My thread on the #assistedplaces scheme, widening participation, #WorkingClass identity, social mobility and aspiration, small humiliations, and ice cream tubs. @WalesArtsReview encouraged me to turn it into an article/memoir: https://t.co/EyR0k8UMc6

I'll be over on B l u e S k y if you want me. Considering deletion here. This place helped me find my voice as a writer but it's a very different (hellscape) environment now. https://t.co/lss3p5Vk3K

Hi @tfwrail the on-board announcements on my train just now were so quiet I couldn't hear them. Only realised my train was going backwards (in relation to my intended destination of Cathays) when I jumped off to & heard platform announcements. Please could you feed this back. 😞

We need more VCs like this.

Congratulations to the 2024 Polari First Book Prize Shortlist! ✨ ⭐ Neon Roses by @RachelCDawson ⭐ Local Fires by Joshua Jones (@nothumanhead) ⭐ Sunburn by @ChloeMHowarth  ⭐ Bellies by Nicola Dinan ⭐ Greekling by @KostyaTsolakis ⭐ Transitional by Munroe Bergdorf

Haven't been able to read fiction in nearly a year (because everything has been quite shit.) This has reminded me why I love to read. (It's a brilliant novel about working-class Welsh women's experience). Couldn't even pick up a book & now can't put this down. Thank you, @gemhow

1/ A treasure trove of AMAZING adult learner courses @ to begin @EtPPathway @LearnCardiff with inspirational tutors like @notRachelBrown @toothkate @CLPickard88 helping you take the first steps back into learning,but ultimately leading to degrees @CUHistArchRel @cardiffuni ✊️

One passenger was really upset as he would now be late. It really should be announced on both the train and the platform so passengers can make informed choices. Appreciate if this could be fed back to station staff and crew.

Thanks to @GaryRaymond_ and the Radio Wales Arts Show for having myself, @NorenaShopland and @dr_deininger on last night to talk about the 'Woman's Wales?' collection. Brilliant to have this discussion in the week we got our first female @PrifWeinidog. https://t.co/gPp77KWHrU

Llongyfarchiadau / Congratulations to Dr Paul Webster! Paul has been promoted to Senior Lecturer. He has coordinated our Exploring the Past programme for many years and this promotion is richly deserved. @WebsterMedieval @EtPPathway

Huge congratulations, Rachel - this is amazing news! Everyone @LearnCardiff is really thrilled for you!

Glad to be invited on to Front Row earlier this evening, to talk about @Museum_Cardiff & the funding crisis in arts & culture in Wales, alongside @LJaneHenderson. If you missed it, you can catch up on @BBCSounds: https://t.co/PPTvqup8aX

My performance development review (PDR) meeting started with "well done". As a line manager, I always highlight the positives in PDRs -- but I realised I've never really had the same kind of treatment myself until today. Makes such a huge difference to motivation & feeling seen.

It is super weird that when you make it harder and harder for international students to come to the UK, they stop coming to the UK.

📢 Exciting News! The latest issue of @IJONMES , the International Journal of Modern Education Studies, is out now! 🎉 Check out the fascinating manuscripts published in this issue: #️⃣1️⃣ Examining the Relationship Between Early Childhood Teacher Candidates' Empathic Tendencies

Michelle Donelan gone: anyone working at a university will be celebrating that one.

Daisy's come over for a sleepover. She's rejected her bed and has decided my top is better. (I've just had a can't-make-it-stop-till-the-light's-on nightmare so I'm very glad of the company.)

Come one, come all! The YASA 2024 Conference is now accepting proposals about YA Literature, Media and Culture. The conference will be held virtually from 4-8 Nov., 2024. Deadline to submit is 30 June 2024. View the full CFP here:

📚Our #BookOfTheMonth, Woman’s Wales? is launched tonight, 31 May 20204 at 7:00pm at YMa Pontypridd with @storyvillebook. ✨ With editor @DrEmmaSchofield, @dr_deininger, @Grace_Quantock, @CerithMathias and @growriter ⬇️Book here: https://t.co/HkXNOVbfzA #ChooseBookshops