For academics familiar with the work of Teresa de Lauretis. She has transitioned. Here’s the announcement I received today. She was a kind and generous colleague.

Sound on, hats off.

Nottingham University bought the site for £37.5m in 2021 and spent another £40m refurbishing it Now it’s up for sale at £14m Many hundreds of redundancies later, we can rest assured that those responsible for the fiasco have done just fine www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

I wonder if our university leadership team are grateful that we didn’t vote for their preferred candidate for Chancellor in 2015, Peter Mandelson, and elected Lemn Sissay instead.

We're back this week, welcoming @rossbalzaretti.bsky.social to speak on 'Corteolona and Santa Cristina: the lives and afterlives of a Lombard “palace” and a “Lombard” monastery'. Weds 4 Feb, 5.30pm, IHR Wolfson NB.02. All welcome - please sign up in advance here!

I am very sorry to hear of the passing of my PhD supervisor at Cambridge Professor David Abulafia. A very talented historian as well as a great supervisor and mentor who gave me sound career advice when I needed it. May his memory be a blessing. www.cai.cam.ac.uk/news/david-a...

Absolutely pathetic Keir Starmer. What an affront to democracy!

It's my show tonight! In which I get to be dark and creepy in an intimate space for my friends and other good people of Nottingham. 🎥🌴🩸 YOU OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES 23 Jan, 8.30pm @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/you-o...

It me! Online attendance also available; book on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

Anyone in the UK who has ever posted or reposted anything about ICE needs to fill this in to avoid being a hypocrite. It’s happening here too.

"Futility" was a novella by Morgan Robertson published in 1898, which depicted the sinking of an "unsinkable" ship called Titan after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and the huge loss of life owing to the inadequate number of lifeboats. #wyrdwednesday

Outrageous. Solidarity to all those union members affected.

The inkless doodles of Eadburg, an 8th-c. nun, discovered by new technology: now published by Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson in EME doi.org/10.1111/emed... (Open access)

Re-posting. Needed to see this again, as we launch soon our indicative ballot; management still does not get our anger, the strength of our opposition to course cancellations, huge job losses, inevitable workload increases, and demise/shrinkage of our beautiful UoN. Listen, bosses👇🏽

You can't say the Poste italiane don't package their parcels well!

Plus reviews of recent books on the Three Chapters controversy, King Liutprand, Hincmar, 11th-century León & Galicia, Alfred the Great, the Regnum Italicum, Ernst Kantorowicz, and cartularies!

Heba Muraisi, who is on day 72 of her hunger strike, has told her friend she is dying. I have signed @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social's letter urging David Lammy to engage with the legal representatives of the pro-Palestine hunger strikers.

Fascinating article for those interested in plant history observer.co.uk/news/first-p...

Why the @royalsociety.org want to be tethered to this sinking ship is beyond me ☹️

What would a fellow have to do, to be in contravention of the @royalsociety.org Code of Conduct if Musk's behaviour *doesn't* constitute "acting in a personal or professional capacity in such a manner as is likely to bring the Society into disrepute"? royalsociety.org/-/media/abou...

I’m still thinking I must have imagined this.

'A Complete Byzantine Monastery Discovered Beneath the Desert Sands of Southern Egypt' www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/01/a...

This year, History Workshop Journal will celebrate two milestones: its 50th anniversary and its 100th issue. To mark the occasion, eleven historians share how they've used the journal in their own teaching.

Happy new year! We're delighted to share our seminar schedule for Spring 2026. All events take place at the @ihr.bsky.social (Wolfson NB02) on Wednesdays at 5.30pm. All welcome - please sign up in advance here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Some great news for 2026: my creepy li'l show is coming to Nottingham! 🎬 YOU OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES Fri 23 January, 8.30pm Neville Studio, @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social 🎟️ nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/you-o...

Absolutely barmy priorities. Nearly £19k on catering 🤯 FOIs are displaying the chaos behind Future Nottingham decision-making www.instagram.com/p/DSm9i77DP-...

'The institution currently has between 15 and 16 students for every staff member but wants to increase this to between 18 and 22 students, according to a “case for change” document recently shared with employees.' 5 faculties mooted to become 3 colleges.' 1/3

Soon to appear, Eric Fournier and Maijastina Kahlos (eds.), Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Kingdoms, see www.brepols.net/products/IS-... and www.academia.edu/145456266/Wo... (incl. my paper on "Secular Women in the Lombard Kingdom“).

{New book} 25% off with Arc25 The Lombards in Italy by Christopher Heath www.arc-humanities.org/978180270269...

'All states and territories in Australia should review the legislation underpinning universities “to ensure the primacy of public research and education”, a Senate committee has said.' Very relevant to UK. 1/3

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

Please can I encourage followers to fill in this home office survey on changes to how long it takes to get settled status (or indefinite leave to remain) in the UK, and to put across a pro-immigration viewpoint. The UK needs immigrants and contribute a lot to our society! www.gov.uk/government/c...

Alastair Campbell was said to have a rule that if a story about someone ran for more than 12 days in the media it would not end well. The various & growing allegations about Farage started on 18th November wp.me/p15p2Q-fG3

'Steve Jones, professor of higher education at the University of Manchester and the main author of the code told Times Higher Education that it came at a “vital time” for the sector amid widespread redundancies and financial crisis.' 2/2

Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade. History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.

We all desperately want to clear the courts backlog seeing victims withdraw from the criminal justice process. But the backlog was caused by chronic underfunding, not juries. Restricting jury trials would undermine our democracy and right to a fair trial, and may even be a false economy.

This is shameful. The University of Cambridge has a duty to stand against the disgraceful anti-intellectualism of the right. www.varsity.co.uk/news/30787

Nottingham University spent £80m on Castle Meadow Campus & now decides to sell it Only 2 buildings were ever used No one is taking blame for huge fiasco University blithely calls it “strategic realignment” -- while sacking staff & closing courses www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

After 1997 the watering down of the New Labour Employment Rights Bill was described as 'practical'. In 2025 the watering down of the Newer Labour Employment Rights Bill is described as 'pragmatic'. Its the same old song... wp.me/p15p2Q-fAW

The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The removal of individual institutions’ student number caps was a disaster.

These are really useful questions for workers fighting useless university senior management across the sector.

The last person I want to hear from on employment rights is the woman overseeing the destruction of one of the UK’s most valuable sectors.

Not only is it at risk of closure, the current plan is to gut human geography at Leicester by merging Geosciences and Chemistry - please sign this!

I'm a member of the Green Party, and I've just donated. If you can afford to and you want to see decent, humane local and national government policies that support the poor, migrants and the environment, please donate as well. Either way, please repost. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere