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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 22h

Just don't share A.I. slop of any sort. I've seen a wave of Sora shit on various social media platforms.
A.I. is destructive on too many levels to ever encourage anyone to use it, and sharing or liking is encouragement.
Complicity in the destruction of our planet and humanity.

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

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 · 1d

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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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 1d

🎓Join us for our Careers Open Day - a chance to explore exciting roles, meet the team and discover how to enter these professions.

📅What's on📅
👤Chat with staff!
📚Book a Library tour!
🕰Enjoy our collections!
🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector!
🎶Explore our current exhibition

Picture of the reading room with yellow text over the top, reading Lambeth Palace Library Career Open Day, for ages 16-18 plus undergrads and career changers, 30th October opening times 10am-4pm, 15 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7JT

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 6d

Dame Janet Nelson was the first female President @royalhistsoc.org (2000-04) and is the subject of 'Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles', also edited by Alice Rio, and published in 'Transactions of the RHS' earlier this year.

Available Open Access bit.ly/4nyYx2k #Skystorians

First page of the journal article: 'Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles' with full abstract: "This collection gathers thirteen contributions by a number of historians, friends, colleagues and/or students of Jinty’s, who were asked to pick their favourite article by her and say a few words about it for an event held in her memory on 15 January 2025 at King’s College London. We offer this collection in print now for a wider audience not so much because it has any claim to be exhaustive or authoritative, but because taken all together these pieces seemed to add up to a useful retrospective on Jinty’s work, its wider context, and its impact on the
field over the decades. We hope that, for those who know her work well already, this may be an opportunity to remember some of her classic (and a few less classic) articles, while at the same time serving as an accessible introduction to her research for anyone who knew her without necessarily knowing about her field, as well as for a new and younger generation of readers."

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7d

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 7d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · 8d

It's the final countdown... ⏳

The #IMC2026 session and round table portal will be CLOSED at midnight BST tonight.

Don't forget to make your submission here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/pro...

#Medievalsky #Medieval #Skystorians #IMC2026

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12d

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 13d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · 14d

The leading international journal ‘Gender & History’ (@genderandhistory.bsky.social) has moved to the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, edin.ac/46z9jy5

#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Gender

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Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 18d

"Most problems in writing come from the anxiety caused by the unconscious realization that what you write is you and has to be held out for others to see.", 🎯

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 18d

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 18d

I'm a bit concerned about the use of the word "clash" here, @theguardian.com. Not only does this imply 'two-sideism' (my favourite bit is designation of anti-racist protesters as "hardcore" - turns out the only thing they were 'hardcore' about is techno) but also a physical conflict. Was there one?

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 22d

'Women’s rights organizations are rejecting your cynical weaponization of our pain for your racist agenda.’

Every woman needs to say this as often and as loudly as they are able to.

Silkabelli (mutazione-piromane Edition) @silkabelli.bsky.social · 22d

Queen

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 23d

Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal.

This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer.

#MedievalMonday

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 29d

It's clear to everyone the BBC is giving Nigel Farage and Reform far too much coverage. It is dangerous and it has to stop.

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Naomi @naominar.bsky.social · Sep 8

Just 1 week left to submit an abstract! #historysky #medievalsky #academicsky

Naomi @naominar.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just over 2 weeks left to apply to the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference! It will take place in Oxford on April 20-21, 2026. We hope to provide bursaries to help with attendance. Email your abstracts to bordersboundariesbarriers[at]gmail[dot]com
#medievalsky #skystorians

Full plain text available at: https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/24/cfp-borders-boundaries-and-barriers-real-and-imagined-in-the-middle-ages/

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · Sep 6

Also, side note: the "I love the smell" line comes immediately after Colonel Kilgore orders an airstrike on a village full of civilian women and children so they're out of his way so he can surf.

Unintentional, but pretty fucking on the nose

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just to make this clear, Chicago is in Illinois, a.US State. Chicago is part of the United States. He is declaring war on the United States.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ah yes.

An image that reads: "Anti-intellectual. Universities are branded as incubators of liberalism, Marxism and feminism. Expertise no longer has any value. #howfascismworks." The quote is taken from the book How Fascism Works, by Jason Stanley.

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Ana Roda Sánchez @arodsan95.bsky.social · Aug 31

Only a week left for this #cfp!! 🤗
Come and join us in Leeds!

@medievalgeorgie.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social

#skystorians #medieval #premoderncriticalracestudies #medievalsky #imc2026 #imc #historians #medievalhistory #premodernrace #racialisation #imc2025

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Sep 2

Anyone I know on a visa is 100% of the time nervous about that visa. They're not going to try to just oopsie their way into staying in the UK for longer. All this correspondence does is intimidate an already very intimidated demographic.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 2

Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Aug 31

I don't think I've used this word much, if ever, to talk about public policy. But some of the things being both said and implied about migrants are evil. And we should say that.

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · Aug 30

Great article in The Mill reporting on the people behind the flag-raising in Greater Manchester - quality journalism. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him

Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van

manchestermill.co.uk

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Aug 29

Exciting news! ✨

The recorded lecture given by Dr Joseph Mason in association with our 'Sing Joyfully' exhibition has just been published on our YouTube!

If you missed the lecture or are interested in musical manuscripts, then give this video a watch! 🎶

Dr Joseph Mason: Notes from the archive: a tour through pre-modern music in Lambeth Palace Library.

On 31 July 2025, Dr Joseph Mason gave a short paper to introduce the exhibition 'Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library'. In particular, he discussed a newly discovered piece of…

youtu.be

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Dan Armstrong @historydan1066.bsky.social · Aug 29

1/20 A thread about the appearance of the ‘Papal Banner’ in episode seven of #KingandConqueror. In an article that was published in 2021 in the @haskinssociety.bsky.social Journal, I expressed some scepticism about the veracity of William of Poitiers’ claim that the papacy sponsored the Norman...

Papal Banner depicted in the BBC series King and Conqueror

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