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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Day 1 of the strike by the workers of UCU Edinburgh against the manufactured deficit (which is not really a deficit), and against a senior management earning millions while staff disappear and education suffers. Solidarity against this parasitical form of management of our higher education.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It is, as the Geordie fans of George Michael’s early oeuvre put it, canny wham like 🥵

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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

And yet management @northumbriauni.bsky.social press on with plans to cut the pay of hundreds of staff on @teacherspensions.bsky.social. This is vindictive, unnecessary, a permanent stain on the university's reputation, and, with job losses imminent, is destroying morale. For what?

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

*stares in British University*

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

An amazing #TwinPeaks Day to all my fellow freaks.

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Has anyone ever *actually seen* a dreidel made of clay?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

“When a day you happen to know is a Wednesday starts off sounding like a Sunday…” I had lots of fun on @everyscififilm.bsky.social talking about the 1963 film of John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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The Day of the Triffids: Wyndham vs Sci-Fi Spectacle

Podcast Episode · Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever* · 26/10/2025 · 59m

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza is free to read, share and download until the end of September 2025. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social [1/4] ● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)

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Israeli Settler Colonial Genocide

The article examines the combined violence of settler colonialism in Israel and the US in two parts. The first part discusses the Jewish supremacism at the heart of Israeli settler colonialism, foc...

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

In “The Nature of Fascism”, Roger Griffin argues that generic to all fascisms is a paligenetic myth of national renewal or rebirth. Starmer’s plan for “patriotic national renewal” is another dangerous signal of how close to fascism he is prepared to tread, effectively preparing a path for them

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

Image of 'The Empress' tarot card by Pamela Coleman Smith, depicting a figure with long hair, crown, and sceptre. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK.

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I’m travelling from Assen to Utrecht tomorrow (1hr 34minutes) for €21 for a ticket on any train between 9-12pm. 1.5hours from Newcastle will get you to Leeds on a good day, but it’s £74 at 10am tomorrow on the cheapest train. Is the Dutch network highly subsidised or is the UK network just very bad?

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Looking forward to listening to this one!

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

A fitting tribute to a lovely man and a wonderful scholar.

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This site encourages mass follows to try to amass follow backs, especially by American Democrat boomers. It gets annoying. Case in point: I just got followed by a gubernatorial candidate for Arkansas. Me, whenever I see the word Arkansas: youtube.com/shorts/U7X7c...

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"So I Am Confusion"

YouTube video by Shane “Xicon” Brown

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/07/2025

It’s good he’s acknowledging these events are a genocide but I feel compelled to point out the inherent supremacy of a piece which does not cite any Palestinian scholars or journalists. This is a version of what Miranda Fricker calls “testimonial injustice” and Kristie Dotson “epistemic oppression.”

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and it’s important that it’s published in the NYT.

To this day, only a few scholars of the Holocaust, and no institution dedicated to researching and commemorating it, has issued a warning that Israel could be accused of carrying out war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing or genocide. This silence has made a mockery of the slogan “Never again,” transforming its meaning from an assertion of resistance to inhumanity wherever it is perpetrated to an excuse, an apology, indeed, even a carte blanche for destroying others by invoking one’s own past victimhood.

What I fear is that in the aftermath of the Gaza genocide, it will no longer be possible to continue teaching and researching the Holocaust in the same manner we did before. Because the Holocaust has been so relentlessly invoked by the State of Israel and its defenders as a cover-up for the crimes of the I.D.F., the study and remembrance of the Holocaust could lose its claim to be concerned with universal justice and retreat into the same ethnic ghetto in which it began its life at the end of World War II — as a marginalized preoccupation by the remnants of a marginalized people, an ethnically specific event, before it succeeded, decades later, to find its rightful place as a lesson and a warning for humanity as a whole.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

New issue of Apocalyptica Vol. 3, No. 1 (2024) heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apo... #openaccess @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @prisjo.bsky.social @sztockmann.bsky.social

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 14/07/2025

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Publication day for my article “Desert Settings and How to See the Apocalypse”! heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apo... Come for the George Miller putdowns, stay for the analysis of deserts as visual fields. #academicsky

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024) | Apocalyptica

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

And now the British Medical Association suspends links with the Israeli Medical Association, seeking to remove the IMA from the World Medical Association: www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

Resolutions of the British Medical Association that suspends engagement with the Israeli Medical Association.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I'm humbled and delighted by this most thoughtful and generous review of my book on Janelle Monáe's queer Afrofuturism 🙏🏻💜

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Utopian Studies 36.1 out now, with articles by Jack Halberstam, @sean-seeger.bsky.social & @alothian.bsky.social which I'm excited to read. Oh, plus my review of @danhf.bsky.social Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/utopian... #academicsky

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Nothing speaks more to passive aggressive hostilities in literary studies than this sign in the Lit&Phil library. There’s a whole campus novel waiting to be written (and critically panned) about how this sign came into being.

Notice on a journals bookshelf reading “due to theft/vandalism Literary Review will now be kept permanently behind the desk. Please ask a member of staff if you would like to read it”

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I've just realised that by putting the video for Janelle Monáe's PYNK on the same week of an environmental humanities module as the C19th sonnet Ozymandias I can legitimately use the pun "if you try to grab this Percy, this Percy'll Bysshe you back", so now I'm packing up and finishing for the day.

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My internal examiner, Prof Simon James has passed away. He was a wonderful, kind, lovely person who was very generous with his time for me ever since my viva. His work was a pleasure to read and he’ll be sadly missed.

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MFS: Modern Fiction Studies @mfsjournal.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Modern Fiction Studies has joined BlueSky! We'll be posting CFPs and announcing new issues. Our Spring 2025 issue is now available and open-access on Project Muse! Look for us there, or check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/emails/48378...

Cover image for MFS 71.1. Features two black and white abstract human figures against a vibrant yellow, read, and blue background.

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

A coastal shelf of tamagotchis

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 12/05/2025

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume. Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Call me a hypersensitive Jew, but Starmer’s “island of strangers” comment immediately reminds me of British turn-of-the-C20th antisemitic rhetoric grounded in the Wandering Jew trope. It formed part of a racist moral panic then, and it does the same job now albeit largely against different groups.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"Ironically, this is itself an antisemitic trope: that Jews cannot think for themselves unless they conform to a sanctioned ideology." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I’m an Israeli professor. Why is my work in Harvard’s antisemitism report? |

Harvard is conflating Jewish identity with political loyalty to Israel. That’s a dangerous mistake

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

UK Unis are huge employers & majority of them in England & Wales are based in Labour constituencies. You’d think naked self-interest would prevail here among their MPs given their generally self-serving approach to politics. 🤷

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Together with @ukjan.bsky.social Na'amod NW has been encouraging the University of Manchester to adopt better policies on antisemitism & student protest and to drop the IHRA definition. The University's response has been disappointing. Read our Press Release here: drive.google.com/file/d/1hdLc...

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EDITED Na'amod NW Press Release_ Jewish Groups Clash With University of Manchester Over Free Speech and Antisemitism.pdf

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Kit Heyam (they/he) @krheyam.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I'm on holiday, but I need to put my trainer hat on for a moment and say this: If you're an organisation trying to work out what today's ruling on the Equality Act means for you, what you need to change, etc. - please hang fire, think it through.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

If this is the law, the law is wrong.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 13/03/2025

“Had a fit of the scunners: heart withered up.” —Willa Muir was born #OTD, 13 March, 1890. Her translations of Kafka solidified his reputation in English, & then internationally. Prof Michelle Woods looks at Willa Muir—a Shetland translator in Prague: 1/5 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/will...

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Willa Muir: a Shetland Translator in Prague - The Bottle Imp

In her archive at St Andrew’s, Willa Muir stored a clipping from The Scotsman, dated 24 May, 1947. “It was something of a shock, writes a colleague from Prague, to hear a Czech choir singing Ho Ro, mo...

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

When it just doesn’t feel right playing with an ever rising and more precarious tower of wooden blocks, that’s Jenga dysphoria

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Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Anyone who has spent time taking requests- sorry demands- from pre-schoolers for the car stereo will appreciate my delight to have been recently asked for the following (in between the usual toddler crap): -Lorelei by Cocteau Twins -Raspberry Beret by Prince -Reelin in the years by Steely Dan

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

What made the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians thinkable was, among other things, the fact it was officially put forward as a "solution" by a British Royal Commission in 1937. That went beyond our wild dreams, wrote Ben Gurion at the times, we would never have dared to suggest it.

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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Recently back in #heidelberg, a small town that exemplifies"every document of culture is a document of barbarism" due to its nazi-era history. Many tourists adore the traditional bakery on 34 Plöck. 1/

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Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The added insult in presenting the proposal to cut 120 FTE staff while merging History, Ancient History, Archaeology, Conservation, Religion, Modern Languages, English, Communications, Philosophy, and Welsh, is that it was only in questions that they revealed we only have c240 now.

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