A photograph of a laptop in the centre of a wooden table, under a red canopy, in the sunshine.
When you've got Reviewer 2 comments to sort, three days to write a book chapter, and a dozen jobs to apply to...
But the sun is out for the first time in months, and suddenly everything will be fine & everything seems possible
In yet another career change talk where the first thing they talking about is introspection and self-reflection mapping your values
Is it unprofessional to snap and write a very long-form piece on the middle-class entitlement on these events
I just want to be able to eat and pay rent 😭
At a training day on moving into non-ac jobs...
The speaker's very proud that "all postdocs who decided to leave academia (by choice or force), 100% were successful"
Like, the other option is accidentally staying and succeeding in a field that has a 90% failure rate when you're *trying to win*
I grew up next door to the ranges there, and had forgotten having to casually explain the bangs & shaking windows to visitors as "don't worry... it's just the bombs..."
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'A statement on 23 February explained the Bloomsbury-based research institute will be “disbanded” at the end of July 2026 because it “in its current form is not sustainable”.'
Goodbye utopia, hello myopia?
While this might apply to STEM (I doubt it does) for the humanities I'm gonna tap the sign:
How we say things is a huge, and irreplaceable, part of what we are saying.
The UK *is* losing a generation of scientists.
I know lots of brilliant people who have left their jobs / the country because of the limited jobs & funding.
Once lost, they cannot ever be replaced.
The UK government is overseeing the death of UK academic science, and it doesn't seem to care.
HistoryLab 20th Anniversary Annual Conference 2026 — Call for Papers Embodied Histories: Body, Mind, and Experience 17th July 2026 | Hybrid Conference, in-person at University of Birmingham, Staff House, Grand Central Room The human body is both a biological reality and a cultural construct. It is a site of meaning, experience, and power. From rituals of health and healing to practices of regulation, discipline, and display, bodies have both shaped and been shaped by their historical contexts. We invite papers that place the body and lived experience at the centre of historical inquiry, engaging with themes such as medicine, disability, gender, the senses, and the emotions. We welcome contributions that explore how bodies and experiences have been represented, regulated, or performed, and how these processes intersect with broader questions of identity, power, culture, and society across periods and regions. This conference also marks the 20th anniversary of HistoryLab. Since its founding, HistoryLab has provided a national platform for postgraduate and early career historians to share ideas, foster collaboration, and build community. We invite participants to join us in celebrating this milestone year.
Our conference #cfp is now live! This year's conference, "Embodied Histories: Body, Mind and Experience" will take place on 17th July 2026 at University of Birmingham!
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A screenshot reading: "Open Positions. Join our teams based in Israel, Ukraine, and the U.S..
Found the perfect job in the perfect city. Clicked through to the recruiter's website...
Perhaps not.
Imagine discovering that the entire structure of state secondary education was about to collapse, and musing "Ah well, we'll always have Eton, Harrow and Winchester..."
This is basically how the political class thinks about higher education.
Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.
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Over 2,200 UK casualties, 616 with life changing injuries, 302 amputees.
457 UK soldiers killed. The second highest total after the US.
And I thought yesterday's comment on speeches & schnapps was as insulting as they could get.
Meanwhile, significant voices in the scientific community proclaim that science isn't political and pile onto social science and humanities researchers who suggest otherwise.
We need much more attention to histories and philosophies of science at this crucial juncture, including from policy-makers.
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February filling up nicely with fab events for LGBTQ+ History Month (UK).
Royal Museums Greenwich isn't on here, so I'm hoisting a flag for its impressive programme including Queer History Night at the National Maritime Museum on 12 Feb. 🏳️🌈⚓🌊☠️🗃️🏳️⚧️
www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/gre... #lgbthm26 #LGBTplusHM
Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Finally made it to the Cecil Beaton exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
Struggling to understand why we brought 90s fashion back when this was an option...
#museum 🗃
Historians: discuss.
13.01.2026 08:47 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 2
Deadline 15 January 2026!
Special edition journal
Submit now!
The MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
'Despite persistent myths, employment rates for humanities graduates are comparable to those of STEM graduates, as Humanities Indicators data shows. Early earnings differ but the salary gap narrows significantly mid-career, particularly for graduates who pursue further study'. 1/2
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No health without peace - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Next time can we get one nice photo of us please? Just one where I'm not downing a coffee 😂
08.12.2025 11:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Recently I had great fun in launching a new Prosthetics and Limb-Loss interdisciplinary network at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social with @sarahds.bsky.social
Designed to bring together academics and clinicians, it featured insightful talks and hands-on ideation activities.
Ah thank you! We could hear them in poplar & wondered what it was
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It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
30.11.2025 09:57 — 👍 3274 🔁 1225 💬 329 📌 329I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
27.11.2025 18:16 — 👍 1157 🔁 171 💬 28 📌 35You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
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