Dr Nazlin Bhimani

Screenshot of Wen Zhang's article in the collection profiles section of 'Paper Trails: The Social Life of Archives and Collections' (published by UCL Press). The article includes illustrations from the textbook showing racialised portrayals of Chinese people and narratives of British superiority.

Great to Wen Zhang's article “They Are ‘Bad’, ‘Barbaric’ and ‘Different’: The Construction of #Chinese Otherness”publishd in 'Paper Trails'. It uses the 'Harmsworth History of the World' from the @ioelibrary.bsky.social #HistoricalTextbooks #SpecColl. ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article... #HistEd

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Constant threats and backlash undermine women's rights around the globe, but women still continue to fight against repression.

This International Women's Day, we honor the courage of those working to improve the lives of women and girls everywhere. #IWD26 #InternationalWomensDay

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

'Lord Paul Boateng said the findings exposed UK museums and universities as “imperial charnel houses where the bones of Indigenous peoples torn from Britain’s empire in the past, with little or no regard...continue to be retained to this day in circumstances that beggar belief”.'

If you think I'm overstating concerns about the loyalties of US tech companies - check out this memo from Anthropic CEO to staff on their battle with the Trump administration.

We are very excited to share the full programme for the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 and announce that bookings are officially open! ✨

Find all the details on the Open@UCL blog 👉 buff.ly/S7yECkO

Open Science, Grey Literature and Decolonising Research: Expanding the Research Ecology | UCL Open@UCL Blog UCL Homepage

Brilliant piece on the Open@UCL blog today, written by @nazlinbhimani.bsky.social

Nazlin unpacks how grey literature, research produced outside of traditional academic publishing, is vital for open science and contributes to decolonising research.

Read now 👉

UCL undergraduates 🔉

Take a look at this summer school module if you want to deepen your understanding of open science & scholarship and reproducibility practices - it looks great ✨

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

'All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found.'

All versions of Claude are 'the most resistant to committing fraud'.

Which LLM is your university encouraging students to use most? Asking for a friend.

Very sad to hear of the death of Roy Lowe, historian of education. He was the first to systematically trace the infiltration of eugenics into the British education system and to write about its legacies. Despite his illness over the past two years, Roy kept in touch. That was his humanity.

Much love to you too, Tara. Hope you will visit us soon! xxx

Doctoral candidate & music educator Cate Lytle, inspired by @tarabrabazon.bsky.social’s vlog on citation politics, was commended for reflecting on this issue & using the work of marginalised scholars.Read her post here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cde/2026/02/... #CitationPolitics #DecolonisingResearch #IOEIDL

Positionality statements are relevant for all research Madeleine Pownall and Sebastian Cordoba make the case for reflexivity and positionality statements as important in all kinds of research Madeleine Pownall and Sebastian Cordoba make the case for refle...

Couldn't agree more! Transparency about our #positionality is key to research integrity. Historically, claims of objectivity, particularly in quantitative research, have too often obscured the researcher’s role in legitimising particular perspectives. wonkhe.com/blogs/positi... #IOEIDL

Screenshot of an article from CBC News. The headline reads: Ottawa puts $50M behind Inuit-led university as part of major announcement for northern communities.

Canada’s first Inuit-led university will be a game changer for the North.

‘Dirty, smoggy and seedy’: London’s student history retold New book released as UCL celebrates 200th anniversary recounts changing student culture over past two centuries, questioning idea of a ‘golden age’ of higher education

Great to see @profginab.bsky.social and Sam Blaxland's new open access book featured in THE: ‘Dirty, smoggy and seedy’: London’s student history retold www.timeshighereducation.com/news/dirty-s... See also the short film that accompanies the book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfxj... #HistEd #UCL200

Conference banner featuring abstract imagery representing the legacy and persistence of eugenic ideas in science and society, reflecting critical inquiry into quantitative classifications, population categories, and the ongoing influence of eugenics on research, teaching and public discourse.

Disappointed that the 'Legacies of Eugenics' conference at Berkeley is not hybrid, as I would have loved to hear Ruha Benjamin's keynote, and also how #eugenics continues to structure #research, #teaching, & our intellectual/public conversations. belonging.berkeley.edu/eugenics #LegaciesofEugenics

This @historytoday.com article is FREE for 7 days to mark the 200th anniversary of London's first university #UCL200 @ioew.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

🔊"In London you have an education in the wider sense of the word. It's not only the law or studying at university, it's the museums, the art galleries, the cinemas and the social life is also important"

▶️Listen to @uclalumni.bsky.social and Dr Sam Blaxland @ioe.bsky.social on BBC London, from 41:17

📺"What is now an institution in the top 10 elite list of universities started off as an up-start"

BBC London report on @ucl.ac.uk's 200th anniversary, featuring Prof @profginab.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social and UCL President & Provost, Dr Michael Spence.

Open Data: A Window into Doctoral Research (1916-2025) | UCL Open@UCL Blog UCL Homepage

On day 3 of Love Data Week, we are delving into the world of open data!

Today we're highlighting the doctoral research of @nazlinbhimani.bsky.social who used open bibliographic data to identify research priorities during the interwar years at the IOE.

Read it now👉 buff.ly/6pIDfay

#LoveData26

#OtD 10 Feb 1918, Black @IWW activist Ben Fletcher was arrested by the FBI in Philadelphia on bogus charges of sedition for allegedly disrupting the war effort. He was convicted along with dozens of others, fined $30,000 and jailed for 10 years. workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-...

Still time to register for this roundtable exploring open-source tools next Thursday, 12th February!🧑‍💻

If you're able to consider jobs in the USA at the moment, Cold Spring Harbour Lab is seeking a (fixed term, renewable) archive/library-focused historian of Life Sciences #HistSTM #skystorians

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69774/c...

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‘Give PhD archive attention it deserves,’ British Library urged Scholars criticise lack of progress on restoring repository of 600,000 PhD theses more than two years after it was felled by cyberattack

'A metadata-only version of the British Library’s sorely missed PhD thesis repository will be a pale imitation of the service that disappeared more than two years ago after a cyberattack, experts have warned.' 1/2

Over the past 4 decades, the culture war's rise realigned American politics -- pushing working-class voters right and college grads left.

A new study offers a simple theory for why this happened: Americans' at-home entertainment options got too good. www.vox.com/politics/475...

Royal Society president reignites Elon Musk row by defending lack of action Society should only eject fellows for fraud or other defects in their research, says Paul Nurse

If the @royalsociety.org won’t stand up for scientific values like truth, evidence & the importance of not spreading misinformation on an industrial scale, then who will?
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

1/6 The White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller here shows exactly *why* the new brand of fascists are so intent on lying about the West’s imperial past.

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Homeless people were given free money, no strings attached. Here's what happened A new trial gave homeless people £2,000 to spend however they choose. What they spent the money on may surprise you.

#Hope at the end of a difficult year. In a trial mirroring a Canadian study, one recipient said: 'When I was awarded this money...I bought a phone, laptop and printer so I can do a college course [in] civil law [to]advocate for people who are homeless'. www.bigissue.com/news/housing... #homelessness