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Hugh Jones

@hbsj.bsky.social

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I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · Nov 18

Remember, it’s only a starter pack if it comes from the Start region of France, otherwise it’s just a sparkling echo chamber

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 12d

WHITSTABLE VERY DISAPPOINTING.

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 18h

Something I only discovered a few years ago - free membership of the City of London's Barbican Library (you only need a UK address) gives you *remote* access to a great range of online resources - inc BNA (altho offline today) & other newspaper databases 😃
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/lib...

Screenshot of some of the online databases listed on the Barbican Library website here
https://col.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk/client/en_GB/default/?rm=LENDING+LIBRAR0%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7C1%7C%7C%7Ctrue

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 20h

It's entirely not the point, but how do you do italics in a BlueSky post?

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

“At some point there needs to be a reckoning."

The world celebrates as the Gaza peace deal is signed - but when is the time to question 𝘸𝘩𝘺 the war dragged on for so long?

@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social

Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 21h

ooh yes, good call

I've also got an S level English - does that count for two?

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 21h

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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 21h

19.00 ONE-NIL
Prequel to 'The Equalizer'

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 21h

I've got an A level English - do I get a special stamp in my passport for being extra British?

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 22h

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uniofsurrey.bsky.social

This is in Guildford; its ancestor, Battersea Polytechnic, was in London

If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard: an aerial photograph of concrete and brick buildings in an urban campus

Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

Well over 50%

Did they specify whether the A level was English Language or English Literature, or could it be either, do you think?

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

Language can be a really divisive issue in Wales

Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

I know why they've chosen the image, but if you associate the English language with the English flag (and by extension the Welsh language with the Welsh Flag) then you're alienating most Welsh people, who speak English but who do not identify(obviously) as English

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1d

Migrants coming to the UK to work will need to learn English to an A-level standard under new rules set to be introduced

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in the UK under new rules

Migrants coming to the UK to work will need to learn English to an A-level standard under new rules set to be introduced. Tougher requirements for speaking, listening, reading and writing will be need...

nation.cymru

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

My dad, who used to work there, said that @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social, when it was choosing its university name in the early 1990s, considered becoming Sheffield Bassetts University, after the local firm of confectioners

Can anyone stand this up? Bertie Bassett gowns would have been magnificent

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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a thoughtful review by Pat Thomson - have been a huge admirer of Patter for a long time. patthomson.net/2016/07/21/o...

on form and function – and Les Back’s Academic Diary

So you want to write a book which examines everyday life in the contemporary university. You want to show the ways in which academic work is constrained, but also what freedoms are still possible. …

patthomson.net

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

I knew a university librarian who said they had to chuck books out in the cover of darkness, because if they did it in daylight/work hours, one or two particular professors would walk around removing books from bins and putting them back on shelves!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

“Cease” fire

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 1d

Battle of Hastings (colorised)

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘

‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’

Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 1d

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

www.cnbc.com

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard to chime in with @lselibrary.bsky.social's thread: its a postcard from 2017 advertising an earlier exhibition - I guess when the library acquired the GLF archive?

An old colour picture postcard advertising an exhibition at LSE Library. The Exhibition is called "Glad to be gay: the struggle for legal equality" and the image shows a photograph of a ?1970s demonstration walking past Piccadilly Circus, one person holding a placard saying "Glad to be gay"

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Did you know? @itsnottrue.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that the first football world cup was meant to be in 1928 but they couldn't agree where to play it?

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Pandy Fackler 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 1d

(Duck church)

Duck preacher: give us this day our daily bread

*duck parishioners start going wild and quacking HALLELUJAH*

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

Give it a try!

Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @sussex.ac.uk

@uniofbrighton.bsky.social is just the other side of the railway lines

If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard showing an aerial photograph of rolling downs. In the foreground, a cluster of concrete buildings, and just visible a road and railway line

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 2d

Post you from a different era

1987

Me, incredibly young looking (18 or 19), Hawaiian shirt and sports jacket, shades and pork pie hat. Ye gods.

Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 2d

Eternal post

Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 2d

And now I want a donut.