Simon Huxtable
@shux.bsky.social
Historian of global media and socialism / Researcher on Connecting 3 Worlds project / Improviser / Pawn pusher
Absolutely must know more about Foucault's theory of pasta
February 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Absolutely must know more about Foucault's theory of pasta
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In a world of academic enshittification this is one of the worst jobs I've seen. *Four* specialist modules for *immediate* delivery and we'll only pay you for eight months. Way to go Bishop Grosseteste University!
December 19, 2023 at 11:46 AM
In a world of academic enshittification this is one of the worst jobs I've seen. *Four* specialist modules for *immediate* delivery and we'll only pay you for eight months. Way to go Bishop Grosseteste University!
"UK's nuclear expertise ..."
December 4, 2023 at 2:43 PM
"UK's nuclear expertise ..."
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Watching the far-Right rise across the world, it is very easy to sink into self-pity, and I don’t always escape that temptation. The trick is to treat the pain as terrible but not total: to go for a short walk or a quick drink, preferably a hot tea, then to get back to the desk to write, to help.
November 22, 2023 at 9:26 PM
Watching the far-Right rise across the world, it is very easy to sink into self-pity, and I don’t always escape that temptation. The trick is to treat the pain as terrible but not total: to go for a short walk or a quick drink, preferably a hot tea, then to get back to the desk to write, to help.
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Subversion and sexuality, feminism and women’s liberation, race, class, Punk: the Radical 1970s
Join us on 9 December. More information here culturepowerpolitics.org/the-radical-1970s/
Join us on 9 December. More information here culturepowerpolitics.org/the-radical-1970s/
November 14, 2023 at 6:20 PM
Subversion and sexuality, feminism and women’s liberation, race, class, Punk: the Radical 1970s
Join us on 9 December. More information here culturepowerpolitics.org/the-radical-1970s/
Join us on 9 December. More information here culturepowerpolitics.org/the-radical-1970s/
Thank you to Françoise Daucé for a thoughtful and perceptive review of News from Moscow in the latest Cahiers du Monde russe
journals.openedition.org/monderusse/1...
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Simon HUXTABLE, News from Moscow. Soviet Journalism and the Limits ...
Simon Huxtable, maître de conférences à l’université de Birckbeck, mène des recherches sur la culture médiatique et l’histoire de la presse dans l’Union soviétique de l’après-guerre. S...
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November 10, 2023 at 6:42 PM
Thank you to Françoise Daucé for a thoughtful and perceptive review of News from Moscow in the latest Cahiers du Monde russe
journals.openedition.org/monderusse/1...
journals.openedition.org/monderusse/1...
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The High Court of Australia has ruled that indefinite immigration detention is unlawful, overturning a 20-year-old precedent allowing detention even where there is no prospect of deportation. Let’s hope it influences UK, which also has no time limit on detention www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Indefinite immigration detention ruled unlawful in landmark Australian high court decision
Decision overturns 20-year-old precedent and could trigger immediate release of 92 people, with detention of 340 others also in doubt
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2023 at 8:26 AM
The High Court of Australia has ruled that indefinite immigration detention is unlawful, overturning a 20-year-old precedent allowing detention even where there is no prospect of deportation. Let’s hope it influences UK, which also has no time limit on detention www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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UKRI have responded to Michelle Donelan's disgraceful attack on academic independence.
They have caved completely and are organising a witch-hunt.
www.ukri.org/news/respons...
They have caved completely and are organising a witch-hunt.
www.ukri.org/news/respons...
Response to the open letter from the Secretary of State
Our Chief Executive, Ottoline Leyser, responded yesterday 30 October to an open letter from Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan.
www.ukri.org
October 31, 2023 at 5:15 PM
UKRI have responded to Michelle Donelan's disgraceful attack on academic independence.
They have caved completely and are organising a witch-hunt.
www.ukri.org/news/respons...
They have caved completely and are organising a witch-hunt.
www.ukri.org/news/respons...
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I encourage those who are concerned with academic freedom in the UK to sign.
Update: there is now an open letter to UKRI here, calling on them to reject this attack on academic freedom and political interference in the decision-making and governance of UKRI. I would invite academic colleagues to sign and share
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
October 30, 2023 at 8:24 AM
I encourage those who are concerned with academic freedom in the UK to sign.
There are worse places to do research than the UNESCO archives...
October 10, 2023 at 7:30 AM
There are worse places to do research than the UNESCO archives...