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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

‘queer joy’ is the #OnlineArtExchange theme this week in celebration of Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends at National Portrait Gallery. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Jonathan Richardson the elder (1667–1745) from Sheffield Museums

18th-century formal portrait of a young noblewoman standing with one hand on her hip, dressed in a low-cut, fur-trimmed black gown with white and red accents and a white headscarf topped by a small red cap, set against a muted landscape background.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

me, hoping today won’t be a day of a million emails, as i log on to my job at the “literally all we make is emails” factory

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The idea that Oxford “competes for students” is laughable. But this is the great unsaid principle; that some universities are inherently superior, that they must be enabled to survive, and that all other institutions (and staff, and even students) are expendable.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/10/2026

Hardly an original take but it is Quite Annoying to imagine how much the UK (and me, and you!) would all have more cash today if Donald Trump hadn't decided to start bombing Iran for *reasons*. Where's the White House impact assessment on my nursery fees. www.ft.com/content/2cb1...

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Iran war blows near-£12bn hole in Britain’s public finances

FT estimates show inflation and soaring borrowing costs have slashed chancellor John Healey’s headroom in half

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 07/10/2026

Why is geography important when considering the future of democracy in a time of polycrisis? Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen (Roskilde University) unpacks the answers in a new Geography Directions blog post. Check it out here👉 ow.ly/R7Aj50ZT0VA

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Five reasons geography, power, and more-than-human relations matter

By Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen, Roskilde University What do climate change, widening inequality, geopolitical instability, and the erosion of welfare institutions have in common? These challenges inters…

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So being parent you’re just never not slightly unwell. There’s no health, there are only degrees of cold and flu along a spectrum of “blah” to “walking death”. Sincerely, a walking dead.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Isn’t this the beginning of an occult horror film that ends with Johnny depp giving his body and soul to the Devil?

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A tough piece, specifically a piece about women being extremely tough under serious threat. Big respect to @espiers.bsky.social to writing about this in such an unsparing, constructive way. Teaching kids young about consent—and *enthusiastic* consent—is, unfortunately, necessary

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On a totally different issue, when I & many other women were furious about the Green Party position on reducing c-sections ("we will work to reduce the number of interventions in childbirth" to treat it as a "non-medical event") we were told that these policies sneak in, because of member voting...

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I would love to vote for a very left-wing progressive party that was also extremely animated by the enormous threat of climate change, and I didn't realise that I was going to get *so close* and still be so far away!!!

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this. this is the feeling. the climate is the pressing issue of our era! do you remember when it got to 40C in London this summer?! it's somehow a beautiful summer afternoon out there in early October right now! we do need this to be taken seriously politically!

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Most people have a devil and an angel on their shoulders. I just have a dragon – a fabulous firedrake – that lives in my bones. It's much more wonderful and its flame burns away bullshit like you wouldn't believe. – #EmilyCBanting

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Shirley Hughes was a question on Pointless tonight. My god, what an artist that woman was.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another day spent fruitlessly searching for the Black Library in Weychester Cathedral. Another dozen subterranean rooms visited, but no new clues. It remains firmly occulted. Remains legendary, an engine of the imagination. – #MattAdams

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Emma Wilkinson @emmajourno.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wonder where we'd be now if Sure Start was never disbanded in the first place... (vaccine uptake, child mental health, obesity, etc, etc) www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Healthy Babies programme to be expanded across England

Scheme will follow principles of Sure Start, helping families with infant feeding, mental health and bonding with babies

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 30/09/2026

This is an outrageous use of taxpayers money, they should be subscribing to niche paywalled local newsletters instead.

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 30/09/2026

How can body mapping be used as a meaningful and politically powerful tool to make the impacts of climate change more visible? Andi Misbahul Pratiwi unpacks the answers in this new Geography Directions post 👇 ow.ly/7chn50ZQ4Fj

Three individuals collaborate on a colorful drawing featuring a purple dress and a brown circular object on white paper.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

infuriatingly, I just found this reference as a screenshot on my desktop and spent too long trying to find it in a library catalogue before I remembered that it's an AI hallucination

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

side effect of AI-in-higher-ed: having to spend my ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE googling footnotes for articles that I can't believe I missed off my reading lists only to discover that they aren't, in fact, real articles

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interested in Asian collections in UK archives? Come to a one-day conference @thejohnrylands.bsky.social on 4 Dec! Sponsored by the National Committee for Information Resources on Asia, it includes fascinating talks and networking opportunities for only a tenner (to cover biscuits). #skystorians 🗃️

