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Apply to be supported in what matters most. It's an investment in the discipline and its practitioners. Compared to much 'science' it's cheap as chips. It matters. Just do it.
Men's faces are in the news - from Pete Hesgeth's chiseled jaw that conceals flimsier credentials to Trump's last-gasp hair and the is-he-or-isn't-he transformation of Jim Carrey.
This is white male neoliberalism at its finest, as I wrote in my latest faces piece for @theguardian.com
Can honestly say this was up there among the most positive experiences of my career so far. A rare, invaluable time to sit down and discuss with wonderful, interested colleagues a book that will be so much better for it.
Cannot recommend it enough.
Coffee, straight out of my nose.
he's right and he should say it and also the fucking audacity of the *Tories* complaining about cost as if it wouldn't have been a tenth of the price if they'd done something about it back when they first took power
Will you be in Bristol on 11 March? Could you be? Well if you are, do come along to @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social's Frenchay Campus at lunchtime to hear me talk all things New Labour. Should be fun!
This obituary of Teresa de Lauretis mentions she taught in an interdisciplinary department called history of consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. Great theme for a department.
Teresa de Lauretis, Coiner (and Critic) of Queer Theory, Dies at 87 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...
Florida’s Board of Governors is made up of “political appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.”
My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social
ten scholars of queer Central Europe smiling
And here are we (almost) all!
In the third panel, we heard from @npapadogian.bsky.social and @tomsmithgerman.bsky.social on the Greek migrants and the Gayhane
L to R: Craig Griffiths, Isabell Dahms, Annalisa Martin
Second panel: Craig Griffiths on Swiss queer magazines during 1930s and 40s organizing human rights, and @annalisamartin.bsky.social on two women in love in a BRD workhouse in the 1950s.
Did you know that West Germany sent stigmatized people to workhouses up to 1969?
Today’s workshop is the first ever meeting of UK scholars who work on queer Central Europe/Germany!
HF, IR on laptop, DP
Next, @history-doug.bsky.social and @irisrach.bsky.social present their essays, skillfully moderated by @helencfinch.bsky.social
Sam Huneke speaking
Today is workshop on Queer Central Europe organized by European History Research Centre/yours truly. Opened by @schuneke.bsky.social keynote on queer women in Nazi Germany
Who is interested in joining a panel on ‘Embodied Human Rights’ with me and Josephine Hoegaerts @singingarchives.bsky.social at ESSHC 2027 in Lyon?
Contact me at w.g.ruberg@uu.nl
esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
Renationalise the water industry. Just do it. Do it Now. None of this tip-toeing around messing with fines www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Of course it’s worse than expected. We know what happens when a naïve population gets measles. We have literally 500 years of records of measles’ genocidal capacity on naïve populations. Measles is and remains one of the great scourges.
Call for Applications for the SHEAR DEI Fellowships! SHEAR will offer at least 2 research fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Application deadline is May 1. Details here: shear.org/about-us/she....
This.
Regardless of whatever whiz-bam cool "feature" is touted, these military ghouls don't actually care if it does a better job at finding targets.
The real utility of a tool like Claude in this situation is *accountability dodging*.
"The computer told me to do it."
I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period
You get absolutely nowhere if you just say "everyone who distrusts vaccines are just evil people." If you are incapable of seeing this, then I dont know what to say. Blame actual anti-vaxxers like RFK Jr, wellness influencers making billions etc, and social media companies.
...that is vaccine hesitancy. And it is not useful either to shame those communities/parents for their doubts. If you work in public health, you have to operate from the stance of wanting to change those minds, working with the communities, acknowledging historical traumas, etc.../
It is useful, and prudent, to make a distinction between vaccine hesitancy and vaccine resistance. For example, there are many reasons why certain racialized and minoritized communities might hold onto questions about vaccines because of their histories with the state and colonization.../
Text reads: I am humbled and excited to be elected the next UCU Vice-President for Higher Education. Now is a devastatingly difficult and challenging time for our sectors and so many workers in post-16 education, but as a union we cannot succumb to despair. We have the skills, knowledge and capacity to help chart a way out of this mess and restore higher and further education. That you have put your trust in me to help do that is a huge honour and responsibility. I do not take this lightly. Thank you to the many thousands of members who voted for me and also to those who did not – we need to build better engagement in our union and part of that is voting, no matter who you voted for. I promised in my election materials to work hard to bring our union together and that is what I will do.
Text reads: Thank you to the other HE candidates Sean and Steve, both committed trade unionists. I know they will continue to fight for members and the future of Higher Education and I look forward to doing that alongside them. Congratulations to those elected to the National Executive Committee and commiserations to those who missed out this time. Your willingness to put yourself forward for election is hugely valued and I know you all will continue to contribute in other ways. So what next? Until the end of May, I’ll be tying up some loose ends and taking some time off to visit family and friends back in Australia. I will take up my role after UCU’s annual Congress at the end of May, this year in Harrogate.
Text reads: For the following three years, I will be lead negotiator for pay and conditions and for USS pensions across UK Higher Education, working with our team of elected negotiators and officials. I will also chair UCU’s Higher Education Committee and HE sector conferences, serve on other national committees and represent you in various forums. In 2029-30 I will become UCU’s President after the excellent Suzi Toole, who has also been elected as Vice-President for Further Education and will spend two years leading on further education matters before becoming President. She will take over from Dyfrig Jones, who succeeds early to the Presidential role for a two-year term this May, due to the casual vacancy that arose last year, replacing Maria Chondrogianni. Maria stays on as immediate past president, rounding out the presidential team. I want to again acknowledge David Hunter who stepped down as President-Elect last year for health reasons and continue to wish him and his family all the best.
A picture of two smiling people (Suzi Toole and Mark Pendleton) wearing UCU beanies. Text reads: That’s a lot of work, and a lot of moving parts, but at the heart of it will be my commitment to build a better union, alongside members and branches, and through that transform our sectors. I am ready and I know from the responses to this election that many of you are too. I’m looking forward to getting to work, together with you all.
UCU’s elections concluded this week and I am honoured to have been elected as the next Vice-President for Higher Education, to become President in 2029-30.
Thank you for all the support.
A short statement about the election and what’s to come after I take up the role in May.
A short blog post on my field trip the other day
historyofpublicspace.uk/case-studies...
The tenor of the defence of copyright seems to be “let the markets decide” and the large corporations in the “creative industries” want to have a cut in the pie. It is not altruism or concerns for authors or artists
“We want them to rule out a text and data mining exception, or a wider commercial research exception,”
The question is kicked down the road, again, for now.
Honoured to be elected to #UCU NEC. Thanks for all your votes!
Disappointing turnout of 8.5%. I was elected by around 1% of total members.
I won in the first round (of STV system), which is a pretty emphatic endorsement of my ‘manifesto’, but sorry to report that our Union is in a parlous state.
- AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such
The House of Lords has been absolutely consistent on this, and they are totally right. Will the government listen?
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