Most international academic networks and cooperations are about research, not teaching. Therefore I am very happy that our network now has published a page with teaching resources. Examples from many different contexts.

Our collection of resources for teaching histories of atheism, secularism, and humanism spans Europe, North America, and Brazil - ranging across intellectual and social history, literature, and religious studies. Check it out and be inspired! atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/teaching-res...

Huge thanks to everyone who generously shared their teaching materials! We‘d love to keep building this resource so please get in touch by email if you have materials you’d like to share 📚

Introducing our new Teaching Resources page! Check out the syllabi, reading lists, and assignment ideas shared by ISHASH members. We hope this inspires others to bring the histories of atheism, secularism & humanism into their teaching.

Former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @claregs.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social on how investing in networks and seeking connections can set you up for success. Tune into episode 3 of #ConfessionsOfAnECR on networking and mentors in academia. 🎬 youtu.be/AdtU1Q1TOdo?...

Our first webinar of 2026 will be a chance to reflect on, discuss, and share experiences of teaching histories of atheism, secularism, and humanism. Join us on Wed 18 February - just get in touch to register, all welcome! atheismsecularismhumanism.wordpress.com/seminars/

Check out the new Fellowship Program for Humanist Thought @americanhumanist.bsky.social for early career researchers working in any discipline on the humanist-secularist-nonreligious spectrum! Deadline 20 March 2026. Details here: americanhumanist.org/about/opport...

Happy Friday, have a newsletter: sabinastent.substack.com/p/jane-grave...

A voice of informed reason in a weltering wilderness of wild claims.

Big thanks for all the suggestions! I spent my morning coffee break compiling them into a Google map for other hungry and thirsty scholars: maps.app.goo.gl/dTmWWY2jDhhE...

Three short paragraphs, and you've got the whole mind-bending mess that is #UKHE finance & governance neatly laid out. This is why it's all so exhausting: our managers declare there's only one static frame, while we know their framing is part of the issue. 💡 www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...

This started with the tearing down of Palestinian flags. That in itself is dreadful -- and we tried to oppose that intimidation. Astonishing just how quickly that has moved to the censorship of all possible organising and solidarity.

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

This was such a joy-filled event! @conwayhall.bsky.social at its best - bringing communities, histories, and ethical culture together! Wishing @francesmlynch.bsky.social and all other the singers a very merry Yuletide!

I was part of the fantastic team that developed and wrote this report and evidence papers. If you’re interested in place-based and/or environmental policy making, do check it out!

Today, the Academy publishes a report setting out findings from our Where We Live Next programme on place-led approaches to environmental sustainability. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

I used actual 15th-century dog names from Scott-McNab’s edition of “Names of All Manners of Hounds” for this print using some of the dog letterpress blocks I’ve collected. “Beste-of-all” uses the tol Maple (my “good freend”) I lasercut, of course. + #DHmakes

Omfg inject this article right into my veins!!! The advertising panopticon is aware that I recently turned 36, and is trying to make me feel bad-but-don't-worry-it's-fixable-buy-this-do-this... FUCK THAT. "The Anti-Cosmetic Surgery Essay Every Woman Should Read" open.substack.com/pub/fatherka...

Next year we are co-hosting a celebration event with @rshc.bsky.social to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal. 📍Birkbeck, University of London 🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026 ⏱️14:00-18:00 Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.

A beautiful but devastating essay to start your day, from Cynthia Zarin @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/dont...

One hour left to donate to preserve Conway Hall’s historic venue and continue hosting events that inspire community, creativity & ethical discussion! Or why not join our wonderful community and become a member? www.conwayhall.org.uk/membership/

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Great to see my article on 19th century secularists’ use of the biographical dictionary in such brilliant company!

Proud to have been part of Woodcraft Folk as a child 💚

Thanks to everyone who helped us meet our target and unlock all of our match funds in under 3 hours ❤️ The Big Give page stays open though - please support us to go above & beyond! Help preserve our historic venue and continue hosting events that inspire community, creativity & ethical discussion.

All I can think is this what you teach the kids? That when cruel people bully you give in for an easy life? That cruelty and threats are what get your way and its wise to surrender to bigotry?

Thanks to everyone who helped us meet our target and unlock all of our match funds in under 3 hours ❤️ The Big Give page stays open though - please support us to go above & beyond! Help preserve our historic venue and continue hosting events that inspire community, creativity & ethical discussion.

#GivingTuesday and if you have anything to spare, please support @conwayhall.bsky.social. Your donation this week will be doubled - and we really need to repair our roof, so we can keep on working to Make Ethics Matter! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Looking forward to the always-wonderful @c19qmul.bsky.social Carols on Friday. You can get your free tickets here! www.tickettailor.com/events/qmul1...

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society

A few tickets still available! Don’t miss this sparkling evening of chamber music in our beautiful Library - this Friday ✨ 🥂 Enjoy a glass of fizz & Schubert’s String Quintet in an intimate, historic setting. 🎟️ Support live chamber music - book now: https://bit.ly/3JSutjq

One week to go! 🎉 From 2-9 Dec, each donation to Conway Hall via the link below will be DOUBLED to help us fix our historic roof. ➡️ £1 becomes £2 ➡️ £25 becomes £50 ➡️ £50 becomes £100 Donate link: https://bit.ly/4iErqbT #BigGive #RaiseTheRoof #DoubleTheDifference

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.

So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.

No :) I don’t need to do that right now :) I’ll remember it I'll remember it because it's important :) www.thechatner.com/p/what-it-fe...

📽️ The recording from our widely popular #RSVPDigiEvent "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal" is now live. We had a record-breaking 101 registrants for this panel! Since we did not quite hit that number in attendance, we know many will be interested to watch/re-watch: youtu.be/sP5Y1iicKJ0

'The [Vitae] survey of over 13,000 staff from 53 institutions found that while 94 per cent of research and teaching staff hold permanent contracts, only 46 per cent agree that their future is secure. 1/2

If you know of a great book that analyzes the periodical press of 19th c Britain/empire (long 19th c), mosey along to the link and nominate it!

periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

Next week @conwayhall.bsky.social is hosting what is sure to be a brilliant conversation between Daisy Dunn and Hetta Howes about the Lives of Ancient & Medieval Women. Looking forward to chairing! Join us in person or online 6:30 Wed 19 Nov. Details & tickets www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

Next week @conwayhall.bsky.social is hosting what is sure to be a brilliant conversation between Daisy Dunn and Hetta Howes about the Lives of Ancient & Medieval Women. Looking forward to chairing! Join us in person or online 6:30 Wed 19 Nov. Details & tickets www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation? Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8

I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well

This is most revealing part of @matthewcobb.bsky.social's piece on Rosalind Franklin: "Franklin did not succeed, partly because she was working on her own without a peer with whom to swap ideas. She was also excluded from the world of informal exchanges in which Watson and Crick were immersed."

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.

I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.