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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor

@ttw1984.bsky.social
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Lecturer in German Studies @lcsleeds.bsky.social. All views my own. She/her. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanities-cul…

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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor @ttw1984.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
✅ 6 months Leeds ✅ 1st full week teaching ✅ wonderful colleagues
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Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ein "Clan" ist ein erfolgreiches Familienunternehmen, das noch nicht genug an die CDU gespendet hat.
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Laurel Plapp @laurelplapp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The W+IGS Book Prize deadline has been extended until 15 October! Don’t miss out! More information below @wigsblog.bsky.social @helencfinch.bsky.social @katherinestone.bsky.social #GermanStudies
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 18/09/2026
The University of Edinburgh is a world-class institution and our members are determined to protect it. With an estimated 1,800 jobs at risk, staff are ready to strike for 25 days to defend jobs and the future of the university. Management can end this dispute: rule out compulsory redundancies.
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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor @ttw1984.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
GOOD GRIEF 🙈😫😮‍💨
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Ralf Michaels @ralfmichaels.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Und die perfideste Form des Antisemitismus ist, Juden zu Ausländern zu machen. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz hat zum vereinten Kampf gegen Antisemitismus aufgerufen. »Die perfideste Form der Ausländerfeindlichkeit ist Antisemitismus«,
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
but I can’t believe we’ve now got to the point of feminism which explicitly says “only women can do childcare”, well done everyone
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hang on, can male staff change boy babies’ nappies? Or no nappies at all? Can men change their own babies’ nappies?
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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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Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Seems none of these universities seems to greatly care about their REF results in the "Strategy, People and Research Environment" department ...
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Daniel Kubiak @danielkubiak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Liebes Westdeutschland, wir haben ein Problem. Die Rechtsextremen haben sich hier mehr als verdoppelt.
Ergebnis der Kommunalwahlen in Niedersachsen. CDU, SPD und Grüne verloren. AfD Zuwachs von 12 Prozent auf 16 insgesamt.
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Panlogia 🍁 @panlogia.com · 13/09/2026
Es ist doch eher die Frage warum sich die Mitte davon abschrecken sollte? Was ist die Mitte eigentlich? Sollte die Mitte nicht auch antifaschistisch sein?
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Justin Webb is doing the ‘you’re not a *proper* Jew, are you?’ thing to Ed Miliband on the Today programme right now.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
we’re all agreed the bacon sandwich thing was antisemitic now, right
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Zu Deutschland gehört erstmal jede*r der hier gerade lebt, und das schließt geschätzte 10 Millionen Mitbürger*innen mit ein, die derzeit nicht wählen dürfen aber direkt von der rechtsextremen Politik der AfD betroffen sind. Auch diese müssen wir schützen.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fair play to Ed Miliband, who has broken the political consensus, spoken sense in the Commons and acknowledged our shared humanity. Of course, the government could and should go much further, especially in condemning the continuing horrors in Gaza and stopping ALL arms sales, but this is a start.
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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor @ttw1984.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
But later they (the apathetic mainstream) will claim to have suffered in ‘inner exile’ #niewieder 🤔
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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor @ttw1984.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Pre-emptive exile (or just: exile). And later the apathetic mainstream will accuse the exiled activists of abandoning them #niewieder 🤔
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 06/09/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning
Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies
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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor @ttw1984.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Best news ever!! Congratulations, you superstar @jeannetteoho.bsky.social 🤩🥳🤓🙌🏽
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor @ttw1984.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Some bank holiday / end of summer reading for you all! A blog about a book that’s been a long time coming - and we’re pretty proud of it! Thanks to @profsarajones.bsky.social & Betiel Wasihun for all the hard work and collegiality while writing and for keeping us going when times were tough 🙏🏽🤓
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Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies @ilcs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"The future of modern languages will not be secured simply by attempting to reverse falling demand. It will depend on expanding access to the point where demand can genuinely be expressed" by @anademedeiros.bsky.social and @marcecazzoli.bsky.social
wonkhe.com
Modern languages has a future – and it’s all about access
Contraction of modern languages provision is often painted as a response to falling demand. For Ana de Medeiros and Marcela Cazzoli, if you look across the whole education system then HE starts to loo...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...
Thinking is hard. Reflection is hard. Perhaps we will persist with our collective miscalculation and ignore all that philosophy, literature, classics and history have to offer us. The humanities have a word for this: tragedy.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It’s 25 years since we lost Douglas Adams. I am happy to have been able to get a reference to him into this piece in the FT about why the humanities are essential www.ft.com/content/fbde...
It is 25 years since the death of Douglas Adams. He was prescient in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in
concluding that finding the answer to life, the universe and everything was not that difficult - it was 42. But the hard part was understanding the question. The humanities are here to help us make sense of the questions of our time.
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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor @ttw1984.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Modern Languages (and the cultural inquiry these entail) also do this. Just sayin’… 😉 @ucflangs.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social
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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor @ttw1984.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Erinnerungsweltmeister (= they’re happy to champion and be champions of *exactly* what happened in the past… 🤬)
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Gunther Martens @gumarten.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
People need to know that Ghent university is not considering investigating Mr. Cfnas because he acted as a whistleblower, but because of propounding ideas that are potentially in breach of the university's ethical code of conduct.
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Alexander Bosch @boschpolforsch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Entscheidend ist die Verfassung: Ein Gottesstaat oder ähnliches ist etwas völlig anderes als ein säkular verfasster Staat, in dem schlicht die Mehrheit muslimisch ist. ​Wer „Demokratie“ so eng definiert, dass fast nur Westeuropa übrig bleibt, blendet reale Wahldemokratien weltweit schlicht aus. 2/4
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Alexander Bosch @boschpolforsch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Sorry, aber die Behauptung, es gäbe keine Demokratien mit muslimischer Mehrheit, ist Quatsch. ​Albanien, Kosovo, Indonesien, Malaysia, Senegal oder Bosnien zeigen: Säkular verfasste Staaten mit muslimischer Mehrheit & demokratische Institutionen schließen sich keineswegs aus. 1/4
Screenshot eines Social-Media-Beitrags. 

Oben steht folgender deutscher Text:
„Mehrheit. Sondern es geht darum, wie sich dieser Staat definiert: (Jüdischer Staat, Islamischer Staat, Christlicher Staat usw.) und sobald ein Staat das tut, wird die Mehrheit per eigene Definition mindestens bevorzugt und er kann in dem Fall niemals demokratisch sein. #Hasbara #Staatsräson“

Darunter ist ein eingebrachter englischsprachiger Post von Shahak Shapira (@ShahakShapira) abgebildet:
„Can Israel be democratic and Jewish? But also: if Israel lost it's Jewish majority, it would be to a Muslim majority. There are no stable liberal democracies with a Muslim majority, which begs the question: can Israel be democratic and NOT Jewish? Can it even be Israel?“

Der Teilsatz „There are no stable liberal democracies with a Muslim majority“ ist im Tweet gelb markiert.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Cofnas had a Leverhulme early career fellowship "I called the Leverlhulme Trust this morning, and was surprised that this was, apparently, the first inquiry they had had about Nathan Cofnas" - Afua Hirsch afuahirsch.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...
afuahirsch.substack.com
A Tale of Two Racists
and the forever war against black bodies
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Momo Rulez 🏳️‍🌈 @momorulez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Und nein, die Rechten sind NICHT Elemente einer "vielfältigen Gesellschaft", sondern stehen für die totale Gleichschaltung. Schreiben sie ja eindeutig in ihre Wahlprogramme.
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Momo Rulez 🏳️‍🌈 @momorulez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So was wie Pluralität wird vor lauter "Mitte" gar nicht mehr GEDACHT.
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Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Saba Nur-Cheema and Meron Mendel have so much access and influence in this country. I'm disappointed that they chose to use their privilege at this time to question the notion of Black safe spaces / safer spaces *for children* in a democracy. I'm exhausted and heartbroken. Where is the empathy?
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Volksbad der Volksbühne Berlin: Meron Mendel und Saba-Nur Chema schreiben in der F.A.Z. über die Skandalisierung des Pools von Matthias Lilienthals Pool als politische Falle
Wer Zugang für öffentliche Räume nach Identitätsmerkmalen einschränkt, will Diskriminierung bekämpfen. Doch damit droht genau das verloren zu gehen, was eine offene Gesellschaft ausmacht: die alltägli...
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Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Screenshot of tweet from 2015 by Adrian Bott (@Cavalorn):

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face', sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Angesichts der Tatsache, dass die Hasskampagne aus Sicht der rechten Akteure erfolgreich verlief & die Angriffe ... bis heute im Netz nachvollziehbar andauern, ist davon auszugehen, dass sich derartige Bedrohungslagen in Zukunft häufen & auch gegen weitere Communitys-Organisationen richten werden."
migrationsrat.de
Stellungnahme zur rassistischen rechten Hasskampagne gegen EOTO e.V. – Migrationsrat Berlin e.V.
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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor @ttw1984.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
lol (not funny but lol)
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Margarete Stokowski @margaowski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
bitte denkt daran beim zähneputzen das wasser nicht laufen zu lassen um keine ressourcen zu verschwenden
Bundeswehr-Flugbereitschaft
Hälfte der Regierungsflüge hebt ohne Passagiere ab
Ein konstantes Ärgernis: Die Regierung sitzt in Berlin, die Flugbereitschaft ist in Köln/Bonn stationiert. Die Jets müssen oft leer zum Einsatz düsen. Einer steckt gerade wegen eines technischen Defekts auf den Seychellen fest.
19.08.2026, 07.40 Uhr
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Jeannette Oholi @jeannetteoho.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Heute ist May Ayims 30. Todestag. Ich habe eine Laudatio für die bedeutende Autorin, Aktivistin und Forscherin geschrieben, die demnächst im neuen Rundbrief von Edition Zweifel erscheinen wird. Schaut unbedingt mal bei Edition Zweifel vorbei und bestellt den Rundbrief: zweifel.jetzt/rundbrief
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The view from outside
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 30/07/2026
“proposed cuts of 28 per cent of staff in the department” of history at Exeter.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 30/07/2026
The UK is torching one of the few sectors in which they still have a global edge, horrifying to watch.
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School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Wonderful day on Monday celebrating all our incredible graduates in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies across our spectrum of degrees from the ancient to the modern. Always an uplifting experience! 🎓 🎉 @universityofleeds.bsky.social @leedsalumni.bsky.social
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Nicole Seifert @nicoleseifert.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Auffällig, in wievielen literarischen Neuerscheinungen von Autorinnen Männer ermordet werden. Aber solange es nur Fiktion ist, will ich keine Klagen hören. #femizide
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3
timeshighereducation.com
University of Exeter cuts an ‘existential threat to humanities’
Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go
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Lucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering
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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor @ttw1984.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What
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Dr Tara Talwar Windsor @ttw1984.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This is going to be excellent 🤓 Come along if you’re here/near! @ankahajkova.bsky.social @helencfinch.bsky.social @krheyam.bsky.social
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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Unter all den erschreckenden Ideen im AfD-Programm Sachsen-Anhalt finde ich diese besonders verräterisch: das Bauhaus wird als „wurzellos“ denunziert, genau wie schon von den Nazis. Es geht hier um eine rechtsextreme Kulturrevolution, und da kann eine Landesregierung einiges erreichen.
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