📣 Have you heard? Thanks to incredible minds from every corner of the globe, from curious first-years to Nobel prize-winning researchers, we’re now joint #8 in the QS World University Rankings. We are University College London. And here, it can happen. #QSWUR 🔗: https://bit.ly/4vlW4w2

The Tartan Army have been hailed for their 'class' and 'dignity' after cleaning up after themselves in Boston

Deadline extended! Applications open until 1 July 2026!

Join us today to hear Pia Russell, University of Victoria, talk about her research and discoveries during her Liberating the Collections Fellowship with UCL's Research Institute for Collections. @ioe.bsky.social Library’s #historicaltextbookscollection @uclspeccoll.bsky.social #HistEd

‪ Tomorrow at 4.00 pm! Our RIC Fellow, Pia Russell (U of Victoria, BC), discusses her use of the IOE Library's #SpecColl in ‘Teaching Britishness in Canada: A Historical Analysis of Schoolbooks at the Heart and Edge of Empire’. Join: bit.ly/4owbQSo @uclspeccoll.bsky.social #textbookresearch #HistEd

'In a deal announced on 2 June, the US publisher said it had completed an all-cash transaction for Emerald Publishing which publishes nearly 500 journal brands and 8,000 book titles, bringing Wiley’s overall journal portfolio to around 2,500 social science titles.'

I’ve created a petition to Parliament calling for the establishment of a Royal Commission on Intolerance in UK society UK voters can sign it here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Great to see so many of the IOE's #doctoralresearchers involved in hosting this workshop on 'Education in Conflict Zones' with guest speaker Professor Tejendra Pherali. Date: 10 June, 5-7 PM Location: Nunn Hall, IOE. Sign up using the QR Code. #InclusiveEducation

Sarah Wynn-Williams deserves a standing ovation from all of us.The public is the actual engine that powers these tech companies. Without our daily participation, their entire business model falls apart. Can we tilt the balance of power? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We are stronger, and better historians, together. Historical societies abound in the UK, and we've listed 150 with BlueSky accounts in this updated Starter Pack. go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Other societies appear on a new listing of subject societies on the RHS website bit.ly/4ebwP9r #Skystorians

John Crace at his best: ‘Have I mentioned that I am the only Labour prime minister to have won a full second term? Not that I am in any way needy’ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Delighted to share that I have been awarded the UK Centre for Graduate Studies' Associate Supervisor Award in recognition of my work with doctoral candidates. Celebrating with an iced coffee!

'Marking the 135th anniversary of Rerum novarum, Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical, entitled ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.’' 1/2

Launch of the latest in the MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Do join us if interested in imperial Britain’s response to Indian disasters?

I have been forwarding this edition of @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter to everyone I know. The impact of Musk and Trump's cuts to USAID didn't hit right away, but they are hitting now. And in Somalia and the DRC it looks a lot like racist culling. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-question...

A 'systematic embrace' of 'slopaganda'.

The prey aren't just early-career researchers. Nobody is immune. Professors, and yes, librarians too. 😬 link.springer.com/article/10.1... HT @retractionwatch.com #PredatoryJournals #ScholarlyComms #IOEIDL

'Singing, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, according to the latest study to link taking an active interest in art and culture with improved health.' Study after study after study suggests funding the arts funds good health, not that policy reflects it. 1/2

My morning view for the past four days. #Glasgow #RiverClyde #CentralStation

Annual Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture, 18 June 2026, 18:00-21:00 at Birkbeck: Toby Green, 'History at the 'End of History': Inequality and Discourse in the Age of Reimperialism'. #Skystorians

An appeals court in Switzerland has overturned a 2025 defamation conviction against @solalpirelli.bsky.social, a sleuth who had identified dozens of conference proceedings with signs of citation manipulation. The ruling orders the plaintiff to pay Pirelli's legal expenses.

Join us for a workshop exploring collective memory through discussions with artist Simon Farid, collection display and a creative activity reflecting your feelings on UCL as part of the UCL200 celebrations. All are welcome! Book now on tinyurl.com/uclscmemory

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Who says titles don’t matter? The most downloaded @ioe.bsky.social paper has this title: ‘Object Personification in Autism (this paper will be very sad if you don’t read it)’ discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Final week to apply for this opportunity - it looks fantastic ✨

The Government ten days ago released a new strategic vision for archives which makes a strong and convincing case for their central importance. Using it as a yardstick shows just how far short of best practice the BBC Written Archives Centre falls. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/new-strategi...

Mark Carney: "Many of our former strengths, built on our close ties to the US, have become weaknesses. The US has changed. That's their right. And we're responding ... we're deepening our partnerships with our closest allies, including the EU, the Nordic countries, and Australia."

