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Susan Baddeley

@sbaddeley.bsky.social

Words, words, words..... From Newcastle, linguist and translator, researcher into 16th-century French-English cultural exchanges.

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · yesterday

It's a while since I used the BL regularly but I used to work there all the time. What a Carve Up was largely written in the old Bloomsbury reading room, and The Rotters' Club in the St Pancras one. Turning public reading rooms into privately-run office space is clearly a terrible idea. Please sign.

Susanna Crossman@susannacrossman.bsky.social · 2d ago

The British Library is planning to close 3 public reading rooms to turn them into privately-run office-space. I used these rooms to write my memoir, novels, articles. They are currently free to people of all ages/backgrounds. Libraries change lives, souls & minds. Please sign! Now! c.org/dzkWFFjJMQ

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · last wk.

We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship of the Society. Next closing date: Monday 14 December. Fellowship is open to those who've made a scholarly research contribution to history in all sectors (within & beyond higher education) in the UK/worldwide bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians 1/2

Apply for Fellowship - Royal Historical Society

Closing date for next applications: Monday 14 December 2026 Fellowships are awarded to those who have made an original contribution to historical scholarship, typically through the authorship of a b...

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Private Eye Magazine @private-eye.co.uk · 7d ago

From the Private Eye archive.

Susan Baddeley @sbaddeley.bsky.social · last wk.

A bit of *skull*duggery for Halloween

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2w ago

Good stuff. When does the Mail go on trial for harassing citizens?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Tommy Robinson found guilty of harassing journalists

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 3w ago

#CfP: "Beyond Bobadilla: Greek Learning and Religion in Early Modern Europe" conference, 27–28 May 2027, Rome, The Norwegian Institute (University of Oslo). Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents

Beyond Bobadilla: Greek Learning and Religion in Early Modern Europe

Date: 27 May 2027 – 28 May 2027

Deadline for Proposals: 1 December 2026

Location: Rome, The Norwegian Institute (University of Oslo)

Visit website → https://www.hf.uio.no/dnir/english/research/news-and-events/news/2026/call_bobadilla.html

The Jesuit Nicholas Bobadilla’s (ca. 1509 – 1590) phrase qui graecizabant lutheranizabant (whoever was attracted to Greek was also attracted to Lutheranism) is often cited to characterise the association of Greek learning with Protestant movements in Europe, as well as the Catholic suspicion surrounding Greek studies in early modern Europe. Indeed, Protestant scholars often emphasised Greek learning as a first and significant step towards Reform and towards accessing the word of Scriptures, and as distinguishing feature from Catholicism. At the same time, however, and after a certain recalibration, Catholic circles did not abandon Greek studies, despite this uncertainty surrounding Greek. For example, the Greek language continued to play a role in discussions within Catholicism, particularly among Jesuits, and later, Jansenists. Was there a shift in their approach? Is this shift discernible, either in curricula or in other discourses? Did Protestants favour some Greek authors, works and genres over others? Can we speak of a ‘Protestant’ and a ‘Catholic’ approach to Greek studies? While some of these questions have to some extent been addressed in specialised examples focussing on specific individuals and milieus, there remains a lack of overarching understanding regarding the role of Greek studies in shaping religious intellectual culture during this period. This necessitates an overall evaluation of how knowledge of Greek, Greek literature, and Greek history was used in religious contexts in early modern Europe.

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 3w ago

Jobs: Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics: Assistant Professor of English - Linguistics (27/28), Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Campus

Description: Assistant Professor of English - Linguistics (27/28) Job no: 560186 Work type: Instructional Faculty – Tenured/Tenure-Track Location: Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Campus Categories: Unit 3 - CFA - California Faculty Association, Faculty - Letters/Humanities, Probationary, Full Time, On-site (work in-person at business location) The English Department: The English Department in the College of Liberal Arts at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Calif

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 3w ago

Jobs: French; Sociolinguistics: Professeure, Professeur en sociolinguistique, Université du Quebec à Montreal

Other Specialties: Français québécois / laurentien Description: L’UQAM recherche des candidates et candidats qualifiés afin de renouveler son corps professoral et assurer un développement de qualité dans tous ses domaines d’activité. Sommaire de la fonction : - Enseignement de la sociolinguistique au premier cycle des études et aux cycles supérieurs comportant notamment : le développement et l’amélioration des contenus; l’évaluation des étudiantes et étudiants - Direction, encadrem

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 4w ago

Confs: Endangered Languages: Integrating Theory and Practice

According to estimates by UNESCO (Moseley, 2010) and Ethnologue (Eberhard et al. 2025), more than 40% of the world’s extant languages are endangered to varying degrees, a situation comparable to the ongoing crisis of biodiversity loss. Understanding why languages become endangered and identifying the conditions under which language diversity can be preserved and revitalized require attention to a range of interrelated psychological, social, economic, and political factors. The organizers invi

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 4w ago

Confs: AI versus Multilinguality – Conversations Concerning Diverse Communities and the Future of Language-Specific Work

The latest news says AI agents are conspiring in their own language. Some speculate that AI will become Language itself – a ‘life’ of its own, threatening to displace diverse human voices that will have no more agency than the bleating of sheep. What will become of multilingual subjects like us? This roundtable is an urgent call to respond. How is AI already changing our social life and working conditions, and the meaning and import of translation, interpreting, and translingual practices. Ho

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · last mo.

