William Carruthers
Lecturer in Heritage @phaisessex.bsky.social . ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk // williamcarruthers.wordpress.com
- Really astonishing how few people in the City are wearing suits these days (and really, I know this is well-commented on, but the gilet thing is terrible)
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View full threadAbsolutely, but the folks wearing the gilets are not those people
- That I definitely agree with!
- yeah thats been my journey, I wear a button down shirt and chinos and still feel overdressed at times, i dont really want a strict dress cose but it is funny how in all the employability discussions 'have students dress like this is a workplace' doesnt really come up...
- I wear collared shirts and it makes me feel overdressed sometimes
- You mean the looking good or the suits? I'm sure there are always people who care about looking good, but the City is very much a fitting in kind of place, in my experience.
- There are definitely people there who do both
- A mysterious form of anti-charisma that I will not pretend to understand nor do I wish to…
- I would say that nerdery + snark = a popular combo (everyone loves those things, right? Right?!)
- Here it was starter packs and being relatively early. I had 1k at the start of Nov 2024, then Trump happened… I have more followers than I did on Twitter.
- I sometimes wonder if people at the really elite institutions ever think about this stuff (because certainly everyone else does)
- Government once again governing a fantasy version of the UK rather than the one where most people’s lives haven’t been touched for the better, and in various ways, by immigration for years.
- Really good, really important reporting by @georginaq.bsky.social:
- It’s just so grim
- Given that the new pope went to graduate school at the Catholic Theological Union in Hyde Park, I really want to know if he ever drank at Jimmy's. True Hyde Parkers will understand.
- Also, has he been to the Medici?
- I really really don’t want to take VCs side but they are operating in a climate, you know, the government set the terms of AND RIGHT NOW (pre-white paper and all that) SEEM TO BE DOING NAFF ALL TO IMPROVE.
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View full threadThe problem is that universities are underpaying most of their other staff, especially at the bottom, and that VCs getting these giant salaries often aren’t qualified or competent
- That's the thing: if we were other professions, most staff would be getting a bit more money, too. And there would be a degree of expectation--and possibly even consequences--around what the VCs do that simply doesn't exist now.
