Sarah Arens
@saraharens.bsky.social
Far-flung euro-🇩🇿 researching and teaching (hi)stories of science, animals, empire, the far right and antifascist movements (FR and BEL) at University of Liverpool | my own views 🌱
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Sarah Arens
@saraharens.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I've set up a starter pack for academics in Francophone Post- and Decolonial Studies and Histories, please let me know who else to add: go.bsky.app/Jx7j4N1
Alternative title: what you didn’t want to know about taxidermy.
Nice to see this out in the world. My new article 'Epistemological violence in the museum: animals, colonial knowledge, and challenges to decoloniality' is out with CFC and currently open-access. Thanks to everyone who made it possible: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Epistemological violence in the museum: animals, colonial knowledge, and challenges to decoloniality | Contemporary French Civilization
This article offers a novel intervention in decolonial museology by foregrounding animal representation and natural history collections as critical yet overlooked sites of epistemological violence in Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA). ...
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Alternative title: what you didn’t want to know about taxidermy.
Nice to see this out in the world. My new article 'Epistemological violence in the museum: animals, colonial knowledge, and challenges to decoloniality' is out with CFC and currently open-access. Thanks to everyone who made it possible: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Epistemological violence in the museum: animals, colonial knowledge, and challenges to decoloniality | Contemporary French Civilization
This article offers a novel intervention in decolonial museology by foregrounding animal representation and natural history collections as critical yet overlooked sites of epistemological violence in Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA). ...
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Nice to see this out in the world. My new article 'Epistemological violence in the museum: animals, colonial knowledge, and challenges to decoloniality' is out with CFC and currently open-access. Thanks to everyone who made it possible: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Surprise, surprise:
“Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Surprise, surprise:
“Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Thinking about putting together a new course on the history of fake news and fact checking, this looks great: rss.com/podcasts/bel...
"How to Teach OSINT" with Aric Toler | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Bellingcat's Aric Toler came by the Discord server to talk about how to teach open source research methods. As Bellingcat's Director of Research and Training, Aric is responsible for overseeing the de...
rss.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Thinking about putting together a new course on the history of fake news and fact checking, this looks great: rss.com/podcasts/bel...
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Wir gedenken heute Bahide Arslan, Yeliz Arslan und Ayşe Yılmaz. Sie wurden vor 33 Jahren, in der Nacht vom 22. auf den 23. November 1992, bei den rassistischen Brandanschlägen von #Mölln ermordet. Weitere Mitglieder der Familie wurden zum Teil schwer verletzt.
#KeinVergessen
#KeinVergessen
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Wir gedenken heute Bahide Arslan, Yeliz Arslan und Ayşe Yılmaz. Sie wurden vor 33 Jahren, in der Nacht vom 22. auf den 23. November 1992, bei den rassistischen Brandanschlägen von #Mölln ermordet. Weitere Mitglieder der Familie wurden zum Teil schwer verletzt.
#KeinVergessen
#KeinVergessen
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'The Student Working Lives report, published by HEPI with the University of Lancashire and three partner institutions, provides something that previous polling (including our own Belong survey work with Cibyl) couldn’t – linked institutional data on actual academic performance and attendance.' 1/3
Long hours and poor working conditions hit students' outcomes hard
Conference, [students] time at college or university should be spent learning or training. Not working every hour God sends.
wonkhe.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
'The Student Working Lives report, published by HEPI with the University of Lancashire and three partner institutions, provides something that previous polling (including our own Belong survey work with Cibyl) couldn’t – linked institutional data on actual academic performance and attendance.' 1/3
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She who (among many many things) said that the systemic rape of Ukrainian women by russian occupiers is ‘just what happens in war’ has connections to the Kremlin? Who would have guessed. How many more talk shows will platform her
www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...
www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...
Erstmals konkrete Hinweise: Wagenknechts Kanal zum Kreml
Das BSW könnte in den Sog der "Voice of Europe"-Affäre geraten: Europaabgeordnete pflegen Kontakte zu Strippenziehern des russischen Schmiergeldnetzwerks.
www.t-online.de
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
She who (among many many things) said that the systemic rape of Ukrainian women by russian occupiers is ‘just what happens in war’ has connections to the Kremlin? Who would have guessed. How many more talk shows will platform her
www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...
www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...
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1/9
It’s the start of U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW, Nov 18–24). 💜
Before anything else: the CDC scientists, lab experts, and communicators who work on antimicrobial resistance and other topics are being limited, muted, or sidelined. 🫤📢
That silence is dangerous.
It’s the start of U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW, Nov 18–24). 💜
Before anything else: the CDC scientists, lab experts, and communicators who work on antimicrobial resistance and other topics are being limited, muted, or sidelined. 🫤📢
That silence is dangerous.
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
1/9
It’s the start of U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW, Nov 18–24). 💜
Before anything else: the CDC scientists, lab experts, and communicators who work on antimicrobial resistance and other topics are being limited, muted, or sidelined. 🫤📢
That silence is dangerous.
It’s the start of U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW, Nov 18–24). 💜
Before anything else: the CDC scientists, lab experts, and communicators who work on antimicrobial resistance and other topics are being limited, muted, or sidelined. 🫤📢
That silence is dangerous.
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‘We know there is no deficit’: University of Edinburgh staff on ongoing strike action
thetab.com/2025/11/17/e...
thetab.com/2025/11/17/e...
'We know there is no deficit': University of Edinburgh staff on ongoing strike action
The Edinburgh Tab spoke to UCU members taking part in the three days of strike action regarding university finances and threatened department closures
thetab.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
‘We know there is no deficit’: University of Edinburgh staff on ongoing strike action
thetab.com/2025/11/17/e...
thetab.com/2025/11/17/e...
Riding on a high from seeing close friends in London for the past 24h. Moving for a job in your late 30s is hard but feeling very lucky 💕
November 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Riding on a high from seeing close friends in London for the past 24h. Moving for a job in your late 30s is hard but feeling very lucky 💕
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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Up to £2,500 for 2-4 weeks in 2026. Open to postdoctoral researchers, or those with comparable records of research.
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Up to £2,500 for 2-4 weeks in 2026. Open to postdoctoral researchers, or those with comparable records of research.
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The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
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Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
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“Cataclysmically bad”
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
“Cataclysmically bad”
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
In the same week, both the University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester announced closing their Modern Languages departments. Disastrous for the sector as a whole and for the ML landscape in the Midlands: c.org/4X7VMy9MPD
Sign the Petition
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
c.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
In the same week, both the University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester announced closing their Modern Languages departments. Disastrous for the sector as a whole and for the ML landscape in the Midlands: c.org/4X7VMy9MPD
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The senior leadership team at @edinburghuniversity plan to cut staff expenditure by £90m, which is more than 10%.
This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.
www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.
www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The senior leadership team at @edinburghuniversity plan to cut staff expenditure by £90m, which is more than 10%.
This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.
www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.
www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
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I’d like to bury these disruption labs in an ideas sandpit.
Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I’d like to bury these disruption labs in an ideas sandpit.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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Hi there! We’re the Archive Sector Leadership team at The National Archives UK.
We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Hi there! We’re the Archive Sector Leadership team at The National Archives UK.
We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
(1/2)
We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Lend us a follow and we’ll keep you updated with opportunities for free training, networking, grants, written guidance and more!
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Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
NHS staff who care for patients in their own homes fear some areas have become “no-go zones” for them because of the presence of St George’s flags, health leaders have said.
Black and Asian staff have been left feeling “deliberately intimidated” as a result of the flags that were put up in many parts of England during the summer, according to the chief executive of one NHS trust in England, who asked to remain anonymous. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.
Très excited that our interdisciplinary (geography-environmental-colonial history) project application for the new “Living well with water” AHRC focal award PhD scholarships has been successful and hopefully soon ready to be advertised.
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Très excited that our interdisciplinary (geography-environmental-colonial history) project application for the new “Living well with water” AHRC focal award PhD scholarships has been successful and hopefully soon ready to be advertised.
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Really looking forward to welcoming @mauricejcasey.com to Maynooth on Thursday for a seminar entitled 'A Recipe for Resistance? Vegetarianism and Ethics in the Anti-Nazi Underground'. IONTAS building room 1.37 at 17:00. All are welcome. It will be followed.. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/history/even...
‘A Recipe for Resistance? Vegetarianism and Ethics in the anti-Nazi
‘A Recipe for Resistance? Vegetarianism and Ethics in the anti-Nazi underground, 1920s-1930s’ From 1934 until the Nazi defeat in 1945, one of Britain’s most effective anti-fascist resistance networks
www.maynoothuniversity.ie
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Really looking forward to welcoming @mauricejcasey.com to Maynooth on Thursday for a seminar entitled 'A Recipe for Resistance? Vegetarianism and Ethics in the Anti-Nazi Underground'. IONTAS building room 1.37 at 17:00. All are welcome. It will be followed.. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/history/even...
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Related: recent podcast with @yclepit.bsky.social and @richardnevell.bsky.social @wikimediauk.bsky.social discussing the importance of human curated knowledge in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/prom...
research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/prom...
November 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Related: recent podcast with @yclepit.bsky.social and @richardnevell.bsky.social @wikimediauk.bsky.social discussing the importance of human curated knowledge in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/prom...
research-culture.captivate.fm/episode/prom...
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry