iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you care about the British Library, consider applying to join the Board! apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9596?n...

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Appointment details – British Library up to x7 Board Members – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ah, Kings Cross in the late 90s where two of us would always walk our friend back to her halls each evening as it was a regular occurrence that at least one man would assume we must be prostitutes because we were female. Which bit of the Met did he work in?!?

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Kicking off the #RDAPlenary27 at the #Oval. Hopefully the conference is as exciting as the venue!

Photograph of the Oval cricket ground in London, empty, but for a flock of birds

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Arthur Clune @arthur.clune.org · 30/09/2026

Having a system where we get our top researchers to spend their time writing grants with a 5% success rate rather than doing research seems less than ideal

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you know how low that is for a population our size?

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And in England, and we worked very hard to get rid of it, so it's horrifying to hear it being used again

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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Interesting perspective on how technology affects how we teach.

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step-up.bsky.social @step-up.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Free Training: Data Modelling and Database Design 🗓️7 October 🕑9:30 - 17:00 🗺️Imperial, South Kensington 👉https://pretix.eu/ARC/2026-10-07-datab/ This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to model data for a relational database, especially research technology professionals.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

THEY GOT TO 2000 SUPPORTERS! Now in need of 3000 more in just under a year. LETS GO! #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians

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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

between 15,000 and 20,000 jobs in UK universities are actively at risk of being cut, on top of the tens of thousands already lost. 50% of UK universities are actively cutting staff. Solidarity with anyone losing their job at the altar of corporate greed, but "some jobs are real jobs" indeed.

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Join us Monday 5 October 2026, 5-6 pm BST for a virtual, collaborative workshop on expanding and updating coverage of digital resources on geographical and spatial data on the ancient world in the Digital Classicist Wiki! Details and to register here: #ClassicsBluesky

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

About 2.7 million hours of work for no return.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The brutal reality of universities' suppression of wages (in KPMG's report for DfE on cost of undergraduate provision in England) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6aabfa...

Table 1 – Cost increases since the last study by cost type
Actual % increase
between 2016-17 and
2019 study cost groupings
2023-24 weighted
average unit cost
Staff costs 14%
Non-pay costs 46%
Indirect departmental costs -24%
Centrally allocated indirect costs 29%
Estates costs 40%
Sustainability adjustment -2%

Source: Analysis of Data Returns
Table 1 shows that costs have not increased equally in the time between the two costing studies. Non-pay costs have increased slightly ahead of inflation and estates costs have increased in line with inflation. Universities have managed staff costs significantly below inflation, increasing only by 14% compared to the 41.2% increase in RPIX. By contrast, indirect departmental costs have reduced by 24%, but this may be due to differences in the universities participating in the 2019 and this study. The movement in MSI is reflective of changes in financial performance rather than any inflationary impact.

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh no! Hope you feel better soon!!! xxx

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wow, what a wonderful card and message!

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well, I still find myself wanting to explain digital filing systems by talking about physical filing cabinets and folders so.....!

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fundamentally growing up with modern media does not teach good practice. In fact a lot of modern media obfuscates things e.g. you can get away with saving everything to an amorphous mess if it's just the latest essay you did, but it's disastrous on long projects with lots of other people

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I agree they need to learn to deal with analogue media, but the "digital native" idea also turns out to be problematic. We're increasingly finding that students have no idea how to name & organise digital files, & they still don't know how to structure data.

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

nationaltrust.org.uk

Annual General Meeting

Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yup, that's why I'm watching: the logistics are amazing. I can't but think of all the planning and building of equipment that went into this; the care of everyone involved.. the hours and hours of practice.

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That's exactly what I was just pondering. And if we must, can we start calling them "history communicators" instead of historians? No wonder so many people don't know what historians actually do.

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He thought it was a matter of respect. Everyone deserved his time. (And he hated the term HR, because humans aren't resources).

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My dad was a personnel manager in the 80s & his factory was closed. He insisted on having 1:1 meetings with every single one of the 300 employees to personally give them the news (even though they all knew about it) & once he'd talked to all of them, made himself redundant too.

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm so sorry sorry: that's beyond horrendous. Hope you get some good legal advice: if that's allowable as a "contract variation" we're all in trouble! Sending much sympathy and righteous anger on your behalf.

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Now that I could totally get behind. Three course dinner for ten pounds.... Boeuf Bourguignon with rice *and* chips

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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Help secure the Cinema Museum's future! It's the UK's only museum dedicated to the experience of cinema-going. It's in the old Lambeth Workhouse, where seven-year-old Charlie Chaplin lived with his destitute mother. And it needs £500k in the next three weeks! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-cinema...

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The Cinema Museum: HELP US BUY OUR HOME

After 40 years of uncertainty, we have a chance to secure our home. We need £500,000 to purchase our home and we have five months to do it!

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That's so odd, and such an odd decision to have made. We're lucky enough to have four for historical reasons and I wish more churches had that many! It makes everything feel so much more manageable when you have others to share the worry.

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I suggest emailing me: my UCL profile and email address is very easy to find

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I can access them tomorrow. What do you need?

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CaSDaR @casdarnetwork.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Please fill in this form to apply to present a lightning talk 👉 t.ly/LTsFm The deadline to register to present a lightning talk is the 19th October 2026 with final decisions released on the 23rd October 2026.

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Unless you're in the UK, in which case it won't be ready for another two weeks

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Francisco Maria Calisto @fmcalisto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think better statistics come from better data first. Without solid data, any numbers we chase are just guesses. Clear data beats clever analysis every time. #dataquality #statistics #dataviz

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 30/08/2026

British higher education is in crisis. We moved from an elite university system to mass higher education within a single lifetime. That brought huge benefits writes Stephen McNair - but without a settled answer to a fundamental question, what do we really want from our oldest institutions?

eastangliabylines.co.uk

What do we really want from our universities?

British universities are under attack from multiple directions. After decades of expansion is it time to ask what we want from higher education?

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Please please write it. I grew up in a grade II listed house and I'm so fed up with people who never have, and have no professional knowledge either, arguing with me about what listing does and doesn't prevent.

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Naomi Rendina @naomirendina.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hello, #historians and #science communicators! I’m applying for a fellowship to improve translating the science side of my historical research on Pitocin- but they want me to have a few thousand followers! Could you please help a scholar out by following and sharing with friends?

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Stares in, ironically, university salaries

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Final survey opportunity for REF2029 (especially SPRE) launches today. Deadline for responses is 4 pm 4 September 2026. Link to survey information below.

2029.ref.ac.uk

REF 2029 launches sector survey on final policy developments – REF 2029

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What a lovely photograph. Sending much love and sympathy. Xxx

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The loss of search structure is devastating for knowledge retrieval. I teach basic lit searching and it's always felt like a really core transferable skill for students to know boolean operators and "exact phrase searching" and now google, microsoft etc have just killed it to force us to use slopAI.

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Looking up their energy certificate, looks like they've added the air pump and solar since they were assessed, but it's the uninsulated stone walls that really don't help them or their neighbours plus the assumed poorly insulated roof rooms.

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Ha, indeed! Usually I have to go to a conference in another country to do that! It's a shame: we need to find better ways to get people meeting each other in UCL

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UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Join us at the UCL Institute of Archaeology for a free day of discovery at the Winter Archaeology Festival! Whether you're an archaeology enthusiast, a prospective student or simply curious, there's something for everyone! 🎟️ Book your free place: tinyurl.com/WAF26 #Archaeology #UCL #UCL00 #IoA

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A thought-provoking post on using genAI in writing and how it may get in the way of the kind of formative criticism that we all need to develop as researchers

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