Dr Cathryn Pearce
@cathrynpearce.bsky.social
British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast
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"this government has now given certainty to the universities about their funding"
NO YOU HAVEN'T, you are LITERALLY raiding the international fees income TOMORROW
NO YOU HAVEN'T, you are LITERALLY raiding the international fees income TOMORROW
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
"this government has now given certainty to the universities about their funding"
NO YOU HAVEN'T, you are LITERALLY raiding the international fees income TOMORROW
NO YOU HAVEN'T, you are LITERALLY raiding the international fees income TOMORROW
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Dave watched this government Education Committee meeting so you didn’t have to. But you do have to read his summary (if you have any interest in the future of HE)
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Dave watched this government Education Committee meeting so you didn’t have to. But you do have to read his summary (if you have any interest in the future of HE)
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This is spot on and so important: we have to change the language we use to talk about what universities are and their purpose.
Partly an effect of the business speak (and approach) applied to universities. “Providers” “exit markets” all the time. It’s how The market works! Collective institutions of public good…now those are different things.
7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This is spot on and so important: we have to change the language we use to talk about what universities are and their purpose.
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The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
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When they say ‘higher education providers’ do they mean universities?
When they say ‘exiting the market’ do they mean closing?
When they say ‘exiting the market’ do they mean closing?
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
When they say ‘higher education providers’ do they mean universities?
When they say ‘exiting the market’ do they mean closing?
When they say ‘exiting the market’ do they mean closing?
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Reacting to the presence of chatbots with assignment that ask students to look for mistakes in something they got a chatbot to spit out is not a sound approach to teaching your course material.
"GenAI allows seemingly limitless possibilities for assignments that
cultivate crucial literacies. For example, here’s the same old assignment caper that everyone and their AI dog has been suggesting for the past three years.”
#genai+writing
cultivate crucial literacies. For example, here’s the same old assignment caper that everyone and their AI dog has been suggesting for the past three years.”
#genai+writing
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Reacting to the presence of chatbots with assignment that ask students to look for mistakes in something they got a chatbot to spit out is not a sound approach to teaching your course material.
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The aurora glowed in the sky all night. It was a fantastic show in Fairbanks, Alaska
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The aurora glowed in the sky all night. It was a fantastic show in Fairbanks, Alaska
I haven't been very good at posting content this year. It's been busy! I'll have a bit more time next term, so hopefully I can share some research!
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I haven't been very good at posting content this year. It's been busy! I'll have a bit more time next term, so hopefully I can share some research!
Got a quick walk done after class. It was a race with the fading light. That cloud bank is something else, but the moon is visible about it, as are clear skies! #SussexCoast
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Got a quick walk done after class. It was a race with the fading light. That cloud bank is something else, but the moon is visible about it, as are clear skies! #SussexCoast
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This is a nice example of vertical wind shear: the lower level clouds are clearly going in a different direction to the upper level clouds. #Meteorology
Sunset Ireland (November 24th), [2hr Timelapse] West Field, Galway, Ireland #Sunset #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #SkyScape #Photography #TimeLapse
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is a nice example of vertical wind shear: the lower level clouds are clearly going in a different direction to the upper level clouds. #Meteorology
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A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
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I'm delighted to say that the recording my Historical Research lecture for @ihr.bsky.social (4 November, 2025) is now available to view online. I reflect on my own experience of writing a 'trade' book, and conclude with a manifesto for #radical #popular #history.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Historical Research Lecture 2025 | Can popular history be radical? Historical research and writing for the public
Historical Research Lecture 2025
www.history.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I'm delighted to say that the recording my Historical Research lecture for @ihr.bsky.social (4 November, 2025) is now available to view online. I reflect on my own experience of writing a 'trade' book, and conclude with a manifesto for #radical #popular #history.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Gentle aurora over a super still midnight seascape far north of Scottish Highlands
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Gentle aurora over a super still midnight seascape far north of Scottish Highlands
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Why did convoys work?
With apologies for the Buzzfeed-style subtitle...
#navalhistory
evanmwilson.substack.com/p/why-did-co...
With apologies for the Buzzfeed-style subtitle...
#navalhistory
evanmwilson.substack.com/p/why-did-co...
Why did convoys work?
The answer might surprise you (sorry)
evanmwilson.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Why did convoys work?
With apologies for the Buzzfeed-style subtitle...
#navalhistory
evanmwilson.substack.com/p/why-did-co...
With apologies for the Buzzfeed-style subtitle...
#navalhistory
evanmwilson.substack.com/p/why-did-co...
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The Mariner's Mirror Podcast of the Society for Nautical Research:
🔗https://shows.acast.com/f547f9fb-a077-4e85-b19a-beae9eb42c1f/692343659274ead23ca18474
#MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #OttomanHistory
🔗https://shows.acast.com/f547f9fb-a077-4e85-b19a-beae9eb42c1f/692343659274ead23ca18474
#MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #OttomanHistory
Seapower and The Knights of St John: Maritime Malta 3 | The Mariner's Mirror Podcast
shows.acast.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The Mariner's Mirror Podcast of the Society for Nautical Research:
🔗https://shows.acast.com/f547f9fb-a077-4e85-b19a-beae9eb42c1f/692343659274ead23ca18474
#MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #OttomanHistory
🔗https://shows.acast.com/f547f9fb-a077-4e85-b19a-beae9eb42c1f/692343659274ead23ca18474
#MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #OttomanHistory
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I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out
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New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
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Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Mallards over the Marshes
Artist: Roland Green
Mallards over the Marshes
Artist: Roland Green
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Mallards over the Marshes
Artist: Roland Green
Mallards over the Marshes
Artist: Roland Green
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians
Joining the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society: a brief guide if you’re considering an application | Historical Transactions
blog.royalhistsoc.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians
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On the salt marsh
November 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
On the salt marsh
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Our arch/anth first year class went from 175ish to 330 this year. Wild scenes.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Our arch/anth first year class went from 175ish to 330 this year. Wild scenes.
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See my thread above as to why this is a bad idea
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i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
See my thread above as to why this is a bad idea
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...