Get your tickets now! This looks excellent and will book up fast.
27.02.2026 15:04 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Get your tickets now! This looks excellent and will book up fast.
27.02.2026 15:04 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0🌟 We’re back! My brilliant colleagues at Oxford Brookes. Join us on campus and in the city. 🌟
20.02.2026 19:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0After 7 years or so of watching Bing, there are at least two scenes where I am convinced Flop is hungover. And that he's in a friend with benefits situation Ama. As you were.
10.02.2026 06:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My book on New Labour and the Blair years is out in just over two weeks... And it's now **ON SALE** for just £12! Come on, you can't say fairer than that when it comes to the bargains. Roll up and/ or repost! It's just twelve quid!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
How are people fitting work in today whilst keeping fully immersed in the Beckham saga? Asking for a friend.
21.01.2026 09:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Taken from the 'gram but still lol-ing 🤣
17.01.2026 20:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yeah, I give my kids sweets when I want them to get in the car too> BBC News - Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner presents her medal to Trump
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
For those who would like to see me dorking out over Christina #Rossetti's 'In the Bleak Midwinter' on Xmas telly, I give you:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
REF2029 unpaused.
-PCE replaced by Strategy, People and Research Environment
- Disciplinary -level statements in CKU and E&I, gone
- CKU: 55%, E&I: 25%, SPRE: 20%
- Max 5 outputs recommended per researcher but can be exceeded
"The 1992 reforms did not “invent” research in the ex-polytechnics. They recognised it – opening the door to participation in the RAE, quality-related funding and Research Council grants. Once given visibility, excellence surfaced quickly. It did so because it had always been there."
08.12.2025 13:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Super piece on REF history, why it matters and why specialisation is not the panacea that it seems.
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Very excited to share that today is publication day for my first monograph!! Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration is published as a part of Bristol University Press's Law, Society, Policy series.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/queering-uk-...
Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
09.11.2025 00:55 — 👍 14464 🔁 4318 💬 13 📌 127At some point, the men in my life may realise I'm no longer upstairs... Until then I'm going to sit quietly on the sofa for as long as I can.
09.11.2025 19:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The problem was never that Boris Johnson studied classics...
Perennial favourite reader's letter from 2021.
General registration is now open for our upcoming conference The Hand: Emotions, Embodiment and Identity at London College of Fashion, 8-9 January!
Visit our website to register: www.thevictorianhand.uk/conference
Use of the REF 2029 logo by HEIs withdrawn following "fresh legal advice" 🙄🤯
03.11.2025 17:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The funding bodies, and their surrogates, are saying the 'quiet part out loud' now.
30.10.2025 07:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Contender for least surprising news of this month
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For UK academic folk, in case you don’t know about this service, the AHRC does publish all panel outcomes, with figures for numbers of applicants, numbers of successful awards etc. There is a lag, though, so the most recent info is from January 2025.
24.10.2025 09:51 — 👍 21 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1
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www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk...
On behalf of introverts everywhere: talking to people is exhausting enough, don’t make me spend all day talking to an anthropomorphised calculator.
16.10.2025 15:53 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
'Now, Alexandra Wilson’s new book, Someone Else’s Music, unpicks the myth that opera is alien to the working class. For much of the past century, Wilson shows, opera was a hugely important thread in working-class lives.'
12.10.2025 09:32 — 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA > www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science...
11.10.2025 10:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Imagine the outcry if it were steel > BBC News - Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you are in the North West, check out this talk. It's a panel and a book launch. It's a fantastic topic. Please repost!
07.10.2025 16:50 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...