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Dr Joanne Norcup

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Historical Geographer YPCCS University of Warwick (Caribbean histories & geographies) Also Nottingham and OU Geog Depts. (Martial) Arts, photography, films, comedy, books, libraries, archives, trees, pottery, dogs. Always curious. jonorcup.com

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 3h
1/2 ... and while I'm at it: every anti-reparations activist also claims that we should be focusing on modern slavery rather than historic, as if they are mutually exclusive. As this event shows though, ...
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 7h
Solidarity with @uonucu.bsky.social members once again striking against compulsory redundancies and course closures. Such an outcome would devastate workers, students, and our city, as well as UK research. I urge the university leadership to do the right thing and protect jobs and courses.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 5h
I can't summon the vocabulary for the last (week? months? years?) of emotional regulation required on this topic. I can't say I don't have *any* friends who never experienced SA, but most have. Mine was at 13-- or the worst, anyway. As a historian, my point is that college SA is in a context.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 7h
“How are you supposed to sleep when your whole flat is vibrating?”: Slough residents tell Brenna Spain about the unsettling noise pollution from the data centres next door www.thenerve.news/p/slough-dat...
Sleepless in Slough: the residents who fear for their failing health in Europe’s data centre capital. Red and yellow illustration of an under-construction Equinix data centre in Slough, England
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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 21h
I closed my account five years ago & it’s really no problem. Folks, this isn’t good. 👇
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BrontëBlog @bronteblog.bsky.social · 23h
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Visiting Haworth, Home of the Brontë Sisters|みさえ
Finally, a visit to the home of the Brontë sistersAnother purpose of this trip (besides a one-week language study program) was to visit the places associated with the Brontë sisters.The fact that I wr...
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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A lot has been written about how this year's El Niño is already breaking records. Climate Dashboard's new interactive map lets you explore how this unusually strong El Niño is forecast to affect climate conditions around the world googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
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The El Niño Forcast Map
Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The four lowest years on record for Antarctica's sea ice have all occurred in the past four years. Area falls 1m sq kmshort of long-term average, as scientists warn of a ‘now problem’ #climatecrisis Story by @readfearn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’
Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses
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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · 23h
What's your reading habit? This National Year of Reading, authors from the Cambridge Elements series 'Publishing and Book Culture' share their reading habits and quirks, because there's no single way to be a reader.📖 Read more 🔗 cup.org/4qXMjTj #NYR2026 #NationalYearofReading
An open book is held up against a clear blue sky. Text overlay reads: "Read your own way. ‘Publishing and Book Culture’ Elements authors share their reading habits.Image of an Element titled 'The Social Life of Books' by Rebecca Roach with a quote: 'I date all my books when I finish them. Nerdy, but I like being able to fit my reading back into my life and memories of a particular place and time.' The text is accompanied by the message 'Read your own way' and mentions Dr. Rebecca Roach as the author.The image features a Cambridge blue background with a quote: "Sticky notes! if I’m really paying attention to a physical book that I’m reading, then it’s full of sticky notes. I have dozens of sticky pads in a drawer in my office." It is attributed to Dr. Gavin Miller, author of "Penguins on the Couch Element." A book cover titled "Penguins on the Couch: Penguin Books and the Psychologisation of Britain, c.1945-c.1980" by Gavin Miller is shown.A quote about reading habits is displayed on a Cambridge blue background. To the right, there is a book cover titled "Innovations in Digital Comics: A Popular Revolution" by Francesca Benatti. Below the quote, Dr. Francesca Benatti is mentioned as the author of "Innovations in Digital Comics" Element.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 28/09/2026
We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship of the Society. Next closing dates: 5 October & 14 December. Fellowship is open to those who've made a scholarly research contribution to #history in all sectors (within & beyond higher education) in the UK/worldwide bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians
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Closing dates for next applications: Mondays 5 October and 14 December 2026   Fellowships are awarded to those who have made an original contribution to historical scholarship, typically through the a...
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GRANTS ANNOUNCEMENT: Audrey Henshall Legacy Fund Reopens We are offering a grant of up to £10,000 for the successful applicant to develop and undertake a significant research project which supports research or fieldwork on pre-Roman antiquities in Scotland: www.socantscot.org/news/audrey-...
Woman sitting in a field with overlaid text that reads: Grants Announcement
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23h
Yup.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Members of fraternities are three times more likely to be rapists than male college students who aren’t members of fraternities
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Incredible stuff.
Commentary|Essay
        

AI and the crisis of the author
        

By Anchit Sathi

September 4, 2026
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Editor’s note (September 21, 2026): We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the writing and editing process. The author states that he was unaware of the policy.
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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazing how the media's still sticking to the 'going rogue' line. This software did not 'go rogue'. Its developers failed to build adequate controls, did not do enough testing, and are entirely responsible for the results.
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Had one of these from a “senior editor at Simon & Schuster” earlier. If the length and anodyne nature of the email didn’t give it away, the sign-off “keep being awesome” did.
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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"This is not an argument against excellence. It is an argument for recognising that there is more than one kind of excellence in higher education." So glad to have read this - it's spot on and brightened my morning.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us
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Netpol @netpol.org · 29/09/2026
If anyone is struggling to understand how our media and politicians are still talking about an RAF Fairford "bomb plot" when there were no bombs found, then the Forest Gate raid in 2006 is a useful comparison en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_...
Photo taken by Netpol's campaigns coordinator in 2006 of the end of Lansdown Rd in Forest Gate, closed by police after a "bomb plot" terrorism raid led to the sealing off of the area for a week. One man was shot but fortunately survived – there was no bomb factory, yet the Kahar family were smeared by the media for weeks
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great news: the School has sacked a third of its academic but we've acquired 2 new interim managers on top of the extra permanent ones. Fine work all round.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remembering novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, born on this day 1810.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The nurdles on our Tyneside coast are back with a vengeance today, both depressing in and of itself but also a clear indication of what will happen periodically over the coming months and years and tides and winds bring some of the many millions of plastic pellets still swirling around in our seas.
Thousands of white nurdles (plastic pellets) strewn across Whitley Bay beach, amidst seaweed and sand. Thousands of white nurdles (plastic pellets) strewn across North Shields Fish Quay beach, amidst seaweed and sand. Thousands of white nurdles (plastic pellets) strewn across a beach, amidst seaweed and sand.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gave a guest lecture to new art students on how their creative practice might respond to extinction and climate change. Lots of great questions and so many discussions about how much they’d learned on the packed bus home. Days like this keep teachers with start of term bugs going. Onwards. Onwards.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I still can’t believe this is true. If you’re curious, the paperback is out. A huge thanks to everyone who’s been in touch with kind words and congratulations. I’m deeply moved and honoured that my words are helping so many readers think about how to build a just future for all life on earth.
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 28/09/2026
So let me get this right... SpaceX's "successful" orbital launch of Starship lost an engine in flight, was cut from a planned six orbits to two (and SpaceX isn't saying why), neither part is reusable, and the top part blew up on splashdown.
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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Such a fantastic exhibition (seen at Nottingham castle earlier this year) #TheTwoRoberts
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Jon Lewis @jonlewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Atwood explores this in Oryx and Crake. The techbro kills 99% of humanity.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In 1985, poets Michael Hartnett, Hugh Maxton, and Seamus Heaney joined the strikers in solidarity and in protest against the hanging of South African poet Benjamin Moloise.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My most recent open access paper with David Lambert (University of Warwick) in @areajournal.bsky.social #CaribbeanHistoricalGeographiesandBritishGeography doi.org/10.1111/area...
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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social Needing my fix of Della parenting insights and bad ass survivalist tips, Aretha's searing socio-political insights and Philip Jackson's Grampy looking at nickynackynoos at the car boot. No streaming in UK - WTAF @channel4tv.bsky.social it was bad enough no series3 - help
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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Love Sharon Horgan. So much good work. Dead Boss was great & always drops out of discussions (loved Pulling too). Then all the rest of her writing and performing, uplifting of amazing comedy writers. Totally inspiring #Comedydramalove youtu.be/mndT7DjQEk0?...
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Sharon Horgan - ‘My marriage failed but it had such a positive impact on my life’
YouTube video by How To Fail with Elizabeth Day
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 26/09/2026
Glen's lecture opened the Society's autumn programme of lectures taking place in London, Glasgow and Bristol, and online. Further details of upcoming events, including lectures by Meleisa Ono-George, Sathnam Sanghera, Hanna Diamond and Amy Froide bit.ly/3VQUTYs 2/2
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Autumn lecture programme from the Royal Historical Society - RHS
The Society's autumn lecture programme offers lectures by six leading historians working in British, European and world history. The autumn lecture programme begins on Friday 25 September and runs to ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026
Schoolchildren without smartphones penalised with higher bus fares
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Schoolchildren without smartphones penalised with higher bus fares
Despite guidance keeping mobile phones out of England’s schools, cheaper travel may only be available via an app Schoolchildren who do not own smartphones face paying hundreds of pounds extra in annual bus fares as cheaper travel passes are digitised. Critics argue that by only making discounts available through an app, operators are undermining government guidance to keep mobile phones out of schools. Continue reading...
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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Those who can afford it and have resource access already do this. More concerned for the millions who have no choice to opt out & have had to become embedded and AISlop-cyborged because they need to to survive the systems & institutions across sectors who have adopted the tech. #ReturnoftheLuddites
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🔭🌙 Just 10cm tall, this little clock-watch in the form of a book includes adjustable sundials, signs of the zodiac, tools to calculate the hours of daylight and the phases of the moon, a lunar wheel-chart, and even an alarm! ⏰
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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
While, in Farage's case, whining that tackling disinformation is 'censorship'. And invoking Orwell to help his case. Had Orwell reached his nineties, he could have written about the young Farage. That would have been worth reading.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Addressing yesterdays Hague Group meeting on defending international law, Norways foreign minister explained how he was active in the anti apartheid movement & when it comes to some issues there aren't two sides to the story.
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#egregiousopportunisticgriftereraBS
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 24/09/2026
🌟Shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 With its haunted shoes and sheep and cats, Bora Chung's novel in ghost stories (translated by @antonhur.com) gently suggests the degree to which humanity’s efforts to control the world are themselves figments and fantasies.
A photo of the book Midnight Timetable, standing on a black shelf next to a glass vase with two pink-orange flowers and some greenery."What we can see and hear and touch in this world is very limited. And so perhaps it’s true we don’t know much about the world at all. We like to say there’s nothing new under the sun, but we don’t have the slightest inkling of how many things there are, indeed, under the sun." 

from Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Michaelmas Daisy - 29th September is Michaelmas, the Feast Day of St Michael the defender against evil. It marks the end of harvest and the start of autumn. The flower symbolises farewell and transition. The act of giving the bloom to another represents the saying of farewell. #FolkloreThursday
Michaelmas Daisy - vintage illustration
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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seeing Maya grow into such an accomplished musician and artist is a privilege. Have a listen. Amazing radio actually pays artists royalties too! Enjoy Maya Fish - If I Fall amazingradio.com/profile/maya...
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Maya Fish - If I Fall | Amazing Radio
Amazing Radio, home to the best online Internet radio station. Supporting indie artists & bands worldwide helping your talent get heard.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 23/09/2026
At a moment when history is under attack, communities across the country are sending a clear message: We Want More History! Hundreds of events are happening nationwide Sept. 25–27. Explore the #WeWantMoreHistory calendar and find one near you:
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Home - We Want More History
A national day of history in public. Join Us Events will take place across libraries, parks, museums, and other civic spaces, featuring talks, facilitated discussions, teach-ins, programs, and communi...
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Gillian M Sinton @gms91201.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This looks very interesting.
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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Are you joining us in New York City? #AAG2027 awaits! This year's meeting will bring together geographers, GIS technicians, and scholars from around the world for five days of learning, connecting, and exploring the latest research in the discipline. Abstracts are due October 15: buff.ly/OQbiKHe
Promotional poster for AAG2027 announcing “#AAG2027 Now Accepting Abstracts,” shown over a conference poster session where attendees stand reading research posters on display.
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