The view from outside

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 6d ago

The UK is torching one of the few sectors in which they still have a global edge, horrifying to watch.

“proposed cuts of 28 per cent of staff in the department” of history at Exeter.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d ago

And not just Exeter. At least 2 History Leicester FBAs have had to leave the University to stay in the profession due to risk of redundancy, and they won't be the only ones. The much broader issue affects thousands of excellent academics across a spectrum of disciplines (including STEM ones). 1/2

The UK is torching one of the few sectors in which they still have a global edge, horrifying to watch.

Wonderful day on Monday celebrating all our incredible graduates in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies across our spectrum of degrees from the ancient to the modern. Always an uplifting experience! 🎓 🎉 @universityofleeds.bsky.social @leedsalumni.bsky.social

Auffällig, in wievielen literarischen Neuerscheinungen von Autorinnen Männer ermordet werden. Aber solange es nur Fiktion ist, will ich keine Klagen hören. #femizide

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

University of Exeter cuts an ‘existential threat to humanities’

Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go

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It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering

Stephen Shapiro@stephenshapiro.bsky.social · last mo.

UK to Universities: drop dead archive.is/PN5y7

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Melanie I Stefan@melanieistefan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Meanwhile, der Duden so:

This is going to be excellent 🤓 Come along if you’re here/near! @ankahajkova.bsky.social @helencfinch.bsky.social @krheyam.bsky.social

Dr Anna Hájková@ankahajkova.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you are in Leeds on 6 October, @krheyam.bsky.social and @helencfinch.bsky.social will be discussing with me People Without History Are Dust thebookishtype.co.uk/products/que...

Unter all den erschreckenden Ideen im AfD-Programm Sachsen-Anhalt finde ich diese besonders verräterisch: das Bauhaus wird als „wurzellos“ denunziert, genau wie schon von den Nazis. Es geht hier um eine rechtsextreme Kulturrevolution, und da kann eine Landesregierung einiges erreichen.

Eigenwerbung: Im Frohmann-Shop habe ich signierte Exemplare von manchen Veröffentlichungen in anderen Verlagen. Eine davon, »Vier Wochen«, ist ein gutes Urlaubsbuch, eventuell ein noch besseres Vor-Abreise-Buch. Außerdem ist im Shop Patriarchats-Schlussverkauf. frohmannverlag.de/collections/...

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Alle im Verlagsshop erhältlichen Bücher von Christiane Frohmann

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bisheriges fazit: it’s giving novemberpogrome ✨kristallnacht✨ nennen. und spoiler: die schlagzeilen der b i l d (!!!) birgt mehr nachrichtenwert als die meldungen unseres örr. (ich weiß, ich kann es auch nicht fassen.) /2

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

I will buy a subscription to the first mainstream Irish publication that simply states the truth in the headline of a news report that "racist pogroms" took place in Belfast last night and doesn't weasel word it by calling it a "protest" and continues do so

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.

Aus dem beamtenrechtlichen Neutralitätsgebot folgt nicht, dass Universitäten ein politikfreier Raum sein sollen“, stellt Czyborra klar. „Vielmehr gebietet es sogar, den von der Meinungsfreiheit gedeckten politischen Diskurs der Studierenden nicht durch paternalistisches Einschreiten zu beschneiden.“

Henning Ernst Mueller@ermu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So geht es los. TU-Präsidium verbietet AfD-kritische Vorträge, weil sie nicht "neutral" seien. Unfassbar! taz.de/Antifaschist...

Media: Stop calling the people setting fire to the homes of people of colour in Belfast “protesters”. This is a pogrom.

Even 'race riots' is a euphemism for 'racist riots'.

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We used to call them ‘race riots’ now we call them ‘anti-immigration protests’.

UKGOV response to vicars and grannies peacefully holding cardboard signs: “Terrorists! Here’s some new laws to lock ‘em up!” UKGOV response to racist thugs going house-to-house looking for black and brown people to torch: “Legitimate concerns… and we’ll keep posting on the Nazi site.”

‘They are disturbing the dead’: reconstructing the site of the forgotten first genocide of the 20th century – my latest @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘They are disturbing the dead’: reconstructing the site of the forgotten first genocide of the 20th century

At least 3,000 Herero and Nama people died in a German concentration camp at Shark Island, Namibia. A new forensic exhibition in Berlin is using digital technology to unearth how colonisers scarred a ...

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Nie etwas schief gelaufen in diesem Land. Kein einziges Mal.

Margarete Stokowski@margaowski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

das ist so bizarr

das ist so bizarr

Anyone knows how to find English as other language teacher who volunteers to teach English to an Ukrainian refugee? I googled but did not get much further. Thank you!

Wir haben es wirklich mit einem Medienversagen zu tun. Über den Mord und das Polizeiversagen in UK im Fall Henry Nowak steht jetzt in fast allen Zeitungen, dass es das Land "spaltet". Wo ist denn irgendwer gespalten? Alle, alle, alle sind entsetzt. Vom Premier Minister abwärts alle. Alle.

You could set out every single bit of evidence that the MET are institutionally racist (as they were forced to admit), that they are violent enforcers of the state without two brain cells to share between them, etc. and that won’t stop the racist politicians and media from blaming this on ‘DEI’

This episode of "Today" desperately needs a historian of policing, to explain why things like anti-racism training were introduced in the first place. This wasn't some departure from a world in which the police treated everyone the same. It was an attempt to bring that world fractionally closer.

Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It would take about 30 seconds to remind news audiences of the basic facts of the Stephen Lawrence case

This is demonstrably true.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

In other news: am Sonntag gab es nach 60 Jahren die letzte Theatervorstellung im Großen Haus des Stadttheaters Ingolstadt. Der Stadt fehlen die Millionen um das nicht mehr betriebssichere Haus zu sanieren. Eine der größten Städte Bayerns wird jetzt ein totes Theater in der Mitte haben.