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Dr Edwin Coomasaru

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Historian of modern and contemporary British, Irish, and Sri Lankan art. Research on gender, sexuality, race, empire, and ecology.

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"biology textbook authors describe plant reproduction through a set of habitually repeated stories that reliably draw on conventional gender stereotypes, reflecting those found in mainstream accounts of human reproduction. In doing so, they cast male plants and plant parts as active heroes..."
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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series is back and we have a stellar line up: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, 6 Oct; @cberiksen.bsky.social, 28 Oct; Jim Endersby, 25 Nov; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 Dec. All seminars are on Zoom, 15-16 CET
Poster for Instructing Colonial Natural History, Autumn Term 2026 seminar series. The design uses an 1785 watercolour by Sarah Stone showing the interior of Sir Ashton Lever’s Museum in Leicester Square, London: a dark green natural-history collection crowded with display cabinets, birds, shells, antlers and other specimens, with green curtains opening onto receding galleries and a large elephant on the right. Four online seminars are listed: Sadiah Qureshi, 6 October; Christoffer Basse Eriksen, 28 October; Jim Endersby, 25 November; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 December. All seminars are on Zoom, 15.00–16.00 CET. Registration: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se
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Humanities & Social Sciences @hss.springernature.com · 28/09/2026
This Palgrave Macmillan book presents a novel approach to the history of science by moving beyond the traditional focus on scientific authorities, institutions, and informants. bit.ly/3V6cn2W 💙📚🗃️
Emotions, Science, and Gender, 1800-1960
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW IN STOCK - Explore Sedgwick's art and theory with this richly illustrated volume on queer and trans craft. 📚️ buff.ly/ELuRXmo @dukepress.bsky.social
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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Out now: the special issue of Éire-Ireland on death and the Irish diaspora I guest-edited with the excellent @sophcocooper.bsky.social. Featuring eleven fascinating essays on all sorts of deathy stuff. Absolutely delighted with how the project turned out. 💀https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/57682
The cover of Éire-Ireland 61.1-2, featuring an engraving by Irish painter John Lavery which shows a man and a woman in a sort of punt. The woman is propelling the boat with a pole.
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Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Call For Papers: @forarthistory.org.uk annual conference 2027 - along with Holly O’Farrell (IADT) we are co-convening a session on photo-albums and colonialism and welcome submissions from all stages of researchers; follow link for guidelines below; forarthistory.org.uk/conference-2...
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87. The Album as Archive – photography, materiality and colonialism. - For Art History
This session invites papers that explore photographic albums as valuable records of visual expressions of the cultural politics of colonialism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Produced a...
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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New article just published in ‘Èire-Ireland’ Journal on the queer Irish novel and death in the Irish diaspora #IrishStudies #queerliterature #queernovel #Irishdiaspora
Éire-Ireland
© Dying to Be Seen: AIDS, Diaspora, and the Queer Irish Novel
Declan Kavanagh
Éire-Ireland
Irish-American Cultural Institute
Volume 61, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2026
pp. 259-283
10.1353/eir.2026.a1001973
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'The funding call involved was the CRANE phase one pilot projects call, administered at the University of Oxford and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.'
timeshighereducation.com
AI-only research grant rejection in UKRI-funded call sparks alarm
Artificial intelligence used to cull half of applications submitted by cybersecurity scholars, before they got to human eyes
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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This looks like a cool queer history conference!
Call for Papers: Queer Rural History Symposium
Date: Monday 15th March 2027
Venue: The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, RG1 5EX
Lunch to be provided for all attendees
About the Symposium
Until recently, studies of queer history have focused almost exclusively on the urban sphere, given the greater availability of archival material evidencing queer lives in the city. The few queer rural histories which have been popularised in public consciousness are those of aristocrats in country homes, such as Anne Lister and Vita Sackville-West. However, it goes without saying that people with dissonant sexualities and gender identities lived and loved in all corners of society throughout the centuries, including the countryside. As such, there is a growing appetite for broader research into this area. How did queer people meet those who were like-minded in regions of scarce population density? What forms did their relationships take against a backdrop of criminality and stigma? And how did rural attitudes towards queer people differ to those in the city?
