Dr Sarah Irving

Series of three tweets by Zoe Gardner taking down Nigel Farage's support of attacks on Iran.

Apologies to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social for crossposting her tweets from the nasty place, but I felt this deserves airtime on bluesky because of how emphatically they prove the nasty, immoral, opportunistic politics of Reform.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Today, Yanar Mohammed – one of the most formidable feminist leaders of her generation – was assassinated in her home in Baghdad in what appears to have been a targeted militia attack.

Read MADRE's statement:

screenshot of a facebook post by a Cambridge college with a picture of a fancy desert plate with a golden egg in the middle. The text reads: Have to praise the spectacular food at the College Feast last week, including this beautiful golden egg by pastry chef Zara Western. Inside the hand painted chocolate egg was white chocolate and mascarpone, with the yolk represented by mango, peach and prosecco. It all sat on a nest of kadaif pastry baked with honey. A feast for the eyes.

We're all experiencing this crisis of UKHE in our own way...

(Love ya, Cambridge. And please keep employing & praising your pastry chefs, and having golden desserts. Just speak up for the sake of the sector from time to time.)

Yanar Mohammed writing for Chatham House

Devastated to learn that the great Yanar Mohammed, founder of the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq, was assassinated today by 'unknown' gunmen in Baghdad.
Here in her own words:

These people are idiots

I’ve just seen Farage referred to as Temu Trump which is perfect

At least 40 students killed so far at a school in Minab according to AlJazeera

All this bs about freedom and democracy. Let's not forget that last time they bombed the trans wing of a prison.

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The 2022 Lebanese parliamentary elections: between traditional and alternative politics This article describes the political and livelihoods situation in Lebanon leading up to the parliamentary elections in May 2022. It examines electoral campaigns and the use of social media and trad...

New ‘field note’ from @contemplevant.bsky.social: Rahaf Zaher, “The 2022 Lebanese parliamentary elections: between traditional and alternative politics,” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Don't underestimate Polanski's capacity to turn normal tits into absolutely massive ones.

Volume 53 Issue 1 (157) | New German Critique | Duke University Press

German Memory Politics at a Crossroads

Very happy to be part of this new special issue

I wrote my article
“Staatsräson as State Racism: Notes on the Authoritarian Turn in Contemporary Germany”

last spring … and the authoritarian turn hasn’t slowed down

read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...

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"We’ve reached ‘the Greens winning Gorton and Denton is the 1979 Iranian Revolution’ levels of hysteria" -- Shabbir Lakha
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Half of them were invented by the Victorians anyway

It really is 😍

Not sure which I’m enjoying more, Hannah Spencer’s win or Matt Goodwin looking like he’s fellating a particularly unripe lemon. Racist little shitbag.

Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

"Academics from poorer backgrounds are both more likely to not publish and to have outstanding publication records. Academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, but are less likely to receive recognition" 👀

I always say that people should do 2 peer reviews for every 1 article they publish themselves, on the basis that this is the minimum amount of labour that the system has given to peer reviewing your work. Any fewer than this is taking more out of other scholars than you put in.

Our latest episode spotlights the 'Comrade Delta' scandal, which led to the decline of the Socialist Workers' Party in Britain. Free to listen on our Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/comrad...

Speaker Johnson denies request for Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at the Capitol The Republican-led House said Jesse Jackson cannot lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol. The NAACP criticized the decision.

Just as Frederick Douglass was denied lying in honor in the rotunda in 1895 (in case you didn’t believe Speaker Johnson wanted to repeat Jim Crow: wapo.st/3MSFhzG

Local EU Statement by the Heads of Mission in Jerusalem and Ramallah On 3 February, EU Heads of Mission visited the Al Aqsa compound and met with the Jerusalem Waqf, as part of the EU’s regular engagement dedicated to the preservation of the religious, cultural and his...

“The forces that have been weaponizing faith in Jerusalem for years have set their sights on the Status Quo during Ramadan.”
-Daniel Seidemann -

Local EU Statement by the Heads of Mission in Jerusalem and Ramallah

www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/...

#HistoryEducation

An actual right-of-centre French politician insisting on the truth: that violent fascist extremism is an active threat to French democracy on a scale far exceeding any asserted parallels with the ”extreme left”.

Hello historians! I would like to mention that I have this initiative called the Iberian Colonial Repository, where I am gathering primary sources from archives that are not available online. If you have sources about colonial LatAm from previous projects collecting digital dust, please DM me

I see a flock of nice glittery flying pigs winging their way past the window 😁

I know, dangerous radical huh?

Yes, but there simply aren’t enough people available and qualified to peer review the same proposal multiple times, especially given that doing so isnt really remunerated - so it’s effectively wasting/exploiting the time and energy of other scholars

The immediate example I’m thinking of had published with us before and has tried to do so since, and bald faced lied to me about why they’d withdrawn the article.