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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

How to pay for parking.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'In his [Ivison's] view, the government is avoiding the bigger issues of what universities are for and who should pay for them.' It would help if universities would ask (and answer) that 1st big question in public rather than just parroting government. That's what institutional autonomy is for.

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To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News

Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just a few sale days left. Grab a #poetry book bargain now ⬇️ Ends midnight Monday 21st.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan:

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

'In some respects, what we are seeing resembles a form of collective grief. Not only grief for colleagues who have left, but grief for ways of working, professional identities and communities that once gave meaning to academic life. This creates an important challenge for university leaders.'

wonkhe.com

The loss of staff belonging in higher education

Nick Hulbert-Williams argues that what looks like low morale and change fatigue in HE may really be a crisis of belonging

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Dr Rosie Miles @rosiemilespoet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

😄😄😄 🚽🧻🏴‍☠️

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem

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👺💀The Masque of the Reding Death 💀 👺 @jayreding.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I remember the conversations online about what real-world figure could be trusted to carry the One Ring from LOTR and how the universal answer was “Dolly Parton.”

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A colourful mural celebrating the one and only Dolly Parton 💖 Dolly gets a punk makeover with pink hair in this mural, which was in Brighton but is no longer in place. 👉 artuk.org/discover/art... 'Dolly Parton (1946–2026)' by The Postman (active since 2018) © the artist. 📷 Lawrence Suss / Art UK

Mural portrait of Dolly Parton with pink hair and suit with badges on

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Alba Dawn @albadawn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really like Pink’s tribute to Dolly Parton for her induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. If you haven’t seen it: youtu.be/L0gqgTWT2RA?...

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P!nk Inducts Dolly Parton into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame | 2022 Induction

YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton, trade unionist.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

William De Morgan was the Arts & Crafts movement’s most brilliant and prolific ceramic artist. This biscuit (cookie) set is inspired by some of his many tile designs. 🍪

Nine square biscuits arranged into a square to look like a panel of old tiles. The biscuit set features an array of designs in shades of blue, green, red, and cream. On the top row, there are: a striking blue deer with purple-red spots; a symmetrical leafy design with a vivid blue flower at the centre; and a glazed relief of a lion and a lioness facing in opposite directions against a patchy rust-red background. The middle row includes: a stylised green line drawing of a galleon ship on choppy waters; two flowers on a rich blue background; and a design densely filled with small green leaves and pomegranates. The bottom row features: a monochrome design with small red leaves and flowers; a symmetrical design with spirals, leaves, and flower shapes in shades of blue; and a glazed biscuit with a Tudor rose and leaves in spruce green against a rich blue background.

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The English Association welcomes our first English graduate Prime Minister. English teaches the skills in communication, collaboration, critical thinking , creativity and empathy – skills that leaders need to succeed.

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Andrew McCallum @andrewemc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

‘the fall in teenagers opting for literature is linked to an unimaginative GCSE (surely something that a new prime minister with an English degree could fix)’ Easy win here, Mr Burnham! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Midlands - 2 Norway - 1

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I will be signing at The ARC festival this Sunday from 1-2pm at the @goshcomics.bsky.social table. @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social is an exciting, new, free comics festival in London on the 11th and 12th of July. Come along! www.arc-london.uk

We see a stick figure running through a ravaged desert pursued by a mechanical claw. The text begins "2050ad: Society has collapsed and the book festivals have gone rogue. Their terrifying motorized venues patrol the wastelands, hunting for audience members" We can now see that the claw is on the front of an enormous, mad-max-style battle-rig, adorned with spikes, skulls and armour. The text continues "Programmer-Warlords brutally preside over a relentless series of interviews, discussions and poetry readings.” In the trailer of the truck, a poetry reading is taking place, in a tower above it, the huge, muscular, horned programmer raises his fists and yells orders to his minions. The monstrous vehicle thunders on leaving one lone stick figure behind The text concludes "Occasionally, dazed survivors are found wandering with a signed hardback book in a cotton tote bag."

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Dr Rosie Miles @rosiemilespoet.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

RIP Bonnie Tyler. Just discovered the Literal Remix of the original “Total Eclipse of the Heart” video. youtu.be/XMmXCyrV_WQ?...

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Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Literal Version Remastered)

YouTube video by Joe Vecchio

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Again and again and again, a person losing their job at a Post-92 uni is every bit the equal of a person losing their job at a Russell Group uni. They might even be their collaborator. Or their editor. But hierarchy gets headlines.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 26/06/2026

I'm down on the south coast this week and there are warnings everywhere in this heat wave that you shouldn't try to cool off in the sea because the privately owned companies that run the water supply have flooded the waterways flowing into the sea with sewage. You can smell it some days, it reeks.

