On our first workday under a new president, we want to take a moment to thank our incredible leader @lopa.bsky.social

I work in disability study support. I hate the effect on students + colleagues that 'just asking questions' has after programmes like this. Families who don't want to believe in ADHD, students stuck waiting on diagnoses, doubters feeling emboldened to say "it's a bandwagon". This prog is DANGEROUS.

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

Listening to Elisabeth van Houts talking about her new book on Empress Matilda on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/empress-mati...

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How did the River Trent get its name?

There are various theories around how the UK's third-longest river was named.

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Looking forward to reading this new biography of Empress Matilda by van Houts.

Jason is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them. Stand up to their hate and division by adding your name. goodlawproject.org/s/3ec4c0

Stand up to hate and division by adding your name.

Jason is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them.

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156th anniversary of the death of black leader of London Chartism, William Cuffay. Still no London memorial. All history matters

156th anniversary of the death of the black leader of London Chartism, William Cuffay. Still no London memorial. All history matters The black leader of London Chartism in 1848 William Cuffay died …

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Please sign this UK government petition to compel AI companies to reveal whose books they used to train their data petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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Good set of Guardian letters attacking the privatised water companies. www.theguardian.com/business/202... Their anti-social behaviour has to be stopped be renationalisation. Clean water is needed by us all.

Blame privatised water firms for hosepipe bans | Lettters

Letters: Gillian Metheringham, Dr Gillian Austen and others respond to articles about water shortages in the UK and the high and rising pay of water industry bosses

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Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!

Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

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Perhaps the oldest surviving detailed world map.

Mappa Dan@mappadan.bsky.social · last wk.

Redrawing of the Vatican World Map (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat, lat 6018, fols 63v-64). Original produced between 762 and 777. bsky.app/profile/mapp...

T H R E A D I am also sick of public historians – including ones with actual training!! – claiming history is 'stuffy', 'inaccessible', etc. Stop it.

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · last wk.

it's an old claim frequently repeated (including by academics) that academics live in an Ivory Tower producing scholarship of interest to no one, ignoring the needs/desires of the public; centrists spice this up by adding "leftist" before "academics" and "scholarship," without saying much that's new

My thoughts are with all those affected by the homophobic attack at Berlin Pride yesterday. Know though that whatever is thrown at LGBTQ people, whether we are attacked, vilified or criminalised, we will persist. We have always been here. We will always be here.

In a recent @leftlion.bsky.social column, I wrote about proposals to restrict the right for defendants to choose a jury trial - a right that is a cornerstone of our democracy. Our new leadership should drop these plans.

Nadia on... jury trials

Labour MP for Nottingham East Nadia Whittome discusses the Government’s plans to remove the right for defendants to choose a jury trial. 

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🌟 We’re thrilled to be shortlisted for the UK’s Most Welcoming Theatre Award 🌟 Our mission is to create a place where everyone feels they belong, and we are delighted to be recognised in this category at the UK Theatre Awards. #LoveYourLocalTheatre

We are hiring a new Editorial Fellow who specialises in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe 🌍 👉 this 2-year fellowship runs from October 2026 - September 2028 👉 this role is paid and part-time (3 hours per week) 👉 the application deadline is Friday 7 August Please share widely!

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

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If you agree that water shouldn't be controlled by private interests, sign now: the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...

Renationalise water companies!

If you agree that water companies must be renationalised to ensure quality service, please add your name now:

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Here's 👇a book to teach & think with! 'This a world we dare not simplify. This is not purely a world of vibrancy & cultural creativity. Nor is this a world of decadence, of oppression, of decline & fall. This is not a world driven purely by status... It is a world of every knd of struggle...'

Just recieved my copy of this tribute to my friend of 30+ years Diego Moreno, Italy's leading historical ecologist. www.insegnadelgiglio.it/prodotto/un-...

Un seminario permanente. Scritti per Diego Moreno - All’Insegna del Giglio

Autore: Laboratorio di Archeologia e Storia Ambientale dell’Università di Genova (a cura di) Anno di stampa: 2026 ISBN: 9788892854772 e-ISBN: 9788892854789

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Absolutely right. What do they think is going to happen? That things will carry on as normal at our "world leading" universities? What will the collapse of the sector do to regional economies? And most importantly To the livelihoods of staff, of precarious employees and the futures of students?

Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿@hagenilda.bsky.social · 2w ago

Beyond sick of the inaction and head-in-the-sand from this government on HE.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Peter Donohoe @buxtonfestival.bsky.social this afternoon. That was among the best piano playing I have heard in the last 50 years. The Schumann Fantasy was incredible. The treacherous second movement leaps at speed were thrilling (if you have tried playing these at speed you understand...). Bravo!

The paperback of Italy and Early Medieval Europe which I co-edited is out now @ £25, a bargain! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

This has not been much noticed, but may be a far more important thing than that failure suggests. The co-operative movement and its values have been very important in the history of British socialism. It is a distinctive strand, a model with much to offer.

Co-operative Party@coopparty.party.coop · 2w ago

From Rochdale in 1844 to Downing Street today. For the first time in history, a Labour and Co-operative politician leads the country. Congratulations to Andy Burnham, Britain's first Labour and Co-operative Prime Minister. 🐝

@buxtonfringe.bsky.social Saw @lexiwolfe.bsky.social this afternoon as Mrs Oscar Wilde in a brilliant monologue she both wrote and performed. Outstanding performance of a moving piece.

The Admonitio Generalis fragment went for a whopping £130,500 higher than the estimated high price. I.... wow.

I've just signed "Kopparberg, stop advertising on Rupert Murdoch’s Talk Radio" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ko... @StopFundingHate

'More than 650 alumni of a society that shares its name with the theatre, including James, Wilson and BBC Radio 4 Today programme presenter Emma Barnett, have joined a campaign calling on the university to make it "a priority for investment".'

Theo James and Ruth Wilson join call to save university theatre

Nottingham New Theatre shut in 2023 after water ingress made the building "unsafe for use" campaigners say.

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Looking forward to reading this, which looks excellent. @manchesterup.bsky.social @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social @graemeyward.bsky.social

An honour to participate in the panels remembering Walter Goffart @ #IMC2026, organised by @drdragases.bsky.social, speaking alongside those who shaped my understanding of the field. I responded to recent efforts to revive notions of a shared "Germanic cultural koine" via the post-Roman lawcodes.