I just can’t with the stuttery nonsense for penalties.

I know this ship sailed a long time ago, but good lord, there really is no need for people to have a forthright opinion on something they know absolutely nothing about.

📢 Applications are open for the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association's Advocacy & Engagement Fellowship. Theme: Openness & Transparency 💰 £4,000 stipend + £1,000 project fund 📅 Deadline: 17 August 2026 Link: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/07/06/2... #DigitalHumanities #OpenResearch #DH

‘This direction of travel risks irreversible damage to UK higher education and research, to scholarship, and to our capacity to shape the future…diminishing opportunities for students, widening regional inequalities, and the erosion of knowledge, evidence and expertise on which the UK depends.’

The BBC commentators have no clue who Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem are. I guess we all live in our bubbles!

For UK-based folk, the government is matching donations to the Disasters Emergency Committee’s Venezuela Earthquake Appeal pound for pound (up to £2m).

There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️

I have such strong memories of Jack Charlton throwing water bottles to Ireland players when they were playing in Florida during USA 94, but the hydration breaks regardless of the temperature are nonsense.

Being at Chalke History Festival reminds me yet again how interconnected university-based history and other forms of history-making are. The thing we do in one place explicitly supports the thing we do in another. University cuts, closures and job losses harm the entire history eco-system.

Economists talk about 'scarring' - long-term effects on a cohort of some short-term phenomenon like a bout of unemployment: even if we pull out of this UK HE crisis soon (doubtful), the whole sector will be scarred for life. (1/2)

Preparing to say goodbye to the mighty BBC Radio 4 Long Wave broadcast. The first service began 101 years ago. The transmitters at Droitwich, Westerglen and Burghead will be switched off at 0100 BST on Saturday. The 200 metre long AM signal at 198 Khz goes right through you and sounds fabulous!

I know people like to joke about the lack of air conditioning in the UK, but I work in a listed building where we are not allowed to install AC. Some of my colleagues have been teaching on a summer school in minimum 35-degree heat and high humidity all week. It’s utterly miserable for everyone.

A brief appreciation thread for some of my colleagues in Classics at Exeter, who the University of Exeter have put at risk of redundancy @exeter.ac.uk. A few are on here, most are not, but I'm going to say nice things about them anyway.

It’s gone 11.00pm and the temperature is still 25 degrees …

the media and voter messaging should be this: the current government and the government in waiting do not want your children to be able to go to university, they will not support people in the UK to do original research, they do not care about job losses in one of the largest sectors in the economy

A grim day in a grim week in a grim month for UK higher education, with Dundee, Exeter and Hertfordshire all making major announcements of planned redundancies. Shrinkage of the research & teaching base by the invisible hand's visible fist is not an 'us' or 'them', SHAPE or STEM phenomenon. 1/2

The weather forecast is grim this week, but for today, you can’t beat falling asleep to the sound of summer rain.

So this was a nice surprise to wake up to, thanks to all Cambridge University Press & Assessment and series editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social Delighted that it is Open Access doi.org/10.1017/9781... @researchireland.ie @ucc.ie

Finally! The UK government should not be in the business of making its citizens access X for important information.

Today's the anniversary of the Nazis executing Marc Bloch. Or, someone who could sit with uncertainty, champion inquiry & trying to understand, and recognise plurality & perplexity. And, in that knowledge, made the choice not to remain passive. Bloch, Historian’s Craft (MUP, 1992), pp. 64, 119, 160.

The 2026 Annual Event on Sustainability starts this Monday @unisouthampton.bsky.social! The Association and the Soton DH team have been working hard to get everything ready & can't wait to welcome you. You can see all the sessions via the programme: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-...

All of us at Art UK are sad to hear of the death of David Hockney, one of the nation's most beloved artists. You can find out more about him on Art UK and the works in the national collection: 🔗 https://ow.ly/zfqK50Zb6sQ 'A Bigger Splash' by David Hockney (1937–2026). © David Hockney. 📷 Tate.

