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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 29d

When I quit grad school and left academia, I assumed I would never publish a book. So The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader is a literal dream come true. And now it gets to sit on my shelf with other publications that I have shepherded as an editor. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...

A magazine, The Nursing Clio Reader, and a booklet sit on a white bookshelf. Lying across the front is a Grammar Gavel.

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Nicola Kirkby @nicolakirkby.bsky.social · 29d

With huge thanks to @universitypress.cambridge.org, and an absolute village of colleagues, readers, badgerers, and dear friends for keeping this book on track.

Nicola Kirkby @nicolakirkby.bsky.social · 29d

Book news! I’m pleased to say that Railway Infrastructure and the Victoria Novel is now in circulation www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

www.cambridge.org

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Medusa’s Wink😉 @medusaswink.bsky.social · Aug 12

Disability is the one minority group that anyone could potentially join at any time. It spans all ages, classes, races, religions, genders, geography….

Disability justice intersects with every other form of oppression; ensuring disabled rights is key to ensuring human rights.

The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · Aug 12

The push against ableism isn’t just about individual rights.

It’s about dismantling broader systems of oppression that marginalize disabled individuals daily.

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · Jul 28

Shaimaa has a funded place at Edinburgh to study for a PhD with me, but is stuck in Gaza due to Home Office restrictions. I'm proud of her for speaking about her situation on TV and grateful to reporter Paris Gourtsoyannis for covering her story. news.stv.tv/east-central...

'I have a lifeline scholarship to study in Scotland - but I'm trapped in Gaza'

Shaimaa Abulebda has been given the chance to reclaim some of her old life - but remains stuck in Gaza because of government red tape.

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · Jul 23

I'm seeing an uptick in journal editors inquiring about @openlibhums.bsky.social and scholar-led, non-profit diamond #OpenAccess as a direct result of the Trump administration's crackdown on EDI and academic freedom. If we want research integrity, we need an independent academic publishing sector.

Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · Jul 23

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication

As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

www.theguardian.com

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Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social · Jul 22

Shaimaa’s PhD will be funded by @sgsah.bsky.social (supervised by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Will Tattersdill & me, in partnership with @commapress.bsky.social) - but she is currently trapped in Gaza unless the UK Gov relaxes its requirement for biometric data bsky.app/profile/comm...

Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · Jul 21

Shaymaa Abulebda, an influential writer & scholar from Gaza, should soon be starting a PhD at the University of Edinburgh [part of which is an internship at Comma]. Instead she lives in a tent in al-Mawasi displacement camp in the ruins of southern Gaza.
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · May 19

🚨 Datavis Job Alert! 🚨

Permanent Senior Lectureship in Data Visualization.

Exciting opportunity to join us @ giCentre, London to teach & research #datavis including our £11m Centre for Doctoral Training in Visualization.

Feel free to DM for informal chat.

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

Details | City St George's, University of London

Details of job vacancy at City St George's,, University of London

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk

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Nicola Kirkby @nicolakirkby.bsky.social · May 23

Last call for October 2025 entry to a fully funded 4-year PhD in #datavis 📊 with us at diverse-cdt.ac.uk (City St George's places).

Apply via diverse-cdt.ac.uk by 4pm 28th May.

We welcome applications from anyone with enthusiasm for #datavis.

Change what we can see. See what we can change.

Yellow banner across the top with black text reading "Looking for a funded PhD in data visualization?" and smaller text reading "EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training in Diversity in Data Visualization". Below this is a mosaic of around 100 different data visualizations in many colours and styles. Bellow that is another yellow banner with black text reading "Change what we can see. See what we can change". At the bottom is a QR code and associated URL pointing to https://diverse-cdt.ac.uk and the text 'Scan QR to apply'. To its right are three lines of text reading "DIVERSE-CDT offers fully funded 4-year PhDs in London or Warwick. One year of training and three years of internships, lab busts and study. Work as a cohort of PhD students for a career using data visualization". In the bottom right corner are three logos representing UKRI EPSRC, City St George's University of London, and Warwick University.

