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The modal British voter thinks that pensioners are the group who gets the least good deal from the state! You can't have a serious conversation either about shrinking the state or expanding the tax base from that starting point!
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The modal British voter thinks that pensioners are the group who gets the least good deal from the state! You can't have a serious conversation either about shrinking the state or expanding the tax base from that starting point!
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Another year, another end-of-semester infographic presentation from my students. Here's a map showing Alcuin's letter network.
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Another year, another end-of-semester infographic presentation from my students. Here's a map showing Alcuin's letter network.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
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Let's be honest, Boaty McBoatface is the most impressive thing the UK has achieved over the last 9 years... everything else has been a bit crap
November 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Let's be honest, Boaty McBoatface is the most impressive thing the UK has achieved over the last 9 years... everything else has been a bit crap
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This is Irish erasure.
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is Irish erasure.
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only another 0.2-0.5 sleeps to go until the ashes
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
only another 0.2-0.5 sleeps to go until the ashes
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I sometimes feel like I am going mad.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I sometimes feel like I am going mad.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
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In case you'd like to try before you buy, the good folk @academic.oup.com have made Chapter 1 of my book free to view for a few weeks :) academic.oup.com/book/61370/c...
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
In case you'd like to try before you buy, the good folk @academic.oup.com have made Chapter 1 of my book free to view for a few weeks :) academic.oup.com/book/61370/c...
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Palaeography 🧵! Or why it can take a historian a while to confirm what they already suspected must be the case and not really get any further than they were—but this time with confidence 😂
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Palaeography 🧵! Or why it can take a historian a while to confirm what they already suspected must be the case and not really get any further than they were—but this time with confidence 😂
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
I'm working with documents that list the incomes of medieval French lordships, so a lot of it is about grain.
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An anthropotoponym is a place-name derived from the name of a person, like Herston (from Hǫrðr)
A zootoponym is a place-name derived from an animal, like Scarf Skerry (from scarf 'cormorant')
I don't think we have a category for names like Dora's park, where Dora is a pony
A zootoponym is a place-name derived from an animal, like Scarf Skerry (from scarf 'cormorant')
I don't think we have a category for names like Dora's park, where Dora is a pony
November 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
An anthropotoponym is a place-name derived from the name of a person, like Herston (from Hǫrðr)
A zootoponym is a place-name derived from an animal, like Scarf Skerry (from scarf 'cormorant')
I don't think we have a category for names like Dora's park, where Dora is a pony
A zootoponym is a place-name derived from an animal, like Scarf Skerry (from scarf 'cormorant')
I don't think we have a category for names like Dora's park, where Dora is a pony
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"cantiori hic iacit venedotis cive fuit [c]onsobrino ma[g]li magistrati"
('Cantiori here lies, of Gwynedd a citizen he was, a cousin of Maglus the magistrate')
Still fascinated by the 6th-cent. Cantiorix Inscription, from sub-Roman north Wales, bearing the first mention of the Kingdom of Gwynedd.
('Cantiori here lies, of Gwynedd a citizen he was, a cousin of Maglus the magistrate')
Still fascinated by the 6th-cent. Cantiorix Inscription, from sub-Roman north Wales, bearing the first mention of the Kingdom of Gwynedd.
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"cantiori hic iacit venedotis cive fuit [c]onsobrino ma[g]li magistrati"
('Cantiori here lies, of Gwynedd a citizen he was, a cousin of Maglus the magistrate')
Still fascinated by the 6th-cent. Cantiorix Inscription, from sub-Roman north Wales, bearing the first mention of the Kingdom of Gwynedd.
('Cantiori here lies, of Gwynedd a citizen he was, a cousin of Maglus the magistrate')
Still fascinated by the 6th-cent. Cantiorix Inscription, from sub-Roman north Wales, bearing the first mention of the Kingdom of Gwynedd.
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Today's name story is: Carpets of Wild Garlic, Creamhchoill and other aromatic place-names in Ireland, written by Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich & Aindí Mac Giolla Chomhghaill. Additional text referring to wild garlic beyond Ireland is written by Diana Whaley.
www.snsbi.org.uk/exploring-na...
www.snsbi.org.uk/exploring-na...
Creamhchoill and other aromatic place-names in Ireland - SNSBI
Creamh or wild garlic abounds in damp woodlands – and in the place-names of Ireland as well as parts of Britain.
www.snsbi.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Today's name story is: Carpets of Wild Garlic, Creamhchoill and other aromatic place-names in Ireland, written by Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich & Aindí Mac Giolla Chomhghaill. Additional text referring to wild garlic beyond Ireland is written by Diana Whaley.
www.snsbi.org.uk/exploring-na...
www.snsbi.org.uk/exploring-na...
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'Sheffield Hallam University has a stronger multiplier effect than many other UK universities (with every 1 job at the University supporting 2.54 jobs in the local economy). The loss of 1000 jobs over the past two years...will...have a detrimental effect on the city and region.' 3/3
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
'Sheffield Hallam University has a stronger multiplier effect than many other UK universities (with every 1 job at the University supporting 2.54 jobs in the local economy). The loss of 1000 jobs over the past two years...will...have a detrimental effect on the city and region.' 3/3
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"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."
The universities of Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk-modern-languages-yet-another-faux-pas
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk-modern-languages-yet-another-faux-pas
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."
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More evidence for my theory that everywhere is becoming France, a country where the voters hate everyone
It's true. If Labour raise income taxes, the party might slump to around a quarter of the vote, and its PM and Chancellor might be even more unpopular than Rishi Sunak in 2024 or Jeremy Corbyn in 2019 - wait, sorry, just got an email from Ipsos with some new polling, I'm sure it's nothing important.
Quite a contrast to the BlueSky consensus the last 24 hours
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
More evidence for my theory that everywhere is becoming France, a country where the voters hate everyone
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On advance access: "Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664-687 in England"
by @rorynaismith.bsky.social (University of Cambridge)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @rorynaismith.bsky.social (University of Cambridge)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664–687 in England*
Abstract. Bede and other authors describe a destructive wave of plague sweeping across Britain and Ireland in the period 664–87. In the decades around and
doi.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
On advance access: "Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664-687 in England"
by @rorynaismith.bsky.social (University of Cambridge)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @rorynaismith.bsky.social (University of Cambridge)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
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I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
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It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
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📣 Next week we are delighted to host a book launch for Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050, by Alice Hicklin, Steffen Patzold, @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social & @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social, who will be joined by John Arnold, Julia Barrow & Conrad Leyser. Weds 19 Nov, 5.30pm, King's. All welcome!
Book Launch: Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050
Earlier Middle Ages Seminar- Session 3
www.history.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
📣 Next week we are delighted to host a book launch for Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050, by Alice Hicklin, Steffen Patzold, @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social & @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social, who will be joined by John Arnold, Julia Barrow & Conrad Leyser. Weds 19 Nov, 5.30pm, King's. All welcome!
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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
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Une synthèse qui s'annonce extrêmement intéressante, dans un volume particulièrement élégant. Merci beaucoup, Dear Charles @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social !
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Une synthèse qui s'annonce extrêmement intéressante, dans un volume particulièrement élégant. Merci beaucoup, Dear Charles @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social !