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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 16h
It’s Oscar Wilde’s birthday – and we’ve been giving one of his notebooks a little extra attention Swipe to see how our conservator repaired its fragile pages and damaged binding to make it Reading Room ready
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 14h
Triaging and arranging to-do list by who suffers most the more days it goes... This almost always results in putting own research last... #ProjectLeadership #CollaborativeDilemmas
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I went through a Warhammer phase as a kid and can believe this: I spent a fortune on those goddamn models. But I also went to community centres and local churches to play games against other people my age and older so let’s celebrate it’s communal nature as much as it’s economic output.
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@vbivar.bsky.social
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
V tempted to show this in class. Egad. Laugh so ya don't cry
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Try doing the same with sound and drumming. Cos that was the workaround and colonial acoustic jurisprudence also tried to stop it...
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Matt ”read the syllabus” L @matt18l.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The kids are alright
Picture of sidewalk chalk: KEEP THE HUMANITIES HUMAN Boycott Slop
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rather than ordering online, I'm buying as I see... #ExitViaTheGiftStore... Actually v revealing esp the kids books. Working into my analyses and hoping to get this work from brain-to-world
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No help here my friend. My latest is exhibition catalogues and children's books... "Sources!" Tho, I am collecting as I go (#BlackEurope with @mamefatouniang.bsky.social )
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shot: "We asked 37 top academics and researchers who study education to rate a range of ideas for both effectiveness and cost, on a scale of 1 to 7." Chaser: "The panel included: Dominique Baker..." LOL y'all I read so many papers to complete this survey on k12 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts
Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lmao
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CfP: 'Island Empires and Pacific Power, 1688–1995' symposium taking place in Adelaide in June 2027 🗃️
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When students linger after class, beg to continue the topic next time, come what may... (Credit to Josephine Baker and her #BlackAtlantic life...) Pictured here with adopted children, She in army uniform... Bits of the story my class did not know
Singer Josephine Baker, in army uniform, with four children, different skin colours, in denim short overalls and one in rompers
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Delightful post of the day
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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Was very happy to beam into QUB today to launch the Africans in Ireland website that I and a number of colleagues have been working on for years. Maps, database, & other resources documenting the African presence in Ireland from the late 16th to early 20th centuries. africansinireland.com
A right-facing silhouette of the Black preacher and seaman John Jea, Methodist preacher and seaman, from his 1816 book The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Really cool website that students will love. A great resource. Well done to all involved (with a special shout out to my brilliant colleague in Maynooth Jonathan Wright).
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tell me you're in a certain city of light, without... Sometimes research comes with a side of Opera Garnier #ResearchWeekend
Woman with short red hair in oversize glasses, silk scarf, in front of sandstone buildingSlightly blurry photo of redhead at opera garnier
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Solidarity. Always relevant.
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well Ed Sheeran is a coward. And as for republican stadium owners... Free speech only when it suits huh? So predictable. Fwiw I never got the Ed appeal...
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And... we're off. New season #UnsettlingKnowledge starts with bang - and cowbell, and discussion of time, linearity, circularity, Afropean rhythm, memory/history ft. #OlupemiOludare #HollyZijderfeld. JOYOUS. Loads of music + mind-bending ‘timey-wimey’ chat. Enjoy! soundcloud.com/utrechtunive...
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Unsettling Knowledge #35: Catching Cultures in Afropean Time with Olupemi Oludare
Many days, in many ways, we move through space and time without thinking too much about it. But how we experience time, what a cultural conception of time is, and perceptions of how past-present and f
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Amplifying
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
📣Out now on #firstview! Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social, Angéline Escafré-Dublet (Université Lumière Lyon 2) and Daniel A. Gordon @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social on 'Insiders and Outsiders: The Historiography of Immigration in France' 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The history of immigration has become a dynamic subfield of French history since the 1970s. We examine its origins in both academic and activist milieus, and we consider its development in relation to some of the most important civic debates that have animated the French public sphere. In particular, we explore how histories of immigration expose some of the central concerns of modern French history – about the boundaries of citizenship, the power of the state, and the revolutionary potential of those who are kept on the margins of Frenchness. We also discuss the relationship between French and foreign scholars of immigration, and, by way of conclusion, we consider the future of a field that faces threats from a growing political backlash to immigration.
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Underrated post.
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yasss queeeeen.
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Post of hope, for the day. For the eight hour day. For the week. For the weekend (insert Maggie Smith as Dowager countess/Frederick Douglass mashup quote here - what, to a [fill in the gap] is a weekend?) #Unions #Solidarity
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Chicago bans not only AI but mobile phones, tablets and laptops from first-year Law School teaching to foster hard thinking. (Presumably with provisions for students with disabilities although that's not mentioned). With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Law schools tell students to put AI away
The technology is being banned from certain classrooms to remove shortcuts that ‘stunt intellectual growth’
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
See this chart? Workers’ share of the nation’s income is at the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947. Corporate profits’ share, on the other hand, is the highest it’s been since 1950. This is why we must build back worker power.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026
This is one of the objections I have when people talk about how useful LLMs can be for literature searches or for any kind of search, really. Even beyond the biases that inevitably (and, in some cases, intentionally) show up, part of a good literature search is seeing information *in context.*
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Omg no. You just saw me like a timber mill
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dolly Parton logged a combined total of 115 years of union membership. Throughout her working life, the “9 to 5” singer/songwriter carried the union cards of two major unions: The American Federation of Musicians Local 257 in Nashville — for 58 years. SAG-AFTRA — for 57 years. HAPPY LABOR DAY!
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Opinion | Celebrate Dolly Parton's working-class solidarity
John Nichols: She carried two union cards, sang Woody Guthrie songs and mocked the bosses in "9 to 5."
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m just a historian so don’t ask me but I’m sure there’s a historical precedent for a society that turned a blind eye to far right agitation but crushed left wing activism with all its might and resources. Huh. Wonder what happened with that.
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tell me something surprising...
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ooh. Wins the webs for moi today.
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Afropean @afropean.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"For Carnival’s 60th anniversary, Euronews Culture spoke to 10 people who have helped shape, celebrate and document its culture - asking each of them to choose the one track that, for them, captures the spirit of the festival." www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
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60 years of Notting Hill Carnival: 10 essential songs chosen by its veterans
For Carnival’s 60th anniversary, Euronews Culture spoke to 10 people who have helped shape, celebrate and document its culture - asking each of them to choose the one track that, for them, captures…
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sometimes an archival bit just captures things - Josephine Baker on education, early 70s - still applies: "change thinking - eternal blablabla ... think about quality not quantity of teaching... #NoLie
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What Venus said. Also what's with blanket thinking 'all bad/all good' > failure to discriminate btn generative vs processing AI (i.e. using OCR for archival sources, image recognition for quant work on collective memory in pop culture - that interests me.) WHEN 2 use = crit thinking
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
To be clear, I think the wealth is too much, and elitist, and it goes on almost unnoticed compared to the Tech Bros. At same time, the philanthropy, and making art available to the public is marvelous. As v poor grad student in Boston I experienced amazing cultural wealth, music, art.
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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Interesting research on neo-colonialism in Africa. Turns out the Eurozone is a much worse offender (by an enormous margin) than China. @70sbachchan.bsky.social and @katemac.bsky.social might be interested.
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thanks! Reckon me and my 13 yr old would love it. Noted! Also, I love the Boston Public Garden. Also reading by the Charles, along the esplanade ... So much wealth and also so much beauty and publicly available space and music
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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yesterday at the bookstore people were reading on chairs, the floor, parents were reading to children, people were happily talking about books. I stood in line behind -- I counted -- 27 people. No event, no launch. It was just a Thursday in August. Hope exists. Hope exists. Hope exists.
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Not even clear Baker actually said this, but ... oh the SHADE blackpast.org/african-amer...
But on that great big beautiful ship, I had a bad experience.  A very important star was to sit with me for dinner, and at the last moment I discovered she didn’t want to eat with a colored woman.  I can tell you it was some blow.

And I won’t bother to mention her name, because it is not important, and anyway, now she is dead.
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
📚 Proudly celebrating the stories, voices and experiences that make our communities stronger. Happy Manchester Pride from all of us at Manchester University Press. 🌈 #ManchesterPride #Pride #BooksForEveryone
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
PS #AmWritingToday Work opening-of-year yesterday interrupted. 'Leaders speech' bingo card would've been amply filled. Resilience, difficult times, creativity, bottom up, top down, pull together, we pieces of puzzle, collective solve, hope... Praps next year I'll make a card Back to writing now.
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B-B-B-BINGO! (Bingo Bluey)
ALT: B-B-B-BINGO! (Bingo Bluey)
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hey Bluesky fam, #BlackHistory hive mind - anyone know who Brother K'lett was? What op-ta-mul-ka stands for? A, revisiting archival snippets from #BricktopCorrespondence #MARBL #Emory on Black "knowledge explosion," in '60s, value of education, knowledge, how produced/circulated - appreciate help.
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redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
collective diaspora memory? exodux narrative, maps onto catholic tradition, chosen people, resilience, forging the global diaspora... ? Irish doing well abroad. Oddly distanced navel-gazing... But can't match American woman in Paris bringing up kids/finding self/finding love/renovating chateau genre
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