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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · 1d

Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!

www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...

www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...

Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book

The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.

www.sciencenorway.no

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · 12d

Damns straight. UC faculty, UC Faculty Associations (hi @UCLAFA ), and #AAUP pushing back against #UCOP. Universities are not corporations. www.science.org/content/arti...

University of California faculty push back against Big Brother cybersecurity mandate

School officials defend software as bulwark against ransomware, but professors fear potential surveillance of their devices

www.science.org

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · 20d

Decades ago, I worked at a place that did basically the same thing - by selling complete editorial control of each interview back to the CEO being interviewed. They’d bury the legally required “paid for” info in a tiny font in the back of the magazine.

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · 20d

Can’t believe we have to fight these fights. But here we are. dailybruin.com/2025/10/14/j...

Judge rules UC must publicize Trump administration settlement demands - Daily Bruin

This post was updated Oct. 14 at 11:30 p.m. A judge ruled Tuesday that the UC Board of Regents must publicize the Trump administration’s proposed settlement demands to UCLA.

dailybruin.com

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 27d

4 out of the 9 Nobel laureates in Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine are University of California faculty (2 UCSB, 2 Cal) and one other received all their degrees from the UC system (UCLA and UCSD).

So those highly funded woke liberal universities are clearly failing, eh?

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Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · Oct 3

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · Sep 25

First day of instruction at #UCLA. Amidst fucking everything, I take strength, courage, and even joy from our students. We shall see if it lasts the day, but for now, on a gray Los Angeles morning, the year begins with sharp glimmers of hope.

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · Sep 17

Not waiting for #UC leadership to sell us out.

University of California students and faculty sue the Trump administration

White House using civil rights laws to wage campaign against school system to undermine free speech, says suit

www.theguardian.com

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Sep 15

Tomorrow the UC regents are meeting at UCSF to discuss Trump's extortion attempt. This is a defining moment for the UC system, for public education, and for the university as an institution. We demand no concession, no capitulation, no cuts.

No Concessions, No Capitulation, No Cuts
On September 16 at 2pm, we are joining the AAUP and CUCFA for a rally at the William J. Rutter Center at UCSF, 1675 Owens Street, San Francisco, to demand No Concessions, No Capitulation, and No Cuts to our University of California. Please join us!

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · Aug 26

My former student won an Emmy! Well done, Jui!

UCLA English alum Jui Sarwate receives Emmy Award - Department of English UCLA

UCLA English Department - News

english.ucla.edu

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · Aug 9

It is, I will admit, a very small relief to see the University of California making very small gestures in the right direction. #StandUpForUC t.co/7ovP018f2q

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved/stand-up-for-uc

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · Aug 1

“It's like we all know, way down in our souls, that our generation is gonna witness the end of everything.”

Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism

The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...

www.latimes.com

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · Jun 24

I love my work. It may not feel the same way about me. #medieval #manuscripts

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · Jun 10

Wild. Have fun.

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · Jun 1

Snipers on the roof last year. My rage at #UCLA ‘s failure to protect students, and indeed how they were endangered, will never fade.

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · May 20

Not now, people. Never now. Shame on President Drake.

Statement condemning faculty member removal from commencement

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · May 15

A police attack on a film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning, write four UCLA faculty members.

UCLA Is Now Nearly Unrecognizable as a University

A police attack on a documentary film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning.

www.thenation.com

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · May 8

Rouse ms 17 is fun, if you don’t mind your eyeballs bleeding.

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · May 5

Joshua Clover died. I was so very young when i met him in 1996. As was he.

Value Theory for the End of the World

Poet, communist, cat-lover, teacher, music critic, roadrunner, critical theorist, Marxist: though not necessarily in this order, Joshua Clover was all those things--and more. To me, however, he was fi...

www.versobooks.com

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Matthew Fisher @bookhand.bsky.social · Apr 17

And I wonder, are they one of my students? One of my friends’ students? Obviously they’re one of my colleagues’ students.

How many steps removed does it take for people not to see the fucking outrage?

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · Apr 8

UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.

Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · Apr 7

LATEST: At least 45 student visas across the state have been revoked by the Trump administration, California universities report, as numbers grow. A lawsuit has been filed in a Los Angeles federal court against DHS and Kristi Noem www.latimes.com/california/s...