The NY Times writes about DOGE and their assault on the NEH...
USING CHATGPT TO DECIDE WHETHER A GRANT WAS DOING WOKE DEI.
Just appalling.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
Really excellent interview with tech journalist Graham Lovelace about the current situation regarding copyright law and generative AI’s illegal scraping of published books — posted by @alcs.co.uk www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-ai-...
In which people CHOOSE TO VOTE for a female plumber representing a party with broadly liberal values and an unelected life peer declares it to be the end of liberal democracy.
'The number of academics leaving their jobs...[rose] from just over 1,500 in 2023 to just over 2,800 in 2025. Across the three-year period, there were nearly 9,600 confirmed redundancies across the institutions, with more than 6,300 reported to be on academic contracts.' Fixed term excluded. 2/3
'Research Professional News made FOI requests to all 24 members of the Russell Group and 10 members of the ResearchPlus mission group of universities.' 24 institutions responded: their redundancies increased from just over 2,200 in the 2023 calendar year to nearly 4,400 in 2025. 1/3
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This could be the greatest film review I've come across. Tremendous youtu.be/DTyUni8dbkE?... #melania
At the RBO to see Woolf Works. Fabulous!
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Delighted to see that my article, '"Many Little Wildernesses": Harriet Monroe, Poetry, and the Reader as Tourist' is out in the latest issue of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies! doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.16.2.0107
A magical musical moment amidst the madness.
"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution
The UK university sector has gone beyond the red line and is now in a stage of rapid decomposition. Only a fundamental reset could save whole chunks of it. Probably too late for large parts.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
The BAAS website has been updated with news of a whole host of new books in American Studies 📚
join @modernistudies.bsky.social! 3 PGR Rep roles are available, see below for a blog post from @lilyvmartin.bsky.social & yours truly about our time as reps so far.
Not the main thing ofc, but indicting a foreign head of state for conspiring to possess a machine gun is low key hilarious.
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
British Academy's pioneering 'cold spots' work now replicated by HESA.
'University "cold spots" are developing in some parts of the country, new data analysis suggests, with courses in some subjects no longer available to students in certain regions.' 1/2
Very welcome news today that the UK will join the Erasmus+ programme in 2027. This will enable greater opportunities for study abroad and contributions in UK universities, and is something we called for in our most recent Manifesto.
NEW on Wonkhe: The abolition of the binary divide in HE made visible the wealth of research excellence in what became known as the post-92 part of the sector. Katie Normington worries that forcing specialisation risks eroding longstanding research ecosystems buff.ly/a2Lusby
Open-access and in print - Muireann Maguire (@muireanndinosaur.bsky.social), Invading the American Canon: Translators of Russian Literary Fiction, 1863-1984 (@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, @bloomsburylit.bsky.social, 2025; h/t @jrdwrrn.bsky.social, #skystorians) www.bloomsbury.com/us/invading-...
Postdoc Opportunity!
University of Rochester - Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities
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“Four years ago, we suffered an earlier redundancy programme that we were told would secure the future of the university. That clearly was not true."
#UKHE
www.leicester.news/university-o...
A story in Private Eye, headlined "Minority representation on TV causes outrage". The article reads: "There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television."
Private Eye nailing it.
Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025)
Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, 7–8 Nov 2025, Sciences Po, Paris Registration link for anyone who might wish to attend online Friday, November 7, 2025 (room K011) 9:15–10:00 – Introduction Judith Revel…
