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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 9d

📢 Applications are now open for the Joint BME Small Grants scheme, supporting research, events & activities by BME historians or on BME histories.

💸 Grants up to £1000.
⏰Deadline: 27 Nov 2025.

#history #apply #funding #opportunity

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Joint BME Small Grants

The Social History Society administers a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities undertaken by BME historians or focused on the histories of BME people The scheme was launched …

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 21d

So we want more people to have the skills to engage critically with the ambiguous stuff circulating in a post-truth online world?

Turns out, those History of Art degrees were not such a bad idea after all.

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The viral statue attributed to Jaume Plensa and located in Barcelona that doesn't actually exist

A fake AI-generated image sparks thousands of reactions: How to stop the lie?

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · 21d

This has been my favourite episode of the Antisocial Economics podcast so far - but they are all excellent.

LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Aug 13

Episode three of Antisocial Economics is out now!

@wealtherty.bsky.social talks to Professor Gurminder Bhambra about the colonial history of wealth and its implications in the contemporary racial wealth divide. Who actually paid for the things we think of as ‘ours’ like the NHS?

Antisocial Economics

What is wealth? How come so many of us haven’t got any? How does wealth inequality make poverty worse? In the UK and other rich economies, wealth inequality and poverty are at incredibly high…

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · Aug 7

Looking forward to the annual conference of the @rgsibg.bsky.social and rediscovering Birmingham after too many years of only being there long enough to transfer between trains.

Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · Aug 6

Using DuckDuckGo for web searches is great - not missing the ads, not missing the (frequently inaccurate) AI summaries.

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Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social · Jul 28

The consultants who worked on Warwick have done a few others it seems (but not "Beyonder"!): mammoth.tv/education/

Mammoth Education – Global Brand Consultancy for Education

Brand Thinking for Education Marketing. UK's leading brand consultants for universities, trusted to deliver large-scale transformation programmes that redefine institutional identity and reputation.

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IPPR North @ipprnorth.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚨 Today we publish State of the North 2025 🚨

The North gets just half as much arts and culture funding per person as London. We reveal the impact this & other regional divides have on young people, and what must change 👇

www.ippr.org/articles/the...

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · Jul 16

Ash Sarkar's book 'Minority Rule' is brilliant - incisive, funny, depressing, but also strangely empowering account of the last few years in UK politics

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/minority-...

Minority Rule

**A Guardian Book of the Summer 2025**** The instant top 5 Sunday Times bestseller from political commentator Ash Sarkar **'One of the boldest and most exciting…

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · Jul 10

New drawing: Hire bike

Notes on this cartoon: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

Cartoon showing street scene with lots of cars, some of which are on or blocking pavements. One bike is also parked on a pavement. A couple are saying ‘Look - someone’s left a hire bike on the pavement’.

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer @tricyclemayor.bsky.social · Jul 9

Great to see outputs from the NİHR LTNs in London project starting to be published.

Huge public health benefits of LTNs.

'Across the LTNs as a whole, the authors said, an estimated 613 injuries were prevented, including 100 deaths or serious injuries'

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’

Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods

www.theguardian.com

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School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social · Jul 2

Are we leaving parts of the country behind in the EV transition?

Labib Azzouz & Hannah Budnitz @tsuoxford.bsky.social explore the uneven rollout of electric vehicle charging points across the UK.

The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · Jul 2

Government investment in neighbourhood EV chargers cannot replace investment at motorway services.

Where does the UK most need more public EV chargers?

Government investment in neighbourhood EV chargers cannot replace investment at motorway services.

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · Jun 20

Where I am with AI

I have discussed AI use with many colleagues and friends. Some of them work in research, teaching, and administration in higher education; others have generously shared experiences from other sectors. I am now fully convinced that the costs of using AI as part of my work – to myself; to the environment; to the precariously employed people who maintain these systems ‘behind the scenes,’ and face harm as a result – far outweigh the benefits.
As a result, I have decided to make a pledge not to use AI in my professional work. I am sharing this pledge firstly, for accountability; and secondly, because I hope to amplify the minority of voices who remind us that this is not the unstoppable march of history and progress; just one type of technology that we can buy into, or not. My own view is that AI use is not universally beneficial, necessary, or inevitable.
Maybe the costs and benefits will shift later on. But for now, I am going to keep AI out of my research, teaching, and outreach work; I will not use it to make slides, to get a quick summary of others’ work, to write up my own, or to reply to emails. There are practical limits to this choice: averting my eyes when my default search engine puts AI-generated results in front of me may be a step too far. But wherever opting out is a feasible option, I will opt out.

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · May 21

Devastated to learn that EVERY SINGLE ONE of my former #DisabilityStudies colleagues at Liverpool Hope are at risk of redundancy. Lovely people and a brilliant team that has transformed the lives of so many students. If you know them please do reach out - things are very tough right now.

Union vows to fight cuts at Liverpool Hope

Liverpool Hope University intends to axe 39 staff before the end of the year, announced the University and College Union (UCU) today

www.ucu.org.uk

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · May 15

We particularly hope to hear from researchers with experience in participatory mapping with children and young people (not necessarily in a road safety context)

Do contact either Xiao or me if you want to discuss informally.

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · May 15

Job vacancy: Research Associate in Road Safety Inequalities (24 months; full-time; based @tsuoxford.bsky.social )

Come and work with Xiao Li @xiaoli-transport.bsky.social (PI) and myself on a new project on road safety and children with SEND

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Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford @tsuoxford.bsky.social · Apr 4

On Walk to Work Day, @valenmontoya.bsky.social highlights an example of commuting that isn't so straightforward. #walktoworkday @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/good-on...

"The good ones cross over the bridge, and the bad ones go underneath."

On Walk to Work Day, Valentina Montoya Robledo highlights the story of women who cross the Colombia-Venezuela border every day to work.

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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · Apr 1

Interested in making government more effective? Applications for our 2025–26 research internship programme, starting in September 2025, are now open.

Closing date: Tuesday 29 April, 11:00 ⏰

Find out more:
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/about-us/car...

A job advert for research internships 2025-26 at the IfG.

Six one-year, full-time internships starting in September 2025.

Salary: £30,000

Deadline: Tuesday 2 April, 11:00

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Cllr Rob Wilson 🔶 @robwilson.bsky.social · Mar 28

Walk down a footpath on residential street, and it’s always the slabs on nearest the kerb that are more cracked and broken…

A footpath made of slabs. The slabs nearest the houses are mostly unbroken. The slabs near the road are mostly cracked.

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · Mar 9

I loved contributing to this book review forum on Romit Chowdhury's wonderful 'City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport'

You can read my review alongside those of some outstanding scholars in the latest issue of Urban Geography - www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4...

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · Feb 23

Agreed; wonderful paper!

Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · Feb 23

Honestly felt emotional reading these comments from parents on their role once the kids are aged 18-25 (mine are some way off that).

Recommend reading this if you work in/around transport policy and your work addresses car dependence.

Car attachment is rarely described with such care and empathy.

Car ownership through the parenting journey and beyond

Attachments to private cars are as complex as they are problematic. They reflect legacies of urban form, and culturally inculcated appreciations of au…

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · Feb 20

I was curious: How do people judge if they make financially literate decisions in daily life? I found that financial literacy (a very fuzzy & problematic concept) is something we try to make sense of as part of our relationships with significant others. More here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Worrying the right amount: Intimate relationships and the emotional work of pursuing financial literacy together

This paper explores how expectations of financial literacy are negotiated within intimate relationships. Institutional normative discourses of managing money and finance well urge individuals to cu...

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · Feb 19

Did you know that @ccriadoperez.bsky.social is giving this year's @tsuoxford.bsky.social Annual Lecture on 5 March? It's on 'Women, travel, and data bias' and you can attend in person in Oxford, or online:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-trav...

Women, travel and data bias

TSU Annual Lecture 2025, Caroline Criado Perez

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · Feb 6

The 'Get Swindon Moving' forum coordinated by @swindoncouncil.bsky.social submitted written evidence to the recent 'Buses Connecting Communities' inquiry. This has been published alongside another 113 responses; have a browse here, it's fascinating I promise: committees.parliament.uk/work/8619/bu...

Buses connecting communities - Written evidence - Committees - UK Parliament

Written evidence submission publications for Buses connecting communities.

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Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social · Feb 3

Have you signed up yet?

The wonderful Prof Rachel Aldred is giving a webinar as part of the @tsuoxford.bsky.social 2025 seminar series. She will discuss unequal mobilities and active travel, and you can register here: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/event/unequa...

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Andrew Williams @williamsapj.bsky.social · Jan 28

Thanks for sharing

The proposed plans include a 20% cut to Geography and Planning academic staff (10-15 FTE)

We are all a bit shell-shocked

But we will organise and strategise as a School tomorrow

Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · Jan 28

The first domino in what will surely be a cascade. The uni sector needs some radical new political impetus, and quickly

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

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs

Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

www.bbc.co.uk

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