Rachel Moss
@menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Associate Professor in History @uninorthampton.bsky.social, Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
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given everything we know about the forces that have intentionally destroyed higher education as a site of secure employment, anyone making the argument that they didn’t get a job because they’re white and male is either a lying grifter or so bad at analysis they should lose their PhD
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
given everything we know about the forces that have intentionally destroyed higher education as a site of secure employment, anyone making the argument that they didn’t get a job because they’re white and male is either a lying grifter or so bad at analysis they should lose their PhD
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Gee who predicted this, oh wait most of us did. It's only going to get worse. We are passing beyond enshittification now--because the content of scholarly knowledge is now substantially digitized, generative AI is potentially going to start altering already published work, not just new work.
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Gee who predicted this, oh wait most of us did. It's only going to get worse. We are passing beyond enshittification now--because the content of scholarly knowledge is now substantially digitized, generative AI is potentially going to start altering already published work, not just new work.
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A fantastic online Latin palaeography course taking place (via zoom) in February 2026.
See the link in original post for more information.
See the link in original post for more information.
I know no-one wants to think about next term right now, but please remind students to book their places on the Latin palaeography online short courses at beginner or intermediate level taking place in February 👇 #MedievalSky 📖🧑💻👩💻👨🏽💻👩🏻💻🧑🏿💻🧑💻 📚
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Introduction to Latin Palaeography
ies.sas.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A fantastic online Latin palaeography course taking place (via zoom) in February 2026.
See the link in original post for more information.
See the link in original post for more information.
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How desperately sad.
Nick Reiner’s Struggles With Drugs Left His Parents ‘Desperate’
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
How desperately sad.
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"Being an editor was intensely sociable as well as stimulating ... I loved being a History Workshop editor and the intellectual excitement that came with it."
Barbara Taylor on the social and political fervour of History Workshop Journal in the 1980s.
Barbara Taylor on the social and political fervour of History Workshop Journal in the 1980s.
An Editors' Picnic
Barbara Taylor introduces a new series with memories of a picnic she shared with other History Workshop Journal editors in 1984.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
December 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"Being an editor was intensely sociable as well as stimulating ... I loved being a History Workshop editor and the intellectual excitement that came with it."
Barbara Taylor on the social and political fervour of History Workshop Journal in the 1980s.
Barbara Taylor on the social and political fervour of History Workshop Journal in the 1980s.
My personal take on why Rob Reiner meant a lot to me - rachelemoss.com/2025/12/16/t...
True love is the greatest thing in the world–
Except for an MLT, a mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean, and the tomatoes are ripe – they’re so perky, I love that.” Oh man, Rob Reiner. I was …
rachelemoss.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My personal take on why Rob Reiner meant a lot to me - rachelemoss.com/2025/12/16/t...
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just a reminder that she was not an accomplice — Maxwell was an active sexual abuser herself
Ohhh— so this is why Trump is being so nice to her. She’s going to help cover-up the Epstein files.
Sickening that the accomplice’s rights would be given priority over the victims. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
www.lbc.co.uk/article/ghis...
Sickening that the accomplice’s rights would be given priority over the victims. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
www.lbc.co.uk/article/ghis...
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
just a reminder that she was not an accomplice — Maxwell was an active sexual abuser herself
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Really delighted that the initiative we are running with the University Archives under @uninorthampton.bsky.social Centre for Historical Studies to bring together and support local groups working with or around archives and collections got featured in This Year In Archives! Find us in the Midlands!
We’re delighted to announce that #AYearinArchives 2025 is now live!
Have a browse and let us know which projects you enjoy reading about: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
📷 RNLI, Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives, Staffordshire County Council, Gateshead Archive
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Have a browse and let us know which projects you enjoy reading about: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
📷 RNLI, Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives, Staffordshire County Council, Gateshead Archive
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December 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Really delighted that the initiative we are running with the University Archives under @uninorthampton.bsky.social Centre for Historical Studies to bring together and support local groups working with or around archives and collections got featured in This Year In Archives! Find us in the Midlands!
I'd also like to remind people that for @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social I am teaching a new LIVE course from April on medieval chivalry! You get a live hour of teaching with me per week but also tons of online contact and resources. lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi...
Medieval Chivalry
Chivalry was more than medieval knights in shining armour jousting for the love of fair ladies. This course explores how chivalric values profoundly shaped political, literary and artistic cultures fr...
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'd also like to remind people that for @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social I am teaching a new LIVE course from April on medieval chivalry! You get a live hour of teaching with me per week but also tons of online contact and resources. lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi...
Excited to announce I'm teaching a week-long summer school for @ox.ac.uk in August! Sign up for a deep dive into the Wars of the Roses, including a full day field trip. lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-...
The Wars of the Roses
Explore the drama of the Wars of the Roses: a time of ambition, betrayal, and shifting power. This course uncovers the real stories behind Henry VI, Richard III, and the rise of the Tudors, separating...
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Excited to announce I'm teaching a week-long summer school for @ox.ac.uk in August! Sign up for a deep dive into the Wars of the Roses, including a full day field trip. lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-...
I have set up a bsky for MATER! Please feel free to follow. :) 🗃️
Welcome to MATER (Medievalists Against the Extreme Right), an offshoot of the @errnetwork.bsky.social at @uninorthampton.bsky.social. The network is run by @menysnoweballes.bsky.social. Get in touch for details of meetings and events.
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I have set up a bsky for MATER! Please feel free to follow. :) 🗃️
Excited to see that COMFAS are having a conference in June! And it's in Lisbon! comfas.org/News/index.p... Democracy Under Siege: Global Fascism, Populism, Illiberalism I plan to attend - will I see any of you there? 🗃️
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November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Excited to see that COMFAS are having a conference in June! And it's in Lisbon! comfas.org/News/index.p... Democracy Under Siege: Global Fascism, Populism, Illiberalism I plan to attend - will I see any of you there? 🗃️
In @errnetwork.bsky.social's latest blog post @siobhanhyland.bsky.social explains how she's working on my British Academy/Leverhulme Trust funded project as a research assistant: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... 🗃️
The Extreme Right and its use of the medieval past to inform its profile | UON
This blog follows on from Associate Professor Rachel Moss’ blog on Getting Medieval? The Extreme Right and the Distant Past. During the summer, I...
www.northampton.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
In @errnetwork.bsky.social's latest blog post @siobhanhyland.bsky.social explains how she's working on my British Academy/Leverhulme Trust funded project as a research assistant: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... 🗃️
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Calling all creative writers, both published and unpublished.
First prize is £1500, including publication in the Bristol Short Story Prize anthology.
Enter your short story of up to 4000 words until 31 Jan 2026, with low income entries available on a limited basis every month.
First prize is £1500, including publication in the Bristol Short Story Prize anthology.
Enter your short story of up to 4000 words until 31 Jan 2026, with low income entries available on a limited basis every month.
We’re open for submissions!
Closing date 31st January.
Visit our website to read our submission rules, register your entry, and check out our amazing judges:
bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/rules/
Closing date 31st January.
Visit our website to read our submission rules, register your entry, and check out our amazing judges:
bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/rules/
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Calling all creative writers, both published and unpublished.
First prize is £1500, including publication in the Bristol Short Story Prize anthology.
Enter your short story of up to 4000 words until 31 Jan 2026, with low income entries available on a limited basis every month.
First prize is £1500, including publication in the Bristol Short Story Prize anthology.
Enter your short story of up to 4000 words until 31 Jan 2026, with low income entries available on a limited basis every month.
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These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
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Of course. And it’s also local jobs for a lot of people who aren’t academics — there’s a tendency in Labour I think to assume that it’s just pretentious middle class people losing privileged positions, but my uni employs about 6,000 people and the vast majority of them aren’t lecturers.
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Of course. And it’s also local jobs for a lot of people who aren’t academics — there’s a tendency in Labour I think to assume that it’s just pretentious middle class people losing privileged positions, but my uni employs about 6,000 people and the vast majority of them aren’t lecturers.
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universities got a tiny fee rise that was immediately wiped out by the national insurance raises. they used international student fees to subsidise capped domestic fees and now that’s going to be taken away too. universities are going to collapse and thousands of jobs will go with each collapse.
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
universities got a tiny fee rise that was immediately wiped out by the national insurance raises. they used international student fees to subsidise capped domestic fees and now that’s going to be taken away too. universities are going to collapse and thousands of jobs will go with each collapse.
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It’s a pity that Starmer, Reeves and co haven’t followed Denmark’s other policies. They tax capital gains up to 42% vs Britain’s top rate of 28%. This funds free university and excellent public services, providing the world’s second highest standard of living.
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
Labour has just betrayed its 2024 manifesto completely
When push comes to shove Labour will sell out anyone to protect their jobs and the white colonialist infrastructure the UK is built on
www.thecanary.co
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It’s a pity that Starmer, Reeves and co haven’t followed Denmark’s other policies. They tax capital gains up to 42% vs Britain’s top rate of 28%. This funds free university and excellent public services, providing the world’s second highest standard of living.
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
Eight years since I said goodbye to periods forever by having an endometrial ablation! For me a miracle cure to nearly 25 years of pain, fatigue, and mess. Of course it doesn't work for everyone. Ask me anything!
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Eight years since I said goodbye to periods forever by having an endometrial ablation! For me a miracle cure to nearly 25 years of pain, fatigue, and mess. Of course it doesn't work for everyone. Ask me anything!
Thanks for the shares on this - already have 3 abstracts and the deadline isn’t until February!! 😍
CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!
Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON
Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...
www.northampton.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Thanks for the shares on this - already have 3 abstracts and the deadline isn’t until February!! 😍
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Really excited for another event (and hopefully edited volume) as part of the Political Nostalgias network - do consider submitting a paper proposal!
CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!
Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON
Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...
www.northampton.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Really excited for another event (and hopefully edited volume) as part of the Political Nostalgias network - do consider submitting a paper proposal!
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I’m going to keep boosting this because it makes me giddy any time Disability Studies & Archaeology do a team-up!
I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching?
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I’m going to keep boosting this because it makes me giddy any time Disability Studies & Archaeology do a team-up!
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"Jon Minadeo is a neo-Nazi on a mission—a mission to meet America’s children in online video chats and convince them to hate."
Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill
A Phil Williams NC5 Investigates report on a neo-Nazi targeting kids online, telling them to prepare for a 'race war'
www.newschannel5.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"Jon Minadeo is a neo-Nazi on a mission—a mission to meet America’s children in online video chats and convince them to hate."
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CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!
Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON
Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...
www.northampton.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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