Icelandic Women's Strike. www.youtube.com/shorts/JqbdT...

Always, ALWAYS go back to the source. A thread for #AcademicSky and #MedSky 🧵. I was surprised to see Black women excluded from a treatment that provides relief from menopausal side effects. I won't cite the paper, as my intent isn't to embarrass anyone. 1/5

A Pau, un cadre de l’Action française recruté comme prof d’histoire à l’Immaculée Conception malgré le refus du rectorat La fatigue, mais la fatigue putain. www.liberation.fr/societe/educ...

Supreme Court Denies Alex Jones’s Appeal of Payment to Sandy Hook Families www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Fabulous summer weather for the Garona Cup in Toulouse looooving this sunshine 😍

Partition musicale sur la promenade 1952 | Harold Feinstein

Among those detained are doctors, parliamentarians, faith leaders, and other human rights defenders. In total, Israel abducted 497 people, a violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and international law. To date, no state has imposed consequences. #GlobalSumudFlotilla #3E

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Went walking on The Roaches in Staffordshire today. It’s a devil of a job finding parking at the weekend in the Peak District since everyone took up walking during/after lockdown, so now the only way to be sure you can do what you intended to do is to go in the week. Lovely day.

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Oak gall wasps are my current obsession - galls are a key ingredient in European writing inks before industrialisation. Countless ideas on paper start with the relationship between an oak tree and a wasp. Marcello Malpighi observed galls to understand and illustrate their growth in the 1670s

Can't recommend "Arcade Game Typography" enough 💙 It shows us how the evergreen typography of the arcade era was heavily influenced by the monospaced Japanese syllabary which became a muse behind futuristic user interfaces in modern media #gaymer #typography tosche.net/non-fonts/ar...

This is what violations of International Humanitarian Law in #Gaza look like. In #Ottawa on Sept. 20? Visit MSF’s Human Chain Gallery for Gaza: An Art Action Against Genocide in front of Parliament Hill. We’ll hold up photos from Gaza and call for #Canada to stop the genocide.

Student evals have long been repeatedly shown to be racist and sexist. They expect women profs to be “mommy,” they find Black and Latino men “intimidating” www.google.com/url?q=https:...

The GOP's education playbook. Step 1: Make public schooling as shitty and stressful as possible for kids and parents and teachers. Step 2: Sell private schooling as the antidote to the stress and shittiness. Step 3: Funnel public education money into private hands.

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

Here's a new one for those of you interested in #LinguisticLandscapes

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer to tell you about. @sophiaburnett.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things? : A Comedian's Guide to Autism by Pierre Novellie. If you'd like a copy, just get in touch! UK only

Glad we got to see Olga Koch’s excellent work in progress before leaving Edinburgh. Would have loved to catch her @gluefactorypod.bsky.social colleague Milo Edwards’ show too but tant pis ce sera pour une autre fois. A very talented cohort, do seek them out! #EdFringe

Really enjoyed the fringe show by @josielong.bsky.social which is well written and endearingly executed 🦥 www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Congrats to @pierrenovellie.bsky.social who has a great show on at the Edinburgh Fringe! We had a fun time—highly recommended! www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Currently in Manchester and have already heard one too many (one) drunken Wonderwall renditions at 2am. Promising to be an animated weekend.

Oops. retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

If there are parole officers there should also be langue officers

Cannot emphasize enough that, if you dislike doing the things academics do (reading, writing, developing and expressing opinions about things you've read) enough to try to make a chatbot do them for you, there are lots of actual humans who would be happy to take that unpleasant job off your hands

"the average British user dedicates more than 42 hours a month to watching videos which rarely last longer than thirty seconds" Just an almost unutterably bleak statistic www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Our medical staff are donating their own blood to provide life-saving treatment for patients in #Gaza. Patients that were gunned down while trying to get food. Food for their families. Food to live. We need an immediate #ceasefire, now.

This is wonderful. I love all the weird and wonderful ligatured 'et's that make up the history of the ampersand. Like this Roman one from the 2nd century CE I saw this week at the Luxembourg City Museum.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

Thank you to the amazing @elifshafak.bsky.social for remembering Aida Butorovic, the librarian from Sarajevo murdered by a sniper in 1992 on the day the National Library was attacked (& for the shout out to my #Burningthebooks) in your latest Substack post open.substack.com/pub/elifshaf...

headline construction masterclass

I'm genuinely SO excited about the new ocean map that will be at the heart of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich when this hall reopens on June 7th. It's an unusual ocean-focussed map with so much detail, and it's just brilliant. 🌊🌊 Here's a sneak peak. www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocea...

Gorgeous balmy evening for an escapade to Trier where we got to delight in the local sparkling Riesling and the history of the 170AD Porta Nigra.

Luxembourg city!

Alison Gopnik, telling it like it is, at Johns Hopkins.

Have booked our tickets to @pierrenovellie.bsky.social at the Edinburgh Fringe in August. Yay!

Inscriptions with hybrid numerals, like this one from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, are fascinating. No reason you couldn't have written MDII or MCCCII or 1502. But just at the point where Western (Indo-Arabic) numerals come into use in Europe, you get all these nifty mixes of old and new.

#Gaza: The U.S.-Israel plan to control the distribution of supplies under the guise of humanitarian assistance raises grave ethical, security and legal concerns. Doctors Without Borders call on Israeli authorities to uphold International Humanitarian Law. Share if you do too.

Important thread about AI legislation

Still my fave music video i made

These denialist movements are globally connected, with far-right protesters heckling mourners, defacing memorials, and denying the existence of Japanese-run comfort stations. This is part of a long-organized international effort, as seen in the controversy over Harvard economist Ramseyer's article.

The term grades They have been submitted Yes YES The grades are in

I’m constantly reminded of how deaf linguists esp. from the Global South, make a unique contribution to signed language linguistics especially when it comes to researching their own signed languages. Yet they are constantly denied educational opportunities in higher academia.

Crossed fingers please for a Very Good Boy and best walking companion who had two seizures last night and is on a drip at the vets.