Know a young Londoner (14-19 y/o) with big ideas? 🏛️✨ @migrationmuseum.org is looking for 10 passionate young people to join our paid Young People’s Panel. You'll help shape events programming and the way we work with young people in our new museum!👇

⌛ 12 days left to apply for this #postdoc position (f/m/x) in our research professorship 'Public Social Sciences and Humanities' led by Sule Egya: join our Institute for Advanced Study, part of the #UARuhr, based in Essen @unidue.bsky.social, Germany. #PublicHumanities #envhum #DecolonialStudies

Into the sea!

Der VHD kritisiert den Gesetzesentwurf zur Neugestaltung der Stiftung "Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", der ins Kabinett eingebracht werden soll.

Bilgi was a wonderful university… beautiful campus, lively student body, excellent academics. No wonder the Erdogan regime couldn’t stand it. Yet another devastating blow for Turkish academia and society. Solidarity with all faculty, staff and students! ✊

Research integrity experts commend arXiv’s crackdown on bogus AI-written citations but warn it may be impossible to police at scale https://ow.ly/1vnj50Z1Fhg

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Seaglass

Joy Connolly: "The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself."

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

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BBC News - Banksy confirms he's behind statue in central London www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

30000 university jobs gone in the UK in 3 years. These are people who were working in all job types, at all levels from most junior to most senior.

Sitting tenants

Rez: S. Ledoux: The Duty of Memory https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-156403 S. Ledoux: The Duty of Memory

Nice to see my latest paper, co-authored with Bernard Kofi Dom, come out in Public Money & Management. We trace how a lack of agreement about what local government should be *for* - its role in the UK state - have characterised central-local relations since the 1970s. doi.org/10.1080/0954...

This is why using copyrighted work to training the models is not fair use, btw. They will just spit out straightforward plagiarism and I suspect it’s as difficult to prevent that, for the same reason it’s difficult to improve the error rate

Stip: Leibniz Fellowships “Value of the Past" (Leibniz Research Alliance, Potsdam) https://www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-161422 Potsdam, -31.12.2027, Leibniz Research Alliance 'Value of the Past', Bewerbungsschluss: 30.06.2026 Leibniz Fellowships „Value of the Past“

The idea that there is ‘a’ voice of the past, that can be generated by averaging out a corpus of texts without any regard for context, bias, gaps in record, variation etc., is simply nonsense.

NEW on Wonkhe: Universities serve purposes beyond market demands. Jim Dickinson asks if the pendulum between planning and markets is about to swing back - and what that should mean to protect student interests bit.ly/3XDc1z6

Edinburgh, my favourite UK city and home from my student days, even better in sunshine and by moonlight.

Today was a super interesting and packed day! Bethany Rex, Samantha Travis and I led a workshop at Sunderland Museum for museum professionals interested in how museums and issues of democracy intersect, particularly in times of polarisation and political uncertainty.

"'Unüberlegt und wenig langfristig': Expertengremium gegen Kürzung beim @brandenburg-museum.bsky.social. Der Fachbeirat argumentiert: Sollte die Stadt #Potsdam ihre Zuwendung für das Brandenburg Museum einstellen, sende das nicht nur kulturpolitisch besorgliche Signale." bei @pnn.bsky.social

I'm very happy to share this publication *hot off the press* written together with @wojtych.bsky.social, back in early 2024 when he was the postdoc working with me at @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social on the AHRC @ukri.org & @dfg.de funded project, Cultural Dynamics: Museums & Democracy in Motion... 1/3

This makes Naomi Wolf’s “death recorded” book debacle look like child’s play www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...

"Eigentlich hatte die Stiftung den Anhalter Bahnhof als perfekten Ort für das Museum auserkoren. Vom einst größten Fernbahnhof Berlins flohen ab 1933 unzählige Menschen auf der Flucht vor den Nationalsozialisten ins Exil. Ab 1942 war er einer von Berlins Deportationsbahnhöfen."

CFP: Collecting to Shape and Reflect the Nation: Changing Museum Strategies from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160773 London, 22.10.2026-23.10.2026, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg (GNM), Bewerbungsschluss: …

CFP: Inklusiv und Ideologiekritisch? https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160695 Berlin, 17.09.2026-18.09.2026, Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten; Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen; Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, Bewerbungsschluss: 16.03.2026 Inklusiv und …

3x Lecturers and 1x Associate Lecturer in History features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs...

Gibt es vielleicht unter meiner Follower:innen gute Tipps, oder sogar konkrete Möglichkeiten? Ich suche für einen Forschungsaufenthalt in Potsdam eine möblierte Wohnung für etwa 4 Wochen. Von etwa 20.06.26 bis etwa 19.07.26, idealerweise mit 2 Zimmer.

The news about students seeking compensation from universities for COVID teaching has made me quite sad. I can't say what happened at those universities, or what those student's experience was. My present university did not appear to be in the list. But what I can say is...

8 years ago, in the run up to and during 13th February, my colleague, filmmaker Ian McDonald and I were in Dresden undertaking research fieldwork on the commemorations and protests that surround the anniversary of the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden. More complex than many in the UK may be aware

A different question which is a bit unclear is how international funding will play out and how it fits in ‘bucket theory’. Given geopolitics is looming so large right now, it seems very important that we fund a lot of insight into that (which is obviously very humanities & social science territory)

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

University is not a business, students are not customers, education is not a product, researchers are not salespeople.

‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand’ Blog on Anthropic’s site www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

The latest book in our Critical Heritages of Europe series with Routledge is out! Do take a look at all 14 books in the series so far - we have more in the pipeline too for 2026 www.routledge.com/Critical-Her...

Pleasure to contribute to this report on local climate action in the UK for Climate Emergency UK CIC. Thanks to Liam Clegg for doing the number-crunching to underpin the analysis. The full report will be launched at this event in London on 18 March www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/accelerati...

From 2016... youtu.be/qmMUznSig3I?...

Asking AI to do it for you - deprives you of that learning opportunity. You’re reduced to someone pressing a button on a vending machine. So tell me - am I just a Luddite?

And that is: asking a student to do a literature review isn’t really about the output, the final product. It’s about learning the process - assessing the quality of the evidence as you read it, learning how your question may evolve as you engage with the literature, learning how to spot SALIENCE 1/2

Listening to a discussion about AI in university education with Amol Rajan & Prof Duncan Iveston on Radio 4 Today. Too short to get into the nuance of course, but an observation that copilot can do a literate review for you very quickly perfectly illustrates one of my main concerns with AI…1/1

'Roughly 13,300 people received severance pay from this sample of the sector alone – well above the 10,000 predicted by experts. This is in addition to 9,290 and 6,960 in the two previous years – almost 30,000 in total.' This number will rise: many universities have not yet posted their data. 2/2

'Of the 90 accounts made public thus far, the sector spent £303.3 million on compensation for loss of office. This was up from £177.9 million among the same institutions the year before, a 71 per cent increase and almost triple the £110.1 million in 2022-23.' 1/2

Me: Hmm, how bad can it be? Opens image: Oh.

Historians: discuss.