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This is unreal.

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...

What the Chettiar Story Reveals about Caste and Business Tracing the rise and decline of Chettiar businesses across Asia challenges the idea that caste-based capital can always deliver fortunes.

Tracing the rise and decline of Chettiar businesses across Asia challenges the idea that caste-based capital can always deliver fortunes. CJ Kuncheria on Raman Mahadevan's 'Fortune Seekers'
www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews...

A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina.

The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.

WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.

PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.

The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.

“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”

current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS

Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.

When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.

Steven and Alice smiling and holding each other’s books

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

Keeping posts going Pity the poor British Library, an institution which simultaneously does such great things, yet at the same time seems to have utterly lost its way. The cyberattack of 2023 has created damage not on…

A post on keeping old blog posts alive, following the news that the British Library is having to come up with a solution for all of its past blogs, following the collapse of the Typepad platform lukemckernan.com/2025/11/11/k...

Sign the Petition Montclair State is Eliminating All Humanities Departments

Montclair State is getting rid of its humanities departments. 🤬🤬🤬

And delighted now to share this new research article by Charlotte Legg and me that explores settler colonial identities, shared affinities, racial politics and transimperial forms of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia in the early 20th century. Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

Good lordt, what are we doing here

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City Mayoral election, reports @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social

BREAKING: Abigail Spanberger (D) wins governor's race in Virginia - DDHQ

A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan There’s ahead of its time, then there’s Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau -- or, in its original Dutch title, Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst, a 900-page book of paint colors mad...

A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan

Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero' Samir Zitouni, 48, was injured while trying to protect passengers during the mass stabbing on Saturday.

Samir Zitouni, 48, remains in critical condition after the LNER rail employee heroically risked his life to save others from the attempts at murder on the Peterborough/Huntingdon train
news.sky.com/story/train-...

"Multiple studies have... shown brain changes in women who have been repeatedly “choked” during sex, including markers for brain damage...."

"Strangulation is a serious form of violence, often used in domestic abuse to control, silence, or terrify... there is no safe way to strangle."

In the midst of political pessimism, this episode on friendship as transformative power gave me some hope.

U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

The Melville thesis is also of interest to me, I'd be happy to look into for you at CUL

CBS News Cuts ‘Evening News,’ ‘Mornings’ Streaming Shows in Newsroom-Wide Layoffs The newsroom downsizing comes as Paramount Skydance lays off 1,000 employees throughout the newly merged company

CBS News has reportedly disbanded its race and culture unit, which was formed in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020

NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month

Speaking next Tuesday in Cambridge on #earlymodern pain at the early science and medicine seminar series. talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

Looks like the National Historic Preservation Act may be on the chopping block, too

savingplaces.org/action-cente...

“the White House is “preparing to appoint a new slate of members to the commission that are more aligned with President Trump’s America First Policies””

Destroying a truly beautiful city, just like everything else

Detail of the "Glasses Apostle" painting in the altarpiece of the church of Bad Wildungen, Germany. Painted by Conrad von Soest in 1403, the painting is considered to be among the oldest depictions of eyeglasses north of the Alps

Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast

Let's roll.

How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught

In 2024, "many social studies teachers reported success in withstanding political pressure... In a September [2025] poll, more than half of the teachers who responded said that political pressure had caused them to modify their curriculums or classroom discussions"

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

A ‘stop’ sign above publicity that informs people to ‘visit the Library’

‘Knowledge is Power’ - and it should come with more £££’s per hour!
Support the striking Library workers in whatever way you can.
Miserly, below inflation wage ‘rises’, year on year are de facto CUTS.
Spread the wealth of this country and pay its workers fairly!!