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Catherine Sloan
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Historian of childhood & youth, Oxford. Love podcasts, bad TV, sugar. Ireland & Scotland. she/her
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batariangal.bsky.social
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
batariangal.bsky.social Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 2d
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
I mean, I wouldn’t want to have to be the go-to scholar to explain what is wrong with the VP all the time but it would be nice to be asked.
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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hollynielsen.bsky.social
Made my day to read this great post and see this!
Similarly, a new wave of game developers, usually from much more diverse backgrounds, give voice to many scholars from archaeology, anthropology and history to express their concerns, artistic visions and experiences through game development. Such is the case of Holly Nielsen, historian and narrative designer, whose blog posts (like this one) regarding the development of Amberspire (a fantasy city builder) discuss implementing perspectives of macro and micro history and their entangled relationship as a tool for both narrative in terms of overall experience and a subtle way of introducing these concepts to a non-scholar audience.
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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emilyherring.bsky.social
You can hire me to edit for you! I provide fast, professional, and personalised proofreading, copy editing, and developmental editing services

www.wellreadherring.com/editing
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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amandazillo.bsky.social
What I've been noticing lately in convos with students is that they *despise* the AI-slopification of everything as much or even more than I do. And yet our universities & their admin seem to believe that students for some reason want it integrated into everything. THEY DON'T.
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 7d
“To be sat there with this material in front of you that is just really not worth anyone’s time, when you could be spending that time actually engaging with something worthwhile, is really frustrating,” he said.
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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hpsvanessa.bsky.social
It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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sarahmay1.bsky.social
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
Screenshot of a report on the BBC News website (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0y07959djo) original headline reads: Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance I have scrubbed out the word Trans The headline is above an image of a sign for toilets from Getty images The BBC staff are: Alison Holt Social affairs editor @AlisonHoltBBC Ewan Somerville Kate Whannel Political reporter
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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eve.gd
Just appalling. Nurses and teachers do far more valuable jobs than almost anyone earning £125k.
implausibleblog.bsky.social Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d
Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War

3 years - if you're earning £125k+

15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher

Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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kelittlejohn.bsky.social
This thread - exactly why I'm terrified about the intense and often unquestioned push by education systems and schools and teachers to integrate AI everywhere. It's, by design, toxic to learning
pookleblinky.bsky.social Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · May 18
Consider learning an instrument, badly.

Bad habits become engrained, movement is inefficient and slow, and it takes a *lot* of time and effort to unlearn those engrained bad habits.
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
Mahmood using her own ethnic background to legitimise stripping away migrants’ and refugees’ rights prompted me to revisit this piece I wrote a couple of years back on minorities on the right.
Minorities on the Right
The presence of members of minority groups on the right poses a challenge in both understanding how they got there and discussing the matter with due sensitivity.
academicbubble.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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kghist.bsky.social
Swedish musician Elfrida Andree (1841-1929) is #Radio3 Composer of the Week 🎉 Andree has a lot of fans on here. A brilliant composer (I especially love her piano trios) her output included opera, symphonies and much more. Also a pioneering female musician and feminist activist.

#Womencomposers
emmaharding.bsky.social Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 17d
I confess I knew nothing of Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée’s (1841-1929) music until producer Luke Whitlock suggested her. But then I went down an #Andrée rabbit hole - and what riches! Join Donald Macleod for Composer of the Week 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Photograph of composer Elfrida Andrew
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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crashannburn.bsky.social
“Baby” I say, dragging my butt across the carpet. “It’s not a worm”
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10d
“Baby, don’t worry,” he said. “It’s not a worm.”

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I did not like to think about it just as later I would not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny. I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein. Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad. I loved that he was insatiable in all ways, as if he would swallow up the whole world just to know it better if he could. He made me laugh, but I winced when he joked about the worm. "Baby, don't worry," he said. "It's not a worm. ." A doctor he trusted had reviewed the scans of his brain obtained by The New York Times, he said, and concluded that the shadowy figure was likely not a parasite at all. He sighed. It was too late to interfere with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend, but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain.
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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davidwearing.bsky.social
Behind the weasel words and prevaricating euphemisms, Britain's politics of immigration are rooted in an antipathy to the presence of negatively racialised people in this country *on any terms*. If we'd confronted that reality decades ago, and faced it down, we wouldn't be where we are now.
cjayanetti.bsky.social Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 12d
the video goes on and on about illegal immigration and yet the new proposal will target legal migration by confirmed refugees
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
csloanox.bsky.social
Dublin schoolchildren on the President - past and present vm.tiktok.com/ZNdKuoXQU/ #histchild
TikTok - Make Your Day
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November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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jessothomson.co.uk
"As someone working in law, it’s heresy to say this, and it might even kill my chances of a career... But as a trans person, and someone fighting for the rights of my community, I refuse to remain silent. To me it just seems obvious: a heavily prejudiced society produces prejudiced institutions."
It’s no surprise that only 31% of trans people trust a legal system built to enforce prejudice, says Jess O’Thomson.
It’s no surprise that only 31% of trans people trust a legal system built to enforce prejudice, says Jess O’Thomson.
goodlawproject.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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heatherpaterson.co.uk
GLASGOW (TDOR)
7pm Thu 20th Nov
Glasgow University Cloisters
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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cemsexeter.bsky.social
We are delighted to welcome Dr Kate Gibson (Manchester) on Wednesday 12 November, 3.30-5pm in Forum Seminar Room 10 and on Teams for the following CEMS seminar:

'Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain'.

Full description attached. Please join us! @lsangha.bsky.social
A text description of ‘Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain’
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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newadrian.bsky.social
I guess this the season for ‘what’s up with Remembrance these days’ so i suppose i should suggest an analytical framework. Three phases
1/At the early 1990s Remembrance Day was becoming pretty low key but it starts a big revival in 1994. This was initially to do with the D-Day 50th anniversary.
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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katherineschof8.bsky.social
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.

It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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phyphor.one-dash.org
Labour, Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer specifically, have made the NHS cause intentional harm to trans people.

This is so much worse than before and in a just world they would face consequences.
sophiemolly.co.uk Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 21d
"They know this is likely to cause suicides. They don’t care! We jumped through every hoop for years and we followed what the government asked of us. I’m in Surrey, her doctor is in Brighton, you can imagine what this is doing to us."

northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
NHS threatens GP practice over trans care
With NHS reply – a GP practice in Brighton and Hove is under investigation for legally providing gender affirming care to trans teens
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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tricksterprince.bsky.social
Here we go - just imagine, Seven Dials in the 1920s...
empiremagazine.bsky.social Empire Magazine @empiremagazine.bsky.social · 22d
Helena Bonham-Carter, Martin Freeman, and Mia McKenna-Bruce lead the starry trailer for Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, a new Netflix murder-mystery series.

WATCH THE TRAILER: www.empireonline.com/tv/news/agat...
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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lottelydia.bsky.social
This is disastrous; hospices do such important work, not only to give people a good death, but to provide pain management and other services to people with terminal conditions. The staff in hospices work so, so hard and the fact that these institutions depend on charity to operate is a scandal.
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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editor.scot
I mean, she very much did do that
thebookseller.com The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 22d
Pan Macmillan has apologised to its former author Kate Clanchy three years on from parting company with the writer after she was accused of racial stereotyping, an accusation she denies 👇
Pan Macmillan apologises to Kate Clanchy three years after controversy
www.thebookseller.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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philippaeast.bsky.social
TransActual have put together these handy FAQs to respond to MPs (or anyone else) who is still struggling to get their head round why the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice would be so devastating for the trans community.
Feel free to share, download, print, whatever!
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FAQs in Response to the Draft EHRC Code of Practice and Supreme Court Ruling We are calling for the EHRC’s “bathroom ban” to be scrapped, and the Code re-written to allow for trans inclusion in single sex services according to lived gender. Below are some common questions that might be raised by MPs (or others), and possible responses you can give to explain why this is needed. QUESTION “The Supreme Court ruling only affects those few thousand trans people who have Gender Recognition Certificates (GRCs). Otherwise, trans people retain all the rights and protections they have always had under the Equality Act 2010.” RESPONSE The Supreme Court ruling disapplies the effect of a GRC to the entirety of the Equality Act 2010. This means that there no longer exists any mechanism whatsoever for trans people to be legally recognised in their acquired gender under the UK’s most significant piece of equalities legislation. This not only affects those trans people who currently hold a GRC, but also the potentially hundreds of thousands of trans people who would wish to obtain a GRC in the future. For this reason, ILGA-Europe removed all legal gender recognition points from the UK this year, meaning that the UK now sits at an all-time low on the ILGA-Europe Rainbow map. There are many reasons why trans people do not apply, or have not yet applied for a GRC. Many report that the UK’s medicalised process for legal gender recognition remains humiliating, invasive and inaccessible for many. In this, the UK is out of step with international best practice, which recommends a model based on self-determination RESPONSE The Supreme Court ruling, as interpreted by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), does not just affect those with a GRC, but all those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.
October 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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tricksterprince.bsky.social
Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov.

There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
A 1930 picture of the Cambridge Theatre, Seven Dials in Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials photographed in front of the Cambridge Theatre, Seven Dials in October 2025.
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM