When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

I made an Ilya edit of Heated Rivalry but tiktok wouldn't allow the sound and didn't have the right audio to replace it, so I'm coming on here (to my dormant semi-profesh account) to share it bc I need an outlet 😅 Please enjoy 🙏 #heatedrivalry

Sinn Féin has lost contact with senator Chris Andrews, who was aboard the Spectre as part of the Sumud Flotilla aiming to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, some of vessels of which have seemingly been boarded by Israel tonight. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

It’s easy to scoff at this, but Oxford generating artificial intelligence is how the British Empire was run

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Did you know that in the 70s, the British Army created Satanic Panic stories in Northern Ireland. They used blood from the mess hall, set up altars etc and then contacted the media

"Eugenics was rooted in rational modern science then" needs re-stating. Far too many people describe eugenics as a "pseudoscience", but it wasn't to those who studied it, wrote books and papers, formed societies and argued its benefits.

Or the SNP, or Plaid, or any of the NI Parties, or...

I think this is all true, but I also think about the number of people who have assumed my PhD (in history) took a long time because it takes that long to memorize all those facts. They eschew skill building, of course, but also confuse knowledge accumulation/regurgitation with knowledge production.

‘I’m a lesbian and feminist. I’ve been harmed by men. So I wouldn’t fight for trans people if it hurt women’s rights. Yet I’m called a groomer and a misogynist’ Rebecca Don Kennedy, head of the Equality Network, on how dark it’s got for trans people in Britain www.heraldscotland.com/news/2541309...

Academic historians rarely speak up like this but have made an exception in speaking in support of trans people in the UK and against the current trans exclusionary situation over there. Not just a few historians but hundreds signed this. www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/02/h...

Sorry why is “economics” deemed “career related” in comparison to history?? Both of these topics have direct careers that follow from their study, and both send students into a wide range of future jobs (how many economics graduates become economists, exactly?)

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

Key genetic differences found in people with #ME/CFS the latest news from The University of Edinburgh on the key findings of the @decodemestudy.bsky.social The very first large #GWAS study on #pwME www.ed.ac.uk/news/key-gen...

So, just to reiterate: PLEASE REGULATE THE USE OF EXTERNAL CONSULTANCIES, Government. We all had a good laugh today, but it wasn't worth the millions this will have cost in tuition fee money going to some consultancy that is about to do exactly the same two towns over.

now google each of those six universities and “redundancies”

I strongly recommend Lesley Hall’s website and blog for really thorough rooting out of zombie factoids (especially on the history of sex) www.lesleyahall.net/factoids.htm

Yep!! PhD students are often extremely good at catching these zombie factoids because they are tenacious, buried in footnotes and have *time* to root stuff out. But at some point stuff just gets footnoted to the most prominent historian who repeated the claim, and nobody bothers to look it up.

NHS Fife’s lawyer Jane Russell KC says Ms Peggie is not paying for her own case and she asks who is paying for it. Ms Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham objects to this and says it is “of no relevance and it’s privileged”. Employment Judge Sandy Kemp agrees and the question is withdrawn.

“We’re committed to diversity and inclusion. But for our entry level, part-time job on a fixed term contract, we won’t consider shortlisting anyone who hasn’t done this exact job before.”

If u ask me what’s the situation in gaza :

What's the betting this study has been written by people who think "History" just means "synthesizing the information in printed sources"

Stop Trump Scotland protest details – 26 July Aberdeen Noon, Saturday 26th July Union Terrace Gardens Edinburgh Noon, Saturday 26th July at the US Consulate, 3 Regent Terrace, EH7 5BW stoptrump.org.uk/stop-trump-s...

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

ICYMI in the Warwick Uni rebrand hilarity: apparently this is the brain behind the branding. Trying to read this interview is like trying to sip from a firehose of bullshit. I assume these are written (generated?) answers, because surely no actual human being talks like this bsky.app/profile/mich...

A tipping point has been reached. Gaza is now starving to death in front of the whole world. Those who facilitated and justified this abomination were given ample warning for 21 months. You have no excuses, and nowhere to hide: you will be held to account for what you've done.

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

Whichever party seeks to lead the Scottish Parliament, it needs to get serious. Pandering to the far-right and ignoring the demands of the left is not the pathway to deliver the change working people so clearly want. @rozfoyer.bsky.social / @heraldscotland.bsky.social

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🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will: - Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender" - Teaches children the laws about "biological sex" - Removes all references to the word transgender What we know so far 🧵

I recently found out I didn't have the MMR as a child, due to issues with allergies. I contacted my GP and arranged to have it done. It's not too late to get it done.

And similar with open plan offices, hot desking and loading admin work via webforms and meetings into the kind of jobs autistic people used to be able to do And the valuing of managementspeak and targets over expertise and deep interest and knowledge that suited autistic special interests...

I know a lot of people are boycotting Amazon, which is great, but it's hurting a lot of trans authors. Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts. Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.

As a historian of public health, this paragraph in particular started off a little tic under my left eyebrow, because what the actual fuck is this ahistorical/selective history BS?

If anyone encounters this directly, please do let us know (and try and record or keep a contemporaneous note). It's predictable, predicted, unlawful, outrageous and, by some intended.

Ireland's population has only just now rebounded to where it was before the Great Hunger, some 180 years later www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

“I expect that Starmer and Streeting will decide to partner heavily with the private sector to realise their plans, and I expect they’ll try very hard to sell these ideas to the public.” 🚨 My quote for The Big Issue about the NHS 10 year plan: www.bigissue.com/life/health/...

This feels a bit worse than a chant at a music festival? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Even not going that extreme: In 2018, 1 in 3 employers openly said they wouldn't hire a trans person. Which is to say, 1 in 3 were comfortable admitting to someone they would break the law. Do we feel better in 2025 than we did in 2018? www.crosslandsolicitors.com/site/hr-hub/...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

No I very much am contesting the central claim: “Lifesaving” is a perfectly reasonable way to describe a treatment that reduces depression, self-harm and suicidal ideation in a population with high rates of all three!

NEW: Liz Kendall has told MPs that if a disabled person currently on PIP requests a reassessment after November 2026 because of worsening health, they will be assessed on the new tougher criteria. This confirms The Guardian’s report that those with fluctuating conditions will not be protected.

Just concluded my keynote at Pride In London's Human Rights Forum. I have announced today publicly that I now see it as my sad duty to make an evidence based report to Genocide Watch and The Lemkin Institute requesting investigation into the systematic oppression of the trans community of the UK.

I will also never stop pointing out how distasteful it is that her "more in common" phrase *which was explicitly about immigrants* is now used for scolding lefties into being nicer to Tories and urging to "meet people where they are at" when where they are at is anti-trans and anti-immigrant

I just found out that the first portable defibrillator and first mobile cardiac response unit was invented at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. As a medical historian who grew up in Belfast I maybe should have already known that but I do now!

This is absolute madness. Trans women must use the men's toilet in parliament buildings, unless they work there, in which case they can use the women's If a worker visits on her day off, which does she use? 🙄 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...