My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

Xeirographa

A guided learning platform for reading Greek manuscripts with interactive transcription exercises.

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An Article describing the way one education consultancy firm, Nous, is directly connected to the dismantling of multiple universities from Australia to Canada (and now UK). The Uniforum software they use for benchmarking was used @exeter.ac.uk Some gems quoted below: renthomas.ca/theres-a-nou... 1/4

Mr LSE saying that UK unis have been too reliant on government money, that we need easier tax systems for donors, & higher tuition fees 'for long-term planning' (number *planning* would do that) isn't helping. Neither is the DfE still copying the same statement. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

As a curator of digital and physical data, as well as a creator of data this is so important and a much overlooked and utterly poorly funded. Making HERs statutory as intended by the inacted statutes of LURA would be a good and easy starting point

Cambridge University Press - Archaeology@cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · last wk.

🆕 New #openaccess research in the #SAA journal @saa-aap.bsky.social highlights a growing digital curation crisis in #archaeology. Read the blog and associated article! 🔗 https://cup.org/4uRYbGY #digitalhumanities #datapreservation

In an effort to make our podcast more accessible & reach a broader audience, we're now on YouTube! If you have a moment and enjoy the podcast, it would mean a lot if you could like & subscribe — or leave a comment. This helps more people discover our interviews and our guests' expertise & insights!

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Leading scholars in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (HPS) introduce contemporary topics for a general audience. Developed by graduate students from the HPS program at the University ...

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Recruitment suspended on UG environment & sustainability, mathematics and physics. At postgraduate level, suspended courses include international corporate finance, water & environmental engineering and environmental strategy. If you think your subject is safe because not Humanities, rethink. 1/2

Course closures at University of Surrey raise concerns

Science and maths programmes among those suspended in recent months, with UCU claiming decisions are being made ‘in haste’

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Reading articles on the amounts HE has spent in APCs over the last 5-10 years, and slowly watching my blood pressure rise. Millions upon millions, on something WE CAN ABSOLUTELY DO OURSELVES FOR A FRACTION OF THE COST - what universities couldn't do with that kind of money now... 😠 And breathe...

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3w ago

“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪

Those of you were saddened that Research Professional is closing down should be excited to hear @williamcb.bsky.social is setting up an alternative - let’s sign up and support! I hope this gives a potential home to good journos from RF williamcullernebown.substack.com/p/coming-soo...

Coming soon: a new publication on research, higher education and industrial strategy from the guy who brought you the old one (me)

Research Professional News, which I founded, is being closed on 31 December. My new, independent publication will start up on 1 January

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📣Developing a Sustainable Research Computing Environment at UK Universities 🗓Friday 24 July 2026 ⏱️10:30-16:00 BST 📍South Kensington Campus, Imperial 👉 step-up.ac.uk/events/20260... Join us to hear from speakers including @loiclnlg.bsky.social working on green and sustainable research computing.

We’ve opened the call for our Talent Development Awards which give up to £10k for researchers to learn new skills - eg in languages, research methods, quant/digital/AI. Apply by 7 October www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Just out: part 1 of @adjb.co’s six-part blog series introducing & explaining the digital humanities, www.adamdjbrett.com/blog/dh-part.... Part 1 is quite good. I would assign it in an Intro to DH course.

Digital Humanities Part 1: What Are the Digital Humanities?

What the digital humanities are, where they came from, and why the definition debates still matter, from Father Busa's punched cards to Zotero and beyond.

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A 5-year PDRA position in "Statistical Modelling in Archaeology" is available @cam-archaeology.bsky.social as part of the FORAGER project. Deadline: 21/8/2026 tinyurl.com/muhcjkfy www.forager-erc.eu

Why are UCL paying money to #Nous, who clearly have absolutely no expertise to sell and are involved in some appalling decisions across the sector? @seanawallis.bsky.social

Thomas Penny@thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm looking at universities with my younger daughter at the moment and Nous' list of members could be a useful ready reckoner of ones to avoid... (which is a shame because we loved Newcastle...)

