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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Including the University of Southampton, of course

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our School of Politics and International Relations at @ucddublin.bsky.social is hiring two permanent (!) Assistant Professors in any field of political science, international relations, political theory, or development. Deadline: 9 November Start date: 30 August 2027 my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2), UCD School of Politics and International Relations, Permanent
Applications are invited for a permanent post of a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2) within UCD School of Politics and International Relations.

The UCD School of Politics & International Relations (SPIRe) is a globally ranked, research-active school with teaching and research expertise across the fields of political science, international relations, normative political theory, international development, and other areas. It is committed to the highest standards in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research supervision. The school is home to a number of research centres, and further information can be found at: https://www.ucd.ie/spire/about/

95 Lecturer/Asst Professor Above The Bar (7943) Salary Scale: €66,055 - €104,600 per annum

Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines.

Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 9th November 2026.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.

UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.

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ForcesWatch @forceswatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

War and militarism are driving climate breakdown while consuming resources we urgently need to tackle the climate and ecological crises. This week is the Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice. Find events, actions and resources at climatemilitarism.org @intpeacebureau.bsky.social

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m so happy to share that I’ve been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship at @uniofbath.bsky.social to study how the mental load—the invisible work of anticipating, planning and organizing family life—shapes parents’ political participation. 🤯 www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...

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Two University of Bath researchers awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships

They will investigate how the hidden mental load of domestic life shapes political participation and how online behaviour can contribute to violent extremism.

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I remain more scared of men than I do AI.

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Enrolment in humanities courses is holding up in the UK despite concern about their supposed declining popularity in an employability-focused environment, data released by the Office for Students shows. Georgia Louise Luckhurst reports ow.ly/c3In50ZOl0M

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In news that will surprise absolutely no one in HE... ‘It notes that institutions “routinely” hire consultancies for these restructures as well as change management specialists, however, these processes often introduce additional management layers, “adding cost rather than removing it”…’

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Restructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’

Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's September, which cardigan are you excited about wearing?

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I went to a red brick university, we didn't have the benefits of a lecturer-run christo-fascist cult career path

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/09/2026

The story is not and has never been the declining enrollments or majors (administrators pick whichever metric best suits their ultimate end) in humanities programs, but rather their systemic, deliberate starvation of resources + culture wars attacks aimed at caricaturing / discrediting them

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Bought some headphones with the mic that moves up and down. Not really sure who I am anymore.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 01/09/2026

final_warning_finalfinal2_finaledits_final34.pdf

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 28/08/2026

I learned today that some charitable trusts are now nervous about awarding grants outside the so-called Golden Triangle of Oxford-Cambridge-London. They‘re worried about wasting money as universities close departments & make staff redundant. Labour’s HE policy is entrenching elite privilege.

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Forced password change at uni today. I look forward to getting back into my accounts by Tuesday.

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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Neutral in the culture war"

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life?

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why are varifocals so shit? I miss getting new glasses and being able to see better.

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ForcesWatch @forceswatch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“No matter how much you spoke up about it, no one seemed to care.” ITV has brought further attention to the experiences of women facing sexual abuse and harassment in the British military. (1/5) www.itv.com/news/westcou...

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Attempting to work in Microsoft app: Do you want me to summarise that for you? Do you want a summary? Want a summary? SUMMARY?!!?

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Is one of them assuming that dad's can't drop kids at school?

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Liz @gingerlizard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Agreed. Students certainly have agency, and academic integrity violations are nothing new. But we (the older generations) put this technology in their hands without meaningful guidance or guardrails in place.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 13/08/2026

We’re lowering the voting age to 16 – but still confine kids in hierarchical, compliance‑first schools. If we want citizens who can think critically, they need daily practice in democratic learning environments. Gary Champion tells how Norwich educators want to make the change.

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Beyond the test: let’s reclaim education for the next generation

How we can reclaim educational practice to make education more meaningful and worthwhile for young people How we can reclaim educational practice to make education more meaningful and worthwhile for…

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Opinion: The rush to integrate artificial intelligence indiscriminately across the curriculum ignores the true purpose of higher education, say Jelena Belic and Kritika Maheshwari #highered #AI #edusky www.timeshighereducation.com/opinio…

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Young people are not disengaged from politics but increasingly interested in understanding it.” Encouraging news from the UK. 🇬🇧

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A-level results: why politics is the fastest growing subject

Young people are not disengaged from politics but increasingly interested in understanding it.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm writing a thing about history education and "AI". Myself and another came up with some 'considerations' and I was wondering what people make of them in their current form. All critique appreciated, I'm trying to get to durable and defensible positions.

