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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 4h

Submissions are now invited for the Society's 2027 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes - covering monographs and articles published in 2026 bit.ly/4z45bD8 The closing date for submissions is 14 December 2026. Judging begins in early 2027 with winners announced next July #Skystorians 1/2

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Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2027: submissions now invited - Royal Historical Society

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2027 and Early Career Article Prize, 2027. The call for submissions opened on Monday 28 September and runs to Monday 14 Dece...

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 3h

I hope you’re getting project rings!

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5h

'Upon learning of the prize, according to her agent, Nicole Aragi, Carson said, “Yikes.”'

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 8h

im on research leave right now trying to raise a crew and steal a ship as i type this

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Alice Vernon @alicevernon10.bsky.social · 9h

Ghosted is out in paperback today! 👻

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 9h

came here to say this too. Plus Leverhulme RF are meant to support people who haven’t had time to do research (due to big admin roles etc) tho ive never been how clear that is in the awards

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 13h

me, hoping today won’t be a day of a million emails, as i log on to my job at the “literally all we make is emails” factory

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18h

A real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk.

Notes app reads: Neoliberalism weaponizes bias to justify austerity. Austerity creates corporate universities. Corporate universities are unhealthy organizations. Unhealthy organizations cannot inculcate or defend academic freedom. Without academic freedom to check administrative power, corporate universities will translate austerity into financialized predation. Predation undermines public trust in higher education. Death spiral accelerates.

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can you tell whether the #ideas in a piece of writing came from a human or an AI? As AI writing becomes common, policies on AI use focus on who came up with the ideas in the text rather than who wrote it. AI detectors answer the latter, not the former. We release #IdeaLens, a detector of AI ideas.

First page of a research paper: IDEALENS: DETECTING AI IDEAS IN LONG-FORM WRITING

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

those who know me IRL know this is accurate

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

CFP for contributions to a special issue of Radical History Review on "The Politicized Premodern Past." I'm confident they would stretch the 500 CE boundary earlier for an ancient or late antique contribution. www.radicalhistoryreview.org/the-politici...

Banner of Radical History Review webpage showing the proposal due date of October 15, 2026

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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Doug McCrae @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cats in the past: Smartly dressed, carry their kills around in little pouches. Cats today: Only wear clothes when humans make them, just dump their kills wherever.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“i brought you this” *hands over limp mouse from where it hangs on my belt*

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(Gustave Doré’s Puss in Boots for a 19th c edition of Perrault’s tales)

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

me, arriving for the party after spending all day reading old books in the library

Puss in boots with his paws in the air from Doré’s illustrations for Perrault

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

as people much more knowledgeable than me have pointed out, some of this is about the interfaces and harnesses (which can be changed so that some uses suddenly vanish, others prioritized) and some of it is about underlying LLMs whose training remains secretive.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

beyond “don’t be stupid”* ai literacy is a completely meaningless term that makes it sound like there are rules that users could learn that will improve the uses of the tools. *don’t be stupid covers everything from “don’t put in personal info” to “avoid becoming convinced chatGPT is a new deity”

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ai “literacy” is impossible with commercial LLMs, because they are black boxes you can “learn” all the tricks you want to use them more “efficiently” but the developers are not going to tell users how the models have been aligned and they don’t have to tell them when they change this either.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

read Graff and Birkenstein! teach students to acknowledge other arguments within the drive of their own argument!

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

wherever you are, the people who are teaching students to end their work by flagging all its limitations need to be STOPPED but on the other hand i must recognize this technique provides balance and shows fair mindedness so maybe my post was pointless after all THE END

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New substack: why there's no place for good ideas in politics: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/who-needs-...

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Who needs thought?

Capitalist politics now militates against good ideas in politics

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

did, did i forget my own birthday

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“do live snails count as foods? there are probably less than a hundred and they should be sealed in a box unless the lid came off again”

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

as you tick off your numbers, remember 🎵 it’s the final countdown🎵

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“it is true we were wrong about this last year, but look around do you feel MORE optimistic than 12 months ago???” thanks PTFA committee!

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

whew, what a relief! PTFA have written back to clarify that they call it ultimate because they are pretty sure the world is going to end this year

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

imagine how much they love getting emails from me

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

school invite to “ultimate bingo night” ha im not falling for this again. it was supposed to be the ultimate bingo night last year and now i learn that must have been at the very best the penultimate bingo night

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

is there a hashtag yet for this content im thinking #CreepyChristmas

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

whatever you do, DO NOT ask a chatbot to generate pictures of the nose man. you are in the opening scenes of a horror film and you will NOT make it into the main story at this rate

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

PSA: if you come across a weird historical smell thing, let me know - it's the right thing to do.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Vab Gennep reports a similar tradition also documented in Barcelona and if children complained that they never saw the Nose Man, their parents would say “oh we must have missed him” ??? Pp.3017-8

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Parents in Metz apparently promised children that if they were well behaved then they would take them to a big square in central Metz on Saint Sylvestre’s Day (31 December) to see a man with a nose for every day of the year (Van Gennep, Manuel de folklore français, p.3017)

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

sorry @willtullett.bsky.social every time I see something about smells I feel like I have to tell you so did you know that in Metz (Lorraine) there was a traditional and v creepy Christmas figure who had a NOSE FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

lol I write this as if today wasn’t the first time I managed to get there to renew my pass which expired more than a year ago 😱

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

there are two types of people in the world: those who have to ask the staff to help find their belongings once and would never make the same mistake again, and me

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

research leave report to include an appendix of all the photos ive taken on my locker number in the BL

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you can’t deny he achieved a lot in his life, so the fact that the obits are almost unanimously focused on what a POS he was. well. RIP Monica Coghlan

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i have a secondhand jeffrey archer story from an artist i know. wealthy clients can often “try out” art in their homes and if they don’t like it, they don’t buy it. the story goes that JA basically used this as a way to redecorate for parties for free, then returned it all after.

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘’Reading’ is a set of skills that we can and should teach students in class.’ Absolutely! I’ve been thinking even more deliberately recently about the importance of practical close reading (fundamental to the study of English Lit!) in the classroom. Gotta show students the magic in action!!

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

sometimes a [stochastic] parrot talks. yesss some birds are funny when they talk

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

is dexter ill, is dexter ill, is dexter ill today

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