If he can't get off on a "personal use" excuse then I don't know what Europe's coming to.

Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out. All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.

This is such great news, I can’t wait to have erasmus students in my classes again

Wowwwwww

In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door. But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.

#Winter, 1955 by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami #WomensArt

Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?

Looking forward to this talk tomorrow!

Really great, detailed analysis of the recent Supreme Court ruling and what it means for religion in Northern Irish schools

Very happy to be included on this shortlist for my biography-in-progress on Darina Silone, an Irishwoman in the Italian antifascist resistance thebiographersclub.com/the-biograph... @qubhistory.bsky.social

It also includes one of the most outrageously realistic portrayals of breastfeeding I have seen in religious art! Especially love Jesus pushing his halo away…

Just finished this short, incredible book about art, perception, memory and walking around Siena

At nearly 1000 signatures now…

Funded PhDs at QUB: 'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920' www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!

Sign & share this petition from @pfie.bsky.social calling on the Education Minister Paul Givan to deliver inclusive religious education for all children! my.actnowni.org/petitions/re...

Statement from the PFIE officer group on the JR87 ruling yesterday.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Belfast-based non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education and mandatory Christian collective worship in Northern Ireland are discriminatory under human rights law.

Given the serious safeguarding issues uncovered by the Presbyterian church’s own review, it is worth noting that the single biggest source of primary school visitors uncovered by this FOI report in 2023 was the Presbyterian church (2,350 out of 11,500 total visits). heyzine.com/flip-book/f1...

Excited to be representing PfIE at the launch!

Looking forward to this too!

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

📣 We now have over 300 members in our parent WhatsApp community! Drop us a message for a link to join.

Looking forward to this! accidentaltheatre.co.uk/box-office/n...

A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.

This reply was my favorite

In: wearing seven poppies and boasting loudly about observing the two minute silence. Out: having the remotest interest in the past or educating yourself on what should not supposedly be forgotten.

Really interesting thread about history, gender and biography

We will respect them but also, have you taken the two minute silence to really think about the value of your property? It's what the fallen would have wanted. They gave their tomorrow so we can tout for your business today. Even by estate agent standards. That's low.

Contemporary European History is looking to hire a new managing editor — come work with us! 🌟 Deadline is November 30. @conteurohistory.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fascinating

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Spent a lovely few days in Milan researching feminist ideas and activism about maternal and child welfare in the 1970, and planning out the research for my @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship. Now looking forward to talking about my work at the University of Padova this afternoon

❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this. A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂

For Dublin folks, I will be @tcddublin.bsky.social on Wed 15th Oct, 2.30pm, giving an early taster of the intimate queer stories of men who feature in my forthcoming book... www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

Abolish the Home Office

📣📣Call for papers sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/... Hybrid workshop, "Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)". 27 feb 2026, University of Glasgow. Please share!

Happy to see my story make the shortlist!

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

A weird time to be a historian of multiculturalism, who grew up in Birmingham as one of a handful of white kids at school, who has also written a book on Handsworth. My thoughts on Robert Jenrick’s unabashed racism in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/kieran-conne...

QUB History will be participating in the 2026 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship competition. Eligible applicants (post-PhD) with strong proposals should contact a suitable mentor (www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...) to discuss application (EOI closes 5 Nov.) www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

"Synagogue attack: the Manchester I know – by antisemitism researcher and Mancunian Jew" by Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations theconversation.com/synagogue-at...

Here is a small thing you can for Palestine. Come to our event in Belfast on Saturday. Music, poetry and craic to raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Please share. Thank you x

No, you're not going crazy. You did read this and also read about the PSNI arresting people in London for being members of a proscribed organization.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁 @carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️ ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

yes, this has always been self evident--they say so openly on Twitter! I don't know why our lords and masters in higher education cannot understand that we are MARKS; that our students are experimental subjects; that this is eventually going to be about the wholesale automation of higher ed.

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...