'which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration': alternatively, 'which complied in advance and called in armed police on its student body, actions not renowned for boosting academic staff morale'.

It's been clear for some time that sustained use of AI for knowledge work de-motivates and de-skills. Even among academics, the last population I'd expect to allow such atrophy, folks are now reduced to playing cynical games with the language machine and justifying it via the grant hamster wheel.

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

This line Starmer's supporters keep reciting about him being "a decent man" is honestly just disgusting to me. A self-degrading thing to say out loud.

We are organising a big "Festival of Social History" at the IHR, Friday April 24. The ticket price is an absolute steal for SHS members (join!). Trust me when I say this one's built different, it will be a hands-on day demonstrating how vibrant and engaged UK social history is. ONLY £10!

This is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of democracy on this side of the Atlantic, and I’m not being hyperbolic.

How did communal open-air singing in early 20th century Britain connect with fellow-feeling, bodily experience, and ideas of the countryside? These are topics @drhick.bsky.social and I discuss in our Element - Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain. Out now & free to read online doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Wondering where the sunshine has gone? Spare a thought for northeast Scotland; Aberdeen Dyce hasn't recorded any sunshine since 21 January! This is provisionally the longest sunless period here since records began in 1957 ☁️

Both in-person and online booking are available for this special @ihr.bsky.social event in Senate House at 2.00pm BST on Wednesday 29 April marking the 100th anniversary of the General Strike. Register here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Very excited to announce this workshop on environmental approaches to modern British History taking place this September at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Please share!

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social are on strike 12, 13, 17-19 Feb and 2-6 March to stop bosses @northumbriauni.bsky.social slashing pay and pensions forever. Please donate to the branch fighting fund here: Unity Trust Bank, UCU Northumbria Univ NE119, Hardship Fund, SC 608301, AN 20295578

Stumbled across this article from 2008. How times have changed – not just the policies but also the tenor of political discourse 😔 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Probably the most successful piece of legislation in US history, measured by social benefit generated per dollar spent. Also wildly popular, across demographics. Without any public discussion or consultation of Congress, the Trump administration has effectively killed it.

Overjoyed by the verdicts reached today for the first 6 on trial of the Filton24. Now grant the remaining 18 bail! thebristolcable.org/2026/02/pale...

Did a speedrun of our new "four hour" AI in education online course; completed in <15 minutes, 100% on every test without watching any videos & skimming content. Now I have a certificate and a skill endorsement on LinkedIn. This is good. This is excellent education. Well done everyone.

You now have until the 15th of February to send in your applications for our upcoming workshop on historical approaches to the non-human, ran in collaboration with @northernenvhistory.bsky.social. Some fantastic applications in already, we look forward to reading yours! 🌿 🕷️ 🐀 🦠

We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

In the UK academic recession, you will be at one of these stages since many unis buy the same cuts model from the same consultancies. It is always the same process: *Talk of belt-tightening *Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments) *Travel budgets cut *Promotion freeze (1/4)

I had missed this in the FT from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social, on digital sovereignty, the European digital stack, dependence on US tech—and the example of Solvinity, the cloud company that hosts all Dutch citizens’ digital IDs, acquired by US company Kyndryl last November.

Just to offer the counterpoint here, as I think it is very very important we do so: this is absolutely anticipatory obedience 101. Much as university leaders might see it as their responsibility to “plan” for this possibility, in effect REF are getting to set the agenda without winning any election

Will's whole thread on the threat of Reform to UK HE is on the money. And yeah, I've seen the environment already 'deplatformed' in very real ways at institution level (counterbalanced by rise of, you guessed it, AI). Please do read what a prick NF was about wind in the 00s! (and some Cons tbf)

With the disclaimer that this is UK context, not US, when I teach the history of protest the majority of students haven't got experience of seeing any protest in person, so they automatically assume that all protests (and by implication, protesters) are violent and/or majorly disruptive.

'Wind energy has always been in conversation with broader politics – and other energy systems.' For The Engineer, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social explains how looking to the history of wind power can re-energise our strategy for the future: bit.ly/Electric-Win...

This is so noticeable. And gross. Where is our European pride in driving tiny practical economical cars?

Every morning I wake up with a hollow anger that I have been enrolled, as a university worker, into a long-term objective of “enhancing” AI integration (“where appropriate”) into my undergraduate teaching

With the opening of the Rafah border crossing, we are likely to finally see international reporters in Gaza. Israel prevented foreign journalists from entering the Strip for two years and four months, and the IDF killed more than 200 local reporters during that period.

Coming up in about 20 min! Hope to see many of you there for the live talk and discussion.

If anyone would like to write about the value of this registry to Canadian environmental history for our website, get in touch! Our Contributor Guidelines: niche-canada.org/guidelines-f... #cdnhist #cdnheritage #envhist #envhum

Looking forward to reading these two books. Once again congratulations @onurinal.bsky.social and @dudleymarianna.bsky.social ❤️

Lol. China is building more wind turbines, and bigger wind turbines, than anyone else.

This, and the fun of the collective live-watch/cultural moment.

Belgian PM not fucking about.

Apply to this fantastic workshop by 31 January!

Looking for any STS/Env Hum folks working on biological invasion, conservations, and multispecies violence! With this combined panel, Luiza and I planned one sesh for 1. presentations and 2. ecology-humanities tandem workshop. We hope for (lots of✨) space for interdisciplinary discussion!

ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this

If you are a grad student or early career scholar, consider applying for the @histocean.bsky.social 2026 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History. Details here: oceansciencehistory.com/2026/01/06/c... #oceanhist #envhist

Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.

The ever-expanding surveillance assemblage

Diabolical behaviour by @sheffielduni.bsky.social .

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

"The number of trans people is simultaneously presented as so large that their participation in data projects jeopardizes the quality of information gathered (), yet also so small that their concerns about how they are counted can be ignored ()" Well worth your time reading this:

Almost wish I hadn't already cancelled all things Amazon and Prime-related so I could cancel it again.

Breaking : divinity school recognizes Sun as only true God.

Two weeks left to apply for a postdoc position on my project! I'm looking for historians, anthropologists, STS and Global Health researchers with a broad interest in #Brazil, #rural populations, #health, #medicine, and #zoonosis. For more information👇

Our term has started and we've got another round of great Environmental History Research Seminars scheduled in Dublin. Come and join us! Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for supporting and hosting the series! #envhist @historytcd.bsky.social 👇

I did an op-ed for The Engineer on how and why energy history can help power cleaner energy futures www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opin...

Great to see Bristol's Green councillors making case for a trial Universal Basic Income - a guaranteed payment that would have huge benefits for groups like care leavers, and give a massive boost to culture and the arts. bristolgreenparty.org.uk/greens-call-...