We’ve just stopped talking about the disgraceful complicity of every MSM outlet and reporter that has chosen to remain on a site that is an explicitly racist, Nazi cesspool. It is unconscionable that they have CHOSEN to continue using it as their primary social media platform.

The article explicitly notes WI had had a trans-inclusive policy *since the 1970s*!

Bleak but important essay by Ronald Purser on AI capitulation at California State University. We need to push back against this in our own institutions. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Having been a Brownie, Guide and young leader, and then had a Brownie daughter, I’ve always been proud of Girlguiding’s inclusivity. So I’m devastated to hear that they’ve decided to exclude trans girls from the organisation. Sign here to protest (and appeal directly if you have contact with them).

Fucking hell

GET in the BIN.

BAAS invites scholars in any field of American Studies to apply for grants of up to two years in duration. Grants may be requested for up to a maximum of £2000 for a range of American Studies academic activities. Please note, from 2026, earlier submission deadlines are in place.

If you have ever liked one of my posts, please help a boy out and listen to my podcast? Or share it with a friend? Or just play episode each muted so I get the streams? It’s Books Up Close on all platforms. I’ll send you a cake/gift/hug if you do.

A brilliant poetry collection - taut, visceral, affecting. Go buy!!

Happy to report that the author copies of the shelf-ready version of the book have landed on my doorstep from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social! Feel very grateful to be with my favourite publisher 🙏 Next up is the launch in Belfast on January 29! (Deets in due course). 🤍💙

Some festive reading for y’all. Listen my podcast - Books Up Close - for your literary content, and follow the Instagram for this month’s advent calendar 🎄

Let’s start an over 30 selfie thread 38

some gorgeous Vivaldi by candlelight 💫

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

grey day, but good lighting

This weekend @edinburghup.bsky.social has an amazing 50% off everything sale! You can get my book for the low low price of 11 pounds quid!! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-liminal...

Bargain copies of my book available for £11 this weekend in the @edinburghup.bsky.social St Andrew's Day sale 😎 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hydrofi...

hi new followers (thanks @blakethebutcher.bsky.social). I’m way more active on IG, so come find me there xo

Staff from UCU at Coventry University have passed a vote of no confidence in their Vice Chancellor, who has presided over a regime of gross mismanagement, and is now firing staff and rehiring them through subsidiary companies. Sign this petition to support UCU's call for a change in leadership.

Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?” Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."

She's playing a blinder

Does anyone actually think this is good for anyone? Does anyone serious believe that because one university scored 0.000045 more than the next in a league table that the teaching is better there? Just put the cap back on as a bare minimum!

It's absolutely disgusting what the New York Times, and particularly Azeen Ghorayshi, is doing with its coverage of autism. It's so deeply irresponsible. It's the same playbook they ran on trans kids.

Gender Critical have reversed women's rights back decades. A woman who dresses "too masculine" may face being barred from single-sex female spaces. We warned you.

Thank you everyone for braving the cold today to mark Today we honour our trans siblings lost to violence, wars, personal struggles, and harmful policies. Each life should’ve had safety, joy, and possibility. We remember. We honour. We continue. 🏳️‍⚧️ #TDOR #TransLivesMatter #TransCommunity

🔔 We have extended the deadline for Targeted Research Panel funding until Friday 28th November. What's TRP funding? Each conference, we award up to £5000 funding for panels which aim to support & promote the production of research by people of colour, LGBTQ+ communities & disability communities.

The EHRC want to exclude women from femal single-sex spaces based on how "female" they look. This is off the scale sexism and misogyny. Millions of women will face harassment as result of this insanity.

If you have ever liked one of my posts, please help a boy out and listen to my podcast? Or share it with a friend? Or just play episode each muted so I get the streams? It’s Books Up Close on all platforms. I’ll send you a cake/gift/hug if you do.

The Humanities matter, and will always matter, regardless of what your vice-chancellor, the government, or anyone else thinks. Solidarity with all colleagues in our vital fields 💜

First of two “Being Human” workshops done. Last night we explored queer poetry with Forster’s Maurice and the blackout/reaction form

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Some of us remember when Maitlis said that primary age school kids are having gender confirmation surgery. The BBC anti Trans bias goes back nearly a decade #BBCTransphobia

BBC Radio 4 this morning joined Trump in describing Zohran Mamdani as a "radical leftist".

Remember, while the UK government prattled on about 'cancel culture' they cultivated the real threats to academic freedom. Forcing universities to be dependent on internationalization through broken funding models and failing academic staff. www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

Sleepaway Camp horror jock realness. (This fake blood won’t come off)

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL. In this new episode of my podcast, I talk to Kaja Franck about Bram Stoker’s Dracula!!! 🧛 open.spotify.com/episode/7bUK...

New ep from me!!

It's season 4 of the podcast!! Time flies. In this episode @cilloyd.bsky.social talks to AJ Singh about their work on decolonising the mindbody, on the entanglements of racism and ableism, and so much more. Subscribe, review, send to friends, and leave feedback! open.spotify.com/episode/3K2a...

Anyway I hated Jill Lepore from when I first knew her in the late 1990s Cambridge playground days and I was an adjunct at Trinity and she referred to her tenure track position at BU as a “starter job.”

38. all the foods.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

My workout app knows me well 👻 ♏️ 🍑 happy Scorpio season x

<squints> In case you're wondering where we're at with #UKHE: senior managers are now trying to use the *anti-terrorism* mechanisms to reprimand their staff for talking with local politicians. But everything's fine. No need for government to intervene and put an end to the abuses of power.

this is very very nice and I am still not sure I read the email accurately - big thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk, without whom, incidentally, I could not have written A FLAT PLACE

red light

New blog post: "ChatGPT 5 Can't Count" inventwithpython.com/blog/chatgpt...

take me back to Spain