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Marianna Dudley

@dudleymarianna.bsky.social
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Environmental historian. Author of ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’ manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978… Co-Ed of Environmental Humanities journal.

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Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 22h
Very proud of UCU and 11 sister unions for boycotting #LabourWomensConference. It’s not a women’s conference if some women are excluded.
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Oral History Society @oralhistsoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Introduction to #OralHistory -📍Bristol Archives, #Bristol, 📆16/10/2026 Interested in developing practical skills in #oralhistory? Our 1-day course covers interviewing techniques, memory, recording, documentation, and practical experience. Further details and booking: ohs.org.uk/events/intro...
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Introduction to Oral History (Bristol) - Oral History Society
This self-contained course, organised jointly by the National Life Stories at the British Library and the Oral History Society, aims to be an informal and practical introduction to oral history interv...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Historic England vanishing archive - details of why it is broken : www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...
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Historic England’s Vanishing Archive
Not just the aerials. The lot. Historic England still holds the negatives, the prints and the scans. What the public lost, in early Sept...
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For the anniversary of Silent Spring, published on this day in 1962. This Peanuts cartoon is from February 1963. #envhist @carsoncenter.bsky.social
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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky
I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. 

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review.  Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage.  To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 24/09/2026
New from History UK: a valuable and interesting survey of UK history students use of and attitudes towards GenAI in HE teaching - their preliminary report is published today: bit.ly/4hatsRR The report is by Dr Sarah Jones and Dr Simon Peplow @simpep.bsky.social #skystorians
Opening page of History UK's statement on their survey and report on AI and History Students in UK universities. Full text: 

