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Nine titles from independent publishers and seven debuts have been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, including books by Wendy Erskine, Lily King, Katie Kitamura and Kit de Waal 👇 #BookSky
The herostratic impulse: to burn the world as a final act of self-assertion
One neutral EU country wondering how it can (and whether it should) help another neutral EU country.
I have said for years that neutrality in Europe will come increasingly under pressure.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
By the excellent @timothysnyder.bsky.social
Course slides discussing Dewey, Havel, and taking agency.
Taught Havel this year.
We all need to think more on taking agency.
„It is to be expected that Togo’s newly installed restitution committee will demand the repatriation.“ 👇🏾
Creation of Eve from Wells Cathedral drawn by John Flaxman - compare to his drawing of the presentation of Pandora (Image 3).
From the wonderful @porticolibrary.bsky.social, via the glorious @poisonchallis.bsky.social.
HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY! #WBD2026
Delighted to have been on this really interesting panel in Berlin last week, hosted by the British Council & the Alexander Humboldt Foundation about how to protect academic freedom in science over the coming years...
nachdem das verfassungsschutz-gutachten zur afd von nahezu allen seiten wochenlang in der luft zerrissen wurde, stellt man beruhigt fest, dass die legitimität der geheimdienstlichen erkenntnisse für die drangsalierung linker buchhandlungen wohl gerade noch so auszureichen scheint.
New @hepi-news.bsky.social report shows continued fall in foreign language study in England at A-level.
Language teacher recruitment consistently falls well below government targets – in 2024, just 43% of the target was reached.
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(Full report www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/31/n...)
“She preferred the largesse, so wide and free and without mistakes, of not-understanding.”
(Lispector, An Apprenticeship)
'The Publishers Association, whose members include academic publishers across the UK, released a report on 4 March making the case for the protection of content as demand for its use by AI companies grows.' 1/3
My latest column for @wpr.bsky.social in which I argue that Macron’s nuclear speech really was groundbreaking and should get more attention
(and please: I did not chose the title! All mistakes in the text are mine, but the title is not.)
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Coming up in just an hour: our next interactive masterclass for @laws.ucl.ac.uk students, with Luis González García of Matrix Chambers, on the legality and longer-term impact of using tariffs as tools of negotiating leverage, geopolitics, and economic security.
www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
I have just held a call with President Pedro Sánchez to express the EU’s full solidarity with Spain.
The EU will always ensure that the interests of its Member States are fully protected.
It is quite astonishing to remember the Iraq war, the demise of a brutal dictator there, the principled opposition of France and Germany, the chaos and regional instability that followed vindicating French and German opposition - and to see only Sanchez have the courage to take a stance.
This Women's History Month we are highlighting the long history of female involvement in Parliament and politics.
Below, Dr Kathryn Rix overviews the political involvement of women in the years leading up to some women gaining the right to vote in 1918.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WHM
Guten Morgen.
Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...
Verschneiter Wald mit dicht gepflanzten jungen Bäumen im Nebel. rechts im Bild steht ein älterer Baum und streckt seine verschneiten Äste in alle Richtungen. Im Seitenspiegel eines Fahrzeugs vorn rechts im Bild sind weitere verschneite Bäume zu erkennen. Schwarz-weiß-Foto.
Verschneiter Acker an einer Waldkante mit großen schneebedeckten Laubbäumen, an denen ein kleiner Weg entlangläuft. Am Himmel ziehen dichte Wolkenformationen, in der Ferne ist Wald zu erkennen. Schwarz-weiß-Bild.
Eine Buche, die ihre Äste in allen Richtungen ausstreckt, steht inmitten vieler jüngerer Buchen im Schnee und im Nebel. An den Ästen der Bäume sind noch Blätter aus dem Herbst zu erkennen. Schwarz-weiß- Foto.
Auf einer zugefrorenen Wasseroberfläche hat der Wind, Schnee und Eis zu feinen Linien und Strukturen geformt. Im Vordergrund sind Schilf und ein kleiner Strauch zu erkennen. Schwarz-weiß Foto.
Winter Studies II
A niche Horizon Europe 🧵for Friday evening. The MSCA results are out and the UK received by far the highest number of fellowships - 347. The next best was Spain with 182. Sounds good right? But hold your horses...
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
With thanks to Andera Capovilla of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre in London @ibc-london.bsky.social!
diese Woche is n büschen doll
“Shares surge“ on news that 4,000 people are about to lose their jobs.
This really feels like crossing a rubicon, frankly.
New from @uclpress.bsky.social, authored by academics from UCL - including the former director of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery - and the Open University.
@uclhistory.bsky.social, @ioe.bsky.social, @openuniversity.bsky.social
See also: www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
The Guardian/UCL have conducted an in-depth study of all of the immigration debates in parliament over a century. It shows sentiment more mixed, more negative today than in the past. (Though also that parliamentary sentiment historically is more pro than con)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
I translated a letter from Lesia Ukrainka to Olha Kobylianska for my students, and since it's Lesia's birthday, here it is - with a short essay on why she matters right now. open.substack.com/pub/uilleamb...