Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Because why bother to leave something as important as making an immigration decision for someone to human beings when you can ask an AI to summarise it wrongly for you? its not as if it would negatively impact people already privileged by their citizenship, race, class status, amirite. Bravo, Canada

Today we're thinking about our special Pandemic/Post-Pandemic issue, conceived 6 years ago. Edited by David Mazella and Elaine McGirr, these essays offer extensive reflections on the questions posed by a pandemic. Read the introduction here: doi-org.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/10.1353/rst....

A bit late to this one but thoroughly enjoying this discussion so far about one of my favourite Kay novels--a slightly longer no spoilers introductory section than in past videos and a nice refresher on Medieval France from Evan.

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

While our American cousins take to the streets to protest against Tяump's authoritarianism on No Kings Day, we're marching in London to prevent his divisive politics being imported to the UK. I'll be playing a few songs in Whitehall around 2:30pm www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

MA Scholarship Award for scholars of colour. In 2026, we plan to offer two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. This scholarship is open to candidates studying on either a full time or a part time basis. Apply by 15 July 2026 rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

You can get 25% off the paperback of Queen Demon now at the @barnesandnoble.com #bnpreorder sale www.barnesandnoble.com/w/queen-demo... it comes out on September 1st

Solidarity to all Nova Scotian post-secondary students on strike this week for affordable tuition and divestment. Academia can be a better place and you are leading the way.

Durham University is hiring an Assistant Professor in Middle East Politics, d/line 7th April... durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

📣 New internship 📣 An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PhD student or Early Career Researcher to work as a research intern for the Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO). Applications close 1 April 2026. For more details, please see: shorturl.at/pdO1r #18thcentury #eighteenthcentury

Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.

#BookHistory mutuals, pls do your magic. A student in my seminar is looking for sources on fingerprints in books. Other than Darnton's reference to inky fingerprints left on the plates of the Encyclopedie, & Folger blog posts by @wynkenhimself.bsky.social, I'm short of ideas. Do you have any? THX!

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region. Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat. We live in Orwellian times.

one google data center in virginia two million gallons of water per day information only released under court order & risk of contempt

If you're a writer or researcher who thinks AI is better than you at your job, I believe you. I just don't think you should pretend like your skill issue affects me

100% this! 👇

In an interview with a writer at the Dal Gazette yesterday I described professors' commitment to their students as the fumes the university is running on at this point and I really don't think that's an exaggeration, at least on my corner of campus.

‘It’s okay to change your mind’: Protesters call on Tim Houston to reverse cuts to arts, culture, heritage By @suzannerent.bsky.social

Anyways.

okay, Ill bite. What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody. This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration. This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

Join us at Duke University next month for "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory," a 3-day symposium featuring keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Register by 3/31. buff.ly/KCrn1re

CFP: Sounding Things: Props, Material Culture, and Accessories in Popular Music Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2026 Abstract Length: 350–500 words Editors: Kate Galloway, Paxton Haven, and Mike Levine Full call here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mfyd...

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others. It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire. That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

The first day of #MorbidMarch is here! Prompt: CASKET Use #MorbidMarch to share and boost art, writing, reading recs, music, folklore, history, science, etc. Whatever the prompt inspires, whether it's creative work or something to stoke morbid imaginings. Please use alt text on images. No A.I.

As it always is throughout the month of March, Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is freed from its usual paywall and available for all to explore.

Wonderful to see that we have already started receiving abstracts for our upcoming conference this summer. If you are an early modernist studying violence from any discipline, do consider this opportunity to share your research with our network, and please help us spread the news! ⬇️

Be careful with this, particularly if you have COVID trauma or disability, because the headline is accurate.

An opportunity for a medievalist to join the team at Cambridge: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ346/a...

So, Roisin Murphy makes the statement that 'no one used the term "queer" unless it was to hurt someone who was gay'. I'm unable to ignore this. The following isn't about making personal comments about Roisin and it's not about the merits of the word, it's about challenging a lie.

As a Black man with Tourette Syndrome, the Public Advocate has some thoughts on BAFTA, Pt. 1: Hear about his experience with Coprolalia, his thoughts on how BAFTA mishandled the moment, and the need for care for all who are harmed: Full video: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs

CfP 🚨 Are you interested in #RomanceResearch and Sports? JPRS is calling for papers for its special issue on Sport Romance! 📆 300-word abstracts to be submitted by 31st May 2026 to Atlanta Tsiaoukkas ([email protected]). 🔗 Find all the information on our website: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...

We may have won silver but our players have a heart of gold 💛 unlike the disgusting US team and their behaviour in that locker room. The misogyny towards the female hockey team. Disgusting 🤮 but unfortunately this Canadian is not surprised in the least.

“A federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”. Sound familiar? That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed. This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year. They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Do you have an essay that contributes to our understanding of literature, history, or culture in the Anglophone world, 1660-1700, or the adjacent periods? We’re open to any subject and any convincing method! Find more information on our website: blog.umd.edu/restorations...

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

🚨WE'RE HIRING AGAIN!🚨 Music @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Permanent lectureship in historically European music (anywhere in the world) in the long 18C. Must have PhD in hand at application. Deadline 12th March; job talks/interviews 1st & 2nd April for ASAP start. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/138148-...

🚨WE'RE HIRING AGAIN – AGAIN!🚨 Music @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Super excited to announce this post: Lecturer in Performance, fixed-term 2 years We're looking for a distinguished performer and performance teacher to head up our new MMus Performance specialism www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/138365-...

18th Century specialists, a question for you: I’ve come across several period sources claiming that Britain was notorious among neighbouring countries for its high rate of suicide. Was this actually true, or just a national self-image? If anyone can point me to modern sources I’d be v grateful

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

We are thrilled to announce that applications for our 1st round of Microgrant funding are now open! These small seed grants of up to $300 USD support exploratory research or new projects in periodical studies. Applications for this first round of funds are due March 1!

Job in early modern history at Warwick 👇 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped