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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 18h

Surprising to see this level of state intervention when surely the market should decide?

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Huge, if true (talk about 'Impact'!) ℅ @the-syllabus.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...

Summary of new article about Frankfurt School Conspiracy Theorising

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Time to replace those surf and wind speed widgets with TfL's Elizabeth Line delays

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Lookalikes, from the upside-down world (with apols to @privateeyenews.bsky.social)

Side-by-side headshots of Henry from Stranger Things aka Vecna on earth, and Leopold Aschenbrunner

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

And did I mention this dazzling piece on Catholic conversions, which was heaven sent for @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social to do his uniquely mordant churchy erudition. Lots of sauce and some GK Chesterton to finish. ⛪️🍆🏛️

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Have been looking forward to this terrific sounding volume from @petermandler.bsky.social @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social & Gunn, with many pieces from friends & mentors. As an urban history dabbler, I appreciate the h/t to HJ Dyos in this @lrb.co.uk review… but £65?? Come on lads: spread the love!

Pedersen reviews Gunn et al.’s Modern British City. Fabulous photo of modernist Runcorn estate

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Multimodal slopswap. Delicious!!

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The real question is whether the popular 2000s phrase 'fit for purpose' is still fit for purpose?

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A pitstop in beautiful Lancaster for a workshop on historical maps with @kmcdono.bsky.social on route to #hss2026. Thankful the temperature no longer begins with a '3'. It's still warm up north, but not in Edinburgh! 😰

Max weather forecasted in London, Lancaster and Edinburgh (28, 24, 18 degrees respectively)

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Sir Sadiq did what Andyofthepeople chickened out of doing #sadiq4pm www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

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Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Barely a week has gone by without more news about university cuts this summer. This feels like a haphazard collapse of one of our -once - finest sectors of employment, export, research and soft power. It seems like the worst kind of laissez-faire policies...is the government even interested?

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Came across this excellent list, belatedly, and was surprised and pleased to find our newspaper paper in such company...

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Burnham metaphors humming: 'Rocket boosters' for devolution; 'laser-like' focus on growth; the 'nerve centre of a rewired Britain'; a 'circuit-breaker for Britain'.... it's like Philip Mirowski crossed with Bob the Builder www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Natural Images in Economic Thought | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The real victims will be those no longer able to sell junk to addled children. ‘But won’t this just force them underground?’

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🏺🇮🇪🔵🧀🥪🍷📖💐✡️🫘🍽️

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

After a long few weeks of torrential rain, headaches and late nights working, final student marks are all uploaded and that’s it (nearly) for the year. Sun just came out. Small beer cracked.

Small beer (to some people)
, on a sunny table.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

AI Ethics expert wheeled onto the radio to discuss Milei's scheme to give legal rights to AI... ...an idea he probably only got from reading AI Ethics thought experiments.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

All News Outlets: Stanford Law show AI 'outperformed' human lawyers, giving answers they 'overwhelmingly preferred'. Stanford NLP: AI gives answers users preferred; pleasing, affirming & sycophantic (increasing engagement & dependency). law.stanford.edu?p=568056 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence

Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards. For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #SkyStorians

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Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In unexpected good news: !!JOB!! Come and work on our new multidisciplinary programme at UCL as a 'Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society'. Permanent full-time position in London. Deadline 28 June. Specialism open. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #dh #sts

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Baldock, Shepreth, Gog Magog; so many broad beans.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Higher education in the UK just got much lower. How much lower will it sink before your MP notices and speaks out?

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Hertfordshire runs wonderful history programs & are especially strong on heritage, public and local history, which is exactly what this country needs more of. What's being allowed to happen to humanities in the UK HE sector is going to have dire consequences for generations to come.

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Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

📣 Please share! The UCL Department of Information Studies is pleased to invite applications for the 2026 Widening Participation in Archives & Records Management Summer School from 6–9 July. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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Widening Participation in Archives and Records Management Summer School

Date: 6-9 July 2026 Time: 10am - 4pm Location: UCL Bloomsbury Campus

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Standing room only tonight for @petermandler.bsky.social’s Neale Lecture at @uclhistory.bsky.social, a Tour de Force on the rise (& fall?) of History and its place in/as education.

Peter lecturing about why students have chosen History

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I have to say, that General Meeting really was Extraordinary.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Looking forward to getting hold of this; even gladder to see Phil Agre being a touchstone. Developing a 'Critical Technical Practice' has been a key part of how I try to get students to think... not always successfully because it's hard. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792167...

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Vector Media

Dispelling the notion of “generative” AINeural networks are designed to dissolve all media into the vector space—a universal space of commensurability....

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 22/04/2026

“People said that he was an avid philologist, and had a giant file devoted to the word ‘dust,’ and believed that it was imperative to learn Anglo-Saxon.” From Issue 11: Emily Witt on J. H. Prynne. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-11/ess...

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That Room in Cambridge | Emily Witt

Practical criticism, as the document explained, was invented by a Cambridge professor named I. A. Richards in the 1920s, when English literature was trying to gain space for itself in the university a...

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

ICYMI: 11 days left to apply for this fully funded PhD at UCL with me and @jameselder.bsky.social working on BT's extraordinary film collection – which records the birth of the information society. For details and how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 01/04/2026

We also have a new funding programme for RHS Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

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Society launches new funding programme for International Fellows and Associate Fellows - RHS

The Royal Historical Society is pleased to launch a new programme, from today, to support the work of International Fellows and Associate Fellows. Recipients will be members of the Society, resident o...

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

'Moving the Frame': a fully-funded PhD Studentship at UCL. Film, 20th century history of technology, computational methods and more... Fabulous! is.gd/gn4wMm

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Come and do a PhD with me and colleagues at UCL! Fully funded thanks to the @ukri.org : computational approaches to a UNESCO-accredited moving-image archive at British Telecom. #dh

flyer for a fully-funded PhD project at UCL and BT Archives: includes QR code for this link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/news/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-partnership-cdp-studentship-0. Deadline 24 April. A 20th century London scene with BT Tower towering.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

TFW when you come home to find the official journals of @londoncycling.bsky.social and @camraofficial.bsky.social have both arrived and you know you must be a beardyman🍺🚲

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Sydenham’s Mike Gavin take a bow for this letter in @lrb.co.uk, after which Chas n Dave will forever be Chestertonian in my mind. And who could disagree? Gertcha!

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Smidgen of sunshine and Bloomsbury turns Glastonbury

Gordon Square, London. Sun-deprived students.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

High octane and urgent discussion of ‘Muskism’ at UCL @iipp-ucl.bsky.social with @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com taking in political economy, STS and histories/futures...

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