Do you believe me now? Do not travel to the US.https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/us-colleges-world/2026/08/05/detentions-international-scholars-airports-raise-alarm

Detentions of International Scholars at Airports Raise Alarm

A Johns Hopkins University researcher was detained at an airport by immigration officials and later released. Cases like hers make travel fraught for foreign scholars.

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Hi, I'm being made redundant by the University of Southampton at the end of this month. I'm desperately looking for work. I'll consider all offers but have particular skills in policy, strategy and research. I also have a consultancy service I offer. Please let me know if you hear of anything

A major profile of @gilduran.com, author of the forthcoming THE NERD REICH from @simonandschuster.bsky.social is in @theguardian.com today! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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Many academics have to find the money to publish books from grants. This is a job on top of a job and they earn no royalties on anything.

Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026)@tnflorvil.bsky.social · 7h ago

Greetings, Psst, most academics aren't making much money from their book publications. They can't use their royalties. This means we are not popping our collars and purchasing prosecco or NA prosecco. The few scholars who are making bank are not publishing with university/academic presses.

The inutterable cruelty of this ...

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 11h ago

This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.

CFP: edited volume: Water in Culture and Nature: Tangibility, Intangibility, Liminality, Confluence in Heritage networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Geography and Sustainable Development lectureship at St Andrews (specialisms in coastal environments encouraged): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSK679/l...

Lecturer in Geography and/or Sustainable Development - AC2883 at University of St Andrews

Apply for the Lecturer in Geography and/or Sustainable Development - AC2883 role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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New Yorker cartoon feels about right

This is simply wonderful news for the Migration Museum and its ongoing project to create the UK's first permanent museum exploring migration to and from the UK. The new Museum will be in the City of London, but is already working with collaborators outside London and outside England. 1/3

The Wolfson Foundation commits £600,000 to the UK’s ‘Missing Museum’

The Migration Museum is delighted to announce that The Wolfson Foundation has become a Founding Partner of the UK’s first permanent museum dedicated to exploring how the movement of people to and from...

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This is quite horrific. A rare case in which the headline very much underplays the content of the article itself, as 'potentially harmful activity' is not what is described here. Would be good to know what the next steps are, beyond 'a broader conversation'. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

OpenAI and Anthropic models went rogue in cyber tests, UK watchdog says

AI Security Institute warns tools undertook ‘potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations’

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This is yet another 'rewilding' article calling for better landscape management. We used to have degrees in landscape management but they've all gone. Please just bring landscape management back.

The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · yesterday

Done properly, rewilded landscapes are more fire-resistant.

Applications are due by end-of-day ET this Friday, August 7! Please join us — and please share!

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Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/

Social media has atomised trend setting, cultural consumption and and aesthetics more broadly that we can't conceive of a dominant cultural pattern any more, hence counter-culture can't exist as a genre.

CFP: Restitutive Citizenship and the Right to Return: Historical Justice, Spatiality, and the Boundaries of Belonging, Workshop, Uni of Sussex networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Creative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2

Arts institutions hit hard as OfS details teaching grant cuts

University for the Creative Arts loses more than half of its funding after support for creative subjects reduced to zero

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“It’s frustrating when hearing about Andy Burnham & Angela Rayner creating a new language around localism but giving so much power to landlords, directly pushing out locals” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy

Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes

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You notice how this oppression only applies to girls? If you proposed to examine all boys' genitals in order for them to play sport that would just be weird. The anti-trans movement oppresses all women and girls.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

This shit is global. And we ignore it at our peril.

The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 2d ago

Spanish far-right activist María Isabel Peralta has sparked outrage after footage circulated showing her performing a Nazi salute outside the Moroccan Embassy in Madrid.

El Niño is expected to intensify in the weeks ahead, fueling more severe heat across the globe, according to the WMO. The forecast comes as blistering heat shatters temperature records from Europe to Asia.

In an Already Broiling Summer, El Niño Is About to Turn Up the Heat

Temperatures forecasted between August and October of this year. Red areas are projected to be far warmer than normal. World Meteorological Organization

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Long, but worth your time. Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...

Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial

The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...

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Future alien archaeologists: "There was a sudden glut of hand-held devices with whirling blades, and then the species died. We think these tiny engines somehow killed off humans."

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 3d ago

‘Immediately stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature - 42.5C #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

You only have twenty days left to get to the SUPERB Hurvin Anderson exhibition at Tate Britain. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

Hurvin Anderson | Tate Britain

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It’s the debate of the century! Two climate ‘denialists’ battle it out to see who agrees the most denialistly | First Dog on the Moon

What a vibrant marketplace of ideas

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I can think of some other institutions that outsource security and cleaning in inequitable ways.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d ago

'Its outsourced guards are barred from the building’s high-quality “hub” – bright and airy recreation rooms that are available to the institution’s mainly white employees. They are not allowed to take their breaks there, or even sit in that area.' 1/2

Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton

‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk

‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk

Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes The government’s housebuilding agenda is hitting the stark reality of a lack of water and crumbling infrastructure across the east and south-east of England. Half the country was declared to be in serious drought this week, for the second consecutive year, with the Environment Agency warning of dire consequences for the economy, environment and wildlife. Continue reading...

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A very long read on a very complex and serious set of problems. Would be even stronger if augmented with attention to known plagiarism by white academics at Cambridge though presumably legal concerns have stymied that. Very sobering.

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

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'rare books experts are increasingly worried that these artefacts may be under threat of destruction by generative AI companies seeking to feed their ravenous technology with new texts.' First they came for your monograph, then for rare books. Where next: wholesale destruction of archives?

‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed

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🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

The Severn and Teme are looking in a pretty sorry state too. And this is *before* we start littering our landscapes with water guzzling AI data centres. What does it take to make this craziness stop?

Lost income, energy fears and a woolly mammoth: what Europe’s dried-up rivers have yielded

Heat and drought have affected shipping, power plants and tourism across eastern Europe – as well as unearthing some surprises

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