Catherine Sloan

I’d love it! Can you imagine the advice column: “he said my concerns about his opium are hysteria - are they?”

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate Are you passionate about early medieval Britain?  Do you have advanced knowledge of Old English and proficiency in Medieval Latin?  If yes, then you may be interested in this fixed term full time post...

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Old volumes of 19 century journal called the journal of gas lighting. That’s gas lighting two words. Probably a mistake

A whole bookcase of the journal.

Pictures to send to the former friend or ex of your choice! #GladstoneLibrary

Stripped: The Citizenship Divide New research exposes racist reality of UK citizenship stripping laws that place 3 in 5 people of colour at risk.

A new report by @runnymedetrust.bsky.social has found that 13% of British citizens — including me — are at risk of having their citizenship stripped from them by the UK government.

It rises to 60% of British citizens of colour.

This is absolutely shocking.

www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...

Also, next to the problematic part of storing public and private data from handwritten sources with a US-based company without transparency about what they are gonna do with the data we are providing by asking for "transcribing" help, there are relevant issues for the craft of history itself:

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

Period on holiday is accidentally bleeding in lots of new places. Getting to closely examine a lot of chairs/ sofas/ bedding I’ve not seen before. Always exciting to have these jump scares added to my travels!

'Biological' male or female used for trans+ people is misgendering and not neutral, it's a slur. It doesn't matter if a judge said it.

Media folk using it are doing a similar thing to interviewing racists and not just repeating their slurs in quotes but adopting them themselves.

It needs to stop

Nothing like a conference to make one think about accessibility and teaching, both in the room and online.

A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

Love also the “distinctive local curry mile” in three places, it’s giving this TikTok

also literally Kelly Osborne and the toilets all over again 🙈

a man with a beard is holding a cup of coffee ALT: a man with a beard is holding a cup of coffee

Employer: please embed sustainability into your teaching
Employer: here’s a list of cool ways to use AI

Still time to get a proposal in for BAVS2026 in Liverpool. Go on - you know you'll regret it if you don't!

This is U.K. so regional factors apply etc etc

It’s really hard to get before 65, even privately, unless you’re immunocompromised. I looked into it after getting shingles on my face and when I still had the nerve damage I was so determined never to get it again but there weren’t any options 😭

In this context I'm really appreciating the work of the Post 45 Data Collective, Nineteenth-Century Data Collective, and similar initiatives — downloadable CSVs feel a lot more manageable than dedicated websites, especially right now

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‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library - Research Professional News Humanities researchers suffer amid “agonisingly slow” recovery from 2023 cyberattack, as strikes cause further delays

‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library

Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.

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

📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life

Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?

Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

The chief horror is the rewriting of the human rights gains we've made since WWII to frame only 'contributing' migrants (whether asylum seekers or not) as worthy of life & safety.

But I'm also here to call BS on the 'Britain welcomes high-skilled migrants' thing. I do not feel welcome here.

Is anyone with access to Columbia University's library system willing to submit a scan request for me? I'm in the zines portion of my alt-press comps & CU has copies Cyanide #1&2 from an ancient late 90s online friend which I lost a good 20 years ago. Obviously will pay for any associated costs!🗃️

The idea that entrepreneurs contribute to society is hilariously dystopian.

I have signed up and I can't wait!

Bonus if set in London

Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

A page from the Dorney School punishment book showing various students, their offences, and their punishments

Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.

To simplify: We don't call historical geocentrism (earth at the center of the universe) pseudoscience. That's just where science was at the time. People who believe in geocentrism *now* however are pushing pseudoscience.

A Manticore with the caption "I am not a toy. I am not a pet. I am not a Christmas present. I am a 400 year commitment."

Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family

Solidarity with trans friends, colleagues, students, and community members in these genuinely terrifying times.