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Nicola Kirkby
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Researcher Development | Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures | Diversifying Data Visualization
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When I quit grad school and left academia, I assumed I would never publish a book. So The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader is a literal dream come true. And now it gets to sit on my shelf with other publications that I have shepherded as an editor. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-...
September 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Book news! I’m pleased to say that Railway Infrastructure and the Victoria Novel is now in circulation www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
September 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Disability is the one minority group that anyone could potentially join at any time. It spans all ages, classes, races, religions, genders, geography….

Disability justice intersects with every other form of oppression; ensuring disabled rights is key to ensuring human rights.
The push against ableism isn’t just about individual rights.

It’s about dismantling broader systems of oppression that marginalize disabled individuals daily.
August 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Shaimaa has a funded place at Edinburgh to study for a PhD with me, but is stuck in Gaza due to Home Office restrictions. I'm proud of her for speaking about her situation on TV and grateful to reporter Paris Gourtsoyannis for covering her story. news.stv.tv/east-central...
'I have a lifeline scholarship to study in Scotland - but I'm trapped in Gaza'
Shaimaa Abulebda has been given the chance to reclaim some of her old life - but remains stuck in Gaza because of government red tape.
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July 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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I'm seeing an uptick in journal editors inquiring about @openlibhums.bsky.social and scholar-led, non-profit diamond #OpenAccess as a direct result of the Trump administration's crackdown on EDI and academic freedom. If we want research integrity, we need an independent academic publishing sector.
July 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Shaimaa’s PhD will be funded by @sgsah.bsky.social (supervised by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Will Tattersdill & me, in partnership with @commapress.bsky.social) - but she is currently trapped in Gaza unless the UK Gov relaxes its requirement for biometric data bsky.app/profile/comm...
Shaymaa Abulebda, an influential writer & scholar from Gaza, should soon be starting a PhD at the University of Edinburgh [part of which is an internship at Comma]. Instead she lives in a tent in al-Mawasi displacement camp in the ruins of southern Gaza.
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
July 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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🚨 Datavis Job Alert! 🚨

Permanent Senior Lectureship in Data Visualization.

Exciting opportunity to join us @ giCentre, London to teach & research #datavis including our £11m Centre for Doctoral Training in Visualization.

Feel free to DM for informal chat.

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
Details | City St George's, University of London
Details of job vacancy at City St George's,, University of London
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk
May 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Last call for October 2025 entry to a fully funded 4-year PhD in #datavis 📊 with us at diverse-cdt.ac.uk (City St George's places).

Apply via diverse-cdt.ac.uk by 4pm 28th May.

We welcome applications from anyone with enthusiasm for #datavis.

Change what we can see. See what we can change.
May 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Our map of cold spots in provision of humanities and social sciences courses and student numbers across the UK has been updated with the data for the 2023/24 academic year. Explore for yourself here: buff.ly/2x7yE5K
May 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Proofs are in! 'Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel' should find its way into circulation later this year with CUP 👀🚂
Too many folk to thank here but those acknowledgements are full!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel
www.cambridge.org
May 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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New Publication: Jo Hofer-Robinson, @nicolakirkby.bsky.social, Adam O'Brien & I ask how engaging with narrative fiction – and following characters’ encounters with infrastructures – might help scholars to navigate infrastructural (in)visibility. Available OA at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Beyond Breakdown: Enacting Infrastructural Life with Augustin Daly’s Under the Gaslight
Alternation between mundane invisibility and spectacular foregrounding is a critical touchstone of infrastructural aesthetics. Infrastructure failures, which often mediate between these states, the...
www.tandfonline.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
DIVERSE CDT are hiring! Are you...?
✅ a Research Software Engineer 👩‍💻
✅ interested in Diversifying Data Visualization 📊
✅ looking for your next career step 👀
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre... #datavis #softwareengineer #EPSRC
Quick Check Needed
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March 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Please share this opportunity widely and please do send anyone curious (you? your students?) my way.

Led by an interdisciplinary team at City St George's and Warwick

Deadline: 28th March (4pm GMT), info @ diverse-cdt.ac.uk

Cohort-based training PhD to become a future leader in #DataVis.
More places available for fully funded 4-year PhDs in #datavis 📊 with us at diverse-cdt.ac.uk in London / Warwick.

We welcome applications from anyone with enthusiasm for #datavis. We aim to diversify approaches to datavis & the people who lead it.

Change what we can see. See what we can change.
March 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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More places available for fully funded 4-year PhDs in #datavis 📊 with us at diverse-cdt.ac.uk in London / Warwick.

We welcome applications from anyone with enthusiasm for #datavis. We aim to diversify approaches to datavis & the people who lead it.

Change what we can see. See what we can change.
March 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Have you checked out the latest issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social? A fav new issue dedicated to Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures guest-edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and @nicolakirkby.bsky.social

Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/915/in...
November 30, 2023 at 11:52 AM
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The first article in our latest issue is ‘Net-Work: Irish Sea Crossings with and beyond Infrastructure’. Claire Connolly & James L. Smith w/ Daniella Traynor discuss what the digital humanities can bring to the study of travel &sea crossings. Read here: 19.bbk.ac.uk
November 13, 2023 at 10:07 AM
So proud of this issue! Thank you to our fantastic contributors - @claireconnolly.bsky.social James Smith, Danielle Traynor, Ruth Livesey, Caroline Sumpter, Karin Koehler, Alicia Barnes, Kameron Sanzo, and Susan Zieger.
New #openaccess issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social! ‘Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures’, a fav new issue guest-edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and Nicola Kirkby that brings C19th projects into dialogue with critical infrastructure studies.

Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/915/in...
November 18, 2023 at 12:28 PM
Academic development: don't be afraid of asking difficult questions
Academic management: don't ask difficult questions
September 26, 2023 at 12:39 PM
Love to be welcomed here with the question: would you like to follow this moss feed?
September 19, 2023 at 6:52 PM