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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · Nov 12

And here we are, a beginner's guide to getting to know colleagues from across the Humanities & Social Sciences (and beyond) at the University of Liverpool. We'll be adding to this as things develop... go.bsky.app/5NUwui2 #StarterPack #AcademicSky

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 9h

UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 7h

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 10h

It does inspire awe and show how utterly insignificant and trivial so many of our concerns are

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · Apr 29

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 19h

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

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Maxine Beuret @maxinebeuret.bsky.social · 1d

Are you interested in local history? @vch-home.bsky.social @hackney-society.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com

In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 9d

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

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Dr Tim Galsworthy 🗃️ @timgalsworthy.bsky.social · 1d

Me getting dressed in the morning trying not to put the big light on #CelebrityTraitors

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Dr Tim Galsworthy 🗃️ @timgalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

Very happy that my forthcoming History Lecture, where I will be discussing my new book, got a shoutout at @tracyborman.bsky.social’s lecture today! 📚

@lbishophisarch.bsky.social @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Benjamin Franklin House @benfranklinhouse.bsky.social · 3d

📢Call for papers!

Benjamin Franklin House is hosting a conference, “Remember the ladies”: Women and Revolution, in London in May 2026!

Details are available here: benjaminfranklinhouse.org/event/spring...

If you have any questions, please email Megan King at [email protected].

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Dr Catherine Bateson @catbateson.bsky.social · 3d

Also love the annual disregard for time difference that the committees have - the commitment to their own timetable is so reassuring

Dr Catherine Bateson @catbateson.bsky.social · 3d

I absolutely love this story - what a time to have the out-of-office response on 😂

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable The Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray. Fred Ramsdell shared Monday’s prestigious prize with Mary Brunkow of Seattle, Washington and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries related to the functioning of the immune system. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 21d

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 3d

Historian friends: I have an honors students writing a thesis about needlework samplers by Indigenous girls at mission school in the 1830s. I don't know much about the scholarship on boarding and mission schools in this early period (other than Snyder and Demos). Any thoughts?

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 4d

The RHS is a membership organisation of 6500+ historians. We welcome applications to join us at any time. Our next closing dates are 13 October and 15 December.

We offer categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research, from Postgraduate to Fellow: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians

Closing dates for next application rounds:
Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025

The Royal Historical Society represents the interests of historical researchers in universities, libraries, archives, museums, heritage and broadcasting, as well as those engaged in public, community and family history research.

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British Online Archives (BOA) @boapublishing.bsky.social · 4d

Our latest “Document of the Week” was chosen by our Senior Curator, Dr
Charlie Hall. It offers an eyewitness account of conditions in Auschwitz, as
provided by a Jewish doctor who worked in the camp hospital for more
than two years.

Read the full article here: buff.ly/OlrwTLF

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 5d

A student in my publishing course is interested in researching book pulping and book recycling. Do we know any work or introductory material in this area?

(Work on remainders, print runs, supply chain, raw materials all relevant, too.)

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 5d

This is a very clear account of how government policy has already reduced access to degrees in History & other SHAPE subjects for members of marginalised communities and how new moves risk making matters worse still.

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 6d

This week, the Society's President Lucy Noakes wrote in response to Bridget Phillipson's Labour conference speech - and its implications for history and the humanities in UK higher education bit.ly/3KBX7Fw

#Skystorians

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 6d

This week, the Society's President Lucy Noakes wrote in response to Bridget Phillipson's Labour conference speech - and its implications for history and the humanities in UK higher education bit.ly/3KBX7Fw

#Skystorians

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Dr Catherine Bateson @catbateson.bsky.social · 10d

Happy 3rd #pubday birthday to my @lsupress.bsky.social book “Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty and Nationhood”! Available from the press & all good bookstores. If any Civil War era/Irish Studies folk want me to talk about it/review it, get in touch!
lsupress.org/978080717793...

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Dr Tim Galsworthy 🗃️ @timgalsworthy.bsky.social · 7d

I was at the Eisenhower Library just last month. All the brilliant staff provided invaluable help for my research.

This move from the Trump administration is shocking but we should not be surprised that anyone who stands up to them, and stands up for history, is seen as a threat 🗃️

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 7d

Having done research there, I can’t say enough about the professionalism and competency of the staff at the Eisenhower Library and Museum. The fact that a staff member would be fired for doing their job with integrity is outrageous.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

www.nytimes.com

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 7d

From The Times, 4 April, 1974

Newspaper article from UK Times, 4 April, 1974

‘Universities “Exploiting Students as Cheap Staff”’

from Tim Devlin, Education Correspondent, Liverpool, April 3

Postgraduate students, it was alleged here today, are being exploited as cheap labour by the universities and their ‘appalling’ rates of pay are being used to keep down the wages of other staff, particularly laboratory technicians

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 8d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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