I wrote to my MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social over a month ago about the devastation of humanities provision at the University of Hertfordshire and have had no response.

Thunderstorms all day, but finally a rainbow

Permanent, full-time Lectureship in Digital Culture and Society at UCL. Closing date 28 June www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Five collections of UK documentary heritage have been added to the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register: from medieval civic records & the foundation of one of Scotland’s oldest universities to archives of pioneering mental health care, industrial innovation & female anti-slavery campaigning

I have such a strong memory of my dad coming home during Top of the Pops while the Prodigy were on and saying ‘Oh that’s Aldwych tube station’. First Father’s Day without him coming up.

A week today! Our 'Overview of Books Publishing' free training session provides a comprehensive overview of the process of getting an academic book published, incl choosing a publisher, preparing a proposal, book contracts & the writing & production process. Sign up: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Creighton Lecture 2026 - Political Life and Political Crises: A Conversation with Joy Connolly, Melissa Lane, and David Cannadine, 9 June 2026 ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

This little guy wandered into the house earlier

If you’re working on digital cultural heritage and have an idea for a short-form monograph, we’d love to hear from you. The series is diamond open access too!

The sound of swifts on a (very) warm spring evening brings me joy.

Postdoctoral position at @uni.lu ‼️ My colleague Marten Düring is hiring for a postdoctoral position in Digital History. The candidate will contribute to the fantastic Impresso — Media Monitoring of the Past project. Apply before July 1 www.uni.lu/en/jobs/post...

Have you ever wondered how digital technologies could help with the analysis of texts? Our free 'Digital Approaches to Textual Analysis' course on RESHAPED offers a practical introduction. Access the course: https://bit.ly/43qhA6h Explore training opportunities at SAS: https://bit.ly/45tYbAI

Womble the baby aardvark is adorable. A much needed nice story today.

Just 1 week left until in-person registration for our Annual Event closes. Be sure to get your tickets while you can! #DH #digitalhumanities #digitalheritage #digitalculture

We have our office copies of Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage: Access, Use, Value and Sustainability and we love it. Concise, practical, accessible: uolpress.co.uk/book/explori... 👏 Amazing work @amsichani.bsky.social, @jfwinters.bsky.social and Eirini! #OpenAccess @dh-researchhub.bsky.social

It’s time for Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and STEMM staff to talk and stand together. We are actually all on the same ship. Stronger and better together.

The UK–Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social is calling for new Community Interest Groups (CIGs) – a great opportunity to build a community around shared interests. Deadline: 29 June digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/05/14/c... #DigitalHumanities

I don’t really have the words to describe the generational damage that is happening in UK universities - so much lost potential.

‘Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage’ is now out in the wild! You can download an open-access copy (PDF) or read the free digital edition on Manifold uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Loved working on this with Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social & the @uolpress.bsky.social team.

At last! The archived British Library blogs are viewable online. Check the index of blogs at blogs-archive.bl.uk and the hundreds of posts on the Digital Scholarship blog going back to 2013 blogs-archive.bl.uk#digital-scho...

‘Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage’ is now out in the wild! You can download an open-access copy (PDF) or read the free digital edition on Manifold uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Loved working on this with Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social & the @uolpress.bsky.social team.

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

Devastated for friends and colleagues at Herts. It’s my local university and this is also closing off so many opportunities for young people in the county.

It’s open access and I have copies to give to family, but my amazing sister has already ordered a copy because pre-orders are where it’s at 😀

Counting down to publication day on Thursday uolpress.co.uk/book/explori...

Dubrovnik cats

Our pilot Small Grants Scheme for early career DH researchers and GLAM practitioners is now OPEN! Up to £ 3,000 / € 3,449.26 to support collaborative projects between researchers & GLAM institutions. Deadline: 19 June Details digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/05/01/2... #DH #digitalheritage

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2026. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on OA or with an open access component. Deadline 30/06: