Dinah Roe

Just weeks after Professor Jason Arday was hounded to his death, Reform UK’s branch in Oxford has invited the racist academic who led the campaign, Nathan Cofnas, to speak. Tell the education secretary to protect students and academics from hate: https://goodlaw.social/u07r

Another submission for @morris-on-screen.bsky.social: Smile 2 (2024) J. H. Dearle for Morris & Co., "Seaweed," 1901 (a modern enlarged version in a neutral colorway)

"teaching is improv theater, not a paint-by-numbers exercise". Exactly this. More yes/and than a scripted lesson could hope to contain. 🤣

Do you want to see the most cursed photo of all time?

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This is a really depressing story, but if you need cheering up, may I recommend reading the comments below this post? They are 🔥🔥

To be fair, the teacher might have been perplexed if she’d described her daughter as an outside-the-box thinker with great synergies who’s hitting all her KPIs.

Last chance to sign up for the Treasures and Treasure Hunting launch event! Grab a ticket and learn more about the magical and thrilling history of treasure hunting. 📍 Special Collections Room 🗓️ Wednesday 28th October ⏰ 6pm Use this link to get your today: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exhibition...

On Wednesday 18 November I'll be talking about the future of Britain's universities at the Bristol Festival of Economics. Do many of them even have a future? I'll be speaking alongside other commentators far more expert than I am. Come along! Signup below. 👇 economicsfestival.co.uk/event/degree...

So basically Chia Pets are back? Okay, that's nice.🤷‍♀️

"one of the references to a World Health Organization report has a ChatGPT metadata tag on the URL, indicating that the link was directly sourced from the chatbot." 🤡

110 years ago, on the 26th of October 1916, birth control activist Margaret Sanger was arrested after handing a pamphlet to an undercover policewoman. After bailing out of jail, she went back to assisting women at the birth control clinic she had opened earlier that month. #otd #history 🗃️

Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies delart.org/opportunitie...

No money to keep c.600 lecturers & technicians but plenty of money to recruit PVCs on unspecified salaries to 'navigate difficult conversations with staff'. www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

When young people mobilise and go vote, then change can happen to better the world.

Don’t let the major companies control every bit of tech you touch. Tweak a few settings, or opt out of their options entirely. Either way, you win. www.eff.org/pages/welco...

Social investment in universities to independently pursue knowledge for its own sake is the greatest driver of innovation we've every known. That is *the* message, and our leaders aren't doing nearly enough to help policy makers understand it.

'But our mandatory staff training on the"ethical" & "responsible" use of AI...' 🙃https://www.datacentermap.com/united-kingdom/oxfordshire/

Do you need help returning your ballot? If you have any questions, there are voting experts who can help. The info is at: www.votefromabroad.org/voter-support/ You can get live support on Zoom today, Sunday, Oct. 25 at 4pm BST. Or on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 3pm BST

Sorry, but the Golden Girls all worked for a living? They moved in together because of financial precarity and caring responsibilities following divorce and death. To frame contemporary women considering this model as silly idealists is misogynistic and ageist.

A seriously good Wella comb i was talked into buying during my first ever salon haircut in 1998 (£10). It was such an uncharacteristically decandent purchase for me. I've used it literally every day since the, and it's still going strong. That hairdresser was right, and I still think of him fondly!

The whole world no longer smells like cigarettes.

From “aristocracy to assetocracy” - Prof Huw McCartney, a colleague at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, explores the make-up and wealth in the House of Lords, which so desperately needs reform: theconversation.com/from-aristoc...

"If university bots graded bots, you would no longer have a university. You’d have a tomb, an academic mausoleum in which digital phantoms murmured emptily" theconversation.com/friday-essay...

How to stop waiting and start living – a classic jolt from Henry James www.themarginalian.org/2026/10/20/h...

'all these conversations do is provide the semblance of negotiation while AI gets ever more entrenched in the administrative and educational activities of a university'.

A new episode of the Pre-Raphaelite podcast has just gone live- the-pre-raphaelite-podcast.podbean.com/e/the-rosset... ‘The Rossettis: Siblings and Spouses’ exhibition ends at Wightwick Manor on Monday 9th November- so visit while you still can.

'[Fisher] coined the term “market Stalinism”, a phrase that neatly captures the bureaucratic prose Watson describes: a leaden, grey language arising from a disjunction between what is being said and what is being done. The lexicon of the modern university arises in the same fashion'. 🔥

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

He should really be made to teach some generic second year skills module that all the students hate, AND do extra admin, ideally a particularly tedious target-driven bit

Amazing, the new wonder technology is recreating the paperful office

The 'academic management roles' are chair of the Faculty of Divinity's exam board and convenor of the MPhil in philosophy of religion. He continues to lecture undergraduates in ethics. With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers.

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

I’ve just had a lovely wholesome trip to Elizabeth Gaskell’s house in Manchester with my second year gender students. We got to have a really good tour of some of the rooms & then cake & tea afterwards. The only drama was the weather & trains.

We’ve just seen this piece of lazy excrement for sale online for almost £100 It’s a good opportunity to state that we do not touch AI. We’ll sometimes use (non-Adobe) software to edit images, but that’s it (The Crystal Palace water tower is also in the wrong place, for what it’s worth)

Nominative determinism man to reveal plans for pouring-petrol-on-everything unit to tackle wildfires in own trousers

Damn right!

I was in Vienna earlier in the week. I wanted to go to the Sigmund Freud Museum, but it wasn't open on Tuesday. So instead I took photos of all of the things in the Sigmund Freud Park that might be considered penises if you saw them in a dream. 1: cylindrical advertising post

2026 marks the 30th birthday of @jofvictculture.bsky.social!! 🎂 Reflecting this milestone & working with previous editors, we 5 Co-Editors have put together a Virtual Special Issue of the 30 articles felt to best represent the journal's lifetime📄 🌟https://academic.oup.com/jvc/pages/30-for-30th

RIP Tom Skerritt, a reliable and enduring actor who you probably remember from...everything, basically. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Storm Austen is coming. If you are a woman of marriagable age do not attempt to travel to Netherfield without a carriage

‘Expansion of the Open University’

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

Leaving aside the rampaging elephant in the room of the degradation of access to the Library's collections since the cyberattack, my main question on reading this is why historians are still posting on X, a platform that incites violence against humans of many 'sorts' and monetises misogyny.