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Lesley A Hall
@erinacean.bsky.social
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Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@[email protected]
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/

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Tor Lillqvist @tango-mike-lima.bsky.social · 2h
Starmer’s government, all is perhaps forgiven, for that glorious line ”We are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets. But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the honourable member for Clacton."

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 3h
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

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Jillian David @jilliandavid.bsky.social · 3h
TAPS SCREEN

For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
caradelaney.bsky.social Cara N. Delaney 💖💜💙 @caradelaney.bsky.social · 1d
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.

It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 4h
this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.
ivalaine.bsky.social Dr M @ivalaine.bsky.social · 18h
Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 5h
You have probably already heard of the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award: 'Since 1993, the Bad Sex in Fiction Award has honoured the year’s most outstandingly awful scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel'. literaryreview.co.uk/bad-sex-in-f...
Literary Review - For People Who Devour Books
Since 1993, the Bad Sex in Fiction Award has honoured the year’s most outstandingly awful scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel. Drawing attention to the poorly written, redundant, or...
literaryreview.co.uk

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 6h
At least they have the feeling that they OUGHT to read it....

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 6h
Right....

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 6h
Only on itch.io - sale on A Place of Refuge! Buy the three novellas for $2 each, 11/28/25 03:00 AM EDT - 12/4/25 01:00 AM EDT.

Former rebel guerillas find their lost beloved friend and escape fascism. Also there's banter and pastries. #cozy #hopepunk #sapphic #spaceopera.

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Black Friday Creator Day 2025 by Victoria Janssen
A bundle by Victoria Janssen, $5.99 for Finding Refuge: A Place of Refuge, Part One, Accepting Refuge: A Place of Refuge, Part Two, Embracing Refuge: A Place of Refuge, Part Three
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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 6h
When I booked for this (back in October) there was an option for online attendance, but I have not been sent a link.

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 6h
That's something, I suppose? They are engaging with the text?
(Give me text every time.)

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 6h
Something that is very niche to be vexed about but very much a recurring theme in my work is the fact that popular ideas about the Bronte juvenilia is by and large informed by fictional works which draw on it written by authors who very clearly haven't read even a fraction of it.

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 7h
Our first ever sitewide sale is here! Find great gifts for all the readers in your life—including these books that are all currently available for less than $20 each. Use the code HOLIDAY25 for 30% off everything on our website now through December 3.
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UofG JMS PhD Programme @uofgjmsphd.bsky.social · 7h
The opportunity for Black UK-domiciled students to undertake PhD research at @uofglasgow.bsky.social is still available!

Apply by 31 January 2026 for entry to our Scholarships in October 2026.

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Image shows JMS Scholar Chris Reid in the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre. He wears a black, quarter-zip jumper and is sitting at a small, round, white table near an upper level window, holding a tall, white mug.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 8h
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 12h
'The right book to match the person'???!!!! You mean, like, to go with their ensemble? Or to fit in with their decor? Presumably not to actually read....
I'll be over here on my fainting couch, surrounded by piles of (mismatched) books.

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 13h
Tractors descend on London for farmers’ Budget day protest despite police ban
Tractors descend on London for farmers’ Budget day protest despite police ban
Tractors descend on London for farmers’ Budget day protest despite police ban
www.independent.co.uk

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 13h
It's looking as if the farmers protest in Whitehall today have ignored the police request not to bring their tractors.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 13h
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.
royalhistoricalsociety2.beaconforms.com

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 14h
If anyone has successfully explained to a STEM boss that, no actually humanities scholars don't need a team of postdocs to collect all the data for them & write their papers & it's completely normal to just... do all your work mostly by yourself with some peer insight & feedback, lmk what you said.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 14h
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.

even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.

they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.

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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 14h
"I want to know what it was like to live in those multicultural societies at different points in time."

@kieranconnell.bsky.social on his approach to writing 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14h
Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers
An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14h
"we keep hearing conversations about tough choices, but these always seem to be tough choices for children in poverty, for disabled people, for working class communities, when are we going to see tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires?"

@zackpolanski.bsky.social on #GMB

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 14h
The other problem with this is that research is a type of spread bet/lottery. You do lots of it and hope some of it pans out. If we had a perfect way of selecting which small bits of science and scholarship we "need", we'd have solved the funding problem. But we don't know this.
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15h
'Science minister Patrick Vallance has rejected concerns that focusing on “doing fewer things better” in research will lead to funding being concentrated in larger research-intensive universities from the Russell Group.' 1/3
Post-16 plan ‘not recipe for Russell Group domination’ – Vallance
Science minister dismisses as ‘bizarre’ fears that government push for ‘teaching-only’ specialists will further concentrate research activity in small number of institutions
www.timeshighereducation.com

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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 14h
Congratulations to @maudannebracke.bsky.social on her new book "Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950–1980"
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14h
Uber tried something equally stupid here in the UK. They claimed they weren't a taxi firm because users ticked a TOS box that agreed they weren't one.

You can imagine how well that went down. Judges don't care how many likes your 'clever' argument got you on Reddit.
“Any organisation (a) running an enterprise at the heart of which is the function of carrying people in motor cars from where they are to where they want to be and (b) operating in part through a company discharging the regulated responsibilities of a PHV operator, but (c) requiring drivers and passengers to agree, as a matter of contract that it does not provide transportation services (through UBV or ULL) and (d) resorting in its documentation to fictions, twisted language and even brand new terminology, merits we think a degree of scepticism.

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 14h
Evidence has now emerged of the adverse consequences of the laws banning GAHT for trans youth in both the US and UK. This includes sharp declines in mental health and increased suicide attempts among transgender young people.

t.co/YZaiSgdDAl
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01979-5
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Elizabeth Darling @archhistdarling.bsky.social · 14h
Title reveal … countdown to June 2026.
Book catalogue page with blurb for forthcoming book

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 14h
Of course another consequence of removing juries from all but the most serious crimes is that those pesky juries won’t be able to find annoying protestors not guilty.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 14h
Having been mistakenly included on an electoral roll, Manchester shopkeeper Lily Maxwell voted in a by-election on this day 1867, more than 50 years before (some) women were enfranchised by the Representation of the People Act. Suffragists seized on it as a test case.