Ellen O’Gorman
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From a good thread of caveats to another post.
This point about universities' "public" status seems worth unpicking, because after two years on a university court I think it's key to understanding how university management sees the world.
This point about universities' "public" status seems worth unpicking, because after two years on a university court I think it's key to understanding how university management sees the world.
"Universities are not part of the public sector"
Only by a narrow definition of public sector which also excludes all other arms-length bodies where the majority of funding is explicitly controlled by government or Parliament. The SLC is government run and its loans government backstopped.
Only by a narrow definition of public sector which also excludes all other arms-length bodies where the majority of funding is explicitly controlled by government or Parliament. The SLC is government run and its loans government backstopped.
August 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
From a good thread of caveats to another post.
This point about universities' "public" status seems worth unpicking, because after two years on a university court I think it's key to understanding how university management sees the world.
This point about universities' "public" status seems worth unpicking, because after two years on a university court I think it's key to understanding how university management sees the world.
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One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”
August 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
One of the less known aspects about the Easter Rising is that Indian students at UCD also took part & were then deported by the British authorities for it. Among those students was V.V. Giri who became president of India and said “when I am not an Indian, I am an Irishman”
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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
docs.google.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Our final piece of news for the week - the IGRCT is thrilled to announce that Professor Stephen Bann CBE FBA will be joining our Vice Presidents.
Stephen Bann is Professor Emeritus of History of Art at the University of Bristol, and his career as an art critic spans six decades.
Stephen Bann is Professor Emeritus of History of Art at the University of Bristol, and his career as an art critic spans six decades.
July 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Our final piece of news for the week - the IGRCT is thrilled to announce that Professor Stephen Bann CBE FBA will be joining our Vice Presidents.
Stephen Bann is Professor Emeritus of History of Art at the University of Bristol, and his career as an art critic spans six decades.
Stephen Bann is Professor Emeritus of History of Art at the University of Bristol, and his career as an art critic spans six decades.
A new memory palace for Ireland.
Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years
Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellion
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:26 AM
A new memory palace for Ireland.
From less than a dozen marchers to tens of thousands: A history of Dublin Pride - i was delighted to be interviewed for this article #pride2025 #queerhistories #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6742433
From less than a dozen marchers to tens of thousands: A history of Dublin Pride
The celebration of Pride in Ireland today has its roots in the boots-on-the-ground activism of the 1970s and 1980s.
jrnl.ie
June 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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This whole thread is full of truth. ECRs are the single-use plastic of the UKHE sector and no-one is doing a damn thing about it.
Being on the precarious carousal often involves being treated like disposal garbage in a variety of exciting ways.
Saying things like 'oh it's hard but we all have to go through it' doesn't engage with that or its effects and it can be really frustrating anf dismissive. 2/
Saying things like 'oh it's hard but we all have to go through it' doesn't engage with that or its effects and it can be really frustrating anf dismissive. 2/
June 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This whole thread is full of truth. ECRs are the single-use plastic of the UKHE sector and no-one is doing a damn thing about it.
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Fitting for today’s cat fight.
June 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Fitting for today’s cat fight.
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Sign the Petition
Overturn the UK's New Legal Definition of a Woman
www.change.org
May 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Rhetoric about "ivorye toweres" ys most often throwne arounde by those high up on gilded thrones
April 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Rhetoric about "ivorye toweres" ys most often throwne arounde by those high up on gilded thrones
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Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
Statement from Katherine Franke.pdf
drive.google.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
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Hello #ClassicsSky! We're thrilled to finally be here - watch this space for some very exciting event announcements in the upcoming year.
January 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hello #ClassicsSky! We're thrilled to finally be here - watch this space for some very exciting event announcements in the upcoming year.
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Sure you've seen the famous #BayeuxTapestry, but have you seen it in all its sensational high-res thread-glory?
Breathtaking online resource, a joint effort of the City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, University of Caen, & CNRS:
www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...
Breathtaking online resource, a joint effort of the City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, University of Caen, & CNRS:
www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...
Explore the Bayeux Tapestry online - Bayeux Museum
For the first time, you will be able to freely explore the entire Bayeux Tapestry scene by scene with a never seen quality of images !
www.bayeuxmuseum.com
December 29, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Sure you've seen the famous #BayeuxTapestry, but have you seen it in all its sensational high-res thread-glory?
Breathtaking online resource, a joint effort of the City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, University of Caen, & CNRS:
www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...
Breathtaking online resource, a joint effort of the City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, University of Caen, & CNRS:
www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...
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“All I said was that the cliche-filled blandness and factual errors of an AI-generated essay were indistinguishable from the work of humanities scholars so I don’t understand why you’re being so rude.”
Even the mildest pushback against AI & stereotypes about the liberal arts these days seems to generate “you’re Luddites who lack critical thinking & civility” responses here from its STEM/business champions. There are tradeoffs in everything. We need to talk seriously about them. This isn’t it.
December 26, 2024 at 4:05 PM
“All I said was that the cliche-filled blandness and factual errors of an AI-generated essay were indistinguishable from the work of humanities scholars so I don’t understand why you’re being so rude.”
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I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
December 23, 2024 at 2:45 PM
I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Random online search in the break from marking exams led me to this, and now I know what I want for my birthday in 2025.
bristol-press.co.uk/university-a...
bristol-press.co.uk/university-a...
University Audit Cultures and Feminist Praxis
University Audit Cultures and Feminist Praxis - An Institutional Ethnography; Drawing on an unprecedented institutional ethnography of UK universities, this book uses feminist and gender lenses to cri...
bristol-press.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Random online search in the break from marking exams led me to this, and now I know what I want for my birthday in 2025.
bristol-press.co.uk/university-a...
bristol-press.co.uk/university-a...
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Cardiff University is recruiting to one doctoral position as part of the MSCA doctoral consortium "StoryPharm": Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond: Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/302252 (1/3)
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/302252 (1/3)
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
December 18, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Cardiff University is recruiting to one doctoral position as part of the MSCA doctoral consortium "StoryPharm": Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond: Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/302252 (1/3)
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/302252 (1/3)
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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...
December 10, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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...
At the Tacitus conference at University of Lisbon and one of the other keynote speakers suggests we think about Cole 2020 on Breaking the Frame in Historical Fiction. @richardcole.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 12:20 AM
At the Tacitus conference at University of Lisbon and one of the other keynote speakers suggests we think about Cole 2020 on Breaking the Frame in Historical Fiction. @richardcole.bsky.social
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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
www.leeds.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
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This is idiotic in many ways, but I’d like to remind us all that “competition” is a made up problem caused by removing the student numbers cap.
If you can understand why a primary school needs to control student numbers you understand why universities do too
If you can understand why a primary school needs to control student numbers you understand why universities do too
This is a really, really bad thing to say out loud.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
November 17, 2024 at 11:04 AM
This is idiotic in many ways, but I’d like to remind us all that “competition” is a made up problem caused by removing the student numbers cap.
If you can understand why a primary school needs to control student numbers you understand why universities do too
If you can understand why a primary school needs to control student numbers you understand why universities do too
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Rebuses ftw! (Several fun medieval rebuses below)
Fun linguistics tidbit:
Mark Hamill signing his name Mar🐫 because in English /p, t, k/ sounds at the beginning of a stressed syllable are pronounced aspirated, ie with an extra breathy sound (the same sound that's h when it's by itself)
So Mark Hamill is pronounced the same as Mar Camel
Mark Hamill signing his name Mar🐫 because in English /p, t, k/ sounds at the beginning of a stressed syllable are pronounced aspirated, ie with an extra breathy sound (the same sound that's h when it's by itself)
So Mark Hamill is pronounced the same as Mar Camel
18M + 1.
💙, Mar🐫
💙, Mar🐫
November 17, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Rebuses ftw! (Several fun medieval rebuses below)
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Please consider following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social where every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of Auschwitz.
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Please consider following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social where every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of Auschwitz.
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November 10, 2024 at 8:51 PM
We are on @bsky.app.
Please consider following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social where every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of Auschwitz.
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Please consider following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social where every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of Auschwitz.
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