A ‘pedagogy of convenience’ underpins much of our education systems, reproducing inequalities and exclusions. Prof Sigamoney Naicker on what reform requires. 27/04/26, 11 AM Eastern; 4 PM BST. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #EducationInequalities #InclusiveEducation #GlobalEducation

Timeline cleanse.

In December last year a poll of churchgoers was reported across right wing media to try to undermine the Church of England's Project Spire reparative justice scheme. I've been looking into it and all is not as it seems. alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-mer...

'The students – who have launched a “Free Goldsmiths” campaign – are asking for “immediate widespread transparency” about the latest redundancy plans and the state of the university’s finances. They...demand that university leaders rule out compulsory redundancies, course closures and mergers.' 1/2

#LDNOpenFest26 begins today!💡 Share insights and follow along using the hashtag above. Registrations for today's sessions have closed, but you can still register for the brilliant array planned for the rest of the week lnkd.in/eeXSqw6d

Sarah Finch brought forward a historic legal challenge on behalf of Weald Action Group against oil drilling in Surrey. We were proud to intervene in support of the case. It was one of the most significant legal breakthroughs this century in the fight against the climate crisis. shorturl.at/9aO9X

📢 Registrations for Monday's #LDNOpenFest26 sessions will close at 1pm today. Open Access Books: Rights, Ownership and Control 🗓️20.04 🕑1-2pm 📍Online Register: buff.ly/wZNPXiD Open Research, Gender and Ethics 🗓️20.04 🕑4-5pm 📍Online Register: buff.ly/X2yWGgm Full programme: buff.ly/45XimFn

In our workshop this morning on research quality and metrics @huwmorris.bsky.social & I used Inglis et al. (2024) and de los Ríos & Patel (2023). Both brilliant papers, and ones I’ll definitely use in my #IOEIDL sessions. #CitationPolitics #ResearchQuality #Positionality #Relationality

📣 #DOAJ Call for volunteers We are now recruiting volunteers who ideally have a scholarly communications background, preferably in Library Sciences, and preferably based in Asia #OpenAccess #BestPractice #volunteers #ScholarlyComms See our latest blog for details 👇 🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/04/15/c...

See for example Economic History Review guidelines: "To submit an article whose review of the literature, analysis of findings, or conclusions were generated by AI is unacceptable.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as...

About half the people employed by a university in the UK are not academics, and *everybody* is busy all year round: there are no long dreamy summer vacations with nothing to do

Now 14 months in, Canada’s rejection of the U.S. is the most successful tourism boycott in memory.

'the essential thing about genocide, what distinguishes it from war crimes and crimes against humanity, was...intent. You had to prove the intent to destroy a group in whole or in part, and that has turned out to be a very difficult thing to do.' That 'very difficult thing' was then. This is now.

London Open Science & Scholarship Festival💡 'AI and Publishing: Unintended Consequences, Unexpected Disruptions' Hear from experts about the ways in which AI tools are making an impact on every part of scholarly publishing. 🗓️ 23.04, 2-3:30pm 📍 Online Register: buff.ly/mduhy4X #LDNOpenFest26

Grateful for a chapter invitation off the back of my paper on decolonising research last week, now written and submitted. Time now for a proper pause and to enjoy the sunshine and tulips. #DecolonisingResearch

📍 Our interactive map, updated with new data, offers rich insights into the socio-economic makeup of school intakes across England. Use it to see how secondary schools represent their local community, including pupils on free school meals and those with SEND ⬇️ www.suttontrust.com/school-admis...

Worth reading this by Badri Raina (author of 'Ghalib and Dickens' and the 'Dialectic of Growth'). If not for the argument, then for the sheer mastery of the language. A rare writer who treats political commentary with the precision of poetry open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...

Who would ever have thought that waving a flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the capital of Europe would come to be seen as an act of resistance against the fascism of the United States of America? #US #fascism #NATO #Europe #Brussels

SEND Reform: Education Professionals 🎓️ Teachers, TAs, SENCOs, Headteachers, and others - join this vital conversation to influence the Government’s SEND Reform consultation When: 7th April, 5.30 - 7pm Where: Zoom Access: BSL Book: tinyurl.com/shtwuyvy #EducateDontSegregate #InclusiveEducation

Is it becoming harder to mediate between conflicting beliefs in public life? Professor Sari Hanafi FBA's talk explores the gap between what we value and how we debate. Watch now as he asks how we can renew our public sphere for more open dialogue:

Researchers and publishers have expressed scepticism about a proposed exception to UK copyright law that would permit data mining by artificial intelligence developers purely for science and research. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...