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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 20h

I love it when institutions step up & face the challenges. And this is @ihr.bsky.social stepping up. Sure, will be directly helping only a few people, but what a solace to know clever people are trying to come up with support in the face of the overwhelming crisis. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

The IHR Trust Career Support Scheme 2026-2027

The IHR Trust is pleased to announce the launch of a new Career Support Scheme for historians.

The scheme directly addresses the UK-wide context of cuts, closures and redundancies currently faced by historians. Over 30,000 jobs have been lost within Universities in the past three years, with academic job losses disproportionately affecting Humanities researchers. Redundancies and programme closures have been felt across the four nations and their regions, leading to losses at every level in the academic pipeline.

This context leaves many researchers unable to complete projects in which they have invested considerable time and resource, and which will have real value to the history community and wider public.

The six month Bridging Fellowships are designed to provide a history home for those who need one. They sit alongside the IHR’s other funded schemes which include Doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellowships and Applied History Fellowships, as well as the non-stipendiary IHR Fellowship.

In this first year of the scheme, we will accept applications from those who have lost academic posts within the last three years (dated from the scheme closure date of 31st January 2027) or who have been awarded their PhD within the last three years (dated from the scheme closure date of 31st January 2027). We hope to extend the scheme in later years if funding can be raised to do so.

The Fellowships are designed to provide some of the resources needed to complete unfinished projects including time, money, skills, intellectual infrastructure, mentoring and community. They also provide space and support to plan next career steps, whether back into academia or into other history-related sectors.

Fellows will be supported by the IHR’s training package and encouraged to avail themselves of its resources, publication opportunities, and the national research seminar programme. They will have access to the IHR Library and its dig…

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Something I discuss with my video game students, too! Being consistent with the historical evidence means keeping on your toes...

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

One of the reasons there's a Welsh tale about Magnus Maximus specifically is that Welsh royal/noble houses liked to have him in their official genealogies, it's not a particularly folksy-of-the-people storytelling motivation

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Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Just reading this now. It's fantastic! Thanks for the steer. 💛

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The Space @thespacearts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

@artscouncilengland.bsky.social has launched a Freelancers Handbook. It's a practical guide covering topics such as contract, fees, tax, funding, wellbeing and business development. Take a look 👀 buff.ly/oWLNvA6 #freelancing #FreelanceLife

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Freelancers' Handbook

A practical guide to working as a freelancer in the cultural sector.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

To fill the empty evenings when Celebrity Traitors isn’t on the BBC should screen reenactments of key scenes performed by amateur dramatics groups.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anyone who has ever worked with photocopiers can tell you that they: 1. are malevolent 2. act with intent 3. display uncanny situational awareness 4. are pack hunters (swear at one, and they'll all turn on you) This doesn't mean they're alive, or conscious.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The witch is a creature of weather. Wind-summoner. Drought-breaker. Cloud-reader. Flood-flyer. Mist-wearer. She adapts to it, she adjusts the weather to her favour. It's one of her most vital relationships. She wears it on her boots. She wears it on her skin. – #EmilyCBanting #FolkWitchFriday

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The acropolis of Athens has been bombed, ransacked for building materials and munitions, built on, and fired at. Famously, it’s had many of its most beautiful pieces pried and sawn off and shipped overseas. It’s had a swastika draped on it.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Athens has been colonised before. Those pretty sunlit columns behind Rubio have had monuments to foreign kings added to them - a couple of those are still there. The Parthenon has been a church, and a mosque, and then a different sect’s church. It’s been a house.

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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Of course this is how Anne Carson accepts the Nobel prize.

It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she was “in Iceland,” where she was “listening to the wind.”

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My new favourite sentence in a scholarly publication: 'we have arrived at a rather complete state of chaos'. (Dobbie, Manuscripts of Caedmon's Hymn, 1937)

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The only way we're gonna stop people from using AI to reanimate the dead is someone makes a highly successful horror film franchise based around the premise that this will actually summon vengeful ghosts to kill you

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Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Feral is a darkly lyrical tangle of traditional northern tales, packed with shape-shifters, hungry hearts, and strange loves. At A Sting In The Tale on Wednesday 21 October. Full details and booking here: www.ticketsource.com/a-sting-in-t...

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Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just two weeks from now in Manchester! Feral is that snarl of wildness inside the gentlest soul. It’s the night out we make our friends promise to forget. (They won’t.) The sudden burst of chaos that upends everything. The soul-deep knowing that sometimes we need to escape our civilised selves.

Black and white poster showing a woman in a dark coat and woollen jumper, standing by a dry stone wall, one hand gently touching a pale wildflower. Text reads: Feral - Stories from the Wild Side. (Photo credit: Diana Trivia)

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 03/10/2026

Remember my fellow middle-aged kids,

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Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So skip that scheduled meeting; chuck away your phone; slip out of your shoes and step onto the twisting path. Feral is a darkly lyrical tangle of traditional northern tales, packed with shape-shifters, hungry hearts, and strange loves. Full details and booking here: fb.me/e/6H2SQ42xv

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Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Coming soon to Manchester! Feral is that snarl of wildness inside the gentlest soul. It’s the night out we make our friends promise to forget. (They won’t.) The sudden burst of chaos that upends everything. The soul-deep knowing that, sometimes, we need to escape our civilised selves, running free.

