JOBS! We’re currently looking for two people to join us in the School of English @universityofleeds.bsky.social: Lecturer in Creative Writing jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1086; Lecturer in English Language (with interests in DH) jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1087 Both are FT ongoing appointments

Feeling left out because you're missing the major disciplinary conference all your mates are at? Consider being woken up by a toddler at 5AM then answering a series of incomprehensible but very insistent questions to get that authentic sleep-deprived conference feel

It's ten years since the inaugural #BarsOfBARS so particularly sad that for the first time in *more than a decade* that I will be missing #BARS2026 💔 ...fellow dinosaurs, what is your fondest BARS memory? Mine: DIY hairbrush karaoke at Nottingham in 2019

My baseball caps: Unaffiliated tiger cap & Toronto BlueJays cap: left in childhood Isle of Wight cap: stolen by a Frenchman while playing petanque Italy cap: left at a Red Chilli Red Stripe cap: missing at Uni of Leeds open day Boston Red Sox 1: stolen by a Dublin gravedigger BRS 2: left on Eurostar

Cassie Ulph@crulph.bsky.social · 2w ago

For any baseball cap aficionados out there wondering, @arry-k-arry.bsky.social is sporting a Melbourne Tigers 2009/10 members cap and no we don't know why either and actually I have now remembered third interest which is HAT

Our toddler has two main interests currently and those are planes and cricket so congratulations to me on giving birth to a retired accountant anyway we're back at the airport cafe this morning

When your GUI jumps around a lot and the "reply-all" and "report phishing" buttons on your email app are dangerously close together, you can really kick off some hilarious misunderstandings in the institutions you supply

Failed to mark the boss's half birthday at the weekend because we were busy fulfilling her various demands, my favourite recurrent one of which is "mummy no help" which is more actual work for me than it sounds like. 18 months has passed in the blink of an eye!

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

Bastille day-ready! (aka the day the Easter decorations finally came down 🙃)

Never not shouting about #IIIF ❤️ @iiif.bsky.social

Open Research Leeds@openresleeds.bsky.social · last mo.

Interdisciplinary and Interoperable: Exploring the Wellcome Collection with IIIF (webinar recording 📽️ and blogpost📝) leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/i... Thanks to @crulph.bsky.social for the blogpost @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

New Jonathan Swift poem just dropped www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop leaving piles of her hair and nails around the flat?

Martin is repulsed by Debbie’s maintenance routine, while she says it’s just the fallout of being a busy woman. You decide if his body of evidence stacks up

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@davidhiggins.bsky.social just checking you are aware of this bsky.app/profile/jert...

Jer Thorp@jerthorp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's the first day of the World Cup! No, not that World Cup. The one with 1000x more birds and 1000% less Infantino... The World Cup of Birds! 🐦🏆🐦!

Brilliant to see the Hamilton edition continue to grow and update, and a fascinating blog post from my wonderful former colleague David on how this iterative digital edition just *keeps* iterating!

Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers@maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Mary Hamilton Papers links: blog (www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/refreshment-...), project website (www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk), letter HAM/1/9/116 (www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/AR-HAM-...) #18thC #langsky

The Mary Hamilton Papers is much refreshed: full details & blog on our project website. New transcriptions, improved personography, more x-refs, many corrections. A striking example is the letter HAM/1/9/116, whose interpretation, authors, recipients and places have all been revised! #18thC #langsky

🚨Last chance to join us for the DMSI 2026 at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Gain hands-on experience in #digital methods adapted to medieval texts and images. 📆Jul 10 2026 📍Leeds, UK ▶️ tinyurl.com/5cm6ymn7 And if you have already registered for the IMC, you can still add DMSI to your registration.

One of the highlights of my job is supporting great people who do great work. Delighted to see @ninawardleworth.bsky.social 's fabulous project on Colonial French Resistance fighters featured by @stbslam.bsky.social on @france24.com today! 🇫🇷 bsky.app/profile/stbs...

Stéphanie Trouillard@stbslam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#2GM Le papier du jour pour @france24.com à l'occasion de la Journée nationale de la Résistance 🇫🇷 www.france24.com/fr/france/20...

The online edition of the Mary Hamilton Papers is finally getting its long-expected major refresh on 5 June: numerous corrections to transcriptions and mark-up, revisions to person identifications and improved tooltips, plus about 100 items newly transcribed. Watch for announcement! #18thC #langsky

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Laura Braunstein@laurabrarian.bsky.social · 3mo ago

quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

If anyone wants to know my general WFH vibe, the child just pointed to the Gruffalo in her bedtime story and said "mummy!"

TIL you can turn off the terrible email nesting on new outlook and my working day improved 700%

Excited to launch London Theatre, 1660–1800, an analysis and visualisation framework built on @londonstagedb.bsky.social: londontheatre.prisms.digital Explore a map of venues, theatrical calendar, repertoire, casts and roles, receipts, networks and more. #c18th #TheatreStudies #DigitalHumanities

Happy #DogsAtPollingStations day to all who celebrate. First one without this stinker. She would have wanted you all to vote!

Cassie Ulph@crulph.bsky.social · 2y ago

Took a little diversion on our morning walk #DogsAtPollingStations

Special mention to the neighbour across the road who in defiance of today's torrential rain erected an awning and got the black and decker out on the front drive, kept company by a jolly dog, giving the toddler someone to wave at on a day otherwise starved of passers-by

Who wants to join me in the new-version-of-Outlook-haters' support group?! 🤮 Begging everyone to stop "updating" things by making them worse

Tfw your undergrad experience was traumatic but 20 years later still the comfiest hoodie you have ever owned

"so good to get into my comfies" I murmur to myself as I switch my daytime loose trouser and graphical tee for my nighttime loose trouser and graphical tee

Home from our epic travels and immediately downloading a sound clip of the SNCF jingle because apparently it sends my child to sleep when played very loudly and repeatedly over a train station PA

So far packing includes 90% more books than necessary - so far, very much like my optimistic pre-baby packing, except the books are much shorter yet somehow heavier

Cassie Ulph@crulph.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Psyching myself up to take the 14-month-old to Europe on the train. Any local knowledge of family friendly things to see/do/eat in Lille much appreciated! (She currently wants to walk everywhere and she is *not* fast ...except when running towards a hazard)

Psyching myself up to take the 14-month-old to Europe on the train. Any local knowledge of family friendly things to see/do/eat in Lille much appreciated! (She currently wants to walk everywhere and she is *not* fast ...except when running towards a hazard)

Paid opportunity for PhD students and ECRs! The Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (@montaguletters.bsky.social) 2026 Summer Internship Programme is open for applications. Deadline: 1st April 2026 More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6359