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Michael H Whitworth
@profmhwhitworth.bsky.social
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Oxford, U.K. Prof of Modern Literature and Culture. Literature & Science, Modernism, Book History, Virginia Woolf, 1920s & 30s poetry. Also found on IG under the same name. All posts in a personal capacity.

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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social · 6h
Munby Fellowship in Bibliography based @theul.bsky.social in Cambridge - closes on 1 February, so still time to apply.
Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 at University of Cambridge
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
www.jobs.ac.uk

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 10h
Or, and hear us out, you could STEP IN BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

Oh the intellectual laziness, it is exhausting.

Anyway, #UKHE, let's make her: www.universityrankandfile.org.uk/campaigns

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Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 12h
How about, I don’t know, stepping before then? E.g., changing the policies that make liquidation a possibility?

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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 13h
We’ve got a stellar lineup for this term’s Modern British History Seminar in Oxford. Do come along if you’re around!

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 13h
Government would step in during university liquidation, says Jacqui Smith

Skills minister says government has a “fundamental responsibility to protect students and research”

(Free to read)

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Government would step in during university liquidation, says Smith - Research Professional News
Skills minister says government has a “fundamental responsibility to protect students and research”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 1d
Folks, is it good when the government starts asking institutions for "lists of Jews"?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
www.theguardian.com

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 1d
This is Minneapolis elementary school pick up:

The alert also recommends: "Bring your whistle & wear your hat. If you have a respirator or goggles bring them in a small backpack. We don't want to show up looking alarming for the kids but chemical weapons are being used widely in the area."

2/2

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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, the skill, the craftspersonship! Back at the Bodleian Treasures exhibition to marvel at this 15th or 16thC Qur’an (MS Ouseley Add. 178) and the 8thC MacRegol Gospels (MS Auct. D.219) with its Old English glosses.
Qur’an with lapis lazuli decoration Close up of Qur’an Early medieval gospels Close up of early medieval gospels

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
The LibDem MP @laylamoran.bsky.social has decided to quit Twitter

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.
noturtlesoup17.bsky.social amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 1d
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

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Jane Matthews @janematthews1.bsky.social · 1d
Labour Senator Laura Harmon says the Government should consider banning social media platform X entirely in Ireland in response to the ‘undressing’ scandal.

“If there was a factory created down the road this morning that was producing these kind of images, it would be shut down immediately.”

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 1d
Truly wild that the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express & Daily Telegraph all covered false claims that net-zero will "cost" £7.6bn – or even £9tn – which assumes we could have free gas, free petrol, free petrol cars & free gas power plants if we scrapped net-zero

More here: bsky.app/profile/drsi...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d
Minister of State Alex Norris tells the BBC he won't personally come off X because it's important for communicating with voters.

None of his tweets for the last month has more than 1000 views.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d
Henley & Thame MP Freddie van Mierlo has joined his colleague Layla Moran and also exited X (formerly Twitter). He can be found on Bluesky at @freddievanmierlomp.bsky.social
Screenshot from X 'This account has been relatively inactive for some time but will now be closed. Follow on BlueSky

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 2d
… joins the party of a man he knows to be a racist danger to British governance because even the Tories aren’t corrupt enough to give him a peerage.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 2d
1/2 Nothing indicates the moral fibre of our right wing politicians better than this story. A former Tory Chancellor tax dodger …

Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform UK after peerage bid ruled out by Tories www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Tory Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi defects to Reform UK
Zahawi is the latest former Conservative MP to join Nigel Farage's party, as a Tory source claims he had approached Kemi Badenoch seeking a nomination for the Lords.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d
“Pavements are for pedestrians, not vehicles,” says Oxfordshire County Council’s Cllr Andrew Gant as the Government introduces new rules on pavement parking where councils will be allowed to introduce and enforce a ban: “We welcome the opportunity to apply for the powers to enforce this.”
Pavement parking outside the Westgate Centre where there is literally a 1,000-space car park. Photo via Badly Parked Oxford.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d
To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte
www.theguardian.com

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 2d
Such results are testament to the dedication, innovations, expertise & effectiveness of #FEEnglish #TeamEnglish in #FE +support staff, collaborations;shared experiences that happen across our #FE #English. Hats off to teachers & their students, working against the odds. feweek.co.uk/november-res...
November resits: Upturn in English GSCE pass rate
But maths resit pass rate drops slightly and widens in older age groups
feweek.co.uk

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Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 2d
Registration is open for the @thebsls.bsky.social Winter Symposium "Alternate Histories of the Body" on January 30! It's free and online, and we're re-evaluating the human body, the stories we tell about it, and their impact. Come check it out!

Full programme here: drive.google.com/file/d/18kep...
BSLS Winter Symposium: Alternate Histories of the Body
Alternate Histories of the Body is the 2026 British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium
www.eventbrite.com

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d
Kemi, this is just a population density map

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Lucia Nixon @lucianixon.bsky.social · 2d
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Sorry, Trump and Farage – London is no lawless ‘warzone’. Violent crime is lower than ever | Sadiq Khan
Reform’s new candidate for mayor claims people pity Londoners for living in an unsafe capital. But the evidence is clear: we’re making our streets safer, says mayor of London Sadiq Khan
www.theguardian.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d
Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators:

"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."

www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 3d
Are people leaving Twitter/X in droves? Or, at least, beginning to use BlueSky accounts that have been lying dormant?

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Matt Privratsky @mattprivratsky.bsky.social · 3d
(Should add, I spoke to a handful of the armed people before filming. Asked them what they were doing etc. Their stated answer was “immigration investigation”. They engaged somewhat w/questions but it clearly was not based on a warrant or any other actual info. It’s theater. Terrifying theater.)

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Matt Privratsky @mattprivratsky.bsky.social · 3d
Community pushed them out.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3d
Imagining a regime of kindness as radical as this regime of cruelty.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Auchincloss: "When you have a badge & gun and you are interacting with a citizen who has committed no crime, the onus of responsibility is on you to exercise good judgment. Nobody watching that video will buy the argument that he had no other resort other than to shoot her in the face 3 times."