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Dinah Roe

@preraphsrule.bsky.social
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C19th literature. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelitism. Caregiving / Care. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website carerspoetry.org for poems by caregivers.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 3h
So much of the "quit wasting time and money on humanities programs" comes from dudes with humanities degrees from the Ivies. They get to have a broad, liberal, meaningful education, but it's narrow, lifeless career prep for the rest of y'all.
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Erin Okuno @thiserin.bsky.social · 11h
"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 5h
NEW: PEN America today reported nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year—the largest number in a single year. New state censorship laws accounted for much of the increase, coupled with the use of AI to remove books en masse: pen.org/press-releas...
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Nearly 12,000 School Book Bans Nationwide in 2025-2026—Biggest Number in a Single Year
PEN America today reported nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year—the largest number in a single year. New state censorship laws accounted for much of th...
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 4h
Norway first country to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in public places
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Norway first country to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in public places
Law would prohibit use of the technology in parks, beaches, schools and kindergartens
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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 9h
I suspect that what I wrote about sewing yesterday also works as a metaphor for writing. So often when writers get stuck it is because you are impatient and trying to skip steps or avoid revision. jovanevery.co.uk/perfectionis...
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 10h
Yes - how many times have I read versions of this article? Not quite as many times as I've seen wife work go unrewarded, but close.
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“If the work is essential enough for an organisation to rely on, then it is essential enough to be included in contracts, workload models, promotion systems and remuneration.”
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 10h
"Our consultation identified five areas of practice that contribute to the Holy Grail of total coherence." 🤡 Next they'll be wanting to lob the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch 🙄
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 10h
'The government says: “We expect higher education providers to consider the supply, and affordability of student accommodation in relation to their anticipated student intakes and across all years of study at least five years ahead."'🍫🫖
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On this day in 1982, Glenn Gould died in Toronto. Born in 1932 in Toronto, he was one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. He won three Grammys, three Junos and is a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. His music is also on the Voyager Golden Record. 📸 Fred Plaut
Glenn Gould leaning forward with an animated expression and raised right hand as if making a point, wearing a light patterned button-up shirt.
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Democrats Abroad UK @demsabroaduk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Attention all U.S. citizens living abroad! Need help with voting? Get live voter help on Zoom. You can drop in today, Sunday, October 4 at 12pm EDT / 5pm BST. Or on Tuesday, October 6 at 11am EDT / 4pm BST. Go to: voteabroad.org/VoterHelp
A graphic with a photo of a person at a computer using Zoom to meet with another person. The text says "ZOOM the vote. Calling all voters abroad. Get live voter help on Zoom! Sunday, Oct 4 and Tuesday Oct 6." The VFA logo is at the bottom.
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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ronald Blythe Fellowship 2026 The John Clare Society runs an annual bursary scheme, providing £1,000 for PhD researchers in the field of John Clare studies. Closing date: 30 October. @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social johnclaresociety.org/2026/10/01/r...
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Apply for John Clare Society Bursary by 30 October 2026
Apply for the Ronald Blythe Fellowship bursary for John Clare studies! Deadline: 30 October 2026. Fund your research projects
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This week I wrote about the love-hate affair of poets with the place where, increasingly, they work: the university
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“I love anarchy, and I’m Head of Department”
In search of the great campus poem
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My child's primary school had a decent solution to gift shop inequality - they just said don't send your kid in with any money during a field trip, as they won't be allowed to buy anything on the day (there was a link to gift shop merch that people could buy privately).
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Okay, George Lucas remains a schmuck but his wife is pure class. She made him make the museum souvenirs and food cheap so that schoolchildren without much money can still have a good day, because she says she remembers how bad it felt to go on expensive field trips. It DOES.
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
See also the UK
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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
CFP: Fiction in Victorian and Edwardian Socialist Periodicals (Abstract Deadline: 10/31/2026) navsa.org/News/13728410
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everybodye yn thys café sholde be singing "La Marseillaise" more loudlye.
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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
London friends:
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Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It takes arts and culture to foster a sense of community and belonging, so we don't become completely objectified as extractive labour working to benefit others.
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The Princess Bride (1987) @princessbride1987.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He simply said, "Please… please, I need to live." It was the please that caught my memory. I asked him what was so important. "True love," he replied.
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Jenn Robbins Points at THIS
ALT: Jenn Robbins Points at THIS
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well, this is a delight. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just had a stand-up row with a finance guy who said the following: 1) The Blair gov't failed students by encouraging more people to go to Uni 2) There are too many 'low value courses' 3) Apprenticeships are a panacea 4) Employers can't help because the government are over-taxing them Raging.
