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Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc. Rubio just cancelled all of them languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...

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Vera and Victor working hard on their #Caturday nap

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Essential reading by @doctoroxford.bsky.social on the work of Ukraine’s combat medics www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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We need facts as never before. 3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline. Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding. Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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The DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMANITIES at Cardiff University Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here /1

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One of the unexpected things about having a social sciences PhD in the U.K. from 15 years ago is how often the Marxist reading list authors now pop up in British media explaining why universities need to make huge cuts (while they take home huge V-C and similar salaries).

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🚨 Taking cash from a sanctioned Russian mercenary chief to enable him to sue a British journalist is not an abuse of the UK legal system, solicitors' regulator finds 🙃 Exclusive by me on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-law-fir...

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"Ceasing subjects and programmes in Ancient History, Modern Languages and Translation, Music, Nursing, and Religion and Theology" "School of Global Humanities (merge English, Communication and Philosophy, Welsh, and remaining elements of History Archaeology and Religion and Modern Languages)."

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You can track the unfolding disaster at Cardiff University here LIVE, as one of the UK's constituent nations actually chooses to gut parts of its flagship HEI: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

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Next Weds 29 Jan, I'm honoured to be delivering the annual UCL Holocaust Memorial Day Lunch Hour Lecture, 'Voicing the Destruction of European Jewry: Yiddish and the Holocaust'. On Zoom (8-9 am ET, 1-2 pm UK, 2-3 pm CET, 3-4 pm IT). Free and open to the public. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-hour...

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I've written a few texts on Holocaust memory in Poland & Ukraine, including in relation to the latter's war with russia. Here's a thread of the main ones. First, a text (a bit out of date now) on memory politics at Babyn Yar in wartime in @LAReviewofBooks lareviewofbooks.org/blog/essays/...

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An excerpt from Vasily Grossman's sublimely horrifying description of the gas chamber to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

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Emergency steps should be taken immediately to save as much as we can of the university sector: Suspend TEF and KEF to reduce admin burden Push back and review REF *Tie REF QR funding directly to the units that earn it. (1/2)

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I’m in @thetls.bsky.social today—alongside many worthier contributors, including @uilleamblacker.bsky.social—with a piece on @julianevans.bsky.social’s remarkable new book about my hometown, Odesa. UNDEFEATABLE is the word. www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twen...

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Reports Gulag historian Yury Dmitriev, 68, has been sent to solitary confinement in Russia's Mordovia colony for "unsatisfactory stretching." The most evil kind of evil. Descendants of the KGB officers he implicated first jailed him. Now they appear after after his life.

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Cass Review. New article in the New England Journal of Medicine, founded in 1812 and amongst the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals. Its 2023 impact factor was 96.2, ranking it 2nd out of 168 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal".

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Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

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And you thought there was not much to be happy about today... But turns out it's Tom Baker day! 91 and still going strong. #DoctorWho

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The Anne Frank bot has really done it for me. I still had a bit of hope that humanity wasn’t utterly fucked, but now all I can see is the moral abyss we’re facing. And yes, this is an insomnia post at a particularly dark time in my life, but nevertheless.

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After 5 years of encoding by @fyodor76.bsky.social, myself, and our wonderful "Digital #Dostoevsky" team, I am so excited to share that our entire basic TEI edition of 7 Dostoevsky novels is finally public! You can view them all on our Github: github.com/Digital-Dost...

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A.I. slop is one thing, but this is just repugnant, and produced by a supposedly "educational" start up means dangerous too. #BadHistory #AI

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On January 17, 1982, Varlam Shalamov died in a specialized psychiatric hospital He was transferred there from the Literary Foundation’s care home. Shalamov passed away after less than a week in the psychiatric institution.

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We are excited to start off the year with a new double-issue, featuring, among other contributions, a cluster of articles on "War against Ukraine: language, culture, and media." www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcsp20/c...

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Might be time for my list of What's Wrong with Higher Ed again: 1. Financial crisis 2. Morale through the floor 3. Antediluvian attitudes 4. Free for all in admissions 5. Race to the bottom 6. Unwelcoming to parents 7. Poor record on disability 8. Joke trade union 9. Laughing stock regulator (1/3)

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January 12 — The Day of the Political Prisoner in Ukraine

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In 1997 — 1997!! — South Yorkshire police were in the news for forcing a Black suspect to stand in an identity parade with eight white men that they had blacked up

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lol those bastions of political correctness, South Yorkshire Police, the force you may know from such incidents as Hillsborough, the miner’s strike and letting Peter Sutcliffe go.

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Challenge accepted! 🎤I am the very model of a modern crashed economy I've underperformed vegetables like lettuces and broccoli I know the cheese of England, and I want a Keir apology From pork markets to pensions too, my life is tragicomedy

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I’m on today’s episode of the BBC History Extra podcast talking about family histories of world revolution. Find it wherever you get your podcasts!

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If you're working in computational literary studies, do please submit to the 4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Krakow 2025 (hybrid event) jcls.io/site/ccls2025/

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Good piece by Sophie Pinkham on the rise and sad decline of Viktor Pelevin. The publication of his novels used to be a moment of real excitement, but the last one I tried, already some years ago, was unreadable. I’d practically forgotten he was still publishing. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

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Please join us on January 9 & 10 for the #Dostoevsky Student Research Forum! All panels will be held virtually. Check out the schedule and register at the link below: bloggerskaramazov.com/2024/12/31/d...

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Could do worse, though the first week hasn’t exactly looked promising

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Also, you know, he denied the holocaust a lot.

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🏆Congrats to SSEES PhD student Serian Carlyle on winning the Lindsey Hughes Bursary! The scholarship is awarded on PhD students researching Russian History or Culture. Read more: bit.ly/4000cDs #AwardWinner #SSEES #PhD

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New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

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Say what you like about Wes Streeting but you’ve got to respect including “give GP receptionists customer service training” in the NHS reforms. Cannot wait for Sandra to get a PowerPoint presentation on why you shouldn’t groan at cancer patients.

submitted 55 days ago • 13 comments

It is so important to use the proper words when we talk about colonial violence. Some people say: “why not call what is happenning in Ukraine a conflict, or a war, or a crisis.” I am so certain that you have to call it a colonial war.

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No pressure then

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Victoria would have turned 39 today, but her life was cut short in 2023 by a ru missile strike. Today is the deadline for the Victoria Amelina Fellowship, launched by INDEX and Pen Ukraine. It honours her memory and carries forward the spirit of her work. www.index-ukraine.org/news/victori...

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About a 10th of the number of Ukrainian refugee children state schools took in without any panicked coverage. Such nonsense.

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Cats Fighting under the emperor’s brush👇 #caturday #art Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty(1082-1135) may have failed as a ruler, but he excelled as an artist. Renowned for his calligraphy and painting, he loved depicting cats alongside butterflies—a clever play on words. "Cat" (māo) echoes 1/2

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Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

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