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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🧵Back to Ryedale Museum and my favourite exhibit mainly because it tells a wonderful story of community. It is, the Farndale hearse. Victorian funerals were taken very seriously and a certain level of ceremony was expected. In some ways they were the equivalent of a present day wedding. These

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21/09/2026

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme to support research bit.ly/4iFNuF0 The RHS / Social History Archive Partnership offers free access to resources in @socialhistarchive.bsky.social, published by DC Thomson. Applications for 6-month access to Archive content invited #Skystorians 1/2

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Society launches new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive - RHS

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive, published by DC Thomson. The Social History Archive is a comprehensive online archive ...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 18/09/2026

'Why Does Academic History Matter?' bit.ly/4yB8MYQ With contributions from historians Martha Vandrei, Susan-Mary Grant, Joy Porter and @davidandress.bsky.social Free to read for 7 days @historytoday.com #Skystorians

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Why Does Academic History Matter?

The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care?

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Stefanie Shackleton, PhD @pauperhistorian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why do orgs/institutions think ECRs don't need to actually survive until they get funding or a nonexistent academic job? "Career break does not include work outside academia" - so how the f*** do we eat?! YOU try writing/research with a full time job or two, kids, and no library access or travel.

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Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It would be a terrible shame if this resource was lost for want of an archive - this stuff is still of major interest to policymakers today and is a crucial part of the social history that made the Britain of today (HT @municipaldreams.bsky.social )

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

just saw yet another medievalist group advertising their stuff with an AI-generated manuscript-style image. once again, I am saying that I, a real human medievalist and artist, am open and available to draw things for you

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Keep seeing stuff about AI in family history. Let me tell you a cautionary tale. Last week, a mate asked me to help her research a crime she'd heard about on social media. A 10 year old girl sentenced to transportation, a mudlarked memento found in the Thames close to Millbank.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/05/2026

#OtD 30 May 1937 the Memorial Day massacre occurred when Chicago police opened fire on a peaceful march of striking steel workers and their families. The police murdered 10, shot, beat and hospitalised many others. No police were prosecuted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1031...

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.

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Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!

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Oliver Betts @drolibetts.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Does anyone have any recent reading recommendations on how people (particularly working-class people) adjusted to technological change in the long c19th? By reading list feels a little dated... Thanks!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Tech wythout heart ys harmful. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 20/10/2025

In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a trjp to a hidden glade below Cnoc na Cailligh (The Hill of the Hag), to find one of my favourite megalithic tombs, the wonderful Gaulstown Dolmen! #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Prehistory #Archaeology 🏺 #Waterford

A Neolithic portal tomb in Waterford Ireland. It consists of an enormous capstone supported by tall upright stones

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 06/10/2025

The RHS is a membership organisation of 6500+ historians. We welcome applications to join us at any time. Our next closing dates are 13 October and 15 December. We offer categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research, from Postgraduate to Fellow: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians

Closing dates for next application rounds:
Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025

The Royal Historical Society represents the interests of historical researchers in universities, libraries, archives, museums, heritage and broadcasting, as well as those engaged in public, community and family history research.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

My take, which I’ve banged on about before, concerning the state of young people reading these days is that reading is a rhythm. It’s like a mix of slow breathing and being pleasurably bored. We need to bring back spaces and times where our young people can breath and think and get lost in a world.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Fancy a pleasant change from your ordinary drink? We give you “the great nerve and brain strengthener and restorer.” Yes, celery coffee was a thing in 1892. This advertisement is from the Young Women’s Christian Association’s ‘Our Own Gazette’. #InternationalCoffeeDay #WorldVegetarianDay

Advertisement for celery coffee which states that it is a great nerve and brain strengthener and restorer. Prepared solely from celery, guaranteed pure and unmixed. By royal letters patent. Features in 'Our Own Gazette' July 1892.

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I'm hugely honoured and very excited to be giving this year's Historical Research #Lecture at @ihr.bsky.social, on 'Can popular #history be radical? Historical research and writing for the #public'. Tuesday 4 November, all welcome. More info in AltText. Book here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

In this lecture, Catherine Clarke will re-visit the question of what makes history radical, asking what kind of radical history we need in our public life and contemporary context today. In particular, she’ll explore ways in which popular history – trade publishing for a wide public audience – has the capacity to be radical, drawing on experiences and examples from her own new book A History of England in 25 Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, September 2025). Catherine’s lecture will move towards a manifesto for how research-led, scholarship-driven popular history can and does make necessary, vital public interventions – from opening inclusive conversations and confronting the rise of AI, to modelling radical empathy and imagination.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 25/09/2025

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 24/09/2025

Look what we have here then.

