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📣 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 In THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME, @chanda.bsky.social blends physics, post-colonial history & Black feminist thought to show why “the edge” is the best place to see the big picture. On sale 4/7/26! Cover designer: Tyler Comrie www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Until someone works out how to get monopoly profits from renewables they are constantly going to be attacked by frightened oligarchs.

a bit disgruntled

honestly, genuinely, if you could speak OK French and do calculus and prac-crit a poem when you were 17 you can definitely still do it today. it will take you a maximum of a handful of months to get back any of those things, and it is really joyful. brains are not like bodies in this way.

A grim thread. I have reverted to mostly in-class assignments. The era of undergrads writing essays unsupervised on their own time is rapidly coming to a close.

The fascism is killing us, some faster than others, but nearly all of us either way.

one of the ways Trump’s war is robbing you (if you’re alive to read this) is that news organizations that still do arts coverage are cutting their arts coverage to make room for war coverage

With Amazon down, a good reminder to buy books from actual bookstores—not an oligarch-owned tech behemoth that exploits its workers.

A friendly reminder that your Libro audiobook credits never expire 🙃 You bought them...so why would we take them away?

@justinevdl.bsky.social just joined Bluesky. Give her a follow and preorder UNREASONABLE WOMEN immediately. An extraordinary book everyone will be talking about this year.

On NJ Transit on the way home and the train just died. Just another day/reminder of how “the richest and most powerful nation in the world” cannot do mass transit. We can afford a war and build concentration camps, but not mass transit.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Pliny the Elder stayed put during an eruption of Vesuvius to get out of his interview with Chotiner. - Reposted thread for #ClassicsSky

Tonight in London!

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 💀 When Paris mobs believed nobles drank the blood of the poor, riots erupted. Hear Nick Jubber on History Rage unpack the politics of the vampire myth. 🎧 Listen now! → pod.fo/e/39abb6 #Vampires #Podcast #HistoryRage

I second Surekha's endorsement Isaac Chotiner is the avenging angel of being deeply informed, doing your homework, critical thinking, and paying attention His interviews are works of surgical art

Dirt farmers in New Mexico and ranchers and farmers in Colorado, I was never told much beyond that. My father fought in WWII, was wounded, and was in a Nazi prison camp. My mother was a kid during the Depression when she had to have an emergency operation without anesthesia.

Good news: my dragon is now on Netgalley! It’s a different sort of dragon rider novel: one from the dragon’s POV. He’s just here for the free food, he swears. If you are an ARC-ish sort, there is a Read Now window open through Friday.

Pliny the Elder stayed put during an eruption of Vesuvius to get out of his interview with Chotiner. - Reposted thread for #ClassicsSky

It’s Women in Horror Month! As a woman in horror I’d love it if we could make our horror happen:

Happy Weird Pride Day, everyone! Here's a bit of the context to all this: bsky.app/profile/ferg...

Full book jacket just dropped, and we're pretty happy with it. Huge thanks to @cecilefromont.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, Alice, and Andrés for your generous words! #earlymodern #BeyondTheOcean global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Of the many poisonous legacies of 14 years of Conservative rule, the lining of the BBC with Tory nitwits, from Robbie Gibb to Laura Kuenssberg, has rendered the Corporation a reactionary mouthpiece.

Several of the recommended books are by authors taking part in one of three discussions for this year's Weird Pride Day: @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social, @robinince.bsky.social, @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social, @jlimburg.bsky.social and @neurohubcommunity.org. Details here: weirdpride.day/2026-content

I've put up a page on the Weird Pride Day site explaining why we felt the need theme this year's event around Weird Pride in a Hostile World. Or... maybe not really explaining why, because it seems painfully obvious. But definitely explaining something! weirdpride.day/2026-context

We have more events happening for this year's Weird Pride Day (Wednesday) than we've ever had before. @stimpunks.org and @amase.org.uk are co-hosting a round of Lightning Talks at noon PST/8pm GMT on the day, where anyone can talk for up to seven minutes on a weirdness-related theme.

Truly extraordinary. And there’s a twist at the end.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

'Monstrous Pride' with @fergus.oolong.co.uk, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social, @kikutowne.bsky.social, Nat Paterson & Sumita Unjumbled premières at 6pm GMT (10am PST) tomorrow - in time to give a bit of a break before the Lightning Talks hosted by @amase.org.uk + @stimpunks.org. youtu.be/0KjgcBFYhAQ?...

According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.

Scholar, seductress, alchemist: who was the real Cleopatra? Excellent piece from Saara El-Arifi, who’ll be speaking at #HistFest2026 on 18 April. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us. Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heading to London today to speak at the @linneansociety.bsky.social on Thursday evening (pinned post). Getting my brain into #histsci gear. Here's a thread and a podcast episode about how it all started: too much #StarTrek and the fabled Cavendish labs for #physics.

Today's think piece seems designed to pit ECRs against mid-career colleagues but really, as Dr Davies points out, the sector is in freefall. All of us are in danger!

"But as the emails reveal, these same men did not see women as intellectual equals." And the way AI is being developed and applied in billionaire-bro-dominated companies HARMS WOMEN AND CHILDREN and anyone who is already subject to discrimination. 3/3

“But what if we gave the One Ring better training?”

Heading to London today to speak at the @linneansociety.bsky.social on Thursday evening (pinned post). Getting my brain into #histsci gear. Here's a thread and a podcast episode about how it all started: too much #StarTrek and the fabled Cavendish labs for #physics.

One of the core messages of the work at Stand Up for Science is we are fighting against science being used as a weapon against civilians. The US bombed a school that was IN SESSION. What makes you think they won’t turn that tech on us, too.

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

Threads in threads in threads: book excerpts at *this* thread! bsky.app/profile/drsu...

🚨 COMING TOMORROW🚨 💀 When science met superstition, vampires were born. Join Nick Jubber on History Rage to uncover how faith and fear shaped Europe’s most enduring monster. 🧛‍♂️ #Vampires #Podcast #HistoryRage

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

@nataliehaynes.bsky.social talks about how she got into classics through Medea, and her book and comedy worlds, with @robinince.bsky.social on the How To Academy podcast. A riveting convo! 🗃 💙📚 #theatre howtoacademy.com/podcasts/nat...

In which people CHOOSE TO VOTE for a female plumber representing a party with broadly liberal values and an unelected life peer declares it to be the end of liberal democracy.