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Sarah Arens

@saraharens.bsky.social
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Far-flung euro-🇩🇿 researching and teaching (hi)stories of science, animals, empire, and antifascist movements (FR and BEL) | my own views 🌱 | no dms

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Migration Museum, London, is hiring a part-time (3 days per week) curator for a year to help build the vision of the new museum. £40k pro rata plus 5% matched pension contribution. Deadline for applications 18 October.
migrationmuseum.org
We’re Hiring: Curator, Contemporary Art (Part-time)
The Migration Museum is seeking a Contemporary Art Curator to join their team on a part-time basis. Application deadline: 18 October 2026.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'England’s strong performance at the latest PISA results has been widely put down to recent reforms. But that explanation ignores a striking finding: children from immigrant backgrounds outperformed their native-background peers.'
blogs.lse.ac.uk
England’s strong performance of immigrant children in PISA
England's strong performance at the PISA results has been attributed to reforms. But one finding stands out: immigrant children outperformed their native peers.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'At least eight universities have announced industrial action for the coming year'. Edinburgh: 5 weeks, £140m cuts, 90 degree programmes, 1,800 potential job losses. Dundee, Essex, Exeter, Glasgow Caledonian, Heriot-Watt, Nottingham, Sussex and where next?
novaramedia.com
UK Universities Set to Strike in ‘Last-Ditch Fight Over Existential Cuts’
'It is carnage'.
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Questions for the academic book authors: How did you approach your second monograph? Have you ever started with the book's Introduction rather than a chapter?
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A significant proportion of the British public seems to believe Britain is a free floating island of undeserving welfare dependents existing independently of global weather systems and events.
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just an observation made many times before, but a book I'm currently reading reminded me that when a male scholar writes about "great traditions", to no one's surprise they rarely refer to anyone who they don't see themselves reflected in.
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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ich möchte eure selbstreferenziellen Berlin-Diskussionen ungern stören, aber in 12 Tagen, am 6. Oktober, wird mutmaßlich der erste rechtsextreme Parlamentspräsident seit Hermann Göring 1932 gewählt, und zwar hier bei uns in Sachsen-Anhalt. Es wird Gegenproteste in #Magdeburg geben.
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
- how your email finds me - watching the German middle-class press having a collective meltdown over the Berlin state election results (and not about the massive AfD gains) - reading the reviewers’ comments to our unsuccessful funding application
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'Security chiefs will set up a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia, Andy Burnham has announced, saying the government had a duty to “stem the poisonous tide” from damaging British interests.' While shrinking provision in Russian language?
theguardian.com
New UK agency will tackle ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham says
PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The programme I run - the MSc in Contemporary History - will be axed, amongst so many others. We've also been told our undergrad courses will need to have a minimum of 20 students over a 3 year period. The bonfire of the universities has truly come for Edinburgh.
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What makes me so particularly angry about this is that, back in 2014, the University moved the School into a brand new building, showing investment and commitment into humanities’ research only to completely destroy the School a mere decade later.
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at The University of Edinburgh, where I did my PhD, is set to lose 48 (!) of its programmes. A completely unique environment being completely gutted at one of the wealthiest institutions in this country. Speechless. www.scotsman.com/education/ed...
scotsman.com
Edinburgh University to mothball 90 courses as five weeks of strikes to start
The university said mothballing 90 courses will not detract from the institutions standing on the world stage
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The University of Gothenburg is launching the Global Scholars Initiative – a coordinated international recruitment effort comprising 25 research positions across a broad range of disciplines and faculties. academicpositions.com/ad/universit...
academicpositions.com
Gothenburg Global Scholars Initiative – Hiring 25 Assistant Professors - Academic Positions
25 fixed-term (5-year) assistant professor roles across sciences, social sciences, arts & education. Top research environments, strong benefits, relocation s...
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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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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Finally submitted the manuscript of the book based on my PhD to LUP. The list of people to thank to get to this point is very, very long and if this looks familiar to you, I probably owe you big time. My research has moved into different directions since but glad I‘ve had the support to finish this.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The absolute best of humanity in a time of profound and relentless inhumanity. They’re volunteers supported by donations so please consider donating and sharing links to donate. Link to donate directly here. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s not about protecting women and girls, it’s about “protecting whiteness” and the “white genocide” narratives they’ve fully bought into. That’s why he calls her a traitor, a “race traitor”. That’s where we’re at.
