Nos acompañarán: @semanariobrecha.bsky.social de Uruguay; @crisisrevista.bsky.social de Argentina; @enclavesalvaje.bsky.social de Bolivia; @histmat.bsky.social en Español y el North American Congress on Latin America @nacla-report.bsky.social de los Estados Unidos;

Con esta editorial comenzamos la cuenta regresiva al "Encuentro Esperanza Crítica de Publicaciones de Izquierda" que realizaremos del 13 al 16 de octubre de 2026 en la Casa de la Primera Imprenta de América UAM.

En próximos días daremos a conocer la agenda del encuentro y abriremos el registro para las actividades que lo requieran.

@jacobinlat.bsky.social Latinoamérica, con oficinas en Argentina, pero un equipo transfronterizo; @midianinjaoficial.bsky.social y @revistarosa.bsky.social de Brasil; @plazapublicagt.bsky.social de Guatemala; Revista Izquierdas de Chile; y sinpermiso de España.

"Hoy más que nunca, estamos obligadas a detenernos a reflexionar sobre la función que el análisis de la realidad puede desempeñar como modo de resistencia y dispositivo de transformación." revistacomun.com/blog/un-encu...

Historical Materialism | Research in Critical Marxist Theory

Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times 5-8 November 2026, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London

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What can the history of higher education tell us about London today? Student London: A New History of Higher Education in the Capital explores the institutions, students and ideas that have shaped the city over time. 🔓 Read free: https://www.uclpress.co.uk #OpenAccess

All this, valuable pointers for a remodelled UK HE system, but also - the hardest part - a viable long-term funding model.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Simon Marginson in today's @timeshighered.bsky.social : "The wheels are now rapidly falling off the 2012 funding system" in England. Treasury displays "no signs of awareness or concern about the devastation of the nation's capacity in higher education". What would a wheeled UKHE bus look like? 1/7

I will be speaking about the celebration in 1928 marking the centenary of Josephine Butler’s birth & what it tells us about 1920s feminism. There’s lots of other papers too, probably even more interesting!

Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨WHN Annual Conference: See the full programme! Join us for a very special conference year celebrating the centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 years of women's history. Thu 3 Sep - Fri 4 Sep 2026. For more details and to book womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... @lselibrary.bsky.social

Torres nos legó preguntas y luchas de su época que han sido muy discutidas en la historiografía de género, pero que aún están por incorporarse de lleno a la historiografía educativa. @ariadnaacevedo.bsky.social en la tercera entrega de "Pensar con Elena Torres". revistacomun.com/blog/las-mis...

Las misiones culturales de la revolución las concibió una maestra

Elena Torres y el origen de las misiones culturales: una historia de educación rural, feminismo y políticas públicas en el México posrevolucionario.

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'In a ballot of University and College Union (UCU) members, 81 per cent have voted in favour of strike action on a turnout of 70 per cent. The union has put forward proposals to protect jobs, including allowing staff to volunteer to go part-time and bringing down senior managers’ pay.' 1/2

Sussex staff vote for strike action over job cuts

Vice-chancellor insists university must make further savings because of ongoing financial pressures

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‘Initially it was for a lark, then I discovered how much I enjoy it. Now I’m hooked.’ Get all of the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, in print, app and online, for just £6. subscription.lrb.co.uk/offers/social

‘Washington pays lip service to the ‘war on drugs’, but its real war in Latin America is against progressive government or grassroots action for societal change.’ John Perry on US interference in Honduras, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/au...

John Perry | JOH returns to Honduras

Trump’s most shocking move to influence the Honduran electorate was to pardon the former president Juan Orlando Herná...

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‘If every accusation is a confession, then the US State Department report released on 20 July, which describes Cuba as “the capital of 21st-century communism”, must rank as one of the most deranged self-denunciations on record.’ Tony Wood on Cuba. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tony Wood · Maximum Pressure: Cuba on the Brink

If every accusation is a confession, then the US State Department report released on 20 July, which describes Cuba as...

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One in ten university students in England is now taught by a franchise. Galileo (which took over Regents University London in 2020) wants to be a privatisation alternative to that model; its acquisitions team has an eye on English universities in financial distress. Coming to a university near us.

European education group eyes takeovers of UK universities

Britain ‘an appealing market’ for long-term investment, says Galileo chief

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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

Of interest to historians and humanities scholars beyond the UK too

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

Of interest to UK university #Skystorians: Royal Historical Society open online meeting on 'The crisis in UK higher education: The future for History'. 4 August 2-4 pm.