"Considerations for Large Language Models and the Teaching of History
1. Education is a process, not an event. And a history education is an active process through which we seek to understand our pasts and presents. We encounter history experientially through our senses and by using our memories, and we learn to do history iteratively, through the process of producing it ourselves in various formats.
2. Generative AI models cannot ‘replace’ historical thinking so much as generate a simulacrum of thought. Their use seems to offer shortcuts to a particular outcome. These shortcuts risk the acquisition of historical skills, because they subvert or replace the core processes of ‘doing history’.
3. LLMs potentially save users time by undertaking tasks like tabulating large datasets, surfacing patterns, and computing information, so long as results are carefully checked. But such tasks are to historical research like calculations are to accounting: they might support the practice but cannot inspire critical insight or reflective thought, which are the primary aims of historical scholarship.
4. Therefore, classrooms should first train history students to locate, identify, and describe sources of information and only then to learn the skills to reflect on the selection, organisation, and mining of datasets used by LLMs. "

"5. History teaching should privilege the value of quoting accurately, citing work correctly, paraphrasing sources honestly, and marshalling arguments carefully and specifically. LLM prompt responses do not yet reliably do these things, and may never do so.
6. Unless history students can assess the selection, organisation, and algorithms that power a given LLM, they should treat its outputs as sources of uncertain provenance.
7. Use of LLMs in a history classroom should always be subject to ethical and critical scrutiny, just as with any other source of information.
8. Most widely available large-language models are commercial systems, and administrator control of their parameters, tone, capabilities, acceptable answers, and programming resides with commercial firms. Their use entails significant energy expenditure and environmental degradation. These facts place significant limits on their use and on our ability to undertake the required ethical scrutiny."

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History, Politics & IR at the University of Leicester @hypirleicester.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Publication alert 🚨Leicester’s Stephen Hopkins has co-edited a fantastic new volume with Connal Parr, “Paving the Path to Peace: Civil Society and the Northern Ireland Peace Process”.

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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"If you were surprised by people using Meta’s smart glasses to harass and covertly film women on the street, then you quite simply haven’t been paying attention. This kind of tech-enabled abuse is commonplace, and it is predominantly aimed at women." www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...

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Women continue to bear the brunt of bad tech decisions

Meta’s smart glasses are just the latest example of technology being used in ways developers should have anticipated

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's A level results day. Here is your annual reminder that if you didn't get the results you hoped for, you still don't need to take advice from Jeremy Clarkson.

A screenshot of a number of Tweets over the years by Jeremy Clarkson saying he got poor A level results but still ended up rich.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Absolutely not having a dig at the academics and staff at RG unis. All lovely people. Just saying that becoming good at helping kids across all different entry levels in terms of skills takes time and experience for an institution. it's an ethos that has to embed.

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Happy Colander Day to all who celebrate!

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/08/2026

"Diagnosis is uncomplicated menopausal transition. Differential diagnoses include perimenopause, estrogen deficiency-induced menopause, silent menopause, occult menopause, artificial menopause, and, less likely, mythic transformation."

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Clinical Notes from Medusa’s Primary Care Provider Who Suspects Menopause

“Diagnosis is uncomplicated menopausal transition. Differential diagnoses include perimenopause, estrogen deficiency-induced menopause, silent menopause, occ...

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Got a new role at uni. People keep mentioning change management to me but not what change they want to manage.

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Re-watching Bourdain's Parts Unknown in 2026 Bourdain at the end of every episode: And who knows, maybe, just maybe... things are looking up. Me to my partner: Actually things in that country got far, far worse.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“I’m afraid there is a chance this child may become an academic.”

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I honestly would love to know what policymakers think will happen to social mobility, regional growth, employment, and educational attainment, when all these provincial universities are gone or shrink to almost non existence? Isn’t avoiding that disaster alone worth a billion quid right now??

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

AI loves to summarise doesn't it? Do you want it shorter? Even shorter!? Bullet points? Shall I remove all the vowels for you? Relax Co-Pilot. Tell me everything. I'll grab a bottle of wine.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I really do miss green grass. Will I see another summer in the UK with green grass? Will my kids remember a summer with green grass? Sigh.

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

What a tremendous opportunity for these students.

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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament @cnduk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

More money on nuclear weapons won't keep us safe and it's not going to kick start the economy. CND General Secretary Sophie Bolt speaking on LBC earlier today. You can listen to the full interview over on our IG and FB pages.

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

le.ac.uk/news/2026/ju... Suspending UK study visas for students from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan, and Cameroon was a disgraceful decision. I'm pleased to see my institution contributing to the Mosaik scholarship initiative. There should be more than 9 UK universities involved with this.

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Leicester joins universities acting to create opportunities for students shut out by visa brake | News | University of Leicester

University of Leicester is one of nine UK universities providing postgraduate places as part of the Mosaik Scholarship initiative

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DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Heading to university to study what though? Will there be any humanities degrees left?

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