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Just saw this and remembered I have my ballot to do... getting it done rn, thank you for the reminder <3

Brava! Totally agree with all your points. I am at a weird crossroads of being professional services staff but academic too (PhD researcher). I am desperately trying to get full time hours in my PS role but there's no money so they University may end up losing me completely.

I wrote a piece for the CDBU blog with some low or no cost things our employers could do right now if they care about precarious staff as much as they say they do.

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.

They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

It's my birthday today. If you can donate to this for @bookaidint.bsky.social i would be eternally grateful. If you can't donate, please share 🙏🏼♥️

Doctoral Training Programme: What's Not There? Absences in Collections | Museums and Collections Explore techniques to research 'against the grain' and uncover marginalised stories.

Are you a PhD student interested in using museum collections in your research?

Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections.

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/doc...

#OTD 7 January 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women was published. This text was hugely influential and is regarded as one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. #WomensHistory #GenderHist

Thank you for all you do! 🥰

Erin’s Birthday Books for Book Aid International Help Erin J raise money to support Book Aid International

It's my birthday soon, and I am raising money for @bookaidint.bsky.social

They send books to libraries, schools, etc around the world, helping people access stories, education, & possibility.

If you’d like to help:
www.justgiving.com/page/erinsbi...

#BirthdayFundraiser #BooksChangeLives

A studio photograph of the man, the myth, the legend, PHIL COLLINS seated at a drum kit, holding drumsticks and leaning casually on a tom drum. He faces the camera with a calm, confident expression. Large cymbals and stage lights frame him from behind, giving the scene a warm, professional concert-style atmosphere. Above text reads: "PSA: If you hit play on "In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins at 11:56:20PM this New Year's Eve, the drum fill will welcome you into 2026. Start the year the right way."

🚨 ESSENTIAL INFORMATION KLAXON 🚨

A black and white photographed page titled “Christmas Arrangements” from the Sussex County Asylum, dated December 1871. It lists the Christmas Day schedule in decorative handwritten script, including workshops and laundry closed, divine service at 11 am, patients’ dinner at 1 pm, a country walk in the afternoon, and evening activities in the class room. It also notes that the porter will lock the doors and ring the bell for lights out at 11.15 pm. Below, it lists entertainment in the recreation hall on December 26, a patients’ Christmas ball on December 27, and a household ball on January 2, 1872.

Sussex County Asylum Christmas, 1871.
Service at 11, dinner at 1, a walk if weather allows, then evening entertainment and lights out at 11.15.

Small comforts, even in confinement.

#AsylumHistory #VictorianBritain #ArchiveFind #MedicalHumanities #HistoryOfMentalHealth #ChristmasPast #historian

A black and white photographed page titled “Christmas Arrangements” from the Sussex County Asylum, dated December 1871. It lists the Christmas Day schedule in decorative handwritten script, including workshops and laundry closed, divine service at 11 am, patients’ dinner at 1 pm, a country walk in the afternoon, and evening activities in the class room. It also notes that the porter will lock the doors and ring the bell for lights out at 11.15 pm. Below, it lists entertainment in the recreation hall on December 26, a patients’ Christmas ball on December 27, and a household ball on January 2, 1872.

Sussex County Asylum Christmas, 1871.
Service at 11, dinner at 1, a walk if weather allows, then evening entertainment and lights out at 11.15.

Small comforts, even in confinement.

#AsylumHistory #VictorianBritain #ArchiveFind #MedicalHumanities #HistoryOfMentalHealth #ChristmasPast #historian

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday A look at the ethical and religious issues of the week

I will be featured on the Sunday Programme on Radio 4 on Sunday 21 December, talking about the Winter Solstice. It will be live from around 7.10 am Sunday but also listenable on the Radio 4 website.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

I mean… Walton Goggins. Undisputed top tier of that whole celebrity group. 😍😍😍

Would be nice. Noneofyourbusinessitis could become rampant in the community, perhaps.

US could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, which can fill out a form in lieu of a visa.

It's been over 5 years since Boris Johnson blocked me on Twitter for continually replying "dickhead" to each of his posts, so I should be okay. 🤞😇👍🙌

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who knew you'd find special door openers for pixies and tomtens on the NTTransit trains? Take note of the little sign at their eye level 😍
Happy travels tomtens and pixies! #Folklore
@deedeechainey.bsky.social
@folkloringpodcast.bsky.social @njtransit--nec.bsky.social

nm i see your email in your profile. sending now :)

Got it! DM me with an email address and I'll send it over

poop > kids

Some of the vaulted ceilings at Peterborough Cathedral still retain their medieval painted decoration…fictive masonry, or ashlaring, with a classic flower motif 😍

Oh how beautiful! 😍😍😍

Yes, full access from 1997, lemme know what you need

10/10 no notes

Screenshot of my thesis title page. It reads: 'I Cannot Conceive a Man Without Thought': Life Courses and Care of Patients at the Sussex County Asylum, 1890-1913, by Erin Louise Johanson, University of Sussex

Waiting on feedback on final chapter by sup but... I think I have my first final draft done. OF THE WHOLE THESIS. I have intro, chapters, conclusion and all the rest of the shit done. Let the editing begin!

Holy shit you guys.

#phd #phdlife #historian #medicalhistory #skystorians

Pre ordered! <3

Isabelle Eberhardt 💕
(+October 21,1897 in Algeria
explorer,writer,Russian origin, traveled dressed as a man.
The first European to experience Sufism in the Maghreb and to bear witness to it in her writings,

"And yet, wandering is liberation, and life along the roads is freedom."
Written in the sand

The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt In Hédi A. Jaouad's new biography, the legendary adventuress emerges as a radically modern figure—crossing boundaries of gender, faith, empire, and identity.

Forthcoming in May 2026 @threeroomspress.bsky.social : "The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt" by Hédi A. Jaouad. This new biography of Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) will surely be of interest to many scholars in the field threeroomspress.com/the-immortal... #IsabelleEberhadt #biography