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YouTube video by Lola Young Lola Young - d£aler (Official Video)

only came back to post this youtu.be/azMGg9tcsRg?...

on a break from here for a bit.

see you all soon!

I am always amazed by how many people around me are reading (and teaching!) Caliban and the Witch and can now confirm this is a useful piece to share with those whose enthusiasm for marxist-feminist analysis (good!) outstrips their resources for critiquing Federici's historiography (which is bad)

400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.

This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.

📍 Southend rally | 5 February

oh gawd

The book is out! Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth Century Britain is on the shelves. Get yourself a 20% discount and use code GRANDY26 at www.cambridge.org/9781009650939

Text reads: I am humbled and excited to be elected the next UCU Vice-President for Higher Education. Now is a devastatingly difficult and challenging time for our sectors and so many workers in post-16 education, but as a union we cannot succumb to despair. We have the skills, knowledge and capacity to help chart a way out of this mess and restore higher and further education. That you have put your trust in me to help do that is a huge honour and responsibility. I do not take this lightly. Thank you to the many thousands of members who voted for me and also to those who did not – we need to build better engagement in our union and part of that is voting, no matter who you voted for. I promised in my election materials to work hard to bring our union together and that is what I will do.

Text reads: Thank you to the other HE candidates Sean and Steve, both committed trade unionists. I know they will continue to fight for members and the future of Higher Education and I look forward to doing that alongside them. Congratulations to those elected to the National Executive Committee and commiserations to those who missed out this time. Your willingness to put yourself forward for election is hugely valued and I know you all will continue to contribute in other ways. So what next? Until the end of May, I’ll be tying up some loose ends and taking some time off to visit family and friends back in Australia. I will take up my role after UCU’s annual Congress at the end of May, this year in Harrogate.

Text reads: For the following three years, I will be lead negotiator for pay and conditions and for USS pensions across UK Higher Education, working with our team of elected negotiators and officials. I will also chair UCU’s Higher Education Committee and HE sector conferences, serve on other national committees and represent you in various forums. In 2029-30 I will become UCU’s President after the excellent Suzi Toole, who has also been elected as Vice-President for Further Education and will spend two years leading on further education matters before becoming President. She will take over from Dyfrig Jones, who succeeds early to the Presidential role for a two-year term this May, due to the casual vacancy that arose last year, replacing Maria Chondrogianni. Maria stays on as immediate past president, rounding out the presidential team. I want to again acknowledge David Hunter who stepped down as President-Elect last year for health reasons and continue to wish him and his family all the best.

A picture of two smiling people (Suzi Toole and Mark Pendleton) wearing UCU beanies. Text reads: That’s a lot of work, and a lot of moving parts, but at the heart of it will be my commitment to build a better union, alongside members and branches, and through that transform our sectors. I am ready and I know from the responses to this election that many of you are too. I’m looking forward to getting to work, together with you all.

UCU’s elections concluded this week and I am honoured to have been elected as the next Vice-President for Higher Education, to become President in 2029-30.

Thank you for all the support.

A short statement about the election and what’s to come after I take up the role in May.

Does anyone on here remember Ralph Luker's old Cliopatria Awards for blogging?
(I did a quick search and I seem to be the first person to mention him or them on bsky.)

not familiar!

Best use of an Ea-Nasir meme ought to be a category

Might I request a public vote category for all us non-historians who feed on leftover snippets of history where we can? The Furniture Village Armchair Historian Ooh, I Never Knew That, That's Really Interesting award?

congratulations! looks beautiful!

Picture of me, Rebecca Kosick, holding up my book, Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press. Behind me is a mantle where you can see some Alternative Press postcards displayed, and a painting that we found at the Ithaca, NY Salvation Army.

Yesterday my copies of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press arrived! Here is a picture of the book (larger than expected) next to my face (regular sized as far as I can tell).

I will never not win best use of historical images with this old gem:

Best Working Together To Solve Paleographical Mystery

YES

lifetime achievement award i love it

lol the posts crossed!

Annual Historyposting Award Categories:

-Best history thread
-Best use of historical images
-Best history hashtag/feed
-Best history journal account
-Best heritage account (other than the MERL it’s just not fair otherwise)
-Best history conference account
-Best history puns
-Worst history puns 😏
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OTOH what they can take (have already taken) is much of the future of all those things and i struggle with that

been thinking a lot (again!) about the Ursula K Le Guin quote “what you win is how you play the game”. everything is so brutal now, but the stuff *no one* can actually take away from any of us includes: our experiences of genuine bonds with students, joys of what we do, our communities.

I really wish we could find a way to value teaching that treats students as humans.

in other news, i regret to confirm the week isn’t over.

we should make prizes for posting and then announce them on here it would actually be fun

Leave me the birds and the bees AMIRIGHT

Take two 7 year olds in a primary school in PM's constituency.

His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is cleaner at that bank

Does he say Pascal Banque's son gets perm status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate Marie Cleaner not until 22 (consequence: international student fees)

*Enemies of the Future: As part of the 2026 AAR theme of Future/s, explorations of Luddism, anti-tech, anti-AI, intentionally low-tech, and anti-modern religion (e.g., Anabaptism). *Techno-futures: As part of the AAR 2026 presidential theme of Future/s, considerations of the transformative role of technology in creating new material forms, new scientific horizons, and new religious iterations. Does the science/religion dynamic change as technology changes? *Funding Structures, Funding Collapse: Studies of the transformed landscape of funding for science in the second Trump presidency and its implications for religion as well as how science and religion funding have built the field. *Prediction and Uncertainty: Considerations of science and prediction, of unpredictability, divination, prophecy, the affects of certainty/uncertainty, despair and hope, optimism/pessimism, and speculation. *Revisiting When Prophecy Fails and Cognitive Dissonance: Considerations of new research emerging in the past decade challenging or reframing Festinger et al.’s influential 1956 book When Prophecy Fails and Festinger’s follow-up volume Cognitive Dissonance. *Genealogies of Science and Religion (for a possible cosponsored session between the Science, Technology, and Religion and Cultural History of the Study of Religion units): Where does science and religion—as a subfield—come from? What are the origin points, lineages, inflections, institutional politics, and material conditions of knowledge production that have led to the current field? Proposals may consider the Pitts Digital Collection repository of “American Academy of Religion Program Books” and/or explore the history of the STR unit (founded as “Theology and Science” in 1987) and related subdivisions of AAR/SBL. We welcome proposals from all scholarly ranks including graduate, contingent, and early-career scholars. AI-generated proposals will not be considered.

AAR folks! The deadline for submissions is about to be extended to March 9. Have a look at our CFP for the Science, Technology, and Religion unit and consider submitting if you have something that you think might fit!

Hamma bead heart key chain in multi color. Hamma beads, for those not in the know, are little plastic beads children can arrange on a board with pins on it and then when you iron the beads, they stick together

also 🥰

"the barrister acting for the Zong’s owners illustrated that point bluntly thus:

‘What is this claim that human people have been thrown overboard? This is a case of chattels or goods. Blacks are goods and property; it is madness to accuse these well-serving honourable men of murder.’"