iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There’s got to be a second best bed joke in this somewhere. #earlymodern #Shakespeare @srsrensoc.bsky.social

A white lorry with "SHAKESPEARE Beds", "POCKET SPRUNG BEDS", and various contact details in blue on the side; the stem of the "K" in "SHAKESPEARE" is a quill.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

CfP: 'Island Empires and Pacific Power, 1688–1995' symposium taking place in Adelaide in June 2027 🗃️

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Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My book comes out next month and I'd love to talk to your research group/seminar series/PGRs about it! Potential talk topics: Why do we think natural history museums are for kids? How public are our public museums? Truth and fiction in the museum Looting: empire in the museum...

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Great, fun 🧵👇

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Bought myself a big Toblerone & I feel like I’ve broken an unspoken law of the universe, as if nothing is sacred & there are no rules in the world. They are a present, a thing people bring you back from holiday: one does not just buy a big Toblerone, the same as one does not simply walk into Mordor

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This preschool is undoubtedly lovely… but (for any other Jane Eyre readers out there) I can’t be alone in finding “red room” triggering?!

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

yo, if a journal wants me to declare any AI use, do we think it’s acceptable to add (after ‘no AI was used at any point’) ‘I would appreciate if no part of this manuscript was processed using any AI tool’

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I say nothing. Before I bring words to market, I should like to see 'em a bit scarcer.

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

📣 Symposium on the life & writings of MR James w/ adaptations of 'Lost Hearts' & 'A Warning to the Curious' by @nunkie.bsky.social 📍Drayton Arms Theatre, London 🕰️ 8 November 2026 Full details 👉 tinyurl.com/m7p89yx4 @bavs-uk.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social #AcademicSky

Foreground: "Pleasing Terrors: The 2026 MR James Festival"
Background: The Drowned Man's Ghost Tries Claim a New Victim for the Sea by Thorvald Niss (a skeletal figure is dragging a human deeper into the water, behind them an empty beach and sand dunes stretch into the distance...)

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Allen Lane, co-founder of Penguin Books, extracts a book from the brand new "Penguincubator" – a vending machine with a range of Penguin titles available for sixpence, placed outside Collet's bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road in July 1937 🗃️

b&w page with a photo of a man in a suit extracting a book from a vending machine

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🌟Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2026-27 to assist with the BARS Blog and social media 🌟 Deadline - Monday 14th September Details - www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6572

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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Manchester Met is currently inviting expressions of interest for Leverhulme Early Career fellowships. If you're an early career researcher interested in proposing a long C19 project, please get in touch. The deadline for completed EOIs is 9 October. www.mmu.ac.uk/research/fel...

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Fellowship opportunities

We're committed to the development of early career researchers and support outstanding candidates to apply for externally funded research schemes.

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Elanor @elanorandthearts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

CALLING LONDONERS 📣 My friend has spent FIVE YEARS developing her play—a queer horror story—and she's hardly sold any tickets. She's travelling down from Leeds and I'm devastated 🥺 The Haunting of Verity Evans, The Hope Theatre, 25th–26th August. I hope you'll join me! Please share if you can't!

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I had a quick skim of the index first, and this might be the best/worst index entry ever

sewer alligators; sewer hogs; sewers; sexual organs, caught and injured on escalators and elevators; Shakespeare, William

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me

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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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History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Deadline tomorrow!

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

📣 FT permanent job: Communications Manager @houseofcommons.parliament.uk, supporting the HofC Library & Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology 📍 Onsite & remote 🕰️ Apply by 16 August Full details 👇 #ECRs #AcademicSky #Skystorians @historylabplus.bsky.social @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social

hrhoc.parliament.uk

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

props to Mary Douglas for turning this apparently regular domestic frustration into an academic publication rather than a totally justified murder. (Deciphering a Meal, 1972)

Screenshot of text “Sometimes at home, hoping to simplify the cooking, I ask, "Would you like to have just soup for supper tonight? I mean a good thick soup- instead of supper. It's late and you must be hungry. It won't take a minute to serve." Then an argument starts: "Let's have soup now, and supper when you are ready." "No no, to serve two meals would be more work. But if you like, why not start with the soup and fill up with pudding?" "Good heavens! What sort of a meal is that? A beginning and an end and no middle." "Oh, all right then, have the soup as it's there, and I'll do a Welsh rarebit as well." When they have eaten soup, Welsh rarebit, pud- ding, and cheese: "What a lot of plates. Why do you make such elaborate suppers?" They proceed to argue that by taking thought I could satisfy the full requirements of a meal with a single, copious dish. Several rounds of this conversation have given me a practical interest in the categories and…”

