Good news for linguists who are great communicators and problem solvers!

Their prizewinning resource is "Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830". Check it out here! borrowing.stir.ac.uk

Hard to see how this decision serves the security or the prosperity of the United States. apnews.com/article/unit...

'Investing in languages is not a sentimental project; it is a strategic one.' Great blog from Martha Lane Fox martha6j5h2.substack.com/p/britain-is...

My letter @thetimes.com today. Trump can achieve ALL his security objectives in Greenland by cooperating with Denmark (under their 1951 Treaty) and NATO. To show that Arctic security is a genuine NATO endeavour, the UK, France and others should also make military deployments in and around Greenland

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Magdalen College invites you to a concert for Holocaust Memorial Day on Sun 25 Jan. Introduced by by Professor Shirli Gilbert, the programme features works composed by Krása, Klein, and Shostakovich; performed by the Leonore Piano Trio and Rachel Roberts. 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-for-...

[ANNONCE] Le Prix de thèse 🎓 de la SEAA 17-18 distingue une thèse en français ou en anglais, soutenue dans une université française ou dans le cadre d’une co-tutelle incluant une université française. Le champ scientifique correspond à celui de la SEAA 17-18.

'Despite all their difficulties, universities remain an enormous and irreplaceable national asset. As well as educating millions of people, they generate about £24bn in export earnings, which is about 1% of GDP – more than aircraft manufacturing and legal services combined'. 1/2

Very excited that an article about #KatherineRead prepared whilst I was @iashedinburgh.bsky.social has finally come out in The Burlington Magazine.

'Despite persistent myths, employment rates for humanities graduates are comparable to those of STEM graduates, as Humanities Indicators data shows. Early earnings differ but the salary gap narrows significantly mid-career, particularly for graduates who pursue further study'. 1/2

We all need to send this link to data driven university administrators who view funding applications as key performance target.

Autopromotion 879 La 685e livraison de XVIIIe siècle, la bibliographie de l’Oreille tendue, est servie. La bibliographie existe depuis le 16 mai 1992. Elle compte 79 600 titres. À partir de cette page, on peut interroger l’ensemble des livraisons grâce à un rudimentaire moteur de recherche et…

Come work with me: portal.unitemps.com/Search/JobDe... I'm co-leading a project on the experiences of student carers (esp. PhDs) at Warwick. We're recruiting for a part-time Project Officer (1 day week) to support in data analysis and writing report. Deadline 08/01. Feel free to get in touch.

Very pleased to end 2025 with a nice review in @thetls.bsky.social of Ghost Stations , available from @cbeditions.bsky.social . Giving nostalgia a good name. www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Exciting news - a room in Museo di Roma–Palazzo Braschi now permanently displays work by women artists who worked in Rome in the period c. 1600-1900! Read about the new "Sala delle Pittrici” in this post - A Home for Women Artists in Rome by Alessandra Masu artherstory.net/a-home-for-w...

In addition to demonstrating it wants war not peace, Russia mostly attacked residential buildings in Kyiv today. This is a war crime according to international law.

Carol of the Bells in # Kyiv subway. Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

AI translation is replacing interpreters in GP care – here’s why that’s troubling

A hoard of 21 silver pennies, dating back to the mid-7th to 8th centuries, has been saved for Oxfordshire’s museums following a successful community fundraiser. Villagers from Stoke Row, together with local businesses, raised £1,300 to acquire the treasure. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/stoke-row-co...

UCFL is seeking nominations for six roles. Deadline: 16 January. More information here: university-council-for-languages.org/2025/12/ucfl... ➡️ Chair of Wales ➡️ Early Career Academic Rep ➡️ French Studies Rep ➡️ Linguistics Rep ➡️ Lusophone Studies Rep ➡️ Slavonic and Eastern European Studies Rep

Applications welcome by 9 January!

What you have all be waiting for...interesting stories from and about languages students. Enjoy reading them! www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-polyg...

