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I implore all cis people to read this.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be doing a "soft launch" in Edinburgh on October 14! Get your hands on SLEUTH-HOUND before it's officially out in the city where the story took place! I'll be in conversation with @anatomicalcat.bsky.social! Tickets here: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...

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Lindsey Fitzharris for Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes at Edinburgh New Town Church

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank goodness Harari is coming to save history. I would never have known that history was ‘an open-ended process’ otherwise. Did you know history has LAWS? (But is fluid and not causal. Take that, logic.)

I’m sorry - I can’t type out all Harari’s bullshit from a friend’s photo via WhatsApp, but basically this is a screenshot of a page of waffle (from The Bookseller) where he says history has LAWS but is FLUID. It is unbearable, pretentious bollocks.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This looks great!

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy #spookyseason! Now you can read HUMANS: MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social in hardback (w/ amazing mirrored cover), paperback (lighter), ebook, audio, Chinese (traditional characters), or a South Asian edition from @westlandbooks.bsky.social! www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-mon...

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Humans: A Monstrous History — Surekha Davies

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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In case you missed it, episode 3 of Challenging Histories, produced by @histfest.bsky.social was out on Monday. I’m talking all things Monsters with the wonderful @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Available wherever you get your podcasts pod.link/6809223500

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Listen to Challenging Histories wherever you get your podcasts!

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This presents a serious challenge to those of us in 'AI positive' institutions, where we have no choice but to engage with AI to some extent. (Tho' students here have an ethical opt-out, teachers do not.) We must educate our students about ALL aspects of AI, including the (un)ethical underpinning.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's yet another way that men sabotage women's careers: enable networking events that are threatening, abusive, potentially catastrophically violent for women, and so women leave early. How convenient for men. Remember this when you compare career trajectories.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don’t mind being that person. Labour will NEVER have my vote as long as they fail to safeguard basic human rights.

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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Integrating some of the elements of this fantastic unit into my sources ITE session for next week. Really excited to be teaching this and great to get TIHPS work to a new-teacher audience! @carolinepennock.bsky.social @ciscstudies.bsky.social @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

and, actually, I can not only imagine living without this sh*te I am happily doing so (tbf, an advantage of retirement)

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can you imagine living in the Olden Days*? *2021

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Alice In Wunderland @aliceinwunderl3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/owen... That many senior Labour people are feeling empowered to speak so clearly below is a real ray of hope, too

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham grasping the nettles of social care, the triple lock, private utilities, and electoral reform all at once. I really want to be optimistic, but I fear it’d just be smoking the hopium.

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Woman Crosses Fingers Hoping for Good Luck

ALT: Woman Crosses Fingers Hoping for Good Luck

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Schools History Project - SHP @1972shp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So much going on from @1972shp.bsky.social at the moment! Regional forums popping up all over the place, a superb SHP Understanding event coming soon at @britishlibrary.bsky.social and resources being developed from older projects!

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As historian of the entangled Atlantic, who works on Indigenous cultures who are very keen on weaving (and so I would like to use thread-based metaphors), could you all please just STOP IT.

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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Episode 3 of Challenging Histories produced by @histfest.bsky.social is out now. I’m talking to the brilliant @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social about the history of Monsters! Available wherever you get your podcasts pod.link/6809223500

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

to put it mildly: anyone engaging in this sh*te must be struck off

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Unlike some people in my timeline, as a UK academic I’d be quite surprised if a job candidate walked into an interview with a coffee. That said: it wouldn’t make any difference to whether they were likely to be hired or not.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can anyone tell me how to add headings in Powerpoint (Mac) so that the Blackboard (VLE) accessibility tool stops shouting at me? Helpfully, the advice from Blackboard is to open my document in Microsoft Office 2016, which obviously is just a WEE bit dated and DOES NOT WORK.

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Bartlett West

ALT: Bartlett West

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Never has the phrase 'brain rot' seemed more appropriate.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Currently eating a 'homemade Kinder protein bar', which looked tempting, but tastes like shoe leather topped with Kinder spread. I am eating the topping. That will teach me to sit in the bougie cafe because it's got wifi.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

John Cleese has gone way off the racist deep end I see.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have spent at least a day constructing a new first-year seminar on Indigenous American empires. Could I have asked an LLM to do it? Yes. Would it have compared the Aztec-Mexica world to a 2026 article about Hämäläinen's concept of kinetic empires? Nope. Am I really workloaded for this? Also nope.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NB Even ‘hinders lifesaving efforts’ would be a better headline, if we’re being careful with terms for reasons of legality/uncertainty.

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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hi #historyteacher people. I am hurtling towards PhD research deadlines and looking for any TEACHERS and PUPILS who might help out by completing a survey about GCSE American West. Aim is to explore pupil metanarratives about Indigenous peoples and US expansion. Thread has more on the surveys.

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Doc Brown Stoked on Train - Back to the Future

ALT: Doc Brown Stoked on Train - Back to the Future

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I bet you a million pounds that it doesn’t.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just like I think I bang on about my books all the time, I also think I bang on about my newsletter...and yet people don't know I have a newsletter! Conclusion: BANG MORE! Here's my NEWSLETTER! And Surekha's as a bonus below. news.louiestowell.com/massive-spoi...

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MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR LOKI SIX! Cover reveal! Battlestar Galactica! CATS! PREORDERS!

Dear readers, This newsletter comes hot on the heeels of the last one becuase I have something exciting to share - the spoilerific cover of LOKI: A Bad God's Guide to Monster Hunting. Without further...

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I so much want to love the BBC, but then they do this kind thing. The headline here should be ‘anti-migrant protestor attacks RNLI boat’, but they don’t even mention that, in a report. He merely “shared a livestream”. (And it was updated an hour ago, so this isn’t an issue of confirmation.)

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Migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea

Protesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west.

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Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

True. But also… Unless we tackle ecosystem collapse and the climate crisis, everything else on this list - every single item - is moot.

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Cake 🍰 @8cake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are central to Woolf’s work] are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out. Meta recommended removing “key words” so that the text doesn’t appear to encourage activism.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reading articles for an edited collection and my main takeaway is that academics collectively have no clue how to use a compound-adjective hyphen.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great news, and looking forward to a book historian becoming Chief Exec of the UK Space Agency sometime soon in this brave new world!

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is ace. @louiestowell.bsky.social is right. If you haven’t seen it, treat yourself.

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Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In case you missed it, episode 2 of Challenging Histories (a @histfest.bsky.social production) is out now! I’m talking to Prof. Heidi Norman about Aboriginal Land Rights. Available wherever you get your podcasts

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📕 NEW BOOK!!! 📕 I co-authored a book for DK, contributing several chapters, including ones on stratigraphy, climate change, and key events in Earth history 🌍 Aimed at a very broad audience, the the illustrations are simply incredible 🥰 I hope I didn’t mess up or leave anything important out! 🙏🏾

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is, apparently, not satire, though the line is so fine nowadays that it’s hard to tell.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ed Sheeran finding a way to make the genocide Gaza all about him, I see. Should have stuck to reading the preprepared PR…

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am in Cambridge for a workshop where I will be an ‘expert commentator’, and I have brought two shoes for the same foot. Yes, I am a very big-brained* professor. Who will be wearing Converse. *perimenopausal

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Packing to head to Cambridge for a workshop today, while trying to read the papers, prep for term, review articles for an edited collection, and write an article of my own. Feeling rather envious of Rosie right now…

A fluffy grey cat with a white front and paws snuggled on a blue duvet.

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