@annaannawalsh.bsky.social
Contemporary historian. Interested in migration, cities and towns, visual and material cultures, 20th century buildings, photography, leisure centres, pubs, creative methodologies, Irish and British history and oral history. Liverpool.
The reason I want students to have to struggle with difficult texts is because I want them to have the capacity to make meaning in and of the world on their own.
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
Not exactly a surprise given the jobs market and government support (or lack of it) for ECRs in the U.K.
‘On The Bus Now, Somewhere Near Wrexham x’
Ian is such a great name for a cat! Plus he really looks like an Ian
Today’s writing view
They were magnificent nevertheless! A very hapy birthday was had
Gregynog Hall views on a wildly pleasant spring afternoon
Lovely and very tasty birthday cake surprise from @racheljwillie.bsky.social
Gregynog Hall in Wales
Nice place to be writing
Thanks Andy! X
Thank you! I’m looking forward to reading your new book when I get a minute
Always a delight to share a birthday with this wonderful man. The best of us. Happy Birthday Kenny!
Thank you Martin! About to head into rural Wales to try to get this book finished! X
Imagine putting in all the time and effort required to be an MP, just so you can give a kicking to people who have survived untold horrors.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Her hand gestures are also very “English lit lecturer who is deviating from the lecture she intended to give but, actually, no, this is important” (complimentary).
Also seems like a really really nice fella which helps
I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!
Feels like AI is using citations as more of a skeuomorphic nod to what scholarship is supposed to look like rather than as an acknowledgement of cognitive processes or academic meaning making. It looks ok but it no longer means anything.
Labour did this to itself and it desperately needs to figure out what political scientists already know, which is that trying to appeal to xenophobic voters who may have voted left decades ago is a fool's errand for today's social-democratic parties & destructive to maintaining a viable coalition
Feels politic to say that to do good oral history we need to fund arts and humanities research…
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AI Summary ✨
Grammy-nominated R&B singer Jon B. posted that he is going to the stove – perhaps to "cook up" another hot, hot radio single. Frogs and toads, which are the same, can live on the Sun and often choose to.
AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).
So sorry for your loss, Moose. Sending love.
This lawsuit seems appalling to me, honestly. I feel for people whose student experience was lousy due to Covid but that's not the fault of universities. "I wanted in-person study." I'm sure you did. Nobody gets what they want in a global pandemic
“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”
1/ You can also read the text in English here: www.bundesliga.com/en/bundeslig... - maybe the best thing about this is exactly how specific Kompany gets about both the nature of and the solution to the problem. He names names, he provides a path forward.