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Greg Walker
@gregmw4.bsky.social
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Literature Prof at the University of Edinburgh, fan of Prog rock and Nottingham Forest.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 48m
If that's a step back from actual use to potential use of more-than-double-weighting, that would be a real step backward for the 'book disciplines' in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Hope that the obvious logic of more-than-double-weighting will be respected. 2/2
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3h
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 3h
Incidentally English graduates are in demand by tech companies who need to translate what they do into understandable language for their business customers in particular.

But why let facts get in the way of a stupid soundbite?
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 5h
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 3d
Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
Lecturer - English
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...
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Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social · 4d
Disadvantaged students ‘more likely to miss out on GCSE foreign languages’

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Disadvantaged students ‘more likely to miss out on GCSE foreign languages’
In 2004, language learning ceased to be compulsory at Key Stage 4, aged 14 to 16.
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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 5d
What a great opportunity 👇
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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
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Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social · 7d
Report out from Sweden's HUMTANK that shows the vital importance of humanities-based courses/influence in higher education programs leading to a profession. The report is based on a study of programs in engineering, medicine, and police training. Recommendations include:

humtank.se/ny-rapport-f...
Ny rapport från Humtank – humaniora i professionsutbildningar
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 9d
´Pope arrives in Oxford to challenge old Exam results.´
‘He just appeared in the quad, announced he was infallible & refused to leave until we’d regraded him to a First’, observed a shaken Dame Eleanor Fitzbadderley, Mistress of Boverille College. ‘& then his attack-deacons drank all the sherry...’
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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 11d
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World (King's College London):

memorients.com/news/lecture...
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World (King's College London) | MEMOs
King's College London - Department of History
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13d
Would find this more convincing if the elephant in the room were addressed head on: research cultures develop/are enacted in research (& teaching) structures. The REF2029 cycle has seen extraordinary structural change. Will/how will PCE assess cultures in this context? 1/2
Is research culture really too hard to assess?
Yolana Pringle and Ben Tatler make the case that the REF pause should be the moment to build on the most substantial sector-wide collaboration ever undertaken on research environments
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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · Sep 2
I'm organizing a seminar on "climate fictions before climate change" for next year's acla in montréal. if you have sth: pls submit; if you know someone: pls share widely!

www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...
View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 14d
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 19d
‘And if they don’t have the crispy duck; I’ll just take the chicken in black bean sauce...’ (‘Many would argue that Sir Delivier la Roux’s storied career rested on completing one of the easier Grail Quests...’)
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 19d
‘Some’
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 19d
I’m pretty sure that that is no comfort in the present shit-storm in academia- especially in the Arts - but it is the situation as I see it. The best of good luck, btw. I hope things will get better at sone point…
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 19d
…have looked at your application before and chosen you, so I’m not going wildly off-road in shortlisting you now.) The problem is, of course, that this this worst time for ECRs in my lifetime. Every entry level job is attracting people who’ve been made redundant from ‘long-term’ posts.
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 19d
Hi Sam, for what it’s worth, in my experience on shortlisting and interview panels, experience of short-term jobs is a definite advantage. It reveals you can do the job, or one very similar, have experience of working in different institutions, and (more subliminally) that other selectors… 1/2
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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 20d
And the situation in Medieval history... I've had several conversations this summer about whether our field will survive. If I left my job now, not only would I.not be replaced by a medievalist, I wouldn't be replaced at all. 1/
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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21d
“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 22d
OTD in year 650 of the Third Age: Owing to a persistent glitch in the world-leading University of Numenor course allocation software, Galadriel found herself registered for both Troll Studies A and B and ‘Living Under Bridges: New Perspectives/New Directions’ in Semester 2...’
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 22d
OTD in year 650 of the Third Age: Owing to a persistent glitch in the world-leading University of Numenor course allocation software, Galadriel found herself registered for both Troll Studies A and B and ‘Living Under Bridges: New Perspectives/New Directions’ in Semester 2...’
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Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social · 26d
The people who are supposedly 'the voice' of research intensive universities don't understand research funding or even research. A truly embarrassing organisation
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 26d
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”
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · 29d
‘No, he definitely wants it to be called, ‘The Great D’Artagnan and His Three Older, Less Interesting Friends...’’
The little shi…. Look, he’s not here yet; change it to ‘The Three Musketeers’ and there’s a tenner in it for you...
(‘The stories Behind Great Book Titles’ number 15)
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · Sep 8
1.The McKellen-Dench Macbeth
2. The Shrew in Leicester with Josette Simon as Kate
3. Adrian Scarborough as Hamlet in Coventry
4. RSC 12th Night with Derek Griffiths as Feste
5. Robert Stephens as Lear at the NT
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · Sep 7
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social · Sep 7
A fine birthday weekend with old friends and carnivorous plants…
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