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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 13m

Also hate the work one: it’s tiny

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 13m

Everything that matters is on my own one

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 14m

Yes but I basically use it as an office PC and refuse to use the cloud

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 49m

That’s Duke & Duke done for again

ProBon @probon.bsky.social · 5h

Meanwhile the world has stopped buying American orange juice.
It now trades at 43% of the price it went for when Trump took office.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 53m

Will my life be destroyed if I don’t update my creaking laptop to Windows 11?

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2h

Mid-Autumn sunset

View of the City of London from Gipsy Hill. A definite change in the air.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2h

I had to call up the GP yesterday and ask

Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social · 2h

So very, very grateful for my flu and Covid jabs through the NHS, but wish more people were allowed to get them free.
I was really interrogated about why I was getting Covid one - I’ve a feeling I might not get it for much longer 😵‍💫

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Mike Batho @recliningpair.bsky.social · Dec 2

A few years ago during Covid, when like a lot of the country, I was going batshit, I started a mini Grand Designs, on Twitter, using tiny 18mm figures.

And if people enjoyed it there, maybe they'll enjoy it here.

Meet Tom & Sue.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2h

Ikr

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 2h

Non-ironically my favorite genre of writing these days is a syntactically awkward student paper that is nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2h

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2h

Do I know anyone on here who has either applied for or received an AHRC Catalyst Award?

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 6h

every line of this story keeps getting better

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

www.bbc.co.uk

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 7h

Bonkers

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 9h

'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 · 1d

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...

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 7h

I have a feeling this isn’t going to end well.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 9h

'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 · 1d

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...

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 22h

“Critical” skills shortages : ‘authors, writers, translators ‘ …

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 1d

Authors, writers and translators are expected to be protected from a crackdown on UK working visas after being identified as occupations suffering from “critical” skills shortages 👇

Authors, writers and translators 'exempt' from crackdown on working visas

ebx.sh

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 22h

I couldn’t

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 22h

Read a thesis?!

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 22h

Oh wait, I’ve just seen where this is: all makes sense now.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 22h

What catering? I guess there are the receptions?

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

I’d wager that there’s a lot of Conservative Britain out there that agrees with this

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 3d

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 3d

“In the letter, the government said it would be “reprioritising” the funding of post-16 education in England to focus on “larger than normal maths and high-value A-level programmes to support the pipeline of students for priority sectors””. Grim.

Labour cuts funding for state school IB diplomas

The sudden decision may mean the IB program is only available in private schools

observer.co.uk

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed…

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

Is there AI insurance yet?

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

Is there AI insurance yet?

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 2d

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

www.lse.ac.uk

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