Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.

We're bringing back the great union songs in 2026, and we're doing it very strongly www.instagram.com/reels/DS-uIn...

Bernie Sanders publicly swears in Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Apparently Americans need to be reminded yet again that we have never suspended elections during a war. Lincoln was reelected during the Civil War (a large part of why we have absentee voting), FDR during WW2. It's never been true, and scaring folks with untrue things makes you not a good person.

Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.

I use this to prevent overwork and track how long admin tasks actually take. I usually only last a few months with the diligence, but it sure helps my mental health to know that no, I'm not bad at it, there really is just too much to do.

In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind: showing up at protests has real impact - - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Yet another of Primo's crimes

As I said on the other app, so again here: Thank you, friend, for this encouraging blurb, and let us hope the book lives up to your high praise! #grateful

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

This is so useful. I don't know how anyone can confidently identify LLM-generated text just from vibes alone, and I think assuming we can presents a real danger of bias. This is a much better way.

Our final newsletter of 2025: BDM report, UCU Congress timing survey, news from UCU, UK HE and Australian HE! See you all in 2026!

"Students, faculty, staff and alumni need to create a subversive alternative university lurking within the shadows of the university itself. This shadow university is essential because trustees, administrators and wealthy donors ultimately control the structure of universities."—John K. Wilson

@mcbride.house.gov is right. It’s hard enough being a kid — and politicians don’t need to make it harder. Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.

This @wsj.com piece has great graphics and a searchable database that shows the many many ways that Trump and his sons make money. There’s been a few other takes like this recently, but this is by far the most comprehensive one I’ve seen. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

“Sunsetting: How Universities Naturalize Ideologically Motivated Cuts and Closures,” forthcoming from a university press probably on its way to being sunsetted

New Post: The civic university movement at an inflection point: reflecting on the National Civic Impact Accelerator’s legacy www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/12/18/t...

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

This is manifestly what it's for

;Eliminating funding for 3* research in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling into how potential changes to funding formulas may play out.' 1/3

'An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the Russell Group university “does not have appropriate arrangements in place” for managing workplace stress and was unable to demonstrate that it is managing the risks associated with excessive workloads.' 1/2

While wearing a custom sequined jacket, Education Secretary Linda McMahon repeatedly refers to FAFSA as "FAFA."

You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

What a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

While on the topic of @historyworkshop.org.uk issue 100, I was really pleased that Hiro Matsubara from Rekiken accepted our invitation to write about some exciting new initiatives in Japan. More cross-border and cross-linguistic historical knowledge sharing please! academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Rob Reiner took the lawless hero — Jason Bourne, Ethan Hunt, Batman — and reminded us that this is actually the bad guy. It’s a lesson worth remembering today.

Look at The Barbara Johnson Collective’s positively gorgeous TOC, folks! ✨

Such good news!

"To these detectives of digital inauthenticity, I say: Friend, welcome to a typical Tuesday in a Kenyan classroom, boardroom, or intra-office Teams chat. The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education."

"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.

#OtD 16 Dec 1913 Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman addressed members of the @IWW on anarchism in Paterson, NJ, despite police warnings and in her from speaking. Audience members ended up fighting police to release her. More on her life and work: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Continuing our series on places in labour history, Constance Bantman explains why the back pages of French anarchist newspapers are her happy place sslh.org.uk/2025/12/12/t...

I always learn so much from @mariaa.bsky.social. She's really helped me think more deeply about AI models and privacy, which sometimes doesn't get enough attention. It's like social media all over again, but now the data is even more sensitive. This clip is worth a listen!

"...observing American culture led him to conclude that 'the ready availability of guns inevitably led to massacres.' He added: 'It just seemed that at some point Australia ought to try and do something so as not to go down the American path.'"

UK research is receiving less recognition than it did before Brexit, while more British scholars are looking to China for funding amid uncertainty over relations with Europe, a new paper suggests. Patrick Jack reports #academicsky https://ow.ly/oLqY50XJF4T

Every university in the UK is currently trying to hang on long enough that a bunch of other universities go bankrupt before they do. Then, maybe the government will do something (fat chance) & there will be the chance at recruiting a few more students to ratchet up that staff:student ratio.

I'm having trouble finding the "America Mourns Rob and Michelle Reiner" piece from the NY Times Editorial Board.

'Nottingham Trent University – which reported a £2 million deficit – paid its departing vice-chancellor Edward Peck a bonus of £66,000 in his last year in the job....Peck...received a total pay package of £435,000 in 2024-25 – up from £407,000 the year before.'

"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

What does your local university do for you? If your local university is the University of Suffolk or the University of Essex, here's (just) one answer to that question. 1/3

The government is using face-scanning apps to check if random people on the street are citizens. And they say you cannot refuse. Our new dystopia, on this week’s Reveal:

ICE has taken Chinese dissident Guan Heng into custody and is threatening to return him to China. Guan Heng risked his life to film the Uyghur concentration camps—the same camps Secretary of State Rubio opposed when he sponsored the “Uyghur Force Labor Prevention Act” as a US senator.

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Go to the page on Canvas that tells you how many hours each user spends on the site, look at the amounts for your students, and then look at the amount for YOU. Obviously your number will include time spent grading, but it will be an upsettingly high number and it will explain your blood pressure