Who is telling the traffic people that this is how brains work? Because I don't think they're correct.

I think I have a genuinely unpopular take, which is that it's bad to be invested in new translations of major texts, authorial marginalia etc, and that the humanities should stop incentivising commentary and exegesis. No one should be famous for being an interpreter of Marx.

Sudden memory of - genuinely - the most intense feeling of relief, when this person became higher education minister in the UK, that I'd just accepted a job in another country,

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Can't wait to see my favourite jazz band at the jazz festival

Absolutely thrilled to congratulate authors Kate Reed, Julie Ellis and Elspeth Whitby on winning the #MedSoc24 SHI Foundation book prize with their Manchester University Press book 'Understanding Baby Loss'. A very powerful, moving book and a well deserved win. University of Manchester Sociology department

German academia is really not beating the allegations

Me: <buys cute Beatrix potter yoto cards for 2yo> 2yo: aww Beatrix potter yoto card: "Jemima Puddleduck was a simpleton."

Friends, gently, we need to stop promoting university funding by talking about 'competitiveness' or 'maintain[ing] wealth.' Our students deserve a decent education, where staff have the time to give them and their work the attention it deserves. That's enough!

The sunsets at the moment though