Strutton Ground Oxfam 🔥🔥🔥

One of the few places you could study Eastern European/Slavonic languages & cultures in the UK. I remember being encouraged to study Poland for my PhD because diversity of research is important. But it has affected my career prospects in the opposite way; I wish I had pursued an Anglophone topic.

This Wednesday, online. Please sign up to hear Caroline’s paper!

100% a scam

Proud of this one - my new article in The Historical Journal is out on first view. It's a historiographical review of the literature on British colonial spoils, or 'loot'.

Please join us in celebrating the Centre for Black Humanities’ tenth anniversary. CBH is holding a two-day symposium titled ‘Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’. Our keynote will be Professor Christina Sharpe. Cfp below. Please spread the word!

This is looking like a welcome report Fonagy is able to draw upon a long career in clinical work, as well as deep familiarity with psy traditions - esp. object relations - to argue (obviously, necessarily) that the external conditions for young ppl’s happiness and self-worth are currently NOT GOOD

This is looking like a welcome report Fonagy is able to draw upon a long career in clinical work, as well as deep familiarity with psy traditions - esp. object relations - to argue (obviously, necessarily) that the external conditions for young ppl’s happiness and self-worth are currently NOT GOOD

AI must be some of this

Huge congrats Chloe!

They were certainly asking the big and still relevant questions in the 40s-50s! In nearby territory this week reading Wilfred Bion (recentish obsession) for clues about how he was thinking about “thinking” (as indelibly human and interpersonal) in the first era of AI and cybernetics

Non-digitised sources? Original approaches? Interdisciplinarity? Non-anglophone topics? Do not compute!!

And just produce proposals that sound like what’s already in its training data, meaning the “usual suspect” projects and CVs will be the ones that float to the top.

I guess that’s the inevitable outcome of a system that requires people to write funding applications to get money for research — just produce whatever Computer will like.

And just produce proposals that sound like what’s already in its training data, meaning the “usual suspect” projects and CVs will be the ones that float to the top.

Obviously an outrage. But also an unsurprising gambit by SMTs when Labour’s message since 2024 has been “cut your own costs before you come knocking at our door”