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Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · 3h

Happy Week-end reading 💪
Brought by @drleith.bsky.social @funkyplaid.bsky.social and many others I know 👍

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 6d

This week the Society also launched the call for its First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, should be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

#Skystorians

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · 6d

It's a harsh world out there, so, here is my cat.. claiming the stairs, and making a mess of the back bedroom's bedsheets...

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Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · 11d

Very excited to welcome Prof Clotilde Prunier to the JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshops tomorrow (Tues, 30 Sept) at 5pm UKT. Prof Prunier will be sharing some of her current work on the links between the Stuarts and the Catholic Mission in Scotland 1719-1788.

jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 12d

RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

bit.ly

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 17d

On the idea that “writing is hard” is good actually open.substack.com/pub/publishn...

Writing Should Be Hard

Why Intellectual Struggle Is a Sign You're Doing It Right

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Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · 21d

From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum....

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Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · 21d

The Histories and Cultures of Conflict (HaCC) research group invites proposals from Early Career Researchers (including PGRs) for a workshop on ‘Histories and Cultures of Conflict’.

The seminar is on March, 4th 2026.
Send your proposals!

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 24d

Higher education unions have been warned that failures in upcoming ballots on collective industrial action could damage members’ negotiating positions with employers, reports @julietterowsell.bsky.social
#academicsky #edusky

Failure to reach strike vote threshold ‘would undermine unions’

Turnout required to move ahead with industrial action ‘very hard’ to achieve, say academics

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · 24d

That applies to other figures I've known! 🤣

The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com · 24d

“He was no tyrant, but a strongly principled mediocrity.” — Historian Hugh Collingham on Charles X

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Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · 26d

Lecture du Lundi, de bon matin...

theconversation.com/victime-dun-...

Victime d’un manager incompétent ? Bienvenue en « kakistocratie » !

Pour un employé, les défaillances d’un supérieur hiérarchique peuvent générer une frustration qui favorise l’absentéisme, le désengagement et une sous-performance au travail.

theconversation.com

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Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · 29d

What a load of BS...
"Hobbyist researcher" is wording worth of Trump's worst adviser.

I'd like to see any of those "ministers" define "quality research" (???) is an even remotely satisfactory way...

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 29d

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Sep 11

Departure of Peter Kyle as science secretary raises hopes that his successor Liz Kendall will offer a more sympathetic ear on research concerns. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports
#reshuffle #academicsky

Universities hope to feel ‘more listened to’ under Kendall

Departure of Peter Kyle as science secretary raises hopes that his successor Liz Kendall will offer a more sympathetic ear on research concerns

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · Sep 10

Hello Everyone,

ManMet is looking for a French tutor (0.5) to start ASAP (teaching only) Do you know anyone?

If you do, you can write to Richard Silburn ([email protected]) for information.

Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are starting a New Project related to the 500th Anniversary of the Break with Rome... and we are still taking expression of interests!

See more here:

mcphh.wordpress.com/break-with-r...

Break with Rome, 500th anniversary

The Break with Rome Anniversaries Group was established in 2025 by a group of researchers both inside and outside academia who are interested in thinking through how to communicate the hi…

mcphh.wordpress.com

Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · Sep 8

#AI kills!
theconversation.com/we-risk-a-de...

We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it

We have to tighten up on what research policymakers rely on, and also the inner workings of peer review.

theconversation.com

Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · Sep 2

theconversation.com/chatgpt-only...

ChatGPT only talks in cliches – here’s why that’s a threat to human creativity

AI doesn’t worry about sounding boring.

theconversation.com

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · Aug 29

Also works for an academic

phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · Aug 28

Pyramid
"Life of an artist"

95% of the bottom = Work
Very tip top 5% = Work you see

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Aug 28

Long read: “Human overdependence on AI – and the cognitive offloading that comes with it – will render poorer, and eventually useless, synthetic AI production. If we want it to be better, we have to get better ourselves,” writes Martin A. Mills
#academicsky #AI

Replaced by bots? No, AI needs academics more than we need it

Many fear algorithms will displace academics but the technology is already eating itself and its long-term business model remains unclear, says Martin A. Mills. Here he explains why bots will not wipe...

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · Aug 28

Language exams have been doing that for years.

Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · Aug 27

You mean AI is not reliable?....

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · Aug 27

"While these safeguards work best in common, short exchanges, we’ve learned over time that they can sometimes become less reliable in long interactions where parts of the model’s safety training may degrade,"

that's...not a defense? 1

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

OpenAI, Altman sued over ChatGPT's role in California teen's suicide

The parents of a teen who died by suicide after ChatGPT coached him on methods of self harm sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday, saying the company knowingly put profit above safety when it launched the GPT-4o version of its artificial intelligence chatbot last year.

www.reuters.com

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Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · Aug 26

I gave my first live interview for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my book with @manchesterup.bsky.social !

Recording of the cuff is quite strange, but one needs to starts somewhere!
@manmetuni.bsky.social

Listen to me speaking too much here:
newbooksnetwork.com/the-jacobite...

Jérémy Filet, "The Jacobites and the Grand Tour: Educational Travel and Small-States' Diplomacy" (Manchester UP, 2025) - New Books Network

newbooksnetwork.com

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Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · Aug 22

Happy @manchesterpride.bsky.social !!!

a dog wearing a pink tutu and holding rainbow flags with the words happy pride above it

ALT: a dog wearing a pink tutu and holding rainbow flags with the words happy pride above it

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Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social · Aug 18

The time is nigh! Another fab programme for the JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop is up and ready to kick off on Tuesday, 2 Sept. Following the keynote launch, we'll have fortnightly sessions on different aspects of Jacobite Studies from a wide range of contributors.

jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

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