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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 1d

I've had screenshots of your tweets "recommended" to me on instagram more than once! Is this cultural capital

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 1d

I... I don't know what to do with this

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 1d

Brummie here. This is pure ragebait and beneath your notice
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 2d

Universities of Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry & Swansea defer pay rises

Kent’s “review in the coming months” is temporal evasion at its finest, while Coventry’s “break even position” heroically rebrands “we won’t pay” as “fiscal courage”

The academic austerity opera continues

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 2d

At least five UK universities have told staff they will not be paying them the sector-wide uplift that was due in August for almost a year. Juliette Rowsell reports
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/five-uk-universities-tell-staff-they-cant-afford-pay-rises

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2d

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 6d

"So we are left with a doleful picture. [...] Academic professionals are exhausted and demoralised. The public is not that interested. [...] Higher education’s years ahead are likely to involve a bitter, alienating and chaotic decline." politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 7d

This should also be how universities reply to the AI thing btw

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

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

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 8d

Read our response to the Government’s announcement that university maintenance grants will be reintroduced for certain courses, funded through a levy on international student fees
https://bit.ly/4gPz7uO

British Academy responds to government announcement on university maintenance grants

The British Academy has issued a response to the government's announcement on using a proposed levy on international students to fund maintenance grants.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 11d

I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs.

This tax will kill us.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Student visas crackdown and new levies to cause ‘£1.8bn loss’ to UK economy

The Government has proposed a 6 per cent tax on international student tuition fees and a reduction in graduate visas

www.standard.co.uk

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 11d

It would absolutely have been possible without me! But the real fun starts now I hope

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 12d

This is massive and wonderful news and Hannah is the best

hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 12d

In case anyone hasn't already seen: 34 of the Gaza students with scholarships at UK institutions arrived this week, including a student who is due to start a PhD with me at Edinburgh. I'm so grateful to everyone who helped with this - thousands of people. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

‘A surreal journey’: Palestinian students evacuated from Gaza arrive in UK

First 34 students, who have full scholarships, welcomed after months of campaigning by academics and others

www.theguardian.com

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 12d

CONSIDER YOURSELF HIRED, PROF ARMADALE

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 12d

Maybe we pick them up to decorate the grounds of Wilkie Collins University when we finally get that going?

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 12d

Ugfryhfdrtggddrrfds

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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 13d

Exciting opportunity to work on a PhD with me in Glasgow & Bénédicte Coste in France, on Decadence and Translation in Periodicals. Become part of 'Decadocs' - a Marie-Curie Joint Doctoral group. (Feel free to share with anyone you think would be interested).

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375577

Joint doctoral studentship as part of the DECADOCS project

‘Decadence in Translations: Translating for, and in French and British Periodicals, 1880-1914. Corpora, Translators, and Translational Aesthetics’ 🇫🇷 &🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 15d

When I open a PDF with Adobe Reader, there are THREE separate injunctions to use "AI" on different parts of the screen. A core feature (eg. 'Save as...') has one place where we learn to go as a necessary part of the software. "AI" is not a core feature; it is something else

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 16d

Seriously how hard is it to say “This is an outrageous attack on our friends and neighbours who are in this country legally and have followed all the rules to get settled status, who are valued members of our communities, get to fuck frog-face”?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16d

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.

So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17d

“If you don’t like it you can leave” update

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17d

"SIR KEIR STARMER and his Cabinet face losing their seats to Left-wing candidates, analysis shows.

"Labour’s 411-seat majority would plummet to just 126 seats if an election took place this summer, it suggests." [Sunday Telegraph]

Starmer and Cabinet ‘face losing seats to Left-wingers in wipeout’
The Sunday Telegraph 21 Sep 2025 By Ruby Cline and Ollie Corfe
SOURCE: MORE IN COMMON (JULY MRP)

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 17d

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 21d

Omg Lego ideas are the best! I have the Lego ideas paddle steamer.....

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 21d

For advanced builders, not recommended for indoor use

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 22d

Calling all Victorianists with Lego Ideas accounts! (yeah, I see you)
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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 22d

I love this programme. Helping look after it is the great privilege of my career

Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 22d

A wonderful induction with our new cohort of Fantasy MLitt students! Despite the tons of info we bombarded them with, there was still time for a team game of invented creatures doing battle! (Thanks @tattersdill.bsky.social for organising!)
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 22d

I was trying to think who Bob the Blob reminded me of, and it is of course Blorb from Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Mayhem Monster Madness

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