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Kate Littler @palaeoclimate.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

And look at the SW bumbling along near the bottom of the chart. There is (rightfully) a lot of focus on the north-south UK divide in opportunity and attainment, but the SW really struggles too. Thank god we have excellent unis in the SW that are definitely not closing programmes and firing staff 🙄

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's real, and due out in March! 'Imaginative Pasts', which has been a joy to edit with Tracey Loughran, aims to reckon - and play - with the role of the imagination in historical research and writing. #skystorians #earlymodern manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187154/

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Delighted to be series editor for Cambridge Elements in Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture. If you have something cool and interesting you’d like to work with us on please get in touch (micrograph 20-30k) www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

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Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

📣 CFP 'Critical Digital Archives: Travel, Translation, Transformation' Symposium exploring the history & future of digital archives in & from Southwest Asia & North Africa 📍 @ics.bsky.social 🕰️ 21-22 January Bio & 300-word abstract to Barbara Spadaro & @nottinauta.bsky.social by 31 August

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

the american paradox

truck that says "puritan bakery best buns in town"

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Full Time, 35 hours per week £31,956 per annum, plus 7% Employer’s Pension Contribution This is a Fixed-Term Contract until 6th September 2027, with a possible extension to 11th November 2027.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Fellowship Opportunity www.humanities.utoronto.ca/news/2027-28...

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 04/08/2026

Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.

manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk

Lecturer in Public History and Heritage - (9363) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers

All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.

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Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

JOB KLAXON! We're looking to hire a lecturer or senior lecturer in philosophy. This is a permanent, full-time teaching-and-research position. The deadline for applications is 26 August. Further details below. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG697/l...

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Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Loughborough University

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust, aka NMCT @thenmct.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

*JOB KLAXON* Scroll down this link to find a great opportunity: a full-time book and paper conservator post at Nottingham Archives! isw.changeworknow.co.uk/inspire_cult...

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Inspire: Culture, Learning & Libraries Careers

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Gwent Archives @gwentarchives.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Gwent Archives has an exciting opportunity for an Archives Apprentice to join their team and develop a career in the archives and heritage sector.

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We’re hiring! Come and work with us to make the open access book landscape successful, sustainable and scalable. The role is part-time and fully remote.

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Open Position: Head of Operations

The Open Book Collective is seeking a highly organised, proactive Head of Operations to help lead the day-to-day running of our growing organisation.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Reminder that UKRI's National AI in Research Survey is up and running and open for responses until 4 September. Have your say, whatever that is. www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/NationalAI...

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National AI in Research Survey

Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Regency-era mugs, gifts for #19thc children who managed to stick to their books & learn to read. Their mottoes are grim but maybe necessary admonitions, too, for the academic who's soldiering on while coming to terms with the fact that it's August now. I.e. I feel seen. #AcademicLife

The motto painted on a red background on this little mug reads "Idleness Brings Disgrace."

The motto painted on the purple-ish background of this little mug is "Be Willing to do Well without Praise."

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Doings of Doyle @doingsofdoyle.com · 30/07/2026

Calling all Doyleans! The Edinburgh Press team are holding a new event - 'Conan Doyle's Orient' - at Senate House, London, on 2 October. Mummies! Sudan! Lost Civilisations! And more. Details at the link: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... See you there.

A mummy chasing after a hapless university student

Title image of The Three Correspondents showing a camel train in front of the Pyramids

Conan Doyle on a camel looking distinctly unimpressed

Cover of Conan Doyle's The Tragedy of the Korosko

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Jack Cox @jackandrewcox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Please share: I am working on the History Lab + & History UK ECR Survey with @kerrymlove.bsky.social . We collating contacts to disseminate the survey to later this year. The survey examines support received by ECRs post-PhD in history or related subjects (such as archaeology and art history). (1/3)

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Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you're involved with a society or group (not listed on the @royalhistsoc.org's list) with members who may be ECRs who've completed a PhD in a History related subject, or a GLAM org who support / connect with ECRs regularly - could you email Kerry. Love@northampton.ac.uk saying hello?

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