Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

reading against the grain, reading along the grain, reading beside the grain, interview with the grain

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

house of dynami-tee-hee

i REFUSE to be kept in ANY loop. they haven’t made a loop strong enough. you can try, but know that thousands have failed even after CIRCLING BACK

the key Q - and i intend to attend so i can see if it is addressed - is whether there are **any** “responsible and effective uses” OTOH i have so much marking and admin overdue: will i make time to attend a discussion that is likely to be 😡 ? www.tickettailor.com/events/histo...

📣Out now on #firstview! David Andress (@uophistory.bsky.social) on 'The Language of confiance and the French cahiers de doléances of 1789' #Revolution #Emotion #Trust #Agency #France #Digital 18thc 🗃️📜 👉Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Humanities programs have 3 perfect tools here: "There's a reason they don't want you studying it" paired with "The only way to tear this down and rebuild is by practicing the empathy, understanding, and critical thought that can come with studying the humanities" and "We're already doing it."

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

congrats to zohran who i believe has been elected dick cheney

Oh, Dick Cheney died? Well-- *sees Bluesky mod around corner* What's really important is championing the open protocol.

new season of the witcher: pros: lawrence fishbourne’s regis liam hemsworth’s henry cavill impression cons: liam hemsworth’s henry cavill impression

A very interesting piece, including this from @gwenseabourne.bsky.social "you can always tell the historians from the lawyers at a conference, because the lawyers start a paper with the argument, while the historians always start with a story" #History #LegalHistory 🗃️

Science. In. Action.

IMPORTANT update there are NO gifs of Bruno Latour. it just suggests various clips of Bruno Mars which honestly is not the right vibe

New Job Posts Like: Candidate should have expertise in anglophone literature and be able to teach classes ranging from the medieval period to postmodernism. Some fields of especial interest are econometrics, quantum physics, anesthesiology, kinesthesiology, the early works of John Ruskin, and

“If the point is that we need to restore these human stories, why frame them within law's stories first?” Some thoughts on history, law, storytelling and Mrs Burns williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/h... 🗃️

First time I see an article retracted for (likely) AI hallucinations. N.B., the authors have PhD´s but don´t seem affiliated with a university.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Are you a PhD student working on a criminological topic (broadly construed)? If so, then please consider applying to the LSE's inaugural criminology PhD Symposium: www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

centrists love to set up a podcast called “reasons to be optimistic” and all the reasons are things like “we decided eugenics could be good actually” and “climate change will kill us all, but before that it’s going to create some pretty awesome conditions for windsurfing”

Anyone listening to Chris Philp’s Today interview, predicated on the premise knife crime is rising, might like to read my piece from yesterday setting out the more nuanced reality: on.ft.com/47Aw3hT

I hope it is now obvious why pillars of democracy like universities, the law, public broadcasting should be funded so that they are beyond the reach of financial coercion by hostile agents.

“Romania in the early 1980s was brutalized by government austerity policies... My parents stood outdoors for hours in sub-freezing temperatures to buy potatoes and meat... Faced with this hard-won fare, their wispy, sickly daughter clammed her mouth shut... I would not eat.”

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show www.bbc.com/news/article...

as an over enthusiastic user of gifs i regret to inform any of you who didn’t already know this unsurprising but depressing fact: the gif libraries on these platforms are all flooded with generated videos now

"That black suit in your closet that you only wear to funerals" x.com/dailyportalz...

Fwiw, the trend towards disclosing the ethnicity/nationality of suspects in high-profile cases has not solved any problem (disinformation is still thriving) and only fuels polarisation and creates opportunities for grifters.

“the Greatest trick the devil ever played was down low OOOH too slow!”

The word is a vampire.

"The framing of LLMs as preserving the lives of those we have lost distracts from the lost livelihoods, and worsened material conditions, of a generation of writers on whose work the technology of LLM feeds—and the loss of innumerable voices and the stories they won’t be able to tell" bit.ly/48Vv1iT

me at every recruitment event for the next ten years, using decreasingly relevant pop culture reference: history: good enough for DAVE and James Blake! am i right, fellow youths??!!?

isn’t it incredible that it’s short for “wireless fireless”

To mark #Halloween & publication of 'The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England', (now available in print & free online), this blogpost revisits the magiconomy. 🧙🎃 Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons. 🥓🪶 #history ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...

morning!

uncanny!

if paula’s dog didn’t do the poo i have to say this leaves just one obvious suspect www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

in many years of being on the academic jobs emails etc i think this one takes the prize of most confusing. predoctoral? in vienna? but not that vienna. in ohio? but paid in euro also it’s paid several million a year

50% of all UK universities have closed one or more courses. Almost 50% have cut a range of optional modules. Even this vastly underestimates the volume of reduction. All this warmed over government language about distinct strengths really just refers to reduction: which hits specialisation!

The answer to "what is your USP?" is becoming ever more hard to answer given the sector wide shift to generic skills modules. I see the hand of Nous consulting in this sudden shift too.

also worth remembering they DID grow! more domestic students than ever before and more international students too! it’s just nobody could grow as fast as the debt + tightening costs of operating.

I’m old enough to remember when everybody agreed that higher education was a “market” and offering “choice” was how the universities were meant to grow on.ft.com/3WTwBue

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

still disappointed this isn’t about RG Collingwood

standard edited collection stuff