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PinkNews launches survey on impacts of the Supreme Court's gender ruling LGBTQ+ news publisher PinkNews has launched a survey focused on the impacts of the UK Supreme Court's gender ruling.

"The online survey will run from Monday, 2 March to Monday, 30 March 2026 and aims to gain an insight into demographic data, the single-sex spaces people have been questioned for using and the wider effects of the ruling on people’s day-to-day lives."

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Positive discrimination on the grounds of protected characteristics is already against the law. She is so bad at this

@ledbydonkeys.org

Apart from the word salad Toby Young, what?

KCL as well (we will have had five permanent hires by the time I finish my 4-year tenure as head of the music department, four of them in music humanities). All replacement posts though - no expansion

That is entry level - it’s the new American-style name for Lecturer.

Also, they don’t, as well as shouldn’t.

Hiring established scholars to junior Oxbridge roles imperils disciplines As lay-offs continue elsewhere, postdocs’ inability to land permanent roles will block the pipeline of future faculty, Cambridge academics argue

Raises some important issues but also ignores the fact that many Humanities staff outside the magic circle are facing redundancy. They are naturally willing, indeed desperate, to apply for entry-level Oxbridge posts. The situation is grim. 1/2

The Iranian regime is heinous. That still doesn't remotely give the US/Israel legitimacy to force change.

And yes, for the arseholes, I found out AFTER I posted it — as it was floating unacknowledged around the internet — that it is the product of the excellent @neinquarterly.bsky.social

Because it was floating around the internet unacknowledged, and I thought it was great, and then someone much more kindly than you pointed that out, so I did.

Didn't happen. Matt Goodwin cannot possibly have a girlfriend.

So much BOTH OF THESE THINGS.

Goodwin, Fartage, McSweeney, Glasman:

No surprises, surely?

Candidate is arrogant charmless TV presenter & hates everything: lose.

Campaign is entitled technocracy + smearing left-liberalism: lose.

Candidate is local & can make OK speech about how a good job should lead to a good life: win.

Normal politics is trying to be born.

Open Letter of Scholars in Support of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

I am but one of 1000+ scholars who have signed this letter in support of UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese, and in repudiation of the attempts by powerful governments to impede her work for accountability with the aid of fabricated evidence and unsubstantiated allegations.

Is it still possible to sign, do you know?

It is! It was floating around the internet unacknowledged.

Job losses at research-intensive universities double in two years - Research Professional News Exclusive: Scale of redundancies revealed branded a “disaster” for UK research capacity

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.

Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Wow and I always thought the most damning citation of Larry Summers was the epigraph from *Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor* (2011)

#booksky in the UK — is there a second-hand book retailer you would recommend that is not ABE (or heaven forbid actual Amazon)?

History: who the fuck?

Historiography: who asked "who the fuck" and why the fuck did they?

Ah thank you! This was circulating without attribution.

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps. I carried Katharine Clifton into the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.” ~ Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

I am going to have to buy a new copy of The English Patient, because somewhere between my house, my university office, and my husband's college rooms, it has got lost, and I cannot live without it.

Philosophy #FAQ Ontology: what the fuck? Causality: why the fuck? Epistemology: how the why the fuck? Phenomenology: the fuck.

Good.

Biggest hugs to you too. It has life-long effects, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I like to think it made me a more compassionate person who defends the underdog

Clearly slightly missed the memo... trying to remember the last airport I was at that had a decent cafe/bar close to gates...blanking. Possibly Philadelphia?

I do recall all airports in Canada are dire.

Singapore. No contest at all.

I honestly think this is one of the most beautiful Indian drawings I have ever seen. So simple; so expressive; so full of desire. A preparatory drawing of Vishnu and Shri, from the Gitagovinda, attributed to the great 18C artist Nainsukh. On sale with Francesca Galloway.

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