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Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 1d

Where I try to explain why France is not going through an ordinary political crisis but that the Fifth Republic is a regime in crisis.
🇫🇷 #france #politics
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France's political upheaval isn't temporary - it's a profound constitutional crisis | Pierre Purseigle

The old prime minister is back with a new team, but it can’t last: a democracy can’t have a president with the powers of a king, says French historian Pierre Purseigle

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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 22h

We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 14h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 14h

“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · 14h

Just 12500 UK students took A-level English Language in 2025. Only 58,000 took A-level Eng Lit. This is simply discrimination against foreigners. You can speak, and write, v good English without either, and neither guarantees you'll understand anything any better than anyone else on any course.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 21h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 22h

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 15h

#teaching #pedagogy folks: in a course that I've inherited there is a required group project. Looking for resources to help guide students in fundamentals of group work.

Group work is often something that they don't enjoy, but I'm also sure there are ways to make it manageable/constructive. Ideas?

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 15h

To be clear: these are the exact same folks who have been doxxing & putting people on must-fire lists for simply posting innocuous Charlie Kirk comments…

“the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 21h

Our next event: Events
Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network: Global Teach-Ins/Outs, 11 November 1-5 pm Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square ssahe.net/2025/10/13/m...

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 21h

‘“the tools that are best evaluated have been least adopted. The tools that are most adopted have been least evaluated.”’

AI could make it harder to establish blame for medical failings, experts say

Report raises concerns about liability issues and lack of testing as development of AI health tools booms

www.theguardian.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21h

Also just thinking through what this is going to mean for victims/survivors of sexual violence, stalking and more. And how perpetrators and predators will use this technology because OpenAI definitely doesn’t care

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

This, from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, is really useful advice for young (and, tbh, old!) academics. Worth passing on if you know any, maybe? catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 6d

🫣 How does tanning culture speak to class, gender, race, sexuality and age-bound stigma?

📈 Were the public health campaigns effective?

💉 Finally, when reflecting on the past, what’s the future of tanning (and marketing) technologies?

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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 6d

Some of the questions it answers are:

🌧️ Why are sunbeds more prevalent in North(-West) Britain?

🚭 Is the sunbed industry similar to the tobacco, nicotine and alcohol industry?

🔥 Can you trust the sunbed industry’s ‘skin’ and ‘health-enhancement’ campaigns?

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Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 6d

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 1d

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 1d

It's not a 'race debate', it's plain old racism.

Carer health and safety is already a major issue that's barely discussed outside the profession, compounded by demand and extractive practices of employers.

Unfortunately this workforce, like those they care for, hold zero interest for most people

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to speaking at the 20th anniversary of the Centre for the Social History of Health & Healthcare, University of Strathclyde, alongside the incredible Tracey Loughran. I speak about violent women and medical profession. Join us, 29th Oct: from 3.30pm: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

It's Ada Lovelace Day, so worth noting that the era during which coders were mainly women (starting with her machine-language explication of the Bernoulli sequence in 1843) lasted about 130 years whereas the male-dominated period has lasted less than half that long

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 1d

It was an honour and privilege to be invited to write the foreword of this wonderful publication from @ucdpress.bsky.social - it details the amazing, and transformative, movement that was #wakingthefeminists

UCD Research @ucdresearch.bsky.social · 1d

🎭New book published by UCD Press goes behind the scenes of the groundbreaking #WakingTheFeminists grassroots movement for gender equality in Irish theatre.

📕WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre (UCD Press, 2025)👇

www.ucd.ie/research/new...

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 1d

Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃

Waterstones flyer with cover of book and description of deal as explained in text.

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 1d

New on advance access: "The Colonial Metamorphosis of Egyptian Capital Punishment, 1884–1903"

by Alaa El-Shafei (@yale.edu)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

The Colonial Metamorphosis of Egyptian Capital Punishment, 1884–1903*

Abstract. This article analyses how colonial rule remade Egyptian capital punishment. Around the turn of the twentieth century, British officials deliberat

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 1d

I understand the rationale for this, but I wouldn’t want to waste a single word on such awful people when they could be used to thank true beloveds.

The hardest question I was asked in my job interview was ‘what makes a good professor?’ For several moments, I could only think of awful people.

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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