This one day symposium aims to bring together researchers of all backgrounds, and at any stage of their work, to share ideas and discuss methods on this emerging field of study. It works towards the goal of not just filling gaps in academic knowledge that exist for both rural history and queer history, but also to show queer people living in the countryside today that there is, and always has been, a heritage and a place for them.Proposals
We invite proposals on themes such as, but not limited to, the following:
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Queer histories of the working and middle classes in rural areas
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Methodologies for recovering queer rural histories, such as the use of museum and archive collections
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Queer rural networks: how they met and flourished
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The response of rural communities to queer relationships
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Migration of same sex couples from the city to the countryside and vice versa
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The ways in which museums and archive services respond to queer rural history
If you would like to submit a proposal, please send an abstract (max 250 words) along with a short bio (50 words) to symposium organisers Tim Jerrome and Esther Rutter at t.jerrome1@uni.brighton.ac.uk. It is preferable that these come in the form of a Word document attached to the email. The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Sunday 6th December 2026.
If you would like to attend the symposium without presenting a paper, let us know via the above email as we need to ensure we do not go above capacity.
We are currently applying for funding to help cover travel costs for those who need it. Please let us know if you would like to attend but would require assistance with travel costs to do so. Priority will be given to attendees where cost would otherwise be a barrier to participation.
Many thanks to Rainbow Canopy (The LGBTQ+ network of Forestry England), the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, and the staff at The MERL for helping us to fund and organise the symposium.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.
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History is a human craft | Historical Transactions
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 22/09/2026
Join us online at 1pm on Thursday (24th Sept) for 'Historical Context: The Climate Crisis' bit.ly/3V4lgKf With panellists @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @ellydezateux.bsky.social. How does historical expertise help us understand the world today? All welcome #Skystorians
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Historical Context: The Climate Crisis
A panel discussion, hosted by the Royal Historical Society, in which expert historical researchers provide context for current events.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'The petition seeks guidance on three questions: whether the forced transport of Africans to Jamaica was lawful; whether it constituted a crime against humanity; and whether Britain is under an obligation to provide restitution for slavery and its enduring consequences.'
theguardian.com
Jamaica hails King’s decision to refer slavery reparations petition to privy council as ‘really big deal’
The move comes after Jamaica’s culture minister Olivia Grange travelled to the UK earlier this month to lodge the historic petition
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Simon Layton Book Launch – Piratical States: British Imperialism in the Indian Ocean World c.1780-1850. Royal Asiatic Society Thursday 24 September 6-8pm. Free and open to the public. #Skystorians
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Simon Layton Book Launch – Piratical States: British Imperialism in the Indian Ocean World c.1780-1850
24 September (Thursday)
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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
David Olusoga's new series Finding Britain's Slave Traders airs tonight at 9pm. In anticipation, we are resharing an article from Dr Michael Taylor on the West India Interest, the pro-slavery lobby in Parliament, where many members had a vested interest in the continuation of slavery.
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The West India Interest and the Parliamentary Defence of Slavery, 1823-33
This blog, which explores the parliamentary context of the abolition of slavery, is based on Michael’s full-length seminar paper, ‘The West India Interest and Colonial Slavery in Parliament,…
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'Leaders in the region are hoping the UK would agree to targeted and constructive negotiation talks at upcoming Commonwealth and UN summits, but they are ready to take the matter to international courts if Britain continues to resist diplomatic options.'
theguardian.com
Caribbean nations draft action plan to push UK to redress reparations over slavery
Leaders hope UK will agree to targeted discussions around reparatory justice, but could consider legal options if Britain resists
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/09/2026
A recent report out of MIT said A.I. is triggering “cognitive surrender” in students. Many university leaders are embracing the technology with enthusiasm anyway.
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Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It
As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'Research by historians compiling the Register of British Slave Traders has found that the scale of the financial system’s involvement in enslavement is greater than previously known or acknowledged.'
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Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds
Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What is to be undone? How? With whom? Vishmidt teaches us that "there is no opposition between breaking and building." Infrastructural Critique is an irreplaceable invitation and guide to the work of abolition. --Alberto Toscano Available for pre-order now!