Home after the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, full of ideas and food, and already longing to see all my friends, old and new, again soon. #ofs2026 #oxfordfoodsymposium2026

This is also why LLMs are so detrimental to education, btw. They hand answers to students, with little or no parsing, synthesis, or investigation necessary. And thus the students stop learning. They just become middlemen for content being passed from LLM to teacher.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · last mo.

There is an expectation among readers, students, that they will be catered to and hand held through material, that they will not have to struggle with texts. This is in direct opposition to even our common language discourse on how we "grapple with" or "work through" ideas and texts.

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: An Open Letter In Support of Scientific American. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...

An Open Letter In Support of Scientific American

We are looking for your support by signing the letter below. It calls on Springer Nature to ensure that as part of the sale, LabX Media will rehire laid off union workers, restore staff salaries to pr...

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My statement on the removal of the harms of ‘normal birth’ ideology in the Baroness Amos Report 📄

If you're dying with anxiety because the status of your paper has not changed from "under review" for weeks, you may want to read the Future of Peer Review report from Silverchair that came out recently and replaced the outdated Publons report from 2018... #ScientificPublishing #PeerReview /

If you create slides in #Quarto, or WANT to, you should really attend @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's upcoming 2-hour slidecrafting workshop. I don't think anyone in the data world has created more reavealjs-friendly slide stuff lately than Emil. ABSOLUTELY DO IT. #rstats #databs pos.it/slide-wrkshp

Slidecrafting Workshop with Emil Hvitfeldt

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If you are recruiting, or looking for a job in the RSE space, remember to check out our Jobs Board. There are currently a number of RSE, Data Engineer and other roles available at institutions around the UK and in Germany. society-rse.org/careers/vaca...

Vacancies - Society of Research Software Engineering

You can post a vacancy here for any role that involves a significant element of writing software for research, or supports the role of RSEs. Vacancies anywhere in the world are welcome. We have also…

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Absolutely amazing storm in south London woke me up at 4am. Love lying awake listening to storms when safely inside... Hate the sound of the alarm clock going off on a new work day afterwards....

📣 Free Training ByteSized dRTP: Secure Data Principles for Digital Research 🗓️ : Tuesday 23 June 2026 🕝: 10:30-12:00 BST 💻 : Online 🎟️ : Free Register: step-up.ac.uk/events/bytes... @step-up.bsky.social

Neuromorphic computing is the next big-thing for the future of hardware & algorithm design. Dame Chi, being awesome, as ever, asks if the #STFC cuts to astro/particle physics will impact this UK industry. "I think for sure... someone else [will be] doing the cutting-edge research for the future" 🔭⚛️🧪

Chi Onwurah@chionwurah.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At SITC this morning I asked physicists whether cuts to research funding and opportunities for early career researchers will impact neuromorphic computing.

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Having been someone calling for UKRI to give the community greater notice on call deadlines, I welcome this. Drawing on the kids primary school feedback mechanism, here some feedback on today's announcement: 🧵

UK Research and Innovation@ukri.org · 2mo ago

We’ve launched a new space on our website to help you explore upcoming UKRI funding opportunities. The page gives a longer-term view of more than 45 opportunities opening between now and December. Explore the page: www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...

"I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts." More reasons not to publish in Frontiers journals 🧪 #AcademicSky

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

If you missed the @ucldh.bsky.social Susan Hockey Lecture by @melissaterras.bsky.social this year, we've got a recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbtK...

Melissa Terras 'The more things change - Digital Humanities in a tumultuous world'

YouTube video by UCLDH

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Permanent, full-time Lectureship in Digital Culture and Society at UCL. Closing date 28 June www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Bit lazy blaming the downfall of #denby on costs, demand and net zero without mentioning the (at least) £72 million debt loaded onto the company by private equity.

What does the end of Denby Pottery mean for the future of British heritage brands?

It has been the backbone of the British cupboard for over two centuries, but now the Derbyshire institution serves as a cautionary tale for other craft-based brands

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