Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
Emily Brown
@embo78.bsky.social
Frustrated sewist, knitter, baker, runner. Loves great research.
A new TOP FIVE has just dropped. The @ukri.org TOP FIVE shortest timescales from call opening to closing. And you won't believe the winner 👀
Reading Starmer's letter to Streeting, and a teeny bit disappointed that he didn't sign off with just 'Regards'
Wake up! The House of Commons Education Committee says fifty - yes fifty - Higher Education Institutions are at risk of insolvency within the next three years. Wake up! committees.parliament.uk/work/9012/hi...
“A very serious problem”: No clear government plan for universities risking insolvency, MPs find in new report - Committees - UK Parliament
Today MPs on the Education Committee warn that the government has no clear plan for universities facing insolvency and that protections for students are inadequate, as the Committee publishes a new re...
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Best film adaptation of The Odyssey. Wrong answers only.
Dinah Roe@preraphsrule.bsky.social · 3mo agoBest film adaptation of The Odyssey. Wrong answers only.
Happy #edballsday to all who celebrate. Don’t call him a Labour politician, whatever you do. Appropriate that it should also fall on #tittytuesday.
PERSON OF THE DAY. 28 April 2011. Labour politician Ed Balls tweeted his own name on his Twitter account seemingly looking for references to himself. Ever since this day is known on Twitter (X) as Ed Balls Day to celebrate his gaffe. #EdBallsDay
BBC News - Iris Murdoch's lost poems to be read at Oxford Brookes festival - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Iris Murdoch's lost poems to be read at Oxford Brookes festival
Recently discovered material from the Oxford novelist will be included in the Think Human festival.
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Get your tickets now! This looks excellent and will book up fast.
🌟 We’re back! My brilliant colleagues at Oxford Brookes. Join us on campus and in the city. 🌟
Think Human@thinkhumanfest.bsky.social · 6mo agoCheck out the Think Human 2026 Eventbrite collection now! There are 12 free events that you can attend between 15-18 April. Use this link to book your ticket today- www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum... #ThinkHuman #OxfordBrookes #Humanities #Festival #FreeEvents #Oxford
After 7 years or so of watching Bing, there are at least two scenes where I am convinced Flop is hungover. And that he's in a friend with benefits situation Ama. As you were.
My book on New Labour and the Blair years is out in just over two weeks... And it's now **ON SALE** for just £12! Come on, you can't say fairer than that when it comes to the bargains. Roll up and/ or repost! It's just twelve quid! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
Manchester University Press - New Labour, New Britain?
New Labour, New Britain? - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of New Labour, New Britain? by Glen O'Hara
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How are people fitting work in today whilst keeping fully immersed in the Beckham saga? Asking for a friend.
Yeah, I give my kids sweets when I want them to get in the car too> BBC News - Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner presents her medal to Trump www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Machado presents Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting
Trump thanked Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, calling it
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For those who would like to see me dorking out over Christina #Rossetti's 'In the Bleak Midwinter' on Xmas telly, I give you: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Lucy Worsley's Christmas Carol Odyssey
Lucy Worsley reveals the surprising stories behind our favourite Christmas carols. From pagan rituals to religious conflicts, French dances and the First World War, carols reflect our history.
bbc.co.uk
REF2029 unpaused. -PCE replaced by Strategy, People and Research Environment - Disciplinary -level statements in CKU and E&I, gone - CKU: 55%, E&I: 25%, SPRE: 20% - Max 5 outputs recommended per researcher but can be exceeded
Coming Soon
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"The 1992 reforms did not “invent” research in the ex-polytechnics. They recognised it – opening the door to participation in the RAE, quality-related funding and Research Council grants. Once given visibility, excellence surfaced quickly. It did so because it had always been there."
Emily Brown@embo78.bsky.social · 8mo agoSuper piece on REF history, why it matters and why specialisation is not the panacea that it seems. wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
Super piece on REF history, why it matters and why specialisation is not the panacea that it seems. wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
Labour must not repeat history by sidelining research in post-92 universities
The abolition of the binary divide in HE made visible the wealth of research excellence in what became known as the post-92 part of the sector. Katie Normington worries that forcing specialisation ris...
wonkhe.com
@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus. Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... #history #envhistory #earlymodern
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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Very excited to share that today is publication day for my first monograph!! Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration is published as a part of Bristol University Press's Law, Society, Policy series. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
Queering UK Refugee Law
Queering UK Refugee Law - Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration; In the context of a global backlash against migrant and LGBTIQA+ rights , this book examines the experiences of LGBTIQA+ people in...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) at University of Warwick
Discover Research Fellow x2 (109856-1125) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Brittany Trang@brittanytrang.com · 9mo agoA Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫
At some point, the men in my life may realise I'm no longer upstairs... Until then I'm going to sit quietly on the sofa for as long as I can.
The problem was never that Boris Johnson studied classics... Perennial favourite reader's letter from 2021.
