THE PROPHECY
02.03.2026 13:58 — 👍 959 🔁 288 💬 3 📌 1THE PROPHECY
02.03.2026 13:58 — 👍 959 🔁 288 💬 3 📌 1Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller. First panel, Nancy talking to a logger sawing a tree and pointing to a carved piece of trunk. Nancy: Can I have that piece? My boy friend carved it. Logger: Sure. Second panel, Nancy is watching the log burn in the fire place. Nancy: I'm mad at him.
Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.
01.03.2026 21:40 — 👍 9902 🔁 2131 💬 38 📌 35The Folklore Society mistletoe logo
The Folklore Society’s Katharine Briggs Prize 2026 has opened for entries! Open to books in English having their initial publication in the UK & Ireland in the period from 1 June 2025 to 31 May 2026. Deadline for entries 31 May 2026. More info and rules: www.folklore-society.com/awards/the-k...
02.03.2026 17:26 — 👍 28 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1more like AAAAAARGHCHIVES
02.03.2026 13:08 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“Arrchives”
and who said LLMs had no sense of humour!
courtesy of dr squiddy, i present the protein snack you all need in your lives:
RIPPED FETA
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02.03.2026 12:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“New antiquarianism sits outside this model of engagement and impact. It operates as a parallel epistemology: a mode of producing, curating, and validating knowledge that runs alongside academic research infrastructures without being governed by them.”
02.03.2026 11:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0obviously “antiquarian (complimentary)”
02.03.2026 11:17 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An interesting suggestion. I’ve never been clear if there is a measurable uptick in this stuff or writer it just feels like a moment, but I can see how the term “new antiquarianism” might serve
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this is awful.
02.03.2026 10:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0someone draw the ripped feta mascot i would do it but i am so bad at drawing
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02.03.2026 10:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0whey indeed???
02.03.2026 10:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0this is probably already a thing right
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i know everything these days is protein this protein that, so hear me out:
RIPPED feta
well exactly
02.03.2026 09:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the fact nowhere uses titles the same doesn’t help! lots of places in the uk now appoint at associate professor, even if the person is straight out of a PhD (ok a situation that we recognise is not as common as it once was). my own employer has three rounds of promotion to go from lecturer to AP!
02.03.2026 09:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/hiri...
(def not defending the positions the authors here take so much as noting it’s hard to have a balanced conversation about this)
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02.03.2026 09:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0really not trying to be confrontational about this one. good to also remember that even before the absolute apocalypse of the last few years, a sizeable proportion of staff on more secure contracts themselves had v long journeys to get there.
02.03.2026 09:20 — 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0anyway throwback to when i was interviewed for a position that was literally entitled “early career” and they interviewed a professor. certainly not a new phenomenon, as others have noted
02.03.2026 09:17 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0but those discussions are by nature v unequal when they happen in public.
02.03.2026 09:16 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0is it a surprise that ECRs are furious and sad and bitter and everything else about this situation? and OTOH, should they be expected to know how grim things are/in what ways for most of the sector? i think any analysis that pitches this as senior vs junior invites v uncomfortable discussions
02.03.2026 09:13 — 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
i don’t want to start a whole Thing: but the situation for ECRs in humanities is *appalling* in ways that some academics don’t realize/didn’t experience.
i do understand aspects* of that piece that are unhelpful.
but, important context: ECRs eg on here can read senior colleagues but cannot reply
When will the UK government wake up to the wholesale destruction of HE that's happening?
This affects towns and cites across the UK, our businesses, the NHS, schools, young people, our global standing, everything! Higher Education, Universities, contribute over £265 BILLION to the economy.
Exc: As many as 80 Labour MPs are braced to oppose the home secretary's immigration policies
Dozens of backbenchers and ministers are understood to be hostile to Shabana Mahmood's reforms. After the Gorton by-election they're pushing for a "recalibration"
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
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28.02.2026 09:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A loaf of sourdough bread on a breadboard. The slashes make it look like a smiley emoji.
A happy loaf almost worthy of @willpooley.bsky.social
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