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become impossible to ignore in higher education. For historians, working in a discipline which depends on interpretation, evidence, and critical thinking, the development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has raised particularly significant questions. In 2026, we launched a survey to gather the perspectives of people who are often overlooked in considerations of the impact of AI and appropriate responses – history students themselves.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Hard to explain how gobsmacking this is. The government opened applications for farm subsidies this morning at 10. And closed it just before 4 because they'd run out of cash. Applying for your livelihood like it's Oasis tickets. defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2026/09/22/s...
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SFI26: Window 2 now closed
Window 2 of the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 (SFI26) has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an application.
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We’ve published a new special collection on Waste Ethnographies (edited by Trine Brox), as part of 'Worldwide Waste' volume 9; #openaccess here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/WW/issue/vie... #waste #ethnographies
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
applications TRIPLED within 5 years
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
21,627 applications for the Marie Curie early career fellowships.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trying to describe what it’s like working inside British universities at the moment is very hard. One small vignette: not a single week of my teaching this semester looks the same as any other. We have virtually no courses/modules that are taught by
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A cheery message from the new minister responsible for research funding for the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences (and the subjects that the majority of UK taught undergraduate and Masters students study).
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Science and maths degrees offer most value to the nation, says minister
Chris McDonald told a room full of vice-chancellors that science, engineering and mathematics ‘offer the greatest personal, social and economic value’
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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
‘Personal, social, and economic value’. Receipts and evidence for that? Unsurprisingly, none. God save us from these people.
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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thrilled to see findings from Peatscapes included in a new Oxford University Press 'Intersection' on Environmental Chance and Human Experience! Led by Nye Merrill-Glover, this piece examines the hydrological dilemmas of lowland #peatland #restoration in the UK. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Undrainage: The Hydrological Dilemmas of Peatland Restoration in the United Kingdom
Abstract. The hydrological basis of peatland restoration reveals inherent problems with uniformly ‘scaling up’ conservation while retaining the social prac
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Peatscapes @peatscapes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Many thanks, as ever, to @leverhulme.ac.uk for generously funding our project. And thanks as well to @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for inviting us to contribute to this exciting collection of articles on 'Water'. See the full range of pieces here: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Oxford Intersections: Environmental Change and Human Experience
Abstract. Environmental change is a fundamental concern across the humanities and social sciences. This Intersection explores the changing interrelationshi
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Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I look forward to reading the results of the University of Cambridge’s review into these allegations and the ones that surfaced yesterday
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you're interested in submitting a book proposal to our Radical Histories series, give us a shout. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...
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Radical Histories - Manchester University Press
The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is what happens when government doesn’t fund HE properly. Institutions start bending the knee to whoever will pay, regardless of how this sits with UK foreign policy or what the public want.
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Huge. Huge testament to the power of organising. Huge relief for Exeter friends and colleagues. Huge waste of time and resources. Huge reputational damage done. Huge warning to universities who want to treat their staff like they don’t matter.
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Robert Groß @robertgro5.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Early-career researchers and researchers from low-income countries need your help. @eseh.bsky.social has launched a campaign to raise funds for travel grants for the next conference in Salzburg in 2027. Donate now! #envhist #histtech www.betterplace.org/en/projects/...
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Travel Grants for ESEH Salzburg Conference 2027
Donate now to our ESEH Travel Grant Fundraising Campaign and help bring more diverse voices to Salzburg!
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Ruth Morgan @ruthamorgan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Working in the environmental humanities? If you have a fresh take on new approaches/concepts/methods/sources - plz pitch to the Approaches section in OUP's new initiative, Environmental Change & Human Experience (led by maestros Georgina Endfield & Poul Holm academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’m editing the Water section. Eager to receive abstracts on any water-related topics, and especially: •Rivers/freshwater •More-than-human perspectives •Militaries and water •Trade and transport
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’m editing the Water section. Eager to receive abstracts on any water-related topics, and especially: •Rivers/freshwater •More-than-human perspectives •Militaries and water •Trade and transport
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Amazing to see the list of academics who have signed the pro-Cofnas letter, in that every time you think, hmm, I bet that arsehole signed the pro-Cofnas letter, it turns out they actually did
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Reading through the beautiful testimonies of students & colleagues of Jason Arday is a reminder of all we have lost, but also how much kindness and generosity matters. Thanks @hannahrobbins26.bsky.social for sharing this link. leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...
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Everything Good About Jason Arday
First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It's here! Delighted to receive the first paper copies of my new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, from Verso. An Injury to All is published on 27 October. You can pre-order it here: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 21/08/2026
As ever I would point out that this is good landscape management and there is nothing 'wild' about it and until we stop calling it 'rewilding' people will continue to operate with the ludicrous romantic assumption that 'nature' is self-healing and that human intervention is bad.
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Calling all neo-folk & folk horror buffs: I'm hoping to add some readings on this to a new unit on environmentalism. It's for a week identifying new trends/movements, so I'm expecting relevant lit to lie more in social sciences, culture studies, and literature than history. What's good out there?
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🧵I've been writing about communities taking on big heartless corporations for well over 30 years and I have never seen an issue bring together a coalition as wide, or as deep, as the battle against AI data centres. This quote from a Kentucky farmer who refused millions to sell her land says it all:
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One week from today, we kick off the fall Greenhouse #envhum book talks with Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution Join us for the live discussion Monday, 24 August 2026, 4pm Central European time! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
#199 Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks
Cover of book Transforming Night on right
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Call for Contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather & Weathering teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/c... Full details linked and here teleskopos.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... It will be edited by me, @lottaleiwo.bsky.social and Tamara Culkins. Please share! #histSTM #envhist 🗃️📜
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Call for Contributions: Histories of Weather & Weathering
Call for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering (working title) Editors: Rebekah Higgitt, Tamara Caulkins and Lotta Leiwo We invite contributions to this planned open a…
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i am personally aware of three recent cases, all senior figures who faced credible accusations, none of whom appear to have suffered any consequences
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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Unbearably sad news of Prof Arday’s death. I am thinking of him and everyone close to him. I hope all those who took part in the hunt are ashamed. A broken and heartless media and academic system.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.
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Kate Littler @palaeoclimate.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
And look at the SW bumbling along near the bottom of the chart. There is (rightfully) a lot of focus on the north-south UK divide in opportunity and attainment, but the SW really struggles too. Thank god we have excellent unis in the SW that are definitely not closing programmes and firing staff 🙄
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
ARGH. There are many causes of the UKHE crisis, and the governmental underfunding is undoubtedly the most harmful one. But let’s not let that big one draw sole attention, so we forget the harm done by the pure disrespect of managers for staff & their disdain for meaningful conversation with them.
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My uni have just withdrawn Geography, History & Geography and Politics & Geography undergrad courses run from our Penryn campus. Terrible for Cornwall. How did the staff find out? When UCAS clearing opened at 8am 😡
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Happy #worldcatday! Remembering my one experience of going viral, all thanks to a very sweet little philosopher-cat
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The one cloud of summer. We booked it for North Essex this evening, and it is scheduled to hover over Hull tomorrow morning.
A single small, almost round dot of a, cloud. It is hovering Zardoz Head like, over some hot fields and houses.
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Nice to hear Scout on 6music this morning @lsangha.bsky.social ! My ears pricked at the name, but it was the gifts from outdoors that meant it could only be her!
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Delighted to hear today that the answer to ‘who will supervise PhDs whose supervisors are being sacked?’ is ‘hire hourly-paid supervisors who were sacked in the previous round of sackings’. This rather whiffs of fake redundancies.
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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Great wee creature in the National Museum of Scotland
Some sort of badge from a ship with a picture of a shrew with an unimpressed look on its face. Above it is the word TERMAGANT, which has historically been used to describe moany nagging women
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is extraordinarily bad, as even the UK copyright libraries (e.g. Cambridge) have moved over to frequently only acquiring the ebook version of new publications. If you don't own the hard copy, you're just renting and you are at the mercy of the publisher.
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