This is an absolutely astonishing and disgraceful situation, not just for the brilliant scholars and teachers involved, but for the young people of the region, now and on the future, and for the discipline nationally.

From today’s Times letters page. #DefendExeterUni

⚡️Job Alert⚡️ 📖 Research Associate - The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley 📍Manchester Metropolitan University, fixed term Please share with ECRs! manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

Lecturer in #Medieval #Literature #jobin #Newcastle. Hey #MedievalSky! Come work with me! (Really, with me on co-taught Medieval English Lit modules.) Closing Date: 2026-07-09 Fixed Term, 10 months Sept-June. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl... #JobFairy #Academic #AcademicPost

The remarkable historian and writer Juliet Gardiner has died. I used many of her books for research and was lucky enough to become friends with her - she had the most extraordinary, rich & vivid life... 1/2

Personal views from @christophersmith.bsky.social "Universities that aren’t fully committed to arts and humanities as a flourishing part of their science offering aren’t committing to the future." 👏👏👏 anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/w...

everyone with an English degree rn: WELL, WELL, WELL,

If you're looking for something to do with your Saturday night, or to fill up the hours between now and the football, why don't you find out more about Predramatic Theatre with me and @gregmw4.bsky.social?!

The news of brutal cuts to the Arts and Humanities at Exeter and elsewhere highlights the self-destructive nature of the ´strategies’ being pursued across UK HE. Exeter’s English Dept was rated the best research unit in English in the country in RAE 2008. 1/4

📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

I’ve just finished as external for English Literature and Creative Writing at Exeter. It’s a superb department with an amazing array of modules and brilliant teaching staff. Any sensible University management team would see it as a jewel in their crown. I’m disgusted by these proposed redundancies.

We have two new 12-month postdoctoral fellowship opportunities at the British Library! Applications open soon to co-design projects in the following areas: - Colonial Deposit and our Newspaper Collection - Local Large Language Models and Personal Born-Digital Archives www.bl.uk/services/res...

'Turing, which has run since 2021, will not operate in the 2027-28 academic year, when the UK will instead take part in the European Union’s flagship programme after a six-year absence.'

65% of US universities drop in QS 2027 ranking. 40% of UK universities drop. 61% of China's universities rise. Who knew that sustained investment might prove advantageous and persistent policy churn prove deleterious?

We have an 18-month temporary lectureship in early modern British and European history just advertised at Newcastle - closing date 9th July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW166/l... #skystorians

'Sheffield Hallam University has abandoned plans to transfer staff to a subsidiary firm to save on pension costs ahead of expected falls in employer contribution rates next year.' 1/2

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Stipendiary Lecturer in English Language and Literature (1760-present) Magdalen College, Oxford Salary: £33,810 to £37,338 p.a #HigherEd #edusky #English www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRV488/s...

‘A paper bag with the word ‘’University’’ written on it…’

Academia is basically working on a boat that's holed beneath the waterline, we're going down slowly with less than enough lifeboats and the captain is currently asking us to throw people overboard to make us lighter in the hope we'll float.

OK #MedievalSky and #Skystorians: early career job klaxon! A post on my new project 'Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain', 30 months (with poss. of extension). Details at jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @royalhistsoc.org @memorients.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social

TENURE-TRACK DRAMA POST AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRR746/a... Come and work with us! Please share far and wide.

Not a relaxing watch, but this @news.abc.net.au documentary about the grip consultants have on Australian universities and how their corporatisation overturns what universities are is reassuring in a weird way: it is actually happening, you don't just imagine it, however much you're being gaslit.

'The University of Hertfordshire’s decision to “suspend” five humanities undergraduate courses is a further stark warning about how readily higher education has jettisoned its former commitment to such subjects.' 1/4

Very sad to be on #UCUstrike action today at #NottinghamUni. A university only functions through goodwill, and academic staff are not the enemies that UEB seem determined to think they are. Since Future Nottingham 1 gutted administrative staff, academic staff have increasingly picked up their 1/?

Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.

And it just gets worse: it looks like there will be no modern language provision at all. No music, no languages. Can a silent university call itself a university at all? Help us resist! Please contribute to @uonucu.bsky.social hardship fund if you can: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Thanks to Jacob Ridley for Predramatic Theatre's careful appraisal and review! "Rycroft and Walker...show how fruitful and thought-provoking it can be to use modern theories to reconstruct a performance culture which is now tantalizingly inaccessible." That we do! share.google/tOmhpbHraa3x...

Assistant Professor in English Dublin City University Permanent Expertise in Children’s Literature is essential. Proven experience lecturing in 19th-century literature, Modernism, and Postmodernism. universityvacancies.com/dublin-city-...

🗣️🗣️🗣️ There's a job at York! 1-year 0.5 FTE postdoctoral fellowship funded by MHRA, working with me on the Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft OUP edition. You have to be within 3 years of your PhD - unjust I know but a requirement of the MHRA. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

To the Finland station? A fixed-term stint at Helsinki could be a very fine thing.

A reminder that our new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland closes a week on Friday bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK/Irish archives for international historians. Deadline 8 May to allow research from summer 2026 #Skystorians

JOB: early modern global history jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Here @nilsgilman.bsky.social, a historian who spent years working in Silicon Valley, makes the case that a liberal arts education will be ~more~ valuable in the near future www.noemamag.com/why-a-libera...

What's that? A rare permanent academic job? Come join me in our School of Arts as a Lecturer in Theatre! "We especially welcome ... candidates with practical expertise in theatre technologies, digital media, intermediality or related areas of theatre practice." hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

'Sources told this newspaper that the announcement was made over Teams calls...the chat option was disabled, meaning staff were unable to express their views. It is understood the briefing forms part of a wider consultation process, with full details of the proposed scheme not yet finalised.' 1/3

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

This looks an amazing (and very generously funded) opportunity for anyone looking to pursue a medieval literary PhD.

Come do a PhD with Prof. Annette Kern-Stähler in Bern!! I’m *thrilled* to announce that we’ve secured funding for a 4-year project on disgust starting Feb 2027 which includes a PhD studentship—please share widely!!

Early modern literature job in my department! Permanent which is the UK equivalent to tenure track #earlymodern #acjobs www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Does anyone have any tips for managing life with a much loved moggy (aged approx 17 - a rescue so we dont know for sure) who has feline dementia and has taken to yowling from 4am onwards?

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

PGT scholarships in English at Sheffield

Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History, ANU #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/lecture...

Come and join us!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...

Raises some important issues but also ignores the fact that many Humanities staff outside the magic circle are facing redundancy. They are naturally willing, indeed desperate, to apply for entry-level Oxbridge posts. The situation is grim. 1/2

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

An opportunity for a medievalist to join the team at Cambridge: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ346/a...

‘Under the latest REF guidance, it is up to individual universities to decide whether to submit outputs authored by staff who have taken voluntary redundancy or have left at the end of their fixed-term contract.' On wonders what submitting HEIs will opt to do in this extractive context. Not. 1/2