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Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of the best things I’ve read in a long time, an essay by my friend Sarah. pshares.org/issue-articl...

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Lads! I’m here! At the symbol for UK Higher Education 2026!!

A sign reading Modern University of the Yesr 2026 with bulldozers behind ripping apart a campus building

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Dr Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Have a slot to present at the big giant conference in my academic field in July and I have mostly been really hoping, throughout the year, to get enough work to pay for it. This has not happened. If you do have the disposable funds to help I would be very grateful.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Out in February from @livunipress.bsky.social: The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature. The book started as a lockdown tweet. Delighted that it’s finally done! With Bridget English and @drreznicek.bsky.social

Cover of The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature, showing a water colour of mourners carrying a coffin towards a ruined church, with a man looking on in the foreground and two windswept, rather Beckettian trees in the background.

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one… A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A great event towards the end of Jan - m'learned colleague Daniel Gordon, who recently took voluntary redundancy from academia, is going to reflect on how that feels and what it's like. Since many academics are going to be in that position, important. 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-univers...

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UK Universities in Crisis: Reflections on Leaving Salaried Academia

Join fellow Gramscian Daniel Gordon, navigating personal reflections on the fractures of UK Academia.

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

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Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books

Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

yet another way that the war on academic knowledge is a war on the past & a violent thinning out of historical experience — you’re taking years & often decades of slow-building expertise (& the investments that made it possible) and just tossing it in the bin

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Win win. I just registered my name & book details with the appropriate law firm. Check if your book/article/paper is on the list here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... If it is, go here: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

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Anthropic Authors’ & Publishers’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser

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Caroline Rusterholz @carorusterholz.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Precarious contracts keep getting shorter. Until recently short-term associate lecturer contracts were for 10 months. Now UCL advertises for 7 months. What does it say about our field, about how we treat the new generation of scholars? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW277/a...

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Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Modern British History at UCL

Explore an exciting academic career as a Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Modern British History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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WHO @who.int · 22/08/2025

Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza FAO, UNICEF, WFP & WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire & unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger & malnutrition.

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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Do you have opinions about book covers? (I know you do. ;-)) Could you please spare a few minutes to help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student @oliviagw.bsky.social with her dissertation research by answering her survey? (Please share, too!)

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says the racist protesters intimidating asylum seekers in Epping are "upset for legitimate reasons.” I don't remember any Labour frontbencher saying the same about people protesting the genocide in Gaza. On the contrary, they've criminalised peaceful dissent.

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The internet archive / wayback machine is an invaluable free resource. It's one of the few enactments of the utopian 1990s vision of the internet and will be a key point of resistance against AI, rising anti-intellectualism, and fascist cultural vandalism. Help them if you can afford it

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Melissa Fegan @melissafegan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The arrival of this beautiful Edinburgh Companion to The Brontës and the Arts is a lovely way to celebrate the end of 2024 - congrats to editors Deborah Wynne and Amber Regis

Front cover of The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts

First page of Melissa Fegan’s chapter ‘The Brontës and the “national art” of Ireland’

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Save and stay for the first time in February 2025! You can book directly on www.gladstoneslibrary.org - just click the button on the top right. 🛏️ 📚

An image setting out the February first time stay offer, as outlined in the plain text below. T&Cs are: T&Cs: The offer can be used for one visit per guest. The offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other discounts. To be eligible, this must be your first overnight stay at the Library. There is no limit on the length of your booking as long as it falls within the above dates. Offer valid for February 2025. A deposit payment of one night’s accommodation must be made at the time of booking. Offer is subject to availability.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Because some damn fool asked, here's a thread about Baxter. This was taken on the day I brought home Baxter and threw away all hope of an easy life. Look at him. Absolutely irresistible. And that's how they get you, the utter bastards

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