how commonplace to hear we’re being held at a red signal due to a <pause> body on the tracks, the train conductor trying to speak around death while apologising for delay to our travel. a body on the tracks/sorry you’re late. the train will move slowly as we pass the affected station.

So, Andreas Malm has been barred from entering the UK to speak at a conference in the same week that Oriel College says it has a statutory obligation to provide a platform to "race realist" Nathan Cofnas?

what in the absolute authoritarian fuck is this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Climate academic Andreas Malm barred from entering UK

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i can't explain just how offensive i find it that you can write a whole book about india but have literally nothing to say about the protests and rights-claiming (!!) that is taking place in the country right now

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evergreen sentiment, i think.

Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri@rishie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I do think it’s really weird (colonial? morally repugnant?) that scholars whose research careers & books are on/about India, have nothing to say about the protests. Doesn’t matter how much you wrap your work in the language of in/justice, if you can’t engage when it’s spilling over it’s meaningless.

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this is absolutely devastating. 90 programmes. NINETY. this is a gutting of social science, an attack on unionising and collective bargaining, and a colossal disaster that is *squarely* management's fault. solidarity with our edinburgh colleagues, and colleagues across the sector.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'The University and College Union (UCU)’s Edinburgh branch said staff had been called into “informal meetings at less than 24 hours' notice” and told not to bring union representatives.'

if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'The University and College Union (UCU)’s Edinburgh branch said staff had been called into “informal meetings at less than 24 hours' notice” and told not to bring union representatives.'

going on sabbatical? parental leave? gotten a promotion? a gentle reminder to update your @ucu.org.uk account to reflect any recent shifts!

Milo knew exactly who ICE was targeting and exactly how they were treating people. He repeatedly called for more of it and joked about masturbating to the violence. His "Wow my eyes are opened" tour is a dishonest, cynical cash grab and the media shouldn't facilitate it.

ted lasso is so disappointing. what a disservice to its characters.

where there’s a racist witch hunt, there is also Kauffman, Orr, & ££ from a tech oligarch

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I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.

Dear twats: even if that racist ableist little shit is “joking” about being a professor of eugenics at Harvard, such a joke is ghoulish and unacceptable, to say nothing of making it IN RESPONSE TO a death he certainly had a hand in.

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

You know who wasn't hounded to suicide for dodgy academic research? ANDREW FUCKING WAKEFIELD.

Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Fucking Christ alive. This is fucking horrific. Like the dude was obviously a fabulist and probably a plagiarist but SO ARE ALL FUCKING ACADEMICS. He was also still a vulnerable, autistic Black man and the entire campaign against him was motivated by racism. All these things can be true.

Yes they absolutely are. And the message this sends to other people of colour in academia is ‘we weaponised the press against him and we can do it against you’. There’s so much shame to go around here. But there’ll be fuck all contemplation or reflection from the press or Cambridge.

Jon Phillips@jowiph.bsky.social · 3mo ago

You know that Cofnas and his ilk are viewing this as a win

It is in fact about ethics in journalism, and I for one would like to see some

not even former prince andrew was hounded like this. fucking vile.

Dalit academics in India have for some time now used the framework of institutional murder in such cases. I think that is a very useful way to look at this.

Blacklikewho@blacklikewho.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The university is a killing field. It is fully culpable. It must be said. Regardless of his deception. The neoliberal university made that happen. We don’t have to excuse his behavior to see how unevenly distributed resources and fucked star systems makes the university a killing machine.

I hope every person who made the editorial decisions around this story has a long, hard look in the mirror, and then resigns.

Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Quite weird to hear BBC News describe Jason Arday as “the black professor accused of plagiarism”. Is every story about a white professor going to include the relevant adjective?

Jesus. People really don't think about the human costs of such right wing hounding.

The way racism & ableism have been normalized in the present is reprehensible. The effects are devastating.

Every editor in chief and news editor should be considering their position tonight. It’s that serious.