Elis Dafydd
@elisdafydd.bsky.social
Darlithydd yn Ysgol y Gymraeg, Prifysgol Bangor. Beirniadaeth lenyddol, llenyddiaeth, sgwennu creadigol.
Mae prifysgolion Cymru ar eu glinia ac mae’r Gweinidog Addysg yn dal i drio cyfiawnhau gwario hanner biliwn o bunnau bob blwyddyn ar annog pobl ifanc Cymru i beidio astudio ynddyn nhw. Boncyrs.
newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/30038
newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/30038
‘Annog pobl ifanc i adael Cymru i fynd i brifysgolion yn tanseilio’r Gymraeg’
Mae un o gynlluniau Llywodraeth Cymru sy’n cefnogi pobl ifanc i adael Cymru i fynd i brifysgol os ydyn nhw am wneud hynny yn tanseilio’r Gymraeg yn ôl un mudiad
newyddion.s4c.cymru
August 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Mae prifysgolion Cymru ar eu glinia ac mae’r Gweinidog Addysg yn dal i drio cyfiawnhau gwario hanner biliwn o bunnau bob blwyddyn ar annog pobl ifanc Cymru i beidio astudio ynddyn nhw. Boncyrs.
newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/30038
newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/30038
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NEWYDD - gan @ailsahenderson.bsky.social a minnau.
NEW by me and my fellow student of Englishness, Prof. Ailsa Henderson.
theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
NEW by me and my fellow student of Englishness, Prof. Ailsa Henderson.
theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
Nigel Farage and the political power of English grievance
The Conservatives and Labour have allowed resentment to fester in the biggest part of the UK – and the only region not to have its own parliament.
theconversation.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
NEWYDD - gan @ailsahenderson.bsky.social a minnau.
NEW by me and my fellow student of Englishness, Prof. Ailsa Henderson.
theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
NEW by me and my fellow student of Englishness, Prof. Ailsa Henderson.
theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
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🔥 Shoutout to all the #ultrarunners running a full loop of Ynys Môn (Anglesey) today. You can track their 130 mile journey over the next 55 hours here: 👇
🏃♂️ Am y 55 awr nesaf, mae rhedwyr-ultra yn rhedeg o gwmpas yr ynys gyfan! Dilynwch nhw’n fyw:👇
#ultra #ultramarathon #run
shorturl.at/QiWAx
🏃♂️ Am y 55 awr nesaf, mae rhedwyr-ultra yn rhedeg o gwmpas yr ynys gyfan! Dilynwch nhw’n fyw:👇
#ultra #ultramarathon #run
shorturl.at/QiWAx
Live Tracking
Ring O’ Fire Ultra Marathon 2025 - Live Event Tracking
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August 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
🔥 Shoutout to all the #ultrarunners running a full loop of Ynys Môn (Anglesey) today. You can track their 130 mile journey over the next 55 hours here: 👇
🏃♂️ Am y 55 awr nesaf, mae rhedwyr-ultra yn rhedeg o gwmpas yr ynys gyfan! Dilynwch nhw’n fyw:👇
#ultra #ultramarathon #run
shorturl.at/QiWAx
🏃♂️ Am y 55 awr nesaf, mae rhedwyr-ultra yn rhedeg o gwmpas yr ynys gyfan! Dilynwch nhw’n fyw:👇
#ultra #ultramarathon #run
shorturl.at/QiWAx
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Y beddau a’u gwlych y glaw
prisiau isel eu haddaw
mor hael oedd asda aelaw
prisiau isel eu haddaw
mor hael oedd asda aelaw
One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
loststonesofasda.wordpress.com
Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire
![A stone that looks like a prehistoric standing stone but inscribed with "Asda Price Promise Permanently [text obscured] prices [text obscured].
The stone is by a Drystone wall and vegetation grows around it](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7mzhk55756kcluyutorbqyex/bafkreicxukeks37aqp6tgtzj2hlbvjgtxc5syw4ptr6nnojxhazlrfwflq@jpeg)
August 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Y beddau a’u gwlych y glaw
prisiau isel eu haddaw
mor hael oedd asda aelaw
prisiau isel eu haddaw
mor hael oedd asda aelaw
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The Russell Group is simply a lobby group that has very effectively marketed itself as "the elite" group of UK universities, aided and abetted by willingly stupid journalists, commentators & others. It was simply initially a group of universities with medical schools seeking to sway gov. policy.
Good summary of how Russell Group universities are exploiting reputation to establish dominant market position at expense of others offering a better student experience.
NEW on Wonkhe: All must have prizes (except Iain Dale) buff.ly/rybvwjE
August 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The Russell Group is simply a lobby group that has very effectively marketed itself as "the elite" group of UK universities, aided and abetted by willingly stupid journalists, commentators & others. It was simply initially a group of universities with medical schools seeking to sway gov. policy.
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'Dawn dweud' a'r ddadl am 'oracy' gwallter.com/cymraeg/dawn...
August 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
'Dawn dweud' a'r ddadl am 'oracy' gwallter.com/cymraeg/dawn...
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Pwyll ap Siôn, Menna Baines, Prys Morgan a Pat Griffiths sy’n cofio Geraint Jarman a’i gyfraniad digyffelyb at ddiwylliant Cymru yn rhifyn diweddaraf BARN – mynnwch gopi.
April 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Pwyll ap Siôn, Menna Baines, Prys Morgan a Pat Griffiths sy’n cofio Geraint Jarman a’i gyfraniad digyffelyb at ddiwylliant Cymru yn rhifyn diweddaraf BARN – mynnwch gopi.
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New favorite thing: highly specific historical phrases
February 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
New favorite thing: highly specific historical phrases
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British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding
Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now?
Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.
Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.
The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
April 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding
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This is good.
April 10, 2025 at 6:36 AM
This is good.
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Mae ein prifysgolion yn wynebu argyfwng. Nid prinder arian o'r pwrs cyhoeddus yw hanfod y broblem yn ôl ein colofnydd gwleidyddol, ond diffyg ewyllys Llywodraeth Cymru i wario'r arian hwnnw mewn modd mwy dyfeisgar a strategol Gymreig. Darllenwch erthygl @richardwynjones.bsky.social yn BARN Ebrill.
April 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mae ein prifysgolion yn wynebu argyfwng. Nid prinder arian o'r pwrs cyhoeddus yw hanfod y broblem yn ôl ein colofnydd gwleidyddol, ond diffyg ewyllys Llywodraeth Cymru i wario'r arian hwnnw mewn modd mwy dyfeisgar a strategol Gymreig. Darllenwch erthygl @richardwynjones.bsky.social yn BARN Ebrill.
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The UK and the US have generally been seen as having gold standard university systems - maybe the best in the world. Both countries are now actively working to change that.
Trump is cancelling $400 million in grants to Columbia University because he says they haven’t done enough to tackle antisemitism.
Looks like universities are next on the Trump bonfire as he winds America back to the 18th century.
Looks like universities are next on the Trump bonfire as he winds America back to the 18th century.
March 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The UK and the US have generally been seen as having gold standard university systems - maybe the best in the world. Both countries are now actively working to change that.
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New commentary on Britain's university crisis today, from @lordbonkers.bsky.social: why would you run Britain's universities like businesses? Many UK businesses are rubbish, and they certainly haven't stood the test of time like HE...
liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/02/runn...
liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/02/runn...
Running British universities as if they were businesses
Our universities used to be among the few British institutions that the rest of the world really did envy. But from 2010 the Coalition was d...
liberalengland.blogspot.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
New commentary on Britain's university crisis today, from @lordbonkers.bsky.social: why would you run Britain's universities like businesses? Many UK businesses are rubbish, and they certainly haven't stood the test of time like HE...
liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/02/runn...
liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/02/runn...
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Chwilio am ffordd o esbonio'r gair 'bro'? Allwch chi wneud yn waeth nag awgrymu darllen 'Nelan a Bo', nofel ddiddarach Angharad Price. gwallter.com/cymraeg/nela...
February 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Chwilio am ffordd o esbonio'r gair 'bro'? Allwch chi wneud yn waeth nag awgrymu darllen 'Nelan a Bo', nofel ddiddarach Angharad Price. gwallter.com/cymraeg/nela...
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Eitem ddifyr iawn gan @elisdafydd.bsky.social yn Ysgrifau Beirniadol XXXV: "Cyfieithydd: swydd cachu rwtsh"
(cantamil.com/collections/...)
(cantamil.com/collections/...)
Gweddnewidiadau - Ysgrifau Beirniadol XXXV
Mae'r gyfrol yn archwilio gwahanol agweddau ar lên a diwylliant y Gymraeg yn benna, ond o sawl gogwydd gwahanol. Dyma gyfrol sy'n llawn 'gweddnewidiadau' i gyfres Ysgrifau Beirniadol - un a fydd yn ta...
cantamil.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Eitem ddifyr iawn gan @elisdafydd.bsky.social yn Ysgrifau Beirniadol XXXV: "Cyfieithydd: swydd cachu rwtsh"
(cantamil.com/collections/...)
