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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The web and mobile apps of major conversational AI engines transmit prompts, titles and conversation permalinks to advertising data firms, alongside device IDs, hashed email and other persistent identifiers. Comprehensive analysis, like always from this team: jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/i...

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 13h

I appear to have met a unicorn... an honours student who is *actually ready with a full draft on schedule with a month to go*. I literally didn't know this was a thing. Well done them!

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@ihr.bsky.social's 'European History 1150-1550' seminar will get off to great start Thursday 8 Oct 17.30 GMT with Sama Mammadova (Harvard) on consumer credit, mendicants & the Monti di Pietà in late medieval Italy. All welcome, in person at the IHR & online, registration & link below.

history.ac.uk

European History 1150-1550

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Know a surgeon from the Pacific Islands or China, in public practice, who could benefit from financial support to attend the @racsurgeons.bsky.social Annual Scientific Congress in 2027? It's going to be a BIG meeting because it's the Centenary🎉. Info and application- www.surgeons.org/Resources/Me...

From left to right- RACS president Prof Owen Ung, 2026 recipient Dr Jugang Wu, me (in formal role as scholarship selection panellist), and generous scholarship sponsor Dr Simon Siu.

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday prompt: What went well this week? No caveats. I'm sure there was also some chaos. But what was ONE THING that went well?

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

British Columbia friends with Long Covid, check this out!

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sure, it’s cheaper to have big classes and to give each adviser 1000 students while rushing students themselves to graduate as fast as possible, but less learning will happen as a result.

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Clones for everyone! But not Bartlett. One Bartlett is enough.

Snapshot of Australia's batting line-up in South Africa, on the CA app. Every person in the team has been duplicated in the list except for Xavier Bartlett.

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interesting batting line-up in the ODI according to the Cricket Australia app ... Apparently the Australians have invested heavily in cloning. #SAvAUS 🏏

SA v AUS scorecard, listing Mitch Marsh, Travis Head and Cooper Connolly twice each in the batting order

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Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Semi-regular reminder that if you have published on one of the Bodleian's medieval manuscripts, we'd love to know about it via this form forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon... Items will be added to our Zotero bibliography, which is linked to our online manuscript catalogue.

forms.cloud.microsoft

Microsoft Forms

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Exeter Cathedral @exetercathedral.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Announcement: A selection of The Exeter Book’s famous riddles are now on display for the first time since the opening of the Treasures Exhibition in 2025. The Exeter Book is a treasured item listed on the UK UNESCO Memory of the World Register, preserving nearly all surviving Anglo-Saxon riddles.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

7. "some people find LLMs useful" is a different claim than any of the following: a) LLMs are good at doing the things people use them for b) LLMs are well suited to the tasks for which they are advertised c) LLMs "can do" something

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(they returned multiple times) to finally get in. If anyone recognises them please call Crime Stoppers Victoria. You can report information anonymously on 1800 333 000.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

theconversation.com

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.

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Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Be very kind to them. Don't use insecticides. Turn off unnecessary outdoor lights. Pop any moth that comes inside back outside so it can continue its migration. au.news.yahoo.com/aussies-warn...

au.news.yahoo.com

Aussies warned not to make common mistake as thousands of moths swarm

A phenomenon not seen in around 20 years has returned to Sydney.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 29/09/2026

Opinion | Political cartoonists are a dying breed, with publications slowly waiting for them to leave before bricking up the door behind them, writes New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/29/c...

crikey.com.au

We cartoonists are a dying breed. It's a canary in the coalmine for a dysfunctional democracy

As New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield writes, staff cartoonists used to be the only ones in the building paid to point at the building. Everyone else eventually answers to the owner, but they…

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People need to be charged over AI hacking offences. If a human uses a tool to break into a physical premises, they get charged. Same must apply with the people who program AI.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

Hey everyone remember how I was saying the AI X-risk criti-hype is a targeted project designed to kill regulations and further ensure an impatient rush on data centre contsruction www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

abc.net.au

OpenAI breach proves need for more data centres, major parties say

Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

great. as if the arts weren't starved enough.

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PSA: Eastern Australia! Leave your lights out tonight and help the poor moths make it to the mountains successfully!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As the midterms approach, I want to remind folks that pandemics have historically given rise to fascism The fear associated with death and disability on a massive scale makes it easier for authoritarians to seize power Vote accordingly Protect disabled & marginalized people. Get them to the polls

politico.com

Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains

The paper examined municipal spending levels and voter extremism in Germany from the time of the initial influenza outbreak until 1933.

