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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Intentionally, yes. But unintentionally I'm afraid that's not an option anymore.

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

The fact that it involves a The Divine Comedy song is *chef's kiss*

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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

Where is this? It looks like my grandmother's village in Cantal.

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

I'm sorry this happened to you and I hope you're happy now!

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

One thing is certain. If it's the end of my academic career, at least I was lucky enough to get a job and finish this book!

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

Huge thanks to the reviewers: Mohamed Gamal-Eldin (who convened the roundtable), Alison Rose Jefferson, Douglas Sackman, Kara Schlichting and Sean Fraga!

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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 · 25/06/2026

Right back at ya, Cathryn ❤️! My colleagues (and Humanities staff across UK universities truly) are brilliant at what they do.

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

To be fair, Exeter did make a particularly splashy (cruel) announcement.

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

Do you like conferences? You might not enjoy them so much when half of attendees can't write their papers or even attent because they've been made redundant. Want to publish? Well it's going to get harder without reviewers. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/job-cut... 5/5

timeshighereducation.com

Job cuts fuel staff discontent at Lincoln and Northumbria

UCU declares ‘no confidence’ in Lincoln management while redundancy plans prompt fresh dispute in north east

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

While it may be tempting to read my posts and return to your book (all the while thinking 'let's hope it doesn't happen at my uni'), I do think this storm is coming for all of us in one way or another in the Humanities. 4/?

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

Northumbria's announcement (30 people to go by end of July, 10 of whom from Humanities) is maybe less egregious than Exeter's, but the pattern is the same: Humanities are disproportionately targeted for reasons that do not align with a rational look at the situation (student staff ratios) 3/?

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

... This comes after a fight over pensions which resulted in frozen pay for those of us who chose to stay in TPS and a particularly difficult round of voluntary redundancies which resulted in the premature departure of key members of staff who served as mentors to many of us 2/?

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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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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Depressingly typical. Sorry you're being treated like this.

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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

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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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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It's funny how a bit of sunshine makes everything looks less gloomy and doomed.

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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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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

students are presenting on it next week as part of an animal history session, can't wait for their takes...

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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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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It was so cool to see you, John. Vote green!

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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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