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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Given many UK universities' decision to jettison Arts and Humanities (and some Social Science) subjects, it's interesting to see that top-ranking global universities tend to rank highly in these areas. MIT (ranked 2nd globally here) is ranked 1st in both Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences.

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World University Rankings 2027: results announced

Asian universities’ resumed upward trajectory takes them past mainland Europe for the first time, as reputational lustre protects US and UK for now

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Cinema For All @cinemaforall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Over the weekend Topsham Film Society were joined by @mwilljones.bsky.social for a Q&A at their special screening of our documentary REBELS WITH PROJECTORS, chronicling the past, present and future of the community cinema movement 🎞 Want to organise your own screening? Find out more: bit.ly/4dDn2Z9

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We are once again searching for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Visual Culture, focus on visual culture and the environment - deadline November 15 - details and application here: applications.caltech.edu/jobs/vcpd

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tonight for one night only if you’re in the Topsham area!

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A friend was just surprised by this out in the wild. If you’re in the Topsham area on September 18th, come watch @cinemaforall.bsky.social’s documentary short and see me talk about film society history!

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The worst postcard in Scotland competition is heating up

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Strong Final Destination vibes on this Highlands bus

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 15/07/2026

The Society will write up a summary for History for next week. Key points at this stage include: > 11% decline (-440 FPE) across all History staff between 2018/19 and 2024/25, compared with a 7% decline across all humanities > loss of 140 FPE History roles 2022/23 to 2024/25 #Skystorians 1/3

Screen shot from British Academy mapping SHAPE staff resource, showing change in History staff between 2018/19 and 2024/25. A loss of 440 FPE or 11% of the total.

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Get it while it’s hot - I chatted about my favourite Quatermass film with Ayesha and Mark for longer than you’d imagine is humanly possible, and now you too can listen in! I love this podcast - well worth a listen.

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Got stuck in the worst imaginable spot at the Florence and the Machine gig… ✨

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We got funding!!! 🎆 Absolutely ecstatic to announce that Laraine Porter and I have been awarded an AHRC Catalyst grant to work with @cinemaforall.bsky.social and its member societies on ‘Opening New Horizons in Early Community Cinema History’, piecing together the movement’s history from 1925-1946 🎇

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Ok but some of these Himalayan temples don’t make maintaining one’s natural solemn, respectful decorum easy…

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Spent the last two weeks hiking up to Everest base camp in the Himalayas. Now I have a few days left to explore Kathmandu. I’m a VERY happy chap. 🏔️🇳🇵🥾🏕️❄️

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Two weeks to go!!! 🏔️🥾🌲🏕️❄️🇳🇵

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

With this coming on top of the recent slashing of Film Studies staff at De Montfort University, Leicester is rapidly becoming a real desert for students seeking a career in the creative industries. Dreadful reputational damage for UoL and a genuine catastrophe for the East Midlands creative economy.

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

25 days to go… 🤩🏔️🚶‍♂️🎒🏕️🥶

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My husband just got his British citizenship!! No more collecting utility bills until our drawers burst and watching the latest immigration announcements with a mounting sense of dread about when the wave of new limitations would catch up with us. Today is a good day!!!

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a pixel art drawing of a bear sitting on a beach drinking a drink

ALT: a pixel art drawing of a bear sitting on a beach drinking a drink

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

New article alert! ‘Infrastructures of Influence: The British Federation of Film Societies and the Circulation of Soft Power, 1960–2000’. Just published by the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Fully open access, so please do share! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Infrastructures of Influence: The British Federation of Film Societies and the Circulation of Soft Power, 1960–2000

This article examines the role of the British Federation of Film Societies (BFFS) in the international circulation of film culture from 1960 to 2000, arguing that the Federation functioned as an in...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

As someone who is in an academic department that is positively pullulating with global talent, I would just like to note the gratuitous, excessive emotional and financial stress and strain suffered by talented globals in the context of swingeing visa regimes and hostile environments.

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Infrastructures of Influence: The British Federation of Film Societies and the Circulation of Soft Power, 1960–2000

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Ayesha Khan - Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever* @everyscififilm.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Yeah, people, go listen to the amazing @mwilljones.bsky.social and Keith Williams talk about this mid 60s oddity. 🥹

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It’s the time again - the magnificent Ayesha was kind enough to have me back on her utterly fantastic Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever podcast, this time talking moon monsters, steampunk Britain and First Men in the Moon. Such a fun episode and the podcast is always worth your time - check it out! 🌙 👾

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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 26/01/2026

It's been a while since I've shared my film/media history starter packs. Still adding more people! Feel free to make suggestions, share, and keep building the community! (Part II below) go.bsky.app/12Wo3y5

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Like Tories fleeing a sinking ship.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

'As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose procurement ought to be easy and frictionless.' 1/2

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Stop Trying to Make the Humanities ‘Relevant’

For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it.

