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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Priorities (from latest @adamtooze.bsky.social chartbook)

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Jason Stanley makes the case that the stuff that was most obviously in fact a lie in Arday's case was also not stuff which academic institutions care about when employing someone, whereas by the metrics academics care about Arday was doing well. jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/it-sure-lo...

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It sure looks like Jason Arday was horrifically wronged

The media’s profound ignorance of academia is a deadly problem

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Academic gossip fed the media monster and killed Jason Arday in a terrible, preventable, forseeable tragedy katemanne.substack.com/p/gossipy-ac...

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Gossipy Academics Helped Kill Jason Arday

Or, the anatomy of a pile-on

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

David Foster Wallace said something about not liking to read others when finishing his own books, but that only works if you’re writing fiction I think

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/08/2026

‘Britain’s Neet problem is just one manifestation of wider epidemiological and psychosocial trends that move independently of market forces, are not reducible to the incentives of the benefit system, and are worse than those in comparable countries.’ William Davies: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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William Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?

Those who look for the cause of today’s resurgence of Neets in a more recent global shock, the Covid pandemic, need to...

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It's also kind of funny that the shoddy IQ research he cites specifies that the most conservative people are less intelligent than the most liberal. There is "evidence that intelligent people are leaning Left."

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thanks to the guy formerly of Mumford & Sons for demonstrating that Nathan Cofnas is indeed a charlatan who cannot defend his nonsensical "race realism". youtu.be/JKQePI1CfNg?...

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The Former Cambridge Fellow Who Exposed Jason Arday - Nathan Cofnas

YouTube video by Winston Marshall

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/08/2026

‘It is perhaps with these early expressions of intent that we might best understand the attitude to science that Anna Atkins absorbed: it was social, it was a means to understand the world and it was a way to expand the human heart.’ Gaby Wood on cyanotypes. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Gaby Wood · Translucency: Cyanotypes

I don’t remember when I first learned to make cyanotypes, but I had loved Anna Atkins’s prints for many years...

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

New post: those wanting Jason Arday to face 'justice' of some kind are not going to get what they want willd10.substack.com/p/how-the-ja...

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How the Jason Arday affair will fizzle out

Truth is a social system. Sorry.

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