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This week, Andy Burnham – an English graduate with a love of poetry – stepped closer to becoming Prime Minister. Andy’s remarkable journey embodies the central message of the #EnglishCreates campaign: this subject has the potential to enrich lives, open up opportunities, and shape the future.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Great letter in the LRB on the managerial university and its consequences.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

new Mary Oliver poem just dropped

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Dr Rosie Miles @rosiemilespoet.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Totally agree with the first sentence here by @gsoh31.bsky.social. "The cost of everything and the value of nothing". FFS.

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is a new book published by Iona Books/Wild Goose Publishing. Well worth a close look.

From cover of Rooted in Love : resources for marriage and partnerships from beginning to end by Diana E. Carroll (ed) showing a tree of life

Back cover blurb for Rooted in Love, indicating this is a book that is a ‘unique treasury of inclusive prayers, poems, blessing, rituals and reflections for couples of all genders at everything staged of a marriage and committed partnership’

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Dr Rosie Miles @rosiemilespoet.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

10 years since the country's (or--really--England's) most staggering act of national self harm. This poem by Jane Commane has always struck me as brilliant. Still stands up ten years on. @ninearchespress.bsky.social From "Assembly Lines" (@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social, 2018).

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Ida Frosk, aka Ida Skivenes, a food artist from Norway, who makes and eats her own art #WomensArt #Tuesday

Photo of a plate on which an image is created with food stuffs mimicing the painting The Scream, featuring a stylised person wirh mouth open under a dramatic sky

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Not the least of Brexit's disasters, which helped hollow out the state and made it unresponsive and unable to react to citizens' needs and views, has been the schism between the state and the young.

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel

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Dr Rosie Miles @rosiemilespoet.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A great pleasure to be at the #SoAwards last night and to meet the winners of the #EricGregoryAwards 2026 which I was involved in judging/selecting. Worthy winners all 👏🍾✍️

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Myself and colleagues from across Higher Ed have gathered under the auspices of @isrfoundation.bsky.social to think about new models for Higher Education... We'll be adding pieces as we go, and we've already published quite a few. We can't go on like this, and we shouldn't. isrf.org/projects/rec...

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Reconstructing the British University

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his arms

Article screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Andrew’s Hockney poem in @theguardian.com

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Dr Rosie Miles @rosiemilespoet.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I’ve always loved #DavidHockney’s “We Two Boys Together Clinging” (1961). Words by Walt Whitman. www.thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/artwork/3573

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If you ❤️ the work of women artists, you'll ❤️ the womensart book series!! 3 five 🌟 rated books.... bookshop.org/beta-search?... Or at an online or local bookshop of your choice ❤️

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 12/06/2026

Gift link has run out but we've intervened at god level and made it free to read as it's a year old. www.ft.com/content/3862...

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Simon Schama on the pleasure-giving, life-affirming art of David Hockney

Britain’s most popular living painter has maintained an unfashionable commitment to optical delight

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

A mug of a teapot, in the shape of a man lifting both his legs into the air.

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Dr Rosie Miles @rosiemilespoet.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

As someone who has experienced redundancy from a UK HE Humanities /English dept this is a brilliant piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social.

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Arguably @arguablymag.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

“The truth is that ministers have not the faintest clue what to do”. @gsoh31.bsky.social writes on the quiet collapse of Britain’s universities and why so few people seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

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The quiet collapse of British universities

One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This Monday evening (15th June), sign up for a wonderful MASTERCLASS WEBINAR from @wendypratt.bsky.social as she explores Who Writes Nature: perception and experience in nature writing 7-8pm BST Recorded in case ticket-holders cannot join live £17 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/masterclas...

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Dr Rosie Miles @rosiemilespoet.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Looking forward to this next week (as one of the Eric Gregory Award judges). Particularly looking forward to meeting the winning poets. Canapés aren’t bad either.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

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Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 26/05/2026

Very good, if extremely depressing, piece by Stefan Collini to explain what has been and is being done to this country’s universities. If interested to find out, I recommend reading it.

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Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

'The Tube Train' (1934) by Cyril Power (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Hazel MacNab, contemporary UK printmaker based in Cornwall #Womensart

Print featuring a greenish clear calm shallow area of sea with dappled light from the sun and with a rocky outcrop to the top right

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If you’re a man who doesn’t usually wear shorts you can just stay in. You must stay inside. Stay at home. Protect the NHS. Save lives.

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

In some places we’d call this a reel, but not here, I don’t think. It’s my ‘Things that help me’ diagram, zipping past at a speed that doesn’t quite allow you to read it. [For an A4 printable version subscribe (free) to diagramclub.substack.com and I’ll send it.]

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