Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Incredible piece on Oliver Sacks. If you were ever awed at his supposedly true stories (I remember being stunned by the account of the autistic twins who rattled off large prime numbers), read this. He told wonderful stories, but they were in large part fiction. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

🤯 Phonetic Universal Uncovered! 🎤 We analyzed over 60,000 speakers across 75 languages and confirmed a universal phonetic bias: High vowels (like /i, u/) are consistently spoken with a slightly higher pitch (F0) than low vowels (/a/).

my buddy @urbancomposition.bsky.social and I did an AMA where we answered a bunch of style-related questions for our menswear pod. you may enjoy it. these are totally free episodes and we'll be doing them every three months. pod.link/blamo/episod...

« Ma maman est morte dans les toilettes publiques » Les mots du fils de Sylviane, morte à la rue après avoir été expulsée de son logement. Sylviane est morte de la loi Kasbarian-Bergé : j’interroge le ministre du logement, M. Jeanbrun.

J'ai vu la bio du monsieur sur LinkedIn, c'est gratiné. C'est encore un mec pas spécialiste de l'IA qui veut du technosolutionnisme pour absolument tout, et apparemment aussi pour ne pas supporter une rupture. C'est flippant et franchement quelles seront les dérives du merdier.

…and a lovely memory prompt nearby of @helendecruz.net singing and playing.

A short trip to Catholic heaven

First time ever in Portugal (Braga) for DDHUM25, and this place is so full of charming detail that I somewhat regret having left it this long. Also they do a Brazilian style sirloin which is mhmhmmmmm

Being proud of being in the Russell Group is largely just cope for not being in Oxbridge, which is itself largely just cope for not being in the Ivy League, which is itself largely just cope for not being Harvard, which is itself largely just cope for not being Charles Sanders Peirce in particular.

"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.

Literally the last thing she posted here. bsky.app/profile/sfdi...

Hell yeah! www.instagram.com/reel/DOdxRIS...

Mammogram done ✅ All for the sexy French sum of rien du tout ❤️🇫🇷

Just a reminder that ‘privilege’ comes from ‘private law’. www.etymonline.com/word/privilege

Rosalind Franklin went to the same school - St Paul‘s in Brook Green, West London - as Cecilia Payne, who wrote the most important astrophysics PhD of the 20th century and discovered what the Universe is made of. Payne’s name is largely unknown, though she became the 1st woman professor at Harvard.

The Pentlands today

Edinburgh for a few days. Love this city, very happy to be here.

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

For academics, New Year’s resolutions and spring cleaning happens in August

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...