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@dramyburge.bsky.social and Joseph Crawford have a short article out on the legacy and impact of Twilight

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Please follow our @manchstm.bsky.social PhD students, @chstmphds.bsky.social, ‪for updates on the excellent lunchtime-work-in-progress online seminar series they host.

We are pleased to welcome Xiao Ge, joining our Discovery Research Platform as a Bridging Fellow in the Narrative Practices Lab and @languagesdurham.bsky.social 🤩 Read more about Xiao's work on reframing postpartum well-being in this interview 👇 medhumsplatform.org/introducing-...

Running an event about information/archives in diy culture on 15th November at Manchester Metropolitan University! Call for activities/speakers live here: tinyurl.com/diylives Payment and travel bursaries available for non-institutional speakers! See link for details.

Exciting news role for my excellent @ndhumanities.bsky.social co-lead Daniel Jones - looking forward to seeing the work that comes out of his fellowship period!

Shout out to everyone else sitting in their coat and scarf and gloves in the office because universities never seem to turn the heating on until there's actual snow on the ground

Alright me old muckers I have TWO calls to action for you today: The FIRST one is that I would love to see loads of you at tomorrow night’s masterclass, Stop Unknowingly Excluding Disabled Clients! Secure your spot by visiting this link: funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/digital-acce...

If you're a member of the SoA, this talk is free. Accessibility features in Canva with Jeevani Charika - Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses Network Meeting - The Society of Authors share.google/1jg5ht7zfzCY...

So this week's reflections on @aat-transcribes.bsky.social upcoming newsletter have me thinking about what I wish my colleagues, students, supervisors, and the wider research community knew at the start of a new academic year about disability, accessibility and ableism.

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Really enjoying the opportunity to spend time learning from and being inspired by the @dismatters.bsky.social project. All the formal presentations are available online along with links to the project's many fantastic resources

it’s friday evening and now is as good a time as any to remind you all to JOIN A UNION

I've just read this and it is ridiculously adorable ♥️ @jodimca.bsky.social

I haven't posted an update on the petition for a while 👇 Over 3600 signatories to date Folk are still signing Thank you

Academics are constantly overexplaining things. They excessively explicate every item of information

My department @ljmuhistory.bsky.social is hosting a series of talks this semester, including a launch event for my book that came out in April. Everyone's very much welcome to these events!

A plea to academic publishers: please stop publishing articles formatted in columns. It’s a pain for people using screen readers and is generally more difficult to read on a screen, which is likely how the majority of articles are read these days.

"What forms of care, collectivity and resistance might emerge if we treat institutions not as fixed authorities but as porous, reconfigurable and responsive?" Phoebe Eustance on their artistic research w/QUEERCIRCLE and on Institutional Psychotherapy at La Borde. thepolyphony.org/2025/09/19/c...

Very much a #FirstWorldProblem, but they forgot the roasties and the Yorkshire puddings in the carvery I ordered for dinner 😭 Uber Eats hope to be able to message me back in 6-12 hours. Pretty sure the rest will be cold by then though!

If you want to witness the primacy of hope over experience, watch people trying to shove their carry-on into an already full overhead bin during boarding

Wondering where the money goes when UKHEIs cut jobs? 👇 "New Sheffield Hallam University campus opens" - BBC News share.google/8FJdoXSyZsyA...

Am working with archivists quite a bit in my current project, and my instant response to seeing this post was "the archivists are going to LOVE this" 😂 PS archivists are awesome

Just read a reference to working in archives as the 'second oldest' profession. am imagining the world where there are only two jobs on offer: sex worker or archivist

Wow, someone at the AHRC has a brass neck for treating their own grantees as "research quality". Each HEI’s formula score is determined by two variables: research staff (within arts and humanities), this is a proxy for research capacity AHRC grant income, *this is a proxy for research quality*

🦇🎶It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

do you work in a university/faculty/school in the UK that abolished “departments”? willing to share experiences (by DM if preferred)? RTs also appreciated

Oof

My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood. Includes: 🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums 🗝️30% off my Etsy shop: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

This new series from the University of Wales Press is looking for proposals! I'm on the Board, as are some other romance scholars, so there's definitely an openness to proposals including/focussed on popular romance fiction.

Like other commentors I predict a landslide victory for this guy

Just came up on my phone's news feed but surely this is the EXACT OPPOSITE of news

the IT dept might be the last place in the university where things actually work, people can help you, and the processes are designed to be useful

Doesn't look like this is hybrid sadly but definitely one for London folks!

As part of our Special Issue, I wrote my first article engaging with Disability Studies & crip theory (eek) and discovered the brilliant work of @sunaura.bsky.social, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril & @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social, among others. I couldn’t recommend their work more! 🔗 tinyurl.com/2emhnz7w

Also irritating: my American husband saying "well we don't use that word" when I complain. Apparently the US doesn't use hotted, podded, hobs and punnet.

Complaints about the New York Times spelling bee puzzle, no. 27:

Worth reading the whole thread here 😂

Our Disability Matters Online Town Hall Circus is happening this Friday! The written text of the presentations are on our website and easy read versions are also available to read ahead of the event: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

Excited to share the first post of a takeover from @queercircle.bsky.social on the concept of 'queer space' as a site of health creation. Thanks to Research and Health Lead Frances Williams for setting the scene. thepolyphony.org/2025/09/15/q...

Would read all of these TBH

Making friends might sound like a secondary concern to learning but the 2025 World Happiness Report notes that young people feel socially disconnected, lonely& worry peers lack empathy. In contrast uni friendships help them to ‘flourish’ &reduces the likelihood of depression. Uni is about belonging!

This was really interesting:

Interested in the history of pharmacy? Or just hanging out with me and some cool scholars periodically on Zoom? You are cordially invited to join the Pharmacy History working group that I am co-convening at the Consortium for History of Sci/Med/Tech: www.chstm.org/group/pharma...

Here's a thread of relaxing fun websites to get away from the noise 1. This is sand dot com Let the sand flow and create weird little landscapes (this is one I did) thisissand.com

Say this to yourself: Nobody else in the world is making work like mine. I’ve worked hard to create something unique, beautiful, and original, and I should be rewarded for that

Literature student: Hey, chat, will you please summarize ULYSSES for me and identify its themes? Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.

Hello friends, has anyone applied successfully for an RSVP @rs4vp.org Linda Peterson award who would be willing to share your application with me? Thanks so much.