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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

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I am often asked how to get boys into reading. I honestly don't think boys are different to anyone else. If you want them to love reading - JUST LET THEM READ THINGS THEY LOVE! Whatever those things might be, they are the things that make us all into readers. #literacy (Art: Bill Watterson)

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Here I lay into one of Tolkien's long poems (did you see what I did there?) profadamroberts.substack.com/p/on-tolkien...

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This week my reading time is devoted to a student's PhD thesis. It's great when a thesis gets to final draft stage, but a lot of work to read and critique properly. Light reading, it is not.

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Intercostal inflammation with my rheumatoid arthritis tonight. Feels like someone has taken a baseball bat to my ribs. The first time this happened, I thought I'd broken a rib and went for an x-ray (I hadn't). Another time, I thought it was RA but they found I'd broken two ribs. Urgh!

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I conclude reading Engels's The Origin of the Family, The State, and Private Property. The anthropology is clearly premised on some very dodgy unilinear thinking. But Engels's reversal of civilization along that line is great and the harsh description of merchants alone was worth it.

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This is sad news. I met him at several conferences and could see how highly he was thought of in the digital library world.

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Harvard redid its website to make a good case for HE research. It's quite persuasive. But this was my first observation, too: not a single piece of humanities research.

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We are seeing more and more lies being told about disabled people. There is hardly any fraud in the benefits paid to disabled people. We need to challenge the scapegoating of disabled people - and fight for a wealth tax instead. Sign my petition today. www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...

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Great article everyone should read.

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Love how Harvard wants to protect only "private" universities from federal interference. I'm not saying they're not right re this encroachment, but ALL universities should have academic freedom. And Harvard should proclaim this. Not shut down the protection only to "private" universities.

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ALL THE DISEASES ARE CREATED WITH COMPUTER

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Harvard FTW: "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government."

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Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space

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If Jeff Bezos can send Katy Perry into space, he can pay a wealth tax so every American has debt-free healthcare.

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So the Supreme Court of the United States ordered the President's administration to do something. He just told them he won't, and not only that, but he laughed in their faces for good measure. It's the crunch moment - not even three months in.

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It's the 10th 😱 anniversary of my Literature PhD defense (all-DH/no chapters: code, UX, blog...) w/core work=my Infinite Ulysses digital edition for interactive reading/annotating/discussing Joyce's hard novel in public. Static site archive/tour version=currently broken (known fix, no time 🙃) but! +

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I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

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In November @uksg.bsky.social covered book bans as part of our digital conference on cybersec & censorship. This year, UKSG Uncovered will be looking at how to recover from disaster - natural, political, or other. Call for speakers at www.uksg.org/events/uksg-...

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My latest Substack on a seriously disturbing - and systemic aspect - of the new US regime, gleeful insulting disabled people. That takes us back to the 1930s, and a movement called technocracy. Sign up for a weekly email here: nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...

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Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads

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This morning, I'm heading back to work on my Dark Web book. I've finished drafting several book chapter commitments that have occupied me these past few weeks, and now it's onwards!

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‘When Márquez greeted Vargas Llosa outside a Mexico City cinema in 1976, he received a punch to the face in reply.’ Quite the life www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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Total kidney failure wreaks havoc on your appetite. Sometimes I just can't eat. Makes it so easy to accidentally lose weight - and as friends will attest, I was pretty thin to begin with. I have these unpleasant calorific supplement drinks to compensate.

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Huge scale of bullying at Cambridge revealed Numbers unhappy with treatment of bullying are Toxicology 69%, Pathology 61%, Physics 58%, Cancer Research 50%, Oncology 50%, Earth Sciences 46%, History 45%, Astronomy 44% Toxicology & Pathology are well-named 😉 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

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The right for autistic people with intellectual disabilities (and other disabled people) to live outside of institutions was only granted by the US Supreme Court in 1999.

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I can't wait to set up my new social media platform called 𝕏.

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This Times leader on universities is literally useless nonsense. The uni crisis has zero to do with the sector's size. It's down to (a) the low marginal unit of resource paid by the student, not state resource, and (b) a lack of planning controls. This is drivel. www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

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Universities call in clowns to stave off circus?

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This is like when certain Brits were astonished to learn how many goods passed into the UK via the channel

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LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

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This is my favourite part of the Great Gatsby - especially when teaching it. Most students miss the narrator's queer encounter, veiled by the drunken ellipsis. But one minute they're in the elevator, the next in the bedroom in underwear.

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And here's Thompson's book (that I now want to read) with the argument and evidence for Gatsby as a "passing" novel www.peterlang.com/document/105...

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Because you have two homes?

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So a couple days ago, Brooke Raboutou climbed Excalibur, a 5.15c/9b+ sport climbing route in Italy. In the process, she became the first woman to climb 5.15c. This is a monumental achievement that hasn't gotten a lot of attention outside of climbing. Let me explain why it's a big fucking deal.

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i think about this photo a lot

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oh, the left was missing at the eugenics conference?

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Wikipedia having records of people's voices is great for future generations - I find it brilliant to hear what historic figures sounded like, for some reason - but in an age when AI can replicate voices starting from short snippets, it's a bit worrying. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...

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'The right-wing attack on academia is a symptom of a larger crisis facing democracies worldwide. When knowledge is devalued, expertise is dismissed, and scholars are persecuted, the very fabric of democratic society begins to unravel.' (Ashok Swain) amp-scroll-in.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.scro...

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I've been running informal Redundancy Buddy groups over the last 6 months with UK uni staff at risk of dismissal. There are several key things people are shocked by which I'm sharing here so others who're precarious feel less alone and recognise what to prepare for. Please add your ideas. A thread 🧵

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