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Ana de Medeiros

@anademedeiros.bsky.social

Academic, global citizen, working with languages and cultures @King's College London

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Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 9h ago

The long, doleful story of how the University of Kent sank. Can't vouch for all the details, but apparently it took 7yrs, £29m in restructuring and £2m in consultancy to accept the inevitable: effective takeover. My view? You can delay, but not avoid, the inevitable. shepwayvox.org/2026/08/05/u...

University of Kent Financial Crisis: Cuts, Consultants and Merger with Greenwich

For six years the University of Kent cut jobs, closed subjects, sold financial breathing space and promised recovery. It spent £29.4 million restructuring itself and awarded at least £1.9 million o…

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4d ago

Thinking through the unedifying, un-evidence-based rush to an undefined, apparently unmodelled paradigm of 'specialisation, what's being lost/threatened? Herts History was an excellent example of performing to a top standard in REF, but also much more than that. Questions to think with include: 1/4

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience@kingsioppn.bsky.social · last wk.

How can the brain 🧠 promote healthy ageing? @ulelab.bsky.social at King's and Dr Mathieu Bourdenx (UCL) have been awarded £3.8m by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to study role of interstasis in protecting neurons. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/3.8m-aw... #AgingResearch @ukdri.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

£3.8m awarded to study protective mechanisms against neuron damage and ageing | King's College London

A new study, co-led by neuroscientists at King’s College London, University College London and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI), will investigate how neurons can protect themselves from toxic protein accumulation, with implications for neurodegenerative diseases and ageing.

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Hannah Murphy@hsmurphy.bsky.social · 2w ago

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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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4w ago

'Before the move, the library was surveyed shelf by shelf in Milan, with the position of every volume, thematic groupings and connections between authors and disciplines carefully documented, so that the new premises in Bologna could reproduce Eco's original arrangement exactly'. Echoing Eco.

Wanted in Rome@wantedinrome.bsky.social · 4w ago

Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.

Katherine Stiles@katherinestiles.org · 4w ago

· #MedSky · #Alzheimer's · #Karyoptosis · A study by researchers from King's College London has documented the role of karyoptosis as a potentially crucial contributor to AD.

Alzheimer's Has Been Killing Brain Cells in a Way Scientists Have Never Understood - Until Now

To help cure Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, we need to understand the mechanisms through which it damages the brain – including how the toxic build-up of proteins inside neurons even...

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

'People who speak more than one language seem to have younger brains and the more languages you speak and the earlier you speak them, the better, according to findings from a study being presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference in Barcelona.' 1/2

Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing, scientists say

Study finds those who speak two languages have brains that appear around six years younger than those who speak one

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

'A school leaver in Barnstaple weighing up what to study this autumn can reach eight subject areas within 25 miles of home – three years ago it was 15. Their counterpart in London faces no such arithmetic, and that gap is the problem.' (Wonkhe Monday Briefing, accompanying Jim Dickinson's blog) 1/2

The market may be working as intended – and that's the problem

Jim Dickinson tracks three years of course openings and closures across the Discover Uni dataset – and finds the losses concentrated in the places and subjects that had least to begin with

wonkhe.com

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

Strong agree. Don't let the heat go to your head. Instead of being insistently stupid, investigate some smart data today:

SHAPE Observatory: Graduates and skills

Understanding SHAPE graduate trends, the skills graduates develop, and how they contribute to the economy and society

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Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · last mo.

This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Adapting to stay relevant in the next decade(s) will be much trickier if we lose these disciplines' expertise. We can already track that loss over a decade across the 4 UK nations at undergraduate level. Next month, the BA releases cognate staff data. Perhaps it's time to have a strategic think. 2/2

Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education

This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...

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Wonkhe@wonkhe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW on Wonkhe: Contraction of modern languages provision is often painted as a response to falling demand. For Ana de Medeiros and Marcela Cazzoli, if you look across the whole education system then HE starts to look like part of the solution buff.ly/P73cQqH

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