Permanent job in the cambridge german department waiting for a specialist in german modernism! First permanent modern german job there in almost a decade - exciting! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS629/a...

Thank you to Lisa Nandy and the Department for Culture Media and Sport for publishing the Independent Review of the Arts Council today, and to Baroness Margaret Hodge and team for conducting the Review. Access the Review: buff.ly/5rqvntF Read our initial response: buff.ly/zPisSAk

Very welcome news — and not before time!

Congratulations to #pTurnerPrize2025 winner Nnena Kalu. A real pleasure to attend the award dinner last evening with members of the team and board of Yorkshire Contemporary, exhibition co-curators.It continues into February at @Cartwright Hall. #bradfordcityofculture

Surprise Package: ordered a cheese box and this popped out: “satisfying, robust and mature”😆 — and the right spelling, too!

Congratulations @profingrid.bsky.social

"Money is round and can roll away, but education is forever." Heinrich Heine

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

🎨 Creativity isn’t a luxury - it’s a lifeline. The final #ChildrenFirst report calls for arts and culture to be embedded in every school, for every child. Because talent is everywhere, but opportunity isn’t. Read the evidence and join the movement. #ChildOfTheNorth #Health #Inequality #Creativity

Documents of the Nuremberg Trials can now be accessed online via: nuremberg.law.harvard.edu

Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk

Do you want to have a look at the talks available this week? For more info visit our website leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk @lcsleeds.bsky.social

I think you can get the measure of the deadness of someone's soul from the fact they kick up a stink about [checks notes] autistic kids wearing ear defenders

Please consider signing against this nonsensical absurdity! c.org/vGgNqmXhNx

Before, during and after: an absolutely sensational concert last evening by Junyan Chen for Skipton Music

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

Made the most of some late afternoon light before the clocks go back tonight.

Multilingual, Transnational and Translational: Rethinking the Medical Humanities thepolyphony.org/2025/10/24/m...

Such an interesting and enjoyable time interviewing and presenting an eclectic mix of authors and their fascinating books @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social. And a magnificent effort by the team @thewordupnorth.bsky.social to produce the festival back-to-back with #ContainsStrongLanguage

Delighted for Eric Lu, 2018 winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition, on his latest great success.

@leedsprhs.bsky.social Our vacancy for a Lecturer or Associate Professor in Social Philosophy has now been advertised: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Please spread the word! The closing date for applications is 5 Nov 2025.

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

The queue for the post-event book signing is generally a reliable indicator of how well an author has been received, and it was through the door for @johnharris1969.bsky.social yesterday @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social

A great PhD opportunity here:

Thrilled to be interviewing the multiple-award winning @johnharris1969.bsky.social this afternoon for @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social about his fascinating, deeply moving and richly informative new book.

I attended the opening of #TurnerPrize2025 but returned to get a a less crowded view of the exhibition, beautifully curated by @Yorkshire Contemporary Contemporary and Bradford Museums @Cartwright Hall Art Gallery Congratulations to the four artists #NnenaKalu #MohammedSami #ReneMatic and #ZadieXa

Some fascinating items from “Out of the Box”, an exhibition of 75 years of the archives of the Akademie der Künste Berlin. The exhibition runs until January 2026, and we start with the Tin Drum from movie and novel with the same name.

The Leo Baeck Institute London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore intersections between German-Jewish and British history, including the history of the British Empire. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies

Really looking forward to interviewing @johnharris1969.bsky.social @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social. #MaybeImAmazed is my personal choice for book of the year; a tender, deeply moving memoir about music and autism — and essential reading!

Always love the pre-event calm of an empty hall and the quiet choreography of sound and light checks. With the brilliant and ebullient @stuartmaconie at #IlkleyLiteratureFestival. In a very crowded field, his fascinating book manages to cast a fresh light on the Beatles story. #WordUpNorth

And he’s back!! Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us. His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

“True reunification of Germany will remain a work in progress. Every year more young Germans are entering adulthood with no personal memory of anything other than life in the “new” Germany. Paul Scraton on Germany’s (rocky & ongoing) road to reunification www.slowtravelberlin.com/the-road-to-...

Disadvantaged students ‘more likely to miss out on GCSE foreign languages’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

A great pleasure to be at Bradford’s magnificent Cartwright Hall Art Gallery for the preview of the 2025 #TurnerPrize @bradford2025.co.uk

A limited number of tickets are still available for our Evening with the Poet Laureate on Friday 10 October, where Simon will be reading two collections, including the Sunday Times bestseller Dwell and New Cemetery. Book soon to avoid disappointment! Tickets & more info here: buff.ly/JdJbfXW

Please do sign up to join in our online conversation event on 21st November, 12 noon, about the recent report on language education in the UK from the @hepi-news.bsky.social by @meganlbowler.bsky.social, sponsored by #Duolingo Thanks to @ilcs.bsky.social for hosting ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...

Really pleased to see Yorkshire Contemporary (formerly The Tetley) as one of the delivery partners on this year’s Turner Prize and looking forward to the exhibition! @bradford2025.co.uk

Rethinking language education in the school curriculum in England www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

Mapping inequality in SHAPE British Academy report shows Cold Spots in SHAPE Provision. An important read, check it out on our website: university-council-for-languages.org/2025/09/12/b...

Society needs to change, let's change it together #Leeds #InstituteForSocietalFutures #UniversityOfLeeds #LISF #HealthInequality #Migration #Mobility #Belonging @universityofleeds.bsky.social

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The highlight of a visit to the always wonderful @stedelijkmuseum.bsky.social Amsterdam; Egyptian artist Wael Shawky’s film of his Drama 1882. On until the end of October, and one of the most original things I’ve seen in quite a while.

Returning here after a 4-month break to explore other platforms and will be starting to post regularly-ish.

I wrote about foreign academics being in danger in the US last week. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att... This week the Canadian Association of University Teachers advised against non-essential US travel. I meet 2 criteria - never thought I'd be scared to go to the US. horrible.

GERMAN RULE, AFRICAN SUBJECTS: State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia by Jürgen Zimmerer (@juergenzimmerer.bsky.social) is now available in paperback! Find out more here: buff.ly/i3zESCb #ColonialHistory #History