Applications are now open for BSR Humanities Awards 2026–27! Fellowships and awards for scholars at all career stages. Deadline: 14 Nov 2025. Apply: bsrome.slideroom.com More info: bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...

Addio to Pippo Baudo, a great of Italian TV. To mark his passing, I’m resharing the episode of my podcast that I dedicated to him last year - tvitalianstyle.wordpress.com/2024/08/12/p...

🏆 Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 University of Leeds Teaching Awards, recognising the outstanding contributions of colleagues in delivering high-quality teaching and learning. 👏 Read about our winners and their inspiring work: 🔗 Staff Intranet bit.ly/4kYiNbs 🔗 OD&PL site bit.ly/4m9vkd0

What might a work of history look like and sound like if it were shaped in music? 🗃️🎵 In our new podcast David Archibald discusses the role of music in Glasgow’s working-class past and the historical links between music and radicalism.

We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships. We provide three years of funding for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a significant piece of publishable research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...

A rare opportunity for a permanent lectureship in German in our fabulous School! Please circulate to your networks. @ucfl-eca.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

Last few spaces left for the MFL teacher conference on 20th June at the University of Leeds! Registration is free but places are limited! With presentations from @joedale @rashasoliman04 & many more!! Have a look at our programme! 👇artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our-activiti... #mfl #mfltwitterati

📢 TIPS Community: Festival of Learning and Teaching 🗓 23–26 June 2025 There's still time to sign up! Join us for 4 days of creativity, collaboration & innovation in teaching. Explore global learning, sustainability, experiential teaching, digital innovation & more. 👉 bit.ly/TIPSFeLT25

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University 👉Sign the petition: chng.it/K2zRY6Jqqt 👉Share the petition with family/friends/networks. 👉Send emails outlining your objections. For details and templates visit the website: www.stopcutsinmlatbangor.uk/home/

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University - Sign the Petition! chng.it/9vtymFBVFh

'Identity, Interculturality, and Language Learning on British Television' by @rahaworth.bsky.social is popular this week - read the full article #OA via MLO: bit.ly/3wpWBDQ @iniis.bsky.social @studyemmir.bsky.social @journalics.bsky.social @language-learn.bsky.social @innovationllt.bsky.social

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Colleagues @universityofleeds.bsky.social, come join us for the inaugural TIPS Community Festival of Learning and Teaching and celebrate all the fantastic student education practice at our institution!

Thank you to the @royalhistsoc.org for electing me as a Fellow. I have added FRHistS to my email signature and am very pleased and proud to do so.

Quite literally happening everywhere. And the toll that this takes on the individuals involved and those left behind is very very high.

It’s the #LeedsAssessmentMatters conference today and we’ve got a rich programme of papers, round tables, and discussions and some great insights into how students experience assessment and feedback! Thank you to everyone who has presented and supported the conference

I'm doing a webinar with @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social on May 7th about How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book. If you're an academic looking to break into trade publishing, this is for you! Sign up here! courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/trad...

Bookmarking

I’m reposting this to help me get better at alt text. I also like capybaras

Sneak preview of my poster for the SIS conference in June on the ‘Digital Turn in Italian Studies’. My poster is about my TV Italian Style podcast - and having started reading about podcasting as research method and as public humanities project, I wonder if I should write this up somehow…

More afterlives of Prisencolinensinainciusol (I will write about this song one day) youtube.com/watch?v=henl...

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2025. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component. 📅 Deadline 30/06: www.openlibhums.org/...

OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...

Shhhh bunny sleeping

The ear thief has struck

Snoozy Saturday

Check out our flexible Online Courses in Interdisciplinary Humanities: PgCert Heritage & Memory Studies on.abdn.ac.uk/degrees/heri...; PgCert Visual Studies & Popular Cultures on.abdn.ac.uk/degrees/visu...; & our Decolonising Society & Politics short course: on.abdn.ac.uk/courses/deco...

Escaped to New York this afternoon

Today we launch a new funding programme: Scouloudi Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK Grants will support collaborative projects between historians in Higher Education and those in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sectors, as well as community history groups. #Skystorians 1/2 👇

Design sprinting today and tomorrow at a @universityofleeds.bsky.social design sprint for academic personal tutoring. Interesting ideas about how might we start to answer some of the big questions that exist about providing effective tutoring for all involved.

Read our collection of articles published as part of the #OLHJournal "Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery" special collection, guest-edited by Angela Dressen: olh.openlibhums.org/...

I’m at the NYU-Roma tre seminar series on Religious diversity in Italian urban history. I’m responding to Brenda Fedi’s paper on the ‘Concerto del Primo Maggio and the jubilee of workers. The interaction between religious institutions and Italian unions in the year 2000’. Looking forward to it!

"There’s been a lot written about the crisis in the humanities. There’s been far less written about the humanities during a crisis." For @insidehighered.com I wrote about how we've forgotten how the humanities kept us sane during an existential crisis. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Call for Proposals: Islands of Innovation 2025: ‘Theme Parks of Innovation’ deadline for submissions is Fri 21 Feb 2025 Keynote: The Playful University Rikke Toft Nørgård & Nicola Whitton; online event on Friday 9 May 2025 More info, submission &registration via www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-for-i...

Episode J of my TV Italian Style podcast has just reached 200 downloads! Very exciting 😀 You can have a listen to find out what all the fuss is about: www.buzzsprout.com/2301972/epis...

Come work with me! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Happy to answer any questions you may have about the post and the student education team at Leeds.

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians & all academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs), tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky

I've been thinking about Marcello Mastroianni and variety television again (hoping to write up the research and ideas into an article) - here's an extract from my research presentation on the topic, which I presented in December: rahresearch.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/m...

Two fully funded PhD studentships in history have just opened @liverpooluni.bsky.social - deadline for applications is 30 May www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la...

A full-time, open-ended lectureship in Ancient History at Leeds! It's a different department to me but your duties will still include being asked interminable questions about ancient weirdos by me, your colleague with a healthy interest.

Cool post-doc job opportunity "Language Practices in Media Cultures" at the European University Viadrina @viadrina.bsky.social www.europa-uni.de/de/universit...

On 7 March, we've an online event for anyone thinking about applying to join the #History subject panel for REF2029. The event will bring together former panel members and potential panellists, to discuss the work of the History panel, and the experience of members bit.ly/3QeQlVI #skystorians

Today has been brought to you by bunnies and pudding - and lovely colleague’s invitation to see their module and their students’ work

Cuts to the Arts and Humanities have been going on for years in the UK. Several great departments were closed down. But in most places, the erosion was more gradual. /1

The Society is a membership organisation for professional historians. This includes historians in business, law, medical and other depts in Higher Education, as well as professional historians in sectors such as archives or heritage. For more on membership categories and joining us bit.ly/45lOzr0

As the TV Italian Style podcast passed 1,000 downloads last week, I was prompted to sit down and reflected on the all the things I learned about podcasting during 2024: rahresearch.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/1...

We are now recruiting to three Career Development Fellowships (in French, History, and Italian) and PhD studentships made possible by the generous support of Joanna and Graham Barker. Please spread the news. Interested candidates can read more here www.durham.ac.uk/IMEMS/InventingFutures

With university departmental closures are we seeing the emergence of geographical 'cold spots' for social science/humanities/arts (SHAPE) subjects? We've developed a new beta mapping tool using HESA data to enable you to explore the situation by subject www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

Our next HPS Visiting Speaker Seminar today features Dr Katie Carpenter from just upstairs in the School of History. She’ll be speaking about “Masculinity, Advertising and Scientific Housewifery in Britain, c. 1870 to 1914”, 3.15pm in Botany House Room 1.03. See you there! #histsci #HPS #skystorians

Ad Astra Fellow - Lecturer/Assistant Professor in AI and Digital Cultural Heritage www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN993/a...