Marianne O'Doherty

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

'Two of four autobiographical volumes were discovered by Cordelia Beattie, a history professor at the University of Edinburgh. One was handed by a descendant of Thornton to Beattie’s father in a pub in Ludlow, Shropshire, and the second was unearthed in the library of Durham Cathedral.'

I think we have increasing numbers of lonely female students now...

UKRI grant applications double in seven years as award rate halves - Research Professional News Trends across research councils prompt warning that system is “overstretched or broken”

The number of grant applications assessed by UK Research and Innovation has almost doubled over the past seven years, while the award rate has almost halved, new data show.

Trends prompt warning that system is "overstretched or broken".

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Students in England shun foreign languages at A-level, report finds Ofqual figures show a sharp fall in pupils taking exams in French and German

Contributing to a 20% fall in admissions to university language and area studies courses in the past five years. Not at all good news.

Wrote about the many reasons behind this for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social last year. Long story short - languages are becoming a class thing, again, with private schools offering many and state schools fewer and fewer.

I wonder why we are experiencing such high levels of mental illness health among children and young people? It's a complete mystery.

YASS!

F***ING hell England!

This is awful. How did we get to a point where the AHRC wasn't too ashamed to propose this?

Terrible. When I got my AHRC PhD funding I applied directly to the AHRC with my own project. Now students are increasingly tied in to what universities and partner organisations want them to do, stifling research independence - plus fewer projects getting funded overall.

Every time they are on I think about the Daily Mash's Institute for Studies.

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This thread is reminding me forcefully of that Ginger Rogers quotation about Fred Astaire: 'I did everything he did, in high heels and backwards'. I can just bowl up and start work on my W11 one; you have to reconfigure your effing keyboard first. Also, F*** MS & Dell for forcing Copilot on us.

Hard agree with all this. Time for governments to be electorally incentivised care at least as much about the health, wellbeing, financial security and opportunities of the young as they do about winter effing fuel allowance and the triple lock.

A very good read. The piece that resonated most with me: private equity, Silicon Valley, et al. have very different criteria for assessing when generative AI is “good enough” than the people who will be forced to integrate it deeply into their workflow.

Aren't we lucky that police have solved all of the crimes in Kent and there are no court backlogs at all so that they have time to harass citizens for actions that are entirely legal.

Sexeys are everywhere in sexy Somerset.

Subsidies for electric cars are a really odd choice right now. They are now *much* cheaper to run than petrol - and only a fraction more expensive upfront.

Subsidies need to be focussed on areas where there are bigger barriers to uptake of technologies - e.g. heat pumps.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

... But that seems to be off the table, certainly in small town/ semi rural areas like where I live, where we're dealing in fact with YOY bus cuts and non restoration of some trains lost in the pandemic.

... At times of low production/ high demand as a way of tackling climate change. Agree though that still leaves higher density housing an issue. Need carpool solutions and cheap residential charging in designated areas to tackle that inequality. Ofc would prefer to have useable buses and trains...

... Overnight electric on an EV only deal but ppl with no off street parking can't (saves £1000+ pa) Octopus guy was also talking about a future where you could use EV batteries as distributed national energy storage in periods when the grid produces too much, then sell it back to the grid...

Disagree here. As long as there is a legal requirement to maintain and keep flush with the pavement I don't see the problem (and yes I have had mobility issues; walked with a stick for 1.5 yrs). It's also fairer as currently ppl like me, with off road parking, can get a battery to store cheap...

Lovely to see you!

Amazing that a Glastonbury chant is a matter for the Home Secretary and PM, but the Government directly supporting a platform which is actively spouting Nazism is an "internal" corporate matters for X

I'm very happy to write references for students - others did it for me - but I wish employers would remember that we're doing this work for free.

We don't need 6-page forms, demanding 1-5 rankings on 20 criteria.

I taught them History. I don't know what they're like at budgeting & team-building...

I'm grateful to Elon for proving that it matters who runs AI

Booking an Indian restaurant in Leeds next week and the guy on the phone calls me 'love' in a Yorkshire-Indian accent and I just can't stop smiling. Feels like going home.😀

Good grief. Didn't actually make it to the end of the article. All of the content warnings, by the way.