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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 12h

My LinkedIn account was hacked about a month ago and I've not been able to recover it because LinkedIn's support is... not v helpful. Has anyone managed to recover their account after a hacking issue? Should I give up/start anew? This is btw your reminder to change your password ppl!

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh great, so now we're just completely giving up on not eating plastics and we're going to *checks notes* literally eating plastics. Can't foresee any problem with that. Nope. Brilliant. Let's dive right in! #plastics www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...

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Hard to swallow? The future of snacking may be 3D-printed cookies made from upcycled plastic

Nasa-funded project uses yeasts to turn plastics and other waste into edible proteins, fats and flavourings

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Coastal Humanities meets Discard studies in this fantastic new ad for Count Binface. I am a happy historian. #CoastalHistory #DiscardStudies #Waste

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Small workshops where people get to know each other and learn from each other are magic ✨ This "Environmental Histories of #Plastics" event held @northumbriauni.bsky.social was made possible by a @britishacademy.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk small grant 🙏 🩷 Truly makes a difference for ECRs/PGRs

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Charlotte Leib @charlotte-leib.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Had an energizing time workshopping papers on #envhist of #plastics for a special issue w/ @elsadevienne.bsky.social Jess Varner, Yaxi Liu, Etienne Dufour @luciletruffy.bsky.social from my desk at the @hagleycenter.bsky.social today Big thanks to Elsa for convening us at @northumbriauni.bsky.social

Laptop computer screen with a word doc and zoom call pulled up. In an office on desk with notebooks, coffee, and books.

Group of academics sitting around a table in a white room, smiling and conversing. There's one other person joining on a screen, virtually, at the front of the room. People look engaged.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The UK has now said it will actively harm or damage: *Chemistry *Nursing *High-end physics *Languages *Astronomy *Creative arts *Theatre and performance *Cultural industries *Europe-level science The UK has lost its mind. 🇬🇧

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

'The summer World Cup will end before the British academic year does.' 🤣 from @isrfoundation.bsky.social's director's note

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Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm looking for some extra work this summer so if anyone has anything - e.g. remote research (especially London archives or Cambridge area), transcription, editing, proofing, etc, or knows of anyone looking, then feel free to let me know!

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🚒 In the midst of all this (gestures at Humanities on fire across the UK), H-Environment published a roundtable on my book SAND RUSH! ❤️ I loved reading the reviews & responding to them @h-net-humanities.bsky.social 👀 Sneak peek (featuring Baywatch 🏄‍♀️) networks.h-net.org/sites/defaul...

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Exeter, Hertfordshire, & Northumbria: all after marks in & before the end of the financial year. We NEED someone to give a shit about #UKHE, @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social. All VCs care about are covenants; their shorttermist fragmented cuts accumulate to the UK losing a sector it can't afford losing.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

timeshighereducation.com

University of Exeter cuts an ‘existential threat to humanities’

Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If you asked me, off the top of my head, to name a non-Oxbridge university in England synonymous with excellence in the Humanities - I would probably think of Exeter first. This feels like a very deliberate, targeted and ideological Bonfire of the Humanities

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Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

And many institutions have failed to increase teaching and physical capacity along with this. So you have staff being responsible for vastly increased numbers of students, all crammed into lecture theatres, and neither group getting what they deserve.

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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Knowledge & understanding grow in university settings when experts disagree with each other, testing each others' claims, adducing different evidence & positing alternative scenarios. That's how change happens. In this thread, I suggest that we take a different approach to that featured here. 1/x

isrf.org

What’s the future for our universities?

