An in-depth investigation from France24 on how Israel is cutting down vast amounts of forestry along its de facto border with Syria while also spraying herbicides on Syrian farmland.

The inevitable next stage of academic publishers profiting from academics' work is here - scraping it for AI then charging subscriptions for access to the AI summaries, and then again for the citations. Academic content assetization as we called it in a recent paper. www.science.org/content/arti...

Vet ni vad som inte kännetecknar en rättsstat? Svar: Retroaktiv lagstiftning.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Work with me! 2-year postdoc (1+1) within COLUMN: Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations (HORIZON_HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04). Topic: “Research of university botanical collections in relation to Italian and European colonialism”. Call at: shorturl.at/aurdS

Är det tryggt att 76 människor varje dag (även lördag och söndag) nekades sjukpenning 2025? Lagen har inte ändrats, inga regeländringar har tillkommit. Men det sker en ökning på avslagen sjukpenning med 33,12%....sjukt!!!

Sjukt grov anklagelse av mig. Är ju bara undantag. www.vilarare.se/nyheter/vi-l...

brilliant article about dispersed, displaced, lost and destroyed collections and the strange combination of emotional, affective, technical and administrative language used to describe them

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

The very stable geniuses of British politics should not be allowed to forget their sycophancy towards Trump.

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Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu. A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies. Sign up to attend! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know. www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

There is something in here about how women organizing literally everything else is fine and expected but organizing opposition to a fascist government is a problem. Like what do you think we’re all doing when we set up phone trees for the a PTA? That’s community organizing you doorknobs

“A strong public digital euro is not a nice-to-have, it is an essential safeguard of European sovereignty, stability, and resilience,” the economists, including French academic Thomas Piketty, giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

‘If a drug boasted such benefits [as the arts] governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good reading. 'How the financial problem is described is not neutral. It reflects and reinforces a particular way of understanding what a university is....If the financial situation is framed as a classic demand-and-cost problem....the obvious actions are to emphasise tight cost controls'. 1/4

Raoul Wallenbvergskolans ägare (tidigare KD-politiker) är för övrigt gift med Svenskt Näringslivs vice VD.

After destroying every university in Gaza, Israeli occupation forces yesterday attacked Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, firing live rounds at students and faculty. On the other side of the Wall, Israeli universities remain major recipients of EU research funding through Horizon Europe.

Five years ago.

It is somehow fitting that on the anniversary of the Trumpist insurrection, a failed state put the former tyrant of another failed state on trial in a judicial system riddled with deliberate inequities. Happy anniversary.

Meanwhile…

The 39th Chaos Communication Congress is giving us The Vibe for 2026! cybernews.com/security/inv...

Fascinating. Nothing is too crazy to not be possible these days.

‘Running through the heart of Netanyahu’s philosophy is the question of power.’ Jacqueline Rose on her encounter with Benjamin Netanyahu. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.

This is a must read, on the threat to democracy by @francescabria.bsky.social: mondediplo.com/2025/11/02tech

Is anyone in the EU paying attention? I know the Swedish Government is not #NobelPrize2025

Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research can sign at uppsaladeclaration.se/ Faculty and staff in German higher education and research can sign at uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/ Faculty and staff in European higher education and research can sign at uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/

We are thousands and we are all across Europe, but we need to grow our numbers even more to make our institutions listen. /3

We all want to move on with our lives, yet the violence continues. The killing continues. The occupation continues. The colonisation continues. More than 9,000 Palestinian hostages are still in Israeli detention. /1

Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research can sign at uppsaladeclaration.se Faculty and staff in European higher education and research can sign at uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/ Faculty and staff in German higher education and research can sign at uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/

Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year. english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Don’t miss the first talk in the WOMNH (Women in Natural History Museums and Collections) Online Fall Seminar Series! Monday 24 November 2025, 4:00–5:00 pm CET by Louise Berridge (NHM London): “Women of the Riverflies”

Is it 'online training course'?

The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...

Finns ju en del universitet- och högskolelärare här. Balans bryr sig om er med och har skrivit en del om hur er arbetsbelastning påverkas av NPM och den politiska målstyrningen. Bara att höra av sig om nån institution eller facklig lokalavdelning vill boka föreläsning (källa Arbetsmiljöverket).

Hurra!

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

The private company Restore Trust’s attempt to take over the @nationaltrust.org.uk failed again. Will they stop now? No, because they are part of the well-funded nexus of right wing activist organisations that’s determined to control national institutions. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

The Telegraph being praised by a foreign autocrat for undermining the BBC.

Avslöjande: Medan andra regeringschefer är i Brasilien på FN-toppmöte om den globala klimatkrisen, har Ulf Kristersson valt att resa till Tallin på Timbro-konferens under ledning av PR-byrån Bellbirds vd Anders Kempe och PR-byrån Kreabs vice ordförande Carl Bildt

Friskolorna i Sundsvall kompenseras med 31,2 miljoner kronor när kommunen får extra kostnader för att den tappar elever till friskolorna. Beräkningen av skolpengen måste rätta till så att marknadsskolorna inte kompensera för kostnader som de själva har orsakar kommunerna. www.st.nu/2025-11-06/f...

Prevent stats published today www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Donald Trump's approval rating in our tracker has fallen to -18, the lowest it has ever been (lower than any point in his first term) www.economist.com/interactive/...

STÖTTA BALANS VALFOND! Skolägare och lobbyister har obegränsade resurser för påverkan och marknadsföring. Flödet fylls redan av en kaskad av debattartiklar och utspel för att skydda vinsterna. Swisha 1230635714 om du vill vara del av motståndet. Vi lovar att göra det mesta av varje krona.

Idag är det tio år sedan den svenske medborgaren och förläggaren Gui Minhai kidnappades. Sedan dess är han politisk fånge i Kina. Han måste friges och få resa hem till sina anhöriga i Sverige. Bild: Sven Nordqvist #FängsladeFörläggare