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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

This year’s programme for our IHR seminar in Contemporary British History is coming together This side of Xmas we’re excited to welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social @garylove.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @dohertyta.bsky.social If you’d like to present next spring/summer, drop me a line!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

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How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M

Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

His Majesty. Postcard from my collection, mailed 1907.

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Arlene Harris @arleneharris.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

#journorequest - looking to talk to adults in Ireland who live at home with their parents due to lack of affordable housing. DM today if any thoughts. Shares appreciated.

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dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

gonna make my students start a necromancy journal in addition to a reading journal for class

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/09/2025

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

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Stefanie Shackleton, PhD @pauperhistorian.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I am 42. I tripped over a box. I expect to be immobile for the next 4+ days.

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Richard III Society @richardiiisociety.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The Richard III Society offers bursaries to help younger scholars gain academic experience by presenting papers at The Fifteenth Century Conference. One of last year’s bursary recipients was Caitlin Williams who has just completed a PhD at Queen Mary, University of London. 1/2 #Medievalsky

BL Egerton MS 747 Tractatus de herbis c. 1300 on display at the British Library exhibition ‘Medieval Women in Their Own Words’. Various plants are carefully drawn with accompanying text.

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Stefanie Shackleton, PhD @pauperhistorian.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Went to a fantastic talk by @robyninpink.bsky.social at the PRONI today on the workhouses of Northern Ireland. It was great to get to hear about a subject really close to my own field - especially by a genuinely good speaker for a mixed audience.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 09/09/2025

Royal Historical Society vacancy: Events and Academic Engagement Officer bit.ly/3V8q5PC We look to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata. Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians

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Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer - RHS

The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and dev...

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Stefanie Shackleton, PhD @pauperhistorian.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Back at the British Library! And forgot the readers room was closed on bank holidays. Oops. I guess we'll renew tomorrow and enjoy the members' lounge today.

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Juvenile unrest in the Irish workhouse causes some anxiety (Zozimus, 12 April 1871)

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days? cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...

To whom it may concern, and it should concern the editor:

I was quoted in your publication:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans/can-we-engineer-our-way-out-of-ocean-acidification/

Still, others aren't convinced that good intentions are enough. Dr. David Ho, Professor of Oceanography at University of Hawaii at Manoa, a cofounder and the Chief Science Officer of |C|Worthy, a non-profit that works on verifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, believes carbon removal efforts like ocean alkalinity enhancement shouldn't be left solely in the hands of private companies.

"They have no way to prove that what they're doing is effective - that's a big problem," Dr Ho said.

The crux of the dilemma, he explains, is that we are fighting a planetary-scale problem, but are doing it with tools that are still being built and tested. Geoengineering is not inherently good or bad, but it is inherently powerful. And power, especially when exercised in ecosystems as complex and fragile as the ocean, must be handled with caution.
However, I have never spoken to your reporter, nor would I have said those things. I would like you to remove my quote from your story, and issue a public correction and apology. Furthermore, you should look into whether the other parts of the article are also factually correct. Thanks.

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Can someone please point me in the direction of people working on philosophy and religion in the long eighteenth century..? #18thC #18C #C18th #18thCentury

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Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

One of our volunteers was curious about a young offender he came across on a conviction certificate of 1881, who'd stolen a pair of leggings and two ferrets. He managed to trace young Alfred's story to its fatal end: recordoffice.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/l... #Victorian #history

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Leggings and ferrets, oilcloth and jewellery: the relentless thefts of Alfred Scandrett

By Roger Jennens, cataloguing volunteer The Record Office holds a substantial collection of 18th and 19th century conviction certificates. These certificates are the focus of my current volunt…

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Stefanie Shackleton, PhD @pauperhistorian.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Settling into our new life in Belfast has been rocky (immigration is hard), but I couldn't imagine a better place - or a better fellow traveler - for this new adventure. And we've had such a warm welcome from everyone we've met. @witchhunthistorian.bsky.social

Statue of queen Victoria before the Belfast city hall building, with a seagull on her head.

Two awkward historians in front of a curved glass greenhouse with cloudy skies.

Dark stone corner building with carving and pointed arches on the roof. Modern sign for a coffee shop on the door.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 30/07/2025

Our Associate Fellowship category is for those at an earlier stage their research careers - for example, completion of a #History PhD - or History professionals (teachers, curators, archivists etc.) who make research possible. Applications are welcome at any time bit.ly/44r8NTg #Skystorians

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Stefanie Shackleton, PhD @pauperhistorian.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Finally made it back to the PRONI, one of my absolute favorite places to work.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 16/06/2025

I read this. fwiw, there's a huge difference between the historian at WLU using LLMs to analyze huge amounts of source materials just looking for keywords/ connections, AND the google engineer who pretends he's a historian by uploading sources to a LLM to tell him what to write and how to write it.

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