Mon Bingo Bullshit du Téléthon a 11 ans. Hélas il marche toujours aussi bien. #StopTéléthon

6th December 1956 & 1961, the world lost two influential thinkers of emancipation. Dr B R Ambedkar & Dr Frantz Omar Fanon. Let their memory serve as a reminder of their struggles to build an anticasteist & antiracist unconditional humanity. Our mission being to engage their thinking in our presents.

This one’s a heavy recommend for the reading lists:

anyone have recommendations for ~nautical fiction~ (or poetry) that's set now-ish (let's say after ~1990, but especially 21st-century) by writers who have some personal experience with maritime work?

📣 Call for papers (Special Issue): Ethnographies of Learning and Teaching Across Different Cultural Contexts [Cargo. Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology] ⌛ Deadline: January 15, 2026 ✉️ More info: cargojournal.org/index.php/ca... #CallForPapers

🚨 I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data. The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros." Elon about to get big mad.

Seeing a ‘Bus on Diversion’ sign and realising I need a ‘Professor on Digression’ t shirt.

It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️

This open letter against the uncritical adoption of AI in universities, spearheaded by @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social who have both published a whirlwind of excellent academic papers in 2025: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Wildlife tracking! I'm reposting things I made this past year. If you look closely at the deer tracks you'll see I added the hint that they're double registering (hind foot is stepping into the same spot as front foot).

tomorrow! join me and several other smart people 4pm UK / 11 am Eastern / 8 am Pacific for a lively discussion. Register at the link for the zoom

Calling for papers to our @adaptationhive.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social 2026 panel on Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: 'Reimagining justice, knowledge and authority'. The call for papers closes on 30 December. The conference is Hybrid and we are looking forward to exciting proposals!

Huit femmes à l’assaut du trophée Jules-Verne : « Le bateau a fait ses preuves, à nous d’être à sa hauteur »

The present will be copiously preserved in the archaeological record. It's just more likely future people will know us by our pull tabs rather than our philosophical texts www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Another wave crashing over iceberg. Love taking these photos - very challenging to get the shutter speed right, split-second timing right, hoping that the iceberg doesn't move even an inch while all this is happening. But when it works, it's pretty satisfying! Fellsjara, Jökulsárlón #Iceland

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Dolphins Northern gannets Puffins Kingfishers Cats

ALT: Three people carry a Christmas tree wrapped in a white cover, under the supervision of a Nightjet attendant.

What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections? New CFP from Paper Trails here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026 🗃️

If you are someone — citizen, scholars, journalist, activist, etc — fighting against AI data center development anywhere in Canada, can you ping me? Would like to coordinate something…

Watching Columbo for the first time and as someone with a working class chip on his shoulder, seeing all these smug, monied elitists sneeringly underestimating and then being utterly destroyed by a shabby, brilliant little guy is absolutely cathartic.

My line was that I reserve the right to pull my name from the project or paper if I learn that it is LLM produced.

CONTINGENT PHILOSOPHERS! (Contractually, not metaphysically). I’ve been a big fan of @contingent-mag.bsky.social for a while. This year they’re letting philosophy piggyback one of their institutions: the year-end list of books and articles written by non tenured/permanent academics in that year.

Another reason to love Luxembourg. Tipptopp.

My book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums came out this month! I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos. Would make a fantastic gift for any animal lover or museum goer. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Quand je dis que Heinich et la bande de l'observatoire de Sterin nous mettent en danger c'est parce qu'ils et elles participent à rendre ce genre de situations possibles

New challenge for busy researchers who lament that they don't have time to think these days: For 2026, plan for thinking time, or time to do nothing (which is when some of the best ideas happen). Protect it. Make it sacrosanct. If you don't take your thinking time seriously, no-one else will.

These #worms fell down from the sky, maybe, in 1672 Europe, and lived for another couple of days. However fantastic the #earlymodern story of the falling "Würmer" is, I do like the alien-freakish styled insects a lot. Zoom in and choose your favorite:

Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.

📣 Call for papers (Special Issue): Ethnographies of Learning and Teaching Across Different Cultural Contexts [Cargo. Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology] ⌛ Deadline: January 15, 2026 ✉️ More info: cargojournal.org/index.php/ca... #CallForPapers

I guess for some people, junior scientists are like eggs. If you have a dozen, you can break most of them because you only need a couple to produce an omelet.

OUT: Thinking outside the box IN: Calling a carrot a carrot

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

Help! @frenchhistory.bsky.social really wanted this for journal cover next year (we’ve got exciting things coming on quantitative and computational methods) but it’s a challenge finding higher res versions/rights holder. Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️

This is absolutely the type of hard hitting reporting I want to see in my local news. Dive deep. Tell us everything.

If you are in Scotland, come see me talk about digital interpretation work at NMAAHC! Also, come see if my looks have changed from this, my first ever headshot (circa...9 years ago?) or if the portrait in my attic is doing its job

Cette réunion aurait pu être une bagarre

Tomorrow, I will be moderating a panel at a conference for the first time. What advice would you have liked to receive before doing this for the first time? Thank you! (I have already emailed the speakers to look at their bios and plan to chat with them today.) #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences? When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded. /

Important thread.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

Anyone in the Nantucket, MA area? I need some help with the local pronunciation of "Quaise". Is it pronounced just like it is spelled? #nantucket #massachusetts

Excellent thread on Barbara Castle and the introduction of the breathalyser! It's an episode with an important moral: that having the courage to do the right thing, even if it's unpopular at the time, can save lives and bring public opinion with it over time.

Quand ton blousque reçoit un conseil non-sollicité pour la millième fois.

Intuit is integrating ChatGPT into their TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, & Mailchimp services, & vice versa. Which is to say, I think a SHIT TON of people are about to get audited. They also claiming no bleedover btwn your financial data & ChatGPT, which… okayy… 😬 www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

😂 What a very British protest - radio DJ doing a 24-hour marathon playing hits that only reached number 2 in the charts, to highlight the 'Number Twos' discharged in sewage into Lake Windermere. 🎧 See also Community Radio Environment Network @cren1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“I don’t always want to ‘celebrate the bones,’” Radtke says, “yet joinery remains an indelible part of each piece’s DNA. You would just have to destroy it to see the construction, and part of me likes that.”