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"Asked if the £5m figure was accurate, Arday clarified to the Guardian that the money was raised with the help of “many fundraising collectives over a two-decade period”. When asked to identify other people…Arday said he had signed NDAs preventing him from disclosing that information." 🤔🤔🤔

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism

theguardian.com

also there's two separate sets of accusations for Arday; he got the TES story - done by legitimate journalists and credible academics - killed by legal threats, and then an online racist stumbled upon the material separately.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · last wk.

it is infuriating to see the wagon-circling for Arday, who does appear to have committed meaningful misconduct, while Claudine Gay, who did nothing substantively wrong, got tossed to the wolves. yes, in both cases the motivations of the accusers were pernicious, but the truth should actually matter!

*walks into room of mathematicians* Have you considered DOING A BREAKTHROUGH.

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 2w ago

the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture, a graph theory problem that’s gone unsolved for 30 years, was solved with this prompt

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Tate Brothers Vehemently Deny They Did Anything Consensual

Utterly ridiculous to charge this reprehensible single man. Land grab by an authoritarian state. Free speech means saying obnoxious and offensive things.

I enjoyed The Odyssey (2026) but I have one historical nitpick. The phrase “Jiminy Christmas” is a minced oath for “Jesus Christ”. As the story is set around 1200 B.C. it is unlikely that Odysseus would have said the phrase even once, let alone the dozens of times he says it in the film

England my England

This is the way a left wing figure can give a goodbye to Ann.

I have no idea where this came from, but

Another new record: Temperatures of 35C or higher have now been recorded in May, June and July of the same year for the first time in the UK weather record, says the @metoffice.gov.uk

I see Bluesky is showing its tolerance again. I just don’t get the view that Twitter is full of Nazis (yeah there are some, you don’t have to follow) but Bluesky is full of good people. Some of the worst opinions come from here.

Flashpoint 😂

Good night

Beautiful

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

How proud Carole Tonkinson must be of her former authors, Russell Brand and Jack Monroe.

Dogs really know how to tug on the heart strings. Farewell to our beloved Mo. Nearly 14 and part of the family. He had chased his last squirrel, dodged his last shower, and turned the telly on in the middle of the night for the last time.

I was just thinking, there's a lot of celebration for something that should've been 9-0...

🇺🇸 US Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to end birthright citizenship A 5-4 ruling is surprisingly close... FT www.ft.com/content/8ee0...

US Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship

Ruling is major blow to president’s immigration agenda

ft.com

Some amazing World Cup facts from Goldman Sachs.

Honestly the state of the pro trans debate is just awful these days.

The fact that neither Telegram nor Discord is on this list is absolutely *wild*. Driving teens from YouTube to those two: clearly a great and well thought out policy.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 2mo ago

🚨 NEW: Under-16s in the UK will be banned from the following 10 social media apps TikTok YouTube Snapchat Instagram X Reddit Facebook Twitch Kick Threads

Me too! She’s fab. Thoughtful writer

Simon Mayo@simonmayo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today I managed an amazing thing. Something I have never done before. I got to the end of an Ezra Klein podcast. The one with Helen Lewis. It was very very good. And very very long.

Not often I disagree with @stephenkb.bsky.social. But his suggestion that the Nowak case is an isolated case of 'the word of two people at the scene against the word of one' badly misses the mark. We cannot overlook the context of 'antiracism' in which this takes place. www.ft.com/content/aa94...

And that's how it became a slam dunk case of trademark infringement and domain squatting. With the help of a lawyer, I GOT THE DOMAIN.

I GOT THE DOMAIN! I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!1 🥳🎉 Paint​.NET is now at paint.net! Well, it will be just as soon as I push all the buttons to migrate content and set up redirects from getpaint​.net etc. For now it's just a "hey go here" redirect page.

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century