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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 3h

I was taught by Irish nuns who themselves had learned to write in this style of handwriting, and so do I. Very few of my similar aged friends write like that.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 3h

mining trauma for content

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 3h

Happy birthday! Hope your day includes cake and your favourite drink. Everyone needs cake.

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Doug Coulson @dougcoulson.bsky.social · 5h

Unsupervised AI agent reportedly deletes TV show’s entire edit weeks before release, erasing months of work — TV show can't air, AI agent was given access to the production server and wiped the finished season www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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Another case of AI agents deleting something they shouldn't.

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

I've been on a deleting spree! I'm now down to just FOUR unread emails. IN YOUR FACE OUTLOOK!! #AcademicSky

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 7h

'who do not share our values' I think they've made it abundantly clear what Reform UK's values are - poisonous, offensive, hateful, and unwanted by the majority of the UK.

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Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social · 7h

I feel seen. It's a corollary of this meme

A three section graphic.
Top
Time arrow line that fills the width of the frame, made to lok like a bookshelf, caption. Time it would take to get through my reading list.
Middle
Time line to 3 quarters of frame width, ending at an image of galaxies. Caption. Time left before the heat death of the universe.
Bottom.
Stick figure labelled. Me.
Caption. Ooh this book looks good, I should buy it.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 7h

I'm in this post and I don't like it.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 8h

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

Beware the
alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 18h

One thing they don’t teach you at Professor School is how lovely it is to meet up with all your students years after and hearing about all their success. 🥹

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 8h

I thought I'd cleared or read and flagged all my emails last week. Even yesterday I'd at least read them all. Today - 83 unread emails. I want to go to prelapsarian academia - B.E. (Before Email) #AcademicSky

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Chuck the Vampire Slayer 🧛🏻 @sazeracla.bsky.social · 15h

It is and will always be my beloved Endora.

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Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

📣 job alert. Lecturer / Associate Prof in computational humanities or social science. Join my team at UCL. Permanent £56-74k. Please share www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Fabulous! I read it (with my eyes 😂) years ago and loved it. Good to hear the audio book is good too.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I started listening in May. The voice actor is really good with Indian/Pakistani/Afghan accents and RP English, but the Scots/Irish and whatever the sea captain's accent was supposed to be were all dire. The story clips along well though.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Finally finished The Far Pavilions audio book. 48+ hours of listening. I was surprised how anti-colonial it was, despite the boys' own adventure/ sweeping romance of the story. I'm glad I read it, but I think A Suitable Boy is a better novel (of similar length and about India)

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I really want to get it and start playing....but I've got a friend coming to stay at the weekend. Why do I have to work!??! 😂

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Murray went on to found Endell Street Military Hospital in London, staffed entirely by women. One of the most successful military hospitals of the war. Its motto was: "Deeds, not Words." When the war ended, she ordered the suffragette flag raised, to the sound of cheers from the male patients.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

'The Radio 4 social sciences show Thinking Allowed will disappear from the airwaves in February while the arts and ideas programme Free Thinking will finish in April, it was announced last week, as the corporation seeks to make £500 million in savings.'

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‘Grotesque’ cull of BBC shows axes launchpad for public academics

Cancellation of Radio 4 programmes dedicated to ideas is a huge blow for younger scholars keen to connect with the public, say those who made their names on air

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

okay this deadline is in two days, and then we open for novella submissions 😅

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Chris King @chrisfk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm pretty sure there were things that I put on my 'to do' list in my first few weeks in academia 23 years ago that still hadn't been ticked off by the time I left last year.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At the moment I seem to be just moving my To Do list from day to day without actually getting anything crossed off because there's always something urgent that needs immediate action. Looking at my calendar for the rest of the week I see no likely improvement coming. #AcademicSky

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The DfE line is particularly and bleakly consistent

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

😁😁😁

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We need to be clear. This isn’t about shooting small boats. It’s about shooting people. Probably shooting small children.

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm giving a talk tomorrow night on Tradwives and weaponized nostalgia in our pop culture of the last 50 years through an unlikely trilogy of feminist horror texts: The Stepford Wives (1972), The Handmaid's Tale (1985), and Yesteryear (2026). It's streaming for free if you're interested!

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

But *all* mushrooms are edible. It's just that some of them are only edible once.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I made my undergraduates watch #totp - a 1983 episode. I did apologise when FR David appeared - not all 80s music was good. #AcademicSky

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The other day I talked to an aunt who has truly seen everything, and she couldn’t overstate how much more racist England now feels. When a working-class black woman in her mid-seventies tells you it’s bad, then it’s really bad.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I now have a laptop and docking station instead of a pc in my office. So, of course the separate monitors have decided they're incompatible, despite working as they should. I now have Input Not Supported bouncing around the screens. #AcademicSky

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Two things that are in trouble but this government doesn’t give a shit about for some reason: 1. The BBC 2. Universities

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That's a great painting! I love it.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is a really interesting thread

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

But also if the management hear about it they'll make me charge people to livestream it 😂

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The lecture theatre is a small one that only seats 50, and I've got over 40 students...but sure, why not! 😄

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Tomorrow's Media, Gender and Sexuality lecture is on #Totp! Top of the Pops from the 1980s, in particular. We're looking at Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Bow Wow Wow, Annie Lennox, and David Bowie. I'm also screening an episode from 1982 😁 #AcademicSky

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm still listening to The Far Pavilions audio book - I'm down to the final two hours and it's over 48 so I've been listening for a long time. I've also just started Alchemy of Secrets by Stephanie Garber and I'm completely hooked - a world where folktales cross over into reality?! Wonderful!

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That's punishing!! Even four hours is heavy going.

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