Reposted by Conor MullerAdam 👻Boo!rsi👻 @adambursi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Imagine having the Empire come save your one-year postdoc 124538
Reposted by Conor MullerSmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Grim grim grim. An obscure academic appointment that Cambridge University made into national news to congratulate themselves, thus making the later plagiarism scandal into a public trial of Black scholarship, possibly now resulting in the death of a father of two. 113928
Reposted by Conor MullerJohn Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026fascinatingly* the French news is translating "Count Binface" as « le Compte Tête-de-Poubelle » rather than « Visage-de-Poubelle) which is, in fairness, more accurate (his entire head is a bin, not just his face) typical British media not asking the important underlying questions * ta gueule 32646204
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Funny that Starmer is such an empty man that he gave beating factional opponents and expunging progressive thought within the Labour party equal weight to the few actually good things his government has done, like lifting the benefit cap. Good riddance! 120
Reposted by Conor MullerLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/06/2026This is unbelievably at £132k. The difference this will make can not be overstated. 6390147
Reposted by Conor MullerNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10/06/2026FIFA has prohibited Haitian World Cup jerseys with a depiction of the Nov. 18, 1803, Bataille de Vertières aka the triumph of the Haitian Revolution against slavery. Depraved. amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... 291060454
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 04/06/2026This won't even be effective at screening out no-hopers like me because there are quite literally no other vacancies. It's no good expecting people to be realistic about what they apply for when the only jobs that crop up are the odd such endowment-funded Oxbridge/Ivy JRF 100
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Not cool to require PhD students to do, say, a week's worth of unpaid work on an 'application dossier' and harass four separate superiors for various supporting statements. All for a <1% chance of acceptance. No thanks! 120
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Odd pots of cash which fund this or that kind of work are certainly very welcome but there is clearly a huge hole for (allegedly fashionable) interdisciplinary/comparative/transnational work which does not fit well into the grant competitions of any particular "Society for the Study of..." 010
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Given that there is effectively no funding for the fourth year of PhDs, it's really fortunate that your living costs suddenly vanish at this point. Rent, food, bills – all magically reduced to zero. This is doubly convenient as it frees up money to pay 'continuation fees', which kick in now too 100
Reposted by Conor MullerRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21/05/2026The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystoriansbit.lyHistory and the humanities at the University of Hertfordshire – a statement from the Royal Historical Society - RHSEven for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert... 1138120
Reposted by Conor MullerArsenal FC @arsenalfc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions. 10237921164
Reposted by Conor MullerLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 12/05/2026This matters. Please co-sign. Managers like to pretend that petitions don't move them, but in reality cannot but answer questions about the numbers, and suddenly things that were deemed inevitable appear to be more-evitably-than-previously-declared.change.orgSign the PetitionSave the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire 23436
Reposted by Conor MullerOnni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us. 55355197
Reposted by Conor MullerTom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026New Open Access article in French History! 🎺🇫🇷🏴💾💻🌟 Conner Muller on 'Scottish martyrs, Scotland and internationalism in revolutionary France, 1794–99' academic.oup.com/fh/article/d... @conormuller.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @frenchhistory.bsky.socialacademic.oup.comThe Scottish martyrs, Scotland and internationalism in revolutionary France, 1794–99Abstract. The case of the ‘Scottish martyrs’ transported from Britain for sedition in 1794 was followed closely in revolutionary France. Although these fiv 065
Reposted by Conor MullerRichard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 21/04/2026There are currently 6 permanent full time history jobs in the whole UK. 500+ PhDs being produced a year - not all of whom will want to pursue an academic year but likely most, and of course years will stack up onto each other. What a sector. 2131489
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Aside from the moral bankruptcy of once more pulling up the drawbridge to HE, does anyone actually think doing the Treasury's dirty work for it will save us? Their policy is simply 'spend as little money as possible whatever the consequences'. Precisely zero additional money will be freed up by this 000
Reposted by Conor MullerBRISMES @brismes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026#AcademicFreedom | We have written to The @openuniversity.bsky.social to express our profound concern about the university’s response to a letter from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) regarding the use of the term ‘#ancientPalestine’. Read our letter: bit.ly/4r0j68L 1/3 147
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Spotted Tenconi and his fascist Turning Point meatheads campaigning in Oxford today. They bravely left before the rest of us finished work and never bothered advertising the 'event' in advance. Presumably he didn't want a welcome party 000
Reposted by Conor MullerChris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Academics and students are more likely to face “repression” for their pro-Palestinian views than any other group in the UK, says European Legal Support Center www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi... via @julietterowsell.bsky.socialtimeshighereducation.comAcademics and students ‘face censorship’ for Palestinian supportUniversities worst affected as lawyers collate database of incidents of ‘repression’ 058
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Mind-blowing genius for Labour to dream up a wedge issue which divides only their own voters and not those of literally any other party 010
Reposted by Conor MullerNetpol @netpol.org · 13/02/2026Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban 10842337
Reposted by Conor MullerJulia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Take the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty. 56792
Reposted by Conor MullerLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/02/2026‘Burke and Fox’s relationship could not withstand the ideological chasm that emerged between them after the French Revolution. But they believed passionately in the importance of friendship.’ Daisy Hay on Edmund Burke and Charles Fox. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukDaisy Hay · No King: Burke and Fox break upEdmund Burke and Charles Fox’s relationship could not withstand the ideological chasm that emerged between them after... 0143
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 29/01/2026TIL Wetherspoons has a section of its website on Jean-Paul Marat – explaining a display about him in a Newcastle branch. Unfortunately it isn't clear that he ever actually lived in the city www.jdwetherspoon.com/pub-historie... 000
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Surely a good omen for my PhD that I have now visited enough French archives to earn Grand Voyageur status with SNCF 010
Reposted by Conor MullerProgressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 06/01/2026BREAKING 🇵🇸 Israeli regime forces have stormed Birzeit University campus in the Occupied West Bank, injuring 41 students, including 9 with live bullets. 2120116
Reposted by Conor MullerDr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 05/01/2026You'll notice that the "hard decisions" politicians are always talking about are always "cutting benefits for poor people" and never "disagreeing with America" or "banning billionaires' CSAM-machines". 126268
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Good strategy by Labour to insulate higher education against the seemingly inevitably Reform UK government by making everyone redundant now so that there is very little left to burn down 052
Reposted by Conor MullerLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 07/11/2025‘Wedderburn argued that true freedom was possible only if land were handed over to the formerly enslaved. Where it wasn’t given, it should be taken.’ Chris Townsend on the Black abolitionist and antislavery campaigner. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukChris Townsend · On Hopkins Street: Radical Robert WedderburnFor a brief time in the 1810s and 1820s, Robert Wedderburn embodied the possibility of common ground between the two... 083
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Programme and registration for International Actors in the Making of International Law 1750–2000 are now available!calenda.orgInvisible Actors in the Making of International Law (1750–2000)This interdisciplinary conference invites graduate students and early career researchers to consider the genealogy of international law since 1750. It aims to identify new or unrecognised actors – ... 130
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 09/10/2025I have a very short article out Fenêtre sur Tour, the magazine of the departmental archives of Seine-Maritime, on British migrant technicians and mechanics in Rouen c.1800!archivesdepartementales76.net Revue Fenêtre sur Tour - Archives de la Seine-Maritime 030
Reposted by Conor MullerWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”theguardian.comThe Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and MunichFive-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians 11217151006
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Update: after 1600km and 16 days of pedalling, we made it! And we've raised over £4,500! 031
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 29/08/2025My brother and I are now a week into our sponsored bike ride from Land's End to John O'Groats and we have made it as far as Warrington(!), about 650km from the start. We're raising money for the Brain Tumour Charity and Solace in honour of our late mum. Please do consider donating what you can!givewheel.comNanette's Boys Cycle Across The UKThis summer Danny & Conor will be cycling the length of the UK from Lands End in Cornwall to John O' Groats in the most northeastern Scotland. We will be cycling across the country in our mum Nanette... 431
Reposted by Conor MullerMaryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Anas Al-Sharif’s last will and testament, written in April: “I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person... I entrust you with its people, w/its wronged & innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace.” 25838
Reposted by Conor MullerSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/08/2025When he was running to be Labour leader Keir Starmers campaign video boasted that he had stood up for protesters when the full force of the state was against them. Today his govt is arresting a disabled blind man for holding a placard. 26477288
Reposted by Conor MullerSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 05/08/2025In the Israeli parliament MP Ofer Cassif was pulled away from the podium & prevented from continuing his speech. Why? Because he said genocide was taking place in Gaza. Meanwhile here in the UK we're constantly told Israel is a democracy. 5170102
Reposted by Conor MullerRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/07/2025Bye forever, WeTransfer. 20969043699
Reposted by Conor MullerOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/07/2025The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide. It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International. No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice. 4025791113
Reposted by Conor Mullerarseblog @arseblog.com · 04/07/2025It's shameful that we were even considering renewing him. The people at the top of the club were not blind to this situation, and still considered it in the interests of sporting expedience. Lessons should be learned. 821002196
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 02/07/2025🚨 The CfP is out for 'Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law, 1750-2000'. Deadline for submissions is 10th August. Please share with your PhD students and ECRs in history and law! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...sciencespo.frCall for applications - Junior colloquiumColloque junior, CHSP, Sciences Po Paris, 27-28 November 2025Abstracts submission deadline: 10 August 2025Contact: invisibleactors2025@gmail.comCo-funded by Sciences Po School of Research and the Cent... 021
Reposted by Conor MullerBritish Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Libraries are a pretty cool place to be right now. (We have air con). 325043
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Really looking forward to contributing to this exciting workshop next week with an amazing lineup of speakers!ucl.ac.ukDisplacement and the French RevolutionThis interdisciplinary workshop brings together historians, historical geographers, literary scholars and art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution. 120