NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

On Renee; www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech. This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.

Nephew approved. @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social @petermandler.bsky.social

I'm very proud of this book: it has a wonderful array of work by many of my favourite historians, which cumulatively makes the pitch for understanding modern British History through the lens of the urban. Lund Humphries have done a wonderful production job, & it is a big beautiful book. Buy it now!

Launch event for the Modern British City at @c20society.bsky.social on 26th of January: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx... Do come! The book is out with @lhartbooks.bsky.social next week.

I've been waiting to comment publicly on this until the university made its announcement, but the Department of History at Princeton is devastated by the recent death of our wonderful colleague Alison Isenberg.

Y’all if they’re marching in The Woodlands and Marble Falls that means a shit load more than marches in DC, NYC, and Boston.

"But fueling Jewish studies on the fumes of the Trump administration’s attack on higher education is not a win. It’s a trap, and one we fear will bring ill consequences to our field, our universities, and American Jews." From @lilacb.bsky.social, Kate Rosenblatt, and me.

On a Tuesday in March, Rümeysa Öztürk writes, “I was thrust into a nightmare.” For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.

The Modern British City 1945-2000 is out on November 28th, and is available for pre-order from ‪@lhartbooks.bsky.social‬: www.lundhumphries.com/products/the....

My brilliant thesis student! Congrats, Maeve 🍾

Historians for Trans Rights - open letter, please sign - you don’t have to be a UK based historian to sign the letter #allyship #solidarity docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

I am a proud Tufts University alum, proud parent of a current Tufts student., a proud American & a proud Jew. This morning, I sent this letter to the Tufts President and the Board of Trustees. More than 100 parents and alumni have signed on. cc: @dandrezner.bsky.social @amyspitalnick.bsky.social

Her office opens at 9am - let's jam those phone lines, folks, let's demand to know when she will be denouncing these federal kidnappings and this brazen attack on our neighbors, our students, our school, and our state. MA isn't a sanctuary state? We're gonna make it one.

An interesting report on the new Sunday opening of the Stornoway Tesco by @everebecca.bsky.social, which makes the case that it's community and workers' leisure, not simply religion which is at stake. Stornoway is better understood as part of changes that have impacted all of us.