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Reminder: The Call for Proposals (CFP) for #MSUGlobalDH (April 13-17, 2026) is now open and due October 15 in your timezone! Get those proposals in #DH folks! #digitalhumanities

Happy Bi Visibility Day! Interesting fact for you... bisexuality was first discovered in 1995, thanks to the hard-hitting investigative journalism of Newsweek

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:

I have cool friends at home too

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The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

Where was this when I was picnic-planning for the Wreckers?

Please note - new start time - now 2pm GMT ⬇️⬇️🕑

Join us on 1 Oct - in conversation with Paul Thambar, Director of the Mutual Value Impact Lab & global expert in performance measurement and evaluation in member-owned and purpose-led organisations. www.ukscs.coop/events/co-op...

I made some really cool friends in Warsaw

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I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵

CFP: Indifference: Religious boundaries in question, 1650–1750 https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157406 Frankfurt, 28.05.2026-29.05.2026, Andreas Häckermann, Goethe University Frankfurt / IFRA-SHS Francesco Quatrini, University of Florence Xenia von Tippelskirch, Goethe University …

The last REF found that 98% of UK research was either "internationally recognised", "internationally excellent", or "world-leading". If you think low-quality research is the noteworthy challenge in UK higher ed right now, you are wilfully looking in the wrong direction

Looking for your next #AnneLister read? Well, then check out our #Book Concierge and check out the list of all books ever written about Anne. 🎉 www.packedwithpotential.org/resources/bo... #books #research #oneplace #c19th

With any other leader &c &c How Keir Starmer’s polling became one of the worst in the west – in charts | Keir Starmer | The Guardian share.google/4XGSsE40Lzj9...

this is called "doing a streeting" which is to position yourself firmly on the wrong side of an issue for no reason and to no one's benefit

super juiced about close reading ✅

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

A beautiful, bracing tonic www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFZY...

paperback coming early 2026! ✨

The UK's new Home Secretary

Ah Duolingo, if you only knew...

CfP #maritimehistory conference.unizd.hr/mmhn2026/

So the Metropolitan Opera can castigate Anna Netrebko and get on its high horse about Ukraine -- and then get in bed with the Saudis? And at this point it seems everyone is too punch-drunk even to be outraged. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/a...

nerds of Bluesky: do you have a favorite historical woodcut depicting a book? @skeuomorphpress.org will be doing a live print as part of Banned Books Week programming here at UIUC & I’d love to include a historical woodcut in our print Reminder about woodcuts good for letterpress—pure B&W, line art

One month left to submit an abstract for our conference 'Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800', 1-3 July 2026 in Leiden: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... #medieval #earlymodern #bookhistory

That‘s #bookhistory and #urbanhistory: exploring text and image communication in a social setting

I am excited to post the CFP for the workshop "Reframing community through mobility: an interdisciplinary perspective from the early modern to the present" organised by @tamsinprideaux.bsky.social and me at la Sapienza, University of Rome, 19-20 January. Please apply and circulate! Deadline: 30.09.

Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?

Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."

The first thing this man has said which I have believed

Keir Starmer’s new director of communications isn’t just the founder of Portland Communications – which represented Qatar, Russia and Kazakhstan – he’s also come straight from the board of the anti-trans charity Sex Matters. The government is heading in a dark direction.

✨CfP✨ Reading the Readers: Theories, Methods, and Futures in Reception Studies 12–13 February 2026, University of Málaga Please share widely and submit proposals by 22 September 2025 @rosariolopez.bsky.social

Call for papers: Consent and Sexual Violence in Late Medieval European Cities. Seeking contributions combining legal, social and literary history, to reassess how urban communities understood, regulated, and represented sexuality. Join us at EAUH2026! #medieval-sky www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/

Please submit! Conference CFP CRIES AND WHISPERS: PODCASTING AND THE PROMISE OF DISRUPTION (Feb 20-21, 2026 at Florida Atlantic University) Keynote: Jeremy Morris (UW-Madison) Conference website and submission portal: criesandwhispers2026.wordpress.com

ATTENTION: SCHMALTZ ALERT NOW IN EFFECT This is The Baby. She'll climb up to your window...and into your heart. END OF SCHMALTZ ALERT

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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

CFP: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People An online conference hosted by the University of Münster 11-12 February 2026 Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August! Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/ Please share!

A dandy roll, used in the 19th-century to press wire-made watermarks -- like those found on handmade, laid papers -- into machine-made paper. Skeuomorphic technology?

We're delighted to announce that the CfP for our 2026 conference @stir.ac.uk, 'Sex in the Long C19', is now LIVE! We are grateful to have received generous funding from @bavs-uk.bsky.social, allowing us to award travel bursaries to some delegates. Abstracts due 22 September 2025. Share widely!

There's no better poster child for the mess the UK is now in than the fact that the Financial Times - home to the "how to spend it" supplement on luxury geegaws - is now one of the most left-wing media channels in the country simply because it's still interested in reality.