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To be fair, he had well over 1 million active conspiracy theorists to choose from

UPDATE: OPEN LETTER - HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS In just 10 days, over 700 historians signed to demand MPs stand up for trans rights. I'll send the emails to MPs tomorrow, so you have until 5pm GMT *today* to sign + share. Thank you all 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🏳️‍⚧️ Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

📣The Paris Commune in Britain: radicals, refugees, and revolutionaries after 1871 is out now! (well, digitally at least - real life books coming at the end of the month) academic.oup.com/book/59963

McSweeney: 'let's go for those 10%'

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Coverage of papal election sums up today's BBC ... talked over the announcement (because it was in Latin) and *didn't catch the name*

Morgan McTrumpface will be furious at this

Vatican stops the trade deal leading the news

Probably they elected Pizzaballa, intending to order a takeaway

Habemus papam

Rolls Royce says: 'when's Straight Pride, then?'

Bringing up the rear in the latest issue of @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social. You can read 'AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union' here: academic.oup.com/past/article...

Reform are preposterously beatable. This flag policy should be called what it is - a Ukraine flag ban - and be an intense focus of attack from other parties www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I remember when I was an undergraduate an Oxford student newspaper published a league table of colleges based on ratio of exam success to head's salary (=value for money). I took this as a spoof, but now it's the basis of government's HE policy

Is this common in chemistry departments, I wonder

Historian friends, please do join us, and share with your networks! 🗃️

‘Negative liberty, Skinner argued, can take the form of the liberal conception of non-interference or the Roman idea of non-dependence on the power of someone else.’ Colin Kidd on Quentin Skinner’s political thought: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I can identify with Morgan. I always tend to look at evidence and conclude I was right all along….Though I’d note that Ros Jones didn’t blame immigration for her close result, but PIP, winter fuel etc

Applications invited for the Society's new Panel Grants programme, 2025-26: bit.ly/4ky23ZP Grants support groups of historians (working in and outside higher education) to create panels to speak at a designated conference. Closing date: 23 May #Skystorians

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Next Wednesday - online roundtable on Cultures of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry ... register here www.histgeog-uni.net/history-of-u... ... including @capandgown.bsky.social @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and others (inc me)

We've written a blog post full of steps everyone can take, right now, to support trans people following the Supreme Court ruling and the EHRC interim guidance. Thanks especially to @hagenilda.bsky.social for all her work on it! 🏳️‍⚧️ open.substack.com/pub/ucucommo...

We are delighted that Alumnus Mark Carney remains prime minister of Canada following this week’s election. Mark won a landslide victory in the Liberal Party’s leadership race in March, following Justin Trudeau’s resignation. Read more on our website: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/people/profi... #nuffsky

If you are a feminist academic, you should sign this letter. forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

This is essential reading 👇

Results from Elections Canada. Pierre Poilievre has lost his seat.

transwrites.world/how-to-survi... How to survive, resist and flourish under The UK’s recent Supreme Court ruling as a trans person by @gemma.transwrites.world

Does Sarah Vine have phylloxera? #politicslive

I have a new article out in Sexualities on cisfeminism, or feminist transphobia that is not straightforwardly 'TERF'. Honestly, I feel a bit weird promoting this article in the middle of all this horror. But I do think the section on epistemic practice touches (cont) doi.org/10.1177/1363...