the academics at the beach
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
the academics at the beach
Now do the show but only with senior academics.
The Traitors is a very different game when the players are either friends already or in an industry where, if you’re making a project together, you are used to quickly bonding and making fast friends for the duration.
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Now do the show but only with senior academics.
My bullshit radar has been HOWLING ever since other academics (other academics!) start talking like this shit was a settled issue, and not a vast beta-testing experiment *done on our students*
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
My bullshit radar has been HOWLING ever since other academics (other academics!) start talking like this shit was a settled issue, and not a vast beta-testing experiment *done on our students*
How are Palestinian academics being treated these days
Refusing to work with Israeli academics means refusing to work with one of the main sources of dissent within Israeli society. To be sure, their views are not uniform, but that is a reason to avoid broad based bans,
Israeli Academics Find Themselves Isolated Despite Gaza Cease-Fire www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How are Palestinian academics being treated these days
I have used this mental glitch to rig "stakeholder sessions" with senior managers and academics.
There’s a work exercise where to inform what we want to do next we have 3 stickers to put on the suggestions. By going first and adding two stickers to one of the suggestions almost always guarantees people will follow the heat maps to avoid “wasting” their votes.
November 8, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I have used this mental glitch to rig "stakeholder sessions" with senior managers and academics.
Coupling this, fertility that.
Why don't you academics actually do something about it?!? 😂
Why don't you academics actually do something about it?!? 😂
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Coupling this, fertility that.
Why don't you academics actually do something about it?!? 😂
Why don't you academics actually do something about it?!? 😂
The Keeping Out Worthless Academics Act
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The Keeping Out Worthless Academics Act
"On contentious subjects such as slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine, eminent academics claim there has been a rewriting of history."
What exactly is contentious about slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine?
What exactly is contentious about slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine?
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"On contentious subjects such as slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine, eminent academics claim there has been a rewriting of history."
What exactly is contentious about slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine?
What exactly is contentious about slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine?
Impactful writing and a good reminder for academics. Don’t talk to journalistic cops.
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Impactful writing and a good reminder for academics. Don’t talk to journalistic cops.
Refusing to work with Israeli academics means refusing to work with one of the main sources of dissent within Israeli society. To be sure, their views are not uniform, but that is a reason to avoid broad based bans,
Israeli Academics Find Themselves Isolated Despite Gaza Cease-Fire www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
Israeli Academics Find Themselves Isolated Despite Gaza Cease-Fire
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Refusing to work with Israeli academics means refusing to work with one of the main sources of dissent within Israeli society. To be sure, their views are not uniform, but that is a reason to avoid broad based bans,
The actual dissidents are supportive of the boycott, so by adopting your framing what you end up doing is supporting the conforming academics within Israel at the expense of the dissident ones!
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The actual dissidents are supportive of the boycott, so by adopting your framing what you end up doing is supporting the conforming academics within Israel at the expense of the dissident ones!
pro palestine israeli academics support a cultural and academic boycott, plus it doesnt *matter* if they support it or not because the point is to isolate israeli society as we isolated apartheid south africa.
Refusing to work with Israeli academics means refusing to work with one of the main sources of dissent within Israeli society. To be sure, their views are not uniform, but that is a reason to avoid broad based bans,
Israeli Academics Find Themselves Isolated Despite Gaza Cease-Fire www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
pro palestine israeli academics support a cultural and academic boycott, plus it doesnt *matter* if they support it or not because the point is to isolate israeli society as we isolated apartheid south africa.
I am sympathetic to the realpolitik arguments amongst some academics and political hack types, I even agree with them in a certain way. But I think the real problem right now is that we're in a situation where the negotiation is with someone who's promised to refuse to honor the negotiation.
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I am sympathetic to the realpolitik arguments amongst some academics and political hack types, I even agree with them in a certain way. But I think the real problem right now is that we're in a situation where the negotiation is with someone who's promised to refuse to honor the negotiation.
I find academics particularly awkward about telling audiences something some people might already know, even though I've found that when someone repeats some things I already know as background it enhances my perception of their credibility
Don't fear the repetition, embrace it!
Don't fear the repetition, embrace it!
