Kate Astbury
@100days1815.bsky.social
Professor of French Studies, working on the culture of French Revolution and Napoleonic period. Committed to supporting the learning of languages in schools & universities and to public engagement.
What’s the time frame for interested young readers to get in touch?
Catriona Seth@catrionaseth.bsky.social · 2w agoAre you aged between 16 and 25? Do you love reading? Could you read all the books on the Booker or International Booker Longlist and suggest which would be enjoyed by school pupils across the UK? If so, get in touch! #SchoolsLaureate
My institution has a writing support group - it’s 2 hours on a Thursday morning and you have to state your intent at the start and there are also tips etc and a really supportive group - obviously group writing support isn’t for everyone but it does stop other things eating into the 2 hours
Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 4d ago1. 4 or 5 2. When I can 3. Weekends, evenings, random office hours 4. Time and support, both of which I profoundly lack. 5. Learn to maximize the power of writing short pieces, writing in bursts, and accepting that you can't do everything well at once. If you're writing, something else is failing.
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
On the basis that few will want to see all the photos I have on my phone of the gnomes from the glorious north Devon gnome reserve, I’ll stick to adding to the original post. Day 2, 1000 words target met again. But I’m about to it the lit review section so I’ll need to reread before I can write…
Kate Astbury@100days1815.bsky.social · 6d agoNew summer challenge - can I write 1000 words a day for a month to get a good amount of my book on theatre and the hundred days on paper before my research leave finishes? Day 1: 1060 words despite a power cut, but I was largely summarising 1814-15 events so it wasn’t all new analysis…
New summer challenge - can I write 1000 words a day for a month to get a good amount of my book on theatre and the hundred days on paper before my research leave finishes? Day 1: 1060 words despite a power cut, but I was largely summarising 1814-15 events so it wasn’t all new analysis…
If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.
Uncle Fuzzzy 🦆@unclefuzzzy.bsky.social · 4mo agoFunny, that’s what we thought about pocket calculators in 1974
FIFA so cartoonishly evil that they've managed to make UEFA into good guys
Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 6d ago"No UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have been given that FIFA will never again open its governance or competitions to private ownership".
‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
Pedagogic objectives are definitely -sadly- at the end of the list well beneath operational, financial and regulatory ones..
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last wk.'One question that’s been playing on my mind is whether consolidation has been chosen because it’s the best educational response – or because it’s the only response that simultaneously satisfies pedagogic, regulatory, operational, and financial objectives.' Ha! 'the best educational response'. 3/4
The findings showed that the range of A level subjects students are studying is narrowing. Meanwhile, take-up in many humanities and arts A levels has declined. Key findings: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
Subject choice trends in post-16 education in England
This report examines the data on how students have chosen to combine different subjects at Level 3 over the last two decades. It also explores how student characteristics and wider contextual and poli...
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If you're a UK researcher (of any gender/sex) in Humanities or Social Sciences within 10 years of your PhD, the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network is free to join. Places also available annually to members on its leadership training scheme, many thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social .
Early Career Researcher Network
An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences
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The Royal Society@royalsociety.org · 2w agoThe SUSTAIN programme is open for applications. Delivered in collaboration with @acmedsci.bsky.social and supported by @raeng.org.uk, it supports women in research to develop leadership and career potential, and is open to award-holders from eligible schemes across the academies. bit.ly/4fenn5T
I mean, it's just the definition of the two platforms.
Michael@michaeljsc.bsky.social · last wk.mildly funny that X is having blazing rows about Nolan’s Odyssey because he cast black people in it and Bluesky is having blazing rows about whether a noted Homeric translator’s LRB review of it misses the point or not
« Any serious depiction of violence, ancient or modern, must show the perspectives of the victims as well as the perpetrators, and the Homeric poems easily clear the bar – but Nolan doesn’t. » Passionnante critique d’Emily Wilson, traductrice de l’Odyssée. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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“Everything was believed except the truth.” Alexandre Dumas fils was born #otd 1824 🎨 Aubrey Beardsley "La Dame aux Camélias" (1894)
“I am the punctuation equivalent of the cardigan…I am the cigarette you keep saying you will quit.” It’s as if they can see INTO MY SOUL. ❤️
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · last wk."Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
The most impressive aspects was the March 8th Project - a heritage initiative by Antiguans to re-centre the role of enslaved people in Nelson’s Dockyard, which many Antiguans still see as a predominantly white space. A fantastic ‘reclamation’ project which reshapes how we understand the dockyard.
Spent an incredible (if tropically stormy) day at Nelson’s Dockyard today - the only continuously working Georgian dockyard in the world. It had a range of mid-C18th buildings, impressive network of harbours and channels, and effective heritage narratives for the public.
📢 Looking for a book about empire, colonialism, & its long legacy for a course this autumn? Check out these new pbs from @alanlester.bsky.social, @mark-condos.bsky.social & @amalkc.bsky.social. @eriklinstrum.bsky.social, @garethknapman.bsky.social, @bickers.bsky.social, @eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Academics - do this. Academics who are editors - respond. In my experience journals have been too often shy about responding to plagiarism charges, and AI now raises the stakes.
Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social · 2w agoAcademics who discreetly email journals to inform them of academic malpractice are doing those journals such a big favour. To see those journals shrug their shoulders in response is mystifying and unacceptable. I fear the only solution might be to call those journals out publicly
Good to talk about the extaordinary Katherine Read with @ox.ac.uk Modern Languages alumna Fiona Bruce for #FakeOrFortune ⬇️https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002zb3v/fake-or-fortune-series-14-2-a-passage-to-india
Introducing You’re Dead To Me — the BBC comedy podcast that takes history seriously! 😁 With 170+ episodes, 150 million downloads, plus tonnes of expert historians & hilarious comedians… and now fully visualised on YouTube & BBC iPlayer
My dept is about to be reduced to 3 people covering 3 separate disciplines. The 25 PhD students will be left bereft of adequate supervision numerically and in terms of expertise. The government has decided that they should have no recourse (music to my university’s ears).
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago'Read it on a substantial train delay – alongside the promises made to students when the Office for Students (OfS) was created – it is something much worse. It is the formal expiry of the deal that was supposed to make marketisation safe for the people paying for it.' 2/2
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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It was great to write with amazing and inspiring colleagues! We offer a simple solution to the invisibility of modern languages as an academic discipline by suggesting a change to the way in which REF categorises impact case studies…
Modern Humanities Research Association@themhra.bsky.social · 2w ago📚The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out! Issue 121.3 features articles by Peter Zusi, Vanessa Lim, Robin Jarvis, Peter Mahoney, and Katherine Astbury, Fiona Barclay, Ashley Harris & Nina Parish, alongside Book Reviews. Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57193
I’ve found a hack if you didn’t manage to get tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry. Apply to become a trustee of the British Museum. If you get on the board, they’ll have to give you a ticket! Simples apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9516?p...
Ask an Archaeologist Day is here! 🏺 Today, archaeologists from across the UK are here to answer your questions about the past, the profession and everything in between. Follow along throughout the day and send us your questions. #AskAnArchaeologist #FestivalOfArchaeology
