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Dr Dave Hitchcock

@davehitchcock.bsky.social

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Historian: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968 Recovering recent Course Director (22-25), and research unit lead, at CCCU. Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013", Soon: 'The Ends of Poverty in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800' (2nd album). He/him.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 8m

Impeccable timing.

The Nobel goes to Machado, who is hiding in fear of her life at the moment, from Maduro.

The sickos dot jpg image. Guy looking through the window laughing.

Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 36m

The Lancaster move only makes "sense" if their 1 in 4/5 thing is purely about "resizing" the whole operation and had nothing to do with in-year deficits (not a strong case for these things). They will never admit any connection and it'll be four-finger pointing and slide decks all the way down.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 1h

Making everything in society behave like its a First Brands franchise a. does not work, b. loses money c. it sucks and everyone hates it.

Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 1h

Politicians just need to admit to themselves the utterly obvious: a nation's universities are part and parcel of its public structure, whether or not they are run as public goods, they simply are one.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 1h

Sure it gets around the visa issue, congrats we're all capable of seeing that far.
But they are almost always a mistake, and usually a very costly one. In the current fiscal climate in UK HE I think even the "richer" universities putting eggs in this particular basket is a massive mistake for them.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 1h

Hugely expensive to start up, satellite campuses then tend to trundle along for say 5 or 10 years before running face first into political winds, policy change, or the shifting priorities of a new leadership team at home base. The deals required to get staff to up stakes and go = also huge.

Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1h

"Global Britain" confirms that its actual message to the globe is "We want your money, we don't want you."

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks Jane!

Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks Cath, me too!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

in which a cop fails to understand the concept of “magnets” during a deeply stupid mistargeted raid, and loses his loaded rifle to the uncaring maw of a MRI

www.dailynews.com/2024/09/28/l...

LAPD officer lost rifle to MRI device during bungled raid, lawsuit alleges

Van Nuys medical imaging company alleges its constitutional rights were violated by officers who mistargeted the business for an illegal pot operation.

www.dailynews.com

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 18h

In case you were wondering, Mark Bray and his family found their plane reservations mysteriously cancelled *after successfully checking their bags and going through security* and are planning to try to leave the US again tonight.

Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 1d

In case you were wondering, Mark Bray, who wrote a book about anti-fascism, got death threats from MAGA, and is fleeing to Spain with his wife and young children - yeah, he's Jewish.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 20h

Welcome to Sunday worship at the "Church of What's Happening Now".

Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks Henry!

Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks Mark!

Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks Dominic!

Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 22h

100% abusing any authority vested in me to do this

Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks Daniel!

Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 23h

I'm honoured to have been elected one of three incoming @royalhistsoc.org council members for a three year term. The Society does an immense amount of good for historians in the UK and beyond and I am flattered I get a chance to play a part in that work.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 1d

Not convinced that is true in this case. People will very much remember immense physical brutality and the de facto end of the rule of law for them.

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 1d

What happened next Jack?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 1d

smarts with raw smarts, Irene get a speechwriter

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 2d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 1d

Someone's going to "Dundee" this story and say hold up it might not have been the VC maybe it was some other SMT member without their knowledge. No, this sort of thing would have gone straight through a full SMT meeting.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 1d

I had thought there was enough residual dignity, and enough emphasis on maintaining the reputation of one's institution, left in the office of Vice Chancellor for a UK university that VCs would not stoop to such behaviour. How naïve that was.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 1d

(which means I might have a back issue problem, can you do this one again)