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Catbus @catbus.phd · 7h

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 8h

A1 In between spaces - walking to the library, meeting people in corridors or cafes #LTHEChat

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Wrote a bit more about how the *process of making software* is a social activity before it is a technical activity, and AI tools alienating us from that social activity directly undermine our ability to make software.

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 21h

Welcome to 'looks like coat weather but anything heavier or more waterproof than a paper bag will leave you a sweaty mess' season!

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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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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The worst political outcome is one in which I have to share" sums up the logic of many rich people when it comes to taxes and many car owners when it comes to public space.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me: (driving car into wall) My car has gone rogue! Me: (dropping phone into tub) My god, my phone has gone rogue! Me: (tripping over table) The table! It's gone rogue!

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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Does anyone have a (successful) British Academy Early Career Seed Fund application they'd be prepared to share with me? #academicsky

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this is the cat other cats call to report ypu for late dinners and empty bowls.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Is it ok for management to phone students asking them to take modules not validated on their degree because they’ve sacked people and can’t staff the modules listed? A working day before teaching starts? Hypothetically, obviously.

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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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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 17/09/2026

The absolute scourge of the ‘informal meeting’ - a technique management now regularly use to avoid accountability. Always ask what ‘informal’ means, always demand the full formal process with union support, and always remember that it is definitely not an ‘informal meeting’ if HR are there.

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Fraser Raeburn @fraserraeburn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We're extremely disappointed that, having just set fire to our house, our neighbours are absolutely ruining the paint by throwing water on it.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“We want you gone forever!” … “What do you mean you could be gone for five weeks!”

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

nicolakelly.substack.com

The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes

I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 17/09/2026

Happy #NationalFoxDay to all who celebrate! 🦊 #fox #poem #poetry Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen

A page from a book, printed in a reddish-brown ink. The top left contains a stylised papercut picture of a slightly scrawny, scraggly-looking fox. Beneath it is the text of the poem, “Fox’, by Ian Hamilton Finlay, published in GLASGOW BEASTS, AN A BURD, HAW, AN INSEKS, AN, AW, A FUSH, with papercuts by John Picking & Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961):

see me
wan time
ah wis a fox
an wis ah sleekit! ah
gaed slinkin
heh
an snappin
yeh
the blokes
aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox
aw nae kiddin
ah wis pretty good
had a whole damn wood
in them days
hen

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Cat Righting Reflex is the official name of the process cats use to automatically correct themselves mid-fall and land on their feet. It develops between 3 - 9 weeks of age, and is responsible for the greatest wikipedia gif of all time.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

'Britain’s debate about universities has become strangely one-sided. We scrutinise the supply of graduate skills....Far less attention is paid to the demand side: whether Britain’s economy is creating enough high-skilled opportunities to make full use of the talent universities produce.' Good stuff

hepi.ac.uk

Universities Produce Talent. Economies Produce Returns. - HEPI

Join the Policy Institute at King’s College London and HEPI on Tuesday 15 September, from 6.30pm to 7.45pm, at Bush House, London, for a free event exploring the future of higher education in England....

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"

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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Two types of academic correspondence are “apologies for the delay but I’ll need more time” and “hey do you wanna do this thing with me three years from now”

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyone else's GP schedule phone appointments for five-hour windows? I know it's easier for them as they can slot them in but the irony is that *for a patient who was a healthcare worker* this would be absolutely impossible. Sorry, rant over!

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Craig Lambert @medievalmariner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m recruiting a Research Fellow in Early Modern Spanish Maritime History to join our ERC-funded Uncharted Maritime Worlds project at the University of Southampton. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW249/r...

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Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR at University of Southampton

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openi...

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milk bottle champion @stepheniscowboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

nimbys remained unmatched

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

fwiw my Labour Party special subject students *always* interpret this as antisemitism immediately

Daily Mail front page with Miliband family photo, and:
MAN WHO HATED BRITAIN
Red Ed's pledge to bring back socialism is a homage to the Marxist father he idolised. So what did Miliband Snr really believe in?
The answer should disturb everyone who loves this country

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you’re not Jewish you won’t understand how simultaneously hurtful and enraging this is I can only imagine how hard it must be for Ed Miliband, the son of literal Holocaust survivors - whatever you think of him, he does not deserve this

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The dark irony of people pearl clutching about the ethnic cleaning statements is if you actually spoke to the average hill top settler they would tell you: yes, we are ethnically cleansing - that is exactly what we are doing

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It’s sort of wild to me this is even being *debated* They burn Palestinian villages, terrorise them, chase them from their homes in the hope to expel Palestinians from the West Bank (which they call Judea and Samaria) and kill them - what other word is there for it???!

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'For many, closure did not begin with the formal announcement. Instead, many described months of cancelled classes, staff turnover, and declining provision. By the time the provider closed, many already felt that their educational experience had deteriorated.'

wonkhe.com

Student protection needs to start with what closure actually feels like

Charlotte Corrish outlines new research on how students experience provider closure and sets out what student protection should look like

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just cast my vote - you still have time!!

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

According to the FT, Orr is acting as a live-in-landlord-cum-cult-leader to Cambridge students including those under his own supervision, whilst receiving formal complaints about his behaviour, and boasting publicly how the university is a recruiting ground for the party he might be doing crime for

in North Cambridge, and a daughter. The
outbuildings and at least two other flats on the same road, which are owned by the family,
are home to a select group of postgraduate students from a range of faculties including
divinity. In a podcast interview in December 2024, Orr described having “10 students living
with us. They’re mainly PhD students or postdoctoral fellows.” He explained that they
always gather for Sunday lunch and often for dinner. “That’s amazingly stimulating,” he
said. “They’re . . . the cream of their generation in their respective subjects.”
The residents pay rent and do chores. Helen has fashioned a small chapel from a shipping
container, in which she holds morning prayers.

The housing of students raises potential conflicts of interest. Over the past academic year, there were three divinity scholars lodging at the Orrs’ community, according to several
people familiar with the living arrangements. One is a postgraduate student who is directly
supervised by Orr. Cambridge’s staff and student relationship policy stipulated that its
employees are “strongly discouraged” from entering into close personal relationships with
students. Any relationship which involves “any form of dependence, whether emotional,
practical, financial or otherwise”, must be declared.

Among the complaints upheld by the investigator are that Orr allegedly made belittling
remarks to the student, and had demanded an “excessive” and “unreasonable” amount of
written work in an effort to refine a thesis proposal. The report also criticised “at worst
inappropriate and at best thoughtless comments made [by Orr] in the equally
inappropriate context of [Orr’s] own home”. This was in reference to a dinner that the
student, who comes from a Christian, conservative background, had attended at Orr’s
house.

While the society was established long before Orr had any formal role in Reform, it has
taken on new significance as his political activities gathered pace. Orr has described
Cambridge as a useful recruiting ground for Reform, boasting last autumn in an interview
with The Telegraph that he had met “hundreds” of highly able students he thought would
make suitable allies. He has also, according to The Spectator magazine, been tasked by the
party with “building a pipeline” to bring talent to staff a future Reform administration.

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What should a university do when their guy is deliberately using his position to recruit students into the organisation for whom he seemingly does electoral crime?

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Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Isn’t this terrorism? When this kind of thing happened in Northern Ireland it was terrorism. If someone protests about an issue, that’s their democratic right. But wearing masks and blocking roads is terrifying members of the community, so isn’t that an act of terror?

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Due to the unique way the BBC is funded by you we can have a man stand in the sea wearing a shirt harassing desperate people fleeing Afghanistan

screenshot from BBC News of people seeking asylum on a dinghy in Orange high there’s a BBC reporter in a white shirt holding a Mic stands in the sea talking to them

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covucu.bsky.social @covucu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

CU's VC celebrates his nomination for the University Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award, despite his “dynamic, future-focused” transformation involving 2,788 staff moved to subsidiaries, hundreds of redundancies & stripping of national agreements and collective bargaining. Quite an achievement #UCU

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grant @grantpardee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Tiny Tim, who DESERVED to die,"

Gonzo in Muppet Christmas Carol delivering the line "And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die"

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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴

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Momus Jones @boyq.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google is doing the thing!

From a 1979 IBM presentation 'Reflections on Accountability'

Black old style sans serif text:

"A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION"

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LarryLegend @bwtrainer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

if someone tells you you don't need a union, you 100% need a union

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of the more obscure facts I remember about Dolly Parton is this: just like Star Trek would not exist without Lucille Ball, Buffy would not exist without Dolly Parton. She was a silent producer of the movie and show. That's why Buffy Summers has the same birthday as Dolly: January 19.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect, but thankfully he was still able to research using Buckinghamshire Archive's remote archive service which allowed him to view our collections from the comfort of his own home.

An illustration of Gregor Samsa as a giant insect, having a fairly miserable time on his bed after his metamorphosis. A laptop is resting on his bug body so he can still research his family history. The soft glow of the laptop is illuminating his buggy face.

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