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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026

It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible.

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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a blatant threat to the RNLI, who are currently out of action in Portsmouth - ergo not saving lives, because staff are being terrorised. When will Mahmood take domestic terrorism of this nature seriously.

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Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My article on reading mining and degrowth in South African literature for a special issue of Textual Practice is now online 🎉 And I think there are a few free eprint links available: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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White ants and mining: reading degrowth in South Africa

South Africa has an abandoned mines problem. These mines pose serious risks to lives and the environment and raise questions of what degrowth may look like in parts of the Global South that are con...

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Two junior research fellowships @kingscollege.bsky.social opening soon due on Oct 1st. The theme is REPLICATION conceived broadly to encompass different research projects in humanities and social sciences. As a philosopher of science I am esp hoping for applications in #philsci #metascience #hps

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Visible mobility aids are the last refuge of the invisibly ill and she’s undermining even that for us

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Andrew Hobbs @drewhobbs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion Roundtable on settler periodicals and southern latitudes: Porscha Fermanis introduces the session. British empire was a 'paper empire' (Richard), where paper 'made dominance at a distance feasible' (Ballantyne).

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Andrew Hobbs @drewhobbs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social on the Sydney press, using a cartoon from the Melbourne Punch, mocking the press of New South Wales, a separate colony at the time before Australian federation -- when Germany threatened to take New Guinea

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Andrew Hobbs @drewhobbs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion Ge Tang: From Johannesburg to London and Sydney: Photographic circulation and Chinese indenture n the empire's periodicals, case study: photos by GA Watson of Chinese indentured labourers in S Africa, after Anglo-Boer War (1898-1902)

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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

PLEASE SIGN to support Prof Tiffany Willoughby-Herard! 2 yrs ago Prof W-H stood up to protect students, rightly declaring “we cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy” while being violently arrested. Tell UCI to DROP all disciplinary charges against her! sites.google.com/view/withdra...

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On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"... educational questions survive only as shadows cast by financial projections." 🔥

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Solidarity with all the colleagues across the water and up North who are facing the uncertainty and potential devastation of redundancy. The amount of emotional damage wrought by university administrations on scholars and support staff is unconscionable.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

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University of Exeter cuts an ‘existential threat to humanities’

Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.

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Cllr Eva Dowling @evadowling.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Green Party statement on strategic direction of Research Ireland. We endorse the academic Open Letter demanding a strategic pivot for Research Ireland The Green Party backs AMLÉ and Postgraduate Workers Organisation calls for full workers' rights for PhD researchers greenparty.ie/news/ministe...

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Minister must intervene: Research Ireland strategy threatens Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Blue Sky research | Green Party

- Green Party endorses the academic Open Letter demanding a strategic pivot for Research Ireland - -Green Party backs AMLÉ and Postgraduate Workers Organisation calls for full workers' rights for PhD ...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I have been told that certain celebrity girlboss influencers have issued a social media fatwa on this column. Therefore, I’m sharing it again because I’m just that kind of contrary.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Are you a grad student working on Victorian periodicals and newspapers? Submit your essay for @rs4vp.org's VanArsdel Prize, deadline June 15, 2026. The winner receives $500 and publication in VPR. rs4vp.org/awards/vanar... #VictorianStudies

The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The winner will receive $500 and publication in Victorian Periodicals Review. Deadline: June 15, 2026. For more information, visit rs4vp.org/awards/vanarsdel-prize

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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy

Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It was on the evening of May 12, 1862 that Robert Smalls gathered all the families on "The Planter." He donned the captain's uniform and in the early morning would steal the Confederate ship to sail past the blockade to freedom and safe waters with the United States Navy

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Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In completely unexpected news: my first monograph, 'Political Economy and the Novel', is being translated into Chinese Simplified by Shanghai University of Finance & Economy Press. Hopefully published within a year.

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We’re very pleased to share news of this research fellowship position, working with our wonderful CECS / English Literature colleague Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social on the collected works of Mary Wollstonecraft: 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL782/r...

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Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft at University of York

Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Hey, pals in #18thc lit studies, this story is made for us, esp those of us who write about "forgers" like Thomas Chatterton & William Henry Ireland. 👋to @jacklynch000.bsky.social "As the genuine philology medal does not exist, his medal cannot be a forgery." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize

Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/04/2026

An on-again, off-again ceasefire at the same time as a blockade, makes perfect sense if you see it for what it is: MARKET MANIPULATION

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 22/04/2026

We've just been told of the loss of another wonderful history colleague. This time because they've voluntarily left for somewhere more secure. Out of morbid curiosity, I looked at an archived version of our staff list from five years ago: 12 of the historians on it have left/been forced out.

