earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
Irishman in Yorkshire. Historian of language, education, mobility at the University of Leeds. Co-editor of the Historical Journal, occasional BBC radio presenter. Dad!
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Mass academic job losses putting spotlight on REF rules that allow universities to take credit for work of staff they make redundant. Here's what one academic told @chrisjparr.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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And a packet of dates, please.
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Where in Donegal?
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As the interview makes clear, @petermandler.bsky.social is very much not stopping and has some extremely exciting projects and appointments in prospect -- but this is a nice valedictory piece to mark a major moment. It was a pleasure to toast him and hear some great stories at the HJ AGM in January!
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NB that queen of Bluestorians @onslies.bsky.social is the sibling of a superb Antwerp-based brewer whose wares are available in the city's finest bars...
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To prove a crime you need to prove the accused had four things: means, motive, opportunity, and a certain joie de vivre
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Workshopped that message for a while and ultimately felt that the simplest was the funniest. So long Steam Hogs, we hardly knew you.
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Also enjoy US colleagues assuming the international transparency of institutional acronyms. "Delighted to join USTQV as a professor this fall. Let's go Horses!"
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I find this so extraordinarily sinister and it drives me mad!
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As I sent that they woke up child number one. I'm switching my vote to Cardinal Tedesco
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Oh they're an odd bunch entirely!
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At least Catholic music is, you know, good (though being scrupulously fair I'll admit that the prods managed a few decades of bangers in the eighteenth century before the wheels came off)
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They've been at it since morning. Forget the secret of eternal life, these people have cracked the secret of eternal free time and I want to know more
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My teaching evaluations
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apparently there's a TV character, Richard. Played by Dracula
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OK I have now worked out what this refers to
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And how to count sequentially?
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Boston at the seams.
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Locke is no help to me here