"Reform UK Plans to Jail Candidates for Using Irish, Gaelic or Cornish on Election Leaflets" 'Nigel Farage’s party propose amendment to the Government’s elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison' bylinetimes.com/2026/07/13/r...

#MosaicMonday Fragment of the face of the 'Mother of God". Deësis mosaic, c. 1261, 5.2 x 6 m, south gallery, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (Istanbul). #ancient #art #History #artwork

New chapter by Dr Steve Ashby tieing up his work (with Dr Jessie Hendy and Dr Sam Greeves @york-bioarch.bsky.social) on the origins of hair combs found across early-medieval Europe with ongoing research on trapping, travel and trade in upland Scandinavia. More soon! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

The ICE death toll rises. Another man shot, this time in Biddeford, Maine.

This guy is a proper computer engineer/coder type. Listen to him describe what it's like getting these 'know nothing' contributions where the user has simply 'laundered what we said back to us through the chatbot'. that is EXACTLY how it feels to us academics too. youtu.be/iqddnwKF8HQ?...

Only 5 days left!

Count Binface is going to win by a landfill.

Unpopular view but I think a lot of problems in unis could be helped by capping the maximum wage at 2.5 x full time entry lecturer pay (as lecturers do most of the core university work) which might increase lecturer pay as a side benefit to cutting a lot of nonsense.

Thanks @ccooijmans.bsky.social we should also mention your fascinating paper is open access on the @livunipress.bsky.social website!! David, Nancy and Fiona were a lovely team to work with on this book #medievalsky

I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

This seems like a good visual to get students into the library (all the fun happens in the medieval history section) #libraries

🏺 alongside some old reposts of my writing, I’ll also be reposting some old podcast episodes of ArchaeoAnimals over the next few months, so friendly reminder that the show is archived at @archpodnet.bsky.social (and available wherever you download podcasts) www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/animals

For those who may not be aware, Count Binface is actually a serious comedian and historian, Jon Harvey, who did a very interesting series on BBC Radio 4 about the origins of democracy a few years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l... #medievalsky

Dreaming of cooler days? Want to learn a little about the "interconnected stories of these islands"? Our Prof @downham.bsky.social has written about her visit to St Constantine’s Caves near Carlisle: "It was a grey day with light drizzle ..." www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studie... #medievalsky #history

New blog post on St Constantine’s Caves near #carlisle #cumbria #medievalsky #walks #welsh www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studie...

The EA, the Institute of English Studies, & University English are holding an online #emergency summit for all English colleagues to address the proliferation of redundancies, restructurings, other significant challenges to our & cognate disciplines across the sector. 👇🏼 mailchi.mp/1b1ef2d5a8a3...

I do not think Farage will dare have a public debate with Binface but I would love to see it. #faco

'The lords know the problems because everybody can see the problems. Some peers are particularly astute at calculating the damage being done. Yet there was an air to this debate of a bunch of clever people discussing climate change in an air-conditioned room while it is 38 degrees outside.' 1/2

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo... #medievalsky #norway #liverpool #merseyside

'Life Support' a documentary following international doctors in Gaza, is screening on July 15th at @wshed.bsky.social with a Q &A - book tickets at www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1413... in association with Bristol Palestine Film Festival #BPFF #film #documentary #Palestine #Gaza #medical #healthcare

Universities are engines for social mobility, local economies, and soft power. Labour MPs should be falling over themselves to defend higher education, especially a working-class Education Secretary who studied History! I wish my party would wake up to the universities crisis before it is too late

I’m glad there are journalists like those at @bylinetimes.bsky.social actually investigating the dark web of money, racism, and right-wing Christian nationalism. There are so many bad actors pulling strings behind the scenes and shaping society darkly. Sad times.

Daughter took me to a ‘Paint and Sip’ last night, great time. Hungover. My ‘artwork’ look decidedly less good in the morning light so just popped it in the wheelie bin 😂 seems like beer goggles really is a thing. #art

How can we let him stay 2 1/2 more years? It's just not acceptable. truthout.org/articles/new...

