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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 5h

Hi historians. Any references you can point us to about charladies - 🧹🧽🧼 history of cleaners? 🙏🏻

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Revisiting Katharine Buildings @katharinebuildings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

👋 Introducing Revisiting Katharine Buildings! - a historical research project exploring migration, difference and inequality at a Victorian housing estate in east London.

Black and white photo showing balconies along the side of Katharine Buildings in east London. Photo taken by the GLC in 1970, shortly before the demolition of the estate.

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you’re anywhere near Brighton on 1st November and at a loose end …

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have just committed the 18 verses of Lewis Carroll’s Walrus and Carpenter to memory. But I can’t remember why I went upstairs.

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wonder how use of AI will compound them e.g. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Maybe not too late - a bit of reflexive distance?

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There’s something special about capturing the perfect alignment between a London Underground train and a station poster. With patience and a little luck, these fleeting moments can produce wonderfully amusing and unexpected photographs.

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

👏🏼👏🏼 Emili and shana tova 🍎

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New preprint from me: 'Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good'. The paper treats AI as diagnostic of deeper contradictions, and argues that convivial practice can reclaim vital systems from the collapse of the technopolitical regime. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Screenshot of paper title and abstract. 'Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good': "Rather than taking AI as a central focus, this paper treats it as diagnostic of deeper contradictions. AI intensifies extractivism while being unable to deliver on its promises, and its rampant scaling of energy and resource demands heralds a form of ‘total mobilisation’. This paper proposes decomputing as a programme for pushing back against such technocratic nihilism. Decomputing adopts a degrowth framework and advocates for reclaiming agency through deautomatisation and people’s coun- cils, in order to develop convivial alternatives that centre an ethics of care. It is a philosophical and tactical response to the wider crisis of care induced by the collapse of existing systems..."

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Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

was thinking @rosedwards.bsky.social did you scour obit essays for any material on academic wives? I'm reading through some and I feel like I'm going to freakin' scream. Have yet to find one on a male academic who didn't marry one of their grad students/RAs. 1/

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What a fantastic and awful thread. Thanks @lauriestras.bsky.social for another avenue to check out. Unfortunately academics’ wives just keeps on giving. I think I’ll reread The History Man to get myself in the right frame of mind to pursue these leads.

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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ha! This is exactly the kind of "your research output changed our practice" confirmation academics need for REF impact case studies.

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Na’amod spoke to @haaretzcom about the @jlc.uk and Board of Deputies' disgraceful response to reports of UK government measures to sanction trade with illegal Israeli settlements.

Na'amod, an anti-occupation Jewish group, said it "welcomed" the measures reported this week, saying "it is the minimum response" to Israel's ongoing unlawful actions.

Na'amod, in a statement to Haaretz, said: "British restraint in the last three years alone has coincided with 68 new settlements, record settler violence, tens of thousands of Palestinians forcibly displaced and a land-registration regime Israeli ministers describe as annexation. This restraint has a map and a death toll."

The group also rejected the Board of Deputies' argument that focusing "narrowly" on Israeli government actions "fuels a climate of hatred [...] towards British Jews."

"That argument only works if British Jews are answerable for what Israel does. We reject that premise absolutely," Na'amod said.

"The harsh reality is none of these actions have had any influence on the situation on the ground," the JLC said, warning that "broad, untargeted measures may inadvertently become a wider boycott of Israel."

Na'amod rejected that argument as well, saying that "contrary to the Jewish Leadership Council's statement, Britain is not 'singling out' Israel. Britain already restricts trade with illegally occupied Ukrainian territory. What is exceptional is that Britain has spent years applying a different standard to illegal Israeli settlements."

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

✨This is a bit of academic luxury✨ - 2.5 days thinking time 💭, part of an invited group of interesting colleagues 🎓 exploring and exchanging perspectives on whatever it is that is neoliberal authoritarianism 🏫 sola.kau.se/ppg/

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’ve been working on an article for the past four days. It’s just not hanging together - the argument doesn’t work. So I’m giving up on it. It’s the first time I’ve abandoned a piece of writing.

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Present from No.1 grandsprog, which I’m extraordinarily pleased with ☺️

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Exciting‼️Our article on the implications of predictive analytics for families is free to access through to Sept 2026, as part of @brisunipress.bskyb.social 💻 Student Reading List collection of social work scholarship: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Jour... ⬇️

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

‘Pre-problem families: predictive analytics and the future as the present’ in Families, Relationships and Societies can be accessed here bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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Journal highlights Sociology

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A wonderful slab preserving hundreds of ammonites of different sizes. #Paleontology #Fossils #Ammonites

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Breneke @breneke.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Hhaaa haa haa . . . wheez. . . Haaha haa haaa (Click on 'more replies' to read to the end)

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

When my wife did chemo and radiation, she would go outside once or twice a day and shed the hair as it all fell out. Today, seven months later, we just found a nest a bird (likely a wren) made out of her hair.

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is my gas stove. It’s around 70 years old. It’s cost £55 new. And it’s still good to cook on.

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The fight for the first rural council housing in England (in 1894) - led by FD Perrott, the 'Radical Vicar of Ixworth' and the Ixworth Agricultural Labourers’ Association. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/stow-road-...

Text: Under the shadow of the luxurious ‘Hall’, at the gate of the tenant-farmer’s comfortable homestead, the labourer (upon whose work both live) drags out a hard life, compelled with wife and children to find shelter and make ‘home’ under a roof beneath which neither squire nor farmer would stable their very cattle.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 22/07/2026

What are the challenges of carrying out a research project over a period of 50 years? Charlotte Faircloth and co-authors @sriucl.bsky.social on motherhood, ethics and the intersection between research practices and social context. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/3Z1i2Rw

Charlotte Faircloth, Ann Oakley, Kate Hague and Meg Wiggins

Fifty Years of ‘Becoming a Mother’: The Social History of a Research Project Over Half a Century

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261261463358

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'm (briefly) discussing the idea of Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance in my new book and when it comes to human beings, this blogpost from 2018 still stands... www.wiringthebrain.com/2018/05/gran...

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Grandma’s trauma – a critical appraisal of the evidence for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in humans

Can molecular memories of our ancestors’ experiences affect our own behaviour and physiology? That idea has certainly...

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Excited to share the conference webpage (plus provisional programme) for "Belonging to the Victorians? — Community, Collections, and Care" on 4 September 2026 at Wilton's Music Hall: belongingtothevictorians.uk Its free to attend and there are some spaces available to delegates not presenting!

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Belonging to the Victorians? — Community, Collections, and Care

Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections, and Care. A one-day conference at Wilton's Music Hall, London, Friday 4 September 2026. Organised by Daniel Grey and William Bainbridge, University...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Lucy Telles (1870-1956) with grandchild, basket weaver of Yosemite Miwok and Mono Lake Paiute descent #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a Native American older woman standing over a large woven basket with a small child inside

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Annie French, Scottish painter, engraver, illustrator, and designer associated with the Glasgow School #WomensArt

Stylised illustration of a female figure in swirls of yellow with floral motifs

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Photographer Anna Boyiazis documented the Panje Project enabling Zanzibari girls to learn to swim despite limitations placed on females #womensart

Photograph featuring four young Black women floating on their backs in turquoise water all wearing yellow robes and hats and clutching floats made out of white plastic water containers

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

'Cultivating the cosmic tree' by Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) German Benedictine abbess, artist, writer, composer, philosopher #WomensArt

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I love how nature and architecture can create their own frames. Here, the darkness of the tunnel surrounds a London Overground train as it departs Stoke Newington station.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This half-time break is going to be so long they’d almost be time to login to Manuscript Central.

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