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Een korte geschiedenis van het Europees Verdrag voor de Rechten van de Mens (1950); het ligt nu onder vuur van populisten: www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/n...

Conclusion from my grading marathon: whereas pre-AI the lecturer commented on awkward phrases, these are now welcomed as evidence of original writing.

Pretty extraordinary story here www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

Boeiend interview met prof. Giselinde Kuipers over geschiedenis en sociologie van de schoonheid: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her. She spoke out and was kicked out of the country. It’s retaliation & it’s wrong

Voor collega’s die nog wat zweven op links: de PvdD stemde gisteren vóór een bezuiniging op universiteiten van bijna een half miljard. GLpvdA, Volt, SP en D66 tegen www.utoday.nl/news/76115/e...

Gestemd op @svanoosterhout.bsky.social van @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social omdat het klimaat en een groene toekomst urgent zijn en in de campagne vrijwel onzichtbaar waren.

How do you know whether a suspect of a crime is guilty? Maybe, jurists & psychologists proposed around 1900, with a word association test. My new article on a predecessor of the lie detector in NTM @springernature.com has murder, jealous scientists and CG Jung! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago. She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish." It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.

Een mooi artikel over de geschiedenis van de marathon van Amsterdam. Leuk om te lezen voor iedereen die vandaag loopt. www.volkskrant.nl/sport/de-ams...

Please tell me a First Amendment lawyer is willing to step up here and defend this woman.

You might have seen pictures from booklets depicting sins (including 'I drank so much I had to vomit'). But what was the purpose of these booklets and how many of them are there? Tine Van Osselaer and I sought it out in a new article that is now published: journals.lub.lu.se/STK/article/...

Een mooi en spannend essay van filosoof Eva Meijer, over de politieke rechten van dieren, planten en de natuur; en over de verbondenheid tussen al deze entiteiten en de mens.

Mooie Sloterplasloop dit jaar: herfstbladeren, veel enthousiaste lopers, goed weer en een goede tijd (55.45). Prima voorbereiding voor de halve marathon van Amsterdam volgende week! #hardlopen @hardlopers.bsky.social

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

I’m really looking forward to this workshop that I’m co-organising with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social! If you’d like to join us online, register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/feminist-a... or get in touch to join in person (limited spots available)

We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!

In 1885, Montreal was ravaged by smallpox. To stem the spread of the disease that had killed thousands so far, public health officials enforced vaccinations. Those that mistrusted the vaccine rioted in the streets. This is the story of the Montreal Smallpox Riots. 🧵 1/10

🚨Published in the American Historical Review!🚨 My article argues that historians can treat the body as an archive. Using my own training alongside J.C. Hise’s 1930s squat experiments, I explore how fitness culture reshapes bodies, identities & anxieties. 👉 bit.ly/46xlcVw

“Like many others, we will continue to engage and, true to her spirit, also challenge her many ideas and insights.” We are excited to share our new special issue which explores the work of late feminist scholar Drucilla Cornell. You can read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Fantastic article exploring the complexities of remembering sexual violence during apartheid by Emily Bridger. Based on oral histories conducted with older Black South African women. Open access, y'all. doi.org/10.1093/past...

UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The @culturelawbody.bsky.social network is organizing a workshop on Human Rights and the Body at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social on Friday 21 November 14.00-17.00. More information: rnc-lb.sites.uu.nl/2025/08/18/h... @willemijnruberg.bsky.social and @elwinhofman.bsky.social welcome all of you!

a very long but interesting essay by prof. Jill Lepore on how the democratic process of constitutional amendments has been replaced by judicial interpretation, mostly by the US Supreme Court, under the much debated philosophy of Originalism. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Collega's van Onderwijsadvies @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social schreven een interessante blog over schrijfbegeleiding van promovendi: www.uu.nl/onderwijs/on...

Hi Bluesky, The English translation of my book on the Pelicot trial is coming out in a month! You know (or maybe you don't) how it is: preorders are crucial for the life of a book, so don't hesitate to preorder right now. a.co/d/a0qeZeh I hope the fantastic blurbs will convince you if you're not:

In 1889 schreef Maria Trilling-Jonker (SDB): 'Op straat is de vrouw onveilig en blootgesteld aan de grofste behandeling der mannen. Jonge nietsdoeners...meenen het recht te hebben elk meisje op straat aan te spreken en aan te raken of zich op onbehoorlijke wijze tegenover haar te gedragen.'

19 September - Colonial law, slavery and interactions iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/co...

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... brand new must read on rape/raptus, virginity as a state of mind, and consent from Atria Larson @lawandhistrev.bsky.social @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social #medievalsky

@tijmenelias.bsky.social @elwinhofman.bsky.social

The dark side of (the lack of) queer bars’ memorialization. @tijmenelias.bsky.social @elwinhofman.bsky.social

Utterly disastrous

De kop had dus moeten zijn: 'De psyche van de zaak Pelicot'.

Ik schreef een recensie van de nieuwe boeken van @manongarcia.bsky.social en van Mathilde Levesque over het proces-Pelicot in de @groene.nl. Het proces-Pelicot, of: hoe 51 verkrachters dingen zeiden als: ‘ik had geen keuze’ www.groene.nl/artikel/heel...

Just sharing the “Xtreme endnotes” assignment @parisnoire.bsky.social mentions here in case anyone else finds it helpful as we begin a new academic year. FWIW, it’s a purely analog exercise in an AI-freaky world & my students have never not had fun doing it.✌🏽 www.historians.org/perspectives...

📣 Call for papers 📣 CONTENTIOUS TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Apply by 31 August #skystorians acadsci.fi/en/news/even...

I’m heartened to see this.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Over menstruatiecultuur in het openluchtmuseum: www.period.nl/cultuur/mens...

“The UK government’s continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable, and I do not want to spend another day operating on children who have been shot and starved by a military our government supports.” Devastating reporting.

Over het wegpoetsen van de Bosnische genocide en verkrachting als oorlogsmisdaad: www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

A *huge* problem. It also includes search committee positions, review requests, letters of recommendation, P&T reviews (so, so many of these post tenure)—it goes on and on. And the social penalties for women saying no are so dramatically higher than when men say no.

July 5 is National Bikini Day, and with that in mind, we bring you Einav Rabinovitch-Fox’s story on the origins of this once-scandalous garment. www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/07/comm...

On natural hair as a human right. Also see the great work by Emma Dabiri on hair: www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/a...

Hot off the press: Lancet Perspectives piece by @homeiaya.bsky.social and colleagues, on reproductive justice, involuntary sterilisation, and the long legacy of eugenics in Japan. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Een intens verdrietige geschiedenis, die van de afstandsmoeders, maar goed dat dit onderzoeksrapport er nu is: www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/d...