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Daniel Grey

@djrgrey.bsky.social
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Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.

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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Time has moved on and so should our solutions to contentious marches
Four Orangemen on the treadmill at PureGym wearing VR goggles.
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Njal Nova @njalnova.bsky.social · 15h
The Long Light: Twenty Nordic Landscapes (1880–1920) 7. Kitty Kielland – Summer Night (1886, Norwegian)
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Am obvious security liability is the shrinkage of UK university teaching capacity and uptake of Chinese language and associated area studies expertise. The mooted new research security fund needs to address that (and not just re China) rather than only fixating on compliance.
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UK universities comb records for China links after MI5 warning
Security agency’s alert highlights rising compliance pressures in sensitive research areas
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 18h
Ornate Saxon copper disc brooch decorated with gold and garnets, AD 650-670. It must have been a treasured possession! From Floral Street, Covent Garden, once the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London. Museum of London 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology
My photo shows a circular Saxon brooch made of copper, the front of which is ornately embellished with gold and garnets. There are five raised, circular, gold bosses which are outlined with inlaid garnet slabs, and each set with a central, round garnet. Four of the gold bosses are arranged around a fifth, larger, gold boss in the centre of the brooch. The central boss sits within a star-like, four-pointed geometric shape composed of a mosaic of inlaid garnet slabs. The outer edge of the brooch is decorated with two rows of tiny inlaid polished garnets. The eight gold sections at either side of the four smaller bosses are decorated with raised gold filigree which looks like looped, braided cord. Parts of the brooch are worn, with some chipped edges, and missing garnet stones. The brooch measures approximately 7 cm in diameter. It is displayed on a clear glass surface. It was excavated from a woman's grave by AOC Archaeology in 2000 ahead of development construction works. This type of brooch was a fashionable status piece amongst wealthy aristocratic Anglo-Saxon women in the AD 600s. The woman's grave also contained glass beads and silver rings.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 16h
"The Cornell case shows, though, that the #MeToo movement didn’t go far enough. ... alleged victims still face far more serious consequences than their accused assailants, and for many people and institutions, it still feels much easier to make the issue go away by suppressing accusations"
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Crisp @crisp91.bsky.social · 16h
A 3,500-year-old Egyptian dog had a unique name linked to the underworld god Anubis. The good pupper was named dwȝ.ty, meaning “He-of-the-Underworld.” The name is unusual, no other known dog bears the same name. Even in ancient Egypt, dogs had a place in human life. Rest in peace little buddy. 🐕
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A 3,500-year-old Egyptian dog had a unique name linked to the underworld god Anubis | Archaeology News Online Magazine
A newly identified dog name in an 18th Dynasty Egyptian tomb may refer to Anubis, the god of the underworld.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 20h
Accounts of waivery aren't as common as outlawry because women committed only ~10% of the crime at that time. Nevertheless, when accounts of waivery appear in the records the word is usually abbreviated to something like, 'wayv', which expands to 'wayviatur', meaning 'she is to be waived'. 🧵2/4
A medieval court record written in abbreviated Latin in brownish-black ink on parchment. Underlined (by me) in the entry is "she is to be waived". This is also underlined in red (by me) in the margin.
Reference: TNA, JUST 1/361, m. 55d.
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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 20h
Women couldn't be outlawed in 13th-century England because they were never put in law. Instead, women accused of crimes were ordered to be waived if they failed to appear at trial. The consequence of waivery was the same as outlawry's: execution (often immediately and without trial). 🧵1/4
A woman in blue at the top of a castle is striking a man in red on the head with her sword. He seems to fall from the ladder he was climbing as is it enters his skull. The woman has a look on her face that says "Don't mess with me."
Reference: The Smithfield Decretals, BL Royal 10 E. IV (14th C)
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every word of this
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20h
'A Belgian anti-discrimination body [Unia] is to push for the prosecution of suspended Ghent University academic Nathan Cofnas for racism.'
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Nathan Cofnas to face legal action in Belgium for alleged racism
The self-defined 'race realist', the first person to publicly accuse Jason Arday of plagiarism, is alleged to have broken Belgium's anti-discrimination law
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 21h
"Gopal's lectures covered by postgrad as she does not turn up to lectures. Is this DEI gone mad?"
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 21h
And just imagine the tabloids if any 'DEI hire' to use Orr's own charming phrase had not turned up to class seven times, used a grad student to teach instead.
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 22h
To be clear, at least in English, we are explicitly debarred from using postgrads to do our teaching, not least since there's no official way to pay them.
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 22h
I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175
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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad
James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Migration Museum, London, is hiring a part-time (3 days per week) curator for a year to help build the vision of the new museum. £40k pro rata plus 5% matched pension contribution. Deadline for applications 18 October.
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We’re Hiring: Curator, Contemporary Art (Part-time)
The Migration Museum is seeking a Contemporary Art Curator to join their team on a part-time basis. Application deadline: 18 October 2026.
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The big but hidden impact of the implosion of smaller regional universities is the pressure on research academics to prioritise teaching or switch to teaching contracts and abandon research as a frivolous pursuit in this financially unstable crisis. This will dramatically shrink future scholarship.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 29/09/2026
Submissions are now invited for the Society's 2027 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes - covering monographs and articles published in 2026 bit.ly/4z45bD8 The closing date for submissions is 14 December 2026. Judging begins in early 2027 with winners announced next July #Skystorians 1/2
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Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2027: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2027 and Early Career Article Prize, 2027. The call for submissions opened on Monday 28 September 2026 and runs to Monday 14...
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Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A short piece on family estrangement! www.zocalopublicsquare.org/how-did-peop...
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How Did People Go ‘No-Contact’ in the 1700s? | Essay
Family Estrangement Has Been Complicated for Centuries
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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I had no idea this was an option.
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Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So I've had a speaker drop-out last minute from the session dedicated to Old Norse female networks and communities! I still need to figure out next steps but is there coincidentally anyone who'd like to present in this session? #MedievalSky #OldNorse
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Once again, everything is gender studies.
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Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Interested in any and all modern histories (post 45 so v modern) of the River Clyde, dockers, shipbuilding, associated factories, regeneration, gentrification, political econ, community activism, alternate business generation, environmental, statistical, qualitative #skyhistorians #glasgow #Clyde
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
what links orca whales, rainfall, murder mysteries and the devil’s mammaries? ok so probably nothing but bear with me
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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today on the Engaged Learning Collective, I have a column about thinking expansively about kindness and communication in higher education. And if you're not familiar with the incredible stuff at ELC, take a look around! engagedlearningcollective.substack.com/p/expanding-...
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Expanding the Reach of Kindness
Distrust is pervasive in higher ed, and it partners with competition to make too many of us miserable.
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James Whistler @jwhistler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nocturn Sun www.wikiart.org/en/james-mcneill-wh…
"Nocturn Sun" by James McNeill Whistler likely draws from Whistler's evocative "Nocturne" series, blending elements of mood and atmosphere in its depiction of twilight or night-time scenes. The soft interplay of blues and dark tones alongside a warm glowing sun capture Whistler's mastery of subdued tonal harmonies and his innovative approach to capturing ephemeral moments.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brilliant
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Report: SHAPE the Future – Resilience, recovery and renewal By Jonathan Digby, Senior Policy Adviser, Vibha Honasoge, Policy Adviser and Dr Adam Wright, Head of Public Policy. 🧵
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Report: SHAPE the Future – Resilience, recovery and renewal
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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tonight I was reading my 4yr old a story and a character in it was jealous & she asked what that means & I said it's when you want something someone else has or wish you had something. She said "I know what it's like, like when you meet someone Italian and you wish you were Italian".
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“You’re allowed to charge more for teaching because you’re not really interested in it” would certainly be on-brand for UK HE policy…
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Hidden Treasures @seethetreasures.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Moadim L'simchah 🎉 During Sukkot, we're revisiting some of our favourite Collections Encounters. Next up is the Liverpool Record Office at Liverpool Libraries and Information Services. Read the blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/collect... #Archives #Liverpool #JewishHistory
A quote saying “It was the first Jewish community in the north, and it dates back to the 1740s so there’s material stretching all the way back to that time, there’s so much here”A person among shelves full of boxes holding a poster of prices for Kosher meat.
