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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

What happened next Jack?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

"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 · 2h

smarts with raw smarts, Irene get a speechwriter

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 11h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 9h

Gonna buy print copies of the FT this one is in and //slam// them on the desks of oh so many people making six figures.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 12h

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 12h

Based on the in-house bits I've has sight of the answer is "not very much". Whereas we end up 100% of our History students employed 15 months out, with about 60% in "graduate jobs" b then already.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, if these tories were serious about "rip-off degrees" they would be looking at business schools. Amazing how it never comes up.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 12h

These people tried to put TOBY YOUNG in charge of the Office for Students.

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

Everyone paying attention to HE policy felt an existential shiver go down their spine when *Michelle Donelan* was appointed to the HE brief. That we could sink farther than Gavin Williamson, that Chris Skidmore or all people was a sensible voice. That says it all right there.

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

It's worse, because this isn't ignorance, it's wilful destruction. The tories are the architects of the current HE system. They *know* the whole thing relies on disciplinary cross-subsidy, they know STEM is mega-expensive. They spent years reducing subsidy funding to arts and humanities subjects!

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13h

At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.

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

Yeah it's also an excellent place to start people if they're coming to all this more recently as well.

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 14h

I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE

ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...

Cutting Corners: a message to the next Vice Chancellor at Goldsmiths

On 1 October 2025, a short announcement was put on Goldsmiths’ website to say that Vice Chancellor Frances Corner was stepping down with immediate effect. This came off the back of an announcement …

ucucommons.org

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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 16h

With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024.
Read more on our site here:

museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...

Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness

We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 15h

heck, go full hog and remove all the subsidies from the sciences and from health and wow, wait a minute, this "market" thing really isn't doing what we wanted...

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 15h

What is with those arches + windows + beige. Like, who consciously decides on that combination.

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

Is she trying to completely poison the simple idea of distributing students across the system (which is what "number controls" is actually about)? I don't care about HOW many go to university (more the merrier), I care WHERE they go.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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

Indeed.

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

Feels like everyone (who is sane) has a duty in that moment to bring up the UAE's record on modern slavery, among other topics.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 1d

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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

man those folks sure know how to pick em don't they.

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