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An avid reader and sometime writer. Schmitt and the Middle East book due out in 2025. Link to my substack :) https://theorymatters.substack.com/
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Good morning. We are open!

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

Amazing. Respect the lede.

submitted 2 days ago • 324 comments

Presenting at an education conference at UCL today on AI and creativity in students. Really looking forward to it

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*pats web browser* just going to leave this one here www.fastcompany.com/91228113/how...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Japan's birth rate dropped to the lowest level since the 19th century last year. It's 25% of what it was in 1949. apnews.com/article/japa...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.

submitted 3 days ago • 203 comments

Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

submitted 3 days ago • 54 comments

But I don't think the original author is wrong here. Surely, having those kinds of experiences makes you understand your sex more than not having them? Pregnancy is not a social construction but a physical reality with effects which map onto our social world.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

@jamesrball.com possible to follow me so I can dm you a pitch for the new world?

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Had so many messages from people across Whitehall this week saying this spending review has been exactly as set out in this post...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 465 comments

Bluesky, unlike X, doesn’t punish posts with links. Which means there is no good reason (and frankly no good excuse) for posts with screengrabs of articles that don’t link to them. It’s bad for readers and bad for the writers whose work you’re using. Posting text? Link to where you got it.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

One day politicians will have to treat the public like grown ups and force them to grapple with reality. Until then, this is the trap we are stuck in.

submitted 5 days ago • 101 comments

Think this is actually weirder than the Hungary speech stuff.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

I was once told by one of my favourite lecturers that I shouldn't pursue academia but instead become a writer. He said I had the temperament and originality to be a decent writer, given what he saw in seminars and on the page. I oftentimes wonder if he was right...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible work by the photo editor here

submitted 9 days ago • 148 comments

I think Marie is right here. It's not defending the action at all but expressing context.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... my latest where I argue universities need to install values such as humility, shame, and reciprocity into their systems if they want to survive the scourge of AI :)

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open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... my latest where I argue universities need to install values such as humility, shame, and reciprocity into their systems if they want to survive the scourge of AI :)

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open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... my latest where I argue universities need to install values such as humility, shame, and reciprocity into their systems if they want to survive the scourge of AI @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com I thought you may enjoy this :)

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open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... my latest where I argue universities need to install values such as humility, shame, and reciprocity into their systems if they want to survive the scourge of AI @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social thought you may enjoy this :)

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open.substack.com/pub/theoryma... my latest where I argue universities need to install values such as humility, shame, and reciprocity into their systems if they want to survive the scourge of AI @chadbourn.bsky.social thought you may enjoy this :)

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

2 job rejections and 1 journal rejections is too much for a single day :(

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