Reposted by will pooleyLiam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For my London-based or adjacent followers, I'm speaking at an event marking the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street next Tuesday evening. I'll be reflecting on the history of antisemitism and state racism among other things. Tickets are free!bisa.bbk.ac.ukThe Battle of Cable Street ninety years on: the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, then and now | Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism 01916
Reposted by will pooleyMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 8hMost TV is just this now. 12450461471
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 3hhehe www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...megalithic.co.ukLes Fesses du Diable Sculptured StoneSculptured Stone in Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique, France 110
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 7hworth reading the whole blog kieranhealy.org/blog/archive... some of these dynamics are different among historians but some of this is depressingly familiarkieranhealy.orgHow RudeNomy Arpaly has an interesting post at Daily Nous called Is Polite Philosophical Discussion Possible? She says, in part: I am not a philosophical pacifist, but you don’t need to be a literal pacifist ... 182
Reposted by will pooleyDr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 7h"AI has not rescued the humanities. What it has done is reveal, with unusual clarity, what happens when societies allow the institutions that cultivate judgement to erode."corp.oup.comAI just made the case for philosophy majors; the humanities should not waste it - Oxford University PressSophie Goldsworthy, Global Academic Publisher, explores how AI companies hiring philosophers may have made a compelling case for the study of humanities disciplines. 13919
Reposted by will pooleyEmily Tesh @emilytesh.net · 8hit has now been two months of suddenly having my reading mojo back. I have read or reread twenty-nine books. I can now share such revelations as 'it's been 13 years but Ancillary Justice is still a perfect book' and 'has anyone else heard of this Tchaikovsky chap?' 61044
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 9hIf you’ll be in Durham on 18/11, I’m giving a talk at @durhamhistory.bsky.social seminar “Murder, Magic… Spreadsheets?” about writing my new book on witchcraft in France(1790-1940) due out with Cornell next year. The highs, the lows… the stupid stupid spreadsheets. www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... 🗃️ 1188
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 11hok. im the guy in that viral video paddle boarding after an inflatable mattress and im ready to answer Qs: -the wind came from NOWHERE -this is our actual bed -no we haven’t got it back. in fact im still at sea, ive been paddling for 3 days no food or water, BUT i think i can finally reach it! oh 071
Reposted by will pooleyLinda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 22hThe Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series is back and we have a stellar line up: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, 6 Oct; @cberiksen.bsky.social, 28 Oct; Jim Endersby, 25 Nov; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 Dec. All seminars are on Zoom, 15-16 CET 14024
Reposted by will pooleyInstitute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Does your research touch on science or science history? Come to this free training session led by IHR Research Partners @sciencemuseum.org.uk on Oct 14 14:00-16:00 at the IHR. Learn about Science Museum Group collections, the SMG Research and Public History team, and grant funding. buff.ly/6xETNyy 12213
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026and for the record, i wrote the proposal for this fellowship a year ago so the more recent stuff about AI “risks” wasn’t even what i was thinking about 092
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026people in/near bristol and into/violently against tarot/AI: we are hosting a series of events this year on “risk”, tarot and AI as part of my university research fellowship get in touch if you’d like to be involved 123114
Reposted by will pooleyTim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Historic England vanishing archive - details of why it is broken : www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...sarsen.orgHistoric England’s Vanishing ArchiveNot just the aerials. The lot. Historic England still holds the negatives, the prints and the scans. What the public lost, in early Sept... 510151
Reposted by will pooleyhuck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers 4161651274
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026YO it’s ornamental squash season for the love of gourd let’s get this party PUMPKIN 181
Reposted by will pooleyAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comA bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest booksWas a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"? 17885384
Reposted by will pooleyLondon Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Haunted Landscape 2026: Magic, Fairies and Old Gods Saturday 21 November 2026 10 am - 5 pm @conwayhall.bsky.social and online Line up below, books, coffee and more on the day. Details and tickets: forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... 1/9 11511
Reposted by will pooleyLondon Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's a whole day of ghosts, magic and old gods @conwayhall.bsky.social and online on 21 November. forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... @strangeattractor.bsky.social 02212
Reposted by will pooleySarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 24/09/20262yrs after I finished my MA History at Goldsmiths, my research rights were bought and I was hired to work as historical consultant on this TV show. It's had BAFTA and International Emmy nominations. I got a book deal, too. Goldsmiths: "No point in MA History, let's fire everyone and delete it." 627290
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“so will, how did you get into marking google maps with all the scatological folklore landmarks mentioned in academic literature?” well 2151
Reposted by will pooleyTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Do 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. 543304752