Poster for Feral: Stories from the Wild Side. An image of Stephe telling stories. She has short dark hair, wears a white vest, and is extending one arm dramatically as she speaks.

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Simon @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026

Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Hear me out, we all agree to cancel Monday..." 📷️ Paul Browning

A pair of Kestrels huddle together on a mossy branch, their heads tucked close as if whispering conspiratorially to one another. The golden evening light highlights the intricate patterning on their feathers while the woodland behind fades into a soft blur.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 27/09/2026

Back here, the iron line crosses future, past: Then my father will surely be seen Trekking the sodden, lonely land, Weekenders, together – —Jackie Kay, “Rannoch Loop” published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017) #poem #poetry #hiking www.panmacmillan.com/authors/jack...

Rannoch Loop
by Jackie Kay

Back here, the iron line crosses future, past:
Then my father will surely be seen

Trekking the sodden, lonely land,
Weekenders, together –

Or trudging through the ancient pine woods,
The musk smell of red deer,

My father, here on the moor,
Years and years after he’s gone,

Held by the land’s callused hands.
Och – big hikes across time, lochs, bogs,

September weekend or Easter, far flung,
Doon by Loch Ericht, on the west side

To the old crofter’s burnt-out croft,
Still a magnificent doss, and he’ll doss there,

(Twelve men to the wee hoose)
And rest, rest, till finally refreshed.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The four-by-seven metre flag artwork was sewn and glued by a small team led by Claire, who usually works with vintage fabrics Signatures on the art piece include a descendant of Industrial Revolution pioneer James Watt, as well as members of Birmingham reggae bands Steel Pulse & UB40 #ReunionJack🇬🇧

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City artist against 'division' makes huge Union flag from tatty lamppost flags

An artist has made a massive Union flag in response to flag-raising groups such as Raise the Colours

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Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Drawing on family memory and ancient mythmaking, urban fantasy and time-slipping ecological dreaming, this groundbreaking storytelling project celebrates the wonders and the nightmares of the contemporary city, and the unexpected connections we can find there.

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Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sending all my best wishes to the bold, brave, brilliant storytellers of 'Auf Sand gebaut' ('Built On Sand'), as they take to the stage in Berlin this evening.

An image from performance, showing a dark-haired woman, in a red t-shirt and sand-coloured trousers. She carries a bucket, and sand is arcing from her hand, as if she's sowing seeds.

An image from performance, showing a man in a blue suit and pale green shirt.His arms are stretched wide, as if to demonstrate something large or heavy.

Poster for 'Auf Sand gebaut', showing sand scattered across a stage, and storytelling artists in animated poses.

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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Beyond Austria. -- A statue somewhere in the centre of Oslo. I was unable to identify the sculptor. #Vienna #Austria #photography #Oslo

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new favourite Smaug dropped

the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town

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Edinburgh Images 📷 @colognuh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Leith from Calton Hill, Edinburgh. The massive yellow structures are parts for a wind farm based at sea off the coast near Montrose.

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Philip Allfrey @drpda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today looking up details to correctly cite a scholar I found she's also made some art. #DHMakes This is Interference Pattern II by Frances Rothwell Hughes. She started each square when she had time to embroider and stopped when interrupted by her newborn www.francesrothwellhughes.com/interference...

Detail of textile artwork, showing 6 by 4 squares. Each square shows the same pattern in different stages of completion, ranging from dashes, to diamonds, to a complex geometric pattern filling the entire square.

Framed textile artwork consisting of 4 rows of 25 squares. Each square contains a different number of embroidered stiches in black thread.

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The south face of Beinn Bhan.

A break in the cloud on a green hilly landscape.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

They are built for a mission which is definitionally impossible. You cannot beat the sea. This Earth should be called Ocean and the water is the most powerful thing on it. But these folks volunteer to go out there and fight it anyway because humans should take care of humans.

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And of course this seems a reasonable moment to remind people that I am not seeing them so much as being one of them - my current employment ends Feb. So if you'd like to hire a classicist/historical games specialist, now's the time!

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Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I hope the day goes as well as it possibly can for you. 💛

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Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The return of this laid-back storytelling gathering is a chance to come together, listen to atmospheric old tales, and creatively explore the folklore of darkening skies and changing seasons. Our workshop will finish with a collective retelling of a traditional tale, as darkness gathers around us.

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Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Looking for a moment to pause, breathe, and reflect, as our lives once again tilt towards oncoming winter? Dusking is a new folk tradition, creating a moment of celebration as darkness creeps back into our skies.

Black and white photo of glowing light bulbs, looping among tree branches. Text reads: Dusking, a Storytelling Gathering for the Turning Year

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.

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Ovedascy @ovedascy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

DOUGLAS: The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled. CAROLYN: His heart was in his mouth, but lo! His cap was on his head!

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Lizzy @lizzycampbell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today is a good day to listen to some Cabin Pressure.

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Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was never really cut out to be a 'Stephanie'. But Stephanie Cole made it seem like the thing might be possible, after all.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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