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

It may not be pretty, but this Khmer-spiced veggie shepherd’s pie was an absolute beast of a dinner!

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Whisper it for now, but I’m starting to think I may actually finish everything I promised to do during my period of research leave…

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The BBC staff film society’s in-house magazine letters page in the summer of 1987 was an absolute ROLLERCOASTER

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

My husband was just granted indefinite leave to remain in the U.K. and now I don’t know what we are going to do with all the drawer space freed up by not having to hold on to 5 years of utility bills, bank statements and council tax statements.

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Whichever one of you ordered a sunset for 4.30pm is on my naughty list, I’m afraid.

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

My brilliant friends and colleagues at @cinemaforall.bsky.social are popping up on ITV News at 6.30pm tomorrow (Weds) to talk about community cinema’s 100th anniversary. Check it out if you can - a taste of the film society life with your dinner!

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

How am I supposed to focus on writing grant applications when Florence has a new album out on Friday?

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Oh look - it’s me popping up on Ayesha’s marvellous science fiction cinema podcast again! This time featuring triffids! Come have a listen - I had a proper giggle recording this.

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The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We have lots coming up for #halfterm / #readingweek next week! Don't miss our #halloween trail, kids' shadow puppet workshop or our lunchtime talk about our 'Dinosaurs, Dragons & #Monsters' display - all free, all welcome! 🎃🍁 #museumsky #filmsky @exeterlibrary.bsky.social @exeterunilib.bsky.social

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Impromptu weekend on Guernsey it is!

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The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

There's still time to apply for a Research Stipend 2025-6 - for #international & #UK-based #scholars, researchers & #practitioners to #research using our collections on #cinema & moving image #history. For more information & to apply, visit: tinyurl.com/54wvy2du #researchsky #filmsky #musueumsky

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Couldn’t make it to Sheffield for the 100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition I curated with the wonderful @cinemaforall.bsky.social a few weeks ago? Well today is your lucky day - a special guided tour just for you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyPj...

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100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition tour

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Ayesha Khan - Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever* @everyscififilm.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Episode 42 is detour and a lighthearted chat about one of those stories that connects people through shared refrences and humour. Don’t Panic: The Hitchhiker’s Guide Phenomenon is out. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧 If you want, that is.

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The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

📣 Exciting news! We're offering stipends for 2025-6 for #international and #UK-based #scholars, researchers and #practitioners to #research using our collections on #cinema and moving image #history. For more information and to apply, visit: tinyurl.com/54wvy2du #researchsky #filmsky #musueumsky

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Today’s the day - the @cinemaforall.bsky.social gala event and 100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition showcase at Bloc Projects gallery in Sheffield. I’m giving a guided exhibition tour at 3pm if anyone is nearby. Marking a century of community-led film exhibition in style!

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Opening tomorrow at Bloc Projects gallery in Sheffield - 100 Years of Community Cinema: The Exhibition. I’ve been working hard curating this with @cinemaforall.bsky.social and can’t wait to finally show it off! Giving a guided tour and talk about the history of the movement on Saturday at 3 too!

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Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Disappointed not get the job at Salford Uni I was interviewed for back in July but even more disappointed they're still refusing to reimburse my travel expenses to attend interview, and now appear to be ghosting me, forcing me to go public with my dissatisfaction to try to elicit a response...

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Can we talk about the fact that the AHRC Catalyst and Curiosity funding schemes, 2 of the 3 major arts and humanities research grant schemes available through our national funding councils, currently have success rates of 5.1% and 6.9% respectively? I knew they were low, but WOW.

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Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com · 06/09/2025

FYI: We are hiring a 3-year research postdoc at @camdighum.bsky.social to study AI and the future of creativity. Application deadline Sep 21; more info below. Please circulate / apply! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...

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Now Hiring: Research Associate (Fixed Term) - CDH

Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher in Digital Humanities. The post will run for three years from Spring 2026. The successful candidate will work with Profess...

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Cambodian spiced mac and cheese. That’s it. That’s the whole message. Cambodian spiced mac and cheese.

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Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Book contract secured! If any of the phenomenally generous reviewers are on here, THANK YOU!!! ‘A Century of Community Cinema: The First 100 Years of Non-commercial Film Exhibition in Britain’ will be coming to your nearest library in a couple of years. Woohoo!

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