Daughter's house for sale #Aberdeenshire #scotland #property please share! £270k gets you a gorgeous granite, 7 bedroom property with double garage & outhouse. Huntly is a busy small town with shops, market, a castle, lovely local walks & rail station (direct links to Aberdeen, Dyce & Inverness)

Honestly, I'm not minding this - "is he [Nigel] ... a cunning stunt, and I have to say that carefully at this time of the morning"

Did you know that liquorice made in Pontefract featured in an iconic Bond film moment? 👀 In 'Moonraker', Jaws is seen biting through a thick electric cable. Yep, that's Pontefract liquorice! Liquorice really has been used for all sorts! 🍬 More tasty #FunFacts in this thread (1 / 5)

Oh my, anyone fancy buying me an island for Xmas? This is where the famous 'Inchmarnock Hostage Stone' was found which features in my next book #medievalsky #scotland www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/r...

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-father-... #film #liverpool #libya

UK tax system makes poor poorer Wage taxed at marginal rates of 20% to 45%, national insurance (NI) paid. Capital gains & dividends taxed at the marginal rates of 18% to 24%, and 10.75% to 39.35%. No NI. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in direct/indirect taxes than the richest 20%.

Brexit Boy wasn’t bright enough to work out no one would stand against him. He’s left with a Farage v Count Binface by election. What an absolute idiot he is. Finished, dead in the water, not an ounce of credibility. He’s done for. Well done all other Party Leaders.

Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said.

Game on, Nige.

This product (AI in general) needs a lot more lab testing before its use by business or the public. The Hidden Risk Of Agentic AI: When Confidence Outpaces Accuracy www.yahoo.com/tech/ai/arti...

The question of what it means to be American has never felt more contested and nowhere did that come into sharper focus than watching ICE goons target Native Americans. The original people of this land.

“England is heading for a 5bn-litre daily water shortfall by 2055 – so why is the government fast-tracking one of the most water-hungry industries there is, and letting it keep its consumption private, asks campaigner Adele Walton” www.thenerve.news/p/adele-walt...

Proud of our PhD Students @hspevans.bsky.social and Nikolaus Frenzel, who have organised a session on "Law and Contacts in the Irish Sea Region" at @imc-leeds.bsky.social. If you are at #IMC2026, join them this Wednesday: imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/mee... #medievalsky #academicsky #IrishStudies

My first article is published today in the @haskinssociety.bsky.social Journal. I'm so pleased to finally see it out in the world. My article outlines the maritime dimension to William fitzOsbern's lordship in the southern Welsh March in the years after 1066. doi.org/10.2307/jj.4... #MedievalSky

The University of Liverpool will be hosting Beckett: Lieben this September #booksky #literature #irish

Cottrell calling Farage ‘Daddy’ probably a bigger turn off for average Reform voters than his dodgy financial dealings. #politics

A crucial report into gendered institutional abuse in Northern Ireland will be published today. Well worth reading for myriad reasons, not least because the independent panel was tasked with developing the kind of human-rights-centred approach survivors in the Republic have been denied.

This morning we released Gob to the wild, again. Last year we released Gob, but he was like “no, I don’t wanna,” and he found his way back to the Marmot Recovery Centre. Rather than let him try to hibernate under the Centre, we obliged him and brought him back into care for the winter.

Looking to sell a couple of antique book presses (based Northern Scotland) open to sensible offers. The cast iron one is VERY heavy #booksky #bookbinding #crafts

My book Early English Queens, 850-1000 pretty much does what it says on the cover! It's a biography-led exploration of how queenship developed in an important period of political evolution in England. And the book is currently 20% off with free shipping at Routledge (or 25% off for the ebook).

Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen at scale Cambridge Uni made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/07/scie...

This is what happens when you prioritize optics over common sense. Slapping a 'terrorist' label on an elderly woman doesn't make anyone safer; it makes the system look completely unhinged. This isn't justice; it's an institutional meltdown.

Ogham stones bearing some of the earliest inscriptions of the Irish language as you enter Aula Maxima at University College Cork