Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 4w ago

UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY

Hello Bluesky! This is @lerikscline.bsky.social writing on behalf of the 19th Century Theatre Caucus. We're excited to share and repost publications, events, and news of interest to caucus members and other lovers of nineteenth century theatre and performance.

If they had been wearing orange jackets with "Just Stop Oil" or (God forbid) holding a sign acknowledging the ongoing genocide in Gaza there would have been a very, very different response. But it's ok, they were just harassing and intimidating people, which is fine in the UK.

Tomas Hirst@tomashirstecon.bsky.social · last mo.

Sure, seems totally fine for a bunch of masked men to stop traffic around a port

We’re hiring! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSU894/l... This is the post replacing mine at the University of Liverpool as I start my 5 year ERC funded research

Lecturer in Media and Culture - Grade 7/8 at University of Liverpool

Apply for the Lecturer in Media and Culture - Grade 7/8 role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below. Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Closing Date: October 15, 2026

Typo du jour: ‘labor struffle’ #AmWriting #AcademicSummer

‘Under capitalism, “peace” is the maintenance of violence on the state’s terms. Organized efforts to disrupt those harms will always be characterized, by any necessary stretch of the imagination, as violent.’

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Since Breitbart wrote a piece that largely just quotes this chapter of Let This Radicalize You (which MK and I reprinted here in my newsletter last year), I thought I would reshare the full text with you all. IMO, it's one of the best and most relevant things MK and I ever co-authored.

The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/

Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts

Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.

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📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

Hello, all. I'm writing this thread to ask for your help. I know it's a bit of a downer at the start of a sunny spring weekend, but please read to the end. (1/?)

Exciting opportunity to collaborate with our own @interwarcrime.bsky.social and Lincoln Bishop University on the history of teacher training colleges, with an openness to alternative presentation formats

Everyone please clap. Today I have successfully set one (1) boundary at work.

Not the key point, but all the 'Andrew Mountbatten Windsor' coverage shows how quickly and easily the entire UK media complex can switch to someone's new name/title, even after using their old one for decades, when it's an incredibly pampered white male deviant. So, you know, it's not *that* hard...

Re-upping our PGR-organised ECR conference on Place - send us an abstract by 1st May for a (hopefully) sunny day in June 😎

Dr Andrew McInnes@drbeard79.bsky.social · 8mo ago

ICYMI our @ehunineteen.bsky.social PGRs are hosting a conference - check out our poster - please reskeet - share with your PGRs - and do come along and join us in June!

Bring on the additional paperwork! 🥰 And be prepared for the inevitable theatrical takeover…

EHUNineteen@ehunineteen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We’re delighted to welcome / recognise / promote / tell you all that @catherinequirk.bsky.social is our new Co-Director! @drbeard79.bsky.social and @digivictorian.bsky.social are very happy to have her on board 🖤 We look forward to bringing you exciting stuff in the future 🥳

TODAY!

EHUNineteen@ehunineteen.bsky.social · 12mo ago

And finally: 19/2/26: Ben Jackson, ‘"& let Him know what it is to abuse a Clergyman": Parish Clergy and Conflict in England, c. 1760-1830' us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #EHU19SeminarSeries

Our brilliant PhD students have organised a conference - Placing the Nineteenth Century - and you’re all invited! Friday 26th June CFP deadline: Friday 1st May We’re all excited for our keynote speaker, @drclaireocall.bsky.social 🤩 Please share - and send us an abstract!

I think about it all the time too. It’s wild how everything just….got ignored (though not surprising). Wrote about it a bit on today’s substack open.substack.com/pub/morganll...

An Honest Day In the Life Of A Writer...

Pausing normal programming...

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Call for Contributions: 'To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry', a special issue of Brontë Studies, edited by @drbeard79.bsky.social 500-word abstracts due by 1st April. More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6317

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

We should not shy away from understanding the underlying message of all this, & so much else in the media: that it ought to be socially acceptable to be able to pick a marginalised group and hate them, to make yourself feel good. No. It ought not.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Yet another random bigot gets her own byline photo in the Telegraph for whining about nobody liking her.

If you need AI to do these things, I do not believe you are qualified to be a lecturer. This could have been an interesting article on the importance of honing aspects of our craft such as storytelling and performing, but instead is just another call to abandon our human creativity for efficiency.

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 9mo ago

How AI can help you separate ‘making sense’ from design, build a clear story arc and create a visual narrative that earns attention and trust: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/ai-can-help-you-unearth-story-your-lectures #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

We see there's a new playwriting prize seeking to "counteract overtly political theatre". Just to be clear: We welcome woke plays. And viciously satirical plays. And plays about lettuces becoming political icons. We welcome all plays, and all plays are political. More soon 👀

“Who wrote this, Ibsen? Stop talking!” and other things I shout at the TV when I’ve clearly been spending too much time with work…

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line

On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

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Still a few days left to send in an abstract for what promises to be another brilliant BAVS conference! 👩‍💻

BAVS@bavs-uk.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Check out the BAVS 2026 conference website: www.ljmu.ac.uk/bavs2026 CfP deadline extended until 12th December 2025!

I’m so tired. Must be all the taking I’ve done. Image: a Home Office X post saying “Britain welcomes migrants who contribute to our economy and society. High earners, entrepreneurs and skilled frontline workers like NHS staff will be fast-tracked to settlement - rewarding those who give, not take”

Jonathan Kingham@jonkingh.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is so disgusting.

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.