#Languages and #cultures matter - to education, communities and regions. This quote from Professor Emma Cayley captures why Leeds City of Languages is such a powerful civic initiative. @lcsleeds.bsky.social @emmacayley.bsky.social

Félix Vallotton's landscapes often have a slightly unreal, somewhat disquieting feel. Just two tiny figures walk along the sand on the Normandy coast in La grève blanche, Vasouy (1913, Private collection). In the stunning Vallotton show at MCBA Lausanne: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/12/thro...

"The inaugural grant will enable the beneficiaries to develop their first-book manuscripts by providing £1,000/US$1,300 and additional editorial support over a period of 12 months. The first grant will support early career scholars in History and Areas Studies."

Fantastic news for so many students 🇬🇧🇪🇺 as Erasmus really brings people closer💫

Possible announcement on rejoining Erasmus tomorrow. It’s something we have called for as it helps language learning and more. It would be an improvement on the current Turing scheme (see details of the evaluation of the scheme at the top of this thread) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Oxford University Press @academic.oup.com is pleased to announce that the First Book Prize will open for submissions in Jan 2026. The prize offers up to 10 early-career researchers the opportunity to publish their first academic book fully open access on Oxford Academic, with the full OA fee waived.

'That Russia is winning the war is the greatest disinformation campaign Putin’s regime has ever launched.' @sianushka.bsky.social sianushka.substack.com/p/russias-gr...

The English Faculty mourns the death of John Carey, Merton Professor from 1975 to 2002, undoubtedly the man with whom the title of Merton Professor of English Literature will remain indelibly associated in the public mind. Read a tribute to Professor Carey on our website:

Do you have what it takes to be a Franco-British Young Leader? Could you contribute to the relationship between France and the UK and benefit from joining a cohort of talented individuals from all walks of life? It could be the chance of a lifetime! francobritish.org/en/young-lea...

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I love historical letters, they have been critical, enriching sources for much of my work. But the advent of mass (as opposed to elite) literacy & thus mass letter writing was very recent in historical terms. The "golden age" of the letter will probably prove to have been only a brief interlude.

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Modern Irish, UCD www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPU456/l...

We have two vacancies on the Council of the *British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies*: 1. Postgraduate Representative 2. Communications Officer Happy to answer any questions about @bsecs.bsky.social Council life! More info here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

The Deakin Fellowship on French Studies at the European Studies Centre University of Oxford - St Antony’s College www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPU914/t... #skystorians 🗃️

We are pleased to launch today a new programme for early career researchers with @ihr.bsky.social & @chalkefestival.bsky.social 'Pitch my Project' is an opportunity for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in 2026 bit.ly/44kfUMM Applications now invited.

We've just published the Biographical Memoir (a kind of extended obituary that we provide for all Fellows of the Academy) for Dame Rosalind Savill FBA who ran the Wallace Collection for two decades www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m...

Are you a student who has read all the books on the 2025 Booker and/or international Booker longlists? If so I want to hear from you for a fun reading project. Please DM me.

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Lovely response from a student in a class on Early Modern France I was observing last week, when I asked why she liked the module: "Culture makes my brain work..." Let's start a range of T-shirts with that slogan!

🎉Très heureux de voir le projet de thèse de Jehanne Fleury mis à l’honneur ! Chercheuse extérieure du CRCV, elle consacre sa thèse à une histoire sociale, scripturaire et matérielle du service de la première femme à la cour de France, que nous avons le plaisir de suivre dans le cadre de #FIRSTLADY

One of the reasons that emergence of ‘cold spots’ of subject provision matters: 52% of 18 year olds from the most disadvantaged backgrounds (the most deprived quintile in the Indices of Multiple Deprivation) plan to live at home when they go the university www.thetimes.com/article/22cc...

Faudra-t-il rappeler à qui l’oublie que c’est la Russie qui a attaqué l’Ukraine et non l’inverse? Que les démocraties font pression sur l’agresseur et non sur la victime? Que c’est notre sécurité collective qui se joue? f24.my/Bbto

NEW: A report from Oxford's @bonavero.bsky.social identifies, examines, and addresses the counter-arguments for ten key reasons for the UK to remain in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Find out more ⬇️ #HumanRightsDay