Dr Nazlin Bhimani
Research Support & Special Collections Librarian at UCL IOE. Also Canadian and a lapsed musician. Researching the history of education, teachers, interwar, eugenics and imperialism. #EduSky #LibrarianSky #HistEd profiles.ucl.ac.uk/48571-naz
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- Reposted by Dr Nazlin Bhimani'A metadata-only version of the British Library’s sorely missed PhD thesis repository will be a pale imitation of the service that disappeared more than two years ago after a cyberattack, experts have warned.' 1/2
- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniOver the past 4 decades, the culture war's rise realigned American politics -- pushing working-class voters right and college grads left. A new study offers a simple theory for why this happened: Americans' at-home entertainment options got too good. www.vox.com/politics/475...
- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniIf the @royalsociety.org won’t stand up for scientific values like truth, evidence & the importance of not spreading misinformation on an industrial scale, then who will? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniEver relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
- #Hope at the end of a difficult year. In a trial mirroring a Canadian study, one recipient said: 'When I was awarded this money...I bought a phone, laptop and printer so I can do a college course [in] civil law [to]advocate for people who are homeless'. www.bigissue.com/news/housing... #homelessness
- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniI've written an end of year substack post about tracking Trump, where we are ending the year and some implications for Europe and for me personally... christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...
- ‘Ok, so we’re dating …. Now lets remarry’ instead of chasing after that awkward ‘special relationship’ with the U.S. #Labour #RejoinEU www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Truly awe-inspiring www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
- A perfect tribute to Thompson: 'John did what he always did: he went back to the sources...he found that no such conclusion was supported by the original research'. He didn't just analyse data; he dismantled the myths that had driven UK education policy for decades. www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/12/22/i...
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- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniThe death of Dr Paul Ayris is huge loss to UCL, to @uclpress.bsky.social and to the open access/scholarly communications community more broadly. His open access Thomas Cranmer’s Register A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province is published by the Press in January. 1/2
- Here you go - exactly what we've been discusing in my sessions with doctoral researchers: retractionwatch.com/2025/12/17/b... #IOEIDL #CitationPolitics #AcademicTribes
- Interesting, read - and if this is the case, then it also goes some way to explain the inherent biases in LLMs. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
- AI, peer review and the future of scholarship: www.science.org/content/arti... #peer-review #AI #futureofscholarship
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- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniApplications for The Research Institute for Collections (RIC) 2026 fellowships are now open! RIC offers funded opportunities to conduct research using our archives and manuscripts, rare printed collections, records, and museum #collections. To learn more and apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/research-ins...
- I’m often struck by how many people know little about the history of their own profession, and by how many professional associations provide no account of their history on their websites. Perhaps it's because they are #DifficultHistories? But they are clearly #HiddenHistories
- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniToday’s campaigns against the BBC, from Donald Trump to The Daily Telegraph, have a surprisingly long history. In our latest article, David Nowell Smith explores how commercial rivalries inspired the first accusations of left-wing bias at the BBC.
- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniNew calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research. Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
- Reposted by Dr Nazlin Bhimanimy great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
- This is begging for a Netflix adaptation. Absolutely hilarious! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Looking for some festive fun? Check out the advent calendars from @ioelibrary.bsky.social and @uclopenscience.bsky.social. They’re both full of gems! #IOEIDL
- Racism didn’t disappear. It just got better at hiding in 'culture' and 'identity' debates. An important history lesson for the current government: theconversation.com/racism-never...
- Reposted by Dr Nazlin Bhimani“In this case we are up against the seductive allure of claims we’d like to believe are true but aren’t – that tobacco is really not that harmful, at least not by itself, or that we can prevent and cure cancer with some kind of ‘mind work,’ and so on."
- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniCFP: 'Difficult Collections' Special issue of 'Paper Trails' @uclpress.bsky.social. Focus on challenges of working with troubling heritage collections (colonialism, eugenics, representation, etc). Proposals: 31/01/26; Submissions: 31/05/26. Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #GLAM ##HistorySky
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- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniWhat makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections? New CFP from Paper Trails here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026 🗃️
- #CRediT rightly recognised human contributions, but we also need recognition for resources, esp. historical collections. Acknowledging them and their institutions can raise their profile, encourage further research, and attract funding. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #specialcollections #IOEIDL
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- Reposted by Dr Nazlin Bhimani📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre. 🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
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- ANZ #librarians are urging academics to withdraw their free labour from Elsevier. If we all stepped back … how long before the system cracks? #Paywall #IOEIDL 🔗 researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/librarians-versus-the-world/
- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniLaunched as a competitor to Wikipedia, Elon Musk's #Grokipedia is one of the first LLM-based attempts to create an encyclopaedia. @gildersleve.uk finds it compares poorly to Wikipedia, but the latter faces challenges as AI tools cannibalise its content and audiences. @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
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- If libraries and archives fall, so do the disciplines that rely on them. Treating some disciplines as optional weakens the entire research ecosystem. #AcademicTribes #IOEIDL
- I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...
- ‘Many of the questionable papers Pirelli identified have yet to be retracted, including one containing a user manual for a university IT system’. That one takes the biscuit! #ACM
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- ‘We must put an end to the eugenic dehumanisation of many people of colour, of those individuals with learning disabilities …. We must stop the eugenic rationalisation of their supposed “backwardness,” “inferiority,” and of their “flawed” identity.’ Marius Turda pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniA sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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- A wide-ranging discussion on #OpenAccess, covering the not-so-transformative publisher agreements, #AI, #Copyright, and @UCL’s updated publications policy. Well worth a listen if you missed the webinar.
- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniGovernment has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...
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- 'Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance': "Ignorant of Africa’s own traditions and history of political economy, they believed that their own countries’ economic success was transferable to an Africa they considered a blank slate" - Bronwen Everill blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
- "Our scholarly mission is not just to study justice but to enact it. Every research choice carries ethical weight. Racially just scholarship refuses epistemicide, honours multiple ways of knowing, and stands in the power of accountable, transformative inquiry." @dr-willo.bsky.social @ bit.ly/3WhnfrW
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- "If the model behind #Grokipedia relies on the same data and algorithms, it is difficult to see how an AI-driven encyclopedia could avoid reproducing the very biases that Musk attributes to #Wikipedia." theconversation.com/grokipedia-e...
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- “The data on which they are based are not shared, the methodology is partially disseminated, which means that these rankings are not reproducible and cannot be questioned ....” sciencebusiness.net/news/univers... #UniversityRankings
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- Essential viewing: Storyville documentary, 'The Librarians'. In small towns across America, librarians are now the first responders to safeguard #intellectualfreedom, despite facing growing attacks by Republicans. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... #TheLibrarians #IntellectualFreedom #BannedBooks
- Just read Navin Kikabhai’s brilliant article on how #disability is erased, mis-framed & sidelined in HEIs. Requires a hard think among those of us working on #EDI issues, incl. #AthenaSwan. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-4446.12969
- History on Loop: "The disproportionate use of #schoolexclusions against pupils from ... Black Caribbean, Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller children, exposes the deep-rooted racial inequalities that persist within our education system." - Runnymede Trust www.runnymedetrust.org/publications... #BHM25
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- Reposted by Dr Nazlin BhimaniWhat do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
- Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent" pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
- In case you missed this: The choice of what is neutral is itself political. stanforddaily.com/2025/02/20/u...
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