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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 5h

Farmers Market and elderly uncle day! We've already bought pizza, pie, and sausage rolls. Now off for coffee.

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 02/10/2026

All alone in my kitchen I hear a mysterious noise from the back wall. 'Shit, what was that?' Then I look up at the skylight and see this.

A photo of a ceiling skylight. A cat is peering through the window

A close-up of the cat's face. It is craning its neck to look through the window and is staring at me with intense indignation. Mate, this is my house

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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Thank you to Greater Manchester Police for helping keep vulnerable road users safe from this. There's a reason Tesla Cybertrucks are not legal in the UK and Europe; Cybertrucks present acute dangers to pedestrians and don’t meet European safety standards. The vehicle has been seized.

Officers from #GMPTransportUnit stopped this Tesla Cybertruck in Whitefield last night.

The driver was a permanent UK resident but the vehicle was registered and insured abroad which is prohibited in the UK.

The Tesla Cybertruck is not road legal in the UK and does not hold a certificate of conformity.

Whilst this may seem trivial to some, legitimate concerns exist around the safety of other road users or pedestrians if they were involved in a collision with a Cybertruck.

The vehicle was subsequently seized under S165 of the Road Traffic Act and the driver reported.

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Belle @bellebetsyb.bsky.social · 6h

This will be both fantastic and welcoming! Go if you can get there 🪔

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 6h

"GB News’s latest accounts are out. Here’s how much the channel has lost so far. For most businesses, losses on this scale would threaten their survival ... Another reminder that extreme wealth doesn’t just buy access to our democracy. It buys the means to reshape it." via Truth Against Hate

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now off to a student welcome event where staff have 2 minutes to talk (with slides) about themselves but NOT WORK. I'm going to talk goats, Star Trek, video games, and The Novel. #AcademicSky

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyone walking past my office will know it's be beginning of term because I am spending a lot of time saying "For f**** sake!" This is because I'm: clicking the wrong button realising I've missed something forgotten another meeting received another email #AcademicSky

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Suella Braverman's book PATRIOT came out today. It's 503 grams, costs £30 and tells the story of one politician's struggle against reality. Mine is currently 99p on kindle. Weighs nothing. Is all about traitors and villains... And people love it. Choices www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2FHD18...

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Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter

Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter eBook : English, Otto: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They say they hate “wokeness,” but what they really hate is empathy. Because once you start caring about other people’s experiences, inequalities become harder to ignore, and privilege becomes harder to defend.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Met up with some colleagues for a quick drink after work. Had one glass of red wine. ONE. I am now the same colour. And that's why I don't drink anymore.

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Kumiko Tomato Winks

Alt: Kumiko Tomato Winks

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Scholars of colour described overpreparing for presentations, ruthlessly analysing their own results before exposing them to scrutiny, softening their conclusions or avoiding research on race altogether." The level of checks I go through often astounds some colleagues

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?

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£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year

We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 01/10/2026

The home undergraduate fee was frozen at £9,250 from 2017 to 2025. The Office for Students expected 43% of English institutions to be in deficit in 2025-26. Reducing funding for universities created this vulnerability! Yet higher ed will be punished for this. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember, folks: for every author you see on here describing how they’ve filled out forms to get *some* compensation from the Anthropic AI case there are dozens, hundreds, hell THOUSANDS of us who get 0 because our books weren’t registered with the US copyright office yet have UK copyright!

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 10/01/2025

The only acceptable AI art

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“No one goes into academia to drive a Ferrari or live in a mansion. They do it because they love it. They don’t want to be striking. They just want a little bit of job security.” And even that is apparently too much to ask. #HigherEd www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Edinburgh joins UK universities heading for strikes as cuts spread through entire sector

Students at Edinburgh, Dundee and Nottingham face a term without any teaching as sector struggles with rising financial uncertainty

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's sort of weird when you're followed by a new account that says they're a young woman and there are various tags included...you know the ones. Yet, their original @ is a man's name and a date of birth which makes them 49. Yeah. No. *Blocked*

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm going to whisper this because it's probably not allowed: *whisper* some of my colleagues and I took a two hour lunch break to chat to one another It was lovely. #AcademicSky

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was literally thinking the exact same thing. On balance, it's for the best that these losses seal themselves away from society, interaction and the human experience.

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is why I've always disagreed with the idea that "art" is purely subjectively defined. Art is a communication. The listener/viewer completes that communication in recieving it, but it is the intentionality of the creator that makes it art. "AI music" is no more music than traffic noise is.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Part 1 of meeting PostGrads done. Part 2 is in half an hour. Have used this bit of spare time to: 1) Buy a life-sized cardboard cutout of Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Uhura in the original Star Trek (she'll stand outside my office) 2) Work a bit on a conference paper I want to get accepted.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#skystorians & UK museum nerds:

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just needs alt-text:

How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE*

sexual violence centre cork

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE.

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM.

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU.

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Innovation ys not just tech. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Day Three of Welcome Week. I'm not adjusting to the earlier start to the day.

Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think Scottish Gaelic Duolingo is obsessed.

Screenshot from Scottish Gaelic Duolingo. The Gaelic is:
Tha drathais òr orm.
The translation is:
I have golden underpants on.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'd forgotten how exhausting being sociable is. It's day 2 of the new term and I'm knackered! And I haven't started teaching yet. #AcademicSky

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'The Mysterons', the first episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, was originally broadcast on this day in 1967. "Captain Scarlet is indestructible. You are not. Remember this. Do not try to imitate him."

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This week I would also have been teaching dialect history and representing dialect on the page with my esteemed linguistics colleague, but Round the Wrekin got dumped in favour of generic skills classes. Sigh.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Welcome Week Day Two! This morning we met most of our new Film & Media students and everyone seemed really excited (and that was just the staff). This afternoon I've been looking around the Architecture workshops (we're all the same school now) and I'm plotting practical stuff... #AcademicSky

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It's Almost Your Birthday!

Alt: It's Almost Your Birthday!

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/09/2026

🚨 We need to hear from YOU Have you had a problem accessing gendered services since April last year, outside of school and the workplace? Are you a service provider worried about remaining inclusive? PLEASE let us know through this form - and share widely goodlaw.social/mzb3

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Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 29/09/2026

JFC...fire all these people.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/09/2026

> But: not everything is a business. Not everything is a loop! The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database. That’s the limit of software brain. That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them. 🔥

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Walking into your local library improves mental well-being by at least 62%.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, Scottish Gaelic Duolingo has me sorted for what to wear tomorrow.

Duolingo screen with Scottish Gaelic at the top:
Tha drathais bhuidhe orm. Tha mi deiseil.
Below is the English translation:
I have yellow underpants on. I am ready.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's going to be 24-25° here again tomorrow - back to summer temperatures.

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