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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 2d

Read. Read widely, randomly, for fun. Be led by your curiosity. Read fiction. Recommend your favourite books to your loved ones. Re-read the books from your childhood. Books are a uniquely portable kind of magic. Carry a book or three with you wherever you go. Never. Stop. Reading.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! ☺️

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Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely!

Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Liz! ☺️

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 6d

Tech wythout heart ys hollow.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)

doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 8d

Just two weeks until Voices of Thunder is published! If you’re interested in hearing the stories of a dozen radical seventeenth-century women, it can be pre-ordered now ⚡️#earlymodern #womenshistory

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 8d

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 13d

“Without the ideas+perspective of ECRs… there will be no new generation of scholars to take up ideas and push them in new directions”

@wadehistory.bsky.social on “What can be done?” for the French History Network’s ECR in 2025 series

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6746/

🗃️#FRHistory

Let me be blunt: senior colleagues, institutions and organisations need to act in accordance with the mentality that French history in Britain is on the verge of extinction, because it is. Based on the nature of the job market today, the majority of ECRs in French history are, realistically, looking for permanent positions in European (or possibly global) history or in a particular subdiscipline of history (e.g. political history, economic history, social history, and so on). This puts them in fierce competition with historians studying other countries, all of whom face the same challenges. If ECRs in French history do not manage to secure permanent positions, the entire French history community will suffer: without the ideas and perspective of ECRs, senior scholars will only be able to have conversations with each other, and there will be no new generation of scholars to take up their ideas and push them in new directions. Put another way, senior scholars who do not wish to see their books merely gathering dust in libraries twenty years from now need to be doing whatever they can to support ECRs on the job market.

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Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social · 14d

I was very excited to come home to find the author copies of my book had arrived!

Though one young reviewer is disappointed that there are no tractors in it, if you are interested in early modern poetry and the occult, you can order below 👇

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

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Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you! It's taken me a while to convert it from my PhD thesis but I'm glad it's finally out! ☺️

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Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social · 14d

Ah that is unlucky timing, but I'm excited for the new edition of Chapman!

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 15d

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 15d

Lovely to get a copy of @renaissancerach.bsky.social new book Elizabethan Occult Poetics in the post! Latest book in
@englishassociation.bsky.social series now published by @livunipress.bsky.social
👏👏👏 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social · 14d

I've not received my copies yet but it is very exciting to see it as a book! ☺️

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 15d

Lovely to get a copy of @renaissancerach.bsky.social new book Elizabethan Occult Poetics in the post! Latest book in
@englishassociation.bsky.social series now published by @livunipress.bsky.social
👏👏👏 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 16d

"Coventry University bosses criticised by union on flight expenses" - BBC News share.google/odtvMljzNB5J...

Coventry University bosses criticised by union on flight expenses

Leaders have been taking first class flights while staff are being made redundant, a union says.

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 17d

Do not go quietly into the redundancy pool

a man is sitting at a table with a napkin around his neck and eating food .

Alt: a man is sitting at a table with a napkin around his neck and banging metal serving dished together like cymbals

media.tenor.com

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 19d

I haven't posted an update on the petition for a while 👇

Over 3600 signatories to date

Folk are still signing

Thank you

Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · Jul 30

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University

- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant

But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?

Please read 👇

Sign the petition 👇

chng.it/7F52bThYqn

Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

chng.it

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 20d

Today a follow up to yesterday’s post on being an ECR in French History, by @wadehistory.bsky.social

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6744/ 🗃️ #FRHistory

For me, it is difficult to overstate how challenging it is to be an ECR in French history right now. One fellow ECR speaks of it being
'cataclysmically bad'; another speaks of the academic job market as a ravaging 'tornado';
neither are exaggerations.

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 25d

Warwick English came 5th in The Guardian today, which is great for us.
But also notice that Lancaster came 3rd for Creative Writing & 7th for English - but the university is decimating programmes & firing 1/3 of academic staff over the next six months 🤔🤔🤔 @lancasterucu.bsky.social
#saveartsandhums

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 21d

Major yn Englisshe:
• focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet
• meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• it ys awesome
• books!

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 20d

#WordsMatter

Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit | Carol Ann Duffy | The Guardian share.google/ZvDAQmOk9nhK...

Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit

Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 21d

This is genuinely (academically) dystopian — Kings featuring a lecturer who has to mark 100 scripts in a fortnight (!) and presenting AI as the approved workaround to that problem. This is why we can’t let this stuff into our working practice…

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 21d

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Screenshot. King's College London page. Examples of effective practice

The following scenarios follow the above guidelines and offer insights into ways that academic staff can use AI transparently and in an assistive capacity, always ensuring human oversight and judgment remain central.
Scenario A – Scaling feedback while maintaining quality

Lecturer A is responsible for marking over 100 essays within a two-week window.

Conscious of the limitations this workload places on the depth of individual feedback, they adopt a hybrid approach using their university’s approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot.

Without ever uploading student work directly, Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each. They input this summary alongside the official rubric into Copilot, prompting it to generate supportive, criterion-referenced feedback. This feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted, and personalised before being uploaded to the marking platform.

Students are made aware of this process in advance and shown a demonstration, reinforcing transparency and trust.

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21d

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk

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