Important work by @britishacademy.bsky.social, keeping track of emerging cold spots, and contracting opportunities for young people who want to make a difference in the world through the study of SHAPE subjects.

Why did they call it “The Never Ending Story” when it has an ending? How come we’re not still trapped, sitting cross-legged in the school hall, wilting under the pressure of having begun watching it on VHS as our class Christmas party treat in 1989? #FalseAdvertising

Very pleased to see our Bee-ing Human film on the @leverhulme.ac.uk website. I will be sharing more from our science-humanities project on bee sentience soon as we finalise our bee book this autumn media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/charle...

I’ve been busy all day and am just surfacing. Have I missed anything important?

🐝🐝🐝 New to the @leverhulme.ac.uk 'Bee-ing Human' book: do watch and share our 7 mins film about Charles Butler's queen bee piping song, recorded in @theul.bsky.social and @peterhousecam.bsky.social with @sjjackson32.bsky.social Magnus Williamson, Richard Wistreich and choir.

Squire of the Fleas To Concuss a Mockingbird Jude the Mainstream Close to the Madding Couple Hitchhikers Guide to the Clam The Visible Man A Clockwork Satsuma Cowardly Old Globe Confessions of a Justly-Fried Singer Gulliver’s Staycation Prudery Fair The Stripped Screw The Quick Nap 🫣🥴😏

If I don’t say anything, do you think anyone will notice I accidentally put “colloquiums” instead of “colloquia” on that email I just sent?

An absolute masterclass from UK Quakers on how organisations of all kinds can stand up for the rights and safety of trans people, even post Supreme Court ruling and with all of the EHRC's cruelties: www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...

Come one, come all to lovely Liverpool to hear some fabulous scholarship!

POSTDOCTORAL SHOWCASE! Come and hear all about the exciting work our post-doctoral fellows have done this past year! Starring @claireturner.bsky.social & Jean David Eynard. 25 September, 5-6pm, Crowdcast. Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/postdoctor... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Shakespeare’s granddaughter Elizabeth was married to a bloke called Thomas Nash and the uncessant wheeling and rolling on of my brain is imaging a sit com stuffed full of red herrings and absurdity…

Now reminded of my favourite war: the 335 Years War. In 1651, the Netherlands declared war on the Isles of Scilly, a gorgeous teeny archipelago off the Cornish coast. It is the longest recorded war in European history, primarily because everyone forgot about it. www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...

Note that this is a genuinely information seeking endeavor. We are well aware that it is not going to be representative in any statistical sense. But details and qualitative info can really help. Whether you are pro or anti action, whether you think we can meet ballot, please respond!

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming. Could these be the real culprits? The evidence is in--and the answer is NO. This thread explains! 🧵

A *VERY RARE* PERMANENT JOB IN MUSIC!!!!!!!!!! 🥳

🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Thrilled to announce that A Two Woman Hamlet is going to #colchfringe25! Casting got each performance will be announced soon...

I’m in the Rose and Crown with @tracelarkhall.bsky.social and in awe of being acquainted with infamous #Larkhall haunts. HOORAY FOR THE ROSE AND CROWN! 🙌

I’m with @tracelarkhall.bsky.social in her local and all is well with the world. #LarkhallFan

12 August is National Middle Child Day. What do you mean, you didn’t notice????

👀 it’s the nativity of @onslies.bsky.social the Magnificent! Happy #Onslies Day to all who celebrate! 🥳 🎈 💫

And we’ve known about global warming for over a hundred years and have blithely ignored its catastrophic effects: theconversation.com/for-110-year...

Who knew “AI” really meant “anxietatem infinitum”?

So, you mean 80% of graduates have benefited financially from it? And, whisper it quietly, but *UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ISN’T JUST ABOUT SALARY*

👀 @willtullett.bsky.social

My darling nephew sent me a thank you card 🙄

Maybe because “British Literature” is only a fraction of the canon of literatures in English? 🤷‍♀️

Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

CFP: Speech/less in the Early Modern World Keynote speakers: Rosamund Oates Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 23 April 2026 Deadline: 26 September 2025 All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/speech... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #DisabilityHistory #HistDisability

This looks AWESOME! 🤩

Congratulations @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social!

Congratulations @cazzert.bsky.social! 🥳 💫 🥂

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Hurray! (and paging @earlymodernmurray.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Thanks to everyone who attended in person and online and to the wonderful @racheljwillie.bsky.social for coming all the way to York to chair the event ☺️ The book is part of Routledge's Mid-Year Sale so it's available at a discounted price 📚

Trying to find information about a printer called William Turner is severely hampered by the artist, proving that Francis Bacon isn’t the only early modern figure painted over by artists.

Serendipity of my timeline bringing me two pieces this morning. "Why Read?" by Diane Elam (from a quarter century ago...) about what reading *does* and how we can't quantify or even guarantee that culturemachine.net/the-universi... "Reading literature is not a guarantee; it is a possibility." 1/2

One wing of the phoenix may need to remind itself that it isn’t actually a phoenix… 🙄 🐦‍🔥 🐥 🔥 🐣

I don’t think I get all the hate for Warwick’s new branding. I mean, it’s pretty naff, generic, an expensive overhaul for little return, vague, and easy to parody but can’t we say the same for a lot of university branding?

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Congratulations to @nicolemaceira.bsky.social and @serinquinn.bsky.social, SRS Postdoctoral Fellows 2025-2026! We look forward to working with you in the coming year 💫 🎉 🙌🎉 💫 www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-postdoct... #SRSlyGood #Skystorians

This a) reminds me I owe @jennyrichards.bsky.social an email 🫣 b) is SUCH a fun project & a game changer for the kinds of conversations that can happen across SHAPE & STEM. Check out the website when it is LIVE! These aren’t honeyed words — I’ll beeswaxing lyrical about it! 🐝 🎶 🐝 🍯 🐝 ⛪️ 🐝 🍯 🐝 🎶 🐝

If you are a glutton for punishment and want to read some of Drake’s posthumous rehabilitations under Cromwellian rule, see William Davenant’s “The History of Sir Francis Drake”, one of his state sanctioned public performances from the 1650s — performed when public drama was officially outlawed.

One wing of the phoenix was clearly having A Moment™️ 🐦‍🔥

I’ve been to Leeds and a) met Jane Rickard for lunch b) spent the afternoon in the library c) met up with Alison Searle, @sarakbarker.bsky.social & @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social. Now waiting to catch my train home. Such days, a happy Willie maketh ☺️

St Paul is my least favourite Saint and @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social agrees. He cannot retract this now.

My Willie suffers similarly.

Isn’t this the *only* writing process?

‘England’s higher education system risks long-term decline unless ministers overhaul their “confused, if not incoherent” approach to universities’ FT interview with outgoing @britishacademy.bsky.social President Julia Black where she pulls no punches! www.ft.com/content/3162...

I no longer know what is real and what is parody.

Applications for 2 artists' residencies now open at Thin Ice Press! Deadline 25th July www.thinicepress.org/research/pri...