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NACIRA Conference and AGM

NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR INFORMATION RESOURCES ON ASIA
CONFERENCE & ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 
DECEMBER 2026

John Rylands Library, University of Manch

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Innes M. Keighren @inneskeighren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's nothing like an archival doodle to collapse the distance between the past and the present. #18C

A page of ink and pen doodles, showing limbs and profiles (one with an especially long nose). AD84, 1 L 111.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about

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NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When the NHM opened in 1881, visitors with cameras had to buy a permit and send two copies of each print to the Museum’s collections. You can scroll through a few highlights from each album by swiping left in this post. See every page here: buff.ly/31893CL #MuseumArchives #DigitisedCollections

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Sarah Evans @fridaylast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It was a fantastic presentation, I enjoyed the whole session!

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Had a great time discussing how to use #maps as historical sources with our Historical Geography Research Group! And very proud to hear PhD student @charutag.bsky.social present her work on border ethnography in northern India. @rgs.org #skystorians 🗃️

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Calling all London #creatives! Come and grab surplus #maps for FREE the week of 5 October from the Foyle Reading Room @rgs.org . All we ask is that you show us your creations later on! #art #geography #skystorians

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 25/09/2026

Earlier this month, the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt a new world map to reflect Africa’s true size. But how did the ’standard’ world map come to be so widely used in the first place? And is there a straightforward way to represent our 3D world on a 2D surface?

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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Looks pretty cool for historians of exploration out there: CFP for special issue on doctor-explorers

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Sarah Evans @fridaylast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hi Robin, have you shared with us at @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social? We can help signal boost! Email is rhed@rgs.org if easier 😊

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 15/09/2026

Do I know any journalists or folks with large platforms who might be up for promoting the launch of some new trans-inclusive fieldwork guidance from researchers at a UK university? It's almost ready for launch and I want to make sure they're seen and used by as many people as possible...

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A few years ago we were actively working to dismantle systemic racism which is discreet, complicated and takes a lot to understand and legislate against. We had taken the conversation to a very sophisticated place. Now we're back asking the state to enforce the fucking law, which is easy!!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 22/09/2026

“Go where the jobs are” okay but I would like to have kids and I don’t want to go to jail or die if I miscarry. Call me a dreamer

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 21/09/2026

How did mapping support the colonial ‘improvement’ project in India? This 1824 map of the Konkan reveals how colonial knowledge and ideas about the landscape shaped the way the region was represented. 🗺️ Based on research by PhD student Ishaan Patil, who spoke at our recent Annual Conference.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Perhaps I'll retaliate with a meeting of only AI Crones.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

but I can’t believe we’ve now got to the point of feminism which explicitly says “only women can do childcare”, well done everyone

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's that time again! Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography applications are open! Awards range up to £2000 for research in UK collections. Application procedure is linked (please ignore old info, same procedure still applies!). Due 1 Nov! #fellowships #maps #skystorians 🗃️

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History of Cartography - Harley Fellowships

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @handle.invalid · 14/09/2026

Having just almost been flattened by a man riding an electric scooter on the pavement, let me just say that electric scooters should be either illegal or heavily regulated. There is literally no reason for you to be travelling at 15mph in a pedestrian space.

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cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In re-enchantment we stop dreaming of inevitable apocalypse and find the permissive space to tell stories of hope.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Found a gravestone that definitely contains a trapped soul, and which comes to life at midnight in order to dispense grave warnings to anyone foolish enough to pass by at such a late hour.

A roughly carved face at the apex of an old gravestone.

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 14/09/2026

'Austerity, Brexit, devolution - all manner of economic changes are never lived in the moment. They always have afterlives.' During Annual Conference last week, we asked economic geographer Sarah Marie Hall what one policy priority should be for Andy Burnham’s government. 💬

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Many enslaved people were also branded with “DY” (Duke of York, cursed title), for James, later James II, as the piece says the most important English slave trader of C17th. There is a statue of him in Trafalgar Square. I’ve often said it should be taken down www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

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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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Sarah Evans @fridaylast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I really like Mhairi McFarlane for exactly this reason - all the protagonists have rich lives, friends and other stuff going on that's not just the romance. And the romantic obstacles feel real and human, not just plot contrivances

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What is about brains that means sitting down at my desk with a clear day for writing means that I immediately experience a harrowing long, dark night of the soul, but starting to write something on my phone while standing up on the train then finishing it in a coffee shop is fine?

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