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BREAKING: the White Cliffs of Dover have been illuminated with the UK 'warming stripes' for #ShowYourStripes day! These stripes represent the UK average temperature from 1884 to 2022 with blue colours for colder years and red colours for hotter years. ShowYourStripes.info

Looking forward to sharing the preliminary findings of our assessment research project tomorrow at #LearningAtCity23.

It was a joy to attend the Learning from Casting Symposium yesterday and a real honour to chair a panel exploring actors’ experiences of casting. Such generous, thoughtful discussions. Thank you Jakub Boguszak for the invitation.

Had a wonderful time at #ESRA2023. Huge thanks to Pascale Drouet, Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine, and Imke Lichterfeld for convening a fascinating seminar on actresses playing Shakespeare’s men. Thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to explore casting from an international perspective.

Just over a month to go until the deadline for submissions to the special edition on casting and identity that kirstin and I are co-editing. We welcome submissions in a variety of formats. Further info below. 👇

🧵1/3 Private companies see healthcare as a business opportunity 'The growing crisis facing the NHS presents “quite a few business opportunities” for AXA to expand its private healthcare' But we know the public model works and will keep fighting for it theguardian.com/business/2023/…

A couple of weeks to go to submit to this special issue on casting and identity - if you’re an artist who wants to say something but unsure of best format please get in touch! Co-edited with Sara Reimers

It's mid-August & syllabus time. Whether you are teaching Shakespeare, general lit, or writing Dr. Nedda Mehdizadeh, PhD 🌸 ندا مهديزاده & I would like to remind you of the resources in our open access book, Anti-Racist Shakespeare from Cambridge UP - Literature & Performance #ShakeRace 1/ cambridge.org/core/elements/…

"The Bibby Stockholm is just a huge physical demonstration of the Tories' hate for refugees, and by extension, all of us" ✍️ Opinion by James Brownsell middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-flo…

Climate change isn't just happening, it is being done to you against your will The future you dream of won't exist, because it has been destroyed by powerful men who lied, deceived and conspired to steal it There, did that help? theguardian.com/environment/20…

Great work from Equity here. Hope more unions follow their lead and campaign on issues relating to the #ClimateEmergency.

V important to be thinking about this. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Politicians do indeed seem to enact education policy with little thought re impact on pupil mental health. Is this because it's just too hard to do so/monitoring test data is much easier? Needs attention, in any case.

Entry to GCSE arts subjects has declined for the ninth year in a row, with Campaign for the Arts (Campaign for the Arts) warning that the "alarming" trend should be a "wake-up call" to address the loss of creative subjects from secondary schools. bit.ly/44w7w9X

“There is a clear sense in which the docile behaviour of academics is self-defeating. But equally clearly, academics are not all in the same boat: the well-paid professor has little in common with the lecturer on a fixed-term contract.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Every species on Earth has an environmental niche As the climate breaks down species must move, if they’re able, or die 100 rare Amazonian dolphins have died, the water was so hot it’s feared they reached their tolerance threshold. #ClimateEmergency theguardian.com/environment/20…

Yesterday, the Israeli military bombed one of UNRWA’s aid distribution centers, killing at least six people. These attacks are deliberate and they are war crimes. 🧵