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Aimee Middlemiss @almiddlemiss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a useful resource for #repro scholars - downloadable introductions of recent books in the Berghahn #fertility and #reproduction series.

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Aimee Middlemiss @almiddlemiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Also my book listed here, Invisible Labours, is Open Access. ;)

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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Over on X, the far-right British Patriots have launched a hate campaign against the RNLI They are recording RNLI volunteers in order to dox them, reveal their identities and publish details of where they and their families live These men are dangerous

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Zoe Tongue @whiterxbbit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

More excited about the fact that my book cover artwork is my own art than I am about the book itself 🎨

Image of a book cover with the title 'Recognising a Human Right to Abortion' by Zoe Tongue. The cover artwork features a blue background and a white abstract figure of a pregnant person, with pink details.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Actually felt proud to see that line at the top and realise it was this stupid little island We are very good at some things

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is not misinformation. That's what I normally cover - something out of context, an opinion quoted as fact, or a deliberate misinterpretation... This is none of those. This is full-on disinformation. Because that is NOT from the Express. It is entirely fake😱 🧵 1/10

Lembit Opik tweet:

Burnham's big migration plan: take 4,000 stranded migrants from Ceuta, bring them to the UK and put them up in luxury hotels. Americans look at Europe in despair.

Express Headline: Burnham's migrant, Campbell, 1,000 stranded in Ceuta to be brought to UK. The Prime Minister proposes flying thousands of stranded migrants from Spanish enclave to Britain and housing them in London hotels.

Monk Debunked stamp on top of both

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Gavin @maycontainnuts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

INSTRUCTIONS UNCLEAR, HAVE GONE BLIND TRYING TO VIEW THE SUN THROUGH AL DENTE PENNE.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

JUST TO NOTE IF PEOPLE PLAN ON USING COLANDERS TO SEE THE ECLIPSE YOU ARE NOT LOOKING THROUGH IT, YOU ARE USING IT TO FILTER THE LIGHT AND WATCH THE SHADOW OF THE MOON ON THE GROUND/OTHER SURFACE

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

No, it's not okay to use genAI for research- or writing-adjacent activities. Those actions are also part of writing and thinking and research! Don't fall for the con of genAI boosters. Hang onto your humanity. 2/ buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

buttondown.com

The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy

Hallo friends, and welcome, new readers! I hope you’re managing to navigate safely whatever weather challenges may have come your way this year. In today’s...

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Do non-migrants have any idea how *utterly terrifying* it is for those who have IDL in the UK; have built a life here, have British kids & forged a sense of love & belonging to be bombarded with news that a sizeable % of the population & government want to be able to take that away & deport us?

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

‘We urge the Government to prioritise this issue. Should this situation continue unchecked, the damage to the health of higher education, research and innovation will be profound and have long-lasting consequences.’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...

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British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage

As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

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The bonfire of the humanities

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

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Caroline Curwen @curwen01.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

No two musicians experience music in exactly the same way. I’m investigating how expert musicians experience music, with or without music-colour synaesthesia. 🎁 £50 voucher on completion of Session 2 🔗 carolinecurwen.com/music-imagination-study/ @leverhulme.ac.uk @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Business leaders back the Humanities and Social Sciences, noting their important to economy and culture in Exeter, Cornwall and the Southwest. This is one vital strand in defending the SHAPE subjects. Don't ignore it (or carp about it). Build on it. biz4humanities.com

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Business Leaders for Exeter Humanities & Social Sciences

An open letter from business leaders standing up for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Exeter — a shared asset worth protecting. Read it and add your name.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

'The proposed industrial action is over plans to cut 200 jobs as the Brighton facility attempts to save £35m annually. It comes after more than 600 staff were put at risk of redundancy across academic, technical and professional services departments.'

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University of Sussex staff vote whether to go on strike over job cuts

Hundreds of people face redundancy as the Brighton-based facility tries to save £35m.

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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 01/07/2026

Parked but not idle: The buses “will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the power supply is at its cleanest & cheapest, then send energy back to the grid from 4 pm to 7 pm on days when the grid is strained. The district will earn revenue for the power it shares…”

canarymedia.com

In Massachusetts, parked EVs will start feeding the grid this summer

Three electric school buses will kick-start the state’s groundbreaking vehicle-to-grid pilot program once school's out, with more EVs to be added in the…

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 24/06/2026

24 June 2016. The day after when EU citizens across the UK were told to ‘go home’; when the then PM said he would not protect our rights. Stories largely forgotten. BLEA - Brexit Lived Experience Archive - which I am launching today, is here to preserve this history. #Brexit brexit.migravox.org

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Home - BLEA

BLEA. Brexit Lived Experience Archive Documenting experiences. Personal experiences provide valuable insights into how Brexit is lived and understood by those directly affected. Recording these accoun...

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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

More slash and burn across UK Universities. 153 jobs to be lost at Exeter; 117 targeted at Humanities and Social Sciences. Exeter is not in financial crisis; this is a choice to align with narrowly conceived government strategies and priorities. Please sign. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

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Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Found out yesterday that my job is at risk. Feels terrible: multiple video-only "consultations" without even a q and a... Humanities and social sciences overwhelmingly targeted... Whole thing feels deeply ideological and also like payback aimed at the departments with high union density...

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University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

timeshighereducation.com

University of Exeter cuts an ‘existential threat to humanities’

Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A grim day in a grim week in a grim month for UK higher education, with Dundee, Exeter and Hertfordshire all making major announcements of planned redundancies. Shrinkage of the research & teaching base by the invisible hand's visible fist is not an 'us' or 'them', SHAPE or STEM phenomenon. 1/2

Photo of an open hand, with part of 4 fingers showing.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

'The University of Exeter is proposing to cut about 150 staff roles. A spokesperson for the university said it was "consulting with colleagues over limited and specific potential changes across some areas of our academic faculties".' 1/4

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University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Morning all. Photographer Inge Morath London 1954.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17/06/2026

“A.i.” reproduces all the sexism and racism and bigotry of its inputs. If you use it uncritically, you’re accepting and furthering all that bullshit.

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Petition alert: I know there's lots of them but this one needs to get to 100,000 by the end of the month My good friend Nansi asked me to do a video to help raise awareness that widows used to get 18 years of support but now it's cut to 18 months Please sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026

Keir Starmer has condemned the riots in Belfast, encouraged and promoted on X by the platform's owner, by posting his statement on X.

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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The violent racism unfolding in Northern Ireland is shocking, but sadly unsurprising. What is unfolding follows a pattern of collective punishment, fuelled by the far right and enabled by weak political responses.

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Homes set on fire in Belfast night of violence as MP says people targeted based on skin colour - follow live

On one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Morning all Photographer lan Howorth. Untitled from ‘A Country Kind of Silence‘ 2024.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

We must not allow the tragic murder of a
young woman turn into attacks on men
and attacks on the police

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

#NationalCheeseDay There are Scottish and Swiss traditions of "death cheese"--a cheese made at a birth and kept untouched until the individual's funeral. burialsandbeyond.com/2020/03/24/d... www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mos... #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

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Death Cheese: A Short History

In life, three things are for certain: Birth, Death and Cheese. The greatest of these is cheese.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Polish artist NeSpoon from Warsaw, known for her street art featuring traditional lace pattern imagery #WomensArt

Photo featuring a red older three storey building with lace pattern mural on a street

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Hands up if you've experienced extremely slow peer review with #BMCPublicHealth. 🙋 I have boycotted them for 15+ years! It was a similar story. The paper just sat with the editor for months, with no human response to enquiry.

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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🔥 Now over 75,000 signatures! So an increase of 5K in less than a day. Keep going folks. Share to friends.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.

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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We have a postdoc medical humanities position available at Exeter on the Wellcome-funded After the End project. Are you interested in endings and aftermaths? If so, please do apply and join our research team. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/79...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exeter | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate vacancy in Exeter. Postdoctoral Research Associate Salary Details The starting salary will be from £34,610 on Gra...

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This opportunity for a fantastic *funded* PhD with two exceptional health historians, makes me want to do another PhD. I've got a bit much on, so am selflessly sharing it for others to consider.

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