iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social · 16h

This new study by David Puvaneyshwaran et. al. "illustrate[s] how participants sought safe and platonic queer spaces, negotiated belonging and queer legitimacy, and collectively engaged with embodied experiences of marginalisation." Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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‘It feels safe when I’m around queer people’: relational safety, belonging and queer legitimacy in Singapore

Gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender (GBQT) men in Singapore face layered marginalisation shaped by heteronormativity, cisnormativity, and socio-religious conservatism, producing complex experienc...

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 19h

There's still plenty of time to apply for this fantastic funded #PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948! Interested? Know someone great who should apply? Get in touch! #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

Explore a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 21h

Second week on strike with UCU Edinburgh. We will be on strike for five weeks - taking out the entire first half of term, up to the first assessments - but we could be back in the classroom tomorrow if management withdrew the threat of compulsory redundancies.

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 20h

Request: Do you know of any oral history projects with relevance to covid-19? Context: I'm doing a mapping exercise for my new job at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social on covid commemoration. I have a pretty solid list but I know there are more out there! Please share!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22h

'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.

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Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected

Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#JobFairy alert for #histSTM and modern british historians - 60 month post-doc at Newcastle Uni on the Wellcome Trust funded "The Night Shift 1850-present: Reimagining Sleep, Work and Wellbeing for Healthcare Professionals in English and Scottish Hospitals" 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTD047/r...

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Research Assistant/Associate (Modern British History) at Newcastle University

Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Assistant/Associate (Modern British History). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

people in/near bristol and into/violently against tarot/AI: we are hosting a series of events this year on “risk”, tarot and AI as part of my university research fellowship get in touch if you’d like to be involved

La Maison Dieu tarot card above text

TAROT / RISK / AI
a series of events hosted at the University of Bristol
November 4 2026: discussion event open to anyone interested in Tarot / Al

contact: william.pooley@
bristol.ac.uk

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 25/09/2026

Exploring #epistemicinjustice creatively: a young person's reflections epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-yo... on the #projectEPIC blog #philsky #philpsy

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A Young Person's Reflections on Exploring Epistemic Injustice Creatively

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so

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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New volume on writing disability history has landed, more info here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-t...

Cover of book mentioned in link, with title, names editors and picture of mural with an explanation of sign language

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

and into that expense report he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Make Space @makespaceco.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We're delighted to see so many people sign up for workshops in our Arts and Ourselves creative programme already! We know we've been quiet for a while, so we thought we'd reintroduce ourselves... (1/6) www.makespaceco.org/artsandourse...

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Arts & Ourselves — Make Space

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ECHOES @echoes-she.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The cfp for next year's Society for the History of Emotions conference in Vienna closes in 2 weeks. See you there? societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conferen...

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SHE Conference 2027 – Society for the History of Emotions

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Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please join us in celebrating the Centre for Black Humanities’ tenth anniversary. CBH is holding a two-day symposium titled ‘Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’. Our keynote will be Professor Christina Sharpe. Cfp below. Please spread the word!

CALL FOR PAPERS
Centre For Black Humanities 10th Anniversary Symposium:
‘Black Humanities: Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’
Keynote Speaker: Professor Christina Sharpe
8-9
th April 2027
University of Bristol

The Centre for Black Humanities is an interdisciplinary research collective dedicated to
advancing scholarship on the artistic and intellectual contributions of people of African
descent. It is inspired by and expands legacies of scholarship, art, and activism relating
to Black lives across time and space. Building on our international and multilingual
networks, and our home in the port city of Bristol, our research often engages with
communities beyond traditional academic settings and addresses inequality and social
justice through innovative collaborations. By centring an ethics of care and generosity,
despite the chronic conditions of life in and beyond the academy, we support earlycareer scholars and visiting scholars/practitioners. In turn, we seek to interrogate and
repurpose institutions of knowledge production such as universities, museums and
publishing houses, within entangled contexts of reparative justice, decolonization, and
the climate crisis. We imagine collectivity, community and collaboration as methods for
Black Humanities research going forwards.

To celebrate the Centre’s 10-year anniversary, we will be holding a two-day symposium
entitled: ‘Black Humanities: Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’. The keynote
will be Professor Christina Sharpe, Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at
York University (Canada), and author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016) and
Ordinary Notes (2024). We invite scholars and practitioners (at all levels, independent
and affiliated) to submit abstracts for presentations of 15 minutes. The event will be
held in person at the University of Bristol. We invite presentations that speak to Black
Humanities in its multi/anti/undisciplinary forms. We are particularly interested in work
that speaks to the following themes:
- Collectivity, Collaboration and/or Community in Black Humanities
- Black Humanities/Studies in times of polycrisis
- Black Health
- Environmental Justice
- Radical Imaginaries (how creative works make sense of Black pasts/present and
help to shape Black futures)
- Methods for solidarity and/or incompleteness
- Folklore and storytelling as method
- Translation and multilingual solidarities
- Beyond critique
Please submit your abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a short bio of no
more than 100 words, to cbh-publicity@bristol.ac.uk. Abstracts should be submitted
no later than Friday 30th October 2026. A publication and podcast series are planned to
follow on after this event.
You may reach us at cbh-publicity@bristol.ac.uk in case of any questions or
observations.