Speakers, don’t assume the knowledge level of your audience. If you have a new person there and you say “I assume everyone here is familiar with this” they don’t learn anything and they probably feel bad about themselves. Better to just explain the thing. The people who are familiar with it can deal
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I find academics particularly awkward about telling audiences something some people might already know, even though I've found that when someone repeats some things I already know as background it enhances my perception of their credibility
Don't fear the repetition, embrace it!
Don't fear the repetition, embrace it!
Transphobic academics are protected by the threat of £1m fines.
Trans kids in schools are protected by Magic Phone Pouches.
Trans kids in schools are protected by Magic Phone Pouches.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Transphobic academics are protected by the threat of £1m fines.
Trans kids in schools are protected by Magic Phone Pouches.
Trans kids in schools are protected by Magic Phone Pouches.
Classic New York Times here on the growing academic boycott of complicit Israeli universities. Not a single Palestinian is quoted, but they have this from unnamed Israeli academics speaking on their behalf:
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Classic New York Times here on the growing academic boycott of complicit Israeli universities. Not a single Palestinian is quoted, but they have this from unnamed Israeli academics speaking on their behalf:
Class in the UK is a social construct with various socio-cultural signifiers and associated behaviours. Economic status is much less relevant to it. So low-paid academics, from a family of academics, may be middle class while a plumber, earning more than them, may be working class.
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Class in the UK is a social construct with various socio-cultural signifiers and associated behaviours. Economic status is much less relevant to it. So low-paid academics, from a family of academics, may be middle class while a plumber, earning more than them, may be working class.
One of the strangest contrasts I've lived with in the last year is that selfpub lesbian erotica authors on the internet are more consistently professional and easier to work with than tenured academics
November 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
One of the strangest contrasts I've lived with in the last year is that selfpub lesbian erotica authors on the internet are more consistently professional and easier to work with than tenured academics
The ‘leading academics’ were from History Reclaimed
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The ‘leading academics’ were from History Reclaimed
Narcissistic class solidarity with collaborators. Dissidents want you to pressure the apartheid state. “Not All Apartheid Academics”— this is laundering the reputation of a class by individuals who disavow that class. PERVERSE. You, also, opportunistically feed like a parasite off of real dissidents
Refusing to work with Israeli academics means refusing to work with one of the main sources of dissent within Israeli society. To be sure, their views are not uniform, but that is a reason to avoid broad based bans,
Israeli Academics Find Themselves Isolated Despite Gaza Cease-Fire www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Narcissistic class solidarity with collaborators. Dissidents want you to pressure the apartheid state. “Not All Apartheid Academics”— this is laundering the reputation of a class by individuals who disavow that class. PERVERSE. You, also, opportunistically feed like a parasite off of real dissidents
Many of those academics support boycotting Israeli academia, to achieve the same level of cultural isolation imposed onto apartheid South Africa. Not sure why you think you know better than that, to be perfectly honest with you.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Many of those academics support boycotting Israeli academia, to achieve the same level of cultural isolation imposed onto apartheid South Africa. Not sure why you think you know better than that, to be perfectly honest with you.
Covert:
Hidden actors, anonymous trolls, Russian-paid or manipulated Western "agents of influence", academics, "experts". They spread pro-Russian narratives, and in many cases are not detected as propagandists. Narratives can range from extreme to subtle.
Hidden actors, anonymous trolls, Russian-paid or manipulated Western "agents of influence", academics, "experts". They spread pro-Russian narratives, and in many cases are not detected as propagandists. Narratives can range from extreme to subtle.
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Covert:
Hidden actors, anonymous trolls, Russian-paid or manipulated Western "agents of influence", academics, "experts". They spread pro-Russian narratives, and in many cases are not detected as propagandists. Narratives can range from extreme to subtle.
Hidden actors, anonymous trolls, Russian-paid or manipulated Western "agents of influence", academics, "experts". They spread pro-Russian narratives, and in many cases are not detected as propagandists. Narratives can range from extreme to subtle.
Oh yeah, welcome to our world. All to common for other academics to think anyone who's learned how nuclear bombs work or studied why wars start is a goosestepping warmonger.
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Oh yeah, welcome to our world. All to common for other academics to think anyone who's learned how nuclear bombs work or studied why wars start is a goosestepping warmonger.
Had to dig this up.
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Had to dig this up.
yeah the contact I've had with dissident Israeli academics has involved them telling me "yeah we deserve BDS"
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
yeah the contact I've had with dissident Israeli academics has involved them telling me "yeah we deserve BDS"