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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

yes yes yes, your students are excited and some of them will carry precious memories of these formative intellectual experiences for life, but how do we make that into a **commercial application**

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Help! @frenchhistory.bsky.social really wanted this for journal cover next year (we’ve got exciting things coming on quantitative and computational methods) but it’s a challenge finding higher res versions/rights holder. Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️

Black and white photograph of a Bull Gamma 3 computer with female technicians operating it. Can be found (this resolution) on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the web but we haven’t found a higher res version

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

In case leaving a post here can help inform someone on MSCA postdocs and maternity leave, here's what to know: 🧵

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Apparently the European commission, a bureaucratic behemoth, do not collect any data on the postdocs who leave before the end of their fellowships. In the world where this sort of data is collected even by my local gym, that seems pretty remiss #pregnantthenscrewed

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I have spent much of my Marie Curie postdoc getting my head around the fact that Europe's premier fellowship scheme - which requires its applicants to wax about gender equality - has an average age of 36 and basically no provision for paid maternity leave. Just astonishing.

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Talking of nudging the ladder downwards, sitting on the sofa trapped under a baby somehow feels like a very good time to send an FOI request to the European commission about how many women vs men quit their MSCA fellowships...

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Apparently the application process for research fellowships at Cambridge has FINALLY been streamlined between colleges, and it's no longer a dozen separate websites. And I am absolutely going to fantasize that this is partly because of my attempts while I was there. A celebratory cup of tea for me.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

“Know how to make this work for you.” This is the last set of posts from the French History Network ECR in 2025* We asked what advice ECRs would give to other ECRs or PG students. 🗃️ frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6695/

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ECR in 2025: Part Three- Advice to ECRs – SSFH

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

"I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one." Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. archive.ph/0dpn2

My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.

This is not just my conclusion. A growing number of experts in genocide studies and international law have concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza can only be defined as genocide.

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

You'd think feminist scholars already had Balthus covered but, apart from a short plea from Linda Nochlin, it turns out they mostly didn't. So, contrary to all plans, I found myself writing an article, and it's here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Photo of proof stage, assistant included.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It is an obscenity that this has happened and continues to happen. Starvation as a weapon of war, and murdering people queueing for food! Obscene and savage, and continuing with the collusion of countries like the UK and US.

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Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @ljrycroftsmith.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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Prof. Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare is prohibited by the 1949 Geneva Conventions. And yet, with US govt support, this war crime by Israel’s govt continues. 'Situation is dire' - BBC returns to Gaza baby left hungry by Israeli blockade www.bbc.com/news/article...

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BBC returns to Gaza baby left hungry by Israeli blockade

Malnourished five-month-old baby Siwar is now out of hospital in Gaza - but as we found, she and her family are struggling.

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Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Writers, if your books have been illegally used to train LLMs sign this. chng.it/YQbkcbXW6N

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Sign the Petition

Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

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Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs

Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This fellowship, supporting a 'first step towards independence' (aww), is actually for ECRs who have been postdocs for - checks notes- up to 7 years🫠 Yes, I'm sure the reason your applicants don't have permanent posts is that we have not gained any independence in 7 years of fighting for our lives.

"This programme provides support for outstanding early-career researchers to make a first step towards developing an independent research career"

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Cannot wait to read this!! 👇

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

While the year is still newish, I want to share this print, given to its first owner on New Year's day, 1919. About a century later, I bought it at a flea market for €15. The thing I love most about it, though, is the frame! It's made out of thick paper, presumably by the artist. However... 1/3

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Sorry to hear of the passing of Christopher Neve. His book Unquiet Landscape is treasure for anyone who thinks about art-making in terms of process, practice, and thought

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/11/2024

Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

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Sarah Mead Leonard @smeadleonard.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Target is selling some M&S Christmas stuff this year, and I spent so long staring at this bag trying to parse its geography. Why is there a bus on what appears to be a pedestrian area? Why is Tower Bridge perpendicular to the other bridges?? It’s gotta be AI, right?

A reusable shopping bag with a nonsensical illustration of Tower Bridge and the riverside in the snow.

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I'm still finding my feet here, but being stared at wildly from 1958 is a good start to the week already - Jean Cooke (1927–2008)

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Melissa L Gustin @hosmeriana.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Right I made my own dang starter pack for art historians and art-adjacent people, lmk if I missed anyone off go.bsky.app/VLoexp2

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/09/2024

Art historians and art-history lovers! Here's a starter pack of art historians, as well as art critics and reporters, on Bluesky. So many wonderful people here—please follow, and please use this link to invite other art historians to join Bluesky! go.bsky.app/NKHmh87

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

It's not every archive that requires a residential stay at an abbey, but luckily for researchers of 20C French culture, the IMEC in Caen does - what a week! Also, Normandy in November is misty!

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Come find me in Newcastle, or online, to hear about my current research into postwar Marseille, industrial pollution, urban development, and petrochemical toxicity. Total downer of a topic, but I promise to tell jokes (badly).

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Sigh. These were such perfect bookmarks.

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Just in case you’re like me and get a mini heart attack from auto-playing videos - you can disable it from Settings > Accessibility I had previously disabled autoplay for GIFs and it seems to have automatically updated it for video too.

Screenshot of bluesky settings on where to disable autoplay for video

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

This coming Monday Sep. 16 at 10am Eastern time, I'll be doing an online book talk for the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities on my recently-released book on Van Gogh, industrial pollution & climate change. Zoom joining info available at link below: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Cover of a book with a detail of a Van Gogh painting of factories, with the title "Van Gogh and the End of Nature" and the author's name, Michael Lobel

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Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Job alert 🔊 1-year post at Durham University in the fields of Visual Arts + French language Pourrait convenir aux historien.nes de l'art qui parlent français ! Deadline is next Sunday! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJO958/t...

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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

Excellent piece that is well worth a read. Sharks, Olympics & a horror for the Anthropocene!

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 13/08/2024

Welcome to all of our new users, and a special welcome to the UK, which had the most Bluesky signups of any country for 5 out of the last 7 days! What makes Bluesky different? Some key features: 🧵

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Welcome to BlueSky, history emigres from the Bad Place. Remember there’s no algorithm here serving you up posts (and dross) by default. If you don’t follow and engage, your timeline will seem very empty. So follow and engage. There’s a lot of good conversation here.

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Aruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

New book alert! An argument about how empathy will not save us from the situation we find ourselves in, and about the need to build political solidarities on the basis of an obligation to care, not a capacity to love. Also art and literature. Chapter on Gaza too.

Book cover that reads “Imperfect Solidarities/ Aruna D’Souza.” Orange background purple text.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

New Year, new job? Post-doc researcher with National Trust on an amazing project exploring the benefits of heritage and the outdoors, a collaboration with Uni of Exeter: bit.ly/41LiGZ2

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Jem Perucchini's mural, 'Rebirth of a Nation', unveiled this morning at Brixton Underground.

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Dr Grace A Nagle @graceanagle.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Very excited by the news of William Kentridge’s appointment as Slade Professor at Oxford Art History 23/24 He will be hosting a series of in-person lectures as part of a series called “A Natural History of the Studio" - details announced soon.

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

"As a result of the changes, AHRC expects to fund one quarter fewer PhD students, reducing from 425 to around 300 new studentships per year by 2029 to 2030." www.ukri.org/news/update-...

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Update on AHRC future doctoral provision

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) will introduce major changes to its doctoral provision later this year.

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