Feedback from profs: this is excellent, hope it gets funded! Feedback from research office: here is one change per line you should make to really fit in with the call. ECAs, make sure you share grant applications with uni admin as well! Their insight is priceless and their work is so valuable!

Have a network analysis to complete and Gephi is kicking my backside... need to finish a HUGE grant project... partner has 8am-6pm workshop all week so parenting is mostly solo... but here we are, sewing party favours because I'll have a toddler by the end of the month 🥰

"...Mothers’ likelihood of being employed in academia 8 years after they became parents was 29% lower than the likelihood if they hadn’t had children. The mothers who stayed in academia were 23% less likely to obtain tenure 8 years after having their first child than had they not become parents." 👩🏻‍🔬🧪

Study of Danish academics reveals child penalty

Academics in the child-friendly nation face career disadvantages, such as lower employment rates, after becoming parents.

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The deadline to apply for our Initiative Fund is the 31st of August. You can find more details and apply here: www.asmcf.org/funding-and-...

Initiative Fund | ASMCF

£500 to help defray the costs of research events intended to benefit a wide public, such as conferences, study days, workshops & support for postgraduate…

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And the full link is as brutal as the graphic.

Jason Arday told the press he was at his limit. It answered with 188 more articles. He is dead at 41.

A full census of the 249 articles fifteen national outlets published about Jason Arday in 22 days, with the last day reconstructed hour by hour. Every article listed and linked.

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flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3w ago

You know how I keep saying the Times paywall is basically a rattling trapdoor over the demon realm? Well

There's actually research on this and it involves scrutiny. If you're Black people are going to look at your work looking for mistakes in a way they would never for white people.

Black Workers Really Do Need to Be Twice as Good

African American employees tend to receive more scrutiny from their bosses than their white colleagues, meaning that small mistakes are more likely to be caught, which over time leads to worse perform...

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Gabriel S. Jacobs@gsjphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

let's be real: plagiarism scandals in academia happen all the time (not because academics plagiarize a lot, but just because of how many millions of faculty there are around the world) and it is never general-public news unless the culprit is a member of a minority.

If the press was willing to take their cues from Nathan Cofnas, a culture warrior who self-describes as a 'race realist', it's hardly surprising they paid no heed to Jason Arday's humanity and the potential impact of their hounding. Meanwhile so many senior white scholars have gotten away with worse

Le harcèlement tue. Le supremacisme blanc tue. Si vous pensez que les dynamiques sont les mêmes que l'on soit minorisé•e ou non, vous faites partie du problème. Si vous ne faites pas pause avant de cracher votre fiel quand vous voyez notamment une personne noire accusée de la sorte, c'est que vous

Marcus 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · 3w ago

Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.

Why was a leading black scholar so scrutinised if we all know someone who plagiarised something & just went on with their lives? Three truths can coexist: plagiarism is intellectual dishonesty, big symbols become big targets, and black scholars/from the 'Global South' are subjected to more scrutiny.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

Jason Arday found dead after resigning from Cambridge over plagiarism claims

Who could have seen this coming? Oh wait... When education becomes governed by the invisible hand and students become clients, they are free to take their business elsewhere, especially if they're being taught by tired, stressed, over-worked and under-funded ppl www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students

Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’

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This is not a crisis of universities but an utter failure of government. If Labour was serious about turning UKHE around they could (by removing the overseas student levy, to start). UKHE is in absolute freefall and is in completely danger of becoming unrecoverable.

UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students

Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’

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Starting a Fellowship on the poetry of the tirailleurs sénégalais and its erasure from archives/historiography. Can't say where and with whom yet👀 Looking for ways to share this (& earlier work) outside academia — if you host a podcast or know one that might want to dig into this, I'd love to talk!

Nothing like inspiration hitting mid-nappy change and finally being able to write the introduction to an article about war poetry's post-canon status in English and canon-shaped hole in French. Now let's see if I can actually conceptualise those things!

Out of all the books in the library, he chose a French GCSE one. Not sure I'm proud or concerned that he will follow my footsteps into a life of precarity 😅

Les ami.e.s, demain et samedi je serai au Festival International du Livre Militaire pour dédicacer mon livre Poésie sous le feu. Si vous y êtes, n'hésitez pas à dire bonjour ! www.terre.defense.gouv.fr/amscc/festiv...

Festival International du Livre Militaire

La 16e édition du Festival International du Livre Militaire (FILM) aura lieu les vendredi 24 et samedi 25juillet 2026.