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New issue of @sshmedicine.bsky.social just dropped - plenty of #HistSTM #HisMed, including #HistPsych 🗃️

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uonphilosophy.bsky.social @uonphilosophy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We’re delighted to welcome Kathleen Murphy-Hollies @kmurphyhollies to the Department. She'll hold a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for her project, Beliefs as Maps of One’s Inner World: Believing What Resonates.

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Congratulations to @danielpjones.bsky.social, who has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Early-Career Award to transform understandings of Tourette Syndrome. 🎉 Find out more about Daniel’s project: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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Daniel Jones Award - Durham University

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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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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...

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Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape

According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 11/09/2026

Every worker facing redundancy at the University of Birmingham is from a migrant or minority ethnic background. UCU members will meet on 17 September to decide whether to ballot for strike action. No compulsory redundancies. Release the equality impact assessment. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1463...

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University of Birmingham staff to consider strike ballot over redundancies that fall entirely on minority ethnic staff

Staff at the University of Birmingham will meet next week to consider potential strike action in a battle against redundancies, the University and College Union (UCU) said today (11 September).

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

if you’ve ever wondered why historians are very reluctant to talk about how their own experiences / backgrounds relate to their writing, i wrote a book about some who have tried, and how we all can be more self-conscious & analytical about it. i used myself as a case study. it is free to download!

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The Politics of Personal Experience | Writing a History of Munchausen

How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen

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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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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ok so the minister responsible for UKRI doesn't know he has responsibility for humanities research? and thinks that the Culture Media and Sport minister does the humanities research stuff instead? have I got that right?

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 10/09/2026

The Radar Key grants access to public toilets and is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

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Radical Object: The Radar Key

The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The good news is it’s going to be even easier to tell which of our colleagues are hollow careerists entirely focused on climbing over all of us to get to the top b/c they’re the only ones who could put “AI trailblazer” on their linkedin without imploding with cringe.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The UK university sector is mired in absolute madness

Graduates would also receive a new “universal lifetime entitlement to careers support both while they are at university and throughout their career”, says the plan published on 9 September.
Every undergraduate would also be entitled to access artificial intelligence (AI) tools, the roadmap states, while every course should have a lecturer who is an “AI trailblazer” so that “graduates have the skills to be AI pioneers in the workplace”.

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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Some fascinating Collaborative Doctoral Awards on offer here at the BL, including a great history of sexuality/book history/library history project relating to the Rund Collection of 19th/20thC erotic books and ephemera www.bl.uk/services/res...

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Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Awards

Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.

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

British universities are both thinner and greedier now. They’re thinner in that they’re doing less and offering less (fewer courses, fewer modules, fewer assessments, fewer staff, far less student and staff support). They’re greedier in that they demand more of both students and staff: more money…

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing.

@Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."

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Centre for the Social Study of Microbes @cssmicrobes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📆Friends in Helsinki, join us for a public lecture given by Prof. Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social on 25 September. Any questions regarding the talk or arriving to the venue can be sent to cssm@helsinki.fi.

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 09/09/2026

Beautiful and moving post today on the #projectEPIC blog: Becca Pyne on #epistemicinjustice and audit culture epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2026/09/epis... #philsky #philpsy

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Epistemic Injustice and Audit Culture

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

'Around two-thirds of professional and support staff at UK universities say change and uncertainty over the past five years have had a negative impact on them, the Higher Education Policy Institute has found.'

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Really chuffed to have got to written with @lvself.bsky.social on endometriosis and the problem of (under)diagnosis. Hopefully the first of our collabs!

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm struck by the resonance between the New School and Goldsmiths, maybe the two leading critical institutions in their jurisdictions, each attached to a big art school, and each singled out for particular destruction under cover of sectoral retrenchments. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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What’s Left of The New School? - Dissent Magazine

Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly ...

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If race scientists experience any consequences at all, it's typically being relieved of their teaching duties. Being unable to carry out a significant part of your role would make you unemployable in most industries

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Did Exeter management get into a bet that it could tank a university over the course of just one Summer or something? These are just a bunch of extraordinarily damaging decisions in the space of a handful of weeks.

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Come & do a funded PhD with me & Prof Matt Smith at Strathclyde! We are looking for a historian with an interest in activism who wants to design a cool project on unorthodox health movements in Britain after 1948. #histmed #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.

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