Holly Brewer

When I was there as a student in mid 80s we were told women were 2% of tenured faculty.

Silhouette of a woman with an enormous updo hairdo, long 18th century gown, and an absurd hat perched atop.

How can you be talking about HISTORY with everything that's going on. 18th century history? Women's history? Waves hands.

Friends, it is precisely because of everything that's going on that we need to talk about history much, much more.

The ‘Pilgrim Hare’ from St. Mary’s Church at Beverley in East Yorkshire. Dating to the mid-14th century, the hare is dressed as a pilgrim, hence the title. It is thought that the carving was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s White Rabbit. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #Beverley

Honestly not keen on AI-generated images as a rule.
But this one is like a political cartoon come to life.

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Notes from the Digital Field: Ethical Dilemmas in Open Source Research - bellingcat Working with open source information brings a whole range of complex ethical issues – here are some tips based on Bellingcat's experience.

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Burj Al Arab in Dubai was hit by an Iranian drone.

YouTube video by MS NOW 'Follow the money': Maddow’s INSTANT REACTION to U.S. striking Iran

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiNs...

How so?

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

All you Chat GPT fans who can’t be arsed to write your own words or think it’s great fun to drain the planet so you can show what your cartoon work persona looks like, well this is what you’re funding. It’s basically Skynet.

No doubt.
martyrdom sadly does not work that way.
But I’ll delete it, in hope.

Did they bomb a school because Claude told them it was a military target???

AI’s ‘memorisation’ problem: the novels it can’t forget Research that shows LLMs memorise more training data than previously thought raises questions about copyright infringement

‘The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do not store copyrighted works.’
www.ft.com/content/e4b7...

Men studying a dragon

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Thanks!!

Americans rise up against your government.

You know what DID age well?

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

“War is peace” George Orwell

Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran.

Unreal.

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

Some local reporting background from @amelianews.bsky.social on the West Virginia jails at issue from earlier this month: westvirginiawatch.com/2026/02/05/a...

Statement from Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines on Recent Iranian Influence Efforts | Office of the Director of National Intelligence Joomla! - the dynamic portal engine and content management system

BTW the 2024 Iranian influence campaign that we know about amplified the Gaza protests, which if anything, helped Trump.

www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...

Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice.

Read my full statement:

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

NEW: Bahrain skyscrapers and Dubai hotels are now being hit by Iranian drones.

This is insane. Trump has unleashed chaos and carnage.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

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It would take more than two.
But yes.