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 17/03/2026

Life is actually pretty simple

Meme says
I don't want a city on mars
I don't want AI in every app
I don't want date centers in space
I want clean water
I want affordable healthcare
And I want bees to survive

It shows snoopy fishing and dreaming of the day ;-)

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Sam Čermák, PhD @sam-cermak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I emerge, out of nowhere, to tell all my (currently 0) followers that I HAVE PUBLISHED A BOOK! It's beautiful, it's amazing, and I love it! It's called Abnormal Peripheries and it's about performance in the former Czechoslovakia that emerged under political pressures. GO READ IT and share this post

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

"llms can write social science articles better than professors now" BITCH I DONT CARE. i literally do not care because the point of people having fucking thoughts and doing research is PEOPLE HAVING THOUGHTS AND DOING RESEARCH. the point of the work is DOING THE FUCKING WORK.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

new Mary Oliver poem just dropped

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Unless those Americans are Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Can you believe I got approved for naturalisation *yesterday*, the day before the by-election in my constituency of Gorton/Denton!? 😿

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Five observations following from this experience: 1. There's so much at stake. I saw more Green than Reform signs up around Gorton & Denton, but the undecided voters I met reminded me that this is no sure thing. This by-election feels like a weathervane for the country as a whole.

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

📆 Reminder that @officialbaas.bsky.social is holding an online roundtable next Fri 27 Feb on *Teaching Sustainability in American Studies* 👭 With S. Palmer (NottinghamTrent), R. Hermann (Cardiff), D. McLaughlin (UEA), yours truly+chaired by F. Hines ✏️ Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

description of event as found on https://baas.ac.uk/community/green-baas/2024-2025-green-baas-roundtable-series/

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026

'At a moment when your government is rounding people up and building camps to concentrate them — and you know *everyone in the world knows it* — some ambivalence when you’re at an international competition is not just understandable but unavoidable." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

publicnotice.co

Yeah, US Olympians are woke. Deal with it.

Sports have always been political — it's just a question of who's speaking out.

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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Happy #ValentinesDay! We've been doing some crafting 😍 . If you love your lungs, and are interested to know how dirty air affects them, then come along to our introduction to #AirPollution session on Tuesday 24th Feb at 8:15pm. Book your free spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...

Coloured paper on a table, with pens spread around. A piece of red card has hearts drawn on it, and letter tiles spell out the words "Love your lungs".

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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN’ ON MY HEAD Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head, But that’s not enough to make me want to stay in bed. We’re saving pay and pen-sions, So, raindrops keep fallin’ on my head, they keep fallin’. ...

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Interestingly, in the 1930s, when some in LA were campaigning to buy back beaches for the public, they often compared them to the great national parks of the American West... Turns out, they could become one soon! www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Should some L.A. beaches be a national park? It's being studied. Here's how you can weigh in

The National Park Service is embarking on the Los Angeles Coastal Area Special Resource Study, focusing on the coastline and adjacent areas along Santa Monica Bay from Will Rogers State Beach to Torra...

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Judith Kohlenberger @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"We, as Western nations, must choose between becoming closed and impoverished societies, or open and prosperous ones." Pedro Sánchez in der @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

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Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Don't miss hearing from John at an upcoming event: 22/1 @faneproductions.bsky.social (online) 29/1 @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social #Liverpool 6/2 House of Books & Friends #Manchester 22/3 @conwayhall.bsky.social #London with more to be announced. Information & tickets on our Events page (link in bio).

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Oh thank god you can turn off copilot on outlook, it's been annoying me sooo much. I can't click on any link without having the 'summarise' option pestering me.

Screenshot of outlook copilot settings with option to turn it off

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.

Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
Funding status
Open for applications
Career stage
Early-career

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

On 29 January, join me & @oussema-othmeni.bsky.social for a conversation with author Orisanmi Burton about his book Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. With @yosra999.bsky.social, @drcbs.bsky.social, Matef Harmachis, & @policingblack.bsky.social.

Event poster with registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tip-of-the-spear-tickets-1977695453339?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

👀 Definitely assigning this to my Intro to American studies class

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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Is there anyone based in the US who teaches US environmental history and who would like to co-teach as part this Fulbright call for interest? with thanks to @hilaryemmett.bsky.social for the reminder! fulbright.org.uk/our-programm...

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Global Challenges Teaching Award | Fulbright

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