LSBU blocks access to pension & threatens academics with the sack if they don't accept new terms with increased workloads London South Bank University (LSBU) has threatened to put all its academic staff at risk of redundancy in a restructure that would divide the workforce into teaching or research streams, worsening ter...

The state of British academia: my partner was made redundant from one uni after 14 (14)yrs on fixed-term contracts, & has now begun a short-term fixed contract at another that is threatening to put all (all) its academic staff at risk of redundancy in a “fire & rehire” www.ucu.org.uk/article/1445...

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Il faut dire qu’elles sont particulièrement légères et agréables. Bienvenue au club!

Et que Retailleau. Dans une autre couleur.

Photo de François Hollande avec ses lunettes

Photo de mes lunettes (les mêmes que Hollande)

Dans la vie, il y a les fashion faux pas et il y a t’apercevoir que tu portes exactement les mêmes lunettes que François Hollande.
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If you are not worried, you are not paying attention AI and the deskilling of academic labour

Another really good piece, asking the hard questions right now, exactly because he acknowledges the usefulness of these tools. By @lucaspoy.bsky.social

Finalement, À bout de souffle ne nous apprend rien sur les maladies respiratoires.

Dans Trainspotting, aucun personnage n’est un passionné du repérage de trains.

L’Université Paris Nanterre condamne avec fermeté les propos de Sébastien Chenu et exprime son soutien à sa communauté scientifique.

Lire le communiqué : www.parisnanterre.fr/espace-press...

@franceuniversites.bsky.social @enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr @franceinfo.fr

Gorafi Magazine : 10 princesses italiennes pour être proche du peuple français Toute l'information selon des sources contradictoires.

Gorafi Magazine : 10 princesses italiennes pour être proche du peuple français www.legorafi.fr/2026/04/17/gorafi-magazi...

Olivia Rodrigo - drop dead (Official Music Video) YouTube video by OliviaRodrigoVEVO

Okay, great song, but more importantly do we know how much Versailles charged for this?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=78wr...

Perfect name for something you use for your science and not give any credit

It really is only very tangentially about disco. Mainly it is a wordy Austenian comedy about clueless twenty-somethings, frenemies and (perhaps) the beginning of HIV in privileged circles. Not everyone's bag, understandably...

Okay clearly we won’t agree on The Last Days (shame). Haven’t seen that Almodovar in years - but that’s usually a safe bet…

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I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.

Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

On se croirait à l’Ecole des fans.
« Et toi, mon petit Gabriel, que veux-tu faire quand tu seras grand?
-président de tous les gens. »

Taking a short break from doomscrolling and despairing at the state of absolutely everything, to share that Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco (1998) is still the quirkiest and wittiest comedy you haven't seen yet (with a great soundtrack too, obvs).

Jordan Bardella and Princess Maria Carolina de Bourbon Deux Siciles

So much news about the far-right turn of French elites these days that I'm making a thread... 👇🧵

#1: Jordan Bardella (Marine Le Pen's sub if she can't run in 2027) is dating Louis XVI's heiress, Princess Maria de Bourbon Deux-Siciles. Rassemblement National officials call it a 'modern fairytale'...

Claire Hédon, Défenseure des droits / Guerre au Soudan : trois ans après / Google, entreprise d'influence ? Ce matin, sur France Culture, à 7h40, Guillaume Erner reçoit Claire Hédon, pour parler de l'état de la promesse républicaine d'accès aux droits en France. A 7h17, Clément Deshayes revient sur la guerr...

Je trouve Claire Hedon toujours impeccable.

Marking boycott looms at Goldsmiths over £20m of cuts to staff Staff at Goldsmiths, University of London, have overwhelmingly voted for industrial action in a fight to protect jobs, UCU announced today.

🚨 1 in 4 staff at Goldsmiths to be axed.

All while senior management get eye-watering pay rises and £16m is spent on consultants and lawyers.

This is the reality of Higher Education in the UK.

Our members have voted for industrial action, support them.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1447...

And so we can all become slop consumers without critical skills... Never have the values and skills imparted by the Arts & Hums been more needed.

a man is carrying a suitcase through a living room . ALT: a man is carrying a suitcase through a living room .

Academics head back to the office after a restorative Easter break.

Et pour le plaisir, petite liste (non exhaustive) des soutiens d'Orban :

- Donald Trump & JD Vance
- Benyamin Netanyahou
- Marine Le Pen
- Georgia Meloni
- Alice Weidel...

(et évidemment Poutine, Orban lui ayant indiqué être « à son service »)

(Mais sans trop d’illusions sur l’avenir non plus)

On ne peut que recommander d’ores et déjà ce livre d’un très bon spécialiste de Luce comme de l’art anarchiste en général:

Surtout après la visite de Vance cette semaine…

Je constate avec ce terrible ratio que mes contacts ici sont encore plus pessimistes que moi, c’est authentiquement une surprise 😬

Je sais que c’est la chose à faire mais…

La participation déjà massive au scrutin historique en Hongrie donne presque envie de commencer à siffler ´Wind of Change’ de Scorpions (dans un rare élan d’optimisme, certes).

We are way more excited about real scientific space exploration than billionaire space tourism and I love that for us !