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Katharine Hodgson

@katharineh.bsky.social
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Exeter University Prof. Russophone poetry. Grows vegetables. Supports Exeter City.

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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UCU members at the University of Lincoln have voted overwhelmingly to tell University managers - no more compulsory redundancies or face industrial action. A huge mandate to protect jobs, protect our programmes and support out students! @ucu.org.uk
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14h
Nottingham bought a campus for £37.5m. Spent £40m more on it. Its own accounts say it could now sell for £14m. Staff and students are paying for that. 609 jobs. Three departments. More than 40 courses. That's why we're on strike. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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Lecturers on strike till Christmas: welcome to Nottingham University
Bad business decisions have been blamed for the decision to shut entire departments — as academics protest it is students who suffer
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 19h
“If the work is essential enough for an organisation to rely on, then it is essential enough to be included in contracts, workload models, promotion systems and remuneration.”
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 21h
The ‘rainbow arch’ and the remains of the 12th century church at Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #LindisfarnePriory #HolyIsland #Northumberland
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Putin apologists want you to buy that: -An alleged off-the-books 1991 verbal promise outweighs a signed 1994 treaty -Democratic countries formerly occupied by Russia asked to join an anti-Russia alliance for no reason -Ukrainians don't want freedom, an American tricked them into it with cookies
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Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Incinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian books
A Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Winter drawers on!
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British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies @basees.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) strongly condemns the Russian judiciary's classification of the Centre for Eastern European Studies at the University of Bremen as 'undesirable'. basees.org/news-1/2026/...
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BASEES Condemns Russia’s Classification of Bremen’s Centre for Eastern European Studies as “Undesirable” — Basees
The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) strongly condemns the Russian judiciary's classification of the Centre for Eastern European Studies ( Forschungsstelle Osteuropa...
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 02/10/2026
“We will not stand for it silently. We will keep fighting.” Hundreds gathered at yesterday’s University of Nottingham rally in solidarity with UCU members fighting devastating job and course cuts. From Monday, members begin long-term strike action. Show your support. Stand with Nottingham UCU.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'At least two universities have had to cancel course modules at short notice, with students being offered alternatives outside their disciplines, after the staff cuts and strikes left advertised modules understaffed.'
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Modules cancelled amid ‘panicked’ response to staff cuts and strikes
UK students being told that modules are cancelled and recommended options outside their courses, union reports
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Braverman blathering on about who can be English, Farage starting his me-me-me tour of the country telling audiences he’ll fix the country in 100 days or they’ll all sack themselves… apart from him… and Yusuf fanboying that racist thug who got refused bail… A moron festival. Come on, UK. Enough now.
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Woman walks into a Hull hairdresser and asks for a perm. Certainly, he replies: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' #NationalPoetryDay
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She turned it on herself and her water bowl is already full. IG: @charlieeandlaylaa
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Somerset County Cricket Club @somersetccc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CRAIG OVERTON WINS PCA PLAYER OF THE YEAR! 🙌🏆 A well deserved accolade for a Somerset legend 🫡 #YouAreSomerset #PCAawards
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Solidarity with fellow academics in Nottingham going on strike. The real problem, as so often with universities, lies with the management.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026
Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
£2.75? Proper crisis. Didn't hear anything about this in the PMs speech...
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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dundee University is continuing with compulsory redundancies. It argues this is required for the financial survival. However, the University’s cash is so high they may not qualify for £27m of the £40m additional SFC funding. The SFC have asked PWC to investigate. www.theferret.scot/dundee-unive...
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Dundee university might have too much cash to qualify for its taxpayer bailout
The university has continued to argue staff cuts are needed to make ends meet. But a growing cash balance has raised questions about the need for more redundancies, and whether it qualifies for millio...
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Stephen Green @stephenrgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UoN: "While we know many of our students will be unaffected by this action, the timing of this to deliberately disrupt the start of the new academic year for our students is particularly disappointing.” What about your timing to decide to fire a quarter of the academics at your university?
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/09/2026
We have something very cute to share with you today 🦉 This summer, a pair of barn owls successfully reared four owlets at Kedleston Hall, marking Kedleston's first known breeding success in over two decades.
Four young barn owls jostle onto the small wooden ledge of their nest box, fixed to a huge oak tree behind themA young barn owl in flight, its wings stretched up above it against a blurry green background, its white heart-shaped face facing the cameraA young barn own in flight, a blurry oak tree behind it, its huge white and brown wings beating downwards as it looks at the cameraA barn owl swooping down with its wings fanned wide across a field of long purplish grass
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great news: the School has sacked a third of its academic but we've acquired 2 new interim managers on top of the extra permanent ones. Fine work all round.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Best of luck to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members going on strike for over a month. Nobody does this willingly - it’s a last resort, unlike that enormously rich university’s slash and burn tactics.
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Excellent thread on the illusion, hubris and negligence behind the non existent Edinburgh University financial crisis. This reminds me so much of Nottingham, and Dundee. Why can uni VCs get away with acts that would get company CEOs sacked?
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Lincoln Branch of UCU @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UCU Lincoln members are getting those final ballot papers posted
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/09/2026
Our members at the University of Nottingham will strike this Wednesday and Thursday in their fight against compulsory redundancies and course cuts. Show your solidarity as they head onto picket lines, ahead of sustained strike action from 5 October to 11 December. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1466...
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University of Nottingham staff to strike for three months from October in redundancy fight
Staff at the University of Nottingham will strike on Wednesday 30 September and Thursday 1 October, and then solid strike action from 5th October until 11 December in a row over jobs and course cuts, ...
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cam bridges
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s a 9️⃣.5️⃣ from the #WorldBollardAssociation
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
27 September 1825. Britain’s 1st public railway service to use steam locomotives began with the official opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. The line connected coal mining collieries near Shildon with Stockton-on-Tees and Darlington in County Durham.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Ubble Fish @uttoxorthodoctor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think this means the first 10 goals didn't count and Exeter won 1 - 0 (G. Birch 90).
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Please write to your MPs. All this questionable data and denying access to data is rife across #UKHE, and the Department for Education likes to hide in plausible deniability. Make that impossible. Suggested template to get you going: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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UKHE MP template
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bridget Riley, Big Blue 1981-82 #womensart
Abstract painting with thin vertical stripes in different colours
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 25/09/2026
Russian historian Yuri Dmitriev, known for documenting Stalinist repression and helping discover the Sandarmokh mass graves, has been hospitalized in prison with a suspected stroke, according to rights activists. He's 70 & serving a 15-year prison sentence on dubious CSAM charges. t.me/tvrain/111557
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70-летнего историка Юрия Дмитриева госпитализировали из колонии с подозрением на инсульт Об этом сообщает ЗПЧ. По их информации, Дмитриева экстренно этапировали из ИК-18 в Мордовии в лечебно-исправи...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of humanity's greatest heroes
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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lovely afternoon visiting Llanddwyn Island for the first time since we were living at Rhiwlas near Bangor 25 years back. This was a favourite walking spot for us along with all of the trails through Newborough Forest. Odd revisiting without Gill but happy memories restored 🙂
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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You're going to be needing specialists in: languages, narrative, history, psychology, information, mythology, conspiracies, etc, etc. then? #humanities #socialscience
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🧵The astonishing Banqueting Hall at the Glasgow City Chambers measures 33.5m long, 14.6m wide & 15.8m high. Many of the murals on the wall were painted from the Glasgow School of Art including, Sir John Lavery, Alexander Roche, George Henry & overseen by William Leiper RSA. Nelson Mandela received
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Le Goût, c. 1500 (detail) from The Lady & the Unicorn, rare tapestries identified by Prosper Mérimée French archaeologist & historian, died #OTD 1870; author of novella Carmen; Inspector of Historical Monuments, who is commemorated in French Monuments database Base Mérimée. @museecluny.bsky.social
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star
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Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
University of Lincoln has disposed of over 500 staff since 2024. As we start a new academic year management have refused to rule out further compulsory redundancies. @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social is balloting its members on their willingness to take industrial action. If this is you please vote.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 22/09/2026
In our latest branch solidarity update video, UCU vice president Mark Pendleton hears about the latest at @exeterucu.bsky.social ehere members are organising and fighting back against job cuts, high workload and poor management
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by cyanotype process were among the first ever to be published in a book #WomensArt
Image of a white poppy plant against a blue background
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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Cyclamen carpet at Anglesey Abbey.
A carpet of the white and pink cyclamen amongst trees.
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Solidarity with all UKHEI colleagues trying to protect the future of tertiary education ✊️
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This 'Plan of the City & Suburbs of Exeter', dating back to 1792, was surveyed by Charles Tozer and engraved by Thomas Yeakell. Which landmarks can you identify that still exist today? And what has changed? 📷 Townsend Maps T16f #MapMonday #MappingOurExeter #Maps #Exeter
Plan of Exeter, extending as far as St Thomas in the south and to the top of Sidwell Street in the north. It includes a legend to the churches in Exeter in the upper right corner and a dedication statement to the Mayor, Recorder, Sheriff, Aldermen and commonalty of Exeter in the upper left corner. It also features a drawing of a woman (goddess?), seated under a tree, holding a shield and wearing a blue dress, and indicating with her left hand towards the title and Rougemont Castle in the background. Near her left foot is a pile of books, including one marked 'Hist[or]y of Devon'. The plan is mostly shaded in greys and browns, with some accents in blue and yellow.
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Can we make a comparison to deindustrailisation now? The slashing of wages, the redundancies, the subordination of learning to profit? The intellectual impoverishment of communities and generations, not to mention the literal impoverishment through unemployment and shrinking of local economies?
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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨
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