Catherine Baker

Everyone clearly hoping they’ll turn up in a container on the Ever Given.

Thermal imaging of a rabbit, he is orange and yellow because he is hotter than the rest of the room, which is purple.

Side view of the hot rabbit.

As some of you suggested, I got an infrared camera to try to suss out my electrical issue that the electrician wasn’t able to find.

What happened next may surprise you.

Defending the WAC: All the things I haven’t (yet) written by Helen Wheatley People following the last few weeks of the Critical Studies in Television blog will have seen my brilliant colleagues discussing the essential work that they have been able to do thanks to the…

"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a

Most athletes have chosen to ‘shut up and dribble’ over Gaza | Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva Why have so few athletes spoken about Gaza? Fear of backlash, lost sponsors and being branded antisemitic all help explain the silence

‘“The question is not just why athletes are not speaking out; it is what kind of culture and leadership ecosystem we have built, and who we have become within it, when silence feels like our best and only option”’ www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

This *used* to be what a tank top was here, until Americanisms persuaded everyone a tank top was what we used to call a vest.

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Reaction when I stood up for trans women made me realise I had to do more Manchester City and Netherlands player explains why she has become an LGBT Foundation patron and the importance of keeping football free of hate

"I felt very strongly about the supreme court ruling, politically and emotionally. It really hurt me, even though I’m a cisgender woman, and it still hurts me because it targets people within my community." www.theguardian.com/football/202...

1/ I guess I’m ‘The Good Immigrant’:

Been here most of my life now, never claimed benefits, paid taxes, worked for the NHS, taught students, done research for public good, volunteered, spoke English fluently.

So why do I feel so alienated and hurt by the government’s anti- immigrant rhetoric?

The Many Lives of Bashar Murad — D-journal - Creative News from the GCC Photography by Fred Leveugle at D&D MGMT Artistic Direction by Benjamin Daugeard at D&D MGMT Interview by Meredith Damouni Few artists can move as fluidly between genres, langua...

‘“For so long, Palestinians have been seen through others’ eyes. Now, we’re telling our own stories.”

He recalls receiving messages from fans across the Arab world - queer teens, Arab diasporas, and even 🇮🇸 fans who’d never heard a word of Arabic before Wild West’ d-journaldubai.com/people/the-m...

New book exposes Russia’s ecocide as a war against Ukraine’s land – and memory When Russia destroyed Ukraine’s Kakhovka Hydroelectric Dam in June 2023, unleashing catastrophic floods across the country’s south, it seemed like such a blatant act of environmental and humanitarian ...

I reviewed Darya Tsymbalyuk's soul-crushing yet vital book "Ecocide in Ukraine," my latest for @kyivindependent.com.

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With an unexpected appearance from one member of the Armenian diaspora supergroup at Eurovision 2015 that becomes a lot less unexpected once you’ve read the thing.

Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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‘I am concerned that a debate about violence against women, framed in a way that restricts the human rights and freedoms of trans people, risks undermining the comprehensive, evidence-based approach needed to address this epidemic’

Hearing different reports on whether there will still be a vote or not, but the key thing here is that the vote on whether Israel will take part in Eurovision scheduled for November doesn't appear to be happening any more.

Also: the shopping trollies. Shopping trolleys? Shopping trolleys.

It didn’t used to be a proper railway cutting until somebody had chucked a few down there.

Definitely has some local reasons to stand out more in various places - ‘everyone’ in Hull knows the parliamentarian city governor wouldn’t open gates to the King in 1642 leading to first siege of civil war…

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

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Language is brilliant.

Two beetles on a stick. One beetle says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform" Zoom out to reveal that they are in a glass case with two scientists studying them. One scientist says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform" Zoom out into space. Abouard a spaceship, two aliens watch the scientists on a screen. One alien says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform" The aliens turn to look out at the reader. Text below the cartoon reads: From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld. Preorder it at www.tomgauld.

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests
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The Cass Review Continues To Be Severely Flawed A new paper from an Australian team shines a light on the problems with the review

The Cass review into children's gender services in the UK continues to be terrible.

A new report from Australia led by the fantastic Dr. Julia Moore - and featuring me - looks into the issues in detail.

My new piece.

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"Girlhood At War" is going on tour.
Details will follow soon along with new dates for other European cities.

The book is available across all European and American online platforms.

All proceeds from book sales go to the children’s section of the public library in my hometown, Gjilan (Kosovo).

Google search for "austria hungary in space" Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Early 80s birth year here. No memory of any Susans at all in class except one very accomplished Year 12 or 13 (?) when I was a Year 7. May have been The Last Susan.

This is *so many* email chains at work 😳

“Given these actions against Kneecap and ongoing efforts to censor the group, it’s essential to ask: Why are governments so scared of the spread of decolonial speech?”

@nicolefroio.bsky.social answers this question effectively in this must-read on censorship and the revolutionary potential of music

At what point does a historian of post-Cold-War popular culture have *had* to see these things

Asking for a me who does not have them in their workload

‘Trump took the floor again, rattling off how much each state spent on defence as a %age of GDP as if he were announcing the Eurovision song contest results. “Belgium: 0.9. That’s less than 1%. Croatia – oh, I’m so disappointed in you”’

These were the summits Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović had to go to.

Brexit has echoes of the breakup of Yugoslavia - EUROPP Is the stability of the European Union as a whole now under threat following the UK’s decision to leave? Catherine Baker draws a number of parallels between the dynamics that preceded the break-up of ...

I’d just published an intro history of the Yugoslav Wars when the Brexit referendum happened. Wrote this for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social a week later: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Can’t say we’re on the rosier side of those scenarios.