The sub-head is seriously questionable: “how changing student preferences are fundamentally reshaping universities” buys into the university’s narrative that this is driven by falling recruitment leading to deficits. How can that be, when Exeter has been eating other people’s lunch for years?

I mean, look at this ghost house ceramic play set by Erika Rier!

Tyler Austin Harper, William Deresiewicz, and Joshua Katz have more influence and power over the public perception of higher education now that they’re outside the academy than they did when they were in it.

when I say "bring back shame" this is what I'm talking about

Sort of spurred by this: I still think that part of the whole Post Pandemic Social Settlement should have been a huge (inter)national effort to properly ventilate our spaces and that should have included ACs and heat pumps for places in Europe, and it's just a shame we generally didn't do this.

no no no you misunderstood. i said fuck YOUR intellectual property. MY intellectual property is very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird®

"The past is both a tool and a target in modern warfare, prompting us to rethink how heritage is increasingly exploited as an instrument of power, coercion, and security." 🏺 "Ruin Warfare: How and Why We Weaponize the Past" by Lynn Meskell www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

It’s important to remember that the current #UKHE funding model goes back ONLY to the #Cameron & #Osborne austerity of the 2010 coalition years. Shifting the burden from the state via taxes to the students themselves.

Yep, same guy. Mere days apart.

Nathan J Robinson: Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...

If there were disciplines (like the humanities & social sciences) challenging AI's inevitability/social worth, wouldn't it be convenient if at the same time as companies pushed for AI's expansion, seemingly credible people published a report 'proving' that said disciplines were biased & invalid?

We at EO are sharing part 1 of our primer on ancient & medieval Palestine written by a stellar lineup of experts. Today: "The Role and Problems of 'Biblical Archaeology' in Writing the History of Israel-Palestine" by @chancebonar.bsky.social 🔗 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/eopalestine/ 1/

Fuck you with this eugenicist agit-prop. Just look at Canada. We now have state philosophers arguing that it’s ok to extend MAiD to the homeless. It’s no different than the fever dreams of Thiel and co, whose ‘intellectual’ inspiration promotes bio-dieseling the poors.

It is my pleasure to share the recordings from #ResDiff7, an annual digital conference on inequity in the field of classics. All videos from #ResDiff7 (as well as all past conferences) can be found here: resdifficiles.com

🚨 Excellent 2-part article in Everyday Orientalism on the use of the past and archeology as foundational to the eliminationist colonial project of Zionist Israel. Part 1 1/2 everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/a...

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

I know people bristle at the idea of leftists who police language but a big reason it happens is because, especially as it relates to politicians, the language we choose serves as an entirely accurate predictor of the types of policy decisions we would make & who we would & wouldn’t place value on

Journalism treats elections like magic cleansing agents for democracy. That simple-yet-attractive story ignores that corrosive agents still eat away at democracy, even after these supposedly "sanitizing" elections. Journalism's job is to monitor that corrosion. No slate has been wiped clean.

“By using GenAI: I accept the models were trained on stolen data. I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers. I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models. I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company. I accept …”

I think he's genuinely brain cooked himself even if he started off doing it for the sake of the populist right. the mask ends up becoming the face almost all of the time

It is my enormous pleasure to share the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal, Res Diff 2.2 (2025). "Rez Diff: Indigenous Perspectives," guest-edited by Ashley Lance (@aerl.bsky.social) and Tara Wells. #OpenAccess resdifficiles.com/res-diff-2-2...

A very kind review of my book in Greece and Rome, making some of the connections between Roman autocracy and contemporary society that I hadn’t been *quite* willing to say out loud in print… www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Meanwhile, in France, the far right is growing in strength & confidence, the left is in disarray, & the media is calling this a "pre-fascist moment." Upcoming nationwide local elections could be disastrous. Luckily presidential elections are still a year away. www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...

Reform on 13% of the registered vote seems about right and this is with all the major media and parties painting them as THE alternative As always, far-right support is limited and its mainstreaming comes from the mainstream elite who try to use it as a distraction from their failures

Thanks to @mythsbaby.bsky.social for a great conversation about my new book "The White Pedestal" on Greco-Roman Antiquity and White Nationalism, both out today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Delight to see myself and my lovely co-authors in print!