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A supportive community of practice of mostly doctoral students and postdocs on Twitter since 2012. Our free online quiet study room opened 24/7 in 2020 and is filled with wonderful people. www.thephdforum.com
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jowolff.bsky.social
Very pleased to be giving keynote: ‘Duties to Posterity and the “Me Generation”’ at the KCL Public Policy Graduate Conference on Nov 26th.

kclppe4pp.github.io
KCL PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference 2025
Graduate conference at King's College London on November 26, 2025. PPE for Public Policy.
kclppe4pp.github.io
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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humanists.uk
American humanist James Baldwin speaking at the University of Cambridge in 1965. His words on racism still resonate today. An incredible piece of #HumanistHeritage. A true 'pin drop' speech. No one said it quite like Baldwin. #BlackHumanism.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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lswisnom.bsky.social
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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chongminglim.bsky.social
Honoured to receive the 2025 Brian Barry Prize in Political Science. My essay reconstructs and evaluates state anxiety about civil disobedience, and reflects on how political philosophy can reflect and align with such anxiety.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medal...

#philsky #polisky #polsci 🗺️
October 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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mariaperica.bsky.social
A little positivity posting for once in my life: I am actually having a lot of fun being a postdoc. All this time to just think about research and do research…FINALLY! 🥳
October 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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dementiaresearcher.bsky.social
University of Birmingham PhD on dietary polyphenols, stress and brain health, exploring effects on cognition, mood, vascular and cerebral function. Closing date: 30th November

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-diet...
PhD: Diet Stress and Brain Health - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
University of Birmingham PhD on dietary polyphenols, stress and brain health, exploring effects on cognition, mood, vascular and cerebral function.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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historyworkshop.org.uk
How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️
Changing The Record
How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
This Saturday, we will be doing a Visual Assembly in Vienna, Austria.

We will imagine, discuss and draw cities of the future and it is free to join.

For more info and to register, click here: museum.care/events/imagi...
Imagining a Future City: Visual Assembly in Vienna
The Visual Assemblies are coming to Austria! On Saturday October 4, 10:00 - 12:00, Barış Eser will facilitate a Visual Asesmbly. We will imagine, discuss
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September 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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realchristiankerr.bsky.social
Resources Review Editor sought for Practice: Social Work in Action journal.

Want to build your own networks, develop and promote the research in your field, and be recognised as a leading figure within the academic community?

Read on: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
Resources Review Editor needed for Practice
think.taylorandfrancis.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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realchristiankerr.bsky.social
Very sad to hear of the passing of social worker and activist Angi Naylor, who gave so much of herself, her humour, her unforgettable character, her time and energy to standing up for people and supporting others whenever and wherever she could. Rest well Angi xxx
September 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
"Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students" - imagining a lot of staff there pretty upset about, but also it says much about OpenAI's education strategy that it's targeted Oxford as its first institutional capture in the UK www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff
OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5 model will be provided across the University and Oxford Colleges through ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities that includes enterprise-level security and
www.ox.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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aksagal.bsky.social
Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
The #Carnival4David will take place tomorrow.

Come along if you are in London. Radical Optimism is all you need to bring along.
September 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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karimwafa.bsky.social
Reading is just teleporting, but quietly.
September 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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willpooley.bsky.social
Here’s the page you need if you want to join the class action:

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

And the Authors Guild statement on who may be eligible for a part of the settlement:

authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
September 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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jowolff.bsky.social
Looking forward to participating in this workshop. I’ll be talking about whether there’s a human right to participate in science.
michelamassimi.bsky.social Michela Massimi @michelamassimi.bsky.social · Sep 1
This 2-day workshop @royalsociety.org on the right to participate in science and science as a global public good brings together scientists, philosophers, and policy makers. The event is open to everyone and can also be attended online. Programme coming soon. Registration required 👇
Science as a global public good? From the right to participate in science to science governance | Royal Society
Science+ meeting organised by Professor Geoffrey Boulton FRS FRSE MAE and Professor Michela Massimi FRSE FRAS MAE
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September 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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jowolff.bsky.social
Including translations of my books I seem to have more than a dozen books here. I hate filling in web forms but maybe I’ll make an exception this time.
ryanestrada.com Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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
September 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
#Carnival4David

In two weeks there will be a carnival in London to celebrate the life of David Graeber.

Workshops will be taking place too! Save The Date!
Rowley Way, London NW8 0SN. 1 to 6 pm. 7o=pm onwards the Carnival Parade.
September 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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bryonycoombs.bsky.social
Question for historians of Scotland:
I am following a style guide that asks for first names but I cannot find one. Can anyone help me?
Finlayson, W. H., ‘The Boyds in Bruges’, Scottish Historical Review (1949). Does anyone know what the W stands for? I can only ever find: W. H. Finlayson- Thank you!
September 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com


£25,000 is under full time minimum wage for one earner now, but this is a FAMILY income assessment. It means far far fewer students get the full living loan.
September 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
Why can you breathe Earth’s atmosphere?

The answer isn’t that the Amazon rainforest is producing excess oxygen on the surface. (It’s not.) It’s that fossil fuels exist. I didn’t understand this at all before reading @peterbrannen.bsky.social’s new book. heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
Robinson Meyer: Why do we have a surplus of oxygen in the air in the first place? It was, for me, also something I did not understand at all before I read the book. Peter Brannen: So there’s this common trope that two out of the next three breaths you have is from phytoplankton the ocean, or a quarter of it is from the Amazon alive today. And there’s a sense in which that’s true because oxygen and CO2 are being exchanged very quickly in the biosphere. But there is something like 800 times more oxygen in the air than can be produced by the entire biosphere. And all of the oxygen that’s produced by the rainforest, say — the rainforest is a living system where everything else is consuming that organic matter and feeding off of it. And it’s kind of a wash — just as much oxygen is created by the trees as is consumed by the bugs and fungi and jaguars and all the things that are living in the rainforest that are feeding off those plants and respiring that plant matter back to things like CO2 and water. So on a net scale it’s a wash. So that gets you a planet with close to zero oxygen, and instead we have this absurd abundance of this thing that wants to react with everything. And the only way you can do that is if, say, you imagine a tree and when it dies, rather than being decomposed by fungi and beetles and on and on, that tree suddenly gets buried in sediment and falls into the crust and becomes part of the rock record, and the oxygen it made in life is not used in its own destruction. And by shielding that tree in the earth, you leave this surplus of oxygen in the air. And over all of Earth history, as a vanishingly small amount of this organic matter, things like plants and algae, do make it into the rock record, they leave an equivalent gift of oxygen in the air as a surplus. We are more familiar with plant matter in the crust where it’s economically exploitable — we call those fossil fuels. So in a weird way, the fact that me and you can breathe — I don’t think a lot of people attribute that to the fact that there’s fossil fuels in the ground. Luckily most, you know, quote-unquote fossil fuels are very diffuse in mudstones, and they’re not economically exploitable. And we’re never going to run out of oxygen by burning fossil fuels because, you know, we worry about CO2 going up in parts per million and oxygens in whole percent. So, you know, it is true that for every molecule of CO2 we burn we’re bringing down oxygen by an equivalent amount, it’s just not that concerning. But yeah, there is this astounding way of reframing, of looking at the world where the plant surface is breathable only because of what’s happened in the rocks beneath it.
September 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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rowdyrebel.bsky.social
These are a gem.
My old town had a tool library, my new town has a sewing library.
Gifts. 🎁
September 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
New jobs here! I'm on the Advisory Board of this Leverhulme Trust-funded project investigating 'The long-term impact of New Labour’s social and economic policies', and there are two Research Fellowship posts available: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow (Multiple positions, fixed term)
We are now recruiting 2 full time Research Fellows to work with Stephen Farrall and colleagues at Warwick (Emily Gray) and Queen Mary College, University of London (Maria Grasso) on their research int...
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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jenniad.bsky.social
If only animals could reliably fetch coffee when asked…
September 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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mckasp.bsky.social
When you want a coffee. But you’re in your office in the garden (in slippers) and the coffee machine is in the house. (Volume up)
September 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM