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Lucky to have been given a sneak preview (by @aminatshah.bsky.social) of the news show from @natlibscot.bsky.social, ‘Dear Library’ celebrating the place of libraries in people’s lives. Features @valmcdermid.bsky.social, @damianbarr.bsky.social & people from all over Scotland! #nls100

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For anyone interested in the development of Open Access publishing in Ireland, PublishOA and the Royal Irish Academy have released a wonderful report mapping the landscape of scholarly publishing on the island. The report is free to download and available for you here: zenodo.org/records/1563...

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'The International Science Partnerships Fund was launched in 2022 with £119 million, before receiving a £218m top-up in Official Development Assistance funding the following year. However, the funding will run out this year.'

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Was easy to miss in the spending review, but DSIT's R&D budget is flat next year (£14bn up from £13.9bn) At the same time, there's more stuff in there - Edinburgh supercomputer, industrial strategy programmes, missions fund, regional fund Ominous for UKRI budget

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In Refugee Week (16-22 June), please do consider booking to attend our next lecture: 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Perspective', with Prof Peter Gatrell: 6.30pm on Wednesday 2 July bit.ly/44Q4MYT #Skystorians

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🏡 Continental divide: Smaller Western European cities are better for your health Study by @isglobal.org puts 🇬🇧UK and 🇪🇸Spanish cities top for healthy urban living www.politico.eu/article/smal...

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'White school pupils now also have the lowest progression rate to more selective high tariff universities.' 1/2

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'DMU had collaborated with United Arab Emirates-based Study World Education Holding Group, a private company, to build its Dubai branch campus, which commenced operations in September 2021.' 1/2

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'The government may need to intervene to ensure a more strategic “consolidation” of research activity takes place across the UK’s higher education system, the outgoing chief executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has suggested.' 1/3

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Good (including good for historians) to see that the census looks to be retained in England and Wales for 2031.

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'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'

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Who purchased them? Will they be available for research? Will they be collected into a single archive or dispersed? Will they be digitised for public access? Rather relevant questions to address, surely? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'The institution has been granted permission by the Indian government to take forward proposals in Mumbai. A business case will go before the university's governing court for consideration next month.' The siren call of Indian expansion. What could possibly go wrong?

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'Despite criticism, the REF team confirmed on 12 June that researchers will be fully split from their outputs in REF 2029, with the exception of long-form outputs such as books. It seemingly ended any possibility that journal papers and other outputs would be...portable in the next...exercise.' 1/2

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British Academy International Interdisciplinary Research Projects call. Open to Early-career, Established researcher, Mid-career, Postdoctoral or equivalent research, Senior researcher. 24 month duration. Application deadline 17 September 2025. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/know...

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In screen industries, 'over 70 per cent of the workforce are graduates (and a higher proportion of new entrants).' 1/2

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'Spooked by the twin threats of Putin abroad and Reform UK at home, Labour has chosen to fund submarines and social housing but not higher education. The consistent failure of universities to make a convincing case for public finance has come back to bite us.' 1/3

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'The change, following advice from Historic England, means it is now nationally recognised as a building of the highest architectural and historical interest. It joins the vast majority of England’s cathedrals which are also Grade I-listed'.

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'The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers.' Maybe the policy of 'turbocharging' AI everywhere & all the time needs thought?

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'"Most of the time they just want to say nothing", says a senior PR executive.'

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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The Paris Review blog is marking the approach of Jane Austen's 250th with some great little essays, including one by Jennifer Egan on Emma as detective fiction. Here's the link and a bit of a 🧵 www.theparisreview.org/blog/

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Join us on 9 July to explore how museums can engage with migration and Empire histories in nuanced, and locally relevant ways — through the lens of learning programmes and education practice. Photo: University of Greenwich #MuseumEducation #MigrationHistory #EmpireHistory #DecolonisingMuseums

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Hard choices in hard times hit US science.

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#HeritageHighlights 🎤Today, South Asian Women in the Field (SAWIF) recorded their first #podcast in the series. In conversation with Prof Rajani we discussed the changing field of remote sensing #archaeology and what its like for women in this field. Stay tuned for the release!

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'The book was translated in the year of the Spanish Armada – when Elizabeth I was monarch – by Bishop William Morgan as part of an effort to bring scriptures to people in languages they understood.'

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Two 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships available at UCL for Black British candidates. One in History of the legacy of Transatlantic slavery and reparations; the other on reparations and the media/culture focusing on reparations and the media/culture. Here's the History one. 1/2

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'A review into how the situation has been handled, commissioned by the university, found decision-making was unstructured and dominated by finances. The university said it accepted there had been "missteps".' Not the only university to harry in haste and repent at leisure.

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'Pressure on the science department’s R&D budget next year has raised concerns that UK Research and Innovation could be in line for a flat cash settlement for a second consecutive year.'

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'King’s vice-chancellor says research deficits are “untenable” and higher education needs “the next Aneurin Bevan”....a politician with a “passion for universities” to restructure the country’s higher education system or institutions will go bankrupt'. 1/3

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'There’s a reason, in other words, even if you strip out all the neoliberal value propositions from higher education governance, why higher education institutions need a “business” arm and associated governance structures.' Good analysis, this. 1/3

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'Universities across the world report having greater mental health provision for students than for staff, sparking calls for providers to “prioritise” staff well-being, data collected by Times Higher Education has found.' 1/2

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'Forty-five years on, the debate has been stirred once again, with a petition launched calling for the National Gallery to honour its 1997 promise to stage a public debate on its authenticity. This time, it’s not the front of the painting that’s under scrutiny – it’s the back of it.'

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'Starkly, Shore invoked the ultimate warning from history. “The lesson of 1933 is: you get out sooner rather than later.”' Rather begs the question of the fate of the great majority who cannot flee.

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