The description of this "training" video... so embarrassing for Northwestern's administration to be foisting this propaganda on people. Kudos and power to these students! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Klein is wrong: Biden waived 26 federal laws so he could build Trump's shitty wall. It was one of the many terrible Trump policies he continued and was followed shortly by funding and abetting genocide. www.politico.com/news/2023/10...

British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right… What a grim betrayal of our democracy. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

God how I hate consultants with the rage of a thousand burning suns--nothing ever has been built or made by them, all they do is destroy.

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

Thanks to all who're getting the word out about this new narrative of the 2nd Plague Pandemic! It presents the "new paradigm" for framing the late medieval pandemic, re-reading 700-year-old narratives & now adding in new data from Biology & Archaeology. A new history for our new age of pandemics. 🧪🗃️

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

Problematic (to put it kindly) on so many levels. 1) there isn't really 'unfunded' research. The REF is there to allocate resources so that research is possible without a grant.

Saw this right after your post -

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

I don’t think I would have been able to get a PhD without FLAS fellowships. They let me learn Arabic and Persian, which were fundamental to my PhD.

Send this to all the genocide deniers in your life I’m sending it to my rabbi

A correction to the @aahmhistmed.bsky.social newsletter notice that came out this morning about the Black Death teaching module. Two links were supposed to be provided, but only the one for the module itself was. The one for the blogpost is: www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07.... Queries welcome.

points are made

The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine. Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.

1000 faculty hit the picket lines tomorrow, 930 am, lockout by @dalhousieu.bsky.social. A first for CDN research intensive universities. A reckless move by the Board - jeopardizing the fall term, ruining relations with faculty for years to come. Join us on the picket lines to #keepdalstrong!

ftr, *this* is who they're shutting down. from ACLS:

This came up a few times in conversations with other people with settled status in the UK, so sharing. You may now be asked, upon returning home to the UK, for a proof of your settled status. You can get a 'share code' following this link. It's easy, even if a pain: www.gov.uk/evisa/view-e...

Gonna go out on a limb and say that I've never seen a good bit of journalism that started with the phrase, "I recently looked up the Arabic translation..."

1) Disabled children also deserve food. 2) disabled children are MORE vulnerable so if one were to rank ethical obligations (a mistake), protecting them matters more. 3) poverty and trauma cause disability. We know why these children are more likely to be disabled.

More people who work in universities should read up about their finances, however, public posts about university finances should always take the extra 2 paragraphs to give more detail. That's a bit lacking here. 🧵

You've got to be kitten me! 🐈 This photograph shows students and staff who lived at Reed Hall in 1937. We had to double take when we spotted two paw-some residents among them! 📷 EUL UA/P/3/i #InternationalCatDay #CatDay #Cats #UniOfExeterArchive #Archives #FlashbackFriday

📢 We are excited to announce our next High Gravity Talk with @audreytruschke.bsky.social entitled "Fieldnotes from Battles over Indian History, Society, and Sciences" on November 20, 2025, 16:00 at the Leibniz Hall, Berlin. @mpiwg.bsky.social 🔗 tinyurl.com/mr2jrnz5

firstdays.saada.org/story/cm-naim my most favorite first day on SAADA. Rest in power Professor Naim.

A reactionary centrist without values is the perfect description of Keir Starmer, added to which he might just be the blandest "salt is too spicy for me" politician I have seen in decades of watching British politics

Just posted: "works cited" in the three sessions I did last week at the University of Exeter. The sessions addressed the ways evolutionary genetics is becoming the foundation for new pandemic narratives, & the ways #histmed is now adapting to those changes: www.academia.edu/130103666/ 🧪🗃️

the Iraq invasion debate wasn't even really allowed to happen. if you opposed it you were anti-american, if not outright on the side of the 9/11 perpetrators

New AAUP podcast featuring some awesome academics, plus me, talking about #academicfreedom in a transnational context. Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1837772/epis...

“Instead of passing these proposals on the nod, Council should do its job & recommend a more reasonable period of reform, reducing risks to the Uni’s reputation, academic sustainability, staff wellbeing, & student satisfaction.” - @cardiffucu.bsky.social nation.cymru/news/macho-a...

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

The following day, 17 June, I'll be doing a Masterclass w/ my colleague & co-author, @fancynahyan.bsky.social: "Towards a global history of the Black Death, 10.30-12:00. We will discuss how drawing on #histmed from both the Islamic world & Europe illuminated anomalies we were finding in our sources.

For those in/around Exeter, I will be giving a public lecture on Monday, 16 June at 13:00 on the topic of "How Genetics Has Changed the History of Pandemics, And How History Is Changing Genetics": www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-visiti.... #histmed #GlobalHealth #EpiSky #aDNA #plague #leprosy #TB 🧪🗃️

Why did you title the book "India", not "South Asia"? What's your favorite bit of Indian history? Isn't history a boring subject? Answers to those questions and more in this interview about my newest book -- press.princeton.edu/ideas/audrey...

Important to note that, despite positive press, modern languages at Cardiff University are far from saved. Ancient History and Religion lose their named degrees, but at least there is some commitment (for now) to teach those topics as part of other degrees.

Who did this? 😂

We are the eight students, staff, and faculty from across the City University of New York system who started an indefinite hunger strike. We have one demand: that CUNY divest from Israel and companies aiding the genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/we-a... #Palestine #Israel

‘Andreessen Horowitz has a web page dedicated to “DoD Contracting for Startups 101”. Pitching to the Pentagon requires patience, it warns, but “defence contracts offer not just funding, but also long-term sustainment.”’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on US defence spending: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Live now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OYS...

Big news in #GlobalHealthHistory today. A species of bacterium that causes leprosy, discovered in 2008 in modern patients, has been proven to have been present in the Americas well before European arrival. More details in 🧵 below: www.science.org/content/arti... #GlobalMiddleAges #histmed #aDNA 🧪

Ok, you find it funny or interesting why some centuries are "long" and others are "short" and why do historians use terms like "the Middle Ages" or "the Renaissance" but get cross about it all the time? And keep forbidding things like "the Dark Ages"? Isn't it weird? Well, no. 1/

#MedievalSky #EpiSky #histmed Online seminar on 11 June on "Mortality crises in the Medieval Mediterranean: sources and approaches." Papers by Smail (Harvard), da Silva (São Paolo), and da Silva (Évora). www.academia.edu/129482452/14...

Appalling. Unacceptable. Yet another grim reminder that India is a free democracy no more. scroll.in/latest/10824...

It wasn't his speech. It was the applause from his peers. You don't need this level of repression for one student's personal views. You need this level of repression to crush a generation.

Anyway I know I catch a lot of flack from lawyers and clients alike for my categorical refusal to use AI to write my briefs but I will never use AI to write my briefs. If I fuck up reading a case, it will be my own eyes doing the fuck up.

Lawyers should face serious and career ending consequences for this kind of behavior. How is this anything but professional malpractice?

This never gets old: reading about a medieval MS & then less than 5 minutes later, you have it open in front of you! Today's beauty, a 1258 copy of Gerard of Cremona's translation of Avicenna's Canon. We need to be planning now how we're going to piece our world back together. There is still beauty!

Israel carried out its plan to erase Gaza over the course of 18 months. Now that the plan has clearly fallen into place, the Netanyahu government is openly discussing ethnic cleansing. And still, Israel enjoys complete international impunity. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/exte...