Open Access Article! "The plague of 1720 and migration in Martigues (France) in the 17th and 18th centuries" by Pierre Darlu and Isabelle Séguy.
The study helps us understand how epidemics can affect the evolution of a population on a local scale.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#histmed #histstm
I mean it’s the obvious question and it’s unanswerable. US security guarantees obviously count for shit.
All my solidarity to colleagues. Another university 'management team' with zero sense of accountability. All too easy to blame the government. And enough with the rhetoric of 'improved curricula'. Impoverished curricula and skills that will not longer be transmitted - that's the reality.
FWIW the right-wing lies about "not teaching western civ" were simply political attacks on (a) colleagues and students of color, and (b) the project of higher education generally.
the point was to control it. the right doesn't give 2 shits about what's taught, as long as they're in charge.
Just had my first dose of the AI sent for peer review. Apparently I had written stuff in journals I was not aware of according to the article.
Sorry, yes, median across all directly employed, non-admin, non-clinical is probably good. Just need to play it out and think about if they can still use that as a way to restrict promotions or increasing salaries across bands....
Provost 2x the mid-point on salary scale of Associate, and all other C-suite adjusted to be lower than Provost (maybe one more can equal provost salary).
Fair point. They will I assume do the same punt for academics at the lowest grades soon and outsource for the same reason, or even professional services staff. My own one for unis would be VC gets 2x the avg salary of non-admin, non-clinical salaried FTE professors. 1/
Mapped the IDF's newly declared "Forward Defense Zone" in south Lebanon. Its maritime boundary fully absorbs Lebanon's Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were explicitly guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime border agreement.
@weatherwar
I found this to be exceptionally nuanced and multilayered in its analysis of where the Gulf stands today.
“That fact matters because Saudi Arabia is not simply a Gulf country. It is equally a Red Sea, Levantine, and increasingly a Horn of Africa state with vital national security interests.“
There is justice in the world, as Amir Makled who defended UMich Pro Palestine students defeats UM Regent Jordan Acker to win the Michigan Dems endorsement for the UM governing board. Acker who wrote lewd crap on Slack about students at UM also called the cops on pro-Palestine students.
Famously Sauron's eye never missed any intruders upon his land
Congrtulations. Celebrate the accomplishment indeed!
"we all are seemingly indulging Keir Starmer's performative cluelessness" - Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social on #Newsnight
Labour short-straw-champ, John Slinger, says it's neither cluelessness or incompetence + on Keir's excuses: "not only do I buy it, I believe it" 😶🌫️
Staggering. Wilful blindness.
This would mean the salary of the VCs of UK unis would now have to be capped around 300k! This would be very welcome news indeed and would save a lot of excessive waste at UK universities since other C-suite uni salaries would have to be lowered too. @profalexp.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Photo of a bombed-out facility
US-Israeli bombing destroys the Pasteur Institute
“Established in 1920, the institute is the first and oldest public health center in Iran—where staffers pioneered vaccine development and research on the prevention of infectious diseases.”
www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/w...
Science is a social practice that is continuous with the culture and the people who practice it.
Here’s why this argument falls apart
“If they had welcomed me, it would have meant that we would have entered a different epistemological era. We have of course, but it will take a couple of decades before the establishment realizes it.” - Bruno Latour, 1991.
For whoever needs to hear this I'm the only Jewish person to lead a political party - third largest in the country.
The Daily Mail have been & always will be my enemy - they historically supported fascists & continue to do so.
I'll take no lectures from them on Antisemitism.
The "metrics" data for Nahyan Fancy and Monica H. Green, "Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258) - CORRIGENDUM", published online in 2022. The graph below shows only 703 views of the corrigendum. The original article, however, has had more than 18,000 views.
So, how many of the 18K+ people who've clicked on the original article have looked at the CORRIGENDUM? Only 703!
And I just found a major new study (and I mean MAJOR) that cites the dating claim from our original 2021 study but not the corrected information from 2022. 🗃️
This 2021 study by me & @fancynahyan.bsky.social has had 18,385 views since it appeared, most of those in the past 4 years. In 2022, we issued a correction, explaining that we had accidentally misrepresented a date of a source we were citing: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The webpage for Nahyan Fancy and Monica H. Green, "Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258)," published in 2021, but as of 2022 showing a link to the published CORRECTION to the original article.
A word to the wise: when a study you're interested in issues a correction (CORRIGENDUM), it's always smart to check it out to see what they're correcting. Sometimes it's just fixing a typo in a data reference. Sometimes, however, it's correcting something more substantive.
Sit with what this says to the descendants of enslaved people.
March 25th at the United Nations:
123 countries voted YES.
The US, Israel, and Argentina voted NO, rejecting the idea that slavery is a crime against humanity.
13 million people.
The defense? “It wasn’t illegal when we did it.”
Here we go. Same management consultants ruining our universities one by one.
if Wikipedia, an org with a shoestring budget and volunteer workforce can ban use of llms, what excuse do large orgs and universities have
It’s coming to something when Wikipedia—once synonymous with sloppy research and widely derided by academics—is setting higher intellectual standards than many universities…
An excerpt from “Pandemic in the Medieval World: Teaching a New Black Death Narrative in the 21st Century,” a podcast with Monica H. Green, Lucy Barnhouse, Winston Black, and Will Beattie, The Multicultural Middle Ages, Season 5, Episode 1, 25 March 2026, https://www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/post/pandemic-in-the-medieval-world-teaching-a-new-black-death-narrative-in-the-21st-century-green-bar. 31:23 Here’s a case where we can look at a pandemic that is far enough distant from us that we can look at it with some equanimity and bring those critical skills into play and ask: How did this happen? What is going on? What element of this is simply biology? What element is climate? What element is war? Other kinds of contexts. And pull those different strings out and DO THE WORK THAT WE’RE SUPPOSED TO DO AS ACADEMICS! To actually figure out how the world works, and how it has worked in the past. … I think we should be having a global debate about this, about these questions, and about pandemics. And again, all the more so urgently because of what we’ve all been through in the past almost six years.
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Why I do this. And why it's #OpenAccess. #GlobalMiddleAges
And here's the link to the podcast & notes: www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/post/pandemi... #MedievalSky #EpiSky #histmed
