Seriously, please watch this. And make your non-academic friends and family and neighbours watch it. Only 45 minutes, free, and SO revealing about the people making money off squandering what is a public good.

Catherine Gander@catgander.bsky.social · 4d ago

A deeply damaging, unethical model designed to dismantle the university and rebuild it as a corporation. It’s caused a crisis in Australia and its causing a crisis in the U.K. Sad to see Irish universities watching the chaos and happily following suit. youtu.be/quc24Ot9Qwgr

Finally went on a little pilgrimage to Basel to see all the Erasmus sites, including his tomb and the beautifully carved cabinet commissioned after his death to preserve his collection of coins and plate. I found his little knife kind of charming for some reason! #EarlyModern #skystorians

I never thought that I would have to write this piece about my university. But after weeks of demonstrating privately to senior managers that their case is based on a false prospectus, that their data are inaccurate and their claims misleading, there was little choice. substack.com/@lucasamin/n...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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not sure how anyone can stay on an app thats fighting in court for the right to generate non consensual nudes of people, including children

I suspected this is what has been happening with our backlist recently, seems I was right. We’ve sold an unusually high number of very old titles in the past few months, including old journal back issues with poor metadata www.news.com.au/technology/o...

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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Taking place in Basel in March 2027. #earlymodern #reformazing

REFORC@reforc.bsky.social · last wk.

📢 Call for Papers! 📚✨ How did ideas of tolerance emerge, evolve, and face moments of rupture in history? Join the conversation on “Sebastian Castellio and the Caesuras in the History of Tolerance” and contribute your research: 🔗 tinyurl.com/5fs744zd

IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks. Please post! @dralanagharris.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

IHR Women@ihrwomen.bsky.social · last wk.

Call for Participants for IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks to be held Friday, 20th of November 2026.

Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.

The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.

Earlier this week I was informed that “The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing” is now published. It's a phenomenal effort by the editors but selling at a phenomenal price too. I've published some stuff in it so if any one doesn't have access happy to share my work #earlymodern

Congratulations to Herman Paul (Leiden) on the publication of his Cambridge Element, "History of the Humanities", no. 36 in the series Historical Theory and Practice! Free to download till July 27. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

History of the Humanities

Cambridge Core - Global History - History of the Humanities

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We at @josimarfootball.bsky.social are delighted to welcome @davidgoldblatt.bsky.social as a new contributor, with this exceptional essay about the 2026 World Cup, "the moment when the process of reclaiming and reforming the governance of football begins". Must-read.

Dystopia  - josimarfootball.com

Every World Cup is meant to have a legacy, this one could be the moment when the process of reclaiming and reforming the governance of football begins.

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#medievalsky job 🎺. Glasgow lecturer in medieval history (c.800 CE to 1500CE) wanted - with either/or-and comparative transnational perspective / interdisciplinary approach. Open-ended. 👇

Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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We have the following 3 calls for research funding for RHS Fellows & Members: bit.ly/4wwSMGu > 'Open Research Grants', for mid & later career historians > 'Early Career Fellowship Grants', for postdocs > Martin Lynn Scholarship', for PhD research in African history Closing 4 September #Skystorians

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: September 2026 deadlines - RHS

The Society invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians at a range of career stages — with closing dates of 4 September 2026. Early Career Fellowship Grants, 2026-27* off...

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📘From our latest issue! Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social on 'Discovering ‘Immigration Control’ in England, c. 1540 – c. 1640' #Migration #History #EarlyModern #England #Immigration 📜 16thc 17thc 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An #earlymodern reminder about our RSA 2027 Sack of Rome cfp. Submissions by July 15!

Jessica Goethals@jessgoethals.bsky.social · 2mo ago

CFP for the RSA 2027: The Sack of Rome at 500 🚨 Sponsored interdisciplinary panels on all aspects of the Sack. See www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... #earlymodern #Renaissance #Skystoriana

Yesterday I was reading Scholderer’s essays and learned about this 1473 Parma ed of the Achilleid, existing in only 2 copies, which has a colophon which states that the printer finished the book “faster than asparagus cooks” and I’m o b s e s s e d

Society for Renaissance Studies: Two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...

The Friends of the Turnbull Library offers an annual research grant of up to $20,000 available to scholars whose research involves use of the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. The closing date for 2027 applications is Friday 2 October 2026. turnbullfriends.org.nz/research-gra...

Indeed we do! docs.google.com/document/d/e... I would add a line about the stupidity of cutting even further in the Strategic Priorities Grant, but may need to stop seething about that first. Do contact your MPs, many of them are too reliant on deeply stupid briefings from the DfE.

Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · 4w ago

(1/2) Does anybody have a good standard email template that offers keys stats, links to information, that could be edited and sent to (clearly often clueless) Labour MPs about the financial, jobs, and broader crisis with UK higher education?

Might any of you bindings/heraldry nerds have seen these before? They’re on a set of Benito Arias Montano’s commentary on various books of the Bible (Antwerp: Plantin, 1575-88). Binding possibly French and the initials on the spine seem to include D, A & H. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Broughton.161-4

Yesterday evening, the Society was delighted to announce the winners of its 2026 First Book and Early Career prizes: bit.ly/44HbAH2 Many congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RHS First Book Prize: Dr Kiran Mehta and Dr John Latham-Sprinkle 1/4 #Skystorians

The Sixteenth Century Journal is seeking a new Editor. If interested, please apply by 15 July. #earlymodern 🗃️

JOB POSTING 📜📚 The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University seeks a research (reference) librarian: yale.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/external_car...

Colleagues at Exeter have asked me to circulate this petition as widely as possible: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Katherine McDonald@katherinemcdon.bsky.social · last mo.

A brief appreciation thread for some of my colleagues in Classics at Exeter, who the University of Exeter have put at risk of redundancy @exeter.ac.uk. A few are on here, most are not, but I'm going to say nice things about them anyway.

Cambridge Digital Humanities (my new home from Sept!) is inviting proposals for the next round of British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. Esp in memory studies, semiotics, semantics and AI and emergent literary forms. Details here: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/b...

CDH invites proposals for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships - CDH

Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) at the University of Cambridge is inviting proposals for the next round of British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships. The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship offe...

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Hebrew Curator at the British Library (2-year fixed term) Wonderful opportunity for a scholar of #Hebrew and Jewish #bookhistory to spend 2 years in the Promised Land of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social with its invaluable collection. Deadline: 12 July. ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

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The Crusade of Hormuz

Looking for a new route to Jerusalem, medieval crusaders turned to the Strait of Hormuz.

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If you fancy a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of History at Warwick, do let me know!! 🗃️ Click on the link below to get all relevant details. 👇 👇 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW736/b...

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-27 at University of Warwick

Searching for an academic job? Explore this British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-27 opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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We have an 18-month temporary lectureship in early modern British and European history just advertised at Newcastle - closing date 9th July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW166/l... #skystorians

Lecturer in Early Modern British and European History at Newcastle University

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Early Modern British and European History on jobs.ac.uk!

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It! Is! Here! Open Access (and already hoovered up by the scrapers no doubt such is our world) UK/EU paper copies will be available eventually but until then, EVERYONE now has free access! press.library.concordia.ca/projects/ill...

Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...