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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1d

When politicians like Trump, or Starmer, say & do transphobic things, parents talk about it in front of kids & then the kids bring it to school.

It’s horrific that these kids are being taught to hate & at such an early age.

It is critical we do not import this into Irish politics:

11-year-old trans child allegedly assaulted by fellow student

An 11-year-old trans child was allegedly assaulted by a fellow student over their gender identity, the student's father has claimed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Dr Priya Atwal @priyaatwal.bsky.social · 10d

Excited to share the details of a new event series that I’ll be hosting in #Oxford this term for our Community History Hub! Exploring everything from oral history methods to the legacy of the local car plant. Book your tickets here, all are welcome! www.communityhistory.ox.ac.uk/article/comm...

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 2d

Oxford people: a talk for the diary. @roseteanby.bsky.social has done brilliant research on C19 female photographers

Dr Rose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 4d

Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

photooxford.org/events/const...

Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford

Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

photooxford.org

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 5d

So delighted to be tuning into this this afternoon!

Bristol IGRCT @igrct.bsky.social · 7d

🏳️‍🌈 EVENT REMINDER 🏳️‍🌈

This Saturday at 4PM!

Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...

Or register for the webinar: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#lgbthistory #queerhistory

Bristol IGRCT @igrct.bsky.social · Sep 9

🏳️‍🌈 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🏳️‍🌈

For this year's Symonds lecture, Nicky Taylor and Alexander Sugar present “No man can see himself as others see"
Bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences. #queerhistory

🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...
⏰4PM, 4/10
📍Peel Lecture Theatre

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 6d

People working on disability history:

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 7d

I am excited to share this call for papers for a special issue on Conceptualizing Disability in History, which I’m co-editing with Monika Baar for the Austrian Journal of Historical Studies.

Please share among your networks, we are very much looking forward to your contributions!

H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 13d

CFA: Conceptualizing Disability in History: Europe in a global context

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157618

Fiesole, 15.11.2025, Austrian Journal of Historical Studies; Monika Baar; Elisa Heinrich, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.11.2025

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 6d

Disarm the cops includes the UK.

T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 6d

Obligatory statement that terrorism is bad

But I don't think cops "accidentally" killing the victims is much better

www.wsj.com/world/uk/u-k...

Man Killed in U.K. Synagogue Attack Was Accidentally Shot by Police

One of those killed and one injured were hit by gunfire from officers who were trying to stop the attacker from entering the synagogue, police said.

www.wsj.com

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PD Dr. Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 6d

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen)

Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) invites ap...

www.hsozkult.de

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 6d

Important to remember that stories about children killed by vaccine-preventable diseases when they're too young to be vaccinated are, beneath that, stories about the loss of herd immunity.

This baby caught whooping cough from somebody. That somebody was probably old enough to be vaccinated.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 7d

“A lot of times, you know, babies don’t cough; they just stop breathing,” warned Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney as he discussed Mississippi's first infant death from whooping cough in 13 years.

Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

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Catherine Sloan @csloanox.bsky.social · 6d

Just wrote a research themed letter that was so satisfying! I am intensely stressed BUT I worked out like a demon and this type of good physical tired is the closest I currently get to energetic (which is backwards, but anyway). It’s a good day.

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 6d

Can folks offer some suggestions for fundraising an academic event? What are some events/activities that can help to defray costs and build a bit of funding for the future? Bake sales? BBQs? Readings? Pub quiz nights? Throw them at me.

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Catherine Sloan @csloanox.bsky.social · 6d

The way personal ethics get erased is so troubling: did they donate their bodies to train soldiers? It’s like egg donation - women aren’t allowed or able to check if the family is racist, homophobic, ableist or otherwise might cause active harm to others. The buyer’s market of ethics.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Sep 9

Proofs!
I hope that novel people and #19thc people will like this essay on Ali Smith & her remaking of Victorian serial fiction (hey, I hope that people like and read Ali Smith!). Many thanks to @ceyingst.bsky.social for their help in the final stages of the essay's preparation.

Abstract for an essay "Ali Smith and the Unfinished Book: Novels, Middles, and Serialization in an Electronic Age"

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 6d

anyway, apropos of nothing, if anyone needs provide editing, proofreading, or archival/special collections/bibliographical research services, I have those skills that can be used on a freelance basis and otherwise

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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 6d

I've got a new article out @historyworkshop.org.uk. It argues for history as a form of intergenerational friendship.
History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

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Catherine Sloan @csloanox.bsky.social · 8d

No but I must read it 😊😊😊😊

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 8d

I so love @rhaplord.bsky.social’s work on urbanism in pre-colonial Africa. Looking forward to reading what is sure to be another illuminating thread

Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 11d

Brava (Barawa), Somalia.

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-ci...

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 10d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social · 9d

The Riyadh Comedy Festival is so commercial now. Accommodation, flyering and PR costs are insane. And yet, if you want to be seen by producers, you have to go. And now, people like me, who’ve been doing it for years can’t sell tickets because big acts are turning up.

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 9d

This is some horrific bullshit #FreePalestine

Headline from The Daily Telegraph reading Trump to govern Gaza with Blair

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 9d

There is so much great work going to be done on how gAI abets and expands fascism by providing it with these nostalgic visuals, an imaginary capitalist utopia of White people and White people only

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 10d

This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 9d

lol history for the win!

spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 10d

the sinclair charlie kirk tribute has 71K views nine days after it was supposed to preempt jimmy kimmel

by comparison, this antique toaster restoration video has 102K views after one day

111 Years Old Antique Toaster Restoration

YouTube video by Odd Tinkering

www.youtube.com

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 10d

I don't need Labour to 'call out' Reform's racism, I need them to enact policy that counters it - that supports those that need support including immigrants but also black and brown folks who are not immigrants, but are the target of the racism of Reform

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 10d

i've seen so many articles on this today, and not a single one so far has pointed out that where "not taking any benefits payments" is concerned, you have no access to public funds on a visa. this has been the case for years. but nobody, from the BBC down, will challenge this or anything else

Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 10d

To say that you will ‘have to volunteer’ to be eligible for settled status even if working full time as a doctor or nurse for example is not really volunteering because it would not be voluntary. The govt should call it something else if they want to enforce it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shabana Mahmood to demand migrants earn right to settled status

New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

www.bbc.co.uk

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