Agreed! And a job advert so refreshingly written that I just read through the whole thing...

Good luck!

This is such a great scheme! I really appreciated and enjoyed hosting it at @rhul-cvs.bsky.social last year and getting the chance to mentor the fantastic Amy Waterson @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social.
Apply to be hosted at LJMU by 11th May.

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century

Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland.

Deadline April 21st - please circulate!

www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

This is not just a writing competition - it's a way of thinking about the water crisis & the future of our planet
Help us spread the word!

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Wow, that does look much fancier! I'll go and find it in my emails...

What about the article on panoramas of 1857, I hear you say? That one is here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war A year later, memorials to the 7 October attacks use art, virtual reality and dark tourism to stir support for limitless violence. But there is a different way to remember

Awestruck to find I've been cited by @naomiaklein.bsky.social in the #Guardian!
Turns out that my article about panoramas of the 1857 Indian Rebellion has been useful for several articles about the echoes of British imperial violence in Gaza - including this one: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Useful to have those stats - thanks. I'll pass them on to an applicant of mine whose proposal wasn't one of the rare successful ones!

Wow!!! Relief and astonishment are my main feelings this morning.

York History Department - Academic Jobs Uncover the past to define the future. We are seeking research-led historians to join our world-class, collaborative community. Discover career-defining opportunities within one of the UK’s most disti...

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of English Literature at University of Oxford An academic position as a Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of English Literature is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportu...

Romanticists and Long Eighteenth Centuryists — there’s an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) being advertised, a joint appointment with St Peter’s College.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK016/a...

Reasons why parents don't get enough exercise, no.92:

my 4-yr-old just said to me "but you went out to do exercise on *Thursday*! You don't need to do exercise again on *Saturday*?!"

I'm sorry to hear you've had such a hard time. Congratulations to you and him on his arrival - I hope you can enjoy more of it from here on in.

Very nice. Congratulations!

Fingers crossed for it for you!

What a great interview! A window into this really important research on textiles and slavery, and the ways the researcher’s body in motion can figure things out that might otherwise elude us. It’s also such a good example of how research and teaching can build each other up.

I love that view! I hope the book's good too.

I'm glad I wasn't watching! (Though thanks for the rundown.) It really makes me despair.

UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.

Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK set to limit asylum seekers to temporary stays Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.

My jaw dropped. This treats people's lives with shameful lack of respect, to spend even more years in limbo. It also treats people's lives as pawns to be traded for an elusive political gain from the far right.

"The era of permanent protection for refugees is over."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

I think I need to print copies of this and wave them threateningly at SUVs as I walk around town...

There should be a tax on ridiculously bloated road boats registered in urban areas, because (a) they cause obvious problems in such areas (b) they are bad for the environment (c) they are dangerous for children (d) they are awful, and driving them should be expensive and socially stigmatised.

You know what - it would be really life affirming if just for once - THIS 👇 was the story

Thank you - that's good to know. Glad to hear you're closing down but instead are flourishing!

The government plans to link university fees to institutional "quality". This is a nonsense because there are no metrics that actually measure teaching quality. There is no Ofsted, rather a handful of largely irrelevant statistics to actual quality. The NSS measure satisfaction, not quality.

No worries at all - I hope you had a good manuscript day!

Oh brilliant! See you there

P.s. I will also be at the BL tomorrow! Message if meeting (however briefly) might be nice.

Ach, Bluesky not showing up well on my form: *Form.