Single best description of AI I’ve ever read, from the great Ted Chiang.

New online and #openaccess on Contemporary Levant: "Navigating futures past: colonialism, nationalism, and the making of post-Ottoman order in Kilis, 1919–1926" by Ramazan Hakkı Öztan: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… cc CBRL

This beautiful 500-kilometre-long line of more than 200 natural springs in the Iraqi Western Desert has a significant role in the history of Mesopotamia and Arabia. Free download our hydrology paper about it; the archaeology and heritage papers are coming mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/1…

1/3 If you are a National Trust member it’s that time of year again when you might want to make sure you vote in the AGM to resist the right wing private lobbying company that’s still trying to infiltrate the charity. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofemp…

3/3 For what it’s worth, I think the 6 candidates recommended by the Trust in their Quickvote option aren’t the only good ones, but are excellent. If you want to hold Restore Trust at bay again, these are the Restore Trust-recommend candidates to *avoid*: Gibbs, Goldman, Jenkins,

Our seminar series this fall - especially looking forward to #disasterhistory with Dr Sarah Irving FRHistS and #digitization and Partition history, as well as a historical perspective on mountaineering and Mt. Everest!

In memory of artist Khadija Saye, also known as Ya-Haddy Sisi Saye, Gambian-British photographer, and all her neighbours #Grenfell #womensart

Twisted irony. Germany now sees itself as the arbitrator of antisemitism. The proposed legislation allows them to decide that Jewish artists and academics are antisemites because they are critical of 🇮🇱, while those Jews supporting Netanyahu and his genocidal violence are not.

Israel bombed a polio vaccination site, meaning that Palestinian parents will now avoid taking their kids anywhere near them because they will rightfully see them as death traps.

Palestinian journalists are being shot at and targeted in Jenin by Israeli soldiers- the same place where veteran journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was killed in 2022.

I scrolled past this footage today (death has become routine in Gaza) then realized it was my old chemistry teacher, now unrecognizable. Husam cherished Tala the most, did everything to give her the best life possible. Israel murdered her today while she was ROLLER SKATING!

If you're an HSS scholar researching anything connected with waste, then you might consider submitting a paper to our Scopus-rated journal 'Worldwide Waste' – more info in the attached flyer, and on the submissions site, here: whp-journals.co.uk/WW/index #envhum #waste

Dear #twitterstorians, WSFH, sfhs, & French Colonial Hist fans - I have *wonderful* news! Dr. Caroline Sequin has written an amazing book and it's available now! Please help celebrate by grabbing your copy of "Desiring Whiteness" via Cornell University Press: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150177…

Middle-class people (in my experience) tend to know what they’re eligible for & claim it. They've a kinds of ‘cultural capital’ which is useful practically in negotiating a bureaucratic public services & the benefit system. This was demonstrated in the 'free days out' thread

‘Appalling’: Engineer fired on UK rail minister’s orders speaks out about ‘farcical’ dismissal | RailTech.com railtech.com/all/2024/09/03…

Am amused by the desperate attempts of Hotels.com UK marketing to try to convince me that their new loyalty scheme, which basically cuts benefits by 60% compared with the old one, is somehow better.

The German government and Max Planck Society have ties to an Israeli centre involved in research behind AI tech used for mass surveillance of Palestinians. Here's how ⬇ [Part of The New Arab Investigations's 'For The Record' series] newarab.com/investigations…

Has @jakewsimons resigned yet? An absolute scandal for a ‘newspaper’:

We have a cover; out soon with Oxford University Press!

I knew that my Daily Express reading gammon of a husband wouldn't bother reading our joint will before signing it, so he doesn't know that 25% of our estate is being left to a well known UK refugee charity. I'm far too old for divorce, but not too old for a bit of shithousery.