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Happy May Day

NAVSA is seeking nominations for the Donald Gray Prize for best essay published in the field of Victorian Studies in 2025. You can nominate yourself! The deadline (June 15) approaches. navsa.org/Donald-Gray-...

University management spent £80 million on new building that wasn't needed (presently for sale at £14 million) and now decide 600 staff should go to 'save' £50 million. This is the math currently shaping future of UK HE. Staff paying the price for mismanagement. Govt looking the other way

🥳 _Advertising Pornography, 1822-1870_ is now available on Nineteenth Century Data Collective! This is a package of two complementary datasets derived from advertising material issued by major figures in the early Victorian pornography trade. One draws on sales catalogues, one on periodical ads +

Job Opportunity! Research Associate in Early Modern Global History The University of Manchester - School of Arts, Languages and Cultures www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH649/r...

Two weeks left to apply for two 4.5 year postdocs!! WP2: History of Conservation and Animal Health www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD198/p... WP3: History of Conservation and Earth Systems’ Health www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD410/p... Deadline: 7 May

Exciting lecturing job being advertised in the Department of English at Stockholm University - with a desirable expertise in 19thc literature: @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Good morning all! For those who can't wait any longer: our book PERFORMING MAGNETISM is already available in open access, with huge thanks to @leuvenup.bsky.social Read it here: openresearchlibrary.org/content/d7d0... Or here: www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries. Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive. #PhDsky

The big jump in 2022-2023 school year is in large part due to the mass infection of ALL our children with COVID, followed by frequent reinfection. Now, their immune systems are screwed and significant & growing % have Long COVID. #ontpoli #cdnpoli

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

Interesting-sounding PhD position in Bern: architectural history of the Swiss women's movement 1870-1930.

STUDY visas. STUDY visas! As a prior recipient of one of these, let me tell you these are already HIGHLY limited & very strict in terms of what you are and aren’t allowed to do / access while in the UK. Plus you pay to apply, and if you get it you pay a large NHS surcharge. Who is exploiting whom?

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Looking forward to reading the final version!

📢 We are hiring at IMEIS, Durham University The School of Government and International Affairs is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Middle East Politics (with a focus on the Arab states). 🔗 uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b... For academic enquiries: Professor Bahar Baser – [email protected]

The gigification of university. Utter disgrace.

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below... jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Over 400 @unitetheunion.bsky.social members at the University of Strathclyde (including cleaners and security guards) are starting 7 days of strike action today over job cuts. The university says it has to save money. Last year the boss of the university was paid £428,000

the times demand it

Evidence of UK complicity in the US/Israel illegal war: www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

We will take strike action next week unless the University rules out compulsory redundancies. The executives we have lost confidence in continue to forecast the need for another £20m of savings. All from staff losses. We’ve already lost over 600 colleagues. When will the job cuts end?

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1928, hundreds of women march through London to a Communist Party rally, demanding better working conditions. [photo via redflagwalks.wordpre...#OnThisDay,] #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory 🗃️

Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.

Very cool postdoctoral opportunity on an ERC project looking at 'Art and Liberation Movements during 20th Century Decolonization'. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

On next @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social episode, this one about Midsommar. This exchange was very funny: pca.st/episode/22de...

Happy Monday! This is your friendly reminder that Leary Resource Development Grant applications are due this coming Sunday, March 15! Leary Grants offer up to $27,500 USD to support new tools, repositories, datasets, + other projects that deepen our engagement with the #19thC press.

to write in long form is to reckon with yourself

250,000 human remains.

Just started @nationaltrust.org.uk Wightwick Manor exhibition about extended Rossetti family including newly acquired portrait of Christina. Wightwick's a beautiful house anyway and has permanent @demorganfoundation.bsky.social display www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...

Despicable from Labour. Had these rules been in place when I moved to the UK, I would never have been able to stay here.

‘We remain deeply concerned that universities will be unable to absorb the cost of the levy’s introduction. The loss of cross-subsidy for domestic teaching & research will harm universities’ ability to deliver their core functions’ Our response to the levy www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...

In our latest blog, placement student Verity Burton examines botany and empire in the Dutch Golden Age, reflecting on how botanical illustration, global trade and colonial extraction were deeply intertwined. Read the full blog here: https://ow.ly/5fz350Yl2vi

We’re hiring a Social Media Manager at the British Library. Join our Digital Engagement team and help connect audiences with the stories, collections and ideas of the UK’s national library. 📍 St Pancras Apply by 15 March 2026 More details here: link.bl.uk/rkj

Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Proto-anarchist Anglo-Saxonist whimsy, a very specific political vibe

Crafting a version of reality in which right-wing college students are being persecuted for their strongly held beliefs not only legitimizes the firing of so-called liberal professors, but makes these actions necessary to save students from systemic harassment at the hands of a powerful institution.

For those who are minded to do so, there's now a petition to sign too... #DirtyBusiness petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Always makes my day to hear that people listen to (and enjoy!) our silly little side project

This is one of the most reasoned & persuasive arguments for not allowing LLMs anywhere near reading & writing intensive classrooms. We can 100% choose not to outsource our reading & writing labor to a bot, and model for our students why they should do the same. #EduSky www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A good day to live in Manchester! 💚💚

“In fact, the left appears to be so successfully engaged in matters related to AI that one can’t help but wonder if allegations about its supposed ignorance of the technology are motivated by a desire to change the very terms of the debate.” - @bcmerchant.bsky.social 🔔🔔🔔

Full details of the final opinion poll in Gorton and Denton. Greens ahead and more likely to be the choice of tactical voter to keep out Reform. Share. Everywhere.

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

Just LOOK at this gorgeous fore-edge painting from Gaetano Polidori's 1919 'Traduzione del lament di Tasso di Lord Byron'. @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social 😍