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David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

Wondering how this turns into an entirely new narrative of the Black Death, still considered the worst pandemic in human history? It's all here: “The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta,” doi.org/10.17613/qez.... A bigger map, a longer chronology, a new story.

Wondering what a "pandemic prodrome" is? My colleague, @fancynahyan.bsky.social & I, summed up 7 years of our research on #YersiniaPestis phylogenetics, the history of the Mongol Empire, & deep dives into Islamicate world history here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histmed #aDNA #GlobalHealth

Coming up next week! An international colloquium honoring the 50th anniversary of Jean-Noël Biraben's monumental Les hommes et la peste. I'll be speaking on "Taking 'Prodrome' Seriously: A Decade of Rethinking Black Death Narratives in the Age of Evolutionary Genetics." doi.org/10.17613/9vc...

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The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

So sorry Laurence! I wonder have there been any compulsory redundancies at the admin level? Has the VC and others cut their salaries by half or more.

I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

Duke University Press. In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now!

We hear a fair amount about innocent “women and children” killed in Gaza and much less about “men” being killed, as Arab men are depicted much like Black men in media: as savage brutes.

I challenge you to watch this video of Yahya Barzaq working with babies and not to cry at his tenderness.

Tomorrow at McGill!

The Science of Compound Medicaments - CSMBR This lecture explores al-Majūsī’s "Kitāb al-Malakī" and its Latin translation, showing how Book X on compound medicaments was reshaped into a new synthesis of pharmacology and philosophy.

Oooh, an important talk by Anna Gili, with new evidence for elements of Constantine the African's attempts to salvage parts of al-Majusi's Kitab al-Malaki. November 11.
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin... #MedievalMedicine #Pharmaceutics #MedievalSky #histmed

Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training Students say mandatory training video is biased in favor of Israel and could inflame campus tensions over Gaza

The description of this "training" video... so embarrassing for Northwestern's administration to be foisting this propaganda on people.

Kudos and power to these students!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Biden administration waives 26 federal laws to allow border wall construction in South Texas It marks the administration’s first use of a sweeping executive power employed often during the Trump presidency.

Klein is wrong: Biden waived 26 federal laws so he could build Trump's shitty wall. It was one of the many terrible Trump policies he continued and was followed shortly by funding and abetting genocide. www.politico.com/news/2023/10...

Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.

British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right…
What a grim betrayal of our democracy.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

God how I hate consultants with the rage of a thousand burning suns--nothing ever has been built or made by them, all they do is destroy.

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists.

I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to.

Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

Thanks to all who're getting the word out about this new narrative of the 2nd Plague Pandemic! It presents the "new paradigm" for framing the late medieval pandemic, re-reading 700-year-old narratives & now adding in new data from Biology & Archaeology. A new history for our new age of pandemics. 🧪🗃️

A photo from Jamie Keller Davis for the NYT: a color photo of a Chicago skyline showing three buildings photographed from street level. The one in the center has brown brick-like walls, and a very large poster advertising ChatGPT. The poster shows a conversation between a hypothetical student and ChatGPT: "Can you quiz me on the muscles of the leg?" "Can you build me a first time marathon training plan?" The text at the bottom of the poster reads: "ChatGPT Plus is free during finals.

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

Problematic (to put it kindly) on so many levels.
1) there isn't really 'unfunded' research. The REF is there to allocate resources so that research is possible without a grant.

Saw this right after your post -

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

I don’t think I would have been able to get a PhD without FLAS fellowships. They let me learn Arabic and Persian, which were fundamental to my PhD.

Send this to all the genocide deniers in your life

I’m sending it to my rabbi

I didn't know you were here this last year. You should have let me know. It would have been lovely to see you after around 24 (?) years? Or perhaps we met at one of the joint HSS and PSA conferences since, and my memory is failing me. Let me know though if you are heading back this way.

Open Access Teaching Module on the Black Death An open-access teaching module on the late medieval plague pandemic commonly known as the Black Death is in the final stages of production and should be available in early September. (1st link) A blogpost announcing the module and the novelty of its approach is available now (2nd link). Questions? Feel free to contact me: monica.h.green@gmail.com. See the module here. (link to: https://www.history21.com/owit-module/the-black-death-the-medieval-plague-pandemic/)

The opening of the blogpost, "Turning Biology into History: A New Resource for Teaching the Black Death". Link in post.

A correction to the @aahmhistmed.bsky.social newsletter notice that came out this morning about the Black Death teaching module. Two links were supposed to be provided, but only the one for the module itself was. The one for the blogpost is: www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07.... Queries welcome.

Flyer (white paper, black type) Faculty Your Students are under attack Your TAs are under attack Your job is under attack Academia is under attack .. your silence will not save you Undergrads say... Strike Now!

points are made

The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine.

Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.

1000 faculty hit the picket lines tomorrow, 930 am, lockout by @dalhousieu.bsky.social. A first for CDN research intensive universities. A reckless move by the Board - jeopardizing the fall term, ruining relations with faculty for years to come. Join us on the picket lines to #keepdalstrong!

Very sorry to hear this.