Alexia Yates
@ayates.bsky.social
Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.
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Cambridge uni leadership seemingly keen to emulate elite cowardice and advance obedience we have seen under Trump II
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
November 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Cambridge uni leadership seemingly keen to emulate elite cowardice and advance obedience we have seen under Trump II
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Like clockwork
2022: management gives a consultancy a load of money so the advice they give cannot be denied (because: money... (?))
Consultancy's boilerplate advice: reduce uni to something bland with shrunk programmes and no input from the experts
2025: crashed student recruitment & job losses
2022: management gives a consultancy a load of money so the advice they give cannot be denied (because: money... (?))
Consultancy's boilerplate advice: reduce uni to something bland with shrunk programmes and no input from the experts
2025: crashed student recruitment & job losses
February 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Like clockwork
2022: management gives a consultancy a load of money so the advice they give cannot be denied (because: money... (?))
Consultancy's boilerplate advice: reduce uni to something bland with shrunk programmes and no input from the experts
2025: crashed student recruitment & job losses
2022: management gives a consultancy a load of money so the advice they give cannot be denied (because: money... (?))
Consultancy's boilerplate advice: reduce uni to something bland with shrunk programmes and no input from the experts
2025: crashed student recruitment & job losses
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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At 700 pages, Invasion, Maxence van der Meersch's tale of life in a French industrial town from 1914 to 1918 is a surprisingly fast read -- and one of the rare novels to deal with the experience of occupation. In print again from McGill-Queen's University Press.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
At 700 pages, Invasion, Maxence van der Meersch's tale of life in a French industrial town from 1914 to 1918 is a surprisingly fast read -- and one of the rare novels to deal with the experience of occupation. In print again from McGill-Queen's University Press.
neglectedbooks.com/?...
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Outstanding title.
This is the same phenomenon that I try to grasp here: the breakdown of liberalism's labour/reward equivalence, and the existential vacuum that opens up as a result www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Owning towards death: The asset condition as existential conundrum | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core
Owning towards death: The asset condition as existential conundrum - Volume 10 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Outstanding title.
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We've fallen into an anti-immigration, anti-climate, short-sighted economic doofus era, brought to you by the guy who we thought was a smart policy wonk.
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
rime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is scrapping plans for a major national climate policy and immediately suspending another in Alberta alone, as part of a wide-ranging accord that softens
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We've fallen into an anti-immigration, anti-climate, short-sighted economic doofus era, brought to you by the guy who we thought was a smart policy wonk.
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Do consider becoming a member. It’s always a great read - and also independent local reporting is fundamental to the health of our politics and places. (I’ve been a longtime supporter and am a small investor.)
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November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Do consider becoming a member. It’s always a great read - and also independent local reporting is fundamental to the health of our politics and places. (I’ve been a longtime supporter and am a small investor.)
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THREAD. The CCRC has referred the murder convictions of 3 men who were convicted in 2017 of the murder of Abdul Hafidah in Moss Side, Manchester to the Court of Appeal.
(Nathaniel Williams was also convicted of murder in the same case: his application on the same basis is still being considered.)
(Nathaniel Williams was also convicted of murder in the same case: his application on the same basis is still being considered.)
Murder convictions in Moss Side ‘joint enterprise’ case referred to court of appeal
CCRC says new evidence undermines narrative Durrell Goodall, Reano Walters and Trey Wilson were in a gang
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
THREAD. The CCRC has referred the murder convictions of 3 men who were convicted in 2017 of the murder of Abdul Hafidah in Moss Side, Manchester to the Court of Appeal.
(Nathaniel Williams was also convicted of murder in the same case: his application on the same basis is still being considered.)
(Nathaniel Williams was also convicted of murder in the same case: his application on the same basis is still being considered.)
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10 years later, soulless people wander the wasteland that was this country thinking
“hmm i wonder why there are no great nonfiction books these days or plays or art or happiness or tenderness or regret.
oh well fuck it time to log onto torment nexus for my afternoon torment!”
“hmm i wonder why there are no great nonfiction books these days or plays or art or happiness or tenderness or regret.
oh well fuck it time to log onto torment nexus for my afternoon torment!”
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
10 years later, soulless people wander the wasteland that was this country thinking
“hmm i wonder why there are no great nonfiction books these days or plays or art or happiness or tenderness or regret.
oh well fuck it time to log onto torment nexus for my afternoon torment!”
“hmm i wonder why there are no great nonfiction books these days or plays or art or happiness or tenderness or regret.
oh well fuck it time to log onto torment nexus for my afternoon torment!”
It’s almost like it’s been political all along.
all those years work pitching the value of the humanities and STILL when financial crunch comes and management consultants role in, they could not care less.
history doesn’t have enough commercial applications! humanities aren’t engaged enough with AI! why isn’t my house a helicopter!
history doesn’t have enough commercial applications! humanities aren’t engaged enough with AI! why isn’t my house a helicopter!
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It’s almost like it’s been political all along.
Partly an effect of the business speak (and approach) applied to universities. “Providers” “exit markets” all the time. It’s how The market works! Collective institutions of public good…now those are different things.
7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Partly an effect of the business speak (and approach) applied to universities. “Providers” “exit markets” all the time. It’s how The market works! Collective institutions of public good…now those are different things.
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🚨 Day 2