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Birmingham reprimanded over management of work-related stress Investigation by Health and Safety Executive found institution ‘does not have appropriate arrangements in place’ to manage burnout among staff

You mean the guy responsible for this?
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/birming...

Monty Python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life YouTube video by thebrat307101

'the caller you have reached is otherwise engaged, please leave a message after this' www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPO...

Yup. This bit. That the leader of an institution of *research* doesn't feel the need to base his opinions in any information, and that the newspaper doesn't feel oblige to address that is why we are where we are.

bsky.app/profile/theg... interestingly, he doesn't state a single bit of evidence. just distain and classism.

This is depressing enough as it is, but The Guardian haven't provided any figures to confirm how far it's true, what dropout rates are across the board or anything. Tickell's rhetoric is the usual "what does the public want", forgetting that some of the public want to go to university.

This is disgusting. Many of the brightest, most engaged students Ive taught - and the ones who graduate with the highest grades - have had no A levels. This white man on a 6-figure salary wants to slash access to higher education for people who aren’t clones of him and he is just plain wrong:

If the purpose of a system is what the system does then he sees the HE system's purpose as gatekeeping.

This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.

Burgundy background with pale blue/grey strip at the bottom with the pheonix logo in white on it, right aligned. To the left, 'Book Launch' in sans serif lettering is positioned vertically with the book covers to the right of it - Lillywhite positioned directly above Zanon. Text to the right reads: "Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice by Marie-Louise Lillywhite • • Cittadini of Venice: Shaping Identities between Networks and Patronage (c. 1530-1690) by Giulia Zanon • Join the authors in conversation with Alex Bamji and Philip Cottrell Wednesday 18th March 2026, 09.00 pdt / 12.00 edt / 16.00 gmt / 17.00 cet Register: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/lillywhite-zanon" The book titles are in an italicised serif font and the author's names are in the same serif font, without italics. The rest of the text is in a sans serif font that gestures towards a serif font. All text is in white.

#SRSlyGood BOOK LAUNCH! Join Marie-Louise Lillywhite & Giulia Zanon in conversation with @alexbamji.bsky.social & Philip Cottrell as they celebrate the publication of "Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice" & "Cittadini of Venice" 18 March 2026, 16.00GMT
www.crowdcast.io/c/lillywhite... #Skystorians

Anyone know of any pots of money for ECRs paying for image permissions?? Sorting it all out and things are adding up..

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-Worst history puns 😏
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Yeah. It’s not pretty. I’m hoping “yeah, and you’re scared of Quakers” can become a shorthand to dismiss the fearmongering. Like this summer “your dad paints st George crosses on a roundabout” became a way of cutting through.

It's the USENET/Internet Oracle for the 2020s! internetoracle.org

Ok, the watering can made me chuckle out loud — after the long stunned silence of horror at what a horror of a man he is.

The Brand New Fancy Watering Can should be the title of an LRB piece insightfully dissecting corporate hypocrisy.

Most #IckyArchive! (Got to use prizes to encourage good practice, and I need more people to share their icky things)

Most insightful research rabbit hall created by asking a question and getting half the planet to pitch in suggestions. (My favourite social media events)

If those app developers had any actual imagination, they’d make sure he doesn’t respond on Good Friday & Easter Saturday because his hands are a bit tied up on the cross and with harrowing hell. And then he can get back on Sunday with “whoa, you wouldn’t BELIEVE what just happened to me! 🥴”

Captured Consent Cambridge Core - British History after 1450 - Captured Consent

Delighted to find in the mail today my hard copy of Sonia Tycko's 'Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600-1700' -- an outstanding book that warrants a wide readership. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

I’m a bit concerned that my immediate response was to get the not-AI to “draw contentment” or “Explain why humanity is worth saving in the first place”… I may have to get more capybara-oriented.

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Explore our job opportunities focused on the Medieval and Early Modern periods (thread 🧵):

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Coming up this SUNDAY! A true story of family, love and anti-Nazi resistance — researched and presented by yours truly. Live on BBC Radio 4 or listen later on BBC Sounds.

Als that Capybara is amazing and should become the site's mascot.

🥰 asking weird questions for other humans to respond imaginatively to? Yes please!

🤯 That's... impressive...

right??? 'everyone is fixed in their pre-determined places dictated by their parents' access to fancy or non-fancy education' should be a disqualifying take from a guy *running an institution of education & knowledge*.

So damn elitist and transactional.

Join us next week! We're really going for all the Fridays the 13th...

But hearing from Sam Geens about his fascinating social history and demography research will make it a lucky day!

FRI 13 March, 17:30 (UK), @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom -- register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🙃 Somehow, those professional EDI-ers who build a career on making money off it and see EDI as just HR don't actually care? And so many who actually do care don't survive more than 5 years in that environment.

(also, so sorry to hear, sadly not surprised but nonetheless sad.)

(I mean, I do, because that's how many managers function, grabbing goodies and fancy perks without good cause, and they project that mentality on the rest of us. But nobody who asks for a couple of hundreds of pound to survive does that without good cause.)

It's so deeply invasive.

And a couple of hundreds of pounds won't register for the university and would make a huge difference for the student. I do not get why they're constantly acting like everyone will just grab money without good cause.