@socialhistsoc.bsky.social @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social @historylabplus.bsky.social Mike Reeves giving his paper on smoking

How can we get young people to engage with Plato’s #philosophy? Let’s explore Plato’s digital museum in #Athens, across the road from the original site of the Academy! imperfectcognitions....#philosophy?#Athens,#philosophyforeveryone #philsky

Hutton Gibson's fringe sect was really more like a home church, like I don't know that Mel has ever really been a member of a parish run by a normal person; he was raised in his dad's cult and then he kind of made it HIS cult and his money was supporting all of it (like he bought the building, etc)

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

I worked for Qatar based, Azmi Bishara headed al araby al jadeed for 7 years and I wrote countless articles on anti Hamas movements in Gaza and an op ed defending two state solution

"Du Bois understood that the racial order required by capitalism could only be maintained if white elites successfully manipulated the white masses against their class alliances with other races."

New: Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship. Roberts writes for majority, joined by Barrett and the libs. Kavanaugh concurs in part and dissents in part. Jackson writes concurrence joined partially by Sotomayor. Alito, Gorsuch, Thomas all dissent (+ Gorsuch also signs on to Thomas' dissent)

🧵 Yesterday the Government finally announced the repeal of the Vagrancy Act, which criminalised those sleeping rough on our streets. After many years of cross-party campaigning, and many previous broken promises, this cruel and Dickensian law is now consigned to the history books. (1/2)

probably the biggest mistake of modern academia is assuming real insight can only be found at higher levels of abstraction when in fact it has always been at the intersection of the abstract and the concrete

💔 Zelensky: Russia launched a missile strike on Dnipro, on infrastructure. 5 people have died. 29 people were injured. There was a Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia today, on a regular minibus. 3 people died as a result of this drone attack. My condolences. 6 people were injured, including a child.

Important, forensic analysis of the organised (not spontaneous) nature of the June Belfast pogroms, and the complicity of the police (HT @3r1ng.bsky.social)

no they do not lol

the things in this speech I didn't see trailed that feel significant are Burnham acknowledging the importance of universities, the creative industries and London, I think

100%

Genuinely think it'll need a high profile politician to do a McAlpine and mass-sue hundreds of people for posting or sharing outright libellous allegations. Would be unwise for Burnham but might make sense for Sadiq Khan, who's politically secure and whose haters tend to be outside London.

when I first wrote the piece below, Reform had a pro-crypto policy proposal on their site. See here: web.archive.org/web/20260129... It's no longer there: reformparty.uk/policies#pol... If you look at the archives, they removed it in the past month. That's when Farage's crypto gift made the news.

One thing re the DSA is they seem to keep a broadish tent compared to socialist groups here. Result is I think some candidates are brilliant, others not so much

As a white dude, allow me to share the ONE WEIRD TRICK to avoiding having rancid politics: just be able to be annoyed by something without it becoming your whole life

Nothing new, yet scary as f*. This is why warnings in our own democracies should NOT be ignored . www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Seeing people protest on October 8 in defence of ‘resistance‘ was soul destroying. because of October 7 massacre and because, to me, this was essentially cheering on the escalation and the danger of destruction of Gaza

It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering

It’s time for Trump to listen to his oracle (the stock market) and apply sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel right now. Nothing else will make them stop, which means line will go down.

A top-cited article ➡️ Is religion good for mental health? Hackney & Sanders meta-analyzed 34 studies and found: it depends entirely on how you measure religion and mental health. Personal devotion shows the strongest link to well-being; institutional affiliation the weakest. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Remember all those articles about how young men are becoming much more right wing and pro-Reform than older men? Well it turns out the opposite is actually true

This looks great arrac.fr/2026/03/19/c...

NEW: For three years, Athar Abu Samra followed life in Gaza from Cairo, through phone calls and news alerts. Then she returned to Deir al-Balah — and discovered the distance between knowing a place and living in it, as she writes for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/first-person...

Opportunity to assist with research on AI and the occult www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRS371/s...

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

I got through a bit of this already notorious report, written by very prominent philosophers about the “decline of the humanities.” Everyone on this report is smarter than I am, yet none of them seems to understand what it’s been like to navigate the academy since the late 1990s.

The Makerfield byelection poll by Survation: nb, based on 369 respondents likely to vote and with a voting intention. Suggests it is close to a dead heat, Labour v Reform, at the start.

The women in the Arab version of the love is blind franchise never had to live with the men they set up with www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

While the Cuban people suffer in poverty, a military-run conglomerate that controls much of the country’s economy enriches military leaders. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In memory of: Asmaa Yousef Ibrahim Al-Breem / اسماء يوسف ابراهيم البريم Age: 33 We will not forget you.

@ukfost.bsky.social standing together at the nakba stop the right march today! sorry couldnt join them

yeah I think AOC will face much less opposition than Bernie did from the party establishment if she runs precisely because she's a lot better at making friends with them I know a lot of folks count that as a downside but it's going to be tremendously helpful if she wins (see: Zohran and Hochul)

absolutely wild to see people out here saying that it is responsibility of peer reviewers to check for hallucinated references. it is hard enough to persuade people to read articles and provide reviews. expecting them to spend hours cross reffing literature is unreal.

Really enjoyed this paper on diary methods in research: bit.ly/3RJ4P4b Reminded me of an amazing talk by Tony Coxon on diary research with MSM during 80s HIV/AIDS epidemic. The insights transformed public health understanding. I’ve never used diaries but often think about the power of the method.

This is why we don't date, we simply select our men.

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

another great piece from alan that emphasizes: we didn't make the time. we didn't make the crisis. we might wish it wasn't the time that it is. that might be inconvenient for our preconceptions or our politics. and yet the crisis us upon us all the same. only question left: honesty? or delusion?

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

It’s intensely homosocial, and this is the core of patriarchy, rather than the family

Ant Middleton's proposal is that it would be necessary to have UK-born grandparents and parents to become eligible for high office. So even the *children* of Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, Sadiq Khan, Shabana Mahmood and indeed son of Jewish refugees Ed Milband would be banned from office.

Ant Middleton - who advocates on race/ancestry/faith making Sadiq Khan ineligible to be Mayor of London, banning Kemi Badenoch as a party leader or PM, barring Yusuf/Braverman as Home Secretary - may prove to be one of the more moderate speakers on Saturday! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Difficult times at the University of Nottingham - the whole of the Department of Philosophy is formally at risk of redundancy, with plans to get rid of 7 people in the department. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...