Reposted by Gillian RussellSandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Sturt desert peas near Roxby Downs. Indigenous actor Mark Coles Smith was born in Kalgoorlie and has Sturt desert peas as his totem. He explains that they are called Malu Kuru Kuru. Kangaroo Eyes. A Western Desert name for them. The eyes of the flower see in all directions. 540663
Reposted by Gillian Russellbecimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨ 314152
Reposted by Gillian RussellBin Chicken @binchicken9000.bsky.social · 11/09/2026'The Zionist Federation of Australia withdrew its case of racial hatred against Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis, who called it a victory for free speech.' consortiumnews.com/2026/09/10/z...consortiumnews.comZionists Drop Case Against KostakidisThe Zionist Federation of Australia withdrew its case of racial hatred against Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis, who called it a victory for free speech. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium Ne... 1324674
Reposted by Gillian RussellCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026NEW: French researcher Stephanie Lamy exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey, and the media that fell into his trap. If you think the news cycle has “moved on” from this story, ask yourself why? broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-killin...broligarchy.substack.comThe killing of a black manA French researcher exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey and the media who fell into their trap 19775375
Reposted by Gillian RussellCathy Waters @catherinefaver.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Isobel Armstrong on saving English. Brilliant as ever. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/08/savi...tribunemag.co.ukSaving EnglishThe government’s drive for ‘vocational’ education is accelerating the death of the humanities, at a time when the study of literature is more vital than ever. 067
Reposted by Gillian RussellDr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026We have such talented colleagues in @bars.bsky.social Hoping Felicty James's article travels far and wide as we try to engage meaningfully with this topic. 0134
Reposted by Gillian RussellNicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Applications close Friday 2nd October 2026. For more information, see: anzsecs.org/gale-anzsecs... Applicants must be ANZSECS members to be eligible. To join and gain member-only trial access to Gale Databases, visit: anzsecs.org/membership/anzsecs.orgGALE-ANZSECS FELLOWSHIP 2026-27The Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ANZSECS) announces three non-residential Digital Humanities fellowships funded by Gale. The Gale-ANZSECS Fellowship will suppo… 023
Gillian Russell @gearuss.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is a very important essay, relevant not just to the UK. 000
Reposted by Gillian RussellCaroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is an extraordinary story, centred on a group of remarkable women, but it just makes me mourn for the millions of women and girls trapped in Afghanistan, denied not only the freedom to play sports, but to speak, learn and live as they choose. We must not forget them.bbc.co.ukBanned from football at home, Afghan women's team reunite 8,000 miles awayWomen in the team, which is recognised by Fifa, say football has given them freedom and independence. 9362691406
Reposted by Gillian RussellSimon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026March 2027: Oxford World's Classics edition of Pierce Egan's "Life in London" (1821) will be published. First modern, annotated edition of a novel that defined the age. In this plate by the Cruikshank brothers, the chums get in a fight & Egan has his notebook nicked. global.oup.com/academic/pro... 13211
Reposted by Gillian RussellKathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Wildfires. A poem in the Observer. observer.co.uk/culture/book...observer.co.ukIn the Cairngorms by Kathleen JamieA new poem about the wildfires in the Highlands by Scotland’s makar 15923
Reposted by Gillian RussellMNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Explores the power of reading in the eighteenth century, and how this was expressed in a fascination with Don Quixote and a proliferation of narratives about quixotic readers. 📚 buff.ly/PILcpfS MNG's exhibit ⬇️ buff.ly/TiIMH7o @bucknellupress.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social 0116
Reposted by Gillian RussellNikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I'm really honoured to have been asked to give the Marilyn Butler lecture for the online part of BARS this year. It will be an early start here in Aotearoa on Fri 7 Aug, NZ time, but I'm looking forward to talking about "Recollecting Treaties in Tranquillity" with colleagues and friends 1163
Reposted by Gillian RussellNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world. 7043332446
Reposted by Gillian RussellJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"The government will repeal the Vagrancy Act on Monday 29 June 2026, ending nearly two centuries of legislation that has criminalised rough sleeping and begging" www.gov.uk/government/n...gov.ukRough sleeping no longer a crime as Vagrancy Act repealedThe government will repeal the Vagrancy Act on Monday 29 June 2026, ending nearly two centuries of legislation that has criminalised rough sleeping and begging. 11645198
Reposted by Gillian RussellThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Cartoonist scourge. My @smh @theage cartoon. 17441171
Gillian Russell @gearuss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks chuffed.org/project/1854...chuffed.orgSupport people and groups impacted by racist attacksWe are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast. 000
Reposted by Gillian RussellThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Treatment. My @smh @theage cartoon. 25628278
Gillian Russell @gearuss.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Full article: Deeper history and democratic politics: HASS and university crisis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comDeeper history and democratic politics: HASS and university crisisPublished in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 57, No. 2, 2026) 000
Reposted by Gillian RussellHistory Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 02/02/2026The latest issue of History Workshop Journal is out now, and it marks two exciting milestones: 50 years and 100 issues of innovative radical history. You can read the journal on the HWJ website through the link below! academic.oup.com/hwj... 15833
Reposted by Gillian RussellOnni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us. 55355197
Reposted by Gillian RussellHistory and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 03/05/2026🧵5 Posts A century on, the 1926 General Strike stands as one of the most dramatic episodes in British working-class history. At one minute to midnight on 3 May 1926, around 1.7 million workers walked out in solidarity with 1.2 million coal miners who were facing wage cuts of 1/5 15418
Reposted by Gillian RussellDr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 22/04/2026We will never make headway on workload issues if we cede important parts of our job to the machine 0226
Reposted by Gillian RussellDr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 22/04/2026We are now allowed to create tutorial plans and other teaching materials with GenAI … if you can’t plan a tutorial what are you doing with your time and your career 64714
Reposted by Gillian RussellHannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Did my phd with Briony, she’s just the type you’d want on your editorial shoulder 👇 131
Reposted by Gillian Russellprofchander @profchander.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Super happy to announce that the first book in our series, Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures, will be coming out this June. Check out Porscha Fermanis's _Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890_ and please ask your libraries to order?global.oup.com 35016
Reposted by Gillian RussellThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/04/2026So sorry to our Australia’s Lebanese communities who must think all we care about is the price of fuel. 😔 291213278
Reposted by Gillian RussellRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areasicrc.orgLebanon: ICRC outraged by deadly strikes in densely populated areasThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is outraged by the devastating death and destruction in densely populated areas across Lebanon today following intensified military operations. 311258711
Reposted by Gillian RussellClaire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Looking forward to talking character in Austen, Edgeworth and Scott @tlrhub.bsky.social next week, with Sharon Marcus and Jim Chandler Date: 14 Apr - 14 Apr 2026 Time: 13:30 - 15:30 Venue: Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...tcd.ieCharacter at the Turn of the Novel: Edgeworth, Scott, and AustenA panel discussion bringing together experts on Edgeworth, Scott, and Austen. 2149
Reposted by Gillian RussellDr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 05/04/2026If you want a freebie excerpt, my article on Sheppard Lee (and Get Out) is open access here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/12...mdpi.com 0126
Reposted by Gillian RussellKatrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Yesterday I was in York, and popped into Minster Gate bookshop. Scanning the British History shelves, I slowly realised that there were many books on the same themes - radicalism, Chartism, trade unionism, 19th century economy and society, clearly part of a curated collection 1/n 107327
Reposted by Gillian RussellClaire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Can't wait to get hold of this 131
Reposted by Gillian RussellNicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social · 26/03/2026📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions. Applications due 21 April More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...gla.ac.ukUniversity of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - USYD UofG Joint PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century 25756
Reposted by Gillian RussellMary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!" 181836328
Reposted by Gillian RussellLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/02/2026‘Military service is one of the strongest predictors for becoming a mass shooter in the US.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukLaleh Khalili · Guns, Money and OpiumThere is an undeniable symmetry between surges in drug use in the US and the country’s covert operations overseas. The... 14824
Reposted by Gillian RussellChapps @chapps.bsky.social · 14/02/2026This is an extremely rare and the best example of Roman glassware with wavy sides, a type known as a ‘handkerchief‘ bowl - so named because the design mimics the folded, drooping appearance of a cloth handkerchief. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/ 3rd-4th c. CE. #MetMuseum 📸 me 426254
Reposted by Gillian RussellFintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social · 08/02/2026So in the UkK the repercussions from Epstein scandal have taken down a chief-of-staff, a prince, an ambassador to the US and will soon take doen the prime minister himself. That's what a functioning democracy looks like. And in the US...??? 1112735
Reposted by Gillian RussellHistory and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Built in 1788 by actor manager Samuel Butler the Georgian Theatre Royal In Richmond Yorkshire closed in 1848. Some 115 years later it was restored and reopened 1963 before being extended in 2003. It is the most complete Georgian theatre in the country. 49320
Reposted by Gillian RussellAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do. 306110874015
Reposted by Gillian RussellAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/01/2026Activists unveiled a giant portrait of five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in Barcelona on the second anniversary of her killing. Hind was trapped in a car and targeted at close range by Israeli forces in Gaza after they had killed her relatives. 8525209
Reposted by Gillian RussellClaire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 21/01/2026The Uses of Romanticism @ucc.ie Reading 18 Feb by Maureen McLane Papers 19 Feb by Mary-Ann Constantine, Elisa Cozzi, Porscha Fermanis @penfielding.bsky.social Nigel Leask, Omar Miranda, Jane Moore @drtinamorin.bsky.social Tríona Ní Shíocháin, Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, Diego Saglia & Brandon Yenucc.ieConferences, Seminars and Workshops | University College CorkLearn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus. 2117
Reposted by Gillian RussellAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?" 17023473711933
Reposted by Gillian RussellLuisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Please join us to discuss detached pieces, single leaves, and un/bound forms, and mark the publication of The Book Unbound @universitypress.cambridge.org Friday 30 January, Senate House, University of London @ies-sas.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social, @bsecs.bsky.social please spread the word 1157
Reposted by Gillian RussellRick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Some thoughts on Adelaide Writers' Week and the moment we find ourselves in. It's all just so grinding. rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...rick-morton.ghost.ioThe Great SilencingLast week it snowed heavily twice in Paris, turning the city into a frigid, monochrome fantasy land over three days, and at the weekend I popped into the Musée Marmottan Monet for a spot of impression... 24302150
Reposted by Gillian RussellClaire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social and Mary Miniham @irishtimes.com for taking my piece on heavy coats and ragged people for today’s paper - with a shoutout for new @universitypress.cambridge.org book on #IrishRomanticism #speirgorm 2298
Reposted by Gillian RussellBen Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 20/12/2025There is no credible evidence that the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack had anything to do with recent protests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comNSW will move to ban phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ in crackdown on ‘hateful’ rhetoric. Here’s what we know so farNSW parliament will sit next week to consider legislation to limit protests and ban hate speech in response to the Bondi attack, Chris Minns says 33468155
Reposted by Gillian RussellDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Summary of the news today 326457