It's that time of year when I teach our new masters students how to find stuff on their topics on the internet and in various databases. They display the traditional mix of anxiety and passion!

This is a great rant and indicates the degree of alarm felt by journal editors who do not have the resources at present to deal with industrial scale fraud: www.markkoyama.com/p/the-new-ag...

The New Age of Academic Fraud

Or the Ottoman Election that Never was

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J'arrive après la bataille, mais c'est aujourd'hui que je forme les étudiant·e·s de M à la recherche documentaire... Tous les ans je montrais l'interface de @isidore-science.bsky.social parce que leurs filtres étaient un super outil pour faire réfléchir les étudiant·e·s à ce qu'ils cherchaient.

Very true. And something those of us with power to change small things should be trying to improve.

David Higgins@davidhiggins.bsky.social · 2w ago

It concerns me that the HE sector continues to over reward individual accolades such as grant getting (partly a matter of luck) and under reward vital things such as sustained collegiality and commitment to supporting students. It’s not healthy.

That moment when the endless meetings and desperate rush to get everything ready for the beginning of the semester gives way to the first class of actual students who ask good questions and remind me why I love doing what I do!

Nathan Drake & Sully: You Can't Put A Price On That

ALT: Nathan Drake & Sully: You Can't Put A Price On That

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Attendez, donc samedi prochain, il y aura au même moment la messe du pape à Concorde+Champs Elysés et la marche du climat à Nation ?

Massive Crowd at Indycar Race on NBC

ALT: Massive Crowd at Indycar Race on NBC

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Oh dear, teaching inception moment. Taught our new masters intake today for the first time. They were born in 2005... when I started my own masters degree...

Jamie Lee Curtis: 'I'm Old!' Hehehehe

ALT: Jamie Lee Curtis: 'I'm Old!' Hehehehe

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This is equal parts mind-boggling, horrifying and fascinating to me: www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/figh... Should we be fighting genAI use in students by having genAI agents interrogate them?

Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Personalized Oral Exams with an ElevenLabs Voice AI Agent

Paper: This blog post has been expanded into a full paper: Scalable and Personalized Oral Assessments Using Voice AI (Panos Ipeirotis and...

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good morning! it’s world “don’t forget to back your files up to a secure offline location” day! (every day)

The joys of raising a bilingual child, chapter 125. Said child now produces beautiful sentences in freewith subjunctives in them. I have clear memories of rather painful secondary school French lessons and having to learn how and when to use the subjective. Brains are amazing...

also, if you need someone to go to any French archives for you and get overly excited about the documents they scan for you, in a precise, orderly and professional fashion, hit me up! La Corneuve - SHD - BNF - AN - Archives de Paris - or wherever you like if you pay my travel!

Vanda Wilcox@vandawilcox.bsky.social · 4w ago

found something SUPER COOL in my research today, plodding through 1000 pages of hand-written cadastral registry has paid off 🥳 this is actually work for a client, not for me, but I still get massively overexcited about archival finds

🇫🇷 🇬🇧 ´It’s an important moment.’ @franziska.fr reacts to correspondent Benedicte Paviot putting the vibe of #BayeuxTapestry loan to London on par with Channel Tunnel opening as great moments in Franco-British entente

🇬🇧🇫🇷 From the Bayeux Tapestry & Britain's newfound love of De Gaulle to the common challenge of securing Europe in the age of Putin and Trump, great conversation w/ @franziska.fr @samdebendern.bsky.social & @ox.ac.uk's John Helferich ⤵️ f24.my/C8XO.x

The Debate - Churchillian moment? Macron in Britain amid scramble to boost European defence

What can an 11th-century comic strip about the Norman Conquest of England tell us about the spectre of sea change in 2026 Europe? France’s president is on hand for the hottest ticket in London, the fi...

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Sign up now for our 2026-27 IHR short courses, including: 19 Nov Sources to Data: Excel and Alternatives for Historians w/ @justincolson.bsky.social 27 Nov Masterclass in Public Speaking and Presentation Skills for Historians 8-11 Dec Databases for Historians Info: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Research Training and Short Courses

We deliver high-quality training programmes and unique learning opportunities to a wide community of historians of all career stages and historical interests.

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I bought out Rosslare-Dublin train tickets online. Little did I know what delights would continue to reach my inbox after I went back to work...

I am trying to put together a lecture for beginner masters students on this and it is infuriating. I taught their predecessors over the years all the useful tips and tricks. Now I have to stop myself from having a 1-hour-rant about how everything is worse now.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · last mo.

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

Field Marshall Foliage (what else was I going to call my office peace lily?) on her way to her summer quarters!

Regularly scheduled caveat that being kind is NOT about being "nice". Where nice will lie and "just wants to get along," kindness is about accountability, responsibility, and honesty. It will necessitate hard conversations and good boundaries. It is often about doing what's hard, not what's easy.

As Paris braces for a day at 38C and its forth heatwave, I know I chose the right destination for our holiday from next week!

Britain risks losing language skills to understand its enemies www.thetimes.com/article/5df4...

Une histoire qui va amuser @nicolasbeaupre.bsky.social @gragratraina.bsky.social et Monsieur @damefanny.bsky.social

Dr Matt Lodder@mattlodder.com · 2mo ago

So... That thing that looked completely AI generated and didn't leave any plausible trace on the easily-accessible bits of the open internet turns out to be... real after all?

This is a very cool project tracing biographies across the Colonial and India Offices: jimclifford.ca/col_matching/ I'm teaching neither the British Empire not quantitative history next year, but I definitely want to use it with students.

Allez ! C'est notre tour maintenant !

Paris libérée, Paris délivrée ! Personne ne cherche à s'abriter, tout le monde regarde le ciel d'un air content.

Si vous cherchez LE spot pour échapper à la canicule en Normandie, je peux vous conseiller le musée de l'histoire de la vie quotidienne à Petit-Caux (à côté de Dieppe). Ils ont un problème de climatisation et du coup il y fait 15°C!

Excellent news and in time for a new round of training incoming masters students on digital tools!

Digital Scholarship @ British Library@bldigischol.bsky.social · 3mo ago

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored

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Toujours dans un flux continu de réunions du matin au soir, MAIS au moins maintenant c'est en personne et non pas en zoom !

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