And in South Africa we have umphokoqo (aka pap)!

Lecturer in English Literature The Department of English provides education at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels, and is part of the Faculty of Humanities. The Department has a staff of about 35 people. There are ap

Exciting lecturing job being advertised in the Department of English at Stockholm University - with a desirable expertise in 19thc literature:
@bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

book cover, it reads: Eleonora Paklons, Kristof Smeyers, Kurt Vanhoutte, Hannah Welslau (eds) PERFORMING MAGNETISM The theatrics of persuasion in the long nineteenth century the cover shows a man in a tuxedo staring straight at you, his skin is green and his eyes are yellow

Good morning all! For those who can't wait any longer: our book PERFORMING MAGNETISM is already available in open access, with huge thanks to @leuvenup.bsky.social

Read it here:
openresearchlibrary.org/content/d7d0...

Or here: www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...

University of Exeter and University of Cambridge Libraries & Archives - Collections Connections Communities

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.

#PhDsky

The big jump in 2022-2023 school year is in large part due to the mass infection of ALL our children with COVID, followed by frequent reinfection. Now, their immune systems are screwed and significant & growing % have Long COVID.

#ontpoli #cdnpoli

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

Interesting-sounding PhD position in Bern: architectural history of the Swiss women's movement 1870-1930.

Not to mention ever-rising international student fees!

STUDY visas. STUDY visas! As a prior recipient of one of these, let me tell you these are already HIGHLY limited & very strict in terms of what you are and aren’t allowed to do / access while in the UK. Plus you pay to apply, and if you get it you pay a large NHS surcharge. Who is exploiting whom?

Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Screaming cat meme

Looking forward to reading the final version!

Assistant Professor in Middle East Politics - Durham - Indeed.com Durham University

📢 We are hiring at IMEIS, Durham University

The School of Government and International Affairs is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Middle East Politics (with a focus on the Arab states).

🔗 uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b...

For academic enquiries: Professor Bahar Baser – bahar.baser@durham.ac.uk

The gigification of university. Utter disgrace.

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate.

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below...

jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Over 400 @unitetheunion.bsky.social members at the University of Strathclyde (including cleaners and security guards) are starting 7 days of strike action today over job cuts.

The university says it has to save money. Last year the boss of the university was paid £428,000

the times demand it

Al Jazeera sees bombs being loaded onto US planes at UK base An Al Jazeera crew filmed bunker-busting bombs being loaded onto US military planes at a UK military base.

Evidence of UK complicity in the US/Israel illegal war: www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

We will take strike action next week unless the University rules out compulsory redundancies.

The executives we have lost confidence in continue to forecast the need for another £20m of savings. All from staff losses.

We’ve already lost over 600 colleagues. When will the job cuts end?

newspaper photo of women standing on the plinth at Trafalgar Square holding banners.

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1928, hundreds of women march through London to a Communist Party rally, demanding better working conditions.
[photo via redflagwalks.wordpre... ]

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory 🗃️

The Dr Williams’s Trust Library Bursaries for Mid-Career Researchers The Dr Williams’s Trust has generously provided funds to support the work of mid-career historians researching the British Protestant dissenting traditions.

Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.

Very cool postdoctoral opportunity on an ERC project looking at 'Art and Liberation Movements during 20th Century Decolonization'. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Nationalism, Folk Horror, and the Ecopolitics of ‘Midsommar’ Emma and Christy look at Ari Aster’s 2019 folk horror film Midsommar and talk environmentalism, nationalism, community, grief, horror (obviously), folk art, facial transplants, whiteness, screaming,…

On next @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social episode, this one about Midsommar. This exchange was very funny: pca.st/episode/22de...

Patrick Leary Resource Development Grant Guidelines – RSVP The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) intends to grant one Patrick Leary Resource Development Grant each year to a single researcher or a team of researchers pursuing a project that…

Happy Monday! This is your friendly reminder that Leary Resource Development Grant applications are due this coming Sunday, March 15! Leary Grants offer up to $27,500 USD to support new tools, repositories, datasets, + other projects that deepen our engagement with the #19thC press.

to write in long form is to reckon with yourself

250,000 human remains.

The Rossettis: Siblings and Spouses Discover a major new Rossetti exhibition in Wolverhampton as The Rossettis: Siblings and Spouses opens at Wightwick Manor and Gardens.

Just started @nationaltrust.org.uk Wightwick Manor exhibition about extended Rossetti family including newly acquired portrait of Christina. Wightwick's a beautiful house anyway and has permanent @demorganfoundation.bsky.social display www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...

Depending on how visual and British the project is, the Paul Mellon Centre small grants are really great for this