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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 7d
Alice Sullivan, a leading gender-critical researcher, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Maddox Prize for her landmark review into how sex is recorded in publicly funded research. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #academicsky
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Sullivan Review author shortlisted for Maddox Prize
UCL professor Alice Sullivan who led review into how biological sex is captured in data collection is vying for Nature-led award
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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 9d
One week until my talk on #Satie at Berwick Literary Festival! 6 October, 7.30 pm in the Straw Yard, booking link here: www.maltingsberwick.co.uk/whats-on/blf...
BLF ’25: Erik Satie: 100 years since his death – The Maltings
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · 10d
More than other Britpop bands, Oasis still resemble what they did in the 90s. Their appeal today represents a nostalgia for more optimistic times than the uncertainty and economic decline of today, when the flag could be celebrated. I am quoted in here.

www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
How Oasis brought this divided nation a rare moment of unity
As the Gallagher brothers prepare to conclude their history-making, feud-repairing UK reunion tour with two more nights at Wembley Stadium, Mark Beaumont speaks to Irvine Welsh, Suede and other expert...
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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 19d
Today, Métier presents a “monumental” (The Wire) 4-disc box set from pianist Ian Pace in commanding performances of music by composer Michael Finnissy (b. 1946). On all platforms today at https://listn.fm/finnissypiano
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · 12d
‘Some close reading persisted, but many critics favoured contextual explanations or speculative hermeneutics aligned with ideological agendas, often in a censorious key reminiscent of Zhdanov, the true father of cancel culture.’ More on anti-formalism.

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The Persecution of the Soviet “Formalists”, Pt. 2
What the Cancelling of Certain Artforms in Stalin’s USSR Tells Us About Censorship Today
cafeamericainmag.com
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · 12d
Part 2 of my formalism article for Café Américain::

‘Formalism studies art as *art*, not merely as a window onto something else… renewed formalism can return literature, art, music, film, dance, and media to those who care about and are fascinated by them.’

cafeamericainmag.com/the-persecut...
The Persecution of the Soviet “Formalists”, Pt. 2
What the Cancelling of Certain Artforms in Stalin’s USSR Tells Us About Censorship Today
cafeamericainmag.com
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · 18d
‘The reduction of all to the “political” leaves little place for a private life, private thoughts, desires, fears, and beyond… And crucially, no place for the sort of privacy about one’s political views which are the essence of secret ballots’

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Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics | Ian Pace | The Critic Magazine
A series of incidents on social media have highlighted the extent of politicisation of academia, in ways of which a wider public may not have been aware, and constitute a legitimate concern at a time…
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · 18d
Last year, academics Alexandra Wilson and Michael Bronstein faced major academic pile-ons when they dared to suggest that teaching and research could have some autonomy from politics. A great many academics take the Zhdanovite view ‘everything is political’. thecritic.co.uk/academia-mus...
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · 18d
‘It was claimed that Leninism dictated that magazines “cannot be apolitical”, and that any attempts to be so were “harmful to the interests of the Soviet people” […] Theater’s only permitted role was “as an active propagandist of the policy of the Soviet state”’ cafeamericainmag.com/the-persecut...
The Persecution of the Soviet “Formalists”, Pt. 1
What the Cancelling of Certain Artforms in Stalin’s USSR Tells Us About Censorship Today
cafeamericainmag.com
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · 18d
‘Today, however, in schools, universities, publishers, arts organizations, media, strong tendencies first and foremost to remove, denounce, and censor art show the dominant influence … not of Shklovsky, Propp, Meyerhold or even Bakhtin, but of Zhdanov.’

cafeamericainmag.com/the-persecut...
The Persecution of the Soviet “Formalists”, Pt. 1
What the Cancelling of Certain Artforms in Stalin’s USSR Tells Us About Censorship Today
cafeamericainmag.com
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · 18d
In Café Américain, the first part of my article on formalism and anti-formalism in the Soviet Union, and Andrei Zhdanov as the father of modern cancel culture.

cafeamericainmag.com/the-persecut...
The Persecution of the Soviet “Formalists”, Pt. 1
What the Cancelling of Certain Artforms in Stalin’s USSR Tells Us About Censorship Today
cafeamericainmag.com
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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 19d
Enjoying new Michael Finnissy piano box set from @ianpace.bsky.social - there’s a lot of emotional & pianistic variety in the pieces @first-inversion.com
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · 19d
Part one of new article in Café Américain on Soviet anti-formalist campaigns and the Russian formalist movement which preceded them, as precedent for contemporary cancel culture. Part 2 will consider parallel formalist movements elsewhere.

