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I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.

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Done! 1 hour 42 mins and some seconds. Now itching to find some more fun local halfs to do!

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Catch me on Radio 4 at 9am tomorrow! I'll be talking about Liverpool's modern history and how we can forge a new type of politics in the face of abandonment and obsolescence. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Half marathon today so time to carb up on fettuccini alfredo

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Oh for gods sake please no. Some historians are already sceptical enough about reconstruction (sadly) without adding awful generative AI slop into the mix.

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Good lord this Labour government is absolutely ludicrous. Each day they come out with more utter trash.

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Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

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Just enjoyed a really excellent paper from @claireturner.bsky.social at @crems-york.bsky.social seminar exploring some of the material they’re finding in their work on the sensory history of early modern cancer and identity. Now attempting to measure how long 9 thumbs is…

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I am sorry but I would not be able to bring myself to partake of the Irving watermelon head.

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📣 Last Call 📣 Join us for the symposium Scent and Imagination 👃🏻🌸🏺 Happening the 4th of June in Cambridge, we have amazing speakers @willtullett.bsky.social and Sussan Babaie already planned! Last chance to be one of the speaker at this event too! Apply here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45567/

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In journal publisher crappery news: now discovered that some publishers do licences for articles where you can only view the article on the press website but aren’t allowed to download the pdf. Great thanks a lot guys!!

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My amazing book cover is here! Coming soon from University of Chicago Press.

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Copious luxury meats and 4 ply wash tissue. What a work retreat.

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The SUV one is sending me www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY I have some big news. Since 2021, I’ve been on the trail of a mystery 160 years in the making: What is the truth about Queen Victoria’s relationship with her Highland Servant, John Brown? #booksky #skystorians

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Fellow historians - you don't need to be an AHA member, or based in the US, to add your voice to this list. I've signed this petition and I'd encourage you to do so too. 🗃️

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It’s me! Come hear me talk about the smell of the Glasgow subway.

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Tell this to Jacqui ‘Universities are autonomous Institutions’ Smith… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I know it's a Guardian editorial and I know everyone following me already knows this, but this is very well put indeed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A brilliant day @linneansociety.bsky.social for Rediscovering Natural History. There was even an interactive session- Using Smell to Open up Archives- with @willtullett.bsky.social and Cecilia Bembibre

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im old enough to remember when a Labour government would stand for investment in infrastructure and research and education and health. i want to hear from the cabinet members which universities it is they want to see go bust, who doesn’t deserve opportunity to study. did we have too much research?

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We need two people to lead Environmental Humanities into a future that needs #envhum work more than ever. Please apply 👇

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On 27 Feb my book comes out. It’s about how Liverpool’s recent history should change the way we think about modern Britain. On this thread every few days till then, I will tweet an extraordinary fact about Liverpool’s twentieth-century. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...

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Me posting a sarcastic comment about government higher education policy:

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Between 2016 and 2023 this sector faced a malicious government, bent on using universities and academics as an enemy. Now, we face one that is indifferent, which trots out the same holding pattern of public statements while everything burns. The entire time, students have suffered the consequences.

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Given what’s going on in the sector as a whole this special pleading is pretty sad. Also for some reason I find the description of PhDs as the ‘worker bees’ of research a bit weird and uncomfortable.

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What happens when we try to preserve the peddlers' calls which made up the soundscape of Peking? As Odila Schröder writes 'As is the case with most local art forms, the process of heritagisation has fundamentally changed the art form itself'. www.historyworkshop....

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‘Literary criticism captured in scent’ good lord 😂. Pungent stuff!

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Love how every software update now involves figuring out how to turn off the awful AI crap that has been introduced (bugger off Apple Intelligence, I like being able to see what my emails actually say rather than what you think they say).

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Very excited to speak at the Centre for Renaissance and #EarlyModern Studies at York on 'The Torments and Travails of Jamestown: Early 17th century settler colonial body in pain' (Thu 13 Feb, also accessible online). Details below: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

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Amazed to discover that the philosophical grounding of the contemporary alt right comes from a man who wrote under a name that sounds it came straight from a terrible Warhammer Fantasy fan fic. What a world we live in.

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Yep this.

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Sad that the only real use article writer can highlight is realism. Same rhetorical move happens elsewhere with smell: shunted off into immersion rather than asking what else we could do with it. What about smell as part of the mechanics of a game (eg look at Simon Niedenthal and Jas Brooks work!)?

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‘The Treasury has told City bosses spooked about the prospect of further tax rises that savings in the welfare bill will avoid the need to re-open the budget.’ 🤢🤢🤢🤢

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My therapist: fly larvae can’t hurt you. Fly larvae:

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