NOUS is wrecking destruction all over the #UKHE sector. The list of clients isn’t pretty, seeing how they’re the ones with the most dire stories in a sector full of dire stories: Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Plymouth, Edinburgh, QMUL. Who else has got NOUS in? Cc @timeshighered.bsky.social

Same brand identity. Same organisational structures. Same educational Offer. Same old same old. Mass produced pret a porter distinctiveness.

reading all your jokes about the clocks going forward, that's an hour of my life i will in fact get back

I’d never thought to use primary sources for historical research. Very cool.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

can we make this the new #1 most blocked account pls

STICK IT ON A FIVE POUND NOTE

Jane Grey quietly annoyed he's still the second shortest reign for a Tudor.

The UK’s free-to-access museums are the envy of the world. Charging for entry would be a big mistake | Karin Hindsbo

it’s beautiful that historians and archaeologists and archivists can all bond over how our disciplines are constantly misunderstood as “directly extrapolating the past from the source material” tbh

SPRINGSTEEN IN MINNEAPOLIS: “This is still America… and this reactionary nightmare and invasion of American cities will not stand.” 🇺🇸 (From ablackpolitical)

Daily reminder to just talk to An Actual Historian. We actually understand the subject and are always happy to talk about it.

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

External transformation consultants.

Such a dilemma for Reform. How to be misogynistic and racist without attracting the support of well known misogynists and racists. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I think Jeremy Bowen is right www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I want a movie about the poor untenured archaeologist who has to cover Indiana Jones' teaching and do his marking while he fucks off to do 'fieldwork'.

Hard to understate how nice it is to see this charlatan getting eviscerated.

Trump at wartime

'More than a year after the California State University system spent $17 million to give all students, faculty and staff access to ChatGPT Edu in the name of workforce readiness, thousands don’t want the system to renew its contract with OpenAI.' They'll be labelled Luddites for that. 1/3

📣Out now on #firstview Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689' #Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The SRS invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships, ŵ a stipend worth £15,000. SRS Fellows can hold jobs alongside their fellowship provided they do not take up more than the equivalent of 3 days a week over the course of the academic year. Apply by 30 April rensoc.org.uk/apply/postdo...

In his first 18 months as an MP, Nigel Farage trousered £585k from the platform GB News has given him, writes Alan Rusbridger

What should people read instead of Harry Potter? I don't know. I'm not your fucking parent. I don't give a shit what you read as long as you don't give money to an evil bigot who is actively harming my community.

'His journals would become famed for their vivid detail and candour. But now, almost exactly 360 years after diarist Samuel Pepys chronicled the Great Fire of London, new research has found that he “erased” and “curated” correspondence to conceal he had been offered an enslaved boy as a bribe.' 1/2

We are reaching out to mid-career historians who specialise in 17th-century British history! 📜 The IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career Library Bursary offers support for travel and accommodation for research using the IHR's incredible library collections in London. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

"I often quote my friend Bill McKibben... We were sitting on a concrete floor at an activist space during the Paris climate treaty process... Somebody walked up & asked him a question he gets asked all the time. ‘What’s the best thing I can do as an individual?’ He said, ‘Stop being an individual'."

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender welcomes award nominations for the 2026 Book Awards, Editions Award(s) & Collaborative Project Award For more info &/or to nominate a work, see docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline: May 25, 2026

This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI. I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills…

Operation Open Markets Garden

Want to read a watermark but there’s too much text on it? Then use the magic eraser. It’s really simple: you upload a photo and the image appears without the ink. #siteoftheweek

this is as good as everyone says it is.* this bit!

Eastern brown pelican, John White, 1585-1593 (British Museum)

Donald Trump had sex with Stormy Daniels at a Nevada golf tournament while his wife was home nursing their 4 month old son Baron.

'Goodwin, who had a long academic career before becoming a successful commentator, is not a man who lacks intelligence. But he writes as if he thinks his audience lacks it.'

Sharp thread that helps to connect the collapse of what is considered 'useful' expertise with the consequences of not listening to people who actually know what they're talking about.

December 1727, George Morton Pitt - EIC Deputy Governor of Fort St David, writes to a friend: 'I am so absolute a Prince [here] that I can get none of my subjects to speak their own sentiments. They are allways of my opinion & of no more consequence over a bottle than an Eccho ...' #skystorians

THE BIG ONE: The left has kept Paris. Emmanuel Gregoire has won a 3-way runoff, beating conservative challenger Rachida Dati. Gregoire is from the center-left PS, the party of the retiring incumbent Anne Hidalgo (well known among US urbanists).

RESULT, and it's a big one: The far-right has gained Nice, the country's fifth most populous city. They won the mayorship in a 3-way, ousting the incumbent from the conservative incumbent party. This is the biggest jurisdiction the far-right has won in France (under this constitutional regime).

Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.

Changing assessments is fine and dandy, and were I allowed to change 'incentives', I would. This does nothing re: skipping the time-consuming part (reading, verification, provenance, literature search). Without practice this atrophies the single most important skillset that university teaches.

Grim.

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

Reform are banning Christmas, lads

I have a 'History Department in UKHE' joke but it's been reduced from 250 characters to 50 and is now merged with jokes from across ten other largely-unrelated disciplines while still being expected to be Just As Funny.

I have an archivist joke, but a historian who found it in the collection I processed and using the finding aid I wrote will say it was lost and he discovered it.

Most of the media reflects neither reality nor public opinion. It reflects the views and demands of those who own it: the Oligarch Class. They employ editors and journalists to channel their demands and sell their fictions. Hence the endless attacks on net zero. www.theguardian.com/environment/...