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Mon éditeur vient de m'annoncer qu'il ne reste plus que 10 exemplaires de Poésie sous le feu — et qu'il sera réimprimé. Je n'aurais même pas osé en rêver. 🔥 Merci infiniment à tou·te·s celles et ceux qui l'ont lu. Derniers exemplaires + réimpression : www.honorechampion.com/fr/editions-...

POÉSIE SOUS LE FEU - RIBEIRO S. C.THOMAZ JULIA

Fonctions et usages poétiques dans la Grande Guerre

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My publisher just told me Poésie sous le feu has sold all but 10 copies — and is going into reprint. I genuinely could not have imagined this. 🔥 Thank you to everyone who read or asked their library to order a copy. Last 10 original copies + reprint orders: www.honorechampion.com/fr/editions-...

POÉSIE SOUS LE FEU - RIBEIRO S. C.THOMAZ JULIA

Fonctions et usages poétiques dans la Grande Guerre

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Happy to announce that I have a new article published on #FWW #poetry. Thanks to @juliarsct.bsky.social for her insightful response, as well as to Ann-Marie Einhaus, Susan Grayzel, and Catriona Pennel for editing the issue. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Verse-Atility of First World War Poetry in the Classroom – A Reflection and Response

Once one moves beyond the canonical authors and texts, the diversity of First World War poetry makes it an ideal choice of source material for anyone wishing to teach a broad range of perspectives ...

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And good news comes in twos, there is another piece by me in First World War Studies: a book review of Anne Gillet's At Home in Our Sounds, about black music in interwar Paris. I had a blast reading and reviewing this one! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris

Published in First World War Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Delighted to announce that I have a new article out, responding to the wonder @wherrypilgrim.bsky.social about teaching poetry of the First World War :) thank you to Ann-Marie Einhaus, Susan Grayzel, and Catriona Pennel for their wonderful editing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Verse-Atility of First World War Poetry in the Classroom – A Reflection and Response

Once one moves beyond the canonical authors and texts, the diversity of First World War poetry makes it an ideal choice of source material for anyone wishing to teach a broad range of perspectives ...

tandfonline.com

Let's see if social media can still work its magic.. does anyone know a UK immigration advisor that could answer a quick question? Preferably free since the application itself already cost 4k...

Rested after a full day of @fwwsoc.bsky.social's PGR/ECA conference yesterday. We had participants from everywhere raging from Aotearoa New Zealand to Brazil, covering themes from literature to battle planning. The future of the field is in good hands!

Derby/Nottingham friends.. let's see if social media can work its magic: I'm looking for someone local I can practice Wolof with.. anyone from Senegal around?

Lovely @fwwsoc.bsky.social event tonight with @franziska.fr talking all things @zotero.org! The recording will soon be available for our members :) my favourite part was when both our kids showed up hahaha now I'm off to play with the new Zotero plugins I discovered 😁

Working on a new project that will involve research contacts in and trips to Senegal 🥰 any tips on how to navigate the Senegalese archival and university systems? Tips on learning Wolof? I AM SOOOO EXCITED FOR THIS!

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TWO TEMPORARY JOBS IN FRENCH (different deadlines) @livunihss.bsky.social: - Part-time University Teacher in French (Mat cover, 1 Sept 26-30 Jan 27) Deadline: 25-May-26 23:30 - Lecturer (US: VAP) in French Film Studies (1 Sept26-31 Aug27) Deadline: 02-Jun-26 23:30 my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...

Spent too long in hospital waiting rooms with pneumonia lately, so started blogging again! Head over to www.juliathomaz.com/writing/the-... to join a discussion about all things PhD and creativity!

The PhD is a creative project — Julia Ribeiro S C Thomaz

Here is what a lot of the productivity advice targeted at PhD students on the internet misses: the PhD is, above all else, a creative project.

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moderne.video.blog/2026/02/25/v... Stéphane Guégan, du musée d'Orsay, a lu et commenté mon ouvrage "Poésie sous le feu". S'il n'en est pas d'accord, il a néanmoins très bien compris et rendu compte de l'enjeu de l'ouvrage - et ne vous souciez pas, je n'ai pas le pouvoir ou l'envie de tuer le Verbe !

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Belle Epoque ! Pas la nôtre et son amer cortège d’impuissance politique, d’inconséquence budgétaire et d’infamies en tous genres, la finance sans frontières ni éthique tenant le p…

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Reason number 848372 why maternity leave should be extended: in an article written 2 months postpartum, I call Bakary Diallo and Léopold Sedar Senghor "pètes" instead of "poètes". There is something published out there with my name on it calling the father of négritude a fart.