David Clover
@davidclover.bsky.social
Librarian and student services manager.
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anyone know academic indexers interested in work coming up imminently (it’s a multi authored handbook style publication)? self promo welcome!
September 21, 2026 at 10:10 AM
anyone know academic indexers interested in work coming up imminently (it’s a multi authored handbook style publication)? self promo welcome!
Mr15 walked out of the house at 3.45 this morning. With a bag containing clothes and one of my debit cards. All OK, he was off to be at school on time for coach to airport and science trip to Geneva, with my global money card in hand.
September 17, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Mr15 walked out of the house at 3.45 this morning. With a bag containing clothes and one of my debit cards. All OK, he was off to be at school on time for coach to airport and science trip to Geneva, with my global money card in hand.
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Dover is one of the most heavily policed places in the UK. It's a two hour's drive from London, where the Met has more significant anti-crowd capacity than any other force in the UK.
Letting a group of fascists act as they see fit is a choice they have made
One they don't make for peaceful protest
Letting a group of fascists act as they see fit is a choice they have made
One they don't make for peaceful protest
September 5, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Dover is one of the most heavily policed places in the UK. It's a two hour's drive from London, where the Met has more significant anti-crowd capacity than any other force in the UK.
Letting a group of fascists act as they see fit is a choice they have made
One they don't make for peaceful protest
Letting a group of fascists act as they see fit is a choice they have made
One they don't make for peaceful protest
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British Academy Small Grants scheme is open. it has been using partial randomisation for a while. Researchers whose proposals meet the quality threshold for £££ but miss out in the draw are told this. Increasingly, I'm seeing these good-quality-bad-luck outcomes shared on LinkedIn. (1)
Our wonderful small grants scheme is open again offering up to £10k to humanities and social sciences researchers.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 mont...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 2, 2026 at 1:38 PM
British Academy Small Grants scheme is open. it has been using partial randomisation for a while. Researchers whose proposals meet the quality threshold for £££ but miss out in the draw are told this. Increasingly, I'm seeing these good-quality-bad-luck outcomes shared on LinkedIn. (1)
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the City part of @citystgeorges.bsky.social
Known for years as the Northampton Institute, after the Marquess of Northampton, who donated the land on which it is built
If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
Known for years as the Northampton Institute, after the Marquess of Northampton, who donated the land on which it is built
If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
September 1, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the City part of @citystgeorges.bsky.social
Known for years as the Northampton Institute, after the Marquess of Northampton, who donated the land on which it is built
If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
Known for years as the Northampton Institute, after the Marquess of Northampton, who donated the land on which it is built
If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
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This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things.
A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.
A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.
August 28, 2026 at 8:32 AM
This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things.
A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.
A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.
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Imagine if more people just said the ‘this is a non-issue’ bit, even if they didn’t make as full and accurate a statement??
pulled the video so you don't have to go to X
we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men
we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men
August 27, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Imagine if more people just said the ‘this is a non-issue’ bit, even if they didn’t make as full and accurate a statement??
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Narrator: it has not. One anonymous gender critical “lesbian” and one gay from Reform do not a backlash make.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The backlash Pride faces from inside and outside the LGBT community
Big companies used to go out of their way to support Pride. Now, there's a nervousness in the air, Darren Milby writes
www.bbc.com
August 26, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Narrator: it has not. One anonymous gender critical “lesbian” and one gay from Reform do not a backlash make.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Facebook was commandeered by overseas bad actors to convince at least 10% of adult New Zealanders that Covid vaccines killed thousands & J Ardern literally imprisoned us for years, but yeah let's ban kids from TikTok.
August 24, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Facebook was commandeered by overseas bad actors to convince at least 10% of adult New Zealanders that Covid vaccines killed thousands & J Ardern literally imprisoned us for years, but yeah let's ban kids from TikTok.
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Probably a good time to remind #UCU members that the 'UCU Solidarity Movement' is not an official UCU body and is in fact another front for the SWP. No good can come of attending their meetings and certainly not of their appropriation of a tragedy.
August 22, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Probably a good time to remind #UCU members that the 'UCU Solidarity Movement' is not an official UCU body and is in fact another front for the SWP. No good can come of attending their meetings and certainly not of their appropriation of a tragedy.
Second provider closure this week...
Students at a provider of postgraduate psychotherapy courses say they have been left in limbo after it suddenly announced its closure, reports Juliette Rowsell #highered #courseclosure #psychotherapy
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/students-left-dark-psychotherapy-academy-goes-bust
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/students-left-dark-psychotherapy-academy-goes-bust
August 20, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Second provider closure this week...
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This is bracing, remarkable reading by Will Self about Jason Arday, naming names in blistering terms, including several prominent TERFs who joined the kicking of Arday. May Kathleen Stock and Sarah Ditum and everyone else involved never live this down.
Every single journalist in Britain should read this searing essay by Will Self
Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media
After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest.
willself1.substack.com
August 18, 2026 at 5:18 PM
This is bracing, remarkable reading by Will Self about Jason Arday, naming names in blistering terms, including several prominent TERFs who joined the kicking of Arday. May Kathleen Stock and Sarah Ditum and everyone else involved never live this down.
