c.org/JGxvMV2MPq Please sign this petition to save Philosophy and our wonderful colleagues under threat at the University of Dundee.

Beautiful Paul Klee show at the Jewish Museum, on view through July 26. This is unsurprisingly the centerpiece: Klee's 1920 Angelus Novus, iconic for having inspired Walter Benjamin's reflections on angel of history. Other stunners in the show include...(thread) thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Devoured by private equity. Bernard Matthews Body Shop Byron Burger Casual Dining Cath Kidson Claire’s Comet Debenhams Flybe Four Seasons Health Care Homebase Maplin Thousands of jobs lost, supply chains destroyed, creditors not paid, pension rights lost, taxes dodged. Yet govts venerate PE.

This one hits hard.

ICA Miami hosted a fall seminar series led last week by @afoggyplace.bsky.social and this week by Tom Gunning. Truly edifying. Now watching Vertigo to reflect on the concept of simulacrum…

Join us for the 2025 Annual Graduate Lecture in the Humanities & Social Sciences featuring award-winning historian Julia Laite on 'Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'. 19 November 2025, 18.00, Birkbeck, London. All welcome but please register: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

I really like this piece by @anildash.com I really do think there's a place for tech pragmatism and I hope it's one of the things we can champion at the Society for Hopeful Technologists buttondown.com/society-of-h...

Yeah. Who needs English?

Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Really excited to be organising the research conference "Bodies in Digital Transition," suitable for researchers across disciplines in arts and humanities working with digital intimacies. Call For Papers live now! www.cassandralaureano.com/current/bodi...

Raymond Williams in 1974: "the use of powerful new media will enable a few to speak to and apparently for the many, and, unless powerful safeguards are constructed, to drive out of competition the more varied and authentic voices that are the true discourse of any society and of humanity."

Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent! #histstm #histmed #sts

‘Trump isn’t a fascist yet … But the distance between him and fascism has narrowed to such a fine point that it would take very little to cross it.’

Surveillance tech like Fusus “gives police the ability to surreptitiously spy on and track people of no real or alleged criminal concern. It creates caches of sensitive, personal information that can be retained indefinitely,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told Sacramento's ABC10.