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Gail Marshall
@gailmarshall.bsky.social
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Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (Heritage and Creativity) at the University of Reading, and Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d
‘Contra the narrow focus of policymakers on Stem subjects or coding, now more than ever our economy rewards broad skillsets: team players, problem solvers, good communicators and creative thinkers.’ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/5e25...
How to AI-proof your job
The data suggests soft skills more than quantitative competency equal success in a rapidly changing labour market
www.ft.com

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · 6d
Excellent start to 6 months of showing how and why English Studies matters so much to all of us #EnglishCreates from @univeng.bsky.social and lots of our brilliant colleagues
univeng.bsky.social University English @univeng.bsky.social · 6d
#EnglishCreates: Futures kicks off with the first in a series of brilliantly insightful blogs by Professor Ralph Pite on the subject of English Studies and 'environments'
These will prove how important English studies are in the current polycrisis: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
#EnglishCreates Blog: ENGLISH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
universityenglish.ac.uk

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · 6d
#EnglishCreates: Futures kicks off with the first in a series of brilliantly insightful blogs by Professor Ralph Pite on the subject of English Studies and 'environments'
These will prove how important English studies are in the current polycrisis: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
#EnglishCreates Blog: ENGLISH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
universityenglish.ac.uk

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · 12d
And when the cars drove on the right

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 24d
What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.

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b1rdsteve.bsky.social @b1rdsteve.bsky.social · Dec 16
Feels like the right day to repost this brilliant tweet from @lewisgoodall.com

#Trump
#BBC
#EpsteinFiles
#CauseAndDeflect

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Dec 1
Who is more likely to be unemployed 15 months after graduation the Philosopher or the Physicist? The answer may not be what you think
Philosophy 7.7% unemployed Physics 8% unemployed

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Catriona Seth, Gail Marshall

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Dec 1
How about Languages v Computer Science? Hmm…
Languages - 7.6% unemployed Computer science- 9.7%

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Dec 1
So kid, in your heart you want to study humanities but you worry about your job prospects? Let’s play a game.

On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad?

WRONG!
English lit - 6.4% unemployed Maths - 7.5% unemployed

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · Dec 1
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Excellent news
UK aims to secure agreement to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme
Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money
www.theguardian.com

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · Nov 25
Brilliant opportunity here to work with excellent colleagues - and their amazing collection - at MERL
janhamcam.bsky.social CamJanHam🖖 @janhamcam.bsky.social · Nov 25
i worked in museums/archives, before, during, and after completing my doctorate.
it was years after completing my degree that i took my job at my college.
this opportunity to learn how to work with collections from museum professionals strikes me as fantastic!
themerl.bsky.social The Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social · Nov 25
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

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CamJanHam🖖 @janhamcam.bsky.social · Nov 25
i worked in museums/archives, before, during, and after completing my doctorate.
it was years after completing my degree that i took my job at my college.
this opportunity to learn how to work with collections from museum professionals strikes me as fantastic!
themerl.bsky.social The Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social · Nov 25
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.

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PRL @usrbinprl.bsky.social · Oct 12
One of the finest software engineers I've ever had the pleasure to work with had a degree in music. Another had a degree in Egyptology.
The important thing was that their degrees taught them how to think. Their love of the subjects just made things better.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · Oct 12
My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”
Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers
"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.
www.startribune.com

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · Oct 6
“Prioritising a narrow set of disciplines could mean we lose talented arts, humanities and social sciences graduates who help drive innovation and tackle huge societal challenges. Student choice is vital.” bit.ly/3KAReIQ
Maintenance grants only for priority courses ‘deeply concerning’
Using financial incentives to influence student choice risk undermining Labour’s widening access goals, critics fear
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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · Sep 19
#EnglishCreates @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · Sep 11

📚Join us on 30 Oct 2025 at Senate House for The History of English Studies in Britain symposium
🎤 Speakers include Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini
Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc
#EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature
The History of English Studies in Britain: a Symposium
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Aug 24
I’ve documented protests for decades. The asylum hotel protests I’ve photographed have all been very small. When I first turned up at the Newcastle protest, and asked the police where the protesters were, they pointed to one man and said he’s over there.
Four police officers on horses and a single protester with a union flag

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · Aug 21
It’s deeply ingrained. I’m just finishing a book about 1859 and the same exceptionalist attitudes are on full display there too

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · Aug 18
The Ronald Blythe Fellowship is John Clare Society's new scheme awarding a PhD student focusing on Clare a £1000 bursary to support their work.
Please pass on - &/or contact me or Honorary Secretary of the Society, Karen Lakey, for further information:
johnclaresociety.wordpress.com/contact-us/

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Dr Lindsay Maxwell @parisdaguerre.bsky.social · Aug 15
BBC Today is reporting that “at least 94” data centres will be built in the next 5 years in the U.K.
How can we possibly justify doing that when we can’t get a full electric car charging network built, & the power infrastructure is insufficient to connect new wind farms, never mind water shortages

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · Mar 15
Every research report: Humanities majors have great career prospects!

Every research university: Here's why sadly we must restructure the humanities,

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · Jul 25
You can pre-order This Slavery here from us, or even better, you can pre-order it at any real-life tax-paying bookshop from knowledgeable friendly booksellers on real wages ✊

🔥 Publication is 11th Sep in UK and 7th Oct in US & Canada 🔥

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A book cover. The text reads ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTH’S THIS SLAVERY, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. The full page illustration shows two women standing back to back in a steep terraced street at sunset. The blonde woman holds a violin, the dark haired woman wears a man’s coat. A young man looks at them from an upstairs window on the left, and on the right there is a perky white and brown dog. In the distance the factory chimneys smoke. It’s all very ‘mills & doom’

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · Jul 22
Did AI write this??

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · Jul 19
Yes, all of them, plus first parts of Tennyson’s Idylls, Mrs Beeton, and The Woman in White

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · Jul 19
I’m finishing a book on 1859 and was reading your account of the voting reform efforts that year

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · Jul 19
@robertsaunders.bsky.social I was just reading your excellent book on the 1867 Reform Act. It was really helpful. Thank you!

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · Jul 19
Footballer Héctor Bellerín’s reading list

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · Jul 16
I just signed this petition calling for better cooperation with the EU on the environment. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jul 13
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.