David Petts

Job losses at research-intensive universities double in two years - Research Professional News Exclusive: Scale of redundancies revealed branded a “disaster” for UK research capacity

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.

Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Come along to our next IAS lecture on 5 Feb, 6pm in the Saltwell Building. Ben Raffield (Uppsala) rethinks Viking Age warfare, revealing complex warrior identities and a more human, realistic picture of conflict in the early medieval North
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Mongopotami

‘Give PhD archive attention it deserves,’ British Library urged Scholars criticise lack of progress on restoring repository of 600,000 PhD theses more than two years after it was felled by cyberattack

I am really disappointed that the new version of EThOS at the British Library (the service for getting PhD theses) will be metadata-only. I really think we should use such resources, even if they are not books. They are still contributions to knowledge.

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...

Mongooses or Mongeese?

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Hi all! I know there's a LOT of Doctor Who podcasts out there, but what's one more eh? 😉 Please do listen, like, follow and share if you fancy 🙂

Here comes the video analysis:
- Pretti was shot 10 times after they took his gun
- He never "brandished" the gun, assaulted an agent
- They repeatedly pepper sprayed him at point blank range and beat him when he was down
- He was attempting to help a woman who an agent threw to the ground (battery)

I'm going to try the 'free trial subscriptions' to the various providers and see which works the best

Thanks

UK users of Ancestry - how easy is to search census data by settlement/street rather than individual? Seems all set up for family history- but I need the data for a place study. Don't want to pay for access if I can't get the info I need

Talking about map projections with the students today - what's the betting that Trump is looking at Greenland on the Mercator projection....

Thanks!

I find myself in Reading tonight... anywhere good [and cheapish] to eat? Been years since I was here....

The Northern Picts: the citadel project, rescue and research-led investigations at a Viking age power centre This lecture explores major advances in Pictish archaeology arising from the University of Aberdeen’s Northern Picts project, shedding new light on a people long obscured by limited historical and arc...

The Northern Picts: the citadel project, rescue and research-led investigations at a Viking age power centre | Thu 21 May, Cardiff www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...

Sheffield merely the latest university to claim that legally withdrawing your labour should actually be postponing your labour, and punishing people further. Here’s how strikes work:
1. You legally stop working for a period of time. You don’t get paid.
2. Win or lose you go back to work.

Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Whittlesey Straw Bear and Little Beae

Whittlesey Straw Bear and Little Bear 🐻

Whittlesey Straw Bear and Thrales Rapper

Whittlesey Straw Bear and his keeper

Whittlesey Straw Bear :-)

⚡️In Iran, protesters have already taken control of the city Abdana

The police laid down their weapons and sided with them. Protesters are setting fire to cars, and there are fierce clashes in other cities.

ZSU Insider Tg

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He ys ridinge a horse
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Greene Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun

A meme showing the boy in the snowman with a light saber killing the snowman

Still one of my favourite memes from last Christmas...😉

#StarWars #Snowman

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Seen this .... obviously highly unlikely to be early medieval

A powerful argument against letting Americans emigrate

DigVentures Dig Calendar See all the digs, talks, courses and other events coming up at DigVentures.

Update from @digventures.bsky.social on their dig diary for 2026 featuring a call for crowdfunding work at Wrexham’s Rossett Roman Villa. More details to follow, but it's on their events listing at digventures.com/calendar/

See, that’s the good shit right there

New Yorker cartoon – Politician at podium: let this be a reminder: when they go low, we cave.

absolutely- you can't edit something you haven't actually written!

no- I think this is absolutely essential