Hannah Scott
@drhannahlscott.bsky.social
Researcher | France, popular culture, music, dance, theatre, book enthusiast | Scribbler of children's stories | Embroiderer
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When is this going to stop? Save Modern Languages at the University of Leicester 👇
Sign the Petition
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
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November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
When is this going to stop? Save Modern Languages at the University of Leicester 👇
Levelling up the dressing up
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Levelling up the dressing up
Looking forward to taking part in this session on impact and engagement this Friday with @drhelenmckelvey.bsky.social and Helen Abbott ⬇️
Just a reminder that Friday’s session on impact is open to all of our members.
If you are not a member, but would like to become one, you can sign up here: uksdn.co.uk/membership/
If you are not a member, but would like to become one, you can sign up here: uksdn.co.uk/membership/
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Looking forward to taking part in this session on impact and engagement this Friday with @drhelenmckelvey.bsky.social and Helen Abbott ⬇️
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Just a reminder that Friday’s session on impact is open to all of our members.
If you are not a member, but would like to become one, you can sign up here: uksdn.co.uk/membership/
If you are not a member, but would like to become one, you can sign up here: uksdn.co.uk/membership/
November 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Just a reminder that Friday’s session on impact is open to all of our members.
If you are not a member, but would like to become one, you can sign up here: uksdn.co.uk/membership/
If you are not a member, but would like to become one, you can sign up here: uksdn.co.uk/membership/
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'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.'
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Want a younger brain? Learn another language
A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
'people who are multilingual are half as likely to show signs of accelerated biological ageing than are those who speak just one language.'
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Good thing that schools, universities and governments are so actively promoting modern languages then, isn't it? 1/2
Senior management’s left hand: you must provide a skills-based, employability-focused education!
Senior management’s right hand: hey, let’s axe languages lads
Senior management’s right hand: hey, let’s axe languages lads
November 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Senior management’s left hand: you must provide a skills-based, employability-focused education!
Senior management’s right hand: hey, let’s axe languages lads
Senior management’s right hand: hey, let’s axe languages lads
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Over £9million raised so far in this 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to do something truly meaningful for nature on a really large scale. It's absolutely doable. Can you help?
Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife
Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife
Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate
Wildlife trusts attempt to raise £30m to keep Northumberland's Rothbury Estate from being split up.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Over £9million raised so far in this 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to do something truly meaningful for nature on a really large scale. It's absolutely doable. Can you help?
Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife
Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife
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After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
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BARS News: Independent Researcher Bursary Call for Applications
Independent researchers with an interest in any aspect of Romantic Studies (literature, architecture, art, politics, culture, history etc) are invited to apply for the Independent Researcher Bursary.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6189
Independent researchers with an interest in any aspect of Romantic Studies (literature, architecture, art, politics, culture, history etc) are invited to apply for the Independent Researcher Bursary.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6189
October 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
BARS News: Independent Researcher Bursary Call for Applications
Independent researchers with an interest in any aspect of Romantic Studies (literature, architecture, art, politics, culture, history etc) are invited to apply for the Independent Researcher Bursary.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6189
Independent researchers with an interest in any aspect of Romantic Studies (literature, architecture, art, politics, culture, history etc) are invited to apply for the Independent Researcher Bursary.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6189
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Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
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Six days, five libraries, 92 documents…
Some of my favourite things to have stumbled on in the Paris archives this week:
Saucy goings-on at the Moulin-Rouge - radiology and ultrasound live show, come see your heart beating, stomach working, and bones moving about in their joints!
Some of my favourite things to have stumbled on in the Paris archives this week:
Saucy goings-on at the Moulin-Rouge - radiology and ultrasound live show, come see your heart beating, stomach working, and bones moving about in their joints!
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Six days, five libraries, 92 documents…
Some of my favourite things to have stumbled on in the Paris archives this week:
Saucy goings-on at the Moulin-Rouge - radiology and ultrasound live show, come see your heart beating, stomach working, and bones moving about in their joints!
Some of my favourite things to have stumbled on in the Paris archives this week:
Saucy goings-on at the Moulin-Rouge - radiology and ultrasound live show, come see your heart beating, stomach working, and bones moving about in their joints!
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The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November.
If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look.
They welcome donations too.
If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look.
They welcome donations too.
The Boring Fund - Open Collective
We support small non-profit organisations (UK) by only funding the really boring (but essential) stuff like insurance, accountancy or admin
opencollective.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November.
If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look.
They welcome donations too.
If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look.
They welcome donations too.
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We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today.
The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
Sexism in the History Curriculum - End Sexism in Schools
End Sexism In School’s second crowd research project is looking into the History curriculum taught at KS3 (years 7-9) in England and Wales.
endsexisminschools.org.uk
September 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today.
The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
Well I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
September 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Well I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
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Sutton Trust report: 'Only three categories were below the national average – male professional footballers at 5%, female professional footballers at 4% and the Northern Ireland assembly, where nobody attended a fee-paying school.' 1/2
Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs
Those in top roles are five times as likely to have been to private school than general population, study finds
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Sutton Trust report: 'Only three categories were below the national average – male professional footballers at 5%, female professional footballers at 4% and the Northern Ireland assembly, where nobody attended a fee-paying school.' 1/2
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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/
🗃️
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PhD students working on diplomatic history - if you need more language training, apply for the Hogan Fellowship from @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
I’m a previous winner & thrilled to be chairing the committee this year! ⬇️
#skystorians 🗃️ #diplohistory
I’m a previous winner & thrilled to be chairing the committee this year! ⬇️
#skystorians 🗃️ #diplohistory
🚨 Reminder: SHAFR January awards deadline is Oct 15! Apply now for the Bernath Lecture Prize, Williams Emerging Scholar Grant, Hogan Language Fellowship & grad dissertation grants. Details: tinyurl.com/5n6e6h8z
#SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians
#SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians
October 15 Deadline - Apply for SHAFR Awards
www.shafr.org
September 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
PhD students working on diplomatic history - if you need more language training, apply for the Hogan Fellowship from @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
I’m a previous winner & thrilled to be chairing the committee this year! ⬇️
#skystorians 🗃️ #diplohistory
I’m a previous winner & thrilled to be chairing the committee this year! ⬇️
#skystorians 🗃️ #diplohistory
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Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
x9artsandlaw-event,x9history-event,x9historycultures-event,x9clemt-event
www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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📣Only one week left to apply for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣
In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.
Deadline: 15 September 2025
More info 👇
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn
In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.
Deadline: 15 September 2025
More info 👇
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn
Senate House Library announces relaunch of Visiting Research Fellowship
Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.
tinyurl.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📣Only one week left to apply for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣
In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.
Deadline: 15 September 2025
More info 👇
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn
In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.
Deadline: 15 September 2025
More info 👇
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn
If Nige is attacking us, reckon that means we’re doing something right…
Nigel Farage has hit out at universities for “poisoning the minds” of students with what he said was a “twisted interpretation of history” in his speech on the opening day of the Reform UK conference, reports @patrickjack.bsky.social
#academicsky #ReformUK
#academicsky #ReformUK
Universities ‘poisoning student minds’, says Farage
Populist leader takes aim at higher education in speech on first day of the Reform UK conference in Birmingham
www.timeshighereducation.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
If Nige is attacking us, reckon that means we’re doing something right…
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🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025.
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
September 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025.
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Calling the #arthistory hive mind ☎️I’m supervising a UG dissertation on late 19th-c French art this year, especially images of public spaces.
It’s a while since I worked on this material; I’d love to hear recommendations of fab recentish studies.
Link me your book/article! Brag for your friends!
It’s a while since I worked on this material; I’d love to hear recommendations of fab recentish studies.
Link me your book/article! Brag for your friends!
September 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Calling the #arthistory hive mind ☎️I’m supervising a UG dissertation on late 19th-c French art this year, especially images of public spaces.
It’s a while since I worked on this material; I’d love to hear recommendations of fab recentish studies.
Link me your book/article! Brag for your friends!
It’s a while since I worked on this material; I’d love to hear recommendations of fab recentish studies.
Link me your book/article! Brag for your friends!
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Exciting news! @bavs-uk.bsky.social are hiring an ECR/Postgrad Rep to work alongside me to develop early career professional development and networking opportunities. 10th Sept deadline, details below ⬇️ DM me with any queries 🎉
Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...
» BAVS Executive Committee VacanciesBAVSBAVS Executive Committee Vacancies | BAVS
bavs.ac.uk
August 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Exciting news! @bavs-uk.bsky.social are hiring an ECR/Postgrad Rep to work alongside me to develop early career professional development and networking opportunities. 10th Sept deadline, details below ⬇️ DM me with any queries 🎉
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There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...