Are you an early career researcher who might want to spend a year or two conducting research in Japan? We've opened the call for the JSPS postdoctoral fellowships which covers airfare, monthly stipend and a research grant. Apply by 2nd Dec www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Overseas Researchers 2027

The scheme provides funding for early career postdoctoral researchers to conduct cooperative research in Japan, with leading research groups in Japanese universities and other institutions, under the ...

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Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social · last mo.

Check out the Stuart Hall Archive Project! Amazing resource that includes not only digitisation, but tools and teaching resources too! You can access the archive here: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk And this news article is a great intro read! www.theguardian.com/society/2026....

Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · last mo.

Edward Wright baptized #OTD 1561. In 1599 he proposes the median as a measure of central tendency & methods of variance estimation for navigational application. He is also the first (& so far only) Fellow of Caius College Cambridge to be granted sabbatical leave to be a pirate.

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · last mo.

Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend, I am almost mad myself.

Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · last mo.

Offre d’emploi – Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford rmblf.be/2026/09/28/o...

Offre d’emploi – Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford

Professor of the History of Art.University of Oxford in association with Trinity College. We are seeking applications for the Professorship of the History of Art, available from 1 October 2027. Thi…

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Funded PhD opportunities with a short deadline. Join our early medieval cluster at Liverpool with 7 PhDs currently working with the Institute of Irish Studies on all aspects of Irish, British and Icelandic topics and connections www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/col... #museums #medievalsky

Collaborative PhDs | Research | National Gallery, London

As part of collaborative consortia, the Gallery hosts a cohort of PhD students funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers)@lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a fabulous conference that has sustained me since I first started attending decades ago. The workshop/discussion-centered format is especially refreshing. Please consider submitting something. #earlymodern www.ssemwg.org/attending-to...

Attending to EMW 2027 CFP — Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The story of Jason Arday is the story of James Orr. Of the ideology which has found a foothold in Cambridge University, fostering the sorts of ideas that formed the undercurrents – sometimes explicit; sometimes unconscious – against Arday. I returned to my alma mater for an in-depth exploration 👇

The Two Professors and a ‘War On Ideas’

The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces around hierarchies and structural power – and who gets to belong in our inst...

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fantastic programme of speakers - including my wonderful colleague Clare Egan and the equally wonderful @callanjd.bsky.social Online registration available 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 @reedproject.bsky.social REED 50th Anniversary Colloquium / September 19- 20, 2026 share.google/rkecbO66ktGE...

Records of Early English Drama 50th Anniversary Colloquium - Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies

Location Emmanuel College, Room 119 75 Queen’s Park Cres E, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 September 19–20, 2026University of Toronto Applying REED to Reality: Pedagogy, Performance and Data Futures The internat...

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 2mo ago

Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.

Chart showing global annual temperature abnormalities between 1880 and 2024

Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Marking the 350th anniversary of the oldest English book auction catalogue, this year’s book trade history conference returns to the theme of auctions. 🧑‍⚖️ 📚 London 22-23 November, book now at www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

47th Annual Conference on Book Trade History | Battling Over Books: Auction Catalogues and Their Contexts, 1676-2026

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

FYI: Free Online Lecture: An Introduction to Endangered Alphabets

A 60-minute online presentation by Tim Brookes, founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project, suitable for undergraduate students of linguistics, anthropology, communication, human rights, history, social studies, writing, and languages While the vital field of endangered languages study, including documentation and revitalization programs, has been embraced and established in higher education, the different but related field of endangered and emerging minority scripts has not. Of the more t

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve been fiddling with this etymology project for like five years, and I need to get it and its research companion finally finished. Go break this public one for me? I’m finishing up the fancy academic version.

Diachronica — Word Stories

Every English word is an immigrant. Open one and follow its journey.

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026

PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector

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Susan Baddeley @sbaddeley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Now that's what I call devotion

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Experience: I’ve visited every motorway service station in Britain

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 2mo ago

Anne Dacier, translator of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey by Marie Lebert www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-biogr... Books about Anne Dacier at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39843 #books #literature

Madame Dacier by Marie-Victoire Jaquotot. Inspired by Roger de Piles In the Louvre's département des Arts graphiques as item 35610.

Oval miniature portrait of Madame Dacier (Anne Le Fèvre Dacier), by Marie-Victoire Jaquotot, set in a gilt frame. She's depicted with curled powdered hair, a lace collar, and a dark blue/green dress.

NewsThump @newsthump.com · 2mo ago

Whenever we see someone post that they're stopping their donation to the RNLI, like some right-wing virtue-signalling flex, we can't help but think of this. You can donate to the RNLI here: buff.ly/bsku22S

Only 1.2% of RNLI calls are for asylum seekers in the Channel — red poster arguing that cancelling RNLI donations equates to saying "I hate migrants... I'm willing to jeopardise the lives of the other 98.8% of rescues," followed by the sarcastic "Lovely people, right?"

Susan Baddeley @sbaddeley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When you know there's an H somewhere in that damned word but aren't sure where to put it