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Latest blog - Paying Too Much For Regulation
The Office for Students is planning to modify how it charges fees to the institutions it regulates. But the real issue is that the regulation itself is excessive and costly. Much more radical change is required.
wonderfulhighered.com/2026/08/01/_...
The Office for Students is planning to modify how it charges fees to the institutions it regulates. But the real issue is that the regulation itself is excessive and costly. Much more radical change is required.
wonderfulhighered.com/2026/08/01/_...
Paying Too Much For Regulation
The Office for Students is planning to modify how it charges fees to the institutions it regulates. But the real issue is that the regulation itself is excessive and costly. Much more radical chang…
wonderfulhighered.com
August 18, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Latest blog - Paying Too Much For Regulation
The Office for Students is planning to modify how it charges fees to the institutions it regulates. But the real issue is that the regulation itself is excessive and costly. Much more radical change is required.
wonderfulhighered.com/2026/08/01/_...
The Office for Students is planning to modify how it charges fees to the institutions it regulates. But the real issue is that the regulation itself is excessive and costly. Much more radical change is required.
wonderfulhighered.com/2026/08/01/_...
Stepping off the plane to a comfortable outside temperature. Welcome home.
August 15, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Stepping off the plane to a comfortable outside temperature. Welcome home.
Dear London colleagues, I understand it is currently 35 degrees there and feels like 35. Here it is 31 and feels like 34. I have just got out of the swimming pool but drying out before I return to my air-conditioned hotel room.
August 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Dear London colleagues, I understand it is currently 35 degrees there and feels like 35. Here it is 31 and feels like 34. I have just got out of the swimming pool but drying out before I return to my air-conditioned hotel room.
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The dialectical materialist position on disposable barbecues is that banning them is good, but *only* banning them and not investing in parks infrastructure to provide appropriate areas including free-to-use barbecue pits, picnic benches and accessible public toilets is bad.
On this one I agree, they should be banned. They're the cause of fires in parks and countryside. They're terrible to cook with. They actually maim people when used on beaches. They really awful to cook with. They are a danger to wildlife. Again, really a massive piece of shit to cook on.
The British government has never found a problem which it doesn't feel could be solved by just a few more bans...
August 12, 2026 at 2:16 PM
The dialectical materialist position on disposable barbecues is that banning them is good, but *only* banning them and not investing in parks infrastructure to provide appropriate areas including free-to-use barbecue pits, picnic benches and accessible public toilets is bad.
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Call for chapters: Made Municipal: the LCC through its everyday objects.
All reposts much appreciated. x
All reposts much appreciated. x
August 11, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Call for chapters: Made Municipal: the LCC through its everyday objects.
All reposts much appreciated. x
All reposts much appreciated. x
Some fascinating collections and lovely working areas and colleagues
We're looking for an Associate Head of Lambeth Palace Library (Innovation and Delivery) to join the senior management team leading our world-class research library and archive, championing innovation, supporting strategic delivery, and helping expand access to our remarkable collections.
August 10, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Some fascinating collections and lovely working areas and colleagues
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Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.
August 5, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.
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Like all great writers, it's a time to pay tribute to the words they left us with
August 3, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Like all great writers, it's a time to pay tribute to the words they left us with
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Rod Liddle called his ex-wife a “slut and a slattern” in print before marrying a 22-year old Spectator receptionist who he was cautioned by the police after assaulting her when she was 20 weeks pregnant.
But he was anti-trans, so these “protectors of women” overlook everything.
But he was anti-trans, so these “protectors of women” overlook everything.
August 3, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Rod Liddle called his ex-wife a “slut and a slattern” in print before marrying a 22-year old Spectator receptionist who he was cautioned by the police after assaulting her when she was 20 weeks pregnant.
But he was anti-trans, so these “protectors of women” overlook everything.
But he was anti-trans, so these “protectors of women” overlook everything.
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This from @damianbarr.bsky.social is really good.
It manages to raise so many important points.
Especially important in the the historically transphobic Observer
It manages to raise so many important points.
Especially important in the the historically transphobic Observer
Damian Barr: I can’t say if it’s safe to march at Pride. I know it’s dangerous not to
Last week’s fatal attack in Berlin is the latest in a long line of tragedies that the LGBTQ+ community has had to overcome. Speaking out and standing together is vital
observer.co.uk
August 3, 2026 at 11:03 AM
This from @damianbarr.bsky.social is really good.
It manages to raise so many important points.
Especially important in the the historically transphobic Observer
It manages to raise so many important points.
Especially important in the the historically transphobic Observer
Am so embarrassed by my professional association right now.
July 24, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Am so embarrassed by my professional association right now.
Talking about height of rugby flyhalfs, so I googled and read out first result. Mr15 responds, "that's so AI"... think we underestimate critical thinking skills in young people.
July 23, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Talking about height of rugby flyhalfs, so I googled and read out first result. Mr15 responds, "that's so AI"... think we underestimate critical thinking skills in young people.