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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
📣 FT 18-month HE teaching job: Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Modern Migration History @ucddublin.bsky.social 📍Dublin 🕰️ Apply by 22 October Full details 👇 @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @oralhistsoc.bsky.social #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistoryEducation #EduSky
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Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Modern Migration History at University College Dublin
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Modern Migration History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 03/10/2026
"no one elected you" dude it's an internationally acclaimed election watched by billions around the globe
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/10/2026
We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit
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We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit
Public outcry to punish the alleged perpetrators in the Cornell case misses the point – the only solution is political, legal and cultural equality of women
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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 03/10/2026
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UK urged to act as Polymarket takes bets on whether HSBC and Lloyds will fail
Revelation comes amid mounting concern over online prediction market’s effects on integrity of financial system
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's always like this - by the time you add the 2 weeks to get full protection, it's rampant in schools. Drives me round the twist.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Sussex has moved away from Turnitin, UEA has indicated that it will, and in private conversations I’ve had with SU colleagues, other universities are signalling that a Southampton-style exit is on the cards.'
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A supplier shouldn’t be able to rewrite who owns students’ essays
Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Extraordinary Stories of Britain Podcast @storiesofbritain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Born #OTD 1847, Annie Besant campaigned to end the terrible toxic working conditions and improve the poor pay of the Bryant and May factory Match Girls in the East End. Then moved to India to support home rule. Hear her story in our Women and Protest podcast: tinyurl.com/2p8fek9r #history
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Sarah Mead Leonard @smeadleonard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's publication month! "Critical histories of the Arts and Crafts movement" is out October 20. More to come about book launch events, including a digital program with @morrissocietyus.bsky.social
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.datacentermap.com/united-kingd...
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'Many people now experience “community” as something they consume rather than something they co-produce.'
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 01/10/2026
Good morning, children, welcome to your first day at School. Your 5 years of play are over and the rest of your lives will be spent in service to capital, specifically, to my billionaire friends that make my life very comfortable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Employers should teach primary-age children about work, Milburn says
The author of a major report into youth activity in the UK says children as young as four should be learning about careers.
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Clíona Ó Gallchoir @clionaog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This article was very much a labour of love, and it took even longer than usual to be published, so I really mean it when I say I am DELIGHTED to see it in print. I have free prints if anyone needs one! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VXW3P...
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Growing up as a Girl in Edgeworthstown House, c.1782–1807: the Experiences of Elizabeth and Charlotte Edgeworth
Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth are hailed as educational pioneers whose jointly-authored work, Practical Education (1798), outlines methods that are grounded in and illustrated by accounts of t...
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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s the end of September. Haven’t had much time for #mudlarking this month but here are nine sweet finds spotted over the last few weeks. From the top, left to right: • corner piece from a Medieval Penn tile featuring fleur-de-lis pattern ⚜️ • limestone marble, possibly from Salzburg 17th/18thC 1/
Nine finds from September on the Thames Foreshore. From the top, left to right - a corner of a medieval floor tile showing a fleur-de-lis pattern, a limestone marble from Salzburg (late 17th/18thC), a clay pipe bowl showing a 16thC man dressed in headgear from that era, the pipe made by Gambier of Paris.
Middle row - a green glass duck, a handful of handmade 14th to 18thC dress pins, a blue on white Transferware sherd showing a waterman in a boat.
Bottom row - a child’s lead toy car toy, a sherd of blue & manganese Westerwald grey stoneware pottery, a piece of black flint showing a fossilised bivalve shell.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Job opening: Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art, Brown University arthist.net/archive/54485
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Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art, Brown University
Nancy Safian. Brown University, History of Art and Architecture department, 01.06.2027, Bewerbungsschluss: 20.10.2026
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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Francis Seymour Haden, Battersea Reach, 1863 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…
date inscribed
Presented by Ernest Marsh 1909
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That first sentence reads like an Amazon reviews AI summary. Bland, unevidenced, hollowly authoritative, says nothing, no voice, no real commitment to the bit.
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A thousand times yes. Same with education. Care is EVERYTHING.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026
Nottingham today. Everywhere tomorrow. 2,700 staff put at risk. 600+ jobs targeted. At least 48 courses facing closure. What happens here sets the template for the sector. Stand with Nottingham.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Learning that frats were banned at my (US) university was a major deciding factor for me as an undergraduate. Not kidding.
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Last semester I permitted my students to use A.I. tools on their final essays in accordance with specific guidelines." Whoomp! (There It Is)
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 29/09/2026
Access to culture is a right, not a privilege. Keeping museums free means millions can continue to explore, learn and be inspired, regardless of their background or income. That's good for London, and good for ensuring cost is never a barrier to discovery.
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Culture secretary confirms free admission for all at England’s national museums will remain
The announcement by Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, came after recent discussions of introducing admission fees for overseas visitors
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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim."
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