This must be the most portally portal that ever there was.

It continues... About to find out who's in two places at once, and move the post-its around until those clashes are all fixed. Think this is the first time we've hit ten sheets a day before 😱🫣

I think the best way to enjoy this list, which contains lots of predictable choices (made as it was by committee), is to find a book you like, click to see who voted for it, and then look at the voters' other top 10 choices. You might find something else you like that you haven't read.

The “2 cups / 3 cups / 4 cups / 6 cups” scale on the side of a kettle need to be given an award for ‘Wrongest Thing in the World, 3,000BC - 2026’

Got in, put on Rivals season two, for some reason Pam St Clement cameos in the first twenty minutes of episode one NO NOTES TEN OUT OF TEN GIVE IT ALL THE AWARDS

I was in a 'hybrid' (in-person & online) meeting for work this week, joining on Teams. Something unexpected came up and I pulled a surprised face. Then I heard people in the room saying "Oh no, Catherine has frozen" & had to unmute myself to explain I'd just held my facial expression a bit too long

Particularly pleased to see this storymap published - any excuse to talk about Phyllis Wager's boots! I especially wanted to make sure we included the Kalaallit women who worked on this expedition - Paula, Victoria, Widinma and unnamed others - alongside their British female colleagues

The traditional history of exploration in Greenland is determinedly rugged and masculine. However indigenous and European women were critical members of early expeditions, including in scientific data collection - something belied by some comments at the time.

I'm thrilled to see these go live! It's been a fantastic project to be involved in 😊 If you're interested in researching similar hidden histories using @rgs.org collections or partnering on a project with us in @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social, get in touch!

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

Pleased to be making this change in Transactions - hopefully it will allow more space for citational generosity & care, all the more important in this world of AI & hallucinated references. Do have a read of our reasons for this move: doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Soaking up colour and light at the Courtauld today as part of birthday bunking off... Some of my favourites from this visit

Always a delight to see geographers recognised each year, and thank you so much to Research Groups and others for nominating colleagues! Looking forward to welcoming all the recipients to the Society in June to celebrate 🥳

✨Funded placement opportunity✨with @nationaltrust.org.uk and @britishlibrary.bsky.social! We're looking for a PhD student to work on the National Trust Sound Archive of oral history interviews. 3 months FT or 6 months PT from September. For more info, see www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/r...

Good morning ☕️

We're wishing a happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 🌎 Our Director, Professor Joe Smith, pictured here with Sir David and Kim Hammond in 2016, reflects on his legacy in a new piece on Adventure.com Read the full piece here 🔗 https://bit.ly/4uCkTTD

Commiserations to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday, as he is now too old to be allowed to play with LEGO.

Labour has done a great deal of damage to itself and the country by making “win over a caricature of Reform voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” its only governing priority. Time to make “win over a caricature of Green voters” and “panicked stakeholder management” the aim instead.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

New blog up on the Places, Plants and People Archive Network website, featuring lots of beautiful images of Kew Gardens! By @alyssamyers.bsky.social collections.reading.ac.uk/places-plant...

It begins... first sticker placed for the first cut of the #rgsibg26 conference programme @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social

Just asked the toddler, why are you such a person, in a rather Wolf Hall manner, in case anyone wondered how bedtime is going

“And I bind and conjure thee spirit that thou be truthful in all thy utterances, &c.”

Free to join and open to all UK-based SHAPE postdocs (or equivalent) within 10 years of PhD (with career breaks subtracted out of that calculation). 9 regional hubs across the 4 UK nations (travel to events is paid for, and there is pump-priming funding to apply for if you join). Do check it out!

One aim of the Society on BlueSky is to highlight organisations and opportunities that support historians and the humanities. One to promote is @britishacademy.bsky.social's UK-wide Early Career Researcher Network bit.ly/4f2H3tF which offers training, funding, peer support and events #Skystorians

Hertfordshire has long been one of the finest centres of historical research in the UK. This is a body blow to the entire historical profession in this country and to humanities education and research in general. This kind of destruction has to stop before we lose everything of value.

📢Funded PhD studentship alert! Are you interested in using digital tools to make heritage spaces accessible? You might be the perfect candidate for our new collaborative PhD with @uniofsurrey.bsky.social. Find out more: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

do think one of the big problems of the era is that a lot of mainstream politicians have forgotten that you just can't convince everyone; the point of successful electoral politics is to convince the people you can convince and to *defeat the rest*

For I am of the England where every hill is hollow or full of gold and sleeping knights. Where long-buried bones still sing stories. Where tunnels below are as numerous as lanes above. An England of constant unearthings from the ghost soil of place. – #CLNolan

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

Ate a bumble bee

Practically everyone who reads this post will be descended from a monarch and/or someone who fought in the crusades. The self-appointed upper classes think they're an elite. The truth is that they simply don't understand the nature of family trees and numbers.

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

Today is #NationalPenguinDay so we're remembering that time we made a Penguin out of Penguin Books. It's a Penguin Penguin. 🐧

Do you know how much of a devil you have to be to threaten Parkrun, one of the most socially progressive, inclusive, beneficial and fucking good vibes organisations we have, with legal action? Demonic! Utterly satanic.

An important, powerful paper by @oliviamason.bsky.social on #precarity in academia: "the experiences of what it means to enter, get a job in, and then stay in the neoliberal academy are defining mine and others' experiences of being an academic." rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

Do you use a screen reader? The RGS journals are introducing alt text for all article figures, and we want to hear from you. What best practices would you like to see, and what are the most common mistakes you notice in your academic reading? Comment below or get in touch at [email protected].

some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small

At some point this stuff stopped being fun tie in easter egg shit and became homework

41 today. Woohoo. If you’d like to help me celebrate, consider getting a copy of my book, or if you’ve read it and liked it, recommend it to a friend, or request a copy through your library. Or just go out and be kind today and try to enjoy your Monday. www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/apri...

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Sitting here crying while after getting WhatsApped the photo on the right, so let me tell you a little story about how we got here from the photo on the left and why repatriation research matters!

Today's answer to What is Hookland?

Through the garden gate. A small, green space, woodland planting, moss and ferns. Once the primroses have gone over, it is almost entirely green. A tiny, peaceful sanctuary.

My son's new favourite film is The Little Mermaid (1989) so naturally despite being a screen limited household we've watched it about 50 times in the last few months. Some observations:

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🏆Area Prize Announcement!🏆 This year's Area Prize for the best paper written by an ECR has been awarded to 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐲𝐜𝐞 for her paper 'Sensing the sky's edge: Atmospheric insights into the Korean demilitarised zone' ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/area... @maddiejoyce.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social