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · May 23

Our map of cold spots in provision of humanities and social sciences courses and student numbers across the UK has been updated with the data for the 2023/24 academic year. Explore for yourself here: buff.ly/2x7yE5K

A map of the UK, overlaid with a heat map that displays 'cold spots' where there is a lack of provision of social sciences and humanities higher education courses.

A map of the UK overlaid with colour coded circles that show the concentration of student numbers across different regions.

A line chart showing changes in student numbers over time.

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Nicola Kirkby @nicolakirkby.bsky.social · May 5

Proofs are in! 'Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel' should find its way into circulation later this year with CUP 👀🚂
Too many folk to thank here but those acknowledgements are full!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel

Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel

www.cambridge.org

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Jeremy Brice @jeremybrice.bsky.social · Apr 8

New Publication: Jo Hofer-Robinson, @nicolakirkby.bsky.social, Adam O'Brien & I ask how engaging with narrative fiction – and following characters’ encounters with infrastructures – might help scholars to navigate infrastructural (in)visibility. Available OA at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beyond Breakdown: Enacting Infrastructural Life with Augustin Daly’s Under the Gaslight

Alternation between mundane invisibility and spectacular foregrounding is a critical touchstone of infrastructural aesthetics. Infrastructure failures, which often mediate between these states, the...

www.tandfonline.com

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Nicola Kirkby @nicolakirkby.bsky.social · May 5

It was such a pleasure collaborating on this, and I'm so grateful to you, Adam, and Jo for persevering with it while I was out of action.

Nicola Kirkby @nicolakirkby.bsky.social · Mar 10

DIVERSE CDT are hiring! Are you...?
✅ a Research Software Engineer 👩‍💻
✅ interested in Diversifying Data Visualization 📊
✅ looking for your next career step 👀
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre... #datavis #softwareengineer #EPSRC

Quick Check Needed

warwick-careers.tal.net

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Nicola Kirkby @nicolakirkby.bsky.social · Mar 3

Please share this opportunity widely and please do send anyone curious (you? your students?) my way.

Led by an interdisciplinary team at City St George's and Warwick

Deadline: 28th March (4pm GMT), info @ diverse-cdt.ac.uk

Cohort-based training PhD to become a future leader in #DataVis.

Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · Mar 3

More places available for fully funded 4-year PhDs in #datavis 📊 with us at diverse-cdt.ac.uk in London / Warwick.

We welcome applications from anyone with enthusiasm for #datavis. We aim to diversify approaches to datavis & the people who lead it.

Change what we can see. See what we can change.

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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · Mar 3

More places available for fully funded 4-year PhDs in #datavis 📊 with us at diverse-cdt.ac.uk in London / Warwick.

We welcome applications from anyone with enthusiasm for #datavis. We aim to diversify approaches to datavis & the people who lead it.

Change what we can see. See what we can change.

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Nicola Kirkby @nicolakirkby.bsky.social · Nov 30

The Duke of York is quite music-free and quite crusty, but perhaps not pokey enough.

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · Nov 30

Have you checked out the latest issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social? A fav new issue dedicated to Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures guest-edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and @nicolakirkby.bsky.social

Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/915/in...

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social · Nov 13

The first article in our latest issue is ‘Net-Work: Irish Sea Crossings with and beyond Infrastructure’. Claire Connolly & James L. Smith w/ Daniella Traynor discuss what the digital humanities can bring to the study of travel &sea crossings. Read here: 19.bbk.ac.uk

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Nicola Kirkby @nicolakirkby.bsky.social · Nov 18

So proud of this issue! Thank you to our fantastic contributors - @claireconnolly.bsky.social James Smith, Danielle Traynor, Ruth Livesey, Caroline Sumpter, Karin Koehler, Alicia Barnes, Kameron Sanzo, and Susan Zieger.

Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · Nov 14

New #openaccess issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social! ‘Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures’, a fav new issue guest-edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and Nicola Kirkby that brings C19th projects into dialogue with critical infrastructure studies.

Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/915/in...

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Nicola Kirkby @nicolakirkby.bsky.social · Sep 26

Academic development: don't be afraid of asking difficult questions
Academic management: don't ask difficult questions

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Nicola Kirkby @nicolakirkby.bsky.social · Sep 19

Love to be welcomed here with the question: would you like to follow this moss feed?

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