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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#Interrail #Sale ends tomorrow, 30 September. See below for details. It's really worth having a look and buying tickets for the year ahead.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Additional info: there's 50% (!!) off unlimited travel for a month, two months, or three months. For an under-27, this works out as £227 for a month; for adults it's £303. Only limit is that it's one trip out of your country and one trip back in. Otherwise unlimited. Seat reservations are separate.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Very excited to have the opportunity to think about #TitusAndronicus as a precursor to/trial run/source of #MeasureForMeasure for this event. So many crossovers: in/justice, consent, rape, forced marriage, revenge, mercy, piety, pleading, beheading, substitutions ... and silence.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Public service announcement: There's an #interrail sale between now and 30 September. 15% off for adults. A 4-day interrail ticket plus seat reservations works out cheaper than a return ticket to Germany. @lizschafer.bsky.social @profjsanders.bsky.social @starcrossed2018.bsky.social

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German Shakespeare Society (DSG) @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📣 Registration is open! Join us in Weimar on 6–7 November to discuss authority and its abuses, governance, and legitimacy in #Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure! We're very much looking forward to welcoming our distinguished speakers, including @pascaleexeter.bsky.social and @lizschafer.bsky.social.🎭

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 16/09/2026

Ukrainians have proven countless times that their spirit cannot be broken. And this summer, Sasha has shown the whole world the true essence of this ↓

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ICYMI: yesterday I found a jester called Ramsey in the Vintners' Company accounts. Only the second one I've found so far, in 8 years 😊

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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Timely this, as I've just been reading Alexander Lee, "The First Ghetto: Venice and the Jews" (which was a good book but I always want more pictures) #earlymodern #skyhistory www.panmacmillan.com/authors/alex...

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Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network @earlymodernwar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We're excited to share the final programme of events for our upcoming conference at the University of Exeter on 1-3 September! See the thread below for details, and register here for three full days of talks discussing early modern violence beyond the battlefield: forms.gle/i2qhzBTpboxK...

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American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

On Thursday, August 20, the board of officers of the American Philosophical Association issued a letter to the University of Exeter administration in response to proposed cuts to the university’s philosophy program. www.apaonline.org/news/733577/...

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APA board issues letter on proposed cuts to philosophy program at the University of Exeter - American Philosophical Association

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Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This scrap fell out of my new/old Wagner. From the review of Jennie Tourel's performance as Carmen at the City Centre Opera Company, I date it to Feb 1944, which is corroborated by a reference to Operation Hailstorm (17-18 Feb 1944) on the reverse. Can anyone suggest which NY paper this is?

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

When the first thing you do in the morning is unpick the previous day's work... 😧 But at least, it's raining!

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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below. Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Closing Date: October 15, 2026

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Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Are you using early modern broadside ballads in your work? If so, please fill in this survey for a student's project on broadside ballad databases and the impact of the closure of the Bodleian's Broadside Ballads Online: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/TQrAhSLXkK Thank you!

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just in case you haven't signed this yet: The crisis in Exeter is not over. It's just in that dangerous phase where people forget about it unless they're affected. We're waiting to find out the results of the 'consultation'. There's still time to change course. Share and sign! c.org/VZDjrbTybJ

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

When I manage to concentrate among current madness, editing #TitusAndronicus takes me on the wildest, nerdiest rides. Utterly wonderful to have the scope to really think about a single word, in detail, and unpack what it meant to the audience. Today's favourite: entails, when smelling of incense.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just found this gem from my PhD days, when I used to mark up and colour code my notes...

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Share and sign, share and sign! This thing is still terrifyingly real and there's no pretending that it's softened or has gone away. #DefendExeterUni #DefendSHAPE #English #CreativeWriting #Drama #Languages #Theology #History #Arts&Humanities #SocialSciences #PureMaths #Geography c.org/xJ7bKnq7pL

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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yup. Please keep sharing, signing, noise-making !

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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Marchie @marchie56.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I don’t want to spam you, so I promise I won’t put this up again on your feed, but it would be great to know you had a listen to this. I hope you like it. youtu.be/WfuMJOM4aCs

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I Will Stand in Clacton (parody song for Count Binface)

YouTube video by Gareth Marchant

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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Look at the gorgeous cover! So privileged and lucky to have a chapter in this excellent collection edited by such generous and wonderful scholars and forthcoming from Bloomsbury soon. If you're wondering, it's my _Merchant of Venice_ summer 👀🔥 www.bloomsbury.com/ca/shakespea...

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Shakespeare and Early Modern Misogyny

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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Rachel Gilmour, MP for Tiverton and Minehead @rachelgilmourld.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Early modern theatre historians: this is a thing a student of mine made to help with understanding the affordances of the #Jacobean #Whitefriars 💥

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Digital Humanities Lab, Exeter @dhlabexeter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

To find out more about this excellent project, check out the full blog post on our DH Blog: digitalhumanities.exeter.ac.uk/2026/07/whit... #Digital #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #DH #DHLab #Interns #Internships #Blog #3D #3DPrint #3DPrinting #3DDesign #CAD #Undergraduate #HASS #Research

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Whitefriars Theatre | Digital Humanities at Exeter

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Digital Humanities Lab, Exeter @dhlabexeter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

@pascaleexeter.bsky.social said this about the collaboration: 'Holly used her design skills to produce two alternative models...the models have transformed and refined how we can imagine those plays in performance and have taught us to ask new questions of the plays and the performance space.'

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(Dr.) Diana Henderson @dianahenderson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I just watched/listened to this entire video, & am so impressed, moved, indeed near tears at what Ruby has produced: a testament to her, and also to what she learned at Exeter w/ brilliant tutors. Please do listen, & act!

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Have you watched Ruby's video standing up for English and Humanities/Social Sciences/Arts subjects yet? She's a brilliant former student of mine who's pulled out all the stops to help with our campaign. She even convinced me to film a segment 🫣. Watch, sign and share! youtu.be/3HKCsUUsUNs?...

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In Defence of the Humanities Degree

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DominicSelwood @dominicselwood.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My piece today in The Spectator on the dramatic cuts proposed at Exeter University and the real perils of sacrificing the humanities.

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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Bridget Phillipson no longer Minister for Ignoring the Crisis in Higher Education.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“The Guardian wins the ‘Caption of the Year’ competition: - William Merrin @theguardian.com

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Dr Philippa Earle @uncouthswain.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Fantastic video! Please watch, share, get behind #Humanities #UKHE & sign the petition to #DefendExeterUni "You can do university without the buildings ... but you can't do it without the tutors."

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We need to talk about this more. We’re in a climate emergency and it’s caused, among other things, by out-of-control corporate spending in elections. Thank you @abdulelsayed.bsky.social for connecting the dots!

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Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A happy conclusion to a gruelling day. The Aare washes off all the gremlins - and it's never been so warm! (That's less good)

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I've signed and sent a letter - from authors, broadcasters, journalists, artists, scholars and performers - to express our deep concern at @exeter.ac.uk’s troubling plans to make mass redundancies within the Humanities Dept @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social. I would love it if you read and shared widely.

Dear Vice Chancellor, Provost, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean for the Faculty of Humanities,
Arts and Social Sciences and Chair of Council (cc Director of Human Resources and Chief Financial
Officer)
We write, as authors, broadcasters, journalists, artists, publishers, academics and performers in the public
sphere, to express our deep concern at the University of Exeter’s plans to make redundancies within the
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS). The cuts come at a point when Exeter is not in
deficit, and they are not distributed equally across the university. With 114 of the proposed 153 FTE
academic redundancies falling within HASS, the University is dismantling areas of established excellence
and international renown in a Russell Group University whose reputation is known to be outstanding in the
Humanities. Several of the disciplines subject to the proposed cuts, including Classics and Ancient History,
English and Creative Writing, History, and Theology and Religion are among the UK’s strongest according
to league tables, the Research Excellence Framework (REF), the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF),
and other recognised indicators, including QS World Rankings.
The extent of the proposed cuts is both shocking and misguided. Exeter is seeking to make up to 20
academics redundant in English and Creative Writing, out of a headcount of 62. In Languages and Visual
Culture upwards of 17 colleagues will be made redundant, decimating subjects including Art History and
Visual Culture, French, German, Italian, Hispanic Studies, Russian and Chinese. 5 posts will go or have
gone in Classics and Ancient History (2 academics have already left), out of a staff body of 20. In Theology
and Religion up to 5 academics will be made redundant out of a group of 13. In History over 17 colleagues
will be made redundant, out of a staff body of 53. In the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies staff are
facing a headcount reduction of almost a third (6FTE out …

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Easily over 30,000 signatures. Do we already have a Parliamentary petition for all of #UKHE? Now would be the time to get parents, employers, local communities, as well as students & staff to tell Parliament that if they want growth & regional revival, they're going to have stop cutting the engines.

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

These cuts are appalling. Let’s make clear they will not be tolerated!

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Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

From today’s Times letters page. #DefendExeterUni

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I am beyond disbelief

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BRISMES @brismes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

BRISMES Council has written to the VC of @exeter.ac.uk to express our deep concern about the proposed reductions to academic posts in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, including within the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies (IAIS). Read our letter: bit.ly/3SZnsS7 1/2

Page 1 of a BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) letter dated 2 July 2026 to Professor Lisa Roberts, Vice Chancellor of the University of Exeter. The letter expresses deep concern about proposed redundancies in the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies (IAIS), highlighting the institute's international reputation for research, teaching, language provision, and leadership in Middle Eastern Studies, and warning that staff reductions would damage the discipline in the UK and beyond.

Page 2 of the BRISMES letter arguing that proposed redundancies at the University of Exeter would weaken research capacity, student opportunities, specialist language teaching, and the international standing of Middle Eastern Studies. The letter states that the financial challenges facing UK universities are structural, that redundancies are not a sustainable solution, and urges the University Executive Board to reconsider the planned cuts to protect the long-term future of the discipline.

Final page of the BRISMES letter signed by Professor Nicola Pratt, BRISMES President, and Professor Dina Matar, BRISMES President-Elect. The page also lists copied recipients, including senior leaders in the University of Exeter's Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Just imagine what the sector could do if we weren't being constantly dismantled from within and denied any support from without. The mind boggles.

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