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am convinced that the way out of this isn't to make the humanities easier, endlessly flexible to meet the demands of people who might otherwise blow them off---it's to make them harder and more disciplined in effort

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m devastated this morning. We have just had two of our @asrc1 social enterprise catering vans stolen. Roller door smashed. Food stolen. Safe destroyed. Staff distressed. TWO VANS LICENSE PLATES - mini vans with ASRC Catering on them Renault is 1UO2YV Peugeot is 2DW4TB

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Interesting lecture on decolonial listening coming up at LLCL Monash: “European Listening in Australia” events.humanitix.com/annual-europ...

events.humanitix.com

Annual European Languages Lecture 2026

Annual European Languages Lecture

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 26/09/2026

This week the Society launched a new programme to support research bit.ly/4iFNuF0 The RHS / Social History Archive Partnership offers free access to resources in @socialhistarchive.bsky.social, published by DC Thomson. Applications for 6-month access to Archive content invited #Skystorians 1/2

bit.ly

Society launches new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive - RHS

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive, published by DC Thomson. The Social History Archive is a comprehensive online archive ...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026

How will adding more majors to departments that are already understaffed, with spare numbers of faculty that are already overworked, help anyone? You need to invest in the labor capacity before scaling up consumption.

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reading @evansmithhist.bsky.social @drjpersian.bsky.social et al this week for teaching 20th c. fascism to the first years. This little medievalist is learning a lot.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A reminder to fellow yarnists about ethical yarn bombing. 🧶 Do not take part in yarn bombing events unless they have a clear plan for disposition; ideally reworked for charity eg. blankets, scarves Do not yarn bomb living things eg. trees, it disrupts their ecosystem and access to light and air.

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

MARCO JANSEN HOLY CRAP WHAT WAS THAT CATCH?!?!?! #AUSvSA 🏏

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If anyone has reading they'd recommend on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mombasa, I'm all ears!

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 25/09/2026

They arrested a blind man in a wheelchair for supporting terrorism because he held a sign

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Worried how the RNLI and it's amazing volunteers are being targeted? Take action with a one-off or monthly donation. Quick, easy, and much needed. Blocking and reporting misinformation also curtails those with nefarious aims who seek to monetise hate and spread division rnli.org/pages/ig/new...

rnli.org

Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Blocking the latest shit talker on how we shouldn't be loudly celebrating small wins because I spend my precious energy on more important stuff like doing my own laundry.

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am so annoyed at how much more work it takes to mark student assignments in the age of the bullshit generator. Half the time if I think 'oh that was a faily good one, but I'd better just double check these sources...' it turns out to be a credible tissue of fabrication. A waste of everyone's time.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Slightly odd question but can anyone recommend a translation of the Man’yoshu? I’m particularly interested in books 6 and 8.

Picture of Heijo palace in Nara for visual interest. A timber multiple storey building with red pillars, white walls and large black roof.

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I will say, rejections are never *fun*, but I do actually appreciate places that reject quickly rather than sitting on your work forever and then turning it down. Like, it’s not for them, they know it, let’s all get on with our lives.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On October 13 at 1pm ET, @liznorell.bsky.social, @thetattooedprof.bsky.social, @josheyler.bsky.social, and I are convening a webinar about why we believe in AI resistance in higher ed. Registration link in the first comment!

"The AI boom is being sold as inevitable progress, but the real question is not whether artificial intelligence can do useful things in theory. It is who owns it, who profits from it, what it is mostly being used for, and who pays the environmental and political bill when the hype turns into microchip manufacturing plants, data centres, rising power demand, water stress, surveillance and attacks on democratic life." Medhi Leman, "The energy and environmental impact of AI and how it undermines democracy," at Greenpeace.org.

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our last paperback sale of the year continues! Save 40% on selected paperback books until this Friday. No code required. Browse the sale 👉 buff.ly/FC81nOr #BookSky #Skystorians

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That's a historian at work: wearing big boots, looking confidently at the sources, and sitting on the back of Father Time holding scythe and hour-glass. Yes, we do fly at work. #skystorians

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 20/09/2026

i really cannot stress enough that if you disagree with a way of thinking about a thing, there are non-stupid ways to proceed. you can demonstrate that the framework is flawed; you can put forth another way of thinking about the thing that's better or more useful or more tractable in important ways!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 16/09/2026

The growing use of AI large language models (LLMs) could make human writing, perspectives and reasoning more alike, according to a research paper that raises questions about creative diversity and authorial voice 👇

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Researchers warn use of AI in writing could ‘homogenise human writing and thought’

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Up next, plans to reduce heart disease in the UK by simply declaring an annual quota of heart attacks.

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