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The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

submitted 2 days ago • 185 comments

Already bizarre vitriol to this on the other place. A reminder: UniversitiesAuatralia is the trade union of c.40 vice chancellors, NOT of the staff and students of YOUR universities.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The AHA Executive Committee has issued a statement in response to the proposed definition of antisemitism put forward by Universities Australia. Read the full statement here:

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

More information & background here: www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/28/a...

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1/ Statement from @austhistassoc.bsky.social on the unconscionable decision by Universities Australia to unilaterally adopt a definition of antisemitism that unlike IHRA includes critiques of Zionism across 39 universities, following a recommendation by a joint parliamentary committee. Full text 👇

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Important for all #UCU members 👇

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📣 WE ARE RECRUITING A 3-YEAR POST-DOC RESEARCHER 📣 to work on the new @leverhulme.bsky.social project 'Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based hostility on social media', with myself and @acerbialberto.com, based at @uoe-sps.bsky.social. Apply by 24/03/25: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Who needs a cute dog pic? You’re welcome ☺️

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The School of HCA at Edinburgh is proud to present our 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ LGBTQ+ History Month 2025 lecture (in-person only): Prof. Matt Cook, “Portable Closets: Secrets and Lives in Queer Britain since Gay Liberation” 5-6:30pm, Monday 3 March @ Meadows Lecture Theatre Register: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

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Has your university created a central student services “hub” after sacking department-based admin & services staff in a restructure? If so, post a pic below. 👇 At Uni of Melbourne’s “Stop 1” students take a # to speak with lanyard-clad casualised workers (often students). Pics: unimelb website

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Booking is now open for the Southampton Stonewall Lecture 2025: Leah DeVun will speak on, "The Shape of Sex: A History of Nonbinary Gender Before Modernity", Thurs. 27th Feb. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

£140m job cuts announced at Edinburgh in classic weasel words: "We must reimagine the future of our University, changing how we work…smaller staff base…strategic rationalisation of our current educational portfolio…functional reform of our professional services" @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

We're just getting started on BlueSky. We have the beginnings of a Starter Pack for researchers of child sexual abuse working in the arts & humanities. If you are a researcher and would like to be added please get in touch! go.bsky.app/oB6szL

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

submitted 6 days ago • 220 comments

Slow clap to the German political class (and frankly the entire eligible electorate) for enabling & emboldening literal fascists. Lovely.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Scottish Trades Union Congress doing exactly what trade unions should be doing. 🙌🏼

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Pressing my thumbs that German voters prove these poll predictions wrong today. #bundestagswahl #fckafd

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"The misuse of frameworks like the IHRA definition to retroactively punish lawful speech sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the principles of academic freedom.”—Tasnima Uddin, European Legal Support Centre

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Hooray! We’ve reached the cap of 150 accounts in this starter pack 🎉 Time to start a second one?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Kind of stunning that Spacey could think anyone will perceive his response to Pearce as anything other than aggressive, belittling bullying. Classic tactic to smear victims as fantasists. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Can’t help but think of transphobes attacking cis women who don’t sufficiently conform to femininity. www.middleeasteye.net/news/man-arr...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Gad Moaning #HistPsych folks, 🚨Help!🚨 I'm crowdsourcing examples of British police officers as patients in asylums and mental hospitals - also seeking examples of case histories involving the police. Do you know of one? Answer here, or email: r dot i dot wynter @ uva dot nl. #HistSTM #HistMed

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Massive victory for UK students! ‘Kevin Craven, Chief Executive of ADS Group, which represents the UK’s aerospace, defence, security, and space industries, called the student protests “unhelpful” and a “woke approach” that ultimately benefits foreign defence companies.’ thetab.com/2025/02/10/d...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Funded Visiting Researcher Fellowships for Short- and Long-term stays at the Postcolonial Hierarchies Network partner Institutions (Universität Marburg; Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut; Universität Erfurt; Universität Bayreuth). www.postcolonial-hierarchies.net/fellowships/

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Just saw that @ericbmarcus.bsky.social and @makinggayhistory.bsky.social are here, so I’ve added them to the LGBTQ History starter pack!

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

I have an inquiry from a student seeking literature/studies on women with learning or intellectual disabilities who are sex workers. Any tips?

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Opinion: If a CDU + AfD coalition wins the upcoming German elections, which is entirely possible despite the heartening mass protests, it will be the most significant “defining historical event” of the 21st century since Bush declared the war on terror, symbolically 1/2

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment