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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 15h

This guy is cooking. Nice everyday incremental changes. Got the crazies flailing. Perfect.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 15h

Ok. But for us wokesters who want to see toppings distribution on said pizza we’re flying blind here

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 23h

Niche question. This Anthropic Copyright Settlement Act thing. Has anyone had any disputed claims here? Did an obscure co-edited volume. Author bit split 50/50, and then whatever the publishers cut is they get. But some random name nowhere in the book has claimed the book as their own. Annoying.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

broke my podcasting drought (otherwise known as maternity leave) to talk about the university omnicrisis

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“New bugbear: students using AI to generate complaints about their assessments by picking out any tiny issues between university codes of practice and their assessment.” - live from the academic frontline where AI is going down a treat

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey everyone, I currently have availability for freelance writing, researching, and/or teaching work between now and the end of the calendar year. Please see this document for further details, and share with anyone else who you think might be interested.

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AVAILABILITY FOR WORK

Hello everyone, This is just a notice to say I'm available for freelance paid work in the following areas until the end of 2026: WRITING: Whether for academic or public-facing audiences, in the areas ...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What are your reflections after the Labour Party conference in Liverpool this week, on what has or has not shifted in the contours of British pol My Tuesday reflections here [filed on the morning of the speech]. Some post-conference thoughts in the thread. bsky.app/profile/sund...

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me when I’ll just type any old tat

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My academic heresy take is that I think marking rubrics (for humanities) don't add anything and only confuse matters because the real test is a job interview style "can you impress this particular person" which will always involve a huge amount of subjectivity anyway. But I am also partly wrong here

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Telling my wife I'm spending ten grand over this parliament on obscure podcast patreons subject to a review by Louise Casey

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you are going to end the triple lock, you’re better off just ending it. Talking about a process of maybe ending it in the next Parliament, following some sort of review, feels like a way of minimising the fiscal saving while maximising the political pain.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here's a mad idea: when you have a 150-seat majority why not break manifesto commitments you think are ridiculous and then let the electorate decide in three years' time whether you were right to do so?

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Have got some kind of acid reflux/constant stomach cramp thing which comes in waves but is annoying at night. Go to GP. "You're the sixth guy in their thirties...ish I've had in with these symptoms today." Firstly, thank you (I'll take the ish). Secondly, millennial men are finished. Done.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"I will resign my position in order to re-apply for the same lectureship." Sorry, what?

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Didn’t Tonty declare reversing Brexit was a no-goer a few months ago?

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lecture one on political communication/social media. Small room arranged, for better or worse, so that some have to sit facing away from me. On every form of screen I can see is some form of social media being used as I'm doing the lecture. Amazing commitment to the bit.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These names won’t pass Netflix drama believability I’m afraid

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tom Craine’s Last Match Then Bed podcast, albeit only one episode in*, is a wonderful CM97/98 nostalgia trip. Look I really liked CM01/02 as a last hurrah but the CM3 engine was a downhill move and it’s about time Big Woke admitted it. *Though covered in Quickly Kevin too I guess.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why is it not more simple for me, the lecturer on a course inevitably served by a Canvas VLE, to add students to that same course?

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Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

idk maybe tution fees should be tied to TEF scores... see how fond the RG is of rankings then...

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bluesky remains unbeaten

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kisin’s one trick of just repeating “I’m not right wing” followed by 98% right wing talking points and getting the thickest idiots to lap it up is really something

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

‘The report is expected to say that there is no direct evidence of widespread overdiagnosis of autism and ADHD in Britain’ Preview of what is expected in the independent review led by @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Peter Fonagy liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/476...

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ADHD is not being overdiagnosed, major Government report set to find

Landmark report expected to rule out mass overdiagnosis but warn support can be hard to obtain

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I do occasionally think writing in a few modules on the “secrets of strategic leadership” - content: only WonkHe opeds and interviews with senior HE leaders - is the cheat code to job preservation

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mahmood vs Kemi vs Yusuf - with Syed or Kisin as special guest referee in a triple threat “pull up the migration ladder match” would be rejected by WWE writers as testing audience credulity, but here we are

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

English HE is this plus a new training session in maximising student satisfaction

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trying to describe what it’s like working inside British universities at the moment is very hard. One small vignette: not a single week of my teaching this semester looks the same as any other. We have virtually no courses/modules that are taught by

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We live in a poll-driven political age, but it's important for all politicians to remember that they can lead/influence public opinion through leadership and communication.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Noticing more and more books having the Bibliography as just "see this weblink for the list" and, I've got to say, unless it's some REF related academic thing I completely agree with this.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At this point must have 6 articles sitting at about 5,000 words that I've failed to convert to proper journal submission length. This is either the greatest pre-loading of any 2036 REF yet seen,or indicative of analytical conversion decline. I choose to believe the former.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know there's a push against being overly surveillant of your adult kid but the volume of this sort of thing has just gone WAY up in recent years. I mean it's a Catch-22, chicken/egg, they'll never be independent unless they are. But also the amount of general naivety has just risen massively.

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

we need an army on lifestyle influencers who say stuff like “hey chat you gotta turn your phone off at the cinema, say thank you to waiting staff, take your glasses back to the bar too if poss“

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One episode to go on (yes, very late) viewing of the TV version of The Plot Against America and this is top tier stuff. They really nailed this.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“We want you gone forever!” … “What do you mean you could be gone for five weeks!”

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Genuinely cannot believe this tone from a VC who has just announced that hundreds of jobs are going to be lost

Professor Mathieson said: "We are extremely disappointed that, despite ongoing discussions, the University and College Union has given notification of five weeks' strike action, which will unfairly and deliberately target students' first semester of the academic year.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If any prospective PhD student is interested in anything that I - or any ARU-er - can supervise then the CAM-DTP doctoral studentships soon to open. You get in touch w/a supervisor, apply to ARU saying you’d like to pursue the CAM-DTP route, then process begins as per www.aru.ac.uk/research/pos...

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CAM-Doctoral Training Partnership PhD studentships - ARU

Find out about and apply for ten ESRC-funded PhD projects at Anglia Ruskin University as part of the CAM-Doctoral Training Partnership, starting October 2024.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is absolutely true right now - though to be honest the last twenty years has just been a see-saw between "yes, interdisciplinarity!" and "no, administrative simplicity!" as managers come and go

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Churchill Archives Centre @chuarchives.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yesterday we posted an extract from one of Jack Oughtred's letters describing conditions during the Battle of the Somme, as part of our series marking the Somme's 110th anniversary. Here's the only photograph of Jack in the collection, alongside a photo of his wife, Phyllis Bentham ... 🧵

Two black-and-white photographs. The photo on the left shows a man in military dress smiling at the camera. The photo on the white shows a woman dressed in white holding a tennis racket.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bluesky forecast for today: Canada/EU until late afternoon with a bit of Piddington snark, gradually transitioning to the Fed/bond markets as we head into the evening. UV levels moderate.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He's an old mate but just got around to finishing David Singerman's Unrefined and it really is a tour de force on sugar, measurement, tariffs, capitalism, lobbying, scientific method, trade/commodities and a whole bunch of stuff. Highly recommend: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Unrefined

A surprising look at how modern capitalism changed sugar from a natural food to a scientific commodity. Sugar is everywhere in the western diet, blamed for epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and other mo...

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I mocked this and will mock it again but I do also think this about a lot of political science “science-ising basically completely humanities papers with graphs or diagrams ” content

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

ChatGPT: please remove the intuitive graph on historic levels of woke from my next book. Thanks.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wish I was A, unfortunately am B

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Previous users of Mass Observation online version (I guess the one Adam Mayhew flog?): 1. Is it any good? 2. Is it ludicrously expensive - institutional wise, or do they do individual versions? 3. if you've accessed via Cambridge UL or British Library - does it, err, actually work?

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