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Janet Gooodall @janetifimust.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not going to link it - you can read the news yourself.
But we *need* people with sociology, anthropology and media degrees - they're the ones to help us think critically about society, the media and ourselves (though I can see why some would not want that to happen).

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Janet Gooodall @janetifimust.bsky.social · 3h

I'm intrigued, though - education, teaching, is hardly highly paid. Is it one of the degrees for the chop? In a situation where we already have a recruitment and retention crisis?
And what about nurses, early childcare workers...? People one really wants to be careful, critical thinkers?

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 4h

I want to tell all students of the so-called 'rip-off degrees' named below that your critical thinking is important and makes valid contributions to culture and society

Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 5h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 3h

A good photo by the Finnish Heritage authority

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 3h

I cannot see how English, part of the British EBACC, is a rip-off degree. Undermines all English teachers. And performing arts is one of British strong points. Undermining British culture. Then attack at studying our society. Undermining researched solutions to today's problems.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 4h

She's nothing if not predictable, is she? I know the Tories aren't keen on anything Green these days, but pretty much all they've done this week is recycle stuff they've been banging on about--for the most part fruitlessly--for the last decade and a half. And today it's "Mickey Mouse" degrees. 🙄

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English

The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

inews.co.uk

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Tiedetäti (Dr. Laura Nissin) @tiedetati.bsky.social · 4h

"Yritykset kehuvat usein luotaantyöntäviäkin xxxxxx tuottavuutta edistäviksi, vaikka ainoa tai ainakin tärkein tarkoitus olisi yksinkertaisesti vähentää kustannuksia" Xxxx voidaan korvata millä tahansa ja sitten ehkä alamme ymmärtää ...

Kommentti: Johan pomppasi – nyt muka etätyöläisetkin heikentävät talouskasvua

Etätyöläisten moittiminen talouskasvun haittaamisesta on yhtä outoa kuin säästäjien syyttely, kirjoittaa erikoistoimittaja Jan Hurri.

www.is.fi

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 15h

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16h

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 4h

University #Archaeology Day for interested students @britishacademy.bsky.social in London on Monday October 27. Book your place from here
www.ticketsource.co.uk/university-a...

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 6h

Interdisciplinarity is fun because it’s something job ads in humanities HE say they want but it often feels like it actively disqualifies you (in the sense of having degrees in, and published in leading journals of, multiple distinct disciplines). Everyone believes you’re not in their discipline.

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 5h

#ClassicsTober25 Day 8: Erebos was the personification of darkness, born from Chaos and the father of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Nyx (Night) according to Hesiod. The image is from the card game Magic: The Gathering. #ClassicsTober

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 6h

Hakoinen Castle dates to the medieval period in the 13th/14th century. It is on a very steep-sided rock by Lake Kernaala in the manner of the hill fort tradition. The top of the rock is 63 metres above the lake water level. Photo: Teemu Mönkkönen (CC BY 4.0). #HillfortsWednesday

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 14h

Chris & Nadiya – Paso Doble to Sweet Child O'Mine from Thor
Balvinder & Julian – Foxtrot to The Way You Look Tonight from Swing Time
Jimmy & Lauren – Samba to No Time To Die from James Bond 4/4

Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 14h

Alex & Johannes – Quickstep to Suddenly I See from The Devil Wears Prada
Ross & Jowita – Paso Doble to Thunderbirds Theme from Thunderbirds
George & Alexis – Couple's Choice to Soda Pop by KPop Demon Hunters
Karen & Carlos – Cha Cha to She's A Lady from Miss Congeniality 3/

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 14h

Ellie & Vito – Samba to Dance The Night from Barbie
Lewis & Katya – Paso Doble to The Plaza Of Execution by The Mask Of Zorro
Vicky & Kai – Charleston to A Little Party Never Killed Nobody from The Great Gatsby
Harry & Karen – Salsa to I Always Wanted A Brother from Mufasa: The Lion King 2/

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 14h

#Strictly movie week dances and songs: 💃 🕺
Stefan & Dianne – Waltz to It Is You (I Have Loved) from Shrek
La Voix & Aljaž – Waltz to Feed The Birds from Mary Poppins
Amber & Nikita – American Smooth to Sixteen Going On Seventeen from The Sound Of Music 1/

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 17h

Interesting. Some peers are just jealous and see the change of intellectual climate as an opportunity 🤨

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 22h

My thoughts...

#Archaeology 🏺 #Gold #Torcs #Robbery

bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/07/s...

Solid-gold rant incoming…

by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Before I go any further, I want to state that the theft and destruction of heritage across the world is not unco…

bigbookoftorcs.com

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 22h

ICYMI: Important new open access publication ...

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology
tinyurl.com/2s3wsym6

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 23h

It’s great that the Greens acknowledge the interconnection of heritage & nature, but l hope it amounts to more than just giving nature the same protection as heritage - we need better integration in planning policy, and recognition that ‘landscape’ is the bridge between them, not a subset of nature

Lizzie Glithero-West @heritagelizzie.bsky.social · 1d

Today I’ll be heading North to the fringes of the @conservatives.bsky.social Party Conference. Also on party conference-watch the @thegreenparty.bsky.social adopted a heritage & tourism policy over the weekend: www.linkedin.com/pulse/greene...

A Greener Future for Heritage and Tourism

Putting People, Nature and Place at the Heart of the Conversation The Green Party this weekend adopted a comprehensive new Heritage and Tourism Policy at its Autumn Conference — setting out a bold vis...

www.linkedin.com

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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · 1d

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Newspaper article about the Working Classicists Guide to National 5 Classical Studies, in today’s Courier (Dundee).

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 23h

Us being who...?

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 1d

And Telegraph and Daily Mail always fact check everything...?

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 1d

Bummer!

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Pope Leo has announced his first apostolic journey; he will visit Turkey from November 27 to November 30, with a pilgrimage to İznik for the 1700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, and then to Lebanon from November 30 to December 2.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 Sinister stuff. Jenrick, a Tory leadership candidate, says he didn’t see a White face in an area, & that it looked like a slum. This is a v old racist dog-whistle. Then when challenged on it, he accuses journos of fomenting terrorism. He’s clearly in fascist double-speak mode [1]

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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