La educación pública y el feminismo hicieron posible que fructificaran sus esfuerzos por contribuir a una educación popular siempre preocupada por las niñas y las mujeres. @ariadnaacevedo.bsky.social sobre la trayectoria de Elena Torres Cuéllar (1893-1970). revistacomun.com/blog/la-escu...

La escuela, el feminismo y la voz

La historia de Elena Torres revela cómo la educación y el feminismo abrieron espacios para las mujeres en la escuela y la vida pública de México.

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A sad piece of news not getting enough airtime on this channel. Juliet Gardiner not only an important writer of high-quality social history for wide consumption in her own right, but a very significant impresario as editor of History Today. And her memoir is a must-read for postwar historians.

Lissa Evans@lissakevans.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The remarkable historian and writer Juliet Gardiner has died. I used many of her books for research and was lucky enough to become friends with her - she had the most extraordinary, rich & vivid life... 1/2

Time and again I think that THIS is the stat universities should shout, shout & shout again about. New education export data again show HE responsible for nearly three-quarters of a £37bn UK revenue source. Fund our universities! Source: explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

Actually, it was a volunteer archivist at The National Archives, Kew called Michael Scurr who found it, not the "UK" that found it. (with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

UK finds lost US Declaration of Independence copy after 250 years

Document revealed by National Archives ahead of its anniversary on Saturday

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'“I couldn’t believe it when I heard the news,” said Richard J. Roberts, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1993, on recently announced proposals to cut about 20 per cent of posts at Sheffield’s renowned chemistry department where he took his undergraduate degree and PhD'.

University of Sheffield’s Nobelist brands chemistry cuts ‘insane’

Genetics pioneer Richard J. Roberts criticises plans to cut posts at ‘brilliant’ department that launched his scientific career

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More of Dr. Osten's research on this topic is forthcoming in HAHR, which you can read early via @dukepress.bsky.social's Advance Publication initiative: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

Hispanic American Historical Review@hahr21.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An interview with HAHR author Sarah Osten on Mexico City's gay and lesbian Left and solidarity with Central American revolutions from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. youtu.be/8SreHKQVtfA?...

Our interview with @petermandler.bsky.social is now available as a podcast. He discusses the history of selection, meritocracy and the 11-plus, and what this can tell us about current debates on selective education. open.spotify.com/episode/4ITJ...

CF Conversations #1: Selection, Meritocracy and the 11-Plus – Professor Peter Mandler

CF Conversations · Episode

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Another chart just for fun. The employment rate for graduates is 88%. The employment rate for non-graduates is 68%. That's a huge employment gap. Do we think a total destruction of the university system is going to improve that?

'Proposed cuts to the next European Union (EU) budget which would see funding for Horizon Europe slashed by €7 billion (£6 billion) will damage Europe’s competitiveness and innovation ambitions, leading university groups have warned.' 4% drop in Horizon funding, 2% drop for budget as a whole mooted.

EU would ‘regret’ Horizon Europe budget cuts ‘for years’

University groups say plans to reduce funding for flagship research programme an ‘astonishing act of political incoherence’

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Don' miss Prof. Lucy Delap's paper on Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain this Friday 12 June at 5:30 pm in person at the IHR, London and on Zoom. #Skystorians

Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain

Women's History Seminar

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Fascinating panel on women's oral history evidence and how it might be used in policy collaborations. Dangers of flattening evidence and policymaker disinterest in slow research. Yet panelists note govt and business strong interest in participatory methods #mbs2026

Brilliant panel on cultural histories of climate #MBS2026. Papers highlight the potential of focusing on the weather for exploring the environmental, material, embodied, discursive and their intersections.

Cuando el papa afirma que es necesario desarmar la IA y hacerla acogedora, está diciendo que debemos quitársela a Saruman y ofrecérsela a Aragorn; es decir, a la humanidad. Miguel Zapata sobre la encíclica #MagnificaHumanitas en su columna #LoPersonalEsComún. revistacomun.com/blog/gandalf...

Gandalf frente a Saruman: Una encíclica para combatir el poder tecnocrático del palantir

Entre Tolkien y la inteligencia artificial, este texto explora la respuesta de León XIV al transhumanismo y al poder de las élites tecnológicas.

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