Dr Kathleen Neal
@kbneal.bsky.social
Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
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Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
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November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
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This. A recent info session for staff talked first about how we need new tools to prove our graduates did their own work, and also about how we all need to integrate AI into our teaching. WTAF.
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This. A recent info session for staff talked first about how we need new tools to prove our graduates did their own work, and also about how we all need to integrate AI into our teaching. WTAF.
Typical that when hardly any WBBL games are on free to air, the ones that are get rained out 😢🏏
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Typical that when hardly any WBBL games are on free to air, the ones that are get rained out 😢🏏
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Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
Anthony Albanese promised to end the ‘culture of secrecy’. With freedom of speech under attack globally, it’s past time he delivered
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First things first. It would be remiss of me not to refer specifically to the appalling and outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and other media workers in Israel’s war on Gaza since the brutal attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens two years ago.
Having excluded independent global media access inside Gaza, leaving us all to rely on local journalists to bear witness to the devastating effect of Israel’s bombardment on the civilian population of Gaza and the famine that has accompanied it, Israel has failed dismally to explain with any credibility why so many journalists have been killed. Continue reading...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
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Academic friends, DeGruyter Brill is offering a 40% discount on their books untill 11 December! Code is DGBHOLIDAY40
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As we celebrate the close of another year, you can enjoy an exclusive 40% discount. Now’s the perfect time to pause and recharge, with 40% off all books and eBooks from De Gruyter Brill until 11 December 2025.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Academic friends, DeGruyter Brill is offering a 40% discount on their books untill 11 December! Code is DGBHOLIDAY40
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Don't miss this opportunity: As 2025 comes to a close, Taylor and Francis are featuring all our past Humanities & Social Sciences collections in one place. Revisit more than 90+ articles spanning across 30 journals, made free until 31 December 2025!
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Explore top resources in Humanities & Social Sciences from leading publications., including free access journal articles, expert insights, open access books and more.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Don't miss this opportunity: As 2025 comes to a close, Taylor and Francis are featuring all our past Humanities & Social Sciences collections in one place. Revisit more than 90+ articles spanning across 30 journals, made free until 31 December 2025!
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New challenge for busy researchers who lament that they don't have time to think these days:
For 2026, plan for thinking time, or time to do nothing (which is when some of the best ideas happen). Protect it. Make it sacrosanct.
If you don't take your thinking time seriously, no-one else will.
For 2026, plan for thinking time, or time to do nothing (which is when some of the best ideas happen). Protect it. Make it sacrosanct.
If you don't take your thinking time seriously, no-one else will.
This banger from the academia / writing / research meme stash definitely has wider applicability but I do really like using it for coaching, mentoring, and workshop activities when we talk about the importance of saying 'no' to things as researchers. #academicchatter #academicsky #PhDchat
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
New challenge for busy researchers who lament that they don't have time to think these days:
For 2026, plan for thinking time, or time to do nothing (which is when some of the best ideas happen). Protect it. Make it sacrosanct.
If you don't take your thinking time seriously, no-one else will.
For 2026, plan for thinking time, or time to do nothing (which is when some of the best ideas happen). Protect it. Make it sacrosanct.
If you don't take your thinking time seriously, no-one else will.
I've been working on a big grant application for about a month. So far I reckon the deep-thinking-to-administrative-trouble-shooting ratio is around 1:2 🤦
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I've been working on a big grant application for about a month. So far I reckon the deep-thinking-to-administrative-trouble-shooting ratio is around 1:2 🤦
Preparing to come back into teaching after an enforced, prolonged break that just happens to have coincided with opening the GenAI effluent taps into HE from both ends at once (students & mgt) is ... an experience bound to make you wonder why you are bothering at all.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Preparing to come back into teaching after an enforced, prolonged break that just happens to have coincided with opening the GenAI effluent taps into HE from both ends at once (students & mgt) is ... an experience bound to make you wonder why you are bothering at all.
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The operating assumption of those who design and champion this software is that it's all just 'content' anyhow, and the easier it is to access that content without having to deal with the orthographic or material form that it takes the better. Nothing of evidential value inheres outside the semantic
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The operating assumption of those who design and champion this software is that it's all just 'content' anyhow, and the easier it is to access that content without having to deal with the orthographic or material form that it takes the better. Nothing of evidential value inheres outside the semantic
👇THIS
There’s a big difference between posting on social media and being well enough to work, socialize or do other activities of daily living.
Social media is a lifeline for most of us because we’re housebound, sometimes bedbound, and suffering from conditions no one else understands
Social media is a lifeline for most of us because we’re housebound, sometimes bedbound, and suffering from conditions no one else understands
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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If you have the means I highly recommend the cause of supporting a fellow scholar
The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
If you have the means I highly recommend the cause of supporting a fellow scholar
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Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
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British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers
An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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Delighted to have an essay featured in this issue! Thanks Matt, Erin & Cassandra!
The next issue of @parergon.bsky.social is on its way, guest-edited by me, @erinsebo.bsky.social and Cassandra Schilling. There's a great group of scholars here who collectively consider, from multiple perspectives, questions of how medieval England perceived its place in a wide and complex world.
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Delighted to have an essay featured in this issue! Thanks Matt, Erin & Cassandra!
Ready for some #GoodNews? Sr sosige seems to have had only a temporary worsening of ♥️ issues, doesn't have to stay on the meds that were messing with his kidneys, & has responded really well to 2 days of iv fluids. We've gone from thinking he had days to "no reason to expect decline" soon!
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Ready for some #GoodNews? Sr sosige seems to have had only a temporary worsening of ♥️ issues, doesn't have to stay on the meds that were messing with his kidneys, & has responded really well to 2 days of iv fluids. We've gone from thinking he had days to "no reason to expect decline" soon!
Well this is a pleasant unforeseen outcome of the bizarre first test
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Well this is a pleasant unforeseen outcome of the bizarre first test
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Ireland has a military intelligence agency and police intelligence (including counterintelligence) like everyone else. The idea that every nation has to have an MI6/CIA analogue is not merely wrong, it's actively harmful.
And saying 'hello' is exactly what you're meant to do with suspicious ships.
And saying 'hello' is exactly what you're meant to do with suspicious ships.
Despite these high stakes, Ireland has no dedicated intelligence agency, just four working navy vessels and the smallest defence budget in the EU. In fact, the only thing the Irish navy can do when it spots a suspicious ship lurking is say “hello”.
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Ireland has a military intelligence agency and police intelligence (including counterintelligence) like everyone else. The idea that every nation has to have an MI6/CIA analogue is not merely wrong, it's actively harmful.
And saying 'hello' is exactly what you're meant to do with suspicious ships.
And saying 'hello' is exactly what you're meant to do with suspicious ships.
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ICYMI: we interviewed 2024 Ceræ essay prize winner, poet an academic Roxanne Bodsworth! She discusses medieval and modern poetry, her book recs, and women in Irish myth. #medievalsky
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Guest Post: An Interview with Roxanne Bodsworth
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Roxanne Bodsworth to our interview series. Dr. Bodsworth holds a PhD from Victoria University, Melbourne, and is an academic and poet. Dr. Bodsworth is the winner of…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
ICYMI: we interviewed 2024 Ceræ essay prize winner, poet an academic Roxanne Bodsworth! She discusses medieval and modern poetry, her book recs, and women in Irish myth. #medievalsky
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The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians
Joining the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society: a brief guide if you’re considering an application | Historical Transactions
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November 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians
Someone is feeling a bit better after a day on iv fluids. We'll be keeping on giving him love and care as long as he shows he wants it. ♥️💔♥️
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Someone is feeling a bit better after a day on iv fluids. We'll be keeping on giving him love and care as long as he shows he wants it. ♥️💔♥️
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The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
Proposed cuts at State Library of Victoria go against its mission – and will hurt the disadvantaged
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November 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
Friends, sr sosige is not doing well. Jr knows something is up with his buddy and is very clingy, while I am living mainly on mini kit kats. Hugs welcome.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Friends, sr sosige is not doing well. Jr knows something is up with his buddy and is very clingy, while I am living mainly on mini kit kats. Hugs welcome.
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Note to self: Be more carrot lady
An old lady steps from the queue. “it’s a carrot,” she says. Glares defiantly at the assistant. The assistant wilts. Enters the radish as a carrot. The elderly Polish gentleman leaves triumphant. Life resumes.
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Note to self: Be more carrot lady
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the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!
Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
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Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!