Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…

When 'the whole written history' apparently doesn't include the early modern period. Sadly, European and Asian powers blowing each other up in the Strait of Hormuz is not a new thing, nor a thing likely to end any time soon. #skystorians

cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post... Written Worlds 17C Non-elite Writing 2 x Postdocs 0.5. Please consider applying.

Historian? No, you're being rebranded. You're now a 'Retrospective Content Creator'.

Attacks leave dead vs killed

Having a Middle East war global recession while also having a capricious tariff global recession while also having an AI bubble global recession is not going to be a good time.

I can very capably blame both.

Everyone thinks this is some new low but this is basically 75% of the content Luther published.

This is a feeble excuse. Pixar films prompt much harder conversations about death, grief, anxiety, environmental disaster, betrayal, jealousy, friendships, class, animal rights, etc, etc

Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism” Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?” Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power” #bbclaurak

Amazed by the Samurai exhibition @britishmuseum.bsky.social. Beautiful exploration of their changing roles and mythologies while setting everything amid just jaw-droppingly gorgeous artwork. Go see it while you can.

What a horrendous age when 'human-rights obsessed' is understood by some as a sort of insult rather than the standard by which we should seek to operate ...

Can honestly say this was up there among the most positive experiences of my career so far. A rare, invaluable time to sit down and discuss with wonderful, interested colleagues a book that will be so much better for it. Cannot recommend it enough.

This is the correct nomenclature futurism.com/future-socie...

Apply to be supported in what matters most. It's an investment in the discipline and its practitioners. Compared to much 'science' it's cheap as chips. It matters. Just do it.

Can honestly say this was up there among the most positive experiences of my career so far. A rare, invaluable time to sit down and discuss with wonderful, interested colleagues a book that will be so much better for it. Cannot recommend it enough.

Very pleased to promote this forthcoming event - on 'Second Projects for Historians' - organised and hosted by History UK. Now booking for Tuesday 16 March at 2pm bit.ly/47saS26 #Skystorians

I had no idea until this all started that the UAE licences and pays many influencers to live there and write positively about the regime. That puts a whole new spin on things. Propagandists in pocket of regime. It's why all the messaging is the same. www.lbc.co.uk/article/duba...

'conversations about AI sound fundamentally different in Africa....There, debates about technocratic issues such as innovation, productivity, regulation and “safety” – the anxieties of the designer and the proprietor – are inseparable from histories of extraction and epistemic violence.' 1/2

Just shared this piece with a friend and he replied back with a screenshot cancelling his subscription. BOYCOTT BABY! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not great that so much of the commentariat is absolutely dug in on the idea that advocating for a green transition was a sort of "luxury belief" and not the most hard-headed of realism and now that we're once again seeing how wrong this is, none of them want to draw attention to how wrong they were.

For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.

okay, Ill bite. What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

Not going to lie, my immediate thought is that that professor should be fired. My colleagues, do your fucking jobs yourselves like god damn adults. If you don't want to grade it, don't assign it.

"I'm not a bad captain I'm a Disruptive Leader of Industry lolz"

My favourite description of a certain now-retired Professor of History was that they were among the very few who had written more books than they had read.

If you know your British including British colonial history, you might be a bit appalled.

I actually don't have words as to how angry I am. Wonder what happened in these countries that people on student visas in the UK found themselves needing to apply for asylum instead of going home post 2021. UK Labour are heartless bastards & apparently have bo idea whats happening in the world.

Hope Not Hate research finds: '54% of Reform members thought non-white British citizens born abroad should be forcibly removed or encouraged to leave, while one in five (22%) also supported it for non-white citizens whose parents were born in the UK.' Rank racism.

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

Greg Davies: Walked out of the underworld. Didn't look back once. Job done! Orpheus: Thanks Alex Horne: We did want to show you one more clip of when he came out...

Yet another day where we've learned we'll be required to keep Doing Excellence with even less resource and an even more diminished working environment. I'd ask 'When does it stop?' but frankly I know all too well.

A morsel of food for thought. When STEM funding is between a rock and a hard place, many STEM learned societies write the Science and Technology Committee, which clearly does take note, and asks relevant ministers to respond. How many SHAPE learned societies do? If not, why not?

The new war machine. Machine learning and large language models. Palantir, OpenAI etc are really the Krupps and IGFarben of the 21st Century www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

These people are fucking morons. The idea that something that LOOKS LIKE academic research IS academic research is so stupid, it's impossible to know where to begin, other than by suspecting their whole careers have been motivated by "Will this do?" alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/academics-...

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.

In today's new blog, Dr. Nia Deliana and Dr. Mehmet Ozay offer insights into how Thomas Bowrey’s account of Bay of Bengal (1669-1679) serves as a record of a global order that was interconnected yet decentralised hegemonically. Read it here: memorients.com/articles/whe...

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.' www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...

This has to be one of my favourite bonkers RW takes in the aftermath of the election! I don't know Camilla. 🤷‍♀️ It's a total mystery why Muslims don't want to vote for the parties that tell them they aren't wanted in Britain, and that they should "go back to where they come from" 7/

Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

Isn’t the whole spiel of the Russell Group that they’re the reesearch-intensive ones? That that is where you get research-led teaching? By the experts who are defining the field? That glorified lobby group will have to change its tagline or call their members to order.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

This needs to be condemned, not amplified in the responsible media. It is racist, MAGA-inspired, far right propaganda. People in Gorton & Denton voted for a range of reasons. Many Muslims voted as members of a disillusioned working class & *most* white constituents voted against Reform’s bigotry.

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail. Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Need a #Bridgerton spinoff that acknowledges Anthony's obvious connections to the opium trade and shady profiteering for the East India Company ...