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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social |
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Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
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Pratik Chakrabarti
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Evolution is a network not a tree. It is much more haphazard and interconnected through mimcry, coevolution and sharing than previously believed. In my view, this supports the idea of a new polygenic human evolution, that genomics is suggesting.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Margot Finn
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"UKRI’s most recent diversity data – for 2021–22, published in April 2024....[finds for example that] white applicants still had a higher award rate than did Black or Asian applicants, and white males received the largest percentage of awards as both PIs and co-investigators."
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Margot Finn
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"However, the majority of the House of Commons continue to attend narrow range of universities. 55% attended Russell Group universities (54% in 2019), including 20% who went to Oxford or Cambridge (21% in 2019)." BTW, lots of History (not PPE) graduates in this cabinet. 2/2
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Margot Finn
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A comprehensive analysis available with no paywall from Sutton Trust: "Most strikingly, there has been a sea change in the proportion of comprehensive-educated MPs holding power. 73% of Labour MPs attended comprehensives, compared to 42% of Conservative MPs elected in 2019." 1/2
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Margot Finn
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"The University of Melbourne is developing a process to manage site renaming proposals...[&] is contemplating whether to rename a scholarship called after Daniel Murnane, a veterinary science researcher implicated in the 1926 massacre of at least 11 Aborigines in Western Australia." 3/3
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Margot Finn
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'“Although previous efforts in Australia have critically examined the colonial legacies of some university namesakes, no institution has yet taken the step of changing their name. We think that time has come.”' 2/3
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Margot Finn
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'“We do not need to retain names that celebrate harmful colonial ideas, figures or sites,” says the submission to the Yoorrook Justice Commission, a government-endorsed inquiry into injustices against Victorian Aboriginal people.' Might be of interest @alanlester.bsky.social 1/3
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Ed Wilson
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"Not receiving cabinet appointments were Emily Thornberry, who had been shadowing the attorney general post, and Nick Thomas-Symonds, who had been shadow minister without portfolio... we're not counting them as being out of the cabinet yet..."
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/live-blog/ge...
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank
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This is so cool! Frog & amphibian have been dessimated by the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by a fungal pathogen. Researchers have realised that the fungi is heat intolerant so little brick saunas for frogs can help kill the fungi! Recovered frogs more resistant to further infxn 🧪
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Margot Finn
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Well-spotted Peter. It would be good to know the answer to that.
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Margot Finn
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Lisa Nandy at Culture, Media & Sport, quite a (welcome) shift from the recent succession of culture warriors in this post, though also somewhat unexpected.
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Margot Finn
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"If the RN wins...the abolition of the right to French nationality of those born in France will introduce a profound break in our republican conception of nationality, since people born in France, and who have always lived here, will no longer be French, " their children will not be French either."
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Margot Finn
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"...the proportion of state-educated members has risen from 54% to 63%. That is still far short of the 88% of people among the general public who went to comprehensive schools, but it represents the highest proportion of state-schooled members ever recorded in parliament."
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Iain Soutar
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Inspired by @kellyhereid.bsky.social, I'm going to try getting better at sharing papers I'm finding valuable, if not daily, then perhaps weekly.
This paper sets out some principles & practices for researchers to help avoid 'extractive' relations with communities hosting energy developments:
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Margot Finn
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In case you need a quick break from election news: "Citizen Zoo, a group specialising in community-led urban rewilding that helped establish the Ealing beaver project...will examine places where the birds could be returned and engage with London boroughs and local community groups."
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Margot Finn
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A new MP from the Social History (and Sociology) stable. Congratulations to Colchester and Professor Cox:
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Margot Finn
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And perhaps too there are a few changes that can be made to make things better for universities' labour force.
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Margot Finn
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Michael Fabricant: "not strictly speaking a Tory big beast, but...one of the most recognisable Conservative figures in the country thanks to his distinctive hairstyle." Thérèse Coffey: "lest we forget, a short-lived deputy prime minister.. during the blink-and-you-miss-it premiership of Liz Truss."
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Margot Finn
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"Several Tory ministers were unseated by Lib Dem challenges, including Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk, Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer and Science Secretary Michelle Donelan." Meanwhile, Chi Unwurah, Labour's shadow Science minister, has retained her seat. A new dawn.
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The Material Culture of Wills Project
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Just read Ahnert, Griffin, Ridge and Tolfo's Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data:
It v helpfully outlines challenges of managing a multidisciplinary Digital Humanities project in UK mixed-rights data landscape. 📇
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Deidre Lynch
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An update on this. No suspicions of arson, it seems. But… Despite being designated a national historical site, the church did not have a sprinkler system (no money to install one). Would be nice if the conservative powers in the province of Ontario were actually interested in conserving things!
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Andrew WM Smith
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Hot off the press! Read all about ‘Creative Responses to the History of Covid-19’ in this special update of Paper Trails co-edited with Stirling Uni Archives! Here’s a roundup of each brilliant piece in our #OpenAccess @uclpress.bsky.social publication ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/3/?filt...
