She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

I will never forget how wealthy elite universities like Northwestern took the opportunity to squash DEI and public school districts largely reliant on federal funds told Trump to go fuck himself and kept doing DEI (and won)

Sample pages for my new book /Social Media Tribes/, out later this year:

Few want to talk about it, but both Hamas and Israel have an incentive to use relatively conservative methodologies for counting deaths. Israel's motives here are clear enough, but contrary to popular belief in the West, the goal of armed resistance is not to die but to make the other guy die...

Global warming must peak below 2°C then return under 1.5°C as quickly as possible to limit the risk of dangerous “tipping points”, according to research led by Dr @paulritchie.bsky.social from @exeter.ac.uk. news.exeter.ac.uk/global-syste...

Every uni that dismantled depts and offices did so because they wanted to. DEI was always window dressing for admin and faculty who did the work were labeled problems. At best, unis believed complying in advance would save them from the fire directed at Columbia and Harvard. Cowards.

I'm a public scholar because David showed me how to be, and opened the doors for me to make it possible. I cannot wait for this book.

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The same with Northwestern and other liberal institutions in blue cities and blue states with DEI. They could have fought. They could have won! But rather than trying, they CHOSE to enshrine racism and condemn the fight for liberty. This is why we don’t trust liberal orgs. bsky.app/profile/aclu...

NYU Langone ending trans youth care feels like the end is neigh for trans youth care in the US & I’m in a rage that it’s not Trump or Republicans forcing the end of this care, it’s private “liberal” universities in blue cities/blue states voluntarily doing this (also Northwestern Lurie in Chicago).

The blockade on Cuba is unconscionable.

Dogs know. Dogs always know. Never cross a picket line, especially @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social's @northumbriauni.bsky.social @chionwurah.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @andylong6.bsky.social @georgeclarke.bsky.social @labourunionsuk.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

We're hosting a hybrid conference! "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches" will explore traditional and recent themes in public health history. To be notified when registration opens, fill out this form: forms.gle/CSEQLpo75n56... #histmed #histstm

#BlackExcellence in aviation continues to soar from the heart of the #FightingFifth, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, to every horizon. This #BlackHistoryMonth, I reintroduced a resolution honoring International Black Aviation Professionals Day.

BREAKING: government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism law ruled UNLAWFUL This matters for everyone. For years, the right to protest has been under sustained and deliberate attack. Thousands of people have been arrested for something that should have never been a crime.

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I can’t say I’m keen on hearing these creepy authoritarians telling women to ‘Breed for Britain’ because of their racist white replacement theory. Actually shuddered reading this, it’s viscerally revolting.

‘There is an undeniable symmetry between surges in drug use in the US and the country’s covert operations overseas. The wars in Indochina gave the US heroin epidemics; Latin America, a plague of powder and crack cocaine.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

“Epstein’s passion for injecting eugenics into conversation after conversation in his emails should shape the way we think about his role in funding scientific research and development—and steering richer men’s money in that world”

I will give a public talk in the Smithsonian series Science in the City, co-sponsored by American Institute of Physics. Joining me will be Teasel Muir-Harmony and Sara Grossman, on DC and Science. Register below. Feb 26, 6 p.m. American Institute of Physics 555 12th Street NW, Suite 250

Just a reminder that in MN, the Walz admin put optum ai in charge of deciding whether Medicaid and related payment requests were fraudulent. It aint just republicans.

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...

I'm not sure people appreciate quite what a blow to Starmer's government the acquittal of the Palestine Action protestors is. It both blows apart the whole proscription idea and demonstrates how out of touch they are. This was a jury. Juries represent the public.

On Monday, our Chair Richard Keller read the Memorial Resolution honoring Professor Emeritus Ronald L. Numbers, crafted by Judy Leavitt. Read the full resolution: go.wisc.edu/q6t59g A fitting tribute to an extraordinary scholar and colleague. 🕊️

It's like all the British reporters have got the memo. They are all now claiming Epstein was a Russian spy. Lol.

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

"A Fatimid Interoffice Memo about the Franks, May God Forsake Them" by Marina Rustow, Alan Elbaum, and Paul M. Cobb

“We had no idea, the public record had no indication, that he was anything more than an ordinary — if you could say such a thing — sex offender who had been convicted and went to jail.”

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

Announcing the South Asia launch of my India book. Lahore. February. Join us.

#histmed #PandemicThinking 🗃️

"Peace is not what you ask for when the boot is already on someone else's neck. Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don't want to be interrupted." Also relevant re: Palestine.

One problem with advocating for censoring unwanted political content on TikTok is that you might get your way

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Following up with the first 2 adverts for our new @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project on the history of smallpox and measles. The ads are linked below along with a write-up on the project. Both are effectively a fully funded PhD position, for those so inclined. 1/4 bsky.app/profile/fanc...

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

🧵Yesterday, we filed a first-in-the-nation class action against Eightfold AI—a company most people have never heard of, but that plays a hidden role in deciding who gets hired at some of the biggest companies in the country. /1 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/b...

Everyone is quick to celebrate a hero the moment someone presents a glimmer of that possibility. It’s worth tempering the enthusiasm by noting that Carney mentioned lowering taxes on capital gains, increasing defense spending, & mining in more places. It was Davos and he’s of Goldman Sachs pedigree.

#medievalsky #earlymodern

were not real (by governments, universities and news outlets) is as damaging to the public sense of trust in institutions as anything Ruper Murdoch has ever accomplished, perhaps worse. This attempt to dismiss reality as documented and understood by thinking ppl helped usher in "AI" & Trump 2.0

I've been thinking about this a lot, for months: Gaza was a breaking point between verifiable reality and liberal governance. "AI" sparks fears ppl will believe things that aren't true, but Gaza SHOWED things that WERE true—& western governments, universities & news outlets pretened they were not.

When they failed to apply the same logic to Palestine as they were applying to Ukraine, they helped blow up NATO. When they failed to take seriously marginalized people's concerns about Trump, they helped Trump to come for them one day.

Unsaid: a major point of rupture was Gaza! When the US, EU, UK, Canada and Austrailia ignored the video evidence, ignored journalists on the ground, ignored the ICJ, ignored the UN, and ignored the ICC, they took a bitg shit on the international rules-based order and flushed it down the toilet.

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If this particular iteration of desi techbro is worried enough about this to make this statement at Davos it does suggest things aren’t going well, though. Doing my part at least, by being a hater extraordinaire

#JobOpening #PhDPosition #CfA The Academy project "Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus" is looking for a doctoral researcher with a prior degree in Latin or Arabic:

Gilles Deleuze, slamming his fist on the table: "no! You're describing societies of control!"