Hannah Theaker

@doctorswithoutborders.org released a report this morning documenting the targeted, orchestrated killing of civilians at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution sites.

Please read and do everything in your power to stop this.
www.msf.org/not-aid-orch... 1/7

Great new must-read from The China Journal: Disappearing Research: Academic Control & Self- #Censorship in #China
Self-censorship restricts #academicfreedom w/in China & hinders Beijing's access to information, impacting effectiveness of its policymaking. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In June 2025, academics and civil society organisations met in London for an International Network for Critical China Studies workshop to analyse how to prevent transnational repression. Governments & NGOs have not paid enough attention to TNR and need to do much more to protect people's rights.

Such a lovely online presence: I wish I had met him. So generous - my impression was he was always quietly making the sort of tools scholarship depends on, and tracking down rare glyphs. Babelstone Han is one hell of an achievement.

Oh damn. I'd seen the news of Andrew West's passing, and had somehow failed to connect the name to @babelstone.bsky.social, an online presence I've been following for years in various forms for epipgraphy, all of the weird scripts, musings and old photos. This is a really tragic loss.

Deeply deeply problematic shit going on here.
This is why so many people said that proscribing Palestine Action was a massive overstep & was a direct attack on freedom of speech & expression.

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

Hey, if you support CDT but can't give cash- give a retweet.
Maybe someone with more funds will see it.

They are almost at their modest goal of $10,000, but there's no reason 10,000 RTs shouldn't have been reached ages ago.

Major statement of changes to the Immigration Rules raises Skilled Worker thresholds and ends overseas recruitment of care workers 138-page statement of changes to the Immigration Rules begins White Paper's "complete reset" of the immigration system

Feeling slightly thrown for a loop finding out about recent changes to the skilled worker visa late last night and not reall seeing much chatter about it elsewhere…

But again, most British citizens do not care about immigrants, so shouldn’t be surprised 😮‍💨

www.ein.org.uk/news/major-c...

Dear god, @princetonupress.bsky.social is even proud of the visit to Xinjiang, issuing a press note that gushes about newfound appreciation for "the incredible power of Uyghur poetry," nevermind poet Tahir Hamut Izgil literally wrote a book called WAITING TO BE ARRESTED AT NIGHT.

Hey @princetonupress.bsky.social - I think it's a great idea to share the story of Xinjiang in English with the world. You got off to a great start when you published Sean Roberts's book The War on the Uyghurs - maybe continue in that vein: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Screenshot of an X post: The current director of Princeton University Press Christie Henry is now in Xinjiang "I can't wait to tell the world the story here,the ability for multiple cultures and multiple languages to coexist in such wonderful way"

not looking good for Princeton University Press is it @princetonupress.bsky.social
the video can be found on Facebook
www.facebook.com/share/v/16Rv...

I cannot emphasize enough how needlessly cruel the UK immigration system is to ordinary people who want a family life together and aren't well-off already, and anyone wanting to make it worse should be shunned.

Has someone already said that we are in the late Ming? Because we are definitely in the late Ming.

This is absolutely terrible for researchers. And a sign of how fragile digital "preservation" is.

"uncontrolled immigration" Lol
you guys know how much you have to pay to apply for permanent residence in France? €225
Germany? €113
The UK? £3,029 PER PERSON. You are a family of three? that will be ten grand please.

More seriously: I'm once again horrified by the language and policy coming out of this Labour government.

It was not an expensive plate, mind.

Still trying to work out what the 'incaluable damage' the PM thinks my husband has done might be. He broke a plate once? Very bad puns?

RFA shuts language services after Trump cuts, including Uyghur, Tibetan Radio Free Asia said Friday it will lay off almost all of its staff and close production in several languages, including a rare Uyghur service, after President Donald Trump cut off funding.

This is a tragedy and a needless own-goal by the U.S. , which is now blindfolding itself to events in Uyghur, Tibet and ceding the info-space to PRC propaganda. hongkongfp.com/2025/05/03/r...

This is the real news story:
Disillusioned Labour votes far more likely to vote Green or Lib Dem (43% and 40%) compared to only 9% shifting to Reform.

Share widely to counteract all the misinformation that justifies a further shift to the Right by the gov.

Awful.
//The situation affected nearly 40 people who hold employment-based visas at RFA and came from countries known for harsh crackdowns on press freedom, including China, Vietnam and Cambodia, where journalists are routinely harassed or jailed.//

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

I've got family in Scunthorpe, I know how much the town needs those jobs. I'm glad this is happening for them - but how I wish HE would be given similar consideration. Day after day I see news of cuts, and the shadow of the axe looms over my own institution once again.

Hear hear!

Language skills, critical and analytical skills, the ability to exhaustively research and clearly articulate accurate information. These are highly valuable in any demanding profession.

We asked our history undergrads last year what time period they would go back to if they could, and the class consensus was apparently the 1990s…

Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

I continue to be appalled at the lack of accountability around the SLAPP case that targeted me. If I can get sued for saying a warlord sanctioned by the EU, UK, and US for his role in Wagner is involved with Wagner then can we really say there's any protection for journalists in the UK from SLAPPs?

It's a fantastic piece of reporting - and also highlights once again just why we need RFA.

Powerful, chilling RFA story on the use of lawfare targeting Chinese activists through Chinese and American courts, profiling the case of Ma Ju, a Hui activist and community builder now in New York. www.rfa.org/english/spec...