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Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.
· #AcademicSky ·
The European Research Council is launching €7m Plus Grants for ambitious, long‑term research — open to researchers at any career stage but limited to about 30 awards; current ERC grantees and applicants are ineligible, reports @clanicholson.bsky.social.
The European Research Council is launching €7m Plus Grants for ambitious, long‑term research — open to researchers at any career stage but limited to about 30 awards; current ERC grantees and applicants are ineligible, reports @clanicholson.bsky.social.
ERC’s new €7m Plus Grants open to researchers at any career stage - Research Professional News
European Research Council president describes scheme as part attempt to lure US talent
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.
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Anyone who can turn out at the New Bridge Hotel today to defend migrants ASAP it is needed. I hear the fascists are on the attack today! Help if you can!
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Anyone who can turn out at the New Bridge Hotel today to defend migrants ASAP it is needed. I hear the fascists are on the attack today! Help if you can!
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How have Sheffield University management contrived to turn an easily resolvable dispute into something approaching MAB-like levels of crisis? From a pre-strike offer that could have been patched up into something that worked, to threatening a lockout from 5 January. I despair.
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
How have Sheffield University management contrived to turn an easily resolvable dispute into something approaching MAB-like levels of crisis? From a pre-strike offer that could have been patched up into something that worked, to threatening a lockout from 5 January. I despair.
Everyone is posting about the EUP sale but another hot tip is that it also applies to paperback pre-orders, for example Sara Crangle's two-volume study of Mina Loy edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nethere...
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Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy
Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy
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November 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Everyone is posting about the EUP sale but another hot tip is that it also applies to paperback pre-orders, for example Sara Crangle's two-volume study of Mina Loy edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nethere...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-elevate...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-elevate...
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The Modernist Exoskeleton has been reduced to £11 this weekend: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-mod...
The Modernist Exoskeleton
The Modernist Exoskeleton
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The Modernist Exoskeleton has been reduced to £11 this weekend: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-mod...
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Bargain copies of my book available for £11 this weekend in the @edinburghup.bsky.social St Andrew's Day sale 😎 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hydrofi...
Hydrofictions
Hydrofictions
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November 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Bargain copies of my book available for £11 this weekend in the @edinburghup.bsky.social St Andrew's Day sale 😎 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hydrofi...
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This weekend @edinburghup.bsky.social has an amazing 50% off everything sale! You can get my book for the low low price of 11 pounds quid!!
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Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction
Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This weekend @edinburghup.bsky.social has an amazing 50% off everything sale! You can get my book for the low low price of 11 pounds quid!!
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'The British Academy has redoubled its call for a “comprehensive” review of higher education funding in the wake of the government’s levy on international student fees.' 1/3
Calls for higher education funding review grow after levy decision.
Funding maintenance grants with levy is “risky and unsustainable”, British Academy president says.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Funding maintenance grants with levy is “risky and unsustainable”, British Academy president says.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Calls for higher education funding review grow after levy decision - Research Professional News
Funding maintenance grants with levy is “risky and unsustainable”, British Academy president says
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
'The British Academy has redoubled its call for a “comprehensive” review of higher education funding in the wake of the government’s levy on international student fees.' 1/3
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'[AI models have] been recklessly jammed into commercial software despite not actually being capable of the things tech companies claim they are.'
November 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
'[AI models have] been recklessly jammed into commercial software despite not actually being capable of the things tech companies claim they are.'
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Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
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“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
Thinking about this during this season of recommendation letters xkcd.com/773/
University Website
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November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Thinking about this during this season of recommendation letters xkcd.com/773/
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Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
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This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
![“I was so happy when I got there [to Babson],” Lopez Belloza said. “I was just living the college life — going to events, going everywhere ... everything there was really great. I really loved the school."
She and her father also had a special shared aspiration. With her business degree, Lopez Belloza was going to help her father open his own tailor shop, they hoped.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u6ajzyiqzkzbppp2x2y7fpfu/bafkreib33kpkgmvas4z6avgq62styxbzrzuawjufqyddtoynqgbiwnhtzy@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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More than 150 members at Tate Galleries are taking seven consecutive days of strike action from tomorrow (26) until 2 December. Pickets will be taking place at Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate Modern – so please support them.
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
More than 150 members at Tate Galleries are taking seven consecutive days of strike action from tomorrow (26) until 2 December. Pickets will be taking place at Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate Modern – so please support them.
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
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How it started / How it's going
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
How it started / How it's going
It's almost six years old and the book designer's choice of typeface was widely praised www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It's almost six years old and the book designer's choice of typeface was widely praised www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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This is fucked. I had one of these to support my research in grad school, and I was on the review panel after I became a professor. (Also, there was a review happening like right now—I wonder what is happening with those proposals?)
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM
This is fucked. I had one of these to support my research in grad school, and I was on the review panel after I became a professor. (Also, there was a review happening like right now—I wonder what is happening with those proposals?)
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i think about this fanon quote at least two or three times a week
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
i think about this fanon quote at least two or three times a week
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Santa Claus is still a woman on.ft.com/4oocnEr | opinion
Santa Claus is still a woman
There is something particularly stubborn about gender roles at Christmas
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November 27, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Santa Claus is still a woman on.ft.com/4oocnEr | opinion
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ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
In world of AI, Michigan State University Extension bets on human expertise - Bridge Michigan
For 118 years, Michigan State University Extension has existed to serve the public with programs ranging from canning classes to soil testing and financial literacy workshops. Now, it aims to bill its...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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‘linking much-needed support for students to international recruitment – an unstable and overworked income stream - is risky and unsustainable. This measure could further weaken universities’
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
The British Academy's response to the Autumn Budget
The British Academy has responded to the Autumn Budget (26 November 2025)
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
‘linking much-needed support for students to international recruitment – an unstable and overworked income stream - is risky and unsustainable. This measure could further weaken universities’
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...