Doctor Logic
@saraluckelman.bsky.social
#Logician, #Onomast, #Medievalist, #AcademicMama, #Author, #Immigrant, founder of SFFReviews.com and @EllipsisImprint. Co-president of @ducu. Own views. Robot.
@rachelahandley.com , write this story for your next anthology.
An old woman with white hair and a white cardigan sits on a park bench. A black swan stands in front of her looking up into her face. The swan nods and the woman nods back.
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
@rachelahandley.com , write this story for your next anthology.
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F160.0.3
Pagan otherworld identified
with Christian paradise (heaven).
Pagan otherworld identified
with Christian paradise (heaven).
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
F160.0.3
Pagan otherworld identified
with Christian paradise (heaven).
Pagan otherworld identified
with Christian paradise (heaven).
Name one right that the Magna Carta enshrined.
If you named "trial by jury", go read this: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
If you named "trial by jury", go read this: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Name one right that the Magna Carta enshrined.
If you named "trial by jury", go read this: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
If you named "trial by jury", go read this: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Not a movie, but a 6-part BBC historical costume drama focusing on the University of Paris in the early 14th C. Focal story is Jean Buridan's illicit love affair with Queen Blanche.
OR, a 12-part GMMTV BL version of the same, alt hist where Buridan fancies Ockham.
OR, a 12-part GMMTV BL version of the same, alt hist where Buridan fancies Ockham.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Not a movie, but a 6-part BBC historical costume drama focusing on the University of Paris in the early 14th C. Focal story is Jean Buridan's illicit love affair with Queen Blanche.
OR, a 12-part GMMTV BL version of the same, alt hist where Buridan fancies Ockham.
OR, a 12-part GMMTV BL version of the same, alt hist where Buridan fancies Ockham.
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
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I think we can only conclude that, like previous Conservative governments, Labour actively wants to shrink the higher education sector, forcing consolidations, mergers, and ultimately closure of some institutions. This will of course be an utter disaster for students, staff and local areas.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I think we can only conclude that, like previous Conservative governments, Labour actively wants to shrink the higher education sector, forcing consolidations, mergers, and ultimately closure of some institutions. This will of course be an utter disaster for students, staff and local areas.
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Great news for all who care about telling the truth & the full story of American history. The Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till died is now owned by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center thanks to a major donation from Shonda Rhimes. It will open as a memorial by 2039.
New owner to open Mississippi barn where Emmett Till was killed as a memorial site
The new owner of the Mississippi barn where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed is to be opened as a memorial site by 2030.
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Great news for all who care about telling the truth & the full story of American history. The Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till died is now owned by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center thanks to a major donation from Shonda Rhimes. It will open as a memorial by 2039.
30% of employers in the sector at risk of "exiting" the sector within 2-3 years. 15% are at immediate risk: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
More than 60% of the employers in the sector have shed collectively thousands of jobs in recent years: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
Does the gov't care?
More than 60% of the employers in the sector have shed collectively thousands of jobs in recent years: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
Does the gov't care?
Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told
Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
30% of employers in the sector at risk of "exiting" the sector within 2-3 years. 15% are at immediate risk: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
More than 60% of the employers in the sector have shed collectively thousands of jobs in recent years: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
Does the gov't care?
More than 60% of the employers in the sector have shed collectively thousands of jobs in recent years: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
Does the gov't care?
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We remember a time when we were called doomthinkers for mentioning that the collapse of a university would be bad in and of itself, and additionally have bad knock-on effects.
Now they're talking about 50, and just doing it with that euphemism.
Time for a dispute with the Secretary of State? #UKHE
Now they're talking about 50, and just doing it with that euphemism.
Time for a dispute with the Secretary of State? #UKHE
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We remember a time when we were called doomthinkers for mentioning that the collapse of a university would be bad in and of itself, and additionally have bad knock-on effects.
Now they're talking about 50, and just doing it with that euphemism.
Time for a dispute with the Secretary of State? #UKHE
Now they're talking about 50, and just doing it with that euphemism.
Time for a dispute with the Secretary of State? #UKHE
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Tomorrow I'll run a creative writing workshop for the always lovely philosophy undergrads at Nottingham.
I think this is my fourth year running the workshop and it is always a delight!
I think this is my fourth year running the workshop and it is always a delight!
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Tomorrow I'll run a creative writing workshop for the always lovely philosophy undergrads at Nottingham.
I think this is my fourth year running the workshop and it is always a delight!
I think this is my fourth year running the workshop and it is always a delight!
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“Going forward, there’s a lot of pressure on the university to respect shared governance and to at least generate … buy-in from faculty for any decisions that are made."
- Bill Knight, AAUP Portland State University
@psuaaup.bsky.social
- Bill Knight, AAUP Portland State University
@psuaaup.bsky.social
A University Gets Dinged for Failing to Involve Faculty in Budget-Cut Talks
An arbitrator says Portland State must reinstate 10 faculty members who were laid off.
www.chronicle.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
“Going forward, there’s a lot of pressure on the university to respect shared governance and to at least generate … buy-in from faculty for any decisions that are made."
- Bill Knight, AAUP Portland State University
@psuaaup.bsky.social
- Bill Knight, AAUP Portland State University
@psuaaup.bsky.social
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November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨
**Women In Logic 2026, Lisbon, Portugal**
24-25 July 2026
The annual Women in Logic Workshop is returning in 2026 as a TWO-DAY workshop!
Get your abstracts in by May 5, 2026!
For more info: sites.google.com/view/wil2026...
**Women In Logic 2026, Lisbon, Portugal**
24-25 July 2026
The annual Women in Logic Workshop is returning in 2026 as a TWO-DAY workshop!
Get your abstracts in by May 5, 2026!
For more info: sites.google.com/view/wil2026...
Call for papers
Women in Logic 2026 is a satellite event of the FLoC 2026: The 9th Federated Logic Conference to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from July 13 to July 29, 2026.
The Women in Logic workshop (WiL) provides...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨
**Women In Logic 2026, Lisbon, Portugal**
24-25 July 2026
The annual Women in Logic Workshop is returning in 2026 as a TWO-DAY workshop!
Get your abstracts in by May 5, 2026!
For more info: sites.google.com/view/wil2026...
**Women In Logic 2026, Lisbon, Portugal**
24-25 July 2026
The annual Women in Logic Workshop is returning in 2026 as a TWO-DAY workshop!
Get your abstracts in by May 5, 2026!
For more info: sites.google.com/view/wil2026...
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Posters have appeared around the building. They suggest that geography, geology, & environment staff might be a bit angry at proposed redundancies, reorganisations & closures. Rightly so.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Posters have appeared around the building. They suggest that geography, geology, & environment staff might be a bit angry at proposed redundancies, reorganisations & closures. Rightly so.
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God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee
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Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
"I am a rock" and "No man is a stone": Simon and Garfunkel vs. Buridan on the Metaphysics of Men
... is a paper I'd love to write, if I cared at all about metaphysics.
... is a paper I'd love to write, if I cared at all about metaphysics.
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"I am a rock" and "No man is a stone": Simon and Garfunkel vs. Buridan on the Metaphysics of Men
... is a paper I'd love to write, if I cared at all about metaphysics.
... is a paper I'd love to write, if I cared at all about metaphysics.
If the plural of merman is mermen, why is the plural of human not humen?
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
If the plural of merman is mermen, why is the plural of human not humen?
Hahaha, during tonight's #StrictlyComeDancing, J scoffed when I confessed I can't keep Lewis Capaldi and Lewis Hamilton straight, and then it turned out he was confusing Lewis Capaldi and Peter Capaldi!
November 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Hahaha, during tonight's #StrictlyComeDancing, J scoffed when I confessed I can't keep Lewis Capaldi and Lewis Hamilton straight, and then it turned out he was confusing Lewis Capaldi and Peter Capaldi!
Watching Lao and Bullseye grow up is so much fun.
They were both born in a cat shelter, growing up around tons of other cats, with regular human interaction but not necessarily the sort you get when you're part of a *family*.
[Photo from Feb. '25, soon after they came home.]
They were both born in a cat shelter, growing up around tons of other cats, with regular human interaction but not necessarily the sort you get when you're part of a *family*.
[Photo from Feb. '25, soon after they came home.]
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Watching Lao and Bullseye grow up is so much fun.
They were both born in a cat shelter, growing up around tons of other cats, with regular human interaction but not necessarily the sort you get when you're part of a *family*.
[Photo from Feb. '25, soon after they came home.]
They were both born in a cat shelter, growing up around tons of other cats, with regular human interaction but not necessarily the sort you get when you're part of a *family*.
[Photo from Feb. '25, soon after they came home.]
Reading a fascinating post on governance in UK universities: post18.co.uk/earning-the-...
Particularly struck by this paragraph, because *this is what my institution used to have*.
Particularly struck by this paragraph, because *this is what my institution used to have*.
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Reading a fascinating post on governance in UK universities: post18.co.uk/earning-the-...
Particularly struck by this paragraph, because *this is what my institution used to have*.
Particularly struck by this paragraph, because *this is what my institution used to have*.
Today seems like a good day to try to clear some of the items off my Desktop...
There are currently 19 folders and 830 files on it. Any bets on how much I can reduce it by the end of the day?
There are currently 19 folders and 830 files on it. Any bets on how much I can reduce it by the end of the day?
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today seems like a good day to try to clear some of the items off my Desktop...
There are currently 19 folders and 830 files on it. Any bets on how much I can reduce it by the end of the day?
There are currently 19 folders and 830 files on it. Any bets on how much I can reduce it by the end of the day?
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.