upress.blogs.bucknell.edu/2026/05/12/u... This interview culminates two decades of collective work of a kind of project that is becoming nearly impossible to conduct in the 21C university. 1/

#NewBlogPost: Series Eds. Mark L. Kamrath and Philip Barnard discuss stewarding BUP's Charles Brockden Brown series, the editorial process behind the Collected Writings, and discovering more about Brockden Brown’s contributions to postrevolutionary America. To read: tinyurl.com/y596czn6

Men are using Meta AI glasses to secretly film women at beaches, shops, on the street & on nights out. They then post these clips online where they receive a barrage of misogynistic abuse. I’m campaigning to make this behaviour an offence. Women deserve to feel safe in public spaces.

it's good to be king thetab.com/2026/05/12/e...

going out on a limb here, but most of this will never happen www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I've always had great admiration for Dorris Dörrie, and think Enlightenment Guaranteed (1999) is one of the great European films of that decade. Dörrie on Munich and travel today 1/2 archive.is/d9n2G

The importance of arts to industry warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/app... 1/2

"In L.A. Unified, students surpassed pre-pandemic state test scores in both reading and math…In Compton, students have now surpassed the state’s averages… in terms of improvement, Compton soared above nearly all the nation’s school systems." www.latimes.com/california/s...

Les Miz with car chases? www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Season 5 of The Boys has been one unremitting slog. Nothing pleases me more than to know there's only one more to go.

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Very proud of my students for taking this step to better represent the full Jewish community at Middlebury:

going out on a limb here, but most of this will never happen www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today's university job losses info is from Edinburgh Napier. The crisis is still accelerating. Nothing will be done. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2610095...

it's good to be king thetab.com/2026/05/12/e...

meanwhile, back in 10 Downing Street

Is there a correlation to the rise in AfD voters? ostdeutscheallgemeine.com/article/krae...

coming soon to Arte French theory comedy

Is Columbia the new Chicago, a financially failing institution? www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/05...

there's two ways Starmer can go now, with some dignity left so he can live like Blair and grift more later, without dignity, and as a long-standing joke

China recognizes the Trump regime as the idiots they are in fact. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Feels like there is no future for Nottingham Uni with that many job cuts forecast. The curricula will be simply undeliverable.

I received an email from yet another UK academic colleague facing the dissolution of their department & risk to their job. The scale of the cuts happening in UK HE right now is incalculable, as is the harm. Why are we—and more particularly, our government—allowing this sector free fall to roll on?

Does an institution deserve to remain within the Russell Group of it does this? archive.is/2026.05.12-0...

Is there a correlation to the rise in AfD voters? ostdeutscheallgemeine.com/article/krae...

Is Columbia the new Chicago, a financially failing institution? www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/05...

coming soon to Arte French theory comedy

the nazi menace www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Interesting plan for Berlin's Olympics application www.berliner-zeitung.de/article/verg...

forward.com/culture/8240... The enshittification continues