Reposted by dr calyx roseCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff! 251639390
Reposted by dr calyx roseMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It’s funny how if you are a member of the demographic that holds power you are just a part of that demographic whereas if you are a member of a minority you represent that minority. 846294
Reposted by dr calyx roseTuring Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 15/08/2026No one, not a single person of note, is arguing that universities should not enforce rules against plagiarism. What we are pointing out is that it is insane and disproportionate for the attention of an entire country to move to one plagiarist until he kills himself. 868988
Reposted by dr calyx roseToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026modern fascists aren't posturing, or saying stuff for some other purpose—they mean it my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...liberalcurrents.comFascists Really Believe ItMillions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory. 441553528
Reposted by dr calyx roseKevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026“Political discourse that was once conducted in print — with its remarkable capacity for sustaining logical thought and extended argument — now takes place in the moronic inferno of social media.” Something for all of us on social media to ponder www.thetimes.com/article/9ab5...thetimes.comThe death of reading puts the world in a perilous placeBooks and newspapers are increasingly giving way to social media content as the habit of reading fades. This isn’t just dumbing down, it’s a threat to democracy 36517
Reposted by dr calyx roseTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again. 3742421100
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Something so surreal about seeing AI detection software advertised by the same companies who are forcibly incorporating AI into all of their products 000
Reposted by dr calyx rosejessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126047998
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 01/08/2026My most old man yells at clouds opinion is that I miss when being put on hold was just listening to hold music and not an announcement telling you that you matter to them/can go online to do this thing you elected to do by phone every ten to twenty seconds 010
Reposted by dr calyx roseCharlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging. 221576447
Reposted by dr calyx roseCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/07/2026open! access! is! a! con! 34613
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 29/07/2026interesting side effect of seeing the odyssey is that for all Nolan excised it from his adaptation, I can't stop thinking about hubris and hamartia 100
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 29/06/2026somewhere between funny and maddening the way AI assistant pop ups actively make it harder to get work done - i do not want to ask it anything! i want to be able to see my own screen! 010
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 23/06/2026it's the final IHR early careers hpt talk of the academic year tomorrow, and we've managed to finagle an air-conditioned room for it, so would highly rec coming along to hear @beccapalmer99.bsky.social talk about corruption & self interest in the american revolution www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...history.ac.ukWords will lose their meaning”: Corruption, self-interest, and the politics of truth in the American RevolutionHistory of Political Ideas/Early Career Seminars 010
Reposted by dr calyx roseDr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below: 21888384
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Decided to try making tofu from scratch and v torn on how I want this to go. Dinner being good would be nice but I’m not sure I can bear to add tofu to the list of things that I feel like I shouldn’t buy bc I can do it better at home 110
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Academic conference so good you have to make a cheese and kimchi toastie the second you get home 010
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 12/06/2026the problem with spending too much time in academia is that you ultimately think tolkein was right and all fantasy authors need to start from first principles to figure out exactly how and why their fantasy societies and cultures would have developed that way 010
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Truly excellent keynote from the ever luminous @shiruuu.bsky.social (I am like 90% sure she never logs on and therefore won’t see this hagiography but it was a truly excellent keynote) 000
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 11/06/2026You love to see a powerpoint that makes the speaker say “I’m glad we’ve had lunch so I’m not doing this to you on an empty stomach” @history-thought.bsky.social 020
Reposted by dr calyx roseGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...arguably.ukThe quiet collapse of British universitiesOne of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away 13195126
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 11/06/2026as is tradition, I'm at the annual London History of Political Thought Graduate Conference today and tomorrow - an impressive turnout and range of engaged speakers so far on an otherwise miserable day 000
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Talking this afternoon on the “empire of liberty” and Jean-Jacques Dessalines’ problems with empire and state-building 121
Reposted by dr calyx rosePaul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated 592104665229
Reposted by dr calyx roseDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 27/02/2025"How DARE you make me slightly uncomfortable about my choices" is a very potent factor in the modern media-consumption arena. 0184
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 27/02/2025going to be giving a talk on Toussaint Louverture and forced labour at LSE for the IHR next wednesday - come along!! www.history.ac.uk/events/probl...history.ac.ukThe Problem of Liberty: Toussaint Louverture and Forced Labour in Saint-Domingue 010
Reposted by dr calyx roseCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 05/02/2025When will Govt learn you can’t out-Reform Reform - you end up simply legitimising their toxic narrative. To see off populists, Labour needs to invest in public services & local communities, making a real difference to people’s lives - levy a wealth tax & use it to improve people’s lives *now*theguardian.comGroup of Labour MPs urge No 10 to be tougher on migration to fend off ReformExclusive: Pressure group set up by MPs from seats where Reform came second amid concern about party’s rise 1593262953
Reposted by dr calyx roseKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Once upon a time, we complained that "ethnic cleansing" was too sterile a euphemism to describe the forced removal and often violent expulsion of a racial or religious minority from a region. And now the press can't even bring itself to use *that* term. 622385626
Reposted by dr calyx roseSaima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Six months later, I am thinking about the impact of the riots, how people have altered their lives, habits and routines. I am also revisiting this important piece by David Olusoga on populism and racism: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThere can be no excuses. The UK riots were violent racism fomented by populism | David OlusogaCulture wars have poisoned political debate, normalised Islamophobia and opened wounds that a generation blighted by nativism hoped had closed 093
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Giving a little talk on the “empire of liberty” for the KCL Empires Hub this afternoon ☺️ 020
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Some personal news…. Just had my first article published 💕 www.rrrjournal.com/issue/7/arti...rrrjournal.comGendered Dehumanisation; Labour, Oppression, and Resistance of the Enslaved Women of Colour of Saint- Domingue in the Long Nineteenth CenturyHome 110
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 16/01/2025What’s up it’s time for my first “some personal news” of bsky 020
Reposted by dr calyx roseGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Absolutely true - the earliest technology was the Lomekwian hand axe 3.3 million years ago. Fire was a technology. The hafted spear too. String. Sewing needle. Shoes. The simplest tools radically changed the planet 1130154
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Book launch for the incomparable @drjennymorris.bsky.social tonight! Streets are saying that An Ethical Guide to Murder is theee hot new #crimantasy book of the year 022
Reposted by dr calyx roseDan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 18/12/2024In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine. 4432501649
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Counting down the days until 2025 when I can become exceedingly online again (I am submitting soon) 000
Reposted by dr calyx roseJaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 07/11/2024In case more turn up - a bulk blocklist you can subscribe to, that deprives them of air 12914
Reposted by dr calyx roseHistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 31/10/2024🏆Prize announcement! #CFP #History We're excited to announce that submissions are open for our Olivette Otele Prize for Black, UK-based PhD students. This is an opportunity for academic excellence to be recognised and showcased! Please keep reading... #OlivetteOtelePrize (1) 12343
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 07/11/2024been thinking a lot about 'How the Word is Passed' by Clint Smith in regards to California rejecting Prop 6, especially the chapter on Angola Prison - cannot recommend this book enough on the history and memory of slavery in the USA 011
Reposted by dr calyx roseBritish History Online @bho.bsky.social · 21/10/2024This is a really fine piece on the first Black voter in Britain: #History #BlackHistory 🗃️ 23216
dr calyx rose @calyxrose.bsky.social · 21/10/2024Genuinely amazing to me that outlook and eduroam got all the uni contracts given they can barely work on their own, let alone in combination 000
Reposted by dr calyx rosejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/10/2024i read recently about how one thing that claims lives in otherwise survivable crisis situations is that people just refuse to believe that what is happening is happening and are cognitively unable to respond to the situation at hand. 782636479
Reposted by dr calyx roseJohn @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 22/06/2024Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it. 5253072666
Reposted by dr calyx roseMoth Mom Jess @mothmomjess.bsky.social · 14/10/2024I hope they can find out why the food is doing that 1218
Reposted by dr calyx roseLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 14/10/20242nd session of our #earlymodern Europe & the World seminar is in a week's time with Toby Green on Cacheu: A microhistorical approach for West African history in the 17th century Monday 21 Oct, 5:30 (UK), Wolfson Room NB02 @ihr.bsky.social history.ac.uk/events/cache.... All welcome! #skystorianshistory.ac.ukCacheu: A microhistorical approach for West African history in the 17th century 057