Reposted by will pooleyCatherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...fnl.mit.eduHow We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter 6357166
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026forgive me iced coffee is just so delicious so sweet and so cold 1140
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DERRY GIRLS. If it’s not there it’s not a serious list 0171
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026is it a fair read to say that both public and politicians are obsessed by the idea of more money for vocational training, while there is essentially no set of employers/industry that actually needs this now while no one cares about universities which employ huge numbers and employers need and want 33811
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the fact that you still can’t buy the branded huntryx noodle pots with their names on as depicted in the film is a sad indictment of capitalism 2144
Reposted by will pooleywill pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Near Bain-de-Bretagne Adolphe Oran reported, lies a pond, the étang de la Huais, which finds its source in a stream that runs down from between two round hillocks: the buttocks of Gargantua watch this space to see if GoogleMaps accept my request to have this location added! 6163
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Near Bain-de-Bretagne Adolphe Oran reported, lies a pond, the étang de la Huais, which finds its source in a stream that runs down from between two round hillocks: the buttocks of Gargantua watch this space to see if GoogleMaps accept my request to have this location added! 6163
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026yet again finding it difficult to concentrate on work as another breaking news event unfolds www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...bbc.co.ukGrowers going head-to-head at giant veg competition after exceptionally hot summerThe national championship, held at the Malvern Autumn Show, often sees world records broken. This year, UK growers faced a summer of dry ground and drought. 46810
Reposted by will pooleySaima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Please join us in celebrating the Centre for Black Humanities’ tenth anniversary. CBH is holding a two-day symposium titled ‘Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’. Our keynote will be Professor Christina Sharpe. Cfp below. Please spread the word! 12018
Reposted by will pooleyEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The cybersecurity threat from agents is increasingly more likely to come from a massed swarm of AIs whose only goal is to penetrate your system to figure out how much you paid for your company t-shirts as part of a research effort to "find good t-shirt prices" as it is from bad actor attacks. 930643
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026things i have learned from building a spreadsheet to reconcile inconsistent naming practices in my book manuscript: 1. the book refers to 525 different individuals by name (tho some are not clearly identified) 2. i really, really should have just thought about consistent rules for naming people 3302
Reposted by will pooleyDr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026From 18 October there will be a new exhibition at the Museum of Cambridge devoted to folklore (and supported, among others, by the @folkloresociety.bsky.social) 419054
Reposted by will pooleyLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026oh! The second part of the de Gaulle movie that's been taking France by storm is coming to London this Friday! With a special screening and discussion with director and actors on the 26th! (based on an actual academic book by one of ours, @qmulsse.bsky.social!)institut-francais.org.ukDe Gaulle (Part 2): Liberté at Ciné Lumière - Institut Français · Royaume-Uni+ Q&A with director Antonin Baudry & actors Simon Abkarian, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Mison on 26 Sept at 19.00 5408
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In 1832 Edme Jacquier received the following anonymous letter. the author was Jean-Baptiste Mignon, and he was acquitted, perhaps (the Gazette des tribunaux 3.12.1832 speculated) because it was true: Jacquier was a witch! also, threats of arson sound less real if they’re also threats of magic 140
Reposted by will pooleyLyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You're going to be needing specialists in: languages, narrative, history, psychology, information, mythology, conspiracies, etc, etc. then? #humanities #socialscience 1116560
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026new article appears on first view IMMEDIATELY spot a typo fffffffs 6270
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026bad news for any of you all that have dreamed of “naked ladies” Perégrinus’s 1822 “Golden Key” of dreams confirms this signifies “someone will die” 1307
Reposted by will pooleyRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 22/09/2026Join us online at 1pm on Thursday (24th Sept) for 'Historical Context: The Climate Crisis' bit.ly/3V4lgKf With panellists @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @ellydezateux.bsky.social. How does historical expertise help us understand the world today? All welcome #Skystoriansbit.lyHistorical Context: The Climate CrisisA panel discussion, hosted by the Royal Historical Society, in which expert historical researchers provide context for current events. 02225
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026it finally happened! the greengrass brothers crossover! (iykyk) 🗃️ 240
Reposted by will pooleySir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War @smhcentre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨Save the date for the next IHR/SMHC Military History seminar, where Dr Grace Huxford will discuss 'Living with Uncertainty on the Cold War Frontier: British Military Communities in Germany, 1945-1991' 🗓️ 29 September 2026 🕓 17:30 📍IHR and online 👇Registration will open shortlyhistory.ac.ukMilitary HistoryThis seminar, founded in 1958 by Sir Michael Howard at the same time as he developed the discipline of War Studies 088
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026anyone know academic indexers interested in work coming up imminently (it’s a multi authored handbook style publication)? self promo welcome! 81111