Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 20hInterviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Academic: the Recession Interviewer: and this one? Academic: COVID Interviewer: and this one? Academic: mass state funding cuts Interviewer: and this one? Academic: admin trying to replace my field with chatbots Interviewer: and this one? 8527137
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Working on a Sunday is fine when it is for something as cool as having a wood carver class. We are making sáhkku board game & pieces! 🥰 #museumlife 150
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkAnne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I have never felt more patriotic in my life 1161
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Today is one of those days I hate peer reviewing. It takes So Much Time. #academicsky 010
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's a beautiful autumn day at the museum, and on a brief walk from one meeting to the next, I got to admire 1) our new (fully functional) old brewery truck... 140
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkRay Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm enjoying Hutton laying into the tendency to assume every folk tradition is a ‘pagan survival’. 54114
Reposted by Ida Tolgensbakkjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners. 1087583997
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkAlyssa GO SEE #NAZA 📽️ @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Indeed: Peggy Sanday wrote her book FRATERNITY GANG RAPE in 1990, following a well-publicized rape in 1983 at the frat ATO at the University of Pennsylvania, where Sanday taught. The book's still obscenely relevant... & in open access. 🗃️ #Cornell opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978081...opensquare.nyupress.orgFraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus[Open Access] This widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and disturbing detail, the nature of fraternity gang rape. Drawing on interviews with both victims an... 13414
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkDr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026OK out of my usual late medieval France wheelhouse, but @ahannahim.bsky.social came up with my new favorite summary of the Icelandic saga and I just had to share it with you all (with permission of course!) 😂 2207
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hey all #digitalhumanities people, the cfp deadline is around the corner! 021
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Stayed for a late digital meeting & got locked in at the museum. Seriously, museums are scary after dark 😱 Look at this thing practicing for Halloween! #museumlife 030
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895443936
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkTim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Historic England vanishing archive - details of why it is broken : www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...sarsen.orgHistoric England’s Vanishing ArchiveNot just the aerials. The lot. Historic England still holds the negatives, the prints and the scans. What the public lost, in early Sept... 510454
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Btw someone should *really* go deep in a study of *why* Christmas needs to be "magical". Seriously. Why can't it just be... i dunno. Cosy? Relaxing? 070
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Omg! It's here! @blanriksson.bsky.social and myself have studied how the Elf on the Shelf tradition has developed in Norway and Swedish-speaking Finland. We discuss #homemaking and #crisis in family Christmas traditions. 1173
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkElin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I am in Bangkok for the @ipcc.bsky.social 2nd Lead Author Meeting for the 7th Assessment Report, Working Group III Mitigation of Climate Change. The ongoing flooding of Bangkok is a stark reminder of the consequences of extreme weather events. 0138
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026while the British Academy is using partial randomisation on its small grants -- and awarding more women/and POC researchers than ever before -- UKRI is feeding your painstakingly-developed proposal into an AI. But it's okay because they then get *two* AIs to debate whether you get the money. 1015653
Reposted by Ida Tolgensbakkangunso.bsky.social @angunso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hurra for meir SAMLA!🥳🥳🥳 #folklore #traditionarchive #samla.no 0115
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ok I wallowed in self-pity yesterday, but this morning we got news that WE GOT THE BIG INFRASTRUCTURE-FUNDING for our tradition archive project!! 🥳🥳🥳 #academicsky #folklore 3212
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkCurtis *Spooky Sociologist* @soccurt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"ChatGPT, make our campus more diverse." - You should change the underlying structure of society. I suggest more robust college funding and lower tuition, and emphasis on full employment, to redress systematic inequality. "Oops, I forgot the word 'feel' in my prompt." 143127
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Give a hug to your Norwegian researcher friend today! Odds are they got bad news in their inbox. My fourth or fifth attempt at my Dream Project on ✨️the cultural history of the kebab✨️was rejected & I am officially giving up on having it funded. Brb need a drink. #academicsky #foodhistory 1100
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkJill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Jessica Witte starts by talking about her analysis of AI-generated stories that posted about earlier. bsky.app/profile/jill... 2214
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkJill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Center for Digital Narrative @cdn-bergen.bsky.social celebrates the equinox with a research conference! This will be a long thread with snippets from the presentations. @scottrettberg.bsky.social opens with a rap! www4.uib.no/forskning/fo... 5393
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkCaleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The idea that leftist, activist academics caused the death of the humanities was born in the Reagan-era reaction to the 1960s. I almost can’t believe how often it is being repeated 40 years later. This was Allan Bloom’s version, more restrained than most, in 1987. 1319
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkThomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026New ad from the Norwegian Consumer Council @forbrukerradet.bsky.social about the declining lifespan, repairability and enshittification of products: Planned obsolescence v 2.0 Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife 6197140
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkPeter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 11/09/2026arguably tho the worst in this genre is "engineer spots* and solves** a hitherto unnkown*** but fundamental**** problem in humanities" * reads a tweet about it ** comes up with some bollocks analysis based on made-up data *** well-known **** not that important in the grand scheme of things 2102
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkRetraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 09/09/2026Five researchers at Norway’s national gender incongruence clinic are appealing a university committee’s finding they committed “gross negligence” and scientific misconduct after the group published studies using the medical records of more than 1,000 minors.retractionwatch.comResearchers appeal misconduct finding over studies of trans youthOslo University Hospital Five researchers at Norway’s national gender incongruence clinic are appealing a university committee’s finding they committed “gross negligence” and scientific misconduct … 318140
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'm supposed to write Important Article for Big Deadline, but keep being distracted by the opportunity to do fieldwork on how Spanish TV covers the Norwegian royal funeral. #academicsky 161
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I think what I find really depressing about AI in higher education is how so many people didn't even wait for the evidence/research before we decided on telling students "how to use AI responsibly" which often includes things like checking grammar, and obviously, we shouldn't have been 181099301
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkAnne Sigrid Refsum @annesigrid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Are we more likely to care if the woman in question looks like a modern actress in a period drama? 3172
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkAlistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Copper, you say?” 06919
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkCamilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I love this term coined by this guy. "Amalgaslop" - something which is an amalgation of, in this case "all the fonts the AI model got in its training data" used in this type of communication. I think the term fits for so much else. I.e. research papers being amalgaslop 2143
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkKristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Sigtrygg Silkbeard, the king of Dublin, - on the fascinating coins of the Mørstad hoard in Norway:sciencenorway.noYou can now see the first 100 coins from the unique Viking hoardThe first 100 coins from the Mørstad Hoard have now been published in the Museum of Cultural History’s databases. They will soon also be put on display. 192
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026For those curious about why we liked our king so much: 060
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The museum has lowered its flags for the King's death, meaning they fly right outside my window today. #museumife 060
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkAdrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Gonna take a wild stab and assume that PinkerKraussWaxAbbotDawkinsCoyne won't be writing any open letter for this person? 311725
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkBethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 27/08/2026(from this article by @corrinalaughlin.bsky.social and @sarareinis.bsky.social. It was a wild ride for me as an elder millennial) 093
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Greetings from my lazy colleagues! #museumlife 010
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkUglesett @uglesett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This illustrates why every graphic design team needs one person who is chronically online. Because they could have told the others that: -This is a kind of aesthetic that may not be well received. -Some stone fruits carry a certain... symbolism. 3121
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This is what happens when the design team is replaced by the robots. 2164
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We meet again, lecture desk that can not be adjusted. 000
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkJohn Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 21/08/2026holy shit, I just found an incredible archive of UFO zines and magazines from around the world, some dating back to the 1950s. this is like Christmas come early. though also I have got so much to do right now so this absolutely could not have come at a worse time 🥴 files.afu.se/Downloads/?d... 930493
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Amazing to see the list of academics who have signed the pro-Cofnas letter, in that every time you think, hmm, I bet that arsehole signed the pro-Cofnas letter, it turns out they actually did 1233536
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Some really wonderful pictures from Stockholm 💚 060
Reposted by Ida Tolgensbakkmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026the guy who said he wanted to chair the harvard department of eugenics and race science??? people are signing a letter in support of his right to bully black men to death in pursuit of his dream of eliminating black people entirely?? just making sure i’m reading this right!! 9956941291
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkDavid Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Returned from holiday to find this beauty in the post, which I have the honour of speaking about at Simon’s book launch next month. There’s only one other colleague whose book I’ve aged decades waiting for other than this one, and they know who they are! *cough* @eicathomefinn.bsky.social *cough* 3378
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkRhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Send an author one "I read your book and liked it" email, disproportionately increase the world's happiness/smugness quotient 311520
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Folklorist: quote tweeting meme formats is a central part of the folk culture of the internet. 090
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkThe Local Sweden @thelocalsweden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Swedish bus operator removes anti-immigration ads after drivers call in sickthelocal.seSwedish bus operator removes anti-immigration ads after drivers call in sickPublic transport operator Västtrafik is removing election advertisements from the Sweden Democrats on local buses in Skaraborg after bus drivers went on sick leave in protest. 0176
Reposted by Ida TolgensbakkDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 16/08/2026Dear readers, the correct figure is 0.4%. Nearly 100x less. www.varsity.co.uk/features/29235 5606140