Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 14hWow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting! 201477363
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Editors of journals published by Taylor & Francis - hi! - may be alarmed to learn there is an emerging view T&F will get bought by private equity after Informa announced it's dropping it. And we know what private equity does to its acquisitions. Guts them. As if academic publishing wasn't bad enough 12821
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonVanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The best reporting on the French student protests that I've seen in English The barricade was up outside kiddo's school again this morning, I don't think this is going away any time soon 0114
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Part 100 of "how AI could be used vs. how it is likely to be used," from feature that promises not to give answers. OpenAI said the tool "offered the option to get answers because of feedback from educators — in case teenagers needed to get immediate answers to questions that might not be homework." 37027
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...blog.documentfoundation.orgYes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community BlogOne of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us... 5356432138
Jennifer Wellington @jenniferwellington.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“In total, this summer, 13m Ukrainian books have been destroyed by Russian missiles or drones – a third, estimates the government, of all books printed in Ukraine this year.”theguardian.comIncinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian booksA Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks 140
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonDr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Court hears of ‘significant’ and ‘out of blue’ change of practice by Minister for Justice www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...irishtimes.comFour students from Gaza challenge ‘irrational’ visa refusal to pursue studiesCourt hears of ‘significant’ and ‘out of blue’ change of practice by Minister for Justice 34124
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonPeter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is no such thing as "AI upskilling" 24619
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonJuliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This much for academia being somehow above or outside the war: this is the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and these are our colleagues, engaged in the same work we do. This is also late punishment for the instrumental role the Academy played in the late 1980s in the struggle for independence. 24021
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about 6240133
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonDanielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Heartbreaking reporting from Gaza; to the Irish government and Jim O’Callaghan, these are the forces against students from Gaza, #letthemstudy www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.comWe followed five people in Gaza from dawn to dusk – this is what the headlines don’t tell usBehind the stories of bombings and mass deaths, the everyday challenges facing Palestinians living under siege portray a quieter tragedy we rarely hear 0156
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonDr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don’t think I’ve seen a more compelling endorsement of the effectiveness of a memorial project than this. Banning Stolpersteine is a deeply sinister move. www.reuters.com/business/med...reuters.comEast German town bans future Holocaust memorial plaquesAn East German town has approved a motion by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and ruling centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to reject future installation of brass plaques comme... 2168
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonDónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Call me old fashioned but I don't think the mission of Irish universities is to educate Chinese students in China or American students in America. We are not budding multinational businesses- we are a public service for students in Ireland, wherever they come from. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...irishtimes.comIrish colleges should focus on teaching abroad, not attracting foreign students – MinisterState already has insufficient accommodation for those in higher education, James Lawless says 413730
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonDónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Excited to finally get my hands on this. Having read the thesis on which it is based, I know im in for a great read. 1243
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonAidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Earlier today I was in a call discussing the massive volume of adverts on Meta for nudification apps which features actual CSAM, so it’s good to see Meta take action on the issue of… Feminist theatre…theguardian.comMeta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminismTheatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism 08053
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...noyb.euAI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companiesIn a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans. 19468293
Reposted by Jennifer Wellingtonbecimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨ 314152
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 17/09/2026AI is screwing up journal papers: Journal editor asks authors of 10 submitted papers to meet and discuss their paper. Of the 7 that showed up, 3 were unable to answer basic questions about the paper and 3 had difficulty when asked further questions on technical details… medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...medium.comAsking Authors About Their Own PapersBy Nihar B. Shah 1315785
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."bu.eduNew Learning Outcomes Announced | English 402367471
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonRichard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I like how many different and outwardly promising stages of login you can go through before finding out you actually don't have institutional access to a book or article. 610914
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonFirst World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We are recruiting new Associate Editors! First World War Studies, the interdisciplinary journal of the International Society for First World War Studies, published by Taylor & Francis, is seeking to expand its editorial team. 12329
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonAoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Are you desperate to read about dirty washing in the 19th century British army? Pre-order now to learn about how soldiers' wives kept everyone's undies clean. (and all the other contributors great pieces too) #SpéirGhorm 🗃️ #skystorians www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2026/t...fourcourtspress.ieFour Courts Press | The Irish SoldierIn Peacetime and at War, at Home and Abroad, from Earliest Times to the Present by Thomas Bartlett, editor 13916
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonJay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026 200308655020
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/202690 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵) 4123691265
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonSati Mookherjee @sati-m.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Something beautiful 082