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We’re doing this again
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#skystorians and other academics - are you femme presenting and have you been involved in a PhD defense at a Finnish university? If so I would love to know what you wore! (I haven't had to do academic formal for >13yrs & purged all black from my wardrobe on discovering I was a navy/grey neutral 😬)
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'Last week, Vanessa Wilson, chief executive of the University Alliance, said a tiered tuition fee system represented “an existential threat” to the sector, adding that the proposal risks hardwiring “old hierarchies of research-intensive and teaching-focused institutions into the funding system”.'
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Tiered English tuition fee system ‘would denude rest of sector’
Fallout over differential university fees suggestion continues, amid suggestions that the Russell Group head is saying the quiet part out loud
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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Suspect a lot of my day is going to involve giving people the Hard Paddington Stare and reminding them that intellectual friction is the point.
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Middle East Medievalists @mideastmedieval.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Arabic Pasts Workshop 8 – 9 October 2026 Aga Khan Centre, London (in-person) 10 Handyside St, London N1C 4DN Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arabic-pas.... Programme: kitab-project.org/documents/Ar....
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Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography
Come join us for this annual workshop in which participants present research in progress on Arabic history writing.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now I’m nobody, but I think that is indicative of a set of political principles. I think that’s worth taking a note of. They do not care whether it’s useful. They do not care about the user. If you are the user, however, maybe you care.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They are in fact contemptuous of the idea that I would go out and talk to people about how they use a technology or observe them trying to use it. Just hostile to the very concept of there being an end user.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know this is my third or fourth go around with this kind of technological innovation for consumers and citizens. And a lot of it is the same. Same pattern of exaggerated benefits, underestimated challenges. What’s new this time is the sector isn’t even pretending to care about the consumer.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I could go on and on but they are always going to pretend they don’t understand what I’m talking about. Because they have to not understand it. But talking to actual people is still worthwhile unless you intend to bludgeon them into compliance which…
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Or, take something else that happened: A retired person who proudly had a schedule. It was a lot of time allocated to their hobbies, the purpose of which is to not clock in but to prioritize. You can’t really optimize that and it didn’t fit what the vendor thought an agent should do.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Car lane pick up <— happens routinely but sometimes the kid catches a ride. Sometimes the line is long. Sometimes it’s short. Sometimes you do it, sometimes your partner does it. You don’t really put it on a digital calendar - because you know to get your kid every day.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some of how this looked in practice: One trainer asked the learners in workshop for their ”schedule”. “Everybody has a schedule!,” you exclaim. Until you realize that a work schedule and a life schedule aren’t the same thing. And you might have a routine but it’s not structured as a schedule.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Believe it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic
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Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New article klaxon!! And it’s an exciting one — my first academic piece on Ravenser Odd. Co-authored with the brilliant Kathryn Maude. Hopefully more to follow… www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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ACCOUNTING FOR ABSENCE: EXHIBITING THE MANORIAL RECORDS OF RAVENSER ODD | Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association
Ravenser Odd was an island at the mouth of the Humber estuary between the 1230s and 1350s. During its brief, dramatic, life it became a Royal Borough, with the result that many of its records have been preserved centrally. Ravenser Odd’s manorial ...
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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whereas if one starts in 1913, just before a seismic global crisis takes hold, wouldn't 2007 actually be the more symmetrical end point?
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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fascinating choice of dates this, because if we're ending in 1997 wouldn't it be at the very least quite interesting to start from the reforming Liberal government of 1906...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'In his [Ivison's] view, the government is avoiding the bigger issues of what universities are for and who should pay for them.' It would help if universities would ask (and answer) that 1st big question in public rather than just parroting government. That's what institutional autonomy is for.
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To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News
Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Duncan Ivison, vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester, summed up the situation at a morning panel organised by the Higher Education Policy Institute. He said the government is failing to ask the “first order” questions about universities'. (RPN Playbook on the Labour Conference)
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