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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h

‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her

The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen with her

www.theguardian.com

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 10h

If you’re writing a discussion and conclusion it helps to know their relationship difference between claims and conclusion patthomson.net/2025/10/11/c...

claims vs contributions

If you’re deep in the throes of doctoral work, you’ve probably had that moment where someone asks you about your “contribution to knowledge” and you freeze up like a deer in…

patthomson.net

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 16h

SO MUCH OF IT EVERYWHERE

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 17h

The Mount Burr Swamp in South Australia is brimming with water, giving conservationists hope its success can be a blueprint for the future.

From dry farmland to thriving wetland, swamp revival provides hope

The Mount Burr Swamp in South Australia is brimming with water, giving conservationists hope its success can be a blueprint for the future.

www.abc.net.au

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 17h

Oh yes! These are all ‘desk drawers’! Downloads folders is another one (tackled the work one recently, but home computer still untouched 😅 for now)

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 1d

What’s in the drawers of your desk?

I have a bureau that I bought when we lived in Cambridge and I was doing my PhD, not-quite 2 decades ago.

Today I sat at it and realised it was still full of old UK stuff

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Little Edwardian wooden fold down desk with green leather inlay, pigeonholes, drawers and papers

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a gentle nudge, if the universe is aligned for you too, to open that bottom drawer, sort through the papers and send that letter.

Jean was a Henry James scholar and ‘Only Connect’ remains a powerful invocation, to our past selves, to our envinronment, and to other people. ✨📚
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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 1d

So of course I wrote her a card with an update and hurried to get to the post office before it closed.

I haven’t sent an overseas letter in years, and the trainee serving me had run out of international $4.50 stamps—so it’s clearly not just me… BUT

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 1d

In my letter, I had talked about working on my first book chapter.
About how I was nervous about submitting my PhD. I didn’t know what was coming next.

Today, I have lost count of the books and chapters and articles I have published. I teach others to finish their PhD.

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 1d

2nd class stamps with Christmas angels.
Overhead Projector Transparency sheets.
A definition of ‘fugue’ on the back of an envelope.
And a letter to my old undergraduate advisor dated September 2008.

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 1d

What’s in the drawers of your desk?

I have a bureau that I bought when we lived in Cambridge and I was doing my PhD, not-quite 2 decades ago.

Today I sat at it and realised it was still full of old UK stuff

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 1d

three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

www.nytimes.com

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 4d

#CommunityInWriting Day 2
Book Launch for the new #ShutUpandWrite book

Available for pre-order now

www.routledge.com/Wellbeing-an...

Haidee Hicks speaking on a panel with Andi Salamon, Abbe Winter and Narelle Lemon

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 5d

#CommunityInWriting Symposium Day 1 at Deakin Downtown #SUAW #Shutupandwrite

Sneak peek of new book cover ✨📚

Moleskin Cahier, Midori pencil, She speaks bookmarks, new book sneak peek

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 6d

Now I know what you’re thinking: Did they make a video abstract for this important study? Reader,

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 14d

Hope - not as something you have, but something you practice into being.

It is what the philosopher Jonathan Lear has called “radical hope” - “directed towards a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is.”

Vale Professor Jonathan Lear (1948-2025)

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 8d

You are so welcome. Thank you for such a thoughtful and honest article!

Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 8d

I recognised a lot of threads! And I've thought about your running experiences a lot as I've started running myself! 👟💕

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 8d

I loved this article (by @jessamysesame.bsky.social, @emmawhatman.bsky.social et al.)
Embodied Emotion Work in Feminist Research: Crying, Running, Dancing, Loving
We need more crying, more bodies, more running, more dancing, more love
doi.org/10.1080/1448...

Embodied Emotion Work in Feminist Research: Crying, Running, Dancing, Loving

In this paper we ‘work over’ and ‘mull over’ research experiences that did not (immediately) make sense. As feminist researchers, we explore our emotional, embodied reactions to specific moments an...

doi.org

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 11d

I find the way ID cards have been used in the UK is also always so weird (so I guess emblematic of this point). In Europe it’s quite nice to have physical identity documentation seperate from ability to drive or travel, and allows you to travel if you like. But UK options are always so surveillancy

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11d

We pumped up the jam with @luriethereal.bsky.social's punchy exploration of how sports and music became so inextricably intertwined. (You ready for this?)

We're All Jocks, Jamming

How did sports and music get so inexorably entangled?

heat-death.ghost.io

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 24d

In London, hate will never win.

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