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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 9h

I want to tell all students of the so-called 'rip-off degrees' named below that your critical thinking is important and makes valid contributions to culture and society

Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 9h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 9h

I agree with @eve.gd

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 9h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 9h

Another day; another smear on our profession

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 9h

Public Lecture: Stefan Collini (Cambridge) -- The University and the Humanities, Wednesday 8 October, 6:30pm - Lancaster University share.google/BOkyIo7auWhJ...

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CEMS Exeter @cemsexeter.bsky.social · 9h

Today! Please join us for the first CEMS Seminar of the year: Dr Emily Vine, 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London'. 2.30-4pm in Forum Seminar Room 5 and on Teams. Hope to see you there!
#earlymodern

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Just Kate @handmaiduns.bsky.social · 23h

Hello #FungiFriends

Look at this little guy and tiny companion I just found on some moss

A small fungi with a round, flat top. There’s a little tiny one just starting to grow, leaning on the bigger one. They’re both chilling on some gorgeous green moss that lives on the bird bath

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 11h

Our local @lancasterucu.bsky.social strike ballot closes this week

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · Jul 30

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University

- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant

But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?

Please read 👇

Sign the petition 👇

chng.it/7F52bThYqn

Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

chng.it

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 11h

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"Vote of no confidence in Swansea University vice chancellor over job cuts" - BBC News share.google/S6IXx2Wk9SZP...

Vote of no confidence in Swansea University vice chancellor over job cuts - BBC News

UCU members at Swansea University pass a vote of no confidence in its vice chancellor due to job cuts.

share.google

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 11h

Some welcome news from @univeng.bsky.social 👇

Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 8d

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

University English Funding

universityenglish.ac.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 19h

Love: A RaceB4Race Symposium is now open for registration!

What does it mean to love in a time of turmoil, and what can the premodern world teach us about this? How do we negotiate loving a being, a nation, a profession that fails to love us back?

na.eventscloud.com/raceb4race-l...

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 1d

Many thanks 😊

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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 5d

What a great opportunity 👇

Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 8d

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

University English Funding

universityenglish.ac.uk

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 1d

Might Marlowe's Ovid be of interest?

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 1d

Call For Papers: Teaching With Ovid.

Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026.
Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU

Deadline 16 Jan.

The full Call For Papers can be accessed at the following link: https://shorturl.at/RiviU

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 1d

#FastFashion and #microplastics. They go together like indoor #AirPollution and lung disease.

A few profit and the rest of us pay, particularly the most vulnerable
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick

Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonnes of textile waste a year

www.theguardian.com

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 1d

I've lost track of how many people over the past years I've told to watch for Elizabeth Scott-Baumann's next book coming out, and now it's here. Proper good ideas: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Sex and Style

A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

press.princeton.edu

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Green Party for the last few days have gained 1000 new members every single day.

We've just reached 87,000 members!!!!

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski is the Mamdani of the UK - and he's Green!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

www.youtube.com

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow's teach out: meet the Modern Languages Team at 1.15 in SBB for their modern languages showcase.
Note the change in picket times!

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 2d

Teaching Term Week 1

- My Year 3 ug module #PremodernGothic starts today with Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" (1764)

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 2d

Teaching Term Week 1

- the @lancasterucu.bsky.social ballot to determine strike action against redundancies closes on Friday

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · Jul 30

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University

- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant

But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?

Please read 👇

Sign the petition 👇

chng.it/7F52bThYqn

Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

chng.it

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 3d

Just finished series 1 episode 2 : loving it so far but it's so on it

Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure if starting to watch "Severance" is a good idea right now 🤔

a group of people are sitting around a table in a kitchenette area

Alt: a group of people are sitting around a table in a kitchenette area

media.tenor.com

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Elaine Francis @greenlainey.bsky.social · 4d

Fills my heart to listen to @mothinali.bsky.social at @greenparty.org.uk conference this morning - speaking clear, genuine truth to power. And I feel seen. That can’t be underestimated.
Authentic, working class voices at the heart of Green politics. Thank you Mothin. It means so much 💚 #GPC25

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Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 4d

Beautiful, passionate world from our co deputy leader @mothinali.bsky.social thank you sir, you make me proud to be Green.

Mothin at a lecturn commanding a packed house at Green conference

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