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oooooh, I guess if you only read about three pages of it, that tracks. And YET.

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OH MY GOD WHATTTTT??? It’s quite literally romance as horror!!! He locks his wife in the attic because he is embarrassed by her (he starts out embarrassed by her skin color and only later says she started acting “crazy”), he repeatedly sexually harasses his employee & IIRC bribes/threatens her… ETC!

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 2h

Boosting the signal for any 18th c. scholars in the audience. I visited @lewiswalpolelib.bsky.social for the first time in August. Their collections are outstanding! 🗃️📜📚

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Giles Martin @gilesdrmartin.bsky.social · 2h

Not encouraging. Thinking Allowed is exactly the type of programme radio 4/podcast that should be produced if the BBC is to mean much and ought to be fairly cheap. I love in our time, which is getting some extra time from… (but right length now if scope for extras). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3h

No, but really, outsourcing our own moral discernment to the talking word toaster is not reasonable or ultimately positive for humans so it’s okay. It is a machine. There’s no mortality to it being used as a machine. You don’t remote lock a guy for cussing out his tractor. What are we doing here?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3h

They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.

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Dr Lee Fallin EdD @leefallin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Great to see Prof. Tom Lawson deliver his inaugural lecture as VC of @uniofhull.bsky.social. Asking the timely question of ‘What are Universities for?’, the talk came to a powerful conclusion. In part - love. Love for their students. Love for their communities. Love for their region. #HigherEd #UKHE

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Love to see this but man the Story of the Walkman was an Open University textbook written towards the end of Stuart’s 18 year tenure there. He taught 10000s of OU students & that seems kind of airbrushed out of his legacy www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14h

'HESA data published in early 2026 found that of the 26,110 academic staff employed at professor level across UK higher education in 2024/25, only 270 are Black. That’s 1.03 per cent of the professoriate....the difference...shows no clear sign of closing.'

wonkhe.com

Why universities keep forgetting their anti-racism commitments

Dami Folayan argues that anti-racism pledges fade because universities don’t build them into governance, systems, and budgets

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 5h

OMG yes, the management as the only progression pathway is such an issue.

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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 12h

*Looks at UK universities* I can answer that, but you're not going to like it.

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 5h

Oh no, it is definitely very specific to the US (although some of the older "clubs" with specific membership criteria might be closest in the UK?)

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 7h

🆕 📝 New paper officially out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! In 2023, Change.org built an AI-assisted writing tool into their platform. We offer causal evidence that access to the AI tool changed petition text (word count, language)... but may have actually hurt outcomes (signatures, comments).

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 6h

Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.

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Knowledge Commons @kcommons.bsky.social · 6h

All areas of Knowledge Commons and our network nodes are up and running again. ❤️ Late last week, Knowledge Commons experienced a cybersecurity incident. As soon as members of our team discovered evidence of intrusion, our team took the site offline and began emergency investigation and remediation.

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 6h

got mine today!!!!!!! from the same Boots person as last year, she started laughing when she saw my name. (We agreed to make it an annual occurrence.)

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 6h

why people seem to think the better process is "shove everyone in a room and make them cope together" I will never know. Solidarity.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 6h

Not to mention that the West know what the Ancient Greeks says because Islamic scholars translated it into Arabic and Europe got it back from them.

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 6h

Exciting news from Austin: @ransomcenter.bsky.social has acquired the archive of author & @mcsweeneys.net founder Dave Eggers! (This collection will complement & enrich the McSweeney's Records, which joined the HRC's collections in 2013.) www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releas... #booksky #newacq 🗃️📜📚

Dave Eggers author card, published by McSweeney’s, 2024. Dave Eggers Papers. Harry Ransom Center.

