as a smaller, digital-only journal that is diamond open access and charges no author-processing fees (thanks @openlibhums.org!), we can promise that we will be able to make a decision about your submission much faster than traditional print journals.

We've refreshed out author guidelines for submissions to our journal, including new guidance for anyone looking to submit an interview. We'd love to hear from you! c21.openlibhums.org/site/authorg...

Narratives about how hard it is for teenage boys, and subsequently men, to deal with romantic rejection are so weird to read, as a woman who was also once a teenager. Until you realise that they’re entirely built on the premise that girls and women are the gatekeepers to sex and relationships.

There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25. @gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.

Le Monde editorial: data is killing us www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Over 50 Childcare providers have left the government’s Core Funding scheme in the last few years. By leaving the scheme, providers are free to increase their fees substantially, with some parents being hit with €300-400 a month increases this year. http://jrnl.ie/6831058

Spotted (and bought!) in my local bookstore in Naas — @kdclewin.bsky.social’s fabulous new book. (Hoping I see you again soon so you can sign it for me, K.) 🤩

You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

This is absolutely unhinged from Johnson and others. Kirk was a proponent of Great Replacement Theory who called for gays to be stoned and public lynch mobs to murder trans people. He is the definition of a right-wing extremist. The cowardice, avarice and opportunism of Johnson knows no bounds.

"school shooting industry"

Another great episode of The Dig. Recommended esp. to my comrades in HE. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

I think it’s hard for outsiders to grasp how low staff and faculty morale get at universities where everyone’s job gets worse every year because there’s a hiring freeze and program cuts and any real money is locked up in new projects meant to help higher admin shine so they can move somewhere better

Delighted to be a new Advisory Board Member for @c21literature.bsky.social. More about this most excellent journal can be found here: c21.openlibhums.org/site/about/

On the same day in the Telegraph:

For context, here's a recent report on the 15 years of hard work it took to bring UK poetry culture out of the situation it was in at the end of the Noughties www.liverpool.ac.uk/new-and-inte...

It has to be asked: why has the Times Literary Supplement, in the year 2025, relaunched with an all-white list of star contributors on the cover? Is the UK literary world done with making an effort on representation now? I'm a big TLS fan, but this is a bad start if it's trying to reimagine itself.

Buy this book by the brilliant @kdclewin.bsky.social ! Looking forward to picking up my copy next week! X

The move comes after the Justice Department last week made changes to who could qualify as a temporary immigration judge —effectively lowering the requirements and removing the need to have prior immigration experience. n.pr/41v8FAb

Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

This is a small but significant win for Ireland. bsky.app/profile/were...

She’s a singular sensation!

This is the drug that is a 100% effective treatment for HIV. this is the one you've been seeing in the news. I would LOVE to see an in-depth discussion of exactly what "clinical, financial, and regulatory factors" are keeping them from essentially carrying a cure to a deadly disease.

This one goes out to all the academics who are parents—especially the mothers—trying desperately to get some writing done while entertaining their kids and paying through the nose for sporadic “summer camps” that run for less than 4 hours a day.

we increasingly lowered the threshold of achievement, asking for more at earlier phases. Grad students must publish essays, undergraduates must do "research" as well. Pressuring Youngers to achieve what we were given decades simply incentivizes looking for (digital) aids. 2/

‘Proscription does significant damage to the freedom of expression of members of Palestine Action. Any funds held by a terrorist can be frozen; a bank cannot provide services to a terrorist; police can search a terror suspect without consent.’ David Renton: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Lecturer in Creative Writing (poetry) at Royal Holloway 💛 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

“You have to give your name in English or we will arrest you”

@tlecaque.bsky.social and I wrote about the latest fascist bullhorn used by DHS- a reference to “Which Way, Western Man” by White Supremacist William Gayley Simpson - a book that was reprinted by a neo-Nazi press founded by the author of The Turner Diaries, as @hannahgais.bsky.social pointed out

We are hurtling toward our own demise with our foot firmly on the pedal.

“Intencipa and other teachers in Colombia are concerned their students will lose years of basic education, as traditional teaching methods are no longer effective.”

“Educators now spend a significant amount of their time detecting AI-generated work and seeking ways to assess whether students are developing essential skills.” Yes. Everywhere.

Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring. And then that guy was "silenced" forever. And now we will just not talk about anything else until they... #ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

Would anyone care to remind the former Human Rights Barrister Keir Starmer that penalising people seeking asylum for their manner of entry is against international law? Not to mention how grotesque it is that the Prime Minister is sharing videos of people being detained.

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 JOB ALERT - Closing *today*! Edge Hill University is seeking a permanent, full-time Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in American History. Don't miss your chance to apply today (4th August) before midnight!

It is genuinely interesting to see what crowds Labour will listen to. Tens of thousands for Palestine, for Trans rights? We can fuck off. 40 racist arsonists crying about foreigners? Legitimate concerns. We hear you.

Oh as a final thing, do you want to know the three most common words that 15 - 17 year olds say when you show them uni sites like this (at least when I've had the chance to do proper testing outside agency control)? "Showy" "Fake" "Unserious"

Anyway. These agencies just rotate the pitch. They never do any of the ACTUAL work, btw. The net outcome is always a single snazzy video. A single photography session. A homepage and course page 'mockup' (desktop not mobile, of course) And a 'brand bible' that doesn't pass basic accessibilty tests.

Wiley officially closes the Journal of Political Philosophy, which was abandoned by its editorial team and shunned by academics after Wiley attempted moves that would have compromised the journal's editorial independence.

The makers of our film ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ tell the shocking inside story of how the BBC basically failed at journalism and at being informant, and refused to air the documentary on Gaza that we at Zeteo, with Channel 4, then acquired:

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Corporate gobbledygook/senior management word salad is hardly new but now it’s bloody everywhere www.androidheadlines.com/2025/07/huma...

Underrated tweet.

Fun fact: Chris Wright is former CEO of oil company Liberty Energy and ex-director of oil & gas lobby group Western Energy Alliance. Not mentioned by @economist.com Heatwave is a weird time to publish climate denial from a fossil fuel lobbyist www.desmog.com/2025/02/17/u... @desmog.com

apols for guardian link but this piece is far more incisive on the paralyzed Irish state response to Tuam mass grave than anything I have seen in the Irish newspapers (and gives @izzykamikaze.bsky.social due credit too): www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Didn’t think I could adore Ebon more but turns out I can.

Small point I know, but it will forever grind my gears that we decided to label artistic and expressive classes “elective” and then put them into a logistical arrangement where they are further cut year after year after year.