#jobfairy - don' t sleep on this, Dublin City Uni seeking a medievalist (Irish and/or European history) but deadline only two weeks away! #skystorians

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...

anyway, spf and self-care are for losers; the more you do that the slower you'll reach the goal, which is - free halloween costume! (As all the horror bros keep telling us the scariest thing in the world is a naked old lady).

I spent all day yesterday weirdly convinced it was Thursday, and let me tell you today I am a living embodiment of the Captain it's Wednesday meme.

All I think about when reading this is how many jobs the money spent on that pile of brick and glass could have saved in smaller humanities departments - my own colleagues. It’s like building a monument of gold in a landscape of wrack and ruin.

V much a:
uni sector: we need number caps to stop our industry collapsing!

Tories: OK!!!!!

uni sector: not like that 😱

I find it strangely beautiful and freeing that (even if just a few cases, and with a struggle) we've made it possible for peoples to be 'voluntarily isolated' & it is incredibly telling about the grossest side of humanity that there are others whose immediate instinct is to try to violate that right

She was a good dog.

good luck!

Reminder that basing funding on graduate income incentivises unis to close courses like nursing (too poorly paid), and to discriminate against female students and most minority ethnic groups (whose earnings on graduation are lower than white men).

also a more general point about this:

I'm starting to lose respect for tech people who have to run around being condescending about people who don't understand the various nuances of machine learning.

It frustrates me, too! But I also recognize where the blame for this mass societal confusion lies

…this has been open and obvious public knowledge for the better part of two years? maybe longer? and their contract with the service provider disallows said service provider from commercializing bsky data (so, like, no training allowed). are any of these words too long for you i can try to simplify

the complete disregard for copyright that slopAI has created is rubbing off on me, I'm going feral with my ebooks*

(*) screenshotted one that isn't downloadable so that I can read it while offline, exhilarated by my crimes.

The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️

👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.

🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

Speaking as someone who does *some* public speaking events and travel, this is making me feel dizzy 🤒

a really big difference between Ireland and the UK is that someone with the temerity to be the a member of the tenant class simply would not rise to be deputy editor of a national newspaper.

#NoodleTuesday last packet of the old season and it’s a solid basic one. This has such a strong roast duck scent it’s always going to be slightly disappointing to taste. Much improved with veg and egg, but filling despite size & some decent heat too 3/5

Really shaken up this morning to learn of the passing of historian Scott Moir, a really good person who stood for all the right things.

My best possible wishes to his family, loved ones, and friends.

obituaries.thespec.com/obituary/dr-...

what's covid?

#JobFairy - if you really are looking to get out, get away, the University of the South Pacific is looking for a historian. 5 years in the first instance, looks like mostly remote teaching though?
recruitment.usp.ac.fj/job/e57a20fd...

*peers through two holes cut in a newspaper*
www.spymuseum.org/about/career...

The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth

A letter from the Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network, signed by over a hundred people including rabbis, published in the Herald today: archive.ph/BRTCY

For the people at the back - TS also used slopAI in a recent promo and honestly, imagine being that rich and still choosing not to pay an artist. I'm getting backlash vibes on lyrics and choices and hanging out with the wrong people and I am not even that plugged in.