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Nicholas Guyatt
@nicholasguyatt.bsky.social
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I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · Nov 13
So it has taken a bit longer than promised but the Oxford Illustrated History of the United States is about to go into production! Watch this space for pub date and possible (shameless) semiquincentennial branding. And massive thanks to the stellar contributors who have been incredible to work with
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 5d
remember that if you share this link with your colleague who writes a book a year you WILL be shrinking the size of the settlement pot
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 5d
ICYMI: link to the database of books stolen by Anthropic - NB this is a smaller list than the previous database so check this one to see if you can join the settlement and begin the fight with your publisher/agent about the size of their cut secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/?_gl=...
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 6d
Very amusing when conservatives try to gotcha a left-wing person by traducing... BILL CLINTON
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 6d
Inspired to see if Pete Hegseth (with whom I overlapped at Princeton) and his Princeton Tory magazine had ever targeted me with the energy and lethality of true warfighters and whaddya know!? (from September 2002...)
Why is it that critics on the left, grad student Nicholas Guyatt among them, insist on mocking President Bush's physical fitness? Four years ago, the elites fell in love with Bill Clinton's MTV underwear shenanigans and less-than-stellar sax solos, only to back off of Clinton's ability to "connect with young people" some time in 1998. Now, it seems, the private doings of public figures are once more fair game for pundits. Recently, Guyatt dropped a snide remark in the Prince about Bush's appearance on the cover of Runner's World, which raises an interesting point: if the ability to run a six-minute mile is laughable to Guyatt, then how does he feel about the ability to lie under oath?
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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 7d
He's properly lost it
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d
'Graeme Atherton, head of the Ruskin Institute for Social Equity (Rise) at the University of West London, said the policy “is giving with one hand and taking with another” and will “exacerbate” the problems being faced by humanities and arts departments and disadvantaged students.'
Maintenance grants only for priority courses ‘deeply concerning’
Using financial incentives to influence student choice risk undermining Labour’s widening access goals, critics fear
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 7d
ICYMI, the jaw-dropping piece on Hegseth from the Baffler. Incredible to think that he was confirmed, and to consider how this administration has destroyed even the most basic expectations of competence and decency in public service thebaffler.com/salvos/battl...
Battle of the Sexes | Jasper Craven
Pete Hegseth has used his many perches—from Princeton to the Pentagon—to agitate for a kind of trickle-down masculinity.
thebaffler.com
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 8d
The UK government is addicted to regulating higher education -- here offering maintenance grants only to students on "priority courses" - but completely immune to every demand actually to fund universities properly
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 9d
I appreciate the existential dread of this headline
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 9d
Doubts deepen around Keir Starmer on.ft.com/4ns6fLG
Doubts deepen around Keir Starmer
Major reshuffle has weakened him, while MPs fear a lack of direction
on.ft.com
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 9d
My kid just sent me this with no context whatever, what a relief to be taller than Mario and that elf bloke
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 9d
just incredible how Starmer can find a political disaster even in a donkey sanctuary
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 9d
UK political discourse right now
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 12d
I think that's a certainty if there's actually a vote on this at UEFA's meeting next week; but the more interesting question is whether FIFA will try to find a way to include Israel regardless, since FIFA president Infantino now literally works out of Trump Tower. If that happens, all bets are off
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 12d
love that this got flagged as 'adult content', which I guess in a way it is
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 12d
Amazing to think that after World Cup finals in Russia and then Qatar, the finals in the United States might prove even more controversial - and likelier to result in countries and fans boycotting the tournament
World Cup 2026: US State Department vows to block attempts to ban Israel from tournament
The United States government say it will try to block any attempts to ban Israel from competing at the 2026 World Cup.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 14d
Just filing away images like this for my eventual survey-course lecture on the madness of 2025
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 14d
Chotiner interviewees at this point are like people who still agree to sit down with Ali G or Borat
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 15d
tbh I look like this without being Raptured
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 15d
that's the spirit!
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 15d
(From Hagee's underrated 1996 classic)
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 15d
Happy Rapture Day, everyone!

If you're unsure about whether the Rapture has taken place, or even whether you have personally been Raptured, here's some advice from megachurch pastor and trusted expert John Hagee
How will you know when the real Jesus comes to earth? He won't take out an ad in the New York Times. He won't speak through some theologian or some charismatic personality who stands on the Mount of Olives or Hollywood Boulevard in a white suit proclaiming that he is the king of the new Israel. He won't come through some warlock who calls down fire from heaven. I'll know Jesus has reappeared when my glorified body sails through the heavens past the Milky Way into the presence of God. I'll know I'm with the real Jesus when I stand in His glorious presence with my brand new disease-proof, never-dying, fatigue-free body that looks better, feels better, and is better than Arnold Schwarzenegger's.
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 15d
Also the Tory government's bullying of universities in 2020 to adopt the controversial IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which in turn has had a chilling effect on freedom of speech since Israel began its genocide in Gaza www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Williamson wrong to force universities to abide by antisemitism definition, say lawyers
Letter accuses education secretary of ‘improper interference’ after instruction on IHRA text
www.theguardian.com
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 15d
Someone I know, apply for this, and let me live vicariously though you. 🥰
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 15d
Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply!

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...
University of Cambridge - UK - Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 | H-Net
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15d
Core work hollowed out to feed the beast.

I have a lot of sympathy for how hard it is to run a uni in this messed-up funding system. But that should lead managers to advocate to changes to the system, not knowingly push the risk & the pain on some of the most vulnerable. www.ft.com/content/3f49...
But some academics worry that the focus on foreign students is going too far. At Queen Mary, some lecturers say the university is prioritising recruitment over support for existing students. “Money isn’t going to the actual work of research and education,” says Liesbeth Corens, a history lecturer at Queen Mary, but towards surplus reserves that help the university maintain its estates and act as a buffer against sector volatility. 
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 15d
Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply!

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...
University of Cambridge - UK - Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 | H-Net
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