CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World” Conference at the University of Amsterdam Monday, 15 June 2026 How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world? #earlymodern #C18L 1/6

Early Bird Registration for #BSECS2026 closes on the ***15 NOVEMBER 2025*** www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/... #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

More Sunday hope in this long and detailed scientific thread (and if you read this one already read it again bc we need all the hope we can get to ready for next week)

Read full thread.

Ooh! 🙂

Turner and autumn morning.

There has been wonderful support and solidarity for Library workers on the picket line these past two weeks. Today, the writer, Zadie Smith, read out her thoughts about the dispute, the Library, the country, its culture and heritage. Her values, ‘arguments’ and solidarity mean the world to me. 🙏👊🖤♥️

The (partial) return of Bodleian Ballads - bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

🔴 Muriel Spark to be honoured in first ever memorial dedicated to a woman in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Librarians told 404 Media they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, academics www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

FINALLY a live action remake I can get enthusiastic about!

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

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/

Not a bad price …

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Good to see the corrections and additions to this article, including the contribution of independent researcher Dawnanna Kreeger. Bit of a missed opportunity though to also elaborate on the original researcher, Cathey O'Neill.

We hear a lot about AI in education in the US on here, so can I just tell you about how it's working out in the schools sector in England? It's interesting! It's about data consultants, private education outfits and think tanks. Slow thread...

Two quotes by Olaudah Equiano bookended the entry and the exit for the #Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibit at the Met. They had a copy of his 1793 autobiography. "I laid out above eight pounds of my money for a suit of superfine clothes to dance with at my freedom." —Olaudah Equiano, 1789

Fascinating.

Lovely stoy, highlighting the value of local history research. But ARGHH! The image is NOT Equiano! @guardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

FYI for those on LinkedIn!

📢CFP: Annual Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26! Our annual prize for Black UK-based history PhD students is now open for submissions! 📆Key dates: - Abstracts due on 28th November - Notifications on 19th December - 8000 word essay due on 27th Feb (1/3)

So I had an MRI the other day. I was prepared for the head cage and thunking sounds from seeing it on TV. I wasn’t expecting to be amused from all the various tones of buzzing, thudding, and beeps - it sounded like a machine invented by a mad scientist in a 50s sci-fi.

"I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge. Meanwhile, you turned your information environment into a hypercapitalist post-truth digital snuff film."

Now that it's been over half a year since I went all-in on the newsletter, here's a status report on the state of BLOOD IN THE MACHINE: Some stats, learnings, and thoughts on leaving legacy media to build an independent publication.

In which Thomas Middleton gets a big thumbs up.

I still feel how exciting this was!

New Publication Alert Pree, Nathanael. "Contagion and Confinement: Re-reading Michel Foucault alongside José Saramago and Daniel Defoe". World Literature in and for Pandemic Times, 2025, pp. 46-62. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

🚨 While Amazon Web Services crumbled, our state-of-the-art GeoCities-powered learning environment stood strong

'When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant these scamps immunity,” confirmed French prosecutor Alain Barbier.'

Turner didn’t want to have his photo taken with me.

Rainy morning beach stroll.

Escaped to North Devon for the weekend. I’m starting chemo next week ( again) so it’s lovely to chill out here. Expect lots of photos of our whippet Turner on beaches and coastal paths.

Sitting pretty (our whippet, Turner).

@tracelarkhall.bsky.social @iangadd.bsky.social

Google Books. It's still going on. Still new libraries working on it. 📚 (Tennessee) newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu/2025/09/2600...

Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.

This is so … French.

Yup.

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social. This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏 'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!' uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

This dog was spotted bopping to a beat so sick, even her vibes are contagious. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: ws.take)

The acme of cartoon animator/writer/directors.

Green routes 💚 forestofimagination.org.uk/travel-foi20...

Part of Jane Austen's unfinished novel 'The Watsons', currently on display in an exhibition at No. 1 Royal Crescent, Bath. #austen250

Fucking hell.