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Jack Flaherty @meanderinghist.bsky.social · 3d

Which is interrupted by an advert for an American mattress company

Jack Flaherty @meanderinghist.bsky.social · 3d

If there are a lot of episodes, I will have a problem with their voice or laughter. The only podcast that I have been able to get into is Mike Duncan's Revolutions. Once he started talking with another person, I couldn't deal with his podcast laugh

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Jack Flaherty @meanderinghist.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly. I want the most nerdy podcast that probably only 10 people listen to, which is part of the reason why they aren't done

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oupips.bsky.social @oupips.bsky.social · 6d

OU PIPs kick off with inspiring ‘Welcome Week’ event

As part of this year’s Open University Welcome Week, the newly formed Politics, International Relations and Policy Society (PIPs) held its first event with Matt Staples, Head of the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies (SSGS) and Dr…

OU PIPs kick off with inspiring ‘Welcome Week’ event

As part of this year’s Open University Welcome Week, the newly formed Politics, International Relations and Policy Society (PIPs) held its first event with Matt Staples, Head of the School of Social Sciences and Global Studies (SSGS) and Dr Edward Wastnidge, Head of Politics and International Studies. Hosted by Jack Flaherty, Faculty Representative for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS).

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Jack Flaherty @meanderinghist.bsky.social · 9d

Tonight at 6:30pm!

oupips.bsky.social @oupips.bsky.social · 17d

Join us on 30th September - 6.30pm - 7.30pm, joined with Matt Staples and Dr. Edward Wastnidge will be sharing how the Open University’s teaching, research, and wider engagement in politics and international relations connect with the aims of our new society

Join: www.oustudents.com/ents/event/2...

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Jack Flaherty @meanderinghist.bsky.social · 12d

I'm at @oustudents.bsky.social at @oulibrary.bsky.social for an Welcome Week event. I'm representing the future @oupips.bsky.social

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 14d

Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage.

Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

Freedom and Sharing at the Internet Archive Europe

On Friday, in a narrow, cream-painted 17th-century row house facing a wide canal bathed in golden light, the Internet Archive Europe celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Amsterdam. Around...

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oupips.bsky.social @oupips.bsky.social · 17d

Join us on 30th September - 6.30pm - 7.30pm, joined with Matt Staples and Dr. Edward Wastnidge will be sharing how the Open University’s teaching, research, and wider engagement in politics and international relations connect with the aims of our new society

Join: www.oustudents.com/ents/event/2...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17d

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 17d

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 19d

One of our most pernicious social trends, which I think emerged from Covid and seems to have been retained more among the middle classes. It brings out my inner contrarian: I will just walk past the queue and, interestingly, bar staff don’t punish you. The queue itself only responds with glares

Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 19d

I wrote about the most frightening and dangerous trend in Britain

www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

Queueing in pubs disgraces Britain

The practice is unpatriotic and must be banned

www.newstatesman.com

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Helen @helenpins.bsky.social · 19d

Please be prepared for this to become my entire personality (yes, it always has been, but now I will have stats to back up my tenacity) #historyteacher #EndSexismInSchools #women observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Girls just want to be in our history textbooks

Women are still largely missing from the history we teach in classrooms. If we want a fairer future, we must stop erasing half the past

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 19d

Have a good weekend

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Jack Flaherty @meanderinghist.bsky.social · 20d

I wrote an article about why Wikipedia still matters and how everyone can get involved with the project. I'll be running a session on how to get started as part of Welcome Week for @oustudents.bsky.social thehootstudents.com/why-wikipedi...

THE HOOT

A place for OU students...

thehootstudents.com

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 20d

If a history, arts, heritage, or craft account adds ALT text to images, it's usually a pretty good indicator that a) they are fairly decent folk and b) not a content scraper.

Why? Fairly decent folk understand the importance of inclusivity and content scrapers don't care.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 20d

A plagiarism on both your houses!

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 20d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

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Jack Flaherty @meanderinghist.bsky.social · 20d

I wrote an article about why Wikipedia still matters and how everyone can get involved with the project. I'll be running a session on how to get started as part of Welcome Week for @oustudents.bsky.social thehootstudents.com/why-wikipedi...

THE HOOT

A place for OU students...

thehootstudents.com

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Ian Watt @watty62.bsky.social · 21d

Meet the wonderful George Pendergast who, at 100 years of age, edits #Wikipedia and uses #AI.

Come to #Aberdeen #Wikimetup and we'll show you how easy and satisfying it is.

ti.to/code-the-cit...

It is time to #BeMoreGeorge

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What one centenarian can teach us about 25 years of Wikipedia

As Wikipedia approaches its 25th birthday, we have another monumental anniversary to celebrate.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 22d

Book bans get headlines, but the bigger threat to books is hiding in plain sight: A handful of companies control how ebooks reach readers, and they can cut off access with a click.

New from @mariabustillos.com in @columjournreview.bsky.social ⤵️

Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 23d

There's a bigger threat to books than bans: monopoly of distribution, by @mariabustillos.com.
www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

There's a bigger threat to books than bans.

Access to e-books relies entirely on private distributors that have the power to shut them off at any moment.

www.cjr.org

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 24d

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later.

Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.

Many implications for knowledge 🧪

A line chart showing that 38% of webpages from 2013 were no longer accessible one decade later.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23d

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

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Jack Flaherty @meanderinghist.bsky.social · 23d

There's been a great initiative over the summer by the @openuniversity.bsky.social Arts and Humanities school students to run a weekly writing workshop. One student wrote up their summary about it for the Hoot @oustudents.bsky.social thehootstudents.com/arts-and-hum...

Arts and humanities student common room workshops

Charity Reed tells us about the benefits of the OU arts and humanities common room workshops, set up earlier this year.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 28d

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 29d

AJP Taylor - not a referencing guy

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Jack Flaherty @meanderinghist.bsky.social · Sep 6

Good choice in pubs despite her choice in unis

Jack Flaherty @meanderinghist.bsky.social · Sep 6

Very much looking forward to working with the 121 @oustudents.bsky.social student reps who will be serving on @openuniversity.bsky.social committees for the next two years, especially the 11 other FASS students who I will be collaborating with www.oustudents.com/news/article...

Our new student rep term begins (after an amazing summer of recruitment)

We've excited to have kicked off a brand-new term for our student representatives this week, and we have some fantastic updates to share.

www.oustudents.com