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Katrina Navickas
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Seriously Brum, look at this bizarre procession route for the visit of the King of Afghanistan in 1928
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Natalie Haynes
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🧵 It’s election day here in the UK, so here is a coin from the first century BCE, depicting an election during the Roman Republic. On the back of the coin you can see a really clear image of a man dropping his voting tablet into a cista, or basket. Numismatists have identified
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Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ)
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“It is playing politics in a way that will ultimately have a very detrimental impact on the lives of people who come here as refugees, seeking asylum and seeking safety.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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Margot Finn
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"Global governments plan to triple the world’s renewable energy resources by the end of the decade..But the ambitious pledge, agreed at last year’s COP28 climate talks, is already in doubt and experts fear that a sharp increase in energy demand from AI datacentres may push it further out of reach."
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Margot Finn
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A Minister for Libraries mooted:
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Margot Finn
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"The National Trust, which owns the land, said the “one of a kind” survey was carried out to help it plan for future nature conservation and tree-planting schemes across the landscape, as part of its ambitious targets to address climate change."
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Andy Marshall
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Today, as we cast our votes, let's channel the enduring spirit of the Crowhurst Yew. This ancient tree, thought to be 4000 yrs old, once stood as a gathering place for parish councils, harnessing the power of community and collective decision-making for centuries.
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Yvonne Seale
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This Middle Dutch manuscript (ca. 1400) shows how parchment warps when exposed to intense heat—in this case, during a WWII bombing raid. No longer readable as a book, it's still a powerful historical source.
Universitätsbibl. Kassel, 8° Ms. theol. 15: orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image...
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Pratik Chakrabarti
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Looking forward to attending the inaugural conference of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) in Durham, 10-12 July 2024. My Keynote is on
"The Naked Pharaohs: Decolonizing the Nineteenth Century."
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Margot Finn
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Impressive. Utrecht in 2023 took a principled stand to remove itself from the Times Higher Edu World University Rankings (www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... ) so this decision appears to be part of a larger piece of resistance.
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Annika Bärwald
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CfA: Eight humanities/social science fellowships at the St. Gallen Collegium, 2025-2026. Theme: "Re-interpreting Freedom" 🗃️ 📆 30 Sep 2024 "Two fellowships are designated for advanced doctoral students or early postdoctoral scholars who are currently working at a university in the global south"🌍
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Margot Finn
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"Prof Maxime Aubert from Griffith University...told BBC News that the discovery would change ideas about human evolution. “The painting tells a complex story. It is the oldest evidence we have for storytelling. It shows that humans at the time had the capacity to think in abstract terms,” he said."
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Margot Finn
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File for post-election reading: "Beyond financial penalties, the reputational damage from failing to comply with Martyn’s Law could be profound. Universities are trusted institutions, and any perceived negligence...could lead to a loss of trust from the public, prospective students, and parents."
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Kim A. Wagner
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"Today’s Israel/Palestine might thus be thought of as an instance of “neo-apartheid”"
New article by Saul Dubow, who knows a thing or two about apartheid...
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/pir/art...
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Holly Brewer
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My article for @newrepublic
“The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.”
newrepublic.com/article/1833...
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Hetan Shah
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Can’t be repeated often enough: ‘The creative sector now accounts for around 6 per cent of the UK’s goods and services and employs 2.3mn people.’
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Margot Finn
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“There are hardly any buildings left standing. Houses are flattened, roads are blocked, the electricity poles are down in the streets.”
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Margot Finn
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"...historical nostalgia should not be the sole preserve of the right. The left can also make use of it. We can remind ourselves that a more just society is possible, if only because a few of the necessary conditions have at various moments actually existed...and in the not-so-distant past."
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Charles C. Mann
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Fine WaPo piece from a couple weeks back that both highlights the empty rationales provided by Duke administrators for closing the university's herbarium, one of the nation's biggest, and explains why herbarium collections like the one at Duke can be so scientifically valuable.
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James Barr
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ESG latest
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Karl Galle
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Open-access #medievalsky journal special issue on the historiography of heresy, including pagans, Franciscans, and (nobody expects) the Inquisition. maes.unibo.it/index
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Jeanette Patrick
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Kathryn Gehred was recently interviewed by Byrd Pinkerton of @vox.com about women's history, letters, and our podcast Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant!
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
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Dr Sarah Irving
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5 scholarships (fee waiver + stipend) for Palestinian students at University of Padua www.unipd.it/en/students-...
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Margot Finn
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Special issue in Discourse (vol. 45: 3) on 'The Material Basis of Elite Schooling: Capital and the State', very timely for this election. Includes Gamsu, Ashe & Arday's open access 'Elite Schools and Slavery in the UK--Capital, Violence and Extractivism':
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The Boatman
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Gift link
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Liesbeth Corens
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I've never fully recovered from learning that DataHE belongs to Times Higher Education. It does explain the failure of my attempts at clarifying that all this transactionality with consultancies who have no stakes in the long-term health of the institution but just do facade work...
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Margot Finn
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"The new report provides an evidence-based critique of a recent independent review in the U.K., known as the “Cass Review,” that has become central to U.S. litigation." This article is important in itself, but also as a reminder that "postcolonial" US law remains entangled in English legal thinking.
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Victorian Commons
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It’s 2 days until polling day and our Victorian elections countdown is almost over. 2. Did you know that until 1885, most constituencies elected more than one MP? Find out more about the implications of multi-member seats in our new blog. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/e...
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