iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m not very into regular Traitors, but I enjoyed the celeb version last time - and this one looks set to be better! Have laughed a lot this evening.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We have had some BRILLIANT abstracts but we do have space for more, so we're extending the deadline to the end of Monday - you only need to pop in a short abstract, & if you're UK-based we can help a bit with travel expenses. Come talk with us about a vital topic!

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone is listening to a history podcast about WWII on speaker on the bus. It makes a change from music, but still… don’t do this.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A bump for my workshop with @wienerlibrary.bsky.social in November, for all interested in exploring the opportunities and challenges of researching, preserving, and teaching with far-right materials in a digital environment. We can assist with modest travel £! www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... 🗃️

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CFP: Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age | UON

Wiener Holocaust Library, London. Friday 27 November 2026, 10.30am-4pm Improved digital access to far-right material at archives, libraries, and beyond...

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finished the index and inserted cross references for Political Nostalgias - Ancient and Medieval Worlds. Now the MS is back with my excellent co-editors for a final look before it's returned to the press and will go to press! 🌟🥳 Excited for the 1st book in a (hopefully) ongoing series to come out.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Note you must already be in a university post to apply for this (so different to some other early career fellowships)

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow, fantastic postdoc here - also pays v well, which is fair since you will need MANY skills www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSY956/p... If you've got excellent language, palaeography skills & specialist knowledge of medieval/early modern commerce, this is a job for you!!

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Merchants of the Staple) at University of York

Recruiting now: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Merchants of the Staple) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Think of the combined CENTURIES of expertise lost here, the creativity, the knowledge, the depth and breadth of cultural learning and understanding, the generations of minds enriched and enlightened, the sheer weight of history that led to the establishment of these programmes. Purged. Destroyed.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Woo, R&R article just came back with accept! That's two articles accepted this year (and indeed in the last two months - though they were both written at completely different times), so I am feeling very pleased, given only 20% of my 0.7 contract is given over to research.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

CFP: Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age, a collaboration between @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and me (via my @britishacademy.bsky.social grant): 27 November, London: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Travel funds are available (probably only within UK)!! Please share. 🗃️

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CFP: Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age | UON

Wiener Holocaust Library, London. Friday 27 November 2026, 10.30am-4pm Improved digital access to far-right material at archives, libraries, and beyond...

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Political Nostalgias - Ancient and Medieval Worlds has gone back to the press, hopefully now to go to the typesetting stage! Many thanks to our authors and my fellow editors for getting the volume to this stage.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 15/09/2026

TUC President Steve Gillan calls on Congress to join UCU’s lunchtime rally against the University of Brighton’s outrageous plans to derecognise UCU. An attack on trade union rights is an attack on us all. University of Brighton: back down.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 15/09/2026

The University of Brighton is threatening to DERECOGNISE UCU and rip up collective agreements protecting staff. This is an outrageous attack on trade union rights. We will not allow our members’ rights, pay and conditions to be torn up. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1464...

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University and College Union condemn University of Brighton derecognition plans

The University and College Union (UCU) has today (15 September) condemned plans by the University of Brighton to derecognise UCU on campus.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am actually speechless

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In an era of increasingly AI generated SM posts, reading things that are clearly just people posting things that popped into their brains 2 minutes ago is actually nice, so I am all for this

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In another life I would be celebrating my thirteenth wedding anniversary today.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Do you know what I love? That the software we all use for editing word docs (aka Word), which has built in features for tracked changes etc, constantly freezes once you are editing with tracked changes a document of the size of, for example, a book. 😑😠

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As a medievalist, this would be an impossible Q to set my undergrads so I'm certainly not going to ask the general public to answer it!!

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“OpenAI didn’t just ignore Michael’s disability—it used it against him. After he disclosed his bipolar diagnosis, the system incorporated that information to draw him deeper into harmful interactions instead of steering him toward safety.”

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“ChatGPT’s memory feature seemed to build a psychiatric profile, allegedly parsing inputs related to his mental health conditions and then using that sensitive information to maximize his engagement.” jesus h. i know this is how these chatbots work, but jesus h.

arstechnica.com

Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.

Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Revised article gone back to the journal - I reckon I've earned some dinner now! What a busy summer it has been, writing-wise. For the first time in years I'm ending the summer feeling I can pat myself on the back on that front 😀

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MATER @maternetwork.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is time for MATER to awake from its summer slumber! (Our members have not been sleeping - they have been busy researching, writing, and doing summer things!) Stay tuned for more news, but in the meantime if you're interested in contributing to MATER events, please get in touch.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

great, an acknowledgment that arts & hums are crucial while promising absolutely zero support for them

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So I got a couple of book club emails with the generic AI tone - and then when I didn't reply I got a strange, also AI generated but much more aggressive email wondering if I was dead??

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So I was googling Ancient Roman erotic literature (for legitimate reasons!!) and AI... generated a story for me that appeared at the top of the results (you know, where you usually get an AI summary)?! I did not prompt it to do this! How absolutely bizarre.

idk whose roman romance this is ripping off, i'm sorry

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do I know anyone who has successfully applied in the past for a BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship (the one year scheme) and would be willing to have a quick chat/exchange emails about it? Thanks! 🗃️

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Anyone else annoyed by Vinted’s constant reminders to post stuff? A reminder the day before the deadline seems ample. I am getting reminders five, four and three days out! 😒

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Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This whole thing has really astounded me - institutions have handed over BUCKETS of money to consultants to get rid of the very thing that makes it worth going to university. Literally 'burn your USP'.

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’ve known three people who died of this terrible cancer. This is wonderful news!

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

These niche courses are what make students fall in love with a subject! Small class sizes, intense focus - it’s a love story waiting to happen. In the UK, unfortunately, many unis are moving away from specialist modules to compulsory, broad, generic modules. To everyone’s detriment.

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AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For decades, the Pentagon viewed the climate crisis as a national security threat because it undermined operations and readiness. Now the Trump administration is dismantling that approach. Pentagon leaders have cut climate research funding and abandoned adaptation plans.

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Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam US troops

For decades, the military treated the climate crisis as a threat. Now it’s backing away from plans to protect people and bases from extreme weather

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I cannot stop thinking now about the fact that over the decades of her book charity Dolly appears to have given away 100,000,000 books to small children, one a month, each child. I’m seeing such a widespread outpouring of loss and love, and all of it … all of it … is proper and deserved.

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(spo)okie 🎃 @okie.gay · 25/08/2026

Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

British universities are now gripped by the ultimate madness. Some unis are bankrupting everyone else accepting students they can't even take and have to leave in limbo... While putting everyone on redundancy notice! It's crazed. Still no-one will intervene. thetab.com/2026/08/24/u...

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University of Exeter offers deferred places following shortage of student accommodation

The university said it has not been able to offer accommodation to all students

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Still a few spaces on @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk course Wars of the Roses, starting 14 September! lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-... It's £43 a week, which may sound like a lot BUT you get tons of resources, my teaching AND feedback on two assignments (if you want to write them). Bargain!

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The Wars of The Roses: Power, Politics and Personalities - Oxford Lifelong Learning

The recent discovery of Richard III's remains in Leicester highlights the dynamic new research being conducted into the period known as the Wars of the Roses. This course asks students to engage with ...

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When Oswald Mosley reappeared in Britain in the 1950s (after a period of self-exile in Ireland), he tried to gain a foothold in universities by taking parts on debates (usually at Oxford or Cambridge). I wrote this about those who opposed Mosley on campus. hatfulofhistory.com/2021/06/06/w...

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When the fascists went to university (and the campaigns to keep them out)

Recently there have been several mentions of Oswald Mosley being invited to speak at universities in the early 1960s. One from a piece in The Times opining for the ‘lost days of campus free s…

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Another trip around the sun completed. What a gift! I don’t take it for granted.

A white woman smiling and looking down at a very impressive birthday cake

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I realised, with all my talk of publications, I hadn’t shared my favourite output of 2026 thus far

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Until there are real, actual, physical consequences, this regime will continue to destroy lives unabated. Screaming "but it's a crime" doesn't matter to criminals. They know. They also know no one has stopped them yet.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Part of petrichor, the delish earthy smell released when rain hits parched ground, is geosmin,a compound from soil bacteria-human👃s can detect it in lower concentrations than sharks can detect blood in water. Seeking out water on dry plains was essential for our ancestors. Here’s a geosmin molecule:

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