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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Thank you, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk , for Scan and Deliver, which has once again been a huge help for my research!

The program for the upcoming hybrid workshop on Endangered Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine is now out! I cannot overstate how much I am looking forward to this important event everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...

Proud girls, you gorgons, gorgeous in your gowns, rising back unrepentant out of your loam house, tiptoe fripperies, overlook my misreading. ‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Lots of quinces (aka apples of Kydonia) on the tree this year! Looking fwd to making quince aioli in due course…

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...

This is a disgrace they need to fire the person at the BBC who is charge of the News, they are clearly biased.

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This hurts my soul - my heart axtuslly ached reading this, thinking of the future generations of knowledge that will never be, of students unable to specialise in languages, pursue music, read Latin, take up English literature, become an Art critic, write history. This is how cultures wither & die.

Why this moment of rightwing racism feels so different – and how we can resist it

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... I’m waiting for the level of moral outrage about this, directed towards Angela Rayner but I suspect I’ll be disappointed…

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

The finest response I've seen so far.

New Absolute Units is live! Tune in for episode 10, as we chat to photographer & sheep farmer Amy Bateman about digital technology on modern farms: from advantages, to risks. Listen & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

www.theguardian.com/global-devel... How are Afghan women with no other income supposed to feed themselves and their children?

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Kalo Mina, everyone! Have a good month!

I'm still stunned that @yorkshirebylines.co.uk put in the huge effort to collect all press-reported downsides of Brexit (David Davis had said there would be "none"!)... ...and has the sheer patience to collect 2,000 discrete incidences via media reports before giving up.

Deaths averted by vaccination since the 1970’s

My academic grandmother, Barbara Harvey, died earlier this month; there's a short tribute to her from @somervillecollege.bsky.social here: www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/barbara...

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary

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Measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, polio, tetanus. Diseases that used to terrorise families, killing children & babies in their thousands. Now we have vaccines - safe & miraculous life savers. Please, parents, use them. Protect your precious children 🩷 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Countries that now have travel warnings discouraging their citizens from traveling here: Australia Belgium Canada China Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Netherlands New Zealand Portugal United Kingdom www.cntraveler.com/story/which-...

University of Manitoba Scholarship 2025-2026 For International Students studyhunt.info/university-o... #skytstorians

Throughout this week, I am taking a nostalgic look at school supplies in Canada. Today, it is the famous Hilroy and Campfire notebooks so many Canadian children used during their school years. This is the history of those supplies! 🧵 1/8

I’m so sad that Allan Ahlberg has died. He and Janet Ahlberg who predeceased him created some of the best illustrated children’s books ever. I read their book to my own children and now I’m reading them to my grandchildren and we all love them!

Kalo Mina, everyone! have a good month!

Was really nice to speak to people who have done so much for representation in archaeology. Out soon! www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress... 20% discount code 006120

@ukhomeoffice.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Canada’s Boycott Is Freaking MAGA Out open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

I've just signed "Stop the Oxford Congestion Charge" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/st...

Dr. Nick Maynard tells NPR he's treating children shot at food distribution sites and witnessing what he believes is the systematic destruction of Gaza's civilian infrastructure.

Read Rümeysa Öztürk’s account of her detention, it’s important

Most people may not know the name Laura Sabia, but she had a major impact on Canada. Thanks to her work, many major reforms came to Canada in regards to gender equality. This is her story. 🧵1/10

Playmobil hog confirmed

Why has it taken a decade to exhume the bodies of the 800 dead babies of Tuam? | Caelainn Hogan

Identifying unfounded assertions, motivated reasoning and other fallacies in this screed is well beyond mere 'shooting fish in a barrel' territory, as one would expect from the signatories... 1/2

Trump 2017: "It is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell." Trump today: "He's a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised frankly that Biden put him in and extended him." Every news story will include both clips, right?