Infrastructural Critique:
Contemporary Art Between Reproduction and Abolition
by Marina Vishmidt

Preface by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten

Edited by Larne Abse Gogarty, Danny Hayward and Kerstin Stakemeier
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Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Online book launch for Colonialisms and Queer Politics, eds S Corrêa, G Gomes da Costa & M Waites. Fri 18th Sept. Hosted @sxpolitics.bsky.social w. Federal University of Pernambuco & @uofgsps.bsky.social 9am US EST, 10am Brazil, 2pm UK, 3pm CET, 4pm Turkey. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Image of book cover for: Colonialisms and Queer Politics: Sexualities, Genders and Unsettling Colonialities, published by Oxford University Press. Book cover shows extract from the Cantino Planisphere, a 1502 map made by a Portuguese cartographer, showing a Eurocentric view of the Atlantic world as the European imperial expansion began.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
'Enslaved African people were seared with hot metal brands bearing the royal crown, according to research by historians who have documented the monarchy’s centuries-long involvement in Britain’s slave trade.' #Skystorians
theguardian.com
The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade
From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade
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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
lboro.ac.uk
Queer Ecology and the Supernatural Symposium and Exhibition
Fearon Hall Community Centre, Rectory Road, Loughborough, LE11 1PL, 18 September 2026, 9:00am - 1:00pm
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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New article out now in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (vol. 41): '"A picture presented to all our Senses": Vision in Gulliver's Travels and Michael Clancy's Memoirs'. doi.org/10.3828/eci....
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‘A picture presented to all our Senses’: Vision in Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and Michael Clancy’s Memoirs (1750) | Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Sir, Some Friend of mine lent me a Comedy, which I am told was written by you: I read it carefully, and with much Pleasure, on Account both of the Characters, and the Moral. I have no Interest with the People of the Play-house, else I should gladly ...
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TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📢Upcoming book event! Join us to hear more about @historytaylor.bsky.social 's Little Wars of Empire: British veterans in a colonial world, c. 1885-1918. 📅Sep 11 ⏰12pm noon ET Free and open to the public Info and RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🌊🌊🌊 New on H-Oceans 🌊🌊🌊 Review from Matthew Alexander Randolph (U of Washington) of _Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness_, by Jonathan Howard (@yale.edu), pub 2025 @dukepress.bsky.social #oceans‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New article in @mbhjournal.bsky.social about Black Irish migration to postwar urban Britain. academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
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‘I felt like I just belonged’: urban multiculture and black Irish migrants in post-war Britain
Abstract. This article reevaluates historians’ understanding of the Irish in post-war Britain from the perspective of a previously unresearched population,
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Yuriko Furuhata @underground259.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Very excited to share a link to my new book! The introduction is now available at dukeupress.edu/archives-of-...
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Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time
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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
1/2 OPEN CALL: UCD Library seeks photographers and lens-based artists for a commission capturing the National Folklore Collection's move to its new home. Full details at www.ucd.ie/irishfolklor... Up next: site visits 31 Aug & 1 Sept Application deadline: 16 Sept @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social
Ediphone audio recording tool with box of wax cylinders. Photo by Dragana Jurišić.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 21/08/2026
I got this today and could not recommend it enough. Such an important but also empowering book in what is otherwise a grim landscape You can order it here 👇🏻 www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2765-u...
Book cover
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There is a growing and coordinated campaign for slavery reparations at the upper echelons of international politics. This has gone beyond calls for compensation to demand the eradication of the continued injustices, writes Shodona Kettle @uclamericas.bsky.social on @africaatlse.bsky.social
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The call for reparations is gaining momentum and institutional backing - Africa at LSE
There is a growing and coordinated campaign for reparations at the upper echelons of international politics. This has gone beyond calls for compensation to demand the eradication of the continued…
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
'The restored stepwell is a testament to the idea that some of the most useful tools for managing water in a warming, increasingly erratic climate are millennia old and half-buried in silt.'
bbc.co.uk
India is turning to ancient water systems as modern ones run dry
Water scarcity and climate change is driving communities to restore traditional water structures built centuries ago, bringing them back into use in the 21st Century.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We're pleased to share the details of Professor Stephen Small's upcoming UK and Ireland book tour for his new book Black Liverpool, 'The real thing': West African, West Indian and Afro-American culture at the end of the twentieth century.
Promotional poster for Stephen Small's Black Liverpool 2026 book tour. The poster features the book cover alongside the title "Black Liverpool" in large gold lettering on a dark blue background. Tour dates and venues listed are: 1 October, Writing on the Wall at Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre, Liverpool; 6 October, Africa Centre, University of Sussex; 8 October, New Beacon Books, London; 13 October, House of Commons, London; 15 October, Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity, University of Manchester; 17 October, Liverpool Literary Festival; 19 October, Centre for the Study of International Slavery, University of Liverpool; 20 October, University of Glasgow; 22 October, University of Edinburgh; 28 October, Maynooth University and Trinity College Dublin; and 30 October, Queen's University Belfast. Website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk.
