Really looking forward to this! 📚💙 #HistFic #CreativeWriting (And now I get to say - I'll be discussing my novel FOR THY GREAT PAIN - "as recommended on #CoronationStreet! "😂)

Delighted to welcome Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social for the Lancaster History and Creative Writing Talk. March 22, The Dukes, Lancaster. We'll explore Vicky's marvellous book on the medieval mystics Margery Kempe & Julian of Norwich. Book here: dukeslancaster.org/book-now?id=...

Can historians benefit from creative works for historical research? In this @hsnatsci.bsky.social short piece, I share how I worked w/ different types of making to research and write my recent book on 17th-c. florilegia. Thank you @dominikhhh.bsky.social & @mbaldwin.bsky.social for the invitation!

We're hiring at Birkbeck! Lecturer in Ancient History and Classics, full-time and open-ended. Closing date March 18th. Details here: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

And what are one of the key engines of the ‘Manchester model’, according to this article? Universities.

"Scrap the triple lock and give the money to graduates drowning in debt"

Ok folks, I've decided to run the Royal Parks half marathon in October to raise money for @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social. If all my followers gave just 10p I'd exceed my target, and together we will help fight this devastating disease. Please consider supporting here: www.justgiving.com/page/emilie-...

📢 Join us at Notre Dame London to celebrate 20 years of the Journal of Global History! JGH is hosting an ECR workshop and a Guest Lecture with Prof. Stefanie Gänger. In person and online. Find out more and register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/distinguis...

Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Looks like my book 'The Transactioneer: Hans Sloane and the Rise of Public Natural History in Eighteenth-Century Britain' will finally be published by Johns Hopkins University Press later this year! Excited doesn't cover it!

Looking back on this and remembering my classes, my brilliant tutors, the sheer amount of time dedicated to reading and thinking and discussing, I think education is the greatest thing ever. Future generations will look back in horror at how we monetised, managerialised and AI-fucked the HE sector.

Very exciting job announcement! Permanent early medieval (Britain and/or Europe) teaching post at KCL. I know first-hand that this is a great opportunity to work with amazing colleagues and students. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...

Those Europeans who spent yesterday obsessing over Trump destroying the US would do far better to think about how the few guardrails that will stop him do not exist in most of our countries. Germany might be the only exception to this?

Happy Feast Day to #JulianofNorwich! She was an astonishing medieval theologian who had some pretty trippy visions and wrote the FIRST known book in English by a woman. If you want to know more about her, you could always read my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN 💙

Remmber this is what Farage wants to bring to the UK along with removing the NHS

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

Really hard to watch these videos and not conclude this was an execution

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

extremely delighted that @harpers.bsky.social wanted to excerpt and republish one of the essays in Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, this hilarious brilliance by @kukukadoo.bsky.social

Happy 3 year anniversary to this little weirdo 💙 #ForThyGreatPain

Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power. And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.

What an amazing experience this was. Huge thanks to the project team for all their hard work and making it such a great success 🙌🏽

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

There really is no question this is an unequivocal murder. The officer fires 3 shots at the car. This still is taken before he fires the last 2 of those 3 shots: He is CLEARLY out of the car's path of travel, and in no danger whatsoever. This is murder

The UK's journalists and politicians are not just going to allow the country to slide into a conspiraciat abyss - they're gonna get redpilled enough by social media that they'll shrug or even laugh about it.

If the British government, and indeed other governments, can’t muster a fast and strong response to Twitter adding a facility enabling users to create and share AI child sexual abuse material then not sure what Musk could ever do that would actually provoke a response.

I had a long thread written out but the app closed and it's deleted so here are some mostly-formed thoughts: it's a mixture of their central problem (lack of a clear mission), unforced errors (WFA) and a failure to recognise the information environment they're operating in

Many congratulations 🎊

Do I know anyone in Hull?

Nesrine Malik here gets to the nub of the issue. The rise of the "sinister...malevolent" Farage to the threshold of power was enabled by a veil of plausible deniability, gifted to him by others. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

I'm delighted to announce a funded doctoral position (2026-2929) with me at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. Designed for those working in the field of ECOTHEOLOGY via systematic, political or applied theology approaches. For more information: lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/news/applica...

Please take a look at our latest blog post from @victorianhand.bsky.social about the fascinating sensory world of intrepid 'Blind Traveller' James Holman.

What a pleasure to find this book is out now (digitally): Alice Wickenden 2025 Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge @ doi.org/10.1017/9781... Congratulations to @awickenden.bsky.social 🥳🎉 -- going straight to ch. 4 "Unreadable Books: False and Foreign Languages" now. 🤓

A second book launch, this time at Uppsala University. Thanks to all who came and listened to @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and I outline our next book - on humanity and the history of scientific instructions. It’s a tale of skull collections and the colonial history of ideas.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies. After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026. This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A pleasure to welcome Ben to QUB yesterday and to hear his brilliant talk on ‘healing the hospital’ with contemporary French philosophy, literature and film.

I had an AMAZING time Steven!! thanks so much for having me — from the warm welcome and fantastic questions and feedback from QUB colleagues to the famous Tara Lodge sausages, I felt very honored to be there!

Hurrah! Well done! Small tech history for the win!!

Really pleased to see my latest article out with @medicalhistory.bsky.social - this article looks at the underappreciaed role habit in the medical thought of 18th century Britain. Drawing on a wide range of works, but focusing on William Cullen, this article 1/6 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Really pleased to see my latest article out with @medicalhistory.bsky.social - this article looks at the underappreciaed role habit in the medical thought of 18th century Britain. Drawing on a wide range of works, but focusing on William Cullen, this article 1/6 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The takeaway IMO is aggro centrism is an astonishing historic disaster. Not only does it not work - it delivers very little for the public, doesn’t address core problems of the era and disillusions the public with democracy itself - but it actively aids the far right and prepares the way for fascism

The 2025 Pfizer Award, awarded annually for an outstanding book in the history of science, is given to Adrian Johns for The Science of Reading: Information, Media & Mind in Modern America. (Apparently he wrote the entire book in ~8 months during COVID!) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #HSS2025