Joseph McHardy
@josephmchardy.bsky.social
Choral director, educator and editor, PhDing at Nottingham Uni - Lusitano, C16th Blackness, mixedness; how European Classical music talks about it (📷Nick Rutter) 🏴🇨🇩he/him
Watching partner apply for JRF’s: every single one requires ~ 10000 words over all and each one has different requirements. The amount of unpaid labour in UK academia is astonishing and it bewilders me that senior academics just keep reifying it. Sorry, but I call pyramid scheme.
I am now one of the people who has watched ‘Threads’ and it’s brilliant. I’m also not necessarily recommending that you watch it though, as it’s devastating.
the chapter details the research that informed @josephmchardy.bsky.social's and my 2022 revisions to Vicente Lusitano's entry in Grove Music and also touches on Lusitano's historiography, American musicology's general treatment of subjects of African descent, and the future of Lusitano scholarship
Dr. Garrett Schumann@garrt.bsky.social · last mo.just finished revisions to a book chapter I drafted in 2024 and forgot about I think it is very good but I always feel stupid doing academic writing because it is unpaid work and I receive no professional benefit for improving that part of my CV (as my boss reminds me, my job is only to teach)
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Historical Musicologist: That Elgar would leave a cup of tea unfinished indicates a significant change in his compositional process.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2y agoOptimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat
A lot of people worry that TFL livery is a difficult specialist subject, but don't moquette til you've tried it
@lner.co.uk my 82 y/o mother booked assistance KGX-DEE this morning. She was ignored by barrier staff at KGX. She went away and came back to try again, at which point the same staff told her she was too late.
The VC of Greater Manchester uni embezzled £1 million. Did you see *a single story about that*?
When the archive writes back to you with 'No. All our records from that period were destroyed in an attack by the English.'
Woman Says 'Go Feel Shame'
ALT: Woman Says 'Go Feel Shame'
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The Anglo-Spanish alliance hasn’t been this strong since 1501.
‼️ The deadline to apply for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Society for Renaissance Studies Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship is fast approaching. Applications must be submitted by 15 July 2026. Full details and the application portal can be found on our website: rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...
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I’m going to need @dorianlynskey.bsky.social to sing in each episode next season.
Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe close season 9 with the thrilling true story of the Luddites and what we get wrong about them. Featuring riots, assassinations, glamorous outlaws, fiendish foes and Britain in turmoil. Plus what does it mean to be a neo-Luddite? And I do a bit of folksinging
More clear evidence that the community has our back: city council and members of parliament have joined our president to craft this important joint appeal condemning the horrific financial strategy that our administration continues force on the university.
My heritage (🏴/🇮🇪+ 🇨🇩), my birthplace and upbringing (proudly 🏴), and my football-crazy daughter (🏴) mean that this fixture will be an emotional crisis throughout.
"Universities that aren’t fully committed to arts and humanities as a flourishing part of their science offering aren’t committing to the future."
Christopher Smith@christophersmith.bsky.social · 4mo agowhy we are funding arts and humanities to be a full part of the UK's future anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/w...
We worked with two phenomenal Latinists on the Lusitano transcriptions. I know 1st hand that seeing what signs are there gets you nowhere near reconstructing and understanding a text. Palaeographers rock 🤘🏽
Dr Naomi Scott@drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 4mo agoA lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.
GEMENE-ST has encoded thousands of historical contracts and persons related to Mediterranean and Atlantic slavery ca. 1400-1550. It's an ongoing project which will be expanded significantly over the next year. (Full disclosure: I was involved in this!) #medievalsky #earlymodern #digitalhumanities
Arches Project@archesproject.bsky.social · 4mo ago🗺️ Who Is Using Arches? The GEMENE‑ST project maps the Genoese merchant network (1450–1530) & slave trade across the Mediterranean & the Atlantic, highlighting connections between thousands of historical records. 🔗 Explore the database, hosted by @dhiroma.bsky.social: gemene-st.dhi-roma.it/
Oftentimes I am reminded that, in the midst of so much grimness, academia (whatever that is) can be a place of extraordinary generosity.
Garrett’s support, as I think a growing number of us realise, is so generous and energising.
Dr. Garrett Schumann@garrt.bsky.social · 6mo agoA while ago, I received word that a mysterious package arrived for me at the office for a campus program I'm loosely affiliated with, now I have it and see that it's a copy of @josephmchardy.bsky.social and Arne Spohr's triumphal scholarly edition of Vicente Lusitano's music! Thanks, Joe!
What are humanities and social sciences research good for? Consider Enslaved.org: putting names to as many of the people trafficked during the Atlantic slave trade as possible. Insisting on the dignity of every human being. #Talkabouthumanities #talkaboutsocialsciences
Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade
Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade.
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This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
“The problem of being indifferent to the suffering of black folk while also imploring folks to have empathy for Davidson cannot be understated.” Stellar from @nubluesnick.bsky.social
@nubluesnick.bsky.social · 8mo agoThey cannot call for mutual understanding if they do not care how words affect the bodies of others. Ultimately, this was a missed opportunity for solidarity, and this has always been the critique of antiblackness. nublues.beehiiv.com/p/for-your-c...