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Orla Egan she/her @orlaegan1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026... #SpéirGhorm
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‘We Were Always Here’: Ireland’s first permanent LGBTQ museum exhibition opens in Cork
‘Too often the history of the LGBT community has been invisible, ignored or erased,’ said curator Orla Egan
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The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com · 22/08/2026
The AR’s paywall is down until 31 August, so you can register for free and access an unlimited number of articles on our website. Happy reading! www.architectural-review.com/altregister
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
' evidence has come to light [e.g. Malik Al Nasir's book] that Sandbach, Tinne and Company – a corporation closely linked to the merchants who got the biggest taxpayer-funded compensation payouts – continued to traffic enslaved Africans illegally after abolition to Guyana, in South America.' 1/3
theguardian.com
British corporation continued trafficking of enslaved Africans to Guyana 40 years after abolition
Letter written in 1847 to Sandbach, Tinne and Company’s Liverpool office reveals it engaged in practice after receiving taxpayer-funded compensation, book says
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University of Texas Press @utexaspress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Out today! TRANSCENDENCE features a century of Black queer art and culture. Distributed for The Art Galleries at Black Studies, University of Texas at Austin, this volume highlights an ecstatically abundant past while advocating for a more inclusive future.
A book titled Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy, 1924–2024 with a dust jacket design displayed against a warm terracota background. The book cover features a striking photograph of a person tilted upward against a light blue sky, adorned with a golden halo-like crown with radiating spikes.
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Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Publication day for my article on contested statues of Robert Clive in London & Calcutta, Co-written with Jayanta Sengupta. This pic shows a plywood mock-up of the London statue, 1916. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contested...
Plywood cut-out of a statue, 1916. The tall plinth it stands on is made of wood and canvas. Photo from British Library, Curzon Manuscripts.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Using AI helps people get higher grades and get their work done faster, but they learn less & suffer on actual exams I saw this in my own large Intro Psych class: -the exam average is 85% -after AI, it shot up to 95% -after I made the final in person it went to 68% www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/08/2026
Woah.
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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I’m delighted to have received the author copies of my book “The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918” out now with @livunipress.bsky.social
a photo of my book.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media 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. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
People also need to see this not just as an arcane concern for rare book enthusiasts or librarians or archivists or historians and other scholars, but as part of the destruction of the corpus of human endeavour necessary to bring about what Sam Altman says here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqv...
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‘Buy It From Us On A Meter…’, Sam Altman Says AI Will Be a Utility, People Should Buy It Like Water
YouTube video by Mint
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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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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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This article is the latest in a series emerging from our AHRC project (@leannemccormick.bsky.social @charlielynch.bsky.social @mauricejcasey.com) on 'Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation'. Other pieces to look out for... 🧵
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Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
From years of collective work, Colonialisms and Queer Politics has been published! Presenting chapter analyses of 11 empires, and their colonial legacies, plus comparison of both legal and social regulation. #Colonialisms #Queer #LGBTIQ+ @uofgsociology.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Turnitin has long used its end user licence agreement to use students' work for product devt. Now it's trying to update it to use essays for AI devt too! Prime example of academic content assetization - turning student IP into a source of value codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...
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AI and the amplification of academic content assetization
Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash A new AI-driven digital learning platform launched by Arizona State University has set off alarm bells among academics for its exploitation of scholarly work. AS…
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
1/5 📣 An article I've written about the Queen's University in Ireland, its constituent colleges, and their relationship to the British Empire has been published with @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. The article makes the case for rethinking about the Queen's University's purpose in Ireland. 🗃️
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Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 - Volume 65
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Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This year's Duncan Tanner Prize is now open! If you're a PGR/ECR working on an article on modern British history do consider entering! Deadline Sept 1st. #skystorians 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...
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The Duncan Tanner Prize
The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.
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Dr JC Niala @jcniala.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
3/…how histories of harm shape it, and what futures it might make possible. For those working with collections and communities: where does ‘care’ help us — and where does it fall short? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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Questioning care for things (and their people) | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory: Vol 16, No 2
There is an increasing assertion within the heritage sector that museums holding ethnographic collections should position themselves as spaces of care. Yet the concept of “care” in this context is amb...
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