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 6h

Yet another reason to love this book. Historic whale research, always needed. Who knew? (Melville, obvs)

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 9h

one of the best devs of her generation: boss, i found this error scenario, but don't worry, i've created a fix fox it an- middest male manager: pssh no highly trained man would do that, we don't need your girl math best male astronaut: *immediately fucks up* middest manager: save us girl math

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 9h

When you see things on X that seem impossible for a human being to believe (like a desire to turn over parenting to AI), keep in mind that you can make money with raw attention over there.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 9h

wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 7h

hey @nameshiv.bsky.social it feels like a good day for a “Vimes is going to be home to read “Where’s my cow?” no matter what” quote

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 7h

Top tier connection and memory moments. Just completely beyond me why you would ever give that up.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 9h

The '90s really oversold how many of us in our 30s would be meeting our partners at friends' apartment dinner parties

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 8h

Her translations are also poetry and just astonishing. I loved her Sappho translation (the If… one). And the dramas (mentioned above along with a few of her poetry collections). “Glass and God” was where I started with the poetry. It is all really good.

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 9h

Oh! You have so much to choose from! Do you like drama (esp classical drama?)? Her “Oresteia” translation is sublime. The Beauty of the Husband is also astonishing (I also love “If not, Winter”) as is “Men in the Off Hours”

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 10h

IT’S STEAL A LITTLE TIME FROM THE BOSS TO READ ANNE CARSON DAY

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 10h

Ranked responses to winning the Nobel: 3. Anne Carson (see below) 2. Peter Higgs (Went for a walk in order to hide) 1. Doris Lessing www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBO...

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British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win

YouTube video by ReutersLC

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10h

Sewers are one of the most transformational interventions to human health in history, yet they are rarely understood or recognised for their impact. So we are holding an event about them next Tuesday. In person in London or watch online! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/searc...

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The secret life of sewers

From the Big Stink to the fatberg, London's history has always flowed through what (and how) we flush away. Sewers are one of the most transformational, yet least recognised interventions in the histo...

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 23h

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 9h

I love Anne Carson so much.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

I read that Ossoff told some young people that 'despair is a luxury' and that some people are mad. I think that it's incorrect to say that it is a 'luxury' but I'm with Audre Lorde who said that it is in fact a 'tool of your enemies.'

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

If people read more Black feminists, they'd be better off.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 12h

I hate this so much. The BBC should be providing good quality, good value programmes that the private market won't cover. You and Yours (which I kind of hate), Thinking Allowed and Free Thinking are exactly the sort of programming that the BBC is i) good at, ii) not haemorrhaging money to make.

bbc.co.uk

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 11h

I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives.

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 10h

She is such a treasure. I love her poetry and her translation and just (gestures wildly) everything.

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Love Her

Alt: A glam woman saying “I love her”

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11h

congratulations to my close personal friend* Anne Carson on her richly deserved Nobel *the poet I begged for a selfie at the national Book Awards

A man and a woman in formal wear. One is the poet Anne Carson, her hair grey and white, her topcoat ash grey, her TIE red. The other one is a guy with a goatee and a black tie.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14h

Jim is the first cat I’ve ever met who loves muesli. In fact, I would go so far as to say that Jim loves muesli so much that it visibly hurts him. This is Jim’s “give me your muesli” face. tomcox.substack.com/p/jim-an-ins...

A random orange horse I allowed in my house, after it wandered over from a nearby riding school, and which is now requesting that I donate my breakfast to it. Not really; it’s our cat Jim.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 11h

in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 14h

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14h

in that it fucked the entire system, leading to the loss of access to arts and similar courses at non-Russell/Oxbridge institutions? that's a social mobility impact, sure. And probably one i can see Johnson being proud of. can't let the oiks get too educated.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14h

'In response to the era of artificial intelligence, and the questions it raises about culture, copyright and corporate power, the academics behind the Stuart Hall Archive Project have barred AI bots from accessing the data.'

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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15h

'Itamar Shatz, the author of the study and an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge, said that while he expected the survey of US students would show that they experienced harm from procrastination, he was surprised by how strongly it affected them.'

theguardian.com

University students say procrastination is biggest threat to their academic performance

More than half of US students surveyed said the problem damaged their ability to do academic work, study finds

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 15h

What a legend. That image of her with the pile of books is often what I think of when I think of the Moon landings. RIP.

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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 15h

🚨 NEW: Poorer students have the most to gain from university, but they’re the least likely to go. Our brand-new best practice guide argues universities should redouble efforts to support disadvantaged students 🧵

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