The Dead of Wynter 🎃🐈‍⬛

2:304 #3GoodThings

1) In the NL, universities pay a third of your union dues
2) Halloween
3) Curry and movie (Weapons - fairy tale rather than horror)

Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison

🚨 Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel

+ New emails released to Byline reveal Cummings involvement in VIP Lane deals.

Read my latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social report here: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...

Precies. Met ‘omvolking’ en ‘remigratie’ als buzzwords. Dit is m.n. het gevolg van het succesvol stigmatiseren van (moslim) migranten, asielzoekers en hun nakomelingen als een existentiële bedreiging, door het mobiliseren, uitvergroten en legitimeren van racisme, met Bolkestein als initiator.

ANP: D66 grootste bij verkiezingen, niet meer in te halen door PVV Het persbureau baseert zich op een analyse van de uitslagen van de gemeenten.

ANP: D66 grootste bij verkiezingen, niet meer in te halen door PVV

The Ethics of Medical Photography Network Online Seminar Join us for the next online seminar! Date: Monday 8 December 2025 Time: 2-3.30 pm UK time Platform: Ms Teams ETHICS AND CONSENT IN MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY Speakers: Dr Arya Thampuran (Durham University...

The next Ethics of Medical Photography Network seminar will be on Mon 8 Dec, 2 pm UK time, online and we'll discuss a very hot topic: consent! We couldn't have better speakers: @duncanwilson78.bsky.social, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri and Dr Arya Thampuran. Book your place here: forms.gle/QUxL41SwixUH...

1932 advertisement showing an unsettling Easter egg moulded to look like the head of a baby, on one side the baby is laughing and on the other side it is crying.

You might think a Rowntree's Easter catalogue could have nothing to do with #Halloween, but that's because you haven't seen the two-sided chocolate twin face egg of 1932. A bargain at 1 shilling.

Indeed. When historians finally piece together the story of British Transphobia Epidemic of the 2010s-20s, a major component will be detailing the concerted assault on crucial institutions (EHRC, Labour Party, Guardian/Times editorial pages, Supreme Court) by organized and well-funded transphobes.

SOAS University becomes the first British University to Issue a Statement on Scholasticide in Gaza www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/s...

Volume 3 of your Cambridge Urban History of Europe

First page of chapter by Shane Ewen

Nice to receive author copies of the new 3-volume Cambridge Urban History of Europe today. I have a chapter in vol. 3 on the growth and internationalisation of the field. Let me know if you use it in teaching #urbanhistory

2:303 #3GoodThings

1) Working lunch with a lovely new colleague
2) Lots of generous compliments
3) Two great events

Safety in custody: quarterly update to June 2025 Quarterly update on deaths, self-harm and assaults in prison custody in England and Wales. Annual detailed data on assaults and self-harm in prison custody.

The latest Safety in Custody statistics show that in the 12 months to September 2025, there were 411 deaths in prison custody, an increase of 30% in the previous 12 months.

Of these, 96 deaths were self-inflicted, an increase from the 88 self-inflicted deaths in the previous 12 months.

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

Being invested in three countries' elections is A Lot.

Nb huge gains from expectations, not of their seat count

Tenter l’art pour soigner – À l’hôpital psychiatrique de Blida-Joinville durant les années 1960, du 22 octobre 2025-28 juin 2026, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris En 2022, le musée de l’Institut du monde arabe reçoit une généreuse donation : un ensemble d’archives, de céramiques peintes et de nombreuses planches dessinées à la gouache, exécutées à la fin des…

#histpsych #histmed

Ah. A more nuanced reading. Still no despair, though, so taking that as a win. Plus overseas votes not yet counted

Centrist D66 party makes huge gains in Dutch election Result opens a path for D66 leader Rob Jetten to form a government as the youngest ever prime minister of the Netherlands

Hoorah! Hopefully. But at least the morning after is not full of despair. D66 make huge gains, which at the moment, though the promise of power may weaken resolve, that Wilders' fascist party is not part of any coalition. For an explainer (though D66 more progressive than 'Centrist' suggests) 👇

D66 on Higher Education: "We believe these cuts must be reversed. We're seeing more and more universities lay off staff and programs disappear. We don't think that's right. If we want our country to remain strong and prosperous, we desperately need higher education."

2:302 #3GoodThings

1) Really enjoyable museum experience - talking and exploring things aloud, together with someone
2) Lunch in Leiden
3) Cat snores

Wat kunnen we in de exit polls zien? Centrum-rechts (CDA, VVD, CU, SGP, 50PLUS) was nog nooit zo klein. De linkse partijen (inclusief D66) is het grootste blok. Radicaal rechts handhaaft zich.

The significance of a D66 win in 🇳🇱 (if it transpires) will need some explaining outside the country. The Netherlands, like Denmark, has two liberal parties: one rooted in the classical liberal tradition, the other in the radical liberal one. D66 is the latter, ie the left-of-centre liberal party.

a bunch of televisions are stacked on top of each other in a dark room Alt: a bunch of televisions are stacked on top of each other in a dark room. They're all at different stages of on/white noise.

Online tomorrow! Contact me or @stinaface.bsky.social for the link

Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network event, #Television and #MentalHealth, feat. @veronicaheney.bsky.social @rob-lawson.bsky.social 30 Oct, 4pm GMT

Deets/registration info: mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/2025/09/upco...

#MedHums

Same! :)

Nice glimpse of the Dutch election for those unfamiliar/interested

Labour doesn't want to build a 'new state' - it has been persuaded by the Big Tech backed Tony Blair Institute that it should outsource the state to Big Tech.

This is a catastrophe in the making. Here's how to tell the PM what you think: action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st...

Photo of a woman staring out of a window holding a cup of tea

We back the Mental Health Foundation’s call to end Scotland’s public mental health emergency.

Prevention must be at the heart of the next Scottish Government’s approach.

Our Scottish Branch Chair, Yana Yaneva responds: www.bps.org.uk/news/bps-bac...

@who.int is appalled & shocked by reports of the killing of 460+ patients & companions at Saudi Maternity 🏥 in El Fasher, #Sudan

Attacks on health MUST STOP immediately & unconditionally

All patients, health personnel & facilities must be protected under International Humanitarian Law

Ceasefire!

'Tim Hitchcock, emeritus professor of digital history at...Sussex, said TNA has restricted access to some documents on 20th-century history....Hitchcock and other researchers have been involved in negotiations with TNA to reopen access to closed records. But...current progress is slow.' 1/3

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