Yeah but no. He has agency and is the main character in this film.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 3h ago

Jason Arday resigns. Regardless of everything, hard not to feel like he has been repeatedly failed by serial institutions, which failed to instruct him or guide him into reputable academic work, and traded off his story without checking it.

He's a 41 year old grown man who has been lying his entire life. Cambridge fucked up by hiring him but come on. They didn't make him apply for a professorship with a CV full of lies.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 3h ago

Jason Arday resigns. Regardless of everything, hard not to feel like he has been repeatedly failed by serial institutions, which failed to instruct him or guide him into reputable academic work, and traded off his story without checking it.

It’s a mess and it’s going to become more of a mess

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 3h ago

EHRC chair challenged on how to enforce single-sex toilet rules www.channel4.com/news/ehrc-ch...

This is a sorry affair. I had not heard of Arday before this, but I know Nathan Cofnas is an arse and his output risible and vapid. It strikes me that nether should ever have been employed if good scholarship is important to a serious institution.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2h ago

Prof Jason Arday has resigned from Cambridge after the University announced plans to investigate allegations of plagiarism www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Given that Ardy has resigned, one is led to think that it’s probably as bad as we thought it might be of potentially even worse. It’s a pity he’s not American, within 2 years he could be doing a redemption tour.

pretty comfortable this won't get the required likes so I'm safe :)

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

A total non-apology

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 3h ago

An update from Professor Arday https://goodlawproject.org/an-update-from-jason-arday/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=glp_post_27503&utm_medium=social_media&utm_content=05-08-2026

Breaking News: The Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director. She has publicly supported childhood vaccines.

Senate Confirms Dr. Erica Schwartz as C.D.C. Director

Dr. Schwartz, a deputy surgeon general in the first Trump administration, has publicly supported childhood vaccines.

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Cambridge has bowed to the inevitable and launched an investigation. It would have been so much better if they didn't wait for so long, accuse critics of racism, and burned so much of the sector's dwindling reserve of public goodwill. www.cam.ac.uk/notices/news...

Oh

Academic flees Turkey abt a decade ago (bc of political pressures), settles down in New School, and now advocates the firings of his colleagues www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...

The Field Marshal made it clear he shouldn't be at the vet, objected to being weighed, howled at the anal gland clearing & shouted a canine expletive when injected. When a thermometer was placed in his rear artillery, he turned around & bit me. Vet said it was fair enough. He is now resting. #FMJPC

Andy Wheatley@andywheatley.bsky.social · yesterday

This was the moment he realised he was going to the vet.

It’s an utter shitshow but this is no solution, that’s how we got here and an insistence on it will make us stay here.

Nadia Whittome MP@nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 7h ago

The EHRC’s Code of Practice comes into force today — a dark day for trans people in the UK. For last month’s @leftlion.bsky.social column, I wrote about why this new guidance is so deeply harmful and where I think we go from here.

If you spend the kind of money you were spending fifty or sixty years ago now (in real terms), you get a far nicer experience than you used to.

what the what now??? Arday had a brain tumor on top of everything else???

40 years ago people could smoke on planes, meals were still lousy, flying was more expensive, and it was less safe.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 20h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Roses are red Sinner plays tennis

Rodgers doing his best to ensure that Brett Favre is not the most awful person to have played QB for the Packers.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 9h ago

From @theathletic.com: A day after Aaron Rodgers called former top U.S. health official Dr. Anthony Fauci an “absolute coward,” Fauci’s attorney fired back: “Aaron Rodgers doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He should stick to football.”

Soft resistance in this case would mean males deliberately entering female toilets and changing rooms despite being explicitly told not to. I would very, very strongly advise people not to do this, it will have tremendous negative consequences for everybody.

I had a rough time with my trilogy: I debuted at the peak of the pandemic. A steep drop in sales for Book 2. Had a bone removed from my hand weeks before Wolfskin was published. But word of mouth is critical for authors. So if you're a fan of space opera like Mass Effect, please give it a chance.

To say the least, this is quite relevant to the idea of border control. It also suggests that the EU / Frontex is subsiding the UK small boats prevention effort.

Extremely niche--anyone know if in ancient regime France the day of a nun's profession might be termed her 'journee?' (Script is clear, abbreviations not an issue, inscription grammar is often...condensed.. so I'm brainstorming)

As someone who politely replied to his previous post: I feel like the QTs and replies to this pretty gracious mea culpa are an illustration of most of the worst of Bluesky.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterday

Apologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.

I know we attribute a lot of wrong to social media but I’m pretty sure there was once a time when someone apologising was grounds to sheathe your weapons, not stick the boot in.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterday

Apologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.

I find the idea that you can't police the truth in academia to be strange. Plenty of people get fired for lying in their work (mostly in STEM but not exclusively). Some countries prosecute researchers who get grant money using fraudulent data. All this requires some sort of truth policing.

More than you might want to know about clegs (aka horseflies for southerners) by @countrysideben.bsky.social in @walkhighlands.co.uk newsletter. If you read until the end you will discover why imitating a zebra might deter them! PS I hate clegs 👍 www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/clegs-w...

Clegs: we really must stop horsing around!

Yes, I know I wrote about ticks last time. And yes, I know that makes it two articles on the trot about nasty wee beasties, but inspiration for subjects comes from whatever has crossed my path in the ...

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Do not be fooled by the Field Marshal’s look of innocence Overnight, he vomited in the hallway, left a trail of explosive diarrhoea across the kitchen floor & then rolled in fox poo during his walk. He is going to the vet at 5pm. The howls of regret will be audible across the world. #FMJPC

Next you'll have that lad who put his mum in the freezer for three years claiming discrimination against people "assigned dead".