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Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
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Michael Lühmann @herrluehmann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Was haben wir gewarnt, schon bei AfD Gründung 2013 & Pegida 2014, nach den Pogromen in Freital 2015, nach Chemnitz 2018, nach Kemmerich, Sonneberg & Potsdam. Aber das Bauchgefühl von Politik war stärker als die Empirie, die rechten "Sorgen" bekamen Raum, die AfD wurde normalisiert. Und nun das. /1
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A lot of hot takes today, the most irritating ones ranging from Anglophone discoveries of “oh wow looks like there’s a lot of support for AfD in the territory of the former GDR” and not being able to tell the different Saxon states apart to SPD/CDU cluelessness in the face of the election results.
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There’s a post by @uni-magdeburg.de addressing yesterday‘s elections on Instagram but not on here apparently. The post emphasises the university‘s commitment to freedom of research and openness, but especially since the tragic passing of Jason Arday: what concrete safeguarding measures are there? 1/
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Really dark day today. If you can, please consider supporting Pena.ger who do incredible work in supporting refugees in Germany: penager.de/en/donation/
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Donation - Pena.ger e.V.
Donations – Enabling Solidarity Your donation enables us to provide low-threshold, multilingual, and solidarity-based counseling to people with refugee and migration backgrounds, regardless of their r...
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An absolutely huge achievement.
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
2027-28 DEFRA R&D Fellowships, min. 6 months up to 12, deadline 14 September 2026: www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/defra-fellow...
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Defra – Fellowship advert
Discover rewarding careers in government - the Civil Service offers an inclusive and innovative workplace, flexible working, and opportunities for growth.
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John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Times, which is super concerned about plagiarism when they can hound a Black academic, really outdoing itself here. 🧵
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today is the 1st day of my 12-month Leverhulme Research Fellowship "Experimental Empire: Science, Technology and Belgian Colonialism, 1897–1958", analysing the tensions between technological progress+the racialised violence that underpinned them. Grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for the time and space.
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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
London book launch for "Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel" with Osama Tanous, Ghada Majadli, Ala Sirriyeh, and Patricia Hamilton, chaired by Seth Anziska @sprc-ucl.bsky.social x @uclmiddleeast.bsky.social Sign up: bit.ly/demographic-...
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A bunch of new followers since the publication of Ailing Empires, so I thought I’d use the opportunity to say hi, warn everyone that this is a fairly inactive account, and ask if anyone can recommend a used-book website that isn’t owned by Amazon? 🥹
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It would’ve been so easy, SO easy for J.K. Rowling to share her wealth, do some good, and be universally appreciated, yet all she decided to do was bankroll bigotry.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026
“We vociferously opposed the things she supported but now we want to be included too.”
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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Very happy to see another article out in the world! Part of a special issue edited by the wonderful @sabinehanke.bsky.social & Anne Sophie Overkamp, from a fantastic (and very hot) workshop we had in Tübingen back in 2024 #envhist #envhum #histsci Available open access: doi.org/10.1002/bewi...
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The foundations of this special issue were laid a long time ago following a workshop Sam and I were able to organise during my postdoctoral fellowship back in 2019 at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social who made it all possible - check out their fellowship schemes!
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Over the moon that the special issue of Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social I co-edited with Sam Goodman on "Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science and Imperialism" is finally out in the world. Endless gratitude to @fcondrau.bsky.social. All article links below: academic.oup.com/shm/issue
academic.oup.com
Issues | Social History of Medicine | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Publishes research concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. Articles treat the social h...
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/08/2026
We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇
goodlaw.social
Jason Arday Letter | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
So great to see @po-dittmar.bsky.social's ground-breaking book on the "invention of the animal" in the Middle Ages featured in @lemonde.fr - a true masterpiece in historical anthropology www.lemonde.fr/livres/artic...
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I don’t know if people elsewhere realise how bad this is but I’m in Liverpool and I can’t open my windows because the air is so smoky outside.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
If you deny sexual violence, if you lean into that denial because of some grand political agenda, I am done with you. Not going to march alongside you, not going to speak on a panel with you, not going to write stuff for your publication. There's a line.
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
As a historian of Belgian colonialism, I’ve got bad news for you.
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Glad I attended this year’s Henry Cohen History of Medicine lecture tonight, for which Keith Wailoo presented on “Unnecessary Sleep: Opium, the Trial of Ann, and the Therapeutic Dilemma of Slavery” and got a sneak peak of the book!
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage chooses to fight a by-election because, like so many far-right agitators (Salvini springs to mind), campaigning is the only thing he is good at with ample opportunity to milk media attention. As always, it is easier to produce propaganda than to take responsibility and govern.
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nothing quite says “people versus establishment” than complaining about restrictions on party donations from abroad.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Is Farage finally about to defect to Russia?
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I really hope there’s someone out there studying the resurgence of “communism” as the catch-all boogeyman.
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Famous British left-wing media outlets The Telegraph and The Sunday Times 😂
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