Very much same here. I also think there is a class element for many - easier to network, easier to expose yourself to current research in different disciplines, easier to find a cohort of sorts and get advice, etc.

As a disabled person it’s also a mixed blessing: you really get to witness a particularly ugly breed of ableism accelerated through social media but you also get to talk to so many disabled people around the world and learn from them

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

*hugs*

Right? Besides, if a wider argument/scholarly contribution is demolished by one or two individual errors then there are bigger problems going on (even typing that stressed me out but it *is* true).

Yeah, second this. If you come across / are told about actual errors, tell the editor (two in mine so far, devastating). Otherwise, focus on the ideas and/or the next project.

If you worked on something today, congratulate yourself: Childcare, answering emails, physical therapy, writing, watering plants.

Anything you did, go ‘head & remind yourself you survived another day & that’s a gracious plenty, given what’s happening.

Let’s not take our survival for granted.

They tell us to leave, but where do we go when every place is a target? Families move in circles, running from death that follows everywhere. My family has lost everything but faith that someone will care enough to help us.
please donate to save us💔🙏🏻
tinyurl.com/mt7r9ka7

Had a very similar experience this week!

2 years of genocide. I mourn the dead, and I mourn the living. None of us will ever be the same, none of us should ever be the same.

What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!

This is such a cool idea, *damn*

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

Yeah, using your private accounts to keep continuity definitely leads to other problems. So frustrating.

Seems legit

@roarz.bsky.social, one for you

Muslims and Jews have a parallel problem: they both have religious concepts of unified global communities, “umma” and “am yisrael,” which do not map onto any empirical reality.

Even accounting for the radical disparity in numbers, with Muslims a far greater percentage of humanity, both communities

Not to be *that* obnoxious academic, but the term "moron" was invented by eugenicists to classify high-functioning "feebleminded" people, and most often targeted at women who were sexually promiscuous.

When I was researching my book Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, I learned of a 1000-year-old myth about Roman tech being used to build killer robots to guard the Buddha's remains in Pataliputra, and a Hungarian folklorist read my book & got excited about it, & she managed to dig up a🧵(1/3)

Watching the Boxing Day test in the UK means no sleep for like 4 days and yet there we all are (including sometimes when it's India playing, not us)

A local community group I'm affiliated with is running a charity drive for Gazans. If you can spare a penny and/or a repost, we'd be hugely grateful.

www.gofundme.com/f/Humanitari...

Here's an 11th-century Jewish manuscript that refers to God as Allah and wishes for the reader to have "jihad of his soul in love for his Creator"