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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 3d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'One does not wish to dignify this kind of vandalism with a response and you have to wonder whether the Tories will give Badenoch even one election before booting her out.'

In praise of “rip-off” degrees | The Observer

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on the arts and humanities isn’t just culturally short-sighted, it’s economically illiterate

observer.co.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'prime minister Keir Starmer...confirmed that the University of Lancaster and the University of Surrey had been given approval to open new campuses in India while on a trade mission to Mumbai, joining six more institutions already in the country.' (Lancaster is mooting 20% academic redundancy) 1/3

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 2d

Expansion of UK universities in India ‘like California gold rush’.

University leaders embrace transnational education but warn it will not be a “replacement income stream”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Expansion of UK universities in India ‘like California gold rush’ - Research Professional News

University leaders embrace transnational education but warn it will not be a “replacement income stream”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

n.pr

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 6d

Boris Anrep, 1883-1969
details from a mosaic floor, 1928-33 & 1954
National Gallery, London

L: Greta Garbo as Melpomene, muse of tragedy

R: Virginia Woolf as Clio, muse of history
(other #Bloomsbury figures also appear as muses or gods)

#MosaicMonday 🎨

📷 @londonremembers.com (link below)

Mosaic by Boris Anrep of Greta Garbo in classical dress as the muse Melpomene, holding up a wreath in her left hand.

Mosaic by Boris Anrep of Virginia Woolf in classical dress as the muse Clio, holding a quill pen in her left hand.

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 3d

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Virginia Woolf — Nikoleta Sekulovic, 2024
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 2d

It's a great time to see some glorious ‘bracket’ fungi on trees. As the leaves fall and they becomes more noticeable and you can really enjoy their colours. The bright yellow 'chicken of the woods’ is particularly eye-catching.

#BBCNatureWeek

Bright yellow bracket fungi growing on a tree trunk in a woodland

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning, in today's edition of How UK Universities are Becoming More Like the US, but not in terms of quality, research rigour, or internalisation www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’ More than half of all bird species are in decline, according to a new global assessment, with deforestation driving sharp falls in populations across the planet. On the eve of a key biodiversity summit in the UAE, scientists have issued a fresh warning about the health of bird populations, with 61% of assessed species now recording declines in their numbers. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 3d

📚 The Divine Feminine: Women & the Rise of the Right
Join authors Lois Shearing & @emmahcasey.bsky.social for a vital talk on women’s roles in #farright movements, radicalisation & tradwife culture.

🗓 Mon 10 Nov 6.30-8pm
🎙 Chair: Dr Rachel O'Neill
✅ Register: forms.office.com/e/twwa0D0VaR

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 2d

Won't somebody *please* save Portland from Antifa 😩

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?”

Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 2d

What War of the Worlds did

The uncanny realism of Orson Welles’s radio play crystallised a fear of communication technology that haunts us today

by Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey

aeon.co/essays/a-rad...

#literature #communication #technology

Welles at the press conference after "The War of the Worlds" broadcast (October 31, 1938)

Photo of Orson Welles meeting with reporters in an effort to explain that no one connected with the War of the Worlds radio broadcast had any idea the show would cause panic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles#/media/File:Orson_Welles_War_of_the_Worlds_1938.jpg

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The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social · 2d

Acclaimed biographers Hermione Lee & Kate Kennedy ask, 'What constitutes life-writing today?' 20 Oct, 5:30–7:00pm, Leonard Wolfson Auditorium. buff.ly/knPw900 @engfac.bsky.social

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 3d

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 3d

The Welsh government has ruled out introducing a levy on international student fees as Westminster forges ahead with the policy, reports Helen Packer #academicsky #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/wales-rules-out-levy-international-student-fees

Wales rules out levy on international student fees

Education secretary confirms devolved nation will not follow UK government in taking a cut of overseas tuition fee income

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 3d

"Academic mental health is now a serious problem"

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 10d

There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.

@gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · 7d

A 5 x Zoom study of WHAT MAISIE KNEW. In Maisie’s world, love is conditional, truth is fragmented, and care is a performance. BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/what... #HenryJames #WhatMaisieKnew #LiteraryFiction #Modernism #BookClub

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 4d

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 5d

The Glasgow @womenslibrary.bsky.social’s Maud Sulter Annual Lecture
31 Oct @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social – free

@pratibha.bsky.social will discuss the vibrant Black women’s arts movement of the 1980s in dialogue with Sulter’s work & their reverberations today
womenslibrary.org.uk/event/the-ma...

The Maud Sulter Annual Lecture with Pratibha Parmar | Glasgow Women's Library

Parmar will talk about foundational moments in dialogue with Maud Sulter’s work and their reverberations today.

womenslibrary.org.uk

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 7d

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

Lecturer - English

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...

jobs.smartrecruiters.com

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · 5d

We're hiring! Come and join a friendly department in the Scottish capital. A two year part-time contract in Creative Writing (Prose): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY206/t...

Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) at The University of Edinburgh

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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TR Virginia Woolf Topluluğu - Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey @vwoolfturkiye.bsky.social · 5d

We’re excited to kick off the new season of Woolf Seminars with Luca Pinelli’s talk. Registration is now open from the link below 👇

virginiawoolfsocietyturkey.org/etkinlikler/...

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 5d

It’s almost disorienting to see something this nakedly wonderful put in place by a non Scandinavian Western government in 2025.

Way to go Ireland.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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TR Virginia Woolf Topluluğu - Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey @vwoolfturkiye.bsky.social · Aug 28

Richard Kennedy, Map of the Hogarth Press

London: Heinemann, 1972.

Private Collection.

#virginiawoolf #hogarthpress

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