shrek (historically accurate version)
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and you remain barry jones in the process! economic history of africa + southeast asia, comparative development, markets and industrialisation (he/him) tomwestland.com
Stop asking me questions about my secret postgraduate farm. It's a normal thing all academics have.
The mark of adulthood in the young Australian male is the day they opt for a 600ml of chilled soft drink rather than the 1.25l of lukewarm
And here is the East Asian job advertisement. 🗃️ lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
Assistant Professor - Modern East Asian History
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You know what's not down? The library.
Pop Base@popbase.tv · 2d agoChatGPT, Claude & Grok are currently down, according to users.
What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.
Just resharing this one again. The sneering at 1.5c as "never really possible" is a marker of fatalist, centrist status-quo tropes and a total lack of imagination about alternative histories and potential futures. It is also just gross and disrespectful to those who asked for that target:
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2y agoPlease take some time to read about the origin of the 1.5C target. It didn't originate from naivety or stupidity. Those who put it forward certainly didn't see it as "pointless" then, and would probably still not. @climatehome.bsky.social www.climatechangenews.com/2015/12/10/a...
thinking of starting a blacklist of journals that demand you submit charts in excel format
There is such a dumb anti-migration column in the Fin but I'm growing and not posting about it
There’s a really pompous know-all emeritus professor over on the other site who has started Groking his tweets and I have to say that sometimes it is kind of nice to see someone frying their brains
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
I would like ask JD Vance about Pierre Damas Bel.
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4d ago“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Oh no. Very saddened to hear this. He was a great guy and a wonderful economist.
Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 5d agoGoodbye to one of the greats, my advisor Jeff Williamson (1935–2026) Jeff your unstoppable intellect and excitement were contagious. You had faith in me when few did, and gave me everything I have. From the many like me: Our deepest and forever thanks. Your work & your self will be remembered.
Excited to announce the 2nd edition of the CREST Urban Workshop! 🔥 @mateomoglia.bsky.social and I invite you Dec 10–11, 2026 at CREST, bringing together PhD students in urban and spatial econ and related fields. We are delighted to have the great Gabriel Loumeau giving the keynote!
gal gadot?? stars in the bitcoin movie??? which features AI sets and lighting???? shut up and take my money!!!!!
Pop Base@popbase.tv · 5d agoGal Gadot defends starring in the ‘Bitcoin’ movie which features AI sets and lighting: “I did not want AI to have anything to do with my performance. We had to protect that […] The train has left the station. You’re going to work with it or be out of the game completely.”
A review of anti-Roma racism by state & non-state actors over past 18 months, shows that there has been no diminution of one of Europe's oldest hatreds & serves as a reminder that far-right presents a very real threat to the safety, security & dignity of Roma in Europe www.errc.org/news/the-nor...
The Normalisation of Neo-Fascism: Anti-Roma Racism at the Heart of Europe's Far-Right Surge - European Roma Rights Centre
By Bernard Rorke Academic discussions about the inexorable rise of the far-right in Europe routinely overlook ...
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I've got a new url for my website: carl.muller-crepon.com In a worrying turn of events, I lost access to my old domain, which dropped, was bought by someone who put up an old copy of my site, which I am trying to get taken down for impersonation 😬.
Carl Müller-Crepon
Assistant Professor
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I guess I'll add that Dolly Parton is up there with Fred Rogers in terms of truly achieving what I think a Christian living their faith in public life should be like.
I know there's a lot going on right now but we should maybe be talking a bit more about the Godzilla El Niño currently building in the Pacific Ocean 🧪 skepchick.org/2026/08/we-s...
We Should Be More Worried About El Niño
Transcript: You’re probably familiar with the weather phenomenon known as El Niño, which, of course, is Spanish for “The Niño.” But what you might not know is that this is an El Niño year, and expe…
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Osman Kavala is a businessman and philanthropist the Erdogan regime has kept imprisoned for nearly nine years, despite lack of any shred of evidence against him and repeated ECHR decisions. Nothing reveals this regime’s disregard for human rights more.
bianet@bianet.org · 2w agoAİHM Büyük Daire’den ikinci Osman Kavala kararı: “Derhal serbest bırakılmalı” bianet.org/haber/aihm-b...
ok so you know how we all get like that overwhelming horror when we consider how many people in applied quant classes do not know what a file directory is or what a filepath is or etc. my question is, how do these people ordinarily retrieve saved files. search? like they remember the filenames?
The Rindermann et al (2024) paper is the one where the authors were so bad at the analysis that their statistical software was spitting out warnings that their model was not identified and they published it anyway
Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨BREAKING🚨 In more serious news, I have been told on good authority by a third source that Flemish media has revealed the racist academic, de Vries, is the real author behind the pseudonymous article, 'Refugees’ IQs are Normatively Consequential' Thank you to all the sources that contacted me
French forestry history helps explain fire history: In 1857 a “water-logged landscape was converted into Europe’s largest human-made forest…a regional economic engine running on timber that employs 30,000 people. It is also a firefighter’s nightmare.”1/2 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Pine-cone grenades and planet-baking carbon: the French fires 170 years in the making – a visual guide
An 1857 decree to drain swamps and plant a monoculture, detritus from the trees and global heating combined to produce the conditions for the Gironde inferno
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Helen Dale was fired from her job as a Courier Mail columnist for plagiarism so I think there's a little bit of decades-old resentment too