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Absolutely- as someone with access to a very small allotment space - we neighbours developed it over the last decade from waste ground - I love the process of growing, especially cherry tomatoes which taste so much better than shop bought ones.

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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

We are hiring! 📢 An Assistant Librarian (permanent) position is now available. This role is focused on printed material from UCD Special Collections but will also encompass print from across our repositories. universityvacancies.com/university-c... for full details & apply by 7th May. ✨ #LISjobsIE

Cultural Heritage job advert with graphics including butterflies and moths, green branches with an orange, and a shelf of older books.

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Nick Slawicz @ellingtonelms.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Interesting new article about the "illicit diamond buyer" in c19th South Africa by @imperialminerals.bsky.social. A lot to learn in it. I've seen this map of claims before without fully noticing it is decorated with caricatures of African miners being chased by police. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Yellowing map showing the mining claims on the main diamond fields in Kimberley. The claims are depicted as squares with different shading showing the many different owners. The map is titled "Plan of Ownerships in Kimberley Mine" and around the edge of the map are figures of African miners and white police.

Yellowing image showing four white police offciers chasing an African miner who has swallowed a cartoonishly large diamond. The diamond is visible in his stomach.

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Chickadee @vtchickadee.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Jen Sorensen

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Are we being told that having a death penalty but only for one ethnicity is somehow not apartheid?

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Now France is denying airspace…

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Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

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University of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - USYD UofG Joint PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

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Gilbert Achcar / جلبير الأشقر @gilbert-achcar.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Palestine Scholars Murdered in the Gaza Genocide rememberinggazascholars.org

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The inevitable result of this would be the creation of a permanent underclass of exploitable people, who grew up in this country, know no other, and have no education so are more vulnerable than ever before; a serf class for the rich and powerful.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

In 2020, I argued every state must count mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day. Today, the RNC argued no state can. That is how far the right has descended into voter suppression. And it is why I continue to fight.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Here is my pride flag everybody! I hung one up yesterday in my office at Boston University, as they seek to enforce and defend a policy of removing them (along with other banners in public view, they say). This is a small act of love for my corner of the world, in a dark time. This flag goes deep.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Once you start referring to yourself in the third person

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

'Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands remain the top three providers of English-related study programs within the EEA. Provisions in France, Italy and Portugal have all observed increasing interest in these types of disciplines and have subsequently expanded their English studies provision'. 2/2

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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Victorian Review & Mike were such a joy to work with! I'm very grateful for all their support. As well as the assistance of the Africana Library in Kimberley which helped me source the 'maps of ownership' my article analyses. For more IDB texts, take a look at: literarymines.ie/index.php?ti...

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Minerals @imperialminerals.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Delighted to have an article, 'The Racialized Energy and Labour of Illicit Diamond Buyers in Colonial South Africa' published as part of this special issue edited by Michael Tondre: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... This article has come from the Research Ireland-funded Imperial Minerals project and

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/03/2026

Spoke to the Guardian about the idea of quitting LLMs for climate: -“I see this all as very much part of the tactic of trying to embed these systems into society and instil dependency in a fashion similar to the growth of single-use plastics in the 1970s.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“Consumer software that generates text, images and videos are uniquely energy inefficient,” says Ketan Joshi, an Oslo-based climate analyst associated with the Australia Institute, due to the “vast datasets and computational strain of pattern-matching that happens underneath the hood”.

Asking an AI chatbot a question consumes a great deal more energy than finding the answer via simple web search or calculator. It adds extra demand for no good reason, he says, a bit like driving to the shops in an SUV instead of riding your bike.

“You might still get the shopping done, and that single trip alone may not even look all that bad in terms of cost or emissions, but what happens when that’s all of your trips, and when all of society starts doing this?”

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

New! A thrilling special issue on "Post-Carbon Victorian Studies" edited by Michael Tondre. A fantastic forum on "Victorian Breeds and Breeding" edited by Kristen Guest and Ronja Frank. Reviews of new books on Conrad, A Brontë, Carroll, and others! Read us on Project Muse muse.jhu.edu/issue/56547

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175 Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

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AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch

A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

- AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such The House of Lords has been absolutely consistent on this, and they are totally right. Will the government listen? /end

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