Reposted by Catherine FriemanAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026Honestly, something that would immediately improve things for higher ed workers is if somebody started a dedicated news outlet reporting on higher education from a labor perspective. Or if a major paper assigned even just one reporter to focus on higher education labor issues. 3356
Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 12hMuch against my better judgement i'm an ice hockey fan and this is hands down the funniest thing I've ever read. There is no sport less sexy or more vicerally gross than (men's*) ice hockey --- *women ice hockey players are glorious, fearsome Valkyries 1141
Reposted by Catherine FriemanAntiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 13hStone and bone tools from c. 5375 cal BC Eilsleben, Germany. Whilst the stone axes clearly reflect #Neolithic traditions, the flint and bone tools point to contact with local #Mesolithic foragers on Europe's Neolithic frontier. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology 0308
Reposted by Catherine FriemanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h5. Sharing is caring. Condescension is contempt. 11897
Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 13hI keep thinking about how so many different domains are working with vastly foreshortened concepts of the future. There is a radical sort of hope and belief in fellow people that goes along with building something you want to last for generations 0264
Reposted by Catherine FriemanNigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt 262584398
Reposted by Catherine FriemanShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15h I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British 501971217
Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 14hI am most of the way thru Dave Eggers' new and very well reviewed novel contrapposto and i have to say I'm not impressed. I understand the genre conventions he's working in, and the drawings are fun, but i genuinely don't get the hype - especially with such a flat, 2003 vintage mpdg 2nd protag 000
Reposted by Catherine FriemanUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 20hOur members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning. 17440
Reposted by Catherine FriemanDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Orcadian Gothic A Neolithic couple stand before the chambered cairn of Wideford Hill #Orkney Painting by Brian Lee, spotted on the Historic Scotland site interpretation board, in homage to Grant Wood's famous 1930 painting Well played 👏 📷 Aug 2024 #TombTuesday #Archaeology 728165
Reposted by Catherine FriemanDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🗃️ I have never seen these highlighted before 15314
Reposted by Catherine FriemanOpen Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 20hSee How The Gutenberg Press Worked: Demonstration Shows the Oldest Functioning Gutenberg Press in Actionopenculture.comSee How The Gutenberg Press Worked: Demonstration Shows the Oldest Functioning Gutenberg Press in ActionPeople have spoken for decades, and with great certainty, of the impending death of print. But even here into the 21st century, presses continue to run around the world, putting out books and periodic... 24820
Reposted by Catherine FriemanKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it 322566455
Reposted by Catherine FriemanAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 4830031049
Reposted by Catherine FriemanPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026also the perfect hockey player x figure skater romance already exists and it's called The Cutting Edgeyoutube.comTHE CUTTING EDGE (1992) | Official Trailer | MGMYouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios 1027343
Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026No one would dare call this lovely research translation work crum(b)y 😉 050
Reposted by Catherine FriemanDr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪 15563166
Reposted by Catherine FriemanBen Heath @jbentonheath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is great. It articulates a lot of things that I and my colleagues have been trying to put together, but does it better and more clearly, and draws a clear line between the privatization of research funding, university self-governance, and faculty/worker organizing. Well done. 1/5 15323
Reposted by Catherine FriemanJosie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“There’s a feeling today that Britain only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942 [...] you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC," said historian Martin Winstone www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comBritain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truthResearch draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London 314066
Reposted by Catherine FriemanLucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Cuts like those proposed at Edinburgh are cultural vandalism, & the destruction of future opportunities for countless students. Pitting students and staff against each other is callous disregard for the immense work that teaching staff put into educating & encouraging young people. 2162
Reposted by Catherine FriemanLucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Accusing striking staff of 'weaponising students' ignores the extent to which students have ALREADY become nothing but £££ signs for a University management depriving generations of future students of much more than 5 weeks of teaching. 2369
Reposted by Catherine FriemanLucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today, staff @ University of #Edinburgh are striking to protest recently announced cuts - incl. the forced closure of >90 courses. Principal Prof Sir Peter Mathieson accused the union of "weaponising" students. I find this enraging, so: a short (quite personal) thread. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comEdinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cutsMembers of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts. 14121
Reposted by Catherine FriemanDr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Falmouth University's Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society welcomes PhD applications for 2027 that take creative, critical approaches to heritage www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/cen... #research #phd #heritage #ICHfalmouth.ac.ukCentre for Heritage, Culture & SocietyThe Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society addresses people’s relationships with past, present and future cultural places and landscapes. 186
Reposted by Catherine FriemanDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895427931
Reposted by Catherine Friemanfrankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do join us at the Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas, University of Canberra at 5.45pm Tuesday 6 October for David Munns (John Jay College, City University of New York) on Big Science in Australia since WW2 - part of our CoPI Australian Futures series. events.humanitix.com/big-science-...events.humanitix.comBig Science in Australia: Histories and FuturesA talk on how post-World War Two science and technology have reshaped Australia’s sense of itself in the world. 001
Reposted by Catherine FriemanAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026Thus, the Vanderbilt Report is ultimately a rejection of empiricism, an effort to pretend that over half a century of peer-reviewed scholarship in many different fields either didn't happen or is somehow invalid for the simple reason that it conflicts with the authors' priors. 063
Reposted by Catherine FriemanAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026The Vanderbilt Report masquerades as a 'disinterested' inquiry into the supposed corruption of scholarship by politics. It's actually a compendium of various personal grievances that the authors have accrued over time with their fields, which they blamed on a made-up bogeyman called "postmodernism." 1153
Reposted by Catherine FriemanI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026The fact that the preferred political movement of the free speech set immediately set about establishing “western civics centers” while gutting the rest of the humanities and supports for marginalized students really does tell you what the source of their concerns really were 112729
Reposted by Catherine FriemanDr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Archives and online catalogues are fragile, massively underfunded and rarely given priority. Yet this is the infrastructure on which academic and commercial research relies. Sigh. 25817
Reposted by Catherine FriemanLisa-Marie Shillito @archaeologylisa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Introduction to Archaeological Science has a cover! As well as the usual peer review, text was reviewed by students, who gave feedback on how well it works for its intended audience. If you decide to use it, let us know! (pre-order for Nov 30th publication date). www.routledge.com/Introduction...routledge.comIntroduction to Archaeological ScienceIntroduction to Archaeological Science offers a clear, comprehensive introduction to archaeological science for students encountering the field for the first time. This book presents the principal are... 22010
Reposted by Catherine FriemanTRACES labo d’archéologie @umr5608traces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Du 2 au 4/10 c'est le festival de cinéma "Objectif Préhistoire" au Centre de Préhistoire du Pech Merle à Cabrerets (46) 🎬 24 films en compétition 🏆 3 prix 😎 2 membres du labo dans le jury ➡️ traces.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/agen...traces.univ-tlse2.frObjectif Préhistoire - TRACES : UMR 5608 034
Reposted by Catherine FriemanICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Neotropical Zooarchaeology Working Group has already published the full texts of eleven presentations given at the Fifth Academic Conference held in Santiago de Chile in 2024. The collection is available via the following link: revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/co... #ICAZ #Zooarch #NZWG 153
Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Emailed both the journo and the minister this morning to flag the likely unintended use of an antisemitic slur. No response as of yet and no change to the article... i get it's Sunday, but i guess we'll see 000
Reposted by Catherine FriemanWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 27/09/2026#OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965... 4246118
Reposted by Catherine Friemantagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It’s interesting to think about this fake award on the same day that nature published the story on fake academic societies. Billionaires creating new awards for ideological capture and to launder their reputations is also a scam, but its not treated as such and gets a ‘Newsvertisement‘ in the WSJ 020864
Reposted by Catherine FriemanB.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis. 4313123
Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Love to see the guardian running a headline that includes an (admittedly perhaps obscure?) antisemitic slur - which, bonus points, is a direct quote from the asst minister did citizenship and multicultural affairs 253
Reposted by Catherine FriemanCamilla Mazzucato @camillamazzucato.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Anthropology Defended!anthropology-news.orgAnthropology Defended Archives - Anthropology News 021
Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Assume this means the old rules restricting the hoi polloi from the bod have gone out the windows and anyone can get a reader card now... no?bodleian.ox.ac.ukApply for a Bodleian Reader cardApplying for a Bodleian Libraries Reader Card if you are not a member of the University of Oxford. 171
Reposted by Catherine FriemanRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This one's a bit more niche 283
Reposted by Catherine FriemanSara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026He imposed Shania Law 14975281451
Reposted by Catherine FriemanRobin Hayward 🌳 🏳️⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026If you want a six minute summary of how to support trans+ fieldworkers, then why not check out this video we made (voiced by the incredible @izzyvalkyrie.bsky.social)? 28031
Reposted by Catherine FriemanRobin Hayward 🌳 🏳️⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026Having something that looks authoritative can also make a big difference as a resource when advocating for trans inclusivity, so here's a version that goes one step further than our university website and can actually be printed and cited academically: doi.org/10.17613/355...doi.org 16014
Reposted by Catherine FriemanRobin Hayward 🌳 🏳️⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/ 15597444
Reposted by Catherine FriemanRosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026—William E. Stafford, “At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border” 182
Reposted by Catherine FriemanRosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Birds fly here without any sound, unfolding their wings across the open. No people killed—or were killed—on this ground hallowed by neglect and an air so tame that people celebrate it by forgetting its name. 121
Reposted by Catherine FriemanRosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is the field where the battle did not happen, where the unknown soldier did not die. This is the field where grass joined hands, where no monument stands, and the only heroic thing is the sky. 2104
Reposted by Catherine FriemanJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Notably the journalist who covered it is part of the Tarball Center for AI journalism, funded by by a who’s who of EA/rationalists and AI-tied philanthropy. It’s an industry aligned group, like we used to see with tobacco and still see with fossil fuels. Sucks to see this in science. 620552