If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Boycott the New York Times

After the genocide / the genocide. Three by Fady Joudah: arablit.org/2025/11/05/t...

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

The pales winter light outside our workshop window is beautiful

Gaza sits inside Ryan Ruby’s essay on Guyotat

Help fight the closure of geography at Leicester. Solidarity with all combatting this

Seems like a good day for big ideas.

The sky is darker than dark outside this replacement bus

What an article. Thank you for writing this and taking on such important and difficult lines of thought

but the thing is their AI submits to our AI overheard conversation between white collar workers on their commute this morning

This is a beautiful essay

"As long as the university system in the UK is so wildly underfunded as it is now, universities will be vulnerable to attacks like this." That’s the crux of it, isn’t it?

Please read and consider signing the letter in solidarity with Dr Farhana Sultana who has been placed on leave for extramural speech in the context of intensifying repression docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

‘The university told her that a combination of administrative issues meant they could no longer support her work. But further inquiries suggested the university was “explicitly trading my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,” Murphy said’

Loved the Wayne Thiebaud at the Courtauld. Can’t get my head around the fact that is the very first museum show of his work in the UK

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

When and where does the imperial core’s genocidal violence disrupt academic scholarship in the Anglo-American academy? Where and how does Gaza appear (and, equally, where does it not)? This comes from the start of an essay on Theweleit’s Male Fantasies read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...

SOAS University becomes the first British University to Issue a Statement on Scholasticide in Gaza www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/s...

Ooh! Current issue of History of the Present has a forum (currently freely accessible) on Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies - in his time and ours read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...

Solidarity with all British Library workers on strike

Took me several years to take this down from my bookshelf to read; I had read several shattering reviews over the years. I finished it this evening and need now to sit in silence

This is a growing list. I’ve just added my signature. Follow the link here: www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...

The real cancel culture in British universities on.ft.com/430FLZs

We have reached reading week. Here is beautiful Loch Lomond in the autumn sun on the last day before the hour changes

On capitalism and the temporalities of industrial location theory: Liberalism to Fordism - Parker Everett journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

On the relationship between psychical researchers and their mediums (later, parapsychologists and performing telepaths): 'Of modern mediums and susceptible psychologists, and of things we do not know': Jaap Bos (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

‘In the end, generative AI might be a blip in tech history, over-promising and under-delivering until finally the cash runs out. But it seems it’s arrived just in time to shove universities over a cliff edge they’d already walked themselves up to’: @jraden.bsky.social

Coupling this study with existing evidence of how COVID infections can increase the mortality of those with certain cancers eg www.nature.com/articles/d41... makes an even stronger argument for the potential of COVID-19 vaccines to increase rates of survival in those with cancer

So now they're developing AI-simulated patient & public involvement/engagement (PPIE) panels and claiming it will ensure 'more inclusive' and 'diverse' patient involvement (by simulating lived experience of those harder to recruit to panels). www.nhsgoldenjubilee.co.uk/research-and...

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

This critique of the Critical Medical Humanities is part of a forthcoming special issue on the medical humanities (past, present and future) in @histhum.bsky.social

History of the Human Sciences announces its 2025-26 ECR Prize. All details (including previous winners) on our para-site histhum.com. Deadline: 30 January 2026. Also! Follow the journal on Bluesky at @histhum.bsky.social www.histhum.com/early-career...

This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️ We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges

What might the category of brain fog (cf. trauma) open up and what might it foreclose? Thanks @dialogueshg.bsky.social for the opportunity to respond to @davidjbissell.bsky.social's article on brain fog/'being out of it' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Tithi Bhattacharya responds to Eric Blanc, Bashir Abu-Manneh, and Hoda Mitwally's recent criticisms of the US Palestine solidarity movement. spectrejournal.com/there-are-no...

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

(…& the exhibition is online here: london.ac.uk/seized-books)

Reading those headlines that mention the prospect of peace — with no justice, no reckoning, and a refusal of liberation — this morning is making me nauseous

"The more disruption occurs, the more financial models adapt to expect it. This means that every disruption is effective, whether or not it stops a project outright. Even when it looks like we’re losing, we’re shifting the risk landscape"

Such an important essay by Rawad Wehbe on poetry in a time of genocide: “When a poet is relegated to mere commentary, regardless of context, language ceases to be an intervention, and the poet is no longer an agitator”

So Cardiff University's defence of its surveillance of students via social media posts is to state that everyone else is doing it too www.theguardian.com/education/20...

‘If the university’s continued financial viability relies on making a world that is safe for settler colonialism, then the past is not such a foreign country’.

The 'Battle of Cable Street', which took place on 4 October, 1936, has become a foundational myth of anti-fascism in Britain. This excerpt from my 'No Platform' book explores how 'Cable Street' was used as inspiration for student activists in the 1970s. hatfulofhistory.com/2020/10/03/t...

Jake Romm looks at one painting by Luca Giordano – hard, repeatedly – and what an essay he ends up writing

Reading Trump's compact for universities & checking off how many demands (institutional neutrality, the need to interpret 'male', 'female' according to reproductive function/biology, etc.) British universities have already embraced/appear willing to embrace www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

“When Palestine in English revolts, it’s because Palestine in Arabic gives it life. Palestine in English resists becoming ghost because Palestine in Arabic is never ghost, no matter the immensity of ruin”: Fady Joudah in @parapraxismag.bsky.social www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/exh...

“Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire (or the material conditions that shape desire)” Claire Wilmot @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...