Keep reading 'robotaxis' as if it were Greek. A rhetorical figure; when clauses crash into each other maybe?

RQ 77.4!! 🎉🥳 Read about brazen, desirous, grim lady knights; women in early humanist circles; Indigenous authority in the 16th-century Andes; the rhetoric of precarity in early modern politics; & the story of a disabled Roman woman who self-advocated to write her own will. Go check it out!! 😍

A few years ago, I found this manuscript which changed the course of my research. Delighted my article on early modern precarity and how 'précaire' went from being an obscure bit of jargon to a contentious buzzword has now been published in Renaissance Quarterly. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

To be modern is to know what is no longer possible

'How did this happen?' asks The Times, which has run thousands of pieces inciting hatred of trans people.

2025 OUT: microplastics and forever chemicals IN: Galenic medicine

Also recently put up this portrait of hector brought back from Mexico by a friend 🐈‍⬛

Psyching myself up for the start of term

A guy from Paris, Roger Thiberville, left his fortune to a town called Thiberville. The mayor, Guy Paris, thanks this guy from Paris, Thiberville, for supporting his town, Thiberville. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

A guy from Paris, Roger Thiberville, left his fortune to a town called Thiberville. The mayor, Guy Paris, thanks this guy from Paris, Thiberville, for supporting his town, Thiberville. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

We had a thriving, even competitive HE system without "market exit", because we were competing a) internationally and b) for knowledge. We don't need to compete against each other for student numbers, or funding, or drive other universities to bankruptcy to be competitive. Academia is collaborative.

An owl teaching a cat the art of hunting mice, c. 1700

Que sera sera

I’ve spent the summer writing about precarity and violence, often contra Butler. But keep thinking of this in light of talk of ‘her right’ etc etc

This guy has literally never had a good idea about anything. Impressive!

Went to Scotland.

😮 #Team16e www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...

Me, Lucy, and Lucy’s Infected Thumb going on our holidays

Emmanuel Carrere looks way more like a pro wrestler than I would have expected…

Having said that, here's some complaints about precarity (sort of...) at the Université de Paris, 1616

I’ve just broken my Twitter silence for the first time in ages, and I’d best do the same here, because I have some ‘I’m delighted to announce…’ posts

A Montaignian alexandrine: tournons les yeux par tout: tout crolle autour de nous (everywhere you look, everything is collapsing around us)

I’ve been thinking about early modern precarity for about a year now and I’m delighted to see that the article that set me on that path has now been published academic.oup.com/fmls/advance...

experienced commuters know that you have to check national rail and TFL well in advance of leaving (in case you need to set off early) then keep checking up until departure *veteran* commuters know this is pointless. when you get to paddington there will be signal failures around reading anyway

Just started reading @vincentbevins.bsky.social new book (published today!) and loving it.

Summer’s over

Hector’s summer.

The call is coming from inside the house!!

Very proud of this one. Gonna be a long tail on it.

Found a fish kettle

Twitter over last few years is like the western 1/2 of Rome during the 5-7th c, as both didn’t suddenly fall/implode but rather transformed & lost their political/ cultural cache while also being populated by different people so that they’re not as important as they once were in this essay I will…

That Anselm Kiefer exhibition at the white cube was good.

trying to make my feed just like twitter without being too much like twitter

Hello from me and Hector