Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!) www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

Reform’s local elections campaign in Bradford is off to a terrible start ❌ hopenothate.org.uk/2026/04/16/r...

Trump just posted a letter from Franklin Graham saying he doesn’t believe Trump would knowingly share an image depicting himself as Jesus, claiming Trump thought it was a doctor helping someone and that critics are just trying to make him look bad.

So it turns out Nigel Farage's widely-reported claims that 'Boriswave' migrants will cost every household £20,000 are based on dodgy figures and inflated assumptions. Reform have simply invented their own numbers…” say experts. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/16/e...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Support collapsing for Farage and Reform as Tories close gap, poll shows

Still think humanities and social science knowledge and expertise are irrelevant in today’s world?

News I'm hearing from across universities is disastrous. The sector has been falling apart for months, but the process is now continuously speeding up. Outside a small handful of institutions, HE as we've known it has basically zero future. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

Do any #earlymodern #skystorians know of online courses available along the lines of Spanish or Portuguese 'for historians'?

Mark Carney is giving $925 million in tax breaks to the AI industry

When ye night is yonge And ye sea is dark And grim spectres the only light we'll see

Do any #earlymodern #skystorians know of online courses available along the lines of Spanish or Portuguese 'for historians'?

I'm not writing the same article over and over again, I'm citation maxxing.

check out the tacky gold decorations Trump plastered outside the Oval Office

Just going to revisit this as a prominent world leader feuds with the papacy and risks a major rift for his blasphemous language.

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

Matt Goodwin looking for a new authoritarian regime to simp for

We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline

This is not a story about Gen Z refusal; this is a story about how middle managers and executives have been so pilled by an industry that they are willing to fire workers who refuse to use its products.

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Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"

Just what is needed for a service dedicated to preserving and enhancing human health.

CFP: Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2026 Workshop: Monday 15 June 2026, at UCL (London) #Skystorians

The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants is now open for applications, supported by DSIT, @leverhulme.ac.uk and @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

I did not know Epstein on a boat I did not know Epstein with a goat I did not know Epstein in the air I did not know him anywhere!

'Oh let's just say I have a more-than-academic interest in this topic ... ' 'Oh ... so you're spending more than a full work week every week for decades just to gain an in-depth understanding of the subject?' *pause* 'Well ... no.'

Dear G!  How are you?  Nice story about J. E. in New York mag, you look great on the picture. I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY. Have a great time! Love, Melania

Right,. aside from the emails between them, and the photographs of them together, and the address books with her info in them, the sworn statements of witnesses, and the affidavit from Epstein's assistant that he introduced her to Trump, there is not a shred of evidence supporting the allegations.

But ... what if the way out was to do MORE of those things? Asking for an institutional friend.

Interested to see how university managers shift their position on staff objections to unethical and unsustainable international student recruitment away from their previous response, which was -- if I'm remembering rightly -- "shut up".

Broken record here, but we cannot fix, save, improve, renew or whatever English universities if we only attend to taught students, DfE and OfS. Universities are major engines of research, innovation and civic good. Minimally DSIT must also be centrally in the frame. They're not big schools.

'“Designing AI systems that generate comments, no matter how copious or instantaneous, represents the replication of outdated representations of feedback within new modes of technology,” it says.' 1/3

I've said this before, but the notion that AI - fundamentally incapable (as yet) of innovation and originality - should replace peer review for the REF is contrary to every professed principle of the exercise. Recognizing quality wherever it's found cannot be done by a synthesis machine.

Trump went from making insane genocidal threats this morning to hyping the “golden age” of Iran hours later, and he received no concessions in between. He’s an absolute basket case who needs to be removed from power before he follows through on one of his mass murder fantasies.

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild. "Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"

One of the greatest privileges of being alive right now is the ability to see photographs like this. Truly spectacular.

CNN: "In the initial statement from DHS, they said these two migrants had attacked the ICE agents in Minneapolis with the shovel, but what this video shows is this was not the case ... the two ICE agents made false statements under oath."

It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people. We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government. This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Trump: [ok I'm gonna talk to a Canadian, what do I say to a Canadian, quick think of something Canadian] Trump: WAYNE GRETZKY

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

Honest to God America, if you don't drop him now, there's no going back.