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonDónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The human remains of two Algerian tirailleurs who died in the Franco-Prussian War and were displayed in the anatomical collections of the University of Freiburg have been identified as 'Abdallah Ben Lein' and 'Abdel-Kadn-Ben-Ladsche'. www.france24.com/fr/europe/20...france24.com"Ces tirailleurs se sont sacrifiés" : les restes de deux "turcos" algériens retrouvés en AllemagnePlus de 150 ans après leur mort à la suite de la bataille de Reichshoffen en Alsace durant la guerre de 1870, les restes de deux tirailleurs algériens ont été découverts dans les collections anatomiqu... 1146
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonElisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I am hiring another postdoc for BLOCKADE's Freiburg team. A 4-year, full time position to explore the impact of blockades in the Americas in both world wars "from below". Please share! @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @historians.org @royalhistsoc.org www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...hsozkult.deMaking sure you're not a bot! 11319
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonTomás Irish @tomasirish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A short piece that I wrote about post-First World War reparations and the creative replacement of destroyed heritage items at Leuven/Louvain. blendeff.be/s/en/page/af... 031
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 31/08/2026I'm going back in time to tell Jean Baudrillard about the President of the USA posting AI slop about attacks that aren't happening in his war that's not a war 24313
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Black Mirror was meant to be the warning, not the goal 1822239
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonMaurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 24/08/2026Just finished a week of research in Berlin on anti-Nazi resistance networks. Many discoveries but easily the most moving was this: A small paper flower a resistance organiser crafted in Luckau prison and included in a letter to his daughter – 1936 18525
Jennifer Wellington @jenniferwellington.bsky.social · 20/08/2026That lawn looks like a great spot for Meta to build a new data centreirishtimes.comMeta boss Mark Zuckerberg buys castle in Co WaterfordTech billionaire and wife acquire Strancally Castle in off-market transaction 021
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I consider this paragraph a public service so that now anytime someone rehearses the old chestnut about The Church prohibiting access to the Bible in anything but Latin before the reformation I can just point to this. Source: K. Smith, The Painted Histories of the Welles-Ross Bible (2025) 1217255
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Using AI helps people get higher grades and get their work done faster, but they learn less & suffer on actual exams I saw this in my own large Intro Psych class: -the exam average is 85% -after AI, it shot up to 95% -after I made the final in person it went to 68% www.economist.com/graphic-deta... 14391150
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonJayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 18/08/2026dream postdoc! www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...timeshighereducation.comPost Doctoral Researcher, History - Maynooth, Ireland job with MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY | 414583We are seeking an excellent scholar to join a project team led by Prof. Raul Cârstocea, who has been awarded a European Research ... 0139
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonPaintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026'Night Sights, Piccadilly' (1922) by Wendela Boreel (Private collection) 116535
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonEmanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 391572915
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonDr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns. 11287922729
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonDr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"By not taking into consideration that Gazan students lack the same capacity as other international students to access documentation, the visa process is not treating them equitably," she, Dr Ní Raghallaigh, said. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...rte.ieAcademics criticise visa refusals for Gaza scholarship studentsAt least 31 of 59 Palestinian students who applied for study visas after securing fully or partially funded scholarships by Irish third-level institutions have been refused 15123
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 14/08/2026the gaslighting over the pervert glasses is in a class of its own. They think we're idiots. www.engadget.com/2236054/meta...engadget.comMeta is giving away 15,000 AI glasses to blind and visually impaired people in Ireland - EngadgetMeta is donating 15,000 Ray-Ban Meta glasses to an Irish charity supporting people with sight loss. 33468141
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonDr Susan Greaney @handle.invalid · 13/08/2026My uni have just withdrawn Geography, History & Geography and Politics & Geography undergrad courses run from our Penryn campus. Terrible for Cornwall. How did the staff find out? When UCAS clearing opened at 8am 😡 97758343
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonJay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 11/08/20261/5 📣 An article I've written about the Queen's University in Ireland, its constituent colleges, and their relationship to the British Empire has been published with @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. The article makes the case for rethinking about the Queen's University's purpose in Ireland. 🗃️cambridge.orgInstitutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge CoreInstitutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 - Volume 65 64323
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonNaomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias. 9955301131
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonSally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"Booksellers say it is not unusual for these orders to range from €10,000-€50,000, welcome income amid an ongoing earthquake in their industry thanks to Amazon and other online booksellers. Yet many fear that, with these bulk orders, they may be signing their own death warrant." 31812
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonPeter Johnston @peterajohnston.bsky.social · 07/08/2026www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...euronews.comDanube: Wehrmacht soldiers and WWII motorbike recovered after 80 yearsThe Danube is at such a low level that Second World War relics are resurfacing in Budapest: alongside a motorbike, the bodies of two soldiers have been recovered. #EuropeNews 033
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonProf Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is extraordinarily bad, as even the UK copyright libraries (e.g. Cambridge) have moved over to frequently only acquiring the ebook version of new publications. If you don't own the hard copy, you're just renting and you are at the mercy of the publisher. 14418191
Reposted by Jennifer Wellington👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Headlines that you see on a tattered newspaper that blows away in the detritus of an abandoned city in the opening scene to a post-apocalyptic film where the villains live in a giant dome in Antarctica. 418049
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonKate Manning @kate-manning.bsky.social · 06/08/2026New post on the @ucdlibrary.bsky.social Cultural Heritage Blog is about a young Irish woman who found herself in Austria at the outbreak of WWI. The letters serve as a salutary example of how quickly our circumstances can change & how much we rely on established processes & networks to protect us. 152
Reposted by Jennifer WellingtonGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 03/08/2026Sodding Wiley now float an offer of an 'AI companion' to give commentary over journal articles you're trying to read. In order to get rid of it, you have to click, maximising the fucking thing, & then dismiss it. They make their website & published research worse to push AI garbage, arghh. 2306