"Like, you can’t just be e-mailing the most famous sex offender in the world about how you intend to use your professional position to make a woman have sex with you, & then keep that professional position, right?" QTNA by @elienyc.bsky.social

I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Greens polling ahead of Labour in London....

We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood. Meanwhile in Denmark:

Call for papers! We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka. Abstract deadline 15 Jan Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies

We ❤️ Leicester

absolutely this, Sam there is an utter lack of imagination, which skews the issues we globally look at and even in the South, there is a collective shrugging of shoulders (thinking of a conversation with a senior person at UN Habitat in Nairobi — the assumption is that we can't change paths)

This is a glorious illustration of why we need planetary understandings of climate change, energy systems, and the relationships between them. Large regions are close uninhabitable already, and a few northerly regions getting easier to farm in will not compensate for that

During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”

If I were widely admired Labour Peer Lord Dubs I would consider becoming widely admired Independent Peer Lord Dubs

Is anyone out there in the public humanities making the case for taking teaching seriously as public engagement? Because considering it a private thing doesn't seem sustainable:

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” — James Baldwin

The other day I was in a Chinese restaurant with a group of people I'd just met, and one of them had gone to school in Croydon (where I'm from). His mum is from Eastern Europe and his dad is Arabic; there we were in the north-east of England, didn't feel like a country torn apart by immigration 🤷

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Re reading PhD notes for a paper I’m writing and finding myself arguing with my interpretation some 8 years ago.

Don't we all mate, don't we all

The leopard doesn’t even think I should have a face so he certainly won’t be eating mine.

Not sure where to ask this kind of question anymore since I've withdrawn from many social media platforms but can anyone point me to information relating to the London Interdisciplinary School (#LIS) beyond the obvious I can find online? For example, who actually funds them? What's their ethos? Tx

The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy. Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society. Refugees are welcome.

CFP for "Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present," 15 – 16 June 2026 that forms the latest @menysnoweballes.bsky.social exciting series of events and publications on this theme. Deadline 14 February 2026! Details are included on the link below. 🎉 www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...

This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead. Trans People Deserve Better. "Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right open.substack.com/pub/wellread...

As Labour MPs go, Stella Creasy is a staunch centrist, who despised Corbynism. If the Cabinet has lost her on this, well...

Is this all just an attempt to process the actual horrors of colonialism in the most projective and narcissistic manner imaginable? Discuss.

My kiddo's favorite books are Paddington and The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Then my wife starts rereading Wuthering Heights and now I'm working on a unified theory of British literature: it's actually all just one book about the horror of someone showing up uninvited...

Resigning time is long overdue for any Labour minister who wants to be taken seriously in progressive politics. It's embarrassing that you're still in this government, and will only become more so; the least embarrassing thing you can do for yourself is resign right now

This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour

Tough on Labour voting; tough on the causes of Labour voting.

It's only Meme Creation if it's from the meme region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling shitposting

Since moving away from Microsoft products I mostly have an open source set of font choices, and my recent faves have been Roboto and FreeSerif. Funkier fonts I enjoy are Village (based on the font used in The Prisoner) and Futura

Fight the bastards with anti-bastardly policies! A better world is possible, and the only way to a less bad world is to fight for a better world

florence pew: thread

That scene in A Man For All Seasons where St. Thomas More explains why it's still good to apply the law to someone you know is bad but it's explaining why social media death threats are bad even if you really really don't like the person being threatened.

In better news my book is coming out in paperback next March (pre-orders now available)! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

apropos of this, i've been doing a positionality acknowledgement before presentations for some years now. I speak of growing up as a citizen of colonial country, benefiting from that, and the connections between my current institution and systems of oppression

I'll never forget @stephenshapiro.bsky.social's land acknowledgment in Heidelberg, stating that the University is housed (in part) in buildings stolen from Jews. Obviously not the same thing, but seeing the form deployed in a new context reinforced its original function (at least for me).

Does anyone have any recent reading recommendations on how people (particularly working-class people) adjusted to technological change in the long c19th? By reading list feels a little dated... Thanks!

Some of these have been taken, but there are lots still available! Grab them while you can!

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I had never heard of the guy until much later, but that's largely because I WAS NOT ONE OF HIS MATES! If he had been inviting me to island holidays, I think I would have noticed when he was convicted for noncing

Anyway, apropos of nothing can I just say that I'm extremely open to being a coPI on your project. I have an impressive CV, can work across a bunch of historical subdisciplines & engage directly with STEM + I write like a fkng unstoppable steam train - you want an article? You got an article! 🗃️

And especially this. Be the leave-the-duvet-on-my-hedge guy!

All of this thread 👌❤️✊

Each with individual motivations and backstory

This was great: the idea of not preparing a presentation but being asked some informal conversational questions just to get you talking on what you do, with a small number of lovely people just nodding & smiling, all sitting on sofas & comfy chars is such a fun refreshing format! I loved it! 🥂

When people ask me what Britishness is in going to send them this post

Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Great post 👌

"The dispute between the two has been going on since Sultana announced in July she was resigning from Labour to set up Your Party alongside Corbyn." The world's burning, elites are hoarding power, politicians are stirring up hate... Let's start an internal party dispute before launching our party!