The historian urge to add 3 quotes of primary material to illustrate a point for fear that the reader won't believe them.

Honestly it breaks your heart.

The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 10h ago

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

I have no idea if I'm writing the best thing I've ever written, or a steaming pile of dogshit. I'm departing from academic style and trying something new: narrative and literary and creative, and honestly it might well make me a laughing stock. But part of me thinks 'fuck it'. Life's too short.

Dude thinks the latest app or gimmick is oxygen.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 20h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Oh, I'm definitely going to click on your emails when they start: 'Dear Veevers, David', sure Jan.

My new litmus test in social situations with people I don’t know is now whether they use LLMs. The moment a person says ‘so I asked ChatGTP’, I’m fucking out of there. My wife is getting a bit pissed off, admittedly, but I just can’t.

David Rose's Iconic 'Ugh, Whatever' Moment

ALT: David Rose's Iconic 'Ugh, Whatever' Moment

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I don’t want to be a dick about this, it I’m not sure that’s quite true.

Pascal Jacquemain@jacquep.bsky.social · 24h ago

Rosindell is mad as a box of frogfaces.

Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.

I place my cutlery down, sip my orange juice, and then look across to my beautiful wife in the soft morning light. Me: well, I better head to the office now and…*voice becomes robotic*…BEGIN SORTING AND ORGANISING THOUSANDS OF FACTS My glass shatters, the plate cracks, my wife bursts into tears.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

What kind of society sits back and watches the earth burn as fossil fuel companies rake in billions in profit? Humanity is pathetic. Where’s our backbone?

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterday

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Joe's article also features in selection of recent 'Transactions' articles which consider 'The Historian's Craft and Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research' bit.ly/4bPGJvW All 15 articles are published Open Access and free to read #Skystorians 2/2

The Historian's Craft and Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research - RHS

The Society's academic journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, publishes a wide range of content from historians of all disciplinary backgrounds and career stages, worldwide. This inclu...

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"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

There really are people walking around out there thinking it doesn’t matter how despicable you are in life, you should be treated impeccably in death. No, motherfucker, if you’re a racist who wants to shag kids only fellow racists and kid-shaggers will mourn you!

In late 2023, the Society spent a day with Hertfordshire’s historians. We saw the quality, creativity and distinctiveness of teaching, research and engagement. We were told by a (now departed) senior manager that History was ‘a portfolio the university will guard very carefully’. bit.ly/4hLediN

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d 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)

New book haul thanks to my local Oxfam Bookshop. My first Roth and Huxley, woot!

I’m finally doing it: after 80k words I’m now writing the chapters of my new book around which the entire premise had been created, which had been used to pitch to publishers, and which I think readers are going to find the most important and - hopefully - compelling. And I feel utterly terrified!

I mean…let’s hope so, it’s terrifying.

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 · 3d 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)

My upcoming Loki: A Bad God's Guide events: GLASGOW Aug 29: thegovanstones.org.uk/in-conversat... EDINBURGH Aug 30: www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/when-... BUDLEIGH SALTERTON Sept 26: www.ticketsource.com/budleigh-sal...

When Chaos Comes Calling with Louie Stowell | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Hello this is me! www.louiestowell.com Do I need to update it? Yes. But have at it in its current form, for it is ever-evolving. Hopefully one day it will become crab.

Louie Stowell

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Chris Farnell@thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 6d ago

You know, most of us invest good time and money in author websites then hide them in our social media bios forever. Author website party! QRT this with your author website: chrisfarnell.com

Next read: A Kestrel for a Knave. Going in blind. I love birds of prey and Yorkshire, so who knows!

omg I don't want to get too excited but my kids have built a blanket camp in the bedroom and are insisting that absolutely on no account can parents bother them. I've actually just cracked open a book and might even nap??? *muffled crying*

My father in law isn’t well so I’m doing the pre-dawn dog walk round their way in the country and I have to tell you the countryside is a noisy and terrifying place at 5am!

CNSA’s Tianwen-1 mission has recently released new images of Mars, including this view of the Charitum Montes in the southern rim of Argyre Planitia. Full size 6K & more info: flic.kr/p/2ssvpEm Image Processing: Andrea Luck Raw data: CNSA/CLEP/PEC/MoRIC Mosaic of 4 images 2025-12-04 235km altitude

Worth remembering that this government is subsidising a theme park to the tune of £1.3bn. An amount that would go some way to preserving the intellectual and economic footprint of our universities.

James Woodfield@jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 4d ago

According to the parliamentary annual report & accounts for the 2025/26 financial year, the cost of subsidising the bars in the House of Commons alone was around £5.8 million. Meanwhile, to save £3 million less than that, Jodrell Bank is being defunded and shut down. share.google/MRHIvCsCsKoc...

Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2

Every five days, a mosque is attacked in the UK. How many of them have you heard about? How many of them made the nightly news? At least 70 attacks in the past year alone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust

More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism

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A deeply destructive and inexpert management consultancy class has emerged whose sole purpose is to shrink Anglosphere universities and to undermine their future - all the better to secure more work. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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Constantly left astonished at Western reporting on people seeking asylum. 54 HUMAN BEINGS dead in an unbelievable tragedy at Ceuta and the media insist on leading with 'MIGRANT INVASION'. You inhumane bastards. What if they were your loved ones? When empathy gives way to hate, we're all doomed.