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Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
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The small liberal arts colleges and the regional publics that stuck their necks out to sign the amicus briefs the Jesuit schools were also signing, while all the Ivies and R1s (except MSU!) caved or sat silent, would also like a word.

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The recent cancellation of NEH funds has hit the wonderful resource that is the Medieval English Text Series (METS) @urochester.bsky.social, a free online resource that 1000s use for teaching & research. Please consider making a donation if you can, and please share! metseditions.org/donate

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<opens Derek's the menswear guy's profile, expectantly>

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Glad to see FT making space for more expensive, human-centric education. Montessori uses rubrics, not to grade the child per se, but to ensure that they have well-rounded exposure to, engagement with, and ultimately confidence enough to demonstrate mastery of materials in the prepared environments.

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This. (is important)

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Weird regrets that hit you in the middle of restructures & threatened redundancies: I wish I had kept the texts I sent when I was offered the job here at QMUL.

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It's Semana Santa in Mexico; time for Jesus accidents nationwide! wp.me/p30bS-4q6 #HolyWeek

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University bureaucrats: no! latest fad! (Although please remember to revalidate your degrees with next latest fad in two years time)

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Politicians seem to be in wilfully conflating an AI being trainable with an ability to think critically and flexibly to produce solutions to problems. AI can only act as a mirror of those processes once they've already been done by people. What will train the AI if people stop doing them?

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"It’s not your job to be resilient, it’s your employer’s job to provide you with decent working conditions. The purpose of your hobbies and your free time is your enjoyment and fulfilment, not recuperation from work stress."

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Trying to find an image for an event on "Changing the record: how people use(d) paperwork to make their world" (@rshc.bsky.social), which mostly involves me scrolling through wikimedia commons thinking that absolutely every archive looks stunning and attractive. I'm... not a good judge on this...

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We are very excited to see that HWJ editor Sadiah Qureshi's new book - Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction - will be out soon. You can join Sadiah and David Olusoga for the launch at Manchester Museum on 6 June.

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This 👇

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