Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.

Very honoured to contribute this image to the WHO Global Summit on Traditional Health this week. The summit will bring huge advances to traditional medicine. Great working w. @yoelitlalim.bsky.social on the historical timeline. Here viewed by @narendra-modi.bsky.social and the Director of @who.int

It was a great honour to have been invited to the Second WHO Global Summit for Traditional Medicine in Delhi and see the exhibition to which @mstanleybaker.bsky.social and I advised in the real world. (Huge!) #histmed #globalhealth

"Among Tibetan Materialities: Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas" - book launch: December 16, 2025. hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...

Honoured and delighted to be on my way to this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=wjLb...

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

wonderfully inspiring few days in Seoul discussing why humanities matter. Great to see our MIT Global Humanities team comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/4th-annual-c...

If you are interested in medicine, animal studies and ecology you can attend ‘Medicinal Animals’ in Crisis: A Three-Part Symposium online this week, hosted at NUS in Singapore. @mstanleybaker.bsky.social @jimflowers.bsky.social 9 October 2025 14:00 – 17:00 (SGT) ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20251...

IASTAM’s member Sarah Rivkin @salliebklyn.bsky.social joins Qiological’s Michael Max to discuss translation as clinical practice where every word carries weight, diagnosis is translation, and the translator’s lens shapes both scholarship and clinical practice. www.qiological.com/language-as-...

Dr. Theresia Hofer will speak on “Deaf and Disability Activism in Tibet and the Himalayas”. 29 Aug 2025, 1–2:30pm NTU, School of Humanities, Meeting Room 2 (03-93) Drawing on two decades of fieldwork, she explores disability rights, sign language politics, and activism in Tibet, Bhutan & Nepal.

Israeli media reports that the cabinet is gearing up to instruct the IDF to occupy all parts of the Gaza Strip. The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing. UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.

Over the course of their career history majors out earn engineers and comp sci.

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WeTransfer Aside from ML training, one of the most expansive claims on your content I've ever seen for a service. perpetual worldwide sub-licensable transferable for purposes of operating, developing, commercializing to reproduce, distribute, modify prepare derivative works based upon perform

Out now! “Responding to Epidemic Outbreaks in Tibetan Contexts” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, Number 77, May 2025: www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/... Edited by Barbara Gerke, William A. McGrath and Jan M. A. van der Valk.

Most of my older son's friends at a Manchester 6th-form college are sons and daughters of immigrants (so is he, of course). Are they the problem because they turn the UK into an "island of strangers", as Starmer put it, or the solution as they are the skilled workforce of the future?

Strong words from Ursula von der Leyen today: “Science belongs to humanity. We must protect it, prioritize it, and give it the freedom it needs to flourish.” At the launch of the EU’s “Choose Science - Choose Europe” initiative, she announced four key actions. 🧵1/3

Borrowed from @highwayoftearz.bsky.social Twitter page ✊🏽❤️

We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now? Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.

For UK peeps not following climate science across the pond, these came yday: An executive order to override state energy laws that mention climate: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Ending one $4M grant to study climate because it "focuses on alarming scenarios" www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

How to sum up what I’ve been doing in the last two and a half decades? Not easy, but here’s an attempt: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

Several things wrong with this article about universities. (1) Focus on Dundee, when most of Scotland's unis in danger; (2) on top pay and benefits, which are annoying but don't make much difference; (3) on recent danger, when I told you what'd happen 5 years+ ago. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Ah yes - the free speech absolutists are at it again

It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The US has so badly bungled their bird flu outbreak (obviously) that they've put the whole world at risk - but things are now getting even worse. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far. 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH buttondown.com/surekhadavie...