Subha

Wrote a PhD @kingsenglishdpt on Women, Archaeology and Literature in the 19th century provincial press.

[CSPAN @cspan]

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses AI and the future of America: "The fact that we have convinced ourselves that our future and our children's future isn't in our own hands is an abomination."

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

A Rabbit Rides a Chariot Pulled by Geese in an Ancient Roman Mosaic (2nd century AD), Louvre.

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

warming toes, france, 14th century

[Jacob Bard-Rosenberg @Prolapsarian]

value of a degree to the country, to the government, and so on is the increase in productive capacity (a lot of this is realised in a country like the U.K.) The education of the population really does produce wealth, and this doesn’t really differ too much between degrees. If

[Rob Townsend (also @rbtownsend.bsky.social) @rbthisted]

“The arts and humanities are fundamental to the flourishing of our society; knowledge gathering, critical thinking and creativity should be defended as sacred things.” https://t.co/hMW9HdRTUV

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Waaaait has someone just been CURED of sickle cell disease for the first time ever??

First the cervical cancer vaccine & now this! Scientific community really shrugging off the insanity & just smashing it🥰🥰

[Beci Carver @becimay]

Might someone who writes for the Guardian pitch this as an anomaly to write about?

[Ben Cartlidge @benjcartlidge]

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/jHWRY6sKaw via @UKChange

[Bruce E. Baker @BruceHistorian]

In a very, very crowded field, this may be the stupidest thing that has been said about higher education in the UK in 2026.

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

And this goes for ECRs as well. Ridiculous expectations that you'll have multiple articles when you hit the market, maybe even a book, folks hopping from postdocs to VAPs endlessly being forced to move to stay "in the game" 2/3

[helena constance 🕊 @helenarambles]

my friends are getting articles accepted, book contract offers, incredible presentation and conference opportunities, writing for public as well as academic audiences, and no one is getting jobs. our whole generation is in premature mourning for our promised futures.

[Beci Carver @becimay]

An awkward juxtaposition:

1) admissions for English at Exeter are UP this year, and were already high: last year the cohort for some 3rd-year modules exceeded the capacity of our lecture halls so we repeated lectures

2) over 10% of the proposed cuts are to English staff

[Shane @sbliss89]

New level of Catholic guilt unlocked: the pope wants to know why you haven’t finished that draft yet.

[Cllr Mark Ormston @MOrm_Peterboro]

Arts and humanities aren't some kind of ‘expendable luxury’, they are vital for critical thinking and democracy.

It feels like too many talented and dedicated people are being dragged into a seemingly endless battle of uncertainty and having to justify/fight for their existence.

#InvestintheArts #InvestintheHumanities

[Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram]

Terrible news from Exeter. The axe is swinging all over the UK for the humanities and social sciences. If we lose these subjects then we will sever a vital link that passes our cultural and social heritage down to the next generation. https://t.co/1Uz4DC5Uo0

[Jing Cao @_JingjingCao]

Can’t believe what’s happening here. It affects people I know and love in my own department/across HASS. The big poster hanging outside the back entrance of forum celebrating/advertising the “Triple Gold Rating for Teaching Excellence”. The uni is losing its assets. Shame!

[Dr Daisy Dixon @daisyldixon]

so many of us academics in the UK, especially in the arts & humanities, are constantly undervalued, having to always fight for our jobs, and justify our existence.

This seemingly unending battle just to teach, research and write for our ancient disciplines - that are imperative for critical thinking, imagination, empathy, future employment, and political participation - often feels futile and is causing widespread distress and disillusionment within the higher education sector.

The funding model and wider political climate is what’s wrong with the university sector - not its tireless, brilliant workers.

Sending solidarity to colleagues at Exeter, Nottingham, and Dundee.

[David Scourfield @JHDScourfield]

This is shocking news. Exeter is a great place for the Arts and Humanities. And they are critical to our understanding of our relation to the world.

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

This is an unequivocal pro vaccine result. And to think when the HPV vaccine was introduced it was opposed and presented as a ‘promiscuity injection’ by some.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Going forward, we can't have Obama AND Mamdani giving speeches in the same week or we'll start to get spoiled by literacy.