Nafsika Athanasouli

High on his own supply.

Fitting for today’s cat fight.

Today I found out an NIH grant into a promising therapy for a very rare disease with no cure affecting someone I love very much, has been canceled.

I still have night terrors.

Every day is an REF prep day.

This is the bit where the leopards eat your face

Delighted with Chat GPT today, who changed all the references in my article to a different stylistic guide in 3 seconds flat. Journal editors, do your worst! I can swap from Chicago to Harvard, to APA and back with a flick of my wrist!

MAGA Politician Whines About His 'Preferred Pronouns' After Woman Purposely Misgenders Him During Hearing My, how the tables have turned.

MAGA hypocrites.

Seems like humanity has decided to avoid the climate crisis by ushering in the fourth Reich.

Cuban editorial cartoonist Ramsés Morales picks the likely winner in today’s tragic version of “The Art of the Deal.”

Trying to make himself appear human.

Very acute observation. Let’s take stock. Mao’s cultural Revolution murdered millions, purged the “stinking old ninth’ of intellectuals and scholars, destroyed culture, closed university departments, sent students to work on farms and replaced free enquiry with the Thoughts of Chairman Musk.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

"If your democracy can be destroyed by a few thousand dollars of digital media from a foreign country it was not very strong to begin with” J. D. Vance. And now, officially, 2+2=5

One of the problems is the misunderstanding that a liberal democracy owes equal time, attention and space devoted to all ideas, no matter how obviously wrong and devastating harmful they are.

While Tables Burn: On the (Non) Existence of Trans People and the Failure of Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous “There are indeed consequences when we punch down or pretend that what is, in fact, a hostile attack, is merely ‘inquiry for inquiry’s sake.’ Aside from the emotional wounds we inflict on actual peopl...

A very important @dailynous.com guest post by @talia-mae.bsky.social

dailynous.com/2025/02/10/w...

Elon Musk proving you don't need a dictator to set up a dictatorship.

It’s Not Your Fault That Academic Life is Getting Harder by Glen O’Hara Universities are in trouble, and it’s not just money we’re talking about. They are living through something of a crisis of confidence, even of trust and faith. More and more, I find myself, and my …

‘More and more, I find myself, and my colleagues, unsure of what we’re supposed to be doing any more, and certainly unclear on why we’re doing it.’

@gsoh31.bsky.social points out the shark in the academic tank

voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/i...

Here's the Ancient Greek god Eros looking all confused about his sex and gender.