cafeamericainmag.com/the-persecut...
The Persecution of the Soviet “Formalists”, Pt. 1
What the Cancelling of Certain Artforms in Stalin’s USSR Tells Us About Censorship Today
cafeamericainmag.com
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 24d
"The contemporary economics of higher education encourages strategies to attract as many students as possible and ensure they cannot fail." www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/resp...
To respond to AI, we may need to live with lower student satisfaction
Reversing some recent trends in teaching and learning is sure to generate mixed responses from students. Regulators must step in, says Ian Pace
www.timeshighereducation.com
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · 25d
People on here should read this.

open.substack.com/pub/noahpini...
The Bluesky-ization of the American left
Progressives discovered a seemingly invincible weapon. One day it stopped working.
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Martin Heneghan @martinheneghan.bsky.social · 25d
Nicely argued by @ianpace.bsky.social.

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/resp...
To respond to AI, we may need to live with lower student satisfaction
Reversing some recent trends in teaching and learning is sure to generate mixed responses from students. Regulators must step in, says Ian Pace
www.timeshighereducation.com
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timeshighered.bsky.social
Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 26d
Pausing the Research Excellence Framework amid concerns over its controversial environment section could signal the start of more fundamental shift away from an institutional focus on equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives, say experts. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports
#EDI #academicsky
Could REF pause lead to Trump-style diversity crackdown?
Three-month review of Research Excellence Framework could trigger more radical rethink on institutional priorities and spending, sector figures warn
www.timeshighereducation.com
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 26d
Pausing the REF amid concerns over its controversial environment section could signal the start of more fundamental shift away from an institutional focus on EDI initiatives, say experts www.timeshighereducation.com/news/could-r... via @jgro-the.bsky.social
Could REF pause lead to Trump-style diversity crackdown?
Three-month review of Research Excellence Framework could trigger more radical rethink on institutional priorities and spending, sector figures warn
www.timeshighereducation.com
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Dr Anna Notaro @drannanotaro.bsky.social · 26d
Hear, hear! "quality concerns cannot be sacrificed on the altar of student satisfaction. " www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/resp...
To respond to AI, we may need to live with lower student satisfaction
Reversing some recent trends in teaching and learning is sure to generate mixed responses from students. Regulators must step in, says Ian Pace
www.timeshighereducation.com
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26d
'The trouble is that such experiments will inevitably run up against universities’ interest in maximising measurable student satisfaction. The contemporary economics of higher education encourages strategies to attract as many students as possible and ensure they cannot fail.' Important point.
To respond to AI, we may need to live with lower student satisfaction
Reversing some recent trends in teaching and learning is sure to generate mixed responses from students. Regulators must step in, says Ian Pace
www.timeshighereducation.com
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · 26d
Five paragraphs of quotations from me here on the pause to the REF and how the proposed reweighting of PCE reflects a sector trying to accommodate those distinguished by ideology rather than research excellence. @timeshighered.bsky.social

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/could-r...
Could REF pause lead to Trump-style diversity crackdown?
Three-month review of Research Excellence Framework could trigger more radical rethink on institutional priorities and spending, sector figures warn
www.timeshighereducation.com
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timeshighered.bsky.social
Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 26d
Reversing some recent trends in use of AI in teaching and learning is sure to generate mixed responses from students. Regulators must step in, says @ianpace.bsky.social
#academicsky #AI
To respond to AI, we may need to live with lower student satisfaction
Reversing some recent trends in teaching and learning is sure to generate mixed responses from students. Regulators must step in, says Ian Pace
www.timeshighereducation.com
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 28d
I just watched the full video of the murder of Iryna Zarutska… and I don’t think I’ll ever be the same. Horrible. I couldn’t breathe. How can this even happen? People, what are we doing? Why?

🕯️ Rest in peace, Iryna. I have no words… only pain. But I know one thing — we must have justice.
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ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social · Sep 8
Really important response to the pausing of the REF by @profalices.bsky.social Hard-hitting points on the real danger this would use particular EDI measures to judge research on the basis of ideological conformity rather than excellence.

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/refs...
The REF’s postponement raises hopes that sanity will prevail on PCE
The three-month pause to re-examine the assessment of ‘people, culture and environment’ could prelude a welcome reversal, says Alice Sullivan
www.timeshighereducation.com
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timeshighered.bsky.social
Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Aug 29
At least two universities have revised academic job adverts after pressure from free speech campaigners, marking one of the first tangible effects of new legislation in England, reports @tashmosheim.bsky.social
#academicsky #freespeech
Pressure prompts universities to revise EDI recruitment ads
Universities change job requirements after free speech groups raise concerns following new legislation
www.timeshighereducation.com
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