(cantamil.com/collections/...)
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"The 20th century was the greatest age of reading the world has ever known: newspapers, magazines, self-help books, popular classics, airport bestsellers. Literacy is now declining for the first time on record": @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on a disappearing world www.thetimes.com/article/0f9f... [£]
We’re seeing the end of the long 20th century
From the crumbling of liberal democracy to epochal shifts in culture, tech and relationships, a page in history has turned
www.thetimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
"The 20th century was the greatest age of reading the world has ever known: newspapers, magazines, self-help books, popular classics, airport bestsellers. Literacy is now declining for the first time on record": @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on a disappearing world www.thetimes.com/article/0f9f... [£]
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Today marks the tenth anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. Here's a look back at an article I wrote for @uk.theconversation.com in 2020 about how the 'Je suis Charlie' sentiment was already starting to ring hollow then
theconversation.com/five-years-o...
theconversation.com/five-years-o...
Five years on from the Charlie Hebdo attack, ‘Je suis Charlie’ rings hollow
Charlie Hebdo’s often biting and dark humour frequently troubles people in France, and many reactions to the attack in France were not in keeping with the values of the publication.
theconversation.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris. Here's a look back at an article I wrote for @uk.theconversation.com in 2020 about how the 'Je suis Charlie' sentiment was already starting to ring hollow then
theconversation.com/five-years-o...
theconversation.com/five-years-o...
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lovely piece on the threat AI poses to book translation, which doubles as an ode to translators: www.ft.com/content/3dff...
December 10, 2024 at 1:29 PM
lovely piece on the threat AI poses to book translation, which doubles as an ode to translators: www.ft.com/content/3dff...
Pennill Dic Jones ar gychwyn hunangofiant Gerallt Lloyd Owen, ‘Fy Nghawl fy Hun’.
December 2, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Pennill Dic Jones ar gychwyn hunangofiant Gerallt Lloyd Owen, ‘Fy Nghawl fy Hun’.
Wedi cymryd oes i ail-ddod o hyd i’r dyfyniad isod felly dyma’i rannu yma. Gwahoddiad agored Haris Pašović ar ran ‘Grŵp Goroesi Artistig Sarajevo’ a anfonwyd at Susan Sontag yn ystod y Gwarchae.
(Sgrinlun o erthygl Amber Massie-Blomfield yn y TLS y llynedd.)
(Sgrinlun o erthygl Amber Massie-Blomfield yn y TLS y llynedd.)
December 1, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Wedi cymryd oes i ail-ddod o hyd i’r dyfyniad isod felly dyma’i rannu yma. Gwahoddiad agored Haris Pašović ar ran ‘Grŵp Goroesi Artistig Sarajevo’ a anfonwyd at Susan Sontag yn ystod y Gwarchae.
(Sgrinlun o erthygl Amber Massie-Blomfield yn y TLS y llynedd.)
(Sgrinlun o erthygl Amber Massie-Blomfield yn y TLS y llynedd.)
Mae Bullshit Jobs yn llyfr wnaeth argraff fawr arna i ac mi helpodd fi i ddeall pam mae cyfieithu i gyngor sir yn swydd mor ddiflas! Mi fydd ysgrif gen i’n trafod ‘swyddi cachu rwtsh’ a’r diwydiant cyfieithu yn ymddangos cyn bo hir.
An extract from the introduction to the Book; Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber!
November 28, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Mae Bullshit Jobs yn llyfr wnaeth argraff fawr arna i ac mi helpodd fi i ddeall pam mae cyfieithu i gyngor sir yn swydd mor ddiflas! Mi fydd ysgrif gen i’n trafod ‘swyddi cachu rwtsh’ a’r diwydiant cyfieithu yn ymddangos cyn bo hir.
Braf gweld bod @cylchgrawn-barn.bsky.social wedi cyrraedd y Lle Hwn! Ewch i ddarllen adolygiad Simon Brooks o gyfrol deyrnged Gwynn Matthews yn y rhifyn cyfredol. Craff a dadleuol.
November 21, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Braf gweld bod @cylchgrawn-barn.bsky.social wedi cyrraedd y Lle Hwn! Ewch i ddarllen adolygiad Simon Brooks o gyfrol deyrnged Gwynn Matthews yn y rhifyn cyfredol. Craff a dadleuol.