Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialExeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The University of Exeter has confirmed that it won’t proceed with compulsory redundancies “at this time”. This means colleagues do not need to complete the pro forma, and there will be no selection process. 431288
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialDavid Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 11/06/2026And here it is, my belabored retrospective on Gordon Wood. Of course they changed the title, as magazines do. I preferred "How Gordon S. Wood Became the Rhetoric and Reality of the American Revolution" but knew it probably wouldn't fly. newrepublic.com/article/2115...newrepublic.comHow Gordon S. Wood Shaped the Idea of AmericaThe acclaimed historian, who died at the age of 92 this week, spent decades at the center of a debate about the founding of the United States. 511151
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialDr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Please everyone liveblog so I can live vicariously through you! #pcaaca26 #pca26 031
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/04/2026We wanted to know how everyday Judean people felt about the crucifixion of Jesus. So we talked to three Roman soldiers at a taberna in Gadara. 251906296
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialKaleb E. Goldschmitt @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Babson College is hiring a tenure-track Ethnomusicology professor. The college is just down the road from where I work, and while I don't work there, I can answer questions about the town, the student body, and the Babson-Olin-Wellesley consortium. 194
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialSarah Cooper @sarahecooper.bsky.social · 04/02/2025hello, I am on here now and by way of introduction I am a queer non-binary trans person and PhD student exploring how musical performance in drag shows and ballroom is trans-coded and how experience of this affects both individual and collective transness 🏳️⚧️ 151
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialJessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Does your research address the links between popular music + mental health in some way? If yes, submit a proposal to the "Depression in Popular Music" interdisciplinary conference at @sorbonne-universite.fr iPLesp from Jun 26-27! Proposals due Feb 15. See CfP here: depressioninpopconference2025.com 123
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialGreg @gwiss.bsky.social · 31/12/20242000-2009 was the golden era for New Year’s Eve glasses shaped like the numbers. We didn’t know how good we had it. 2426
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialDr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 30/12/2024If you are a University who requires referees from other universities to find an 'institutional stamp', I emplore you to PLEASE update the instructions you wrote for PhD applicants in 1992. 2468
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialscott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 28/12/2024did you or anyone you know work for producer Robert Stigwood in the mid-late 70s or keep papers and files from that time? If so, I’d love to chat with you sometime. 244
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialBrian Altano @brianaltano.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Santa brought my kid a Godzilla and it’s already getting along great with the Barbies. 231467279
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialDavid Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Junior Scholars and PhD students: If you have similar research interests to me, reach out! I'm happy to chat, give feedback or work together if you think I can help 1385
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialDr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Book giveaway! I have ended up with extra copies of all of these. Just comment and lmk why you‘d want/need them, for the academic books preference is given to people doing research on related topics, particularly (grad) students. I will close the thread Dec 31 and ship in the new year! 73312
jwilli7.bsky.social @jwilli7.bsky.social · 25/11/2024New Cambridge Element Original Pirate Material by me is now free to read for 4 weeks! cup.org/3V2YEqM #cambridgeelements #music 021
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialMichael L. Austin @michaelaustin.bsky.social · 10/11/2024My book, Audiovisual Alterity, is due to be published this week in the US (and sometime soon after that in the UK). If you're interested, you can order a copy from global.oup.com/academic at a 30% discount using the code AUFLY30! 1132
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialMike @professorberry.bsky.social · 08/11/2024If anyone at SMT wanted to share book discount codes with me I wouldn’t be sad… 🤫👀 101
Reposted by @jwilli7.bsky.socialBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 07/11/2024As there seem to be (lots of) new people joining BlueSky today, resharing my popular music writers Starter Pack. Enjoy and happy following … go.bsky.app/2Z36R8E 82914
