A powerful US spy-tech company linked to genocide in Gaza, ICE deportations, and Trump’s war with Iran is now expanding across Europe into our hospitals, police and data systems. We must expose it and stop its expansion action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...

I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)

New OLH poster drop and accompanying piece by Dr Paula Clemente Vega: “If scholarly publishing is a site of struggle, the question is no longer whether change is needed, but whether we are prepared to redistribute power and resources to make knowledge truly free.”

People power works. Together, we can force Palantir out of the NHS. Message your local trust and tell them: Say no to Palantir https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=PalantirNHS&utm_medium=social_media

The UK government is exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract, the FT reports. A big and absolutely correct step.

Ha! Priceless!! “So if it’s not abortion and women’s issues, what causes the gender gap? One word: Men. Most explanations for the gender gap focus on women, implicitly assuming that men are the norm and any divergence from male behavior is an oddity […] a closer look at the data suggests” otherwise.

From neglected land to a vibrant sanctuary. 🌱 The Windrush Legacy Garden in Sheffield is officially open! Created by volunteers at the Sheffield Caribbean Sports Club and @WildSheffield, this space celebrates an incredible legacy through nature. Full story www.wildsheffield.com/windrush-leg...

My pension under threat, that is, if I still have a job by July. SHU are covering themselves in glory. @hallamucu www.ucu.org.uk/article/1446...

Not surprised… and we’re talking about Denmark (a comparative study with other European countries wd be good.

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

After years of restructures, losing colleagues, picking up extra work and all sorts of other awful stuff, my institution is now mounting the worst attack on jobs and terms & conditions I have ever seen in20 yrs here. Send uplifting pics of nature and cute animals & follow @ucuhallam.bsky.social

#SaveSheffieldHallam #Pensions #Workload

This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI. I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills…

We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. Deadline 📅 31/03: www.openlibhums.org/news/883/

Creepy! Luckily I have an analogue wellbeing app… good trustworthy colleagues check on each other. 1M times better than a bot

Book cover reveal! #Letters

Important thread by @sundersays.bsky.social on the earned settlement changes. 3 important points: - HO continues to deliberately mislead on impact (*15-20* years to settlement, not 10, for most) -BBC/media repeating this falsehood uncritically - vastly disproportionate impact on ethnic minorites

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Book of the day 2007 Writing In An Age Of Silence Sara Paretsky Paretsky is known for her feminist detective fiction and her hero V. I. Warshawski, but read also her memoir on the hardships of being a woman in misogynistic times saraparetsky.com/books/nonfic... #BookSky 📚💙 #booksky #libros #llibres

"Teams from Google and leading universities found that large-language models change the voice, tone and intended meaning of human authors." No shit. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Students and others, we don’t know if meningococcal disease can spread through the air. I see some of you in the outbreak zone are wearing masks. If you want to maximise your protection against a *possible* airborne threat, wear a *respirator* (FFP2 or - better - FFP3). These are ~N95/N99 in USA.

#Sheffieldevents @helpsheffield.co.uk

Hélice (www.revistahelice.com/en/main/) seeks new work on SF, fantasy and gothic, with a special interest in romantasy. We welcome academic papers, short essays, book reviews, and interviews, in English and Spanish. Deadline September 15. @revistahelice.bsky.social #AcademicSky

If you notice a friend exhibiting any concerning signs – especially rapid worsening over hours – take them seriously.

Just a reminder to Arts, Humanities & Social Science postdocs with 10 years of the PhD that membership in the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network is free and available across the UK. Independent researchers welcome; if employed at an, you do not need to be in a research position. 1/2

Technology is politics. You can't embed Palantir into the army, the police and the health service without embedding its poisonous politics. So there's no place for Palantir in our NHS. https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

Hard agree - completely brilliant collection.

We're proud to support the Don't Steal This Book campaign, calling on AI companies to stop stealing books! #DontStealThisBook is a clear message from almost 10,000 authors calling on the UK government to protect our world-class creative industries and creators. Learn more: t.co/PT5KiRfV0k

The number one website currently cited in Google’s AI search mode? It’s Google. The second? That’s YouTube, which is also owned by Google. Google’s using circular hyperlinks in AI Mode to keep users locked into their platforms. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/google...

Paid opportunity for PhD students and ECRs! The Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (@montaguletters.bsky.social) 2026 Summer Internship Programme is open for applications. Deadline: 1st April 2026 More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6359

During this week's exceptional branch meeting, members decisively passed the motion expressing No Confidence in the UEB and in Defence of the Academic Workforce. For additional details, visit ucuhallam.org/15xf

This is a well-meaning piece and not wholly wrong. But I'm sceptical that in these times the REF can be a real driver against precarity; it simply isn't financially significant enough, and its effects are generally long-term and spread out, a problem in a period when immediate solvency is everything

Today, the Vice Chancellor of SHU reveals a significant assault on employee terms and conditions along with further job cuts. SHU aims to achieve £26.6 million in savings for the next year, with £16 million being cut from staffing expenses. More at: ucuhallam.org/igp6

SHAC - Sheffield Hallam Against Cuts meeting next week. Defend your university from further staff cuts & changes to your uni experience.

'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.' Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3

Beckett fellowship! 👇

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥 Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk international.au.dk/about/profil...

Now that Misconduct in Public Office is actually a thing, might we at last see some justice in the form of prosecutions?

“If we had English names, I don’t think there would have have been an issue” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙏

The first copy of my monograph 'Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema' arrived and it's beautiful! I'm so proud. Thank you @uniwalespress.bsky.social

Established at our 48th Congress in 1986, World Writers’ Day honours the courage to write and the solidarity that protects it. As writers face imprisonment, exile, censorship, and violence for speaking the truth, we stand with them and defend freedom of expression.

This is a good understanding of the situation. If the hype is to be believed (hmmm), then AI would need to show it can synthesise new knowledge, rather than just model what is. But because people believe it CAN do this already, the work of creating true new knowledge comes under threat/is devalued.

Special offer from Longbarrow Press: any 3 hardbacks for £32. Includes collections by Steve Ely, Angelina D'Roza, Rob Hindle, Peter Riley, Nancy Gaffield, Mark Goodwin, Matthew Clegg, Chris Jones, Fay Musselwhite, 'The Footing' anthology, and more longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

This - after a public consultation that came down c95% against corporate copyright theft - is a hearty move towards this government’s spineless purchased representatives needing to be hoofed in the crotch by us all, in a big queue until they get the message.

There, I’ve fixed it for you, @resprofnews.bsky.social (pls don’t quibble figures as it’s the sentiment I’m going for). Because post-92 and FE colleges also exist despite past gov’s animosity and current gov’s indifference.

This whole thread 👇

Take two seven year olds in a primary school in the Prime Minister’s constituency. His Dad is a banker Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?

Rent is due in Minnesota. Essentially every rent fund still needs donations to keep people in the houses that offer them protection from ICE. There’s a very long list of places to donate on this website. Please help spread the word!