Dr Michelle Walker (/Moffat)

Your Saturday need some spicing up? 😄 Via the link below you can read my latest article (open access) on surveillance of the Scottish public during the Second World War. Enjoy! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Villanova English Department is hiring an assistant prof in disability studies. Please circulate--I'm happy to answer any questions. jobs.villanova.edu/postings/36518

A tough read, but a must read. It is beyond time for the state to address/make amends for its role here, and the sad history of state care and gang membership.

this is an excellent piece and I encourage all academics to give it a read: it articulates more clearly than I've seen elsewhere the reasons underlying the anxiety many of us in science have regarding the risks that commercial AI presents to the public goods we spend our lives creating

A recent study showed 40% of MPs said they had been threatened with physical violence; 14% with sexual violence, and 19% had received threats against family members. This has to stop!

The New Zealand bush is the real star of Brad Pitt’s new movie

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

Please do come along to this webinar - we'd love to share our research into Scottish women's cricket with you. Registration link in the post below.

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

Can anyone explain to me why I have to pay GST (=VAT) on things purchased online from Australia, and then pay VAT when it enters the UK? Just been charged £44 for a parcel worth £137 😭😭😭

Washington Post just moved an especially good report on the developments today. Highly recommend. /13 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain"

TODAY, TODAY, TODAY! If you are at a loose end in B'ham this evening, come along to Bacchus for drinks and historical chat! We will be there from 6pm.

I had a reply to my terse response - our authors have been asking for it. So whoever these authors are, 🖕

Insightful piece here, exposing the limp and disappointing response of police to what is clearly disruptive, illegal and abusive behaviour. Love the words of residents - referring to RTC as trying to mark their territory on lampposts like dogs oxfordclarion.uk/raise-the-co...

Tomorrow night, Channel 4 Dispatches airs the findings of a year-long investigation into Tommy Robinson’s finances. Watch it. Then come back here. We’ve got more to show you.

My publisher has written: our books will be included in AI licensing contracts unless we reply and opt out. What is the point of academia any more? Students use AI to do their work; our work is sold to AI (and we make no profit from it anyway); our jobs are on the line. The whole thing is toxic 😖

"An earlier version of this story featured a picture of a kea wearing love heart sunglasses. There is no suggestion that kea were involved in kākāpo fuck season. The Spinoff apologises to any kea who were offended by our error. A full investigation of our bird identification processes is underway."🦜

My latest for @theguardian.com about Patriot Platform, the worrying events in Dover and Portsmouth and the police failings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Burninating the countryside, burninating the peasants! TROGDOR!! 🔥 🔥 🐉 💪 Homestarrunner 25th anniversary 🎉

As someone who studies official responses to dissent and subversive activity, what's fascinating to me about the situation at Portsmouth is that the authorities don't seem to be responding at all?! Masked thugs en masse but no clear police or government action. 🤔

Remember remember the 4th November 2026, when I'll be giving an online talk for The National Archives all about the original records relating to the discovery, trial, and punishment of the Gunpowder Plotters. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...

Two more lovely sewing projects complete! Now onto some skirts... Alt text for more project info 😊 #amsewing #handmade #memade #sewingbee

Really interesting read. www.ft.com/content/7dbc... Norway vs the world’s favourite chicken

Kissing with the weight of history: Prof Katie Barclay’s new popular history of representations and emotions, charting 1000 years of kissing in European cultural history. Feature article with bonus 1950s Scotland content, via the Dunoon Observer… www.thenational.scot/news/2649113...

Final call for today’s fantastic panel discussing post-PhD careers beyond the PhD, including politics, research, administration, and the private sector. Join us on Teams at 5:30. Sign up and more info here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social

Sharing some of my research titled "Native American and Native Hawaiian Depictions in U.S. Military Aviation, 1941-1945." Captain Joshua Sanford (Winnebago) served with the 75th Fighter Squadron, USAAF, in WWII. He was inducted into the WI Aviation Hall of Fame in 2018: www.wahf.org/hall-of-fame...

"Shame, shame on all of you." Let's cultivate a bit more compassion in our journalism. The subjects of stories are still people 🌷 bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...

If anyone's in Limerick tomorrow I'll be talking about hairy folklore at the Hunt Museum at 7! Come along to hear about hairy poets, mermaids and remedies for baldness. www.limerick.ie/discover/wha...

So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇

Wednesday morning boogie with the birthday vinyl that just arrived 😍 🎶 🎸 #music #vinyl #NBT #happiness

NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

Headline of the Year 🏆 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

Saturday afternoon vibes 😍 📚 ☀️

Which museums are collaborating?: the Food Museum, the Baltic, the Museum of Free Derry, Glasgow Life Museums and Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. The Migration Museum: All Our Stories (and not just in London). No prior curatorial experience required: www.migrationmuseum.org/join-the-mig...

Historian looking for freelance work. I’m a very experienced RA, I’m looking for anything really that might help me pay my bills, because in general my profession does not, and no one will let me try doing anything else…

🧵 Wildfires have burned across the UK, drought has been declared across the whole of Wales and two-thirds of England, while rivers continue to run low...

It's just been announced that the University of Exeter is scrapping BA/BSc Geography, including BA History & Geography, and BA Politics & Geography programmes and their variants in Penryn campus in Cornwall. There will be no new students starting in September 2026. 1/5

It's 33 degrees outside, 28 degrees inside... Manchester was not made for this 🥵❤️‍🔥