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Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social · 13h

Next email: “how to use AI to detect your students’ use of AI in assessments!”

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." #HannahArendt

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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 1d

The Department of Theology at Loyola University Maryland invites applications for the position of assistant professor, tenure-track, in the area of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

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Assistant Professor of Theology

Position Title Assistant Professor of Theology Employee Type Regular Office/Department Theology Work Environment Loyola University Maryland Main Campus Job Type Full time Anticipated Start Date 07/01/...

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Steve Sanderson @steve-sando1.bsky.social · 4d

Female Kingfisher sat up nicely while hunting along Hannafore beach yesterday.
#Cornwall #birding #birds #Naturelovers #birdphotography
#Naturephotography
#Wildlifephotography

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 2d

Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.

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Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social · 2d

I once did a continental European viva: large panel of examiners, room full of candidate’s colleagues, family & friends. 2 hours in, a panel member on Teams (unwittingly) nearly reduced me to hysterics: camera pointing at his ear; he rose & sank in his seat throughout his report, seemingly unaware.

Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 2d

I was just in a Teams meeting with a colleague who'd just got a new standing desk and kept accidentally hitting the controls to change its height, and when she did she'd slowly vanish from the screen like she was in a lift and it really made my day 🤣🤣🤣

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 4d

Full article is available here via @conservativehome.bsky.social: conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r...

Robert Buckland: Leaving the ECHR would be a grave mistake | Conservative Home

Withdrawal from the ECHR would upset the delicate political balance in Northern Ireland, compromise our extradition and security arrangements, and damage our moral authority abroad. Above all, it woul...

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 7d

So the church (C of E, anyway) has finally caught up with the very first moments of Christianity as a faith, in which women were the first witnesses and teachers.

Large group of male disciples to three women: 'So ladies, thanks for being the first to witness and report the resurrection and we'll take it from here'. Cartoon by @nakedpastor: https://nakedpastor.com/

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 8d

Research/Senior Research Fellow (Historical & Systematic Theology) at Australian Catholic University

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOX015/r...

Research/Senior Research Fellow (Historical & Systematic Theology) at Australian Catholic University

Apply now for the Research/Senior Research Fellow (Historical & Systematic Theology) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social · 8d

Yes and take a flask of hot honey and lemon with you. I find drinking something warm/hot in pauses as you speak really helps (not cold water).

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Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social · 9d

This… is a thing of beauty.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 9d

JOB AD: 3 3-year postdocs available at the Bonn Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies (BCDSS) @dependencybonn.de: I can highly recommend it as a place to spend (some of) your postdoc phase -- a deeply interdisciplinary environment with wonderful colleagues. shorturl.at/69hMY

3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)

full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152

www.uni-bonn.de

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Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social · 9d

Terrific article by Richard Ovenden: energetic advocacy for the goods of public libraries (& a challenge to tech giants’ claims to offer free access to unlimited information). I’ll always be grateful that my local library allowed me to explore widely in my reading as a child.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 9d

'Our public libraries are free in three critical senses. Firstly, they cost nothing to join and to use. Secondly, they are open to all in our communities. We must also add a third concept of freedom: the freedom to read – to engage, without restraint, a diversity of knowledge and opinion'.

Libraries are palaces for the people. Their ramparts need...

The spirit of inquiry that led to Britain’s first public library opening its doors 173 years ago needs to be rekindled

observer.co.uk

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 9d

This is all made possible by an Exeter Arts and Culture Fellowship that brought Chris Hoban and I together to explore creative approaches to historic wills.

Read more about what we got up to in this blog post: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

A group of five photographs, the first two show Laura Sangha and Chris Hoban talking to a seated audience, Chris plays guitar and accordian. One shows two workshop attendees transfering designs onto squares of lino. Another shows two attendees working on their linocuts, the final photo shows a person applying ink to the surface of their linocut.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 9d

Wills featured in our 'show' include those of a Devon mariner, Tudor lady in waiting, cuckolded husband, and a widow in plague ravaged London.

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📜Stories & Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives
📅Sat 11 Oct, 1.30-3pm
📍Exeter Phoenix

Claim your FREE ticket www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1738865536...

Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives

A unique performance of history and original music inspired by Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 9d

📢Devon folk: Chris and I are bringing our stories & songs to Exeter Phoenix!

If you'd like to learn more about the lives of #EarlyModern folk, to join us on Saturday 11 October 1:30pm for music inspired by the wills & the #History behind them.

@uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social

A poster advertising 'Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives, an event at FUTURES Festival of Discovery, with Chris Hoban and Laura Sangha. There is a photo of a will and the university of Exeter and UKRI logos.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 10d

Hearing aids are also much more effective if you start using them sooner rather than later, and deafness, if you’re not part of the Deaf community, is isolating. (Which may help explain the dementia business, but the isolation is miserable even if it doesn’t affect you that way).

Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 11d

What if there is a tech device that will substantially decrease your risk of dementia?

My new blog post. And yes, I have started using this device.

(Hearing aids. Hearing loss is strongly associated with dementia risk. Hearing aids solve things.)

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...

A Tech Device to Prevent Cognitive Decline and Dementia

Imagine if there were a tech device that could substantially decrease your chances of developing dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Would you be interested in using it?

www.psychologytoday.com

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Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social · 10d

Classic example of Letting an Organising Metaphor Run Away from You.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 10d

These delicate studies of a spring and a stem of elderberry were captured by May Morris. 🌿

May Morris (1862–1938) was an influential embroiderer and designer of the Arts & Crafts movement in mid-19th-century Britain.

A watercolour drawing of an elderberry leaf and fruit with dark blue/black berries

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 10d

Fungi, galls and snoozing ladybirds from a walk along Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire, last week.
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#fungi
#invertebrates

Pen and watercolour sketches of fungi and oak galls

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11d

RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11d

‘analysis of the [graduate] wage premium… by leading… economists determined it was “extraordinarily flat” between the 1990s & 2010s, despite a near tripling in the share of working adults with an undergraduate degree over the period.’
Good piece from @amyborrett.ft.com
on.ft.com/3Kn1ioF

No, the UK has not reached ‘peak graduate’

The salary and non-salary data show degrees still deliver for students in the long run

on.ft.com

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 13d

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World- King's College London - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London

Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 13d

Lecturer in Irish/British History
King's College London - Department of #History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...

Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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David Hartwell @davidhartwell.bsky.social · 15d

Hannah Arendt should be compulsory reading for everyone right now.

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