Jessica Gordon, One More Time To Find You, 2021. Oil on panel.

Nemesis (The Great Fortune), Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1501.

By Friedrich Seidenstücker (1882 - 1966; German).

Loggia dei Lanzi. Florence, Italy.

Roman "Endymion" statue, reign of Hadrian - early 2nd century (Gustav III's Antikmuseum, Stockholm.)

Francesco Morandini, detto il Poppi, "Le tre Grazie", 1570 ca. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Firenze.

Brassaï, Young Lesbian at Monocle, 1932.

Study of David and Goliath, 1550-56 by Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli, 1509-1566), Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

By Lisette Model (1966) - photo-gelatin silver.

Psyche, Museo Napoli.

Villa Poli, Busseto, Italy.

Melancholia. Sebald Beham (German, Nuremberg 1500–1550 Frankfurt).

Heracles and Nessus by Giambologna, 1599. Florence.

Terracotta figure of Aphrodite, 1st century BC, Roman, British Museum.

Council Leader, Councillor Cameron Holloway, has written about why there's no reason to think cutting carbon emissions should make our lives worse. In fact, he says, there are many areas where we’re tackling the climate crisis while changing residents’ lives for the better: https://orlo.uk/05J5o

At the @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social. 20 June 2025.

At the @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social. 20 June 2025.

ℹ️ Government is considering a new system of local government for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, replacing seven local councils with new unitary councils 💬 Local councils are working together to explore options and want to hear from you before 20 July www.cambridge.gov.uk/news/2025/06...

Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children, c. 1604–5, Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Lavinia Fontana (24 August 1552–11 August 1614).

By Munir Abdallah (b.1964; Lebanon).

By Eric Hart Jr.

Lovely photo from Cambridge Pride, 14 June 2025. @camcitco.bsky.social

Photos from Cambridge Pride, 14 June 2025. @camcitco.bsky.social

Man Ray (1890–1976) Sleeping Woman (Solarization), 1930, dated 1931.

By Ayman Baalbaki (b. 1975; Lebanon).

In the latest episode of the 𝘓𝘙𝘉 Podcast, Joanna Biggs joins Thomas Jones to discuss Marguerite Yourcenar’s life and work and what makes 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘪𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘢𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 – a reimagining of the life of the Roman emperor – such a good book. Listen here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Just nominated the incredible @ittakesacity.bsky.social !

Your support would be greatly appreciated movementforgood.com?utm_source=E...

By Pavel Fyodorovich Tchelitchew (3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1898 – 31 July 1957; Russian).

E.O. Hoppé, Portrait of Gluck, 1924.

By Ayman Baalbaki (b. 1975; Lebanon).

I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.

📣 Open for registration In the Higher Education context, what does clear, effective, interdisciplinary teaching look like? This is the question at the heart of the 'Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in Higher Education: Methods, aims and practices', event on 26 June www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/46595 1/3

Marlon Hitchcock, (Brotherhood Of The Roses) (detail) (2024).

At my local coffee shop. Cambridge, 15 June 2025.

I feel like a rock star today.

Imagine visiting a country in an official capacity and smiling in photos when their government is committing war crimes and genocide

Kushiel’s Avatar American Pastoral The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

"What does it mean to be disabled and desirable? In Picture This, a...documentary by Jari Osborne, we meet Andrew Gurza, a self-described 'queer cripple' who has made it his mission to make sex and disability part of the public discourse." www.nfb.ca/film/picture... #Pride

The 2022 US Trans Survey has finally been released. It was a record survey of 92,329 trans people in the United States. It paints a picture of both tremendous project and extreme levels of discrimination and violence against trans people. ustranssurvey.org

Included in @hyperallergic.com‬'s Pride Month reading list, "the most important element of More Butch Heroes is its reminder to gender-nonconforming people, burgeoning butches, and anyone who feels out of step with the 'norm' that they’re not alone." @riabrodell.bsky.social

‘Trying to define fascism is “like trying to nail jelly to a wall”, yet for all its slipperiness, “fascism” describes a uniquely destructive force in politics, and one for which we don’t have a better word.’ @trillingual.bsky.social on far-right populism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I enjoyed sitting down last week with Hannah Brown for a chat about my approach to some of the big issues facing Cambridge www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambrid...

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

Anyway I'm skipping over the surface of a very deep pond, but here are some reading suggestions that have shaped my thinking here bookshop.org/wishlists/9a...

‘Edmund White argued that gay fiction was most useful at “adumbrating the arbitrariness of social conventions ... challenging the ‘naturalness’ of gender roles”. This is a genuinely radical analysis.’ @benwritesthings.bsky.social, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

"Launch of our vision: 21st Century New Towns" www.tcpa.org.uk/event/launch... By @thetcpa.bsky.social on 23rd June : 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm (Note the colours in this illustration!)

Mental health support for constituents https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/supporting-constituents-with-mental-health/