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The law determines what is legal. It does not determine what is true; what is just; what is morally and ethically sound and defensible. The history of law is the history of the legal system being wrong on these grounds. Trans women are women.

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Trans women are women and no court judgement can change that. Without wanting to diminish the negative effect that legal oppression has on trans lives, there is no reason why lawyers and judges are qualified to make this argument over actual experts in the field.

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It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

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TOP AI IN EDUCATION FAILS ... so far:

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We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

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"Viewpoint diversity" in academic hiring is a charming way of saying really gross things.

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Leviathan, published this day in 1651.

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If you could calculate the expected future value of a university’s degrees, those issued by Harvard rose by a lot more than $2bn yesterday.

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'It cannot be seen as wildly elitist to say that there’s a hard choice to be made between immigration and growth; that manufacturing matters but the knowledge economy is a massive engine for future prosperity; that three quarters of a million jobs depend directly or indirectly on higher education'.

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions: A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans. I would like to amend my prior statement. Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.

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Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court decision is the reason I say "if we still have free and fair elections in the United States" when I talk about 2026 midterms.

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I feel like “President of the United States suggests he would deport American citizens to prisons in El Salvador” should be fairly big news

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Renowned during the Dutch Golden Age for her original style but under-acknowledged for centuries in the canon of Western art history, Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) finally gets her flowers in the first major U.S. exhibition of her work. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/rach...

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I ha[d] ... Joke about Sappho [But] I ... [Lost]

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Some horrifying details on the white supremacist book purge at the Naval Academy library: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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This is what Hannah Arendt meant when she spoke of the banality of evil.

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University of Derby faces mass job cuts as management plans to make half of senior academics redundant. Please spread the word. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1398...

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they should invent podcasts you can read

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so the size of a small university you say

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you'll never be rid of him

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Rufo would "like to see that prototype [what's happened at Columbia and elsewhere] industrialized and applied to all of the universities as a sector" and that he would like "to reduce the size of the [higher education] sector itself." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p...

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It's open access (free to download as a PDF) and also available to order as hard copy if you prefer a book in the hand.

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Now do a 'Emergency Rescue UKHE' Bill, Labour. Since you're apparently in the business of salvaging jobs and local economies.

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Pope Leo X and Charles V discover environmentalism

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Biggest insider trading market manipulation scheme in history. They aren't even bothering to hide it.

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... has it though?

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Strange men on golf courses distributing tariffs is no basis for a system of government. Bring back the women lying in ponds.

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... have they tried Kazakhstan though? 👀

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And to complement this excellent open access article on language teaching in the early modern world, why not read the British Academy's recent report on language skills and research quality in 21st-century Britain?

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Die Pinguine haben gewonnen

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Excited to speak to a joint meeting of Warwick's Global History & Culture and Early Modern & Eighteenth-Century Centres, on Thursday 1 May at 1pm. My first time posing some new historiographical questions about multilingual cities and early modernity. I'm also reliably informed there will be pizza.

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The sun is out, the birds are singing, the flowers are in bloom, and five months ago I published a fun article about a forgotten celebrity French teacher and the people who read him in English, German, Dutch, Italian, & Arabic. Open access, it's as seamless a reading experience as that was a segue.

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More and more journalists are using cryptic and uninformative titles. Here's the reason why.

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Very much worth reading.

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They think gender studies shouldn't be a thing and yet they gender EVERYTHING.

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God forbid trans and non-binary individuals feel safe on university campuses without facing a barrage of abuse or comments saying they don't exist. We need stronger policies to defend trans and non-binary equality, some people won't be happy until there are none. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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At a time when international students and scholars are turning away from America, instead of seizing this opportunity, Number 10 have a steely focus on winning the Runcorn by-election to help defend their wafer-thin majority of 174 seats.

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The Labour Party is apparently intending to kill the U.K. higher education sector — yes, this will contribute to universities going bankrupt — to get a reduction in net migration which will happen mechanically anyway, in pursuit of Reform voters they aren’t going to win.

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I went to talk to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour yesterday morning to talk about my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present'. Catch it on iPlayer. #nonfictionreads

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Indifference and a genuine fear of being seen to prop up an 'elitist' and 'woke' sector as Labour continues to pander to would-be Reform voters.

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The British government doesn’t get it. Brexit was the first step in the populist crapshow that has weakened Europe as a whole vis a vis Trump and Putin. Reducing the harm of Brexit is the first step to Europe recovering

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Impeccable timing from OfS's free speech tsar. Because this is absolutely what VCs and their teams should be focusing on at present: an extraordinarily belated and clear-as-mud ruling that fundamentally misunderstands the core issues and complexities of student and staff experiences in English HE.

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BREAKING: On Friday, the Trump administration tried to strip the student visas and status of international students throughout the country without notice or explanation. Our client from Dartmouth College is one of these students. So we are suing.

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