Coffee. It's aimed at researchers, but can be adapted for other users. Introductory offer while I get my confirmation panel out of the way
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Playing with one sentence stories - today's was

"You said our love was a song, you just didn't say what kind."

Gently mentioned this to someone the other day. There was so much text that I couldn't read the activity instructions 😞

Blog — Fuelled by Coffee crafting stories, inspiring impact, nurturing connections

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Researching the History of Emotions Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Date for your diary - join us Join us for this online training session on 28th April, hosted by the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social team, which will bring together a panel of historians, librarians and subject specialists to discuss the History of Emotions
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Just finished my piece for
@paeartforacause.bsky.social

If you'd like to participate and support those affected by Alzheimer's, check out postcardartexhibit.com for more info and to register!
#postcardartexhibit26

Wonder what red wine pairs best with epistemology and ontology wrestling?

Popped to the chippy for lunch, while I was waiting I had the geekiest chat with the woman serving about Star Trek (Starfleet Academy is awesome), Stargate and the fact they are doing a new series and filming in London!!!! And then, dear reader, we had a gentle conversation about Bridgerton.

Obviously, I backed this, plus added on a couple of more books since I mean, that's just how you do this lol

Give yourself a moment, and read this little excerpt from 'Anne of Avonlea' by the wonderful Lucy Maud Montgomery.

I hope to be Anne

... as long as they are engaged :-)

Nigel Farage wants to cut price of beer by reinstating two-child benefit cap Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has pledged to reinstate the two-child limit on benefits to pay for a 5p cut off pints of beer to boost pubs.

Reform’s plans to push half a million children into poverty to fund a suite of hospitality tax cuts are indefensible.

✒️ @henryippr.bsky.social spoke to the @bigissue.com 👇

www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.

But did you look at the judge's order?

It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."

Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is half my casework. Stuff that should just happen isn't unless it gets chased and chased. It's exhausting. I've said repeatedly that one of our key missions has got to be just making things work first time!

UK lenders step up with £11 billion push to back British businesses UK banks agree £11 billion lending packages to support small business growth, particularly for small and mid-sized enterprises.

This is great.

Sensible lending is important to small businesses.

So it's welcome to see 5 major UK lenders agree to an £11bn lending package to help small business growth, following a government roundtable.

This help could see SMEs invest, hire more staff, expand into new international markets.

Yes, definitely - my style is shaped not only by who I am, but also my limitations (I have essential tremors) and my desire to be comfortable when presenting - or as comfortable as one can be 😁

The best presenters have found their own style. It's not about being the perfect. The goal is an engaged audience, & there's a load of ways to achieve this.

One person's talk may rely on skills that you don't use much, and vice versa. We all have our own skill set.
#Academia #PHDChat #Presentations