Dr Melanie Holihead

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

I'm hiring 1-2 postdocs this year! If you're interested in:

GW astrophysics
(Binary) Stellar Evolution
Stellar dynamics (esp. w/ massive BHs)
Galactic dynamics (inc. stellar streams)

plz consider applying! You don't need letters initially, just a list of references.

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Freedom and Sharing at the Internet Archive Europe On Friday, in a narrow, cream-painted 17th-century row house facing a wide canal bathed in golden light, the Internet Archive Europe celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Amsterdam. Around...

Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage.

Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

Didn't get raptured?

Maybe you shouldn't have been going around saying the Mary Rose sank on her maiden voyage...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

During WW1 there was a rumour that aspirin caused the Spanish Flu. As I was writing about that last year I often shook my head in disbelief at the stupidity of our near ancestors. Seems a lot of people are still dumb enough to believe nonsense.

If you’re reading this, you were left behind like me. On the upside, this means we get to watch Slow Horses season 5.

Passport to Pimlico.

Russians dropped a glide bomb on elderly people who were waiting in line for their pensions. More than 20 dead.

Please. Don’t look away and don’t be silent. This is all I could ask for

Anyone know a good source for UK book preorders delivered to the EU?

Oxford Open Doors Oxford Open Doors at the Bodleian Library: special tours, family activities, collection talks and more

Don't forget: this weekend as part of Oxford Open Doors 2025, the Bodleian Libraries will be opening up some of our spaces and showing off collections not usually accessible to the public.

More information: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/sep25/...

Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3

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Candied jalapeños in strawberry balsamic jam - wow! If I were any good at jam making (which I’m not, as I either get a solid jelly or a syrup) I’d copy it shamelessly. Already imagining what it’d work best with: muffins, crumpets, crusty bread, slightly salty crackers…Spot the woman on a diet, sigh.

I see you your splendid sauce, and raise you…my cheeky chutney. Plums, ginger, garlic, chillies, and some whole black peppercorns. Good (though I says it myself as shouldn’t) with crumbly white cheese, strong Cheddar, and cold roast pork.

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

Reminder!

The Bodleian Book Hospital is open tomorrow (Friday 22 August). 11am-3pm. In Blackwell Hall.

Meet real life Bodleian conservators who will help rescue battered and beloved children's books. Free, no booking required.

Dr. Anna Willow is doing an exploratory research project to understand the impacts of policy changes on anthropologists and their field of study. She is seeking US-based anthropologists to participate in online interviews over the next several months. For more info, contact willow.1@osu.edu.

Research Assistant - School of English, Media and Creative Arts, University of Galway

full-time, two-year position as a Research Assistant with Professor Marie-Louse Coolahan

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Kent and Sussex residents urged to use water when 'essential' Suggestions include not washing cars or flushing toilets fully and only having quick showers.

‘Suggestions include not washing cars, refraining from "fully flushing" toilets and showering in under four minutes.’

Thanks for the tips SE Water but instead, perhaps you should stop pissing away 104.8 million litres of water a day in leaks?

Illustration of a woman standing in a lit doorway, casting a long shadow down a dark hallway. Text on the image reads: 'Restricting access to safe abortion drives women and girls to unsafe procedures.'

Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls.

As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination.

#HealthForAll

Book cover of Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez. Rows of restroom sign people… men in black, women in light gray almost blending into the background.

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez makes data analytics more human and examines them from women’s perspectives. Lots of food for thought in these pages. #NonFiction #Audiobook #BookSky 💙📚

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A footpath across a flat moor landscape with a grey cloudy sky. The text reads 'A new path #moorviews'

This #BogDay seems apt to announce that I am starting a PhD @york.ac.uk in September with @anthropocenebio.bsky.social and the Department of Archaeology. I will be researching the past ecology of the North Yorks Moors and using this evidence to explore views about the future landscape #MoorViews 🪧

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.

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Try asking a local farmer if they'd put some cattle in there for a few weeks/months over the non-growing season (ie around mid-December to mid-March), even for a few successive years.

They'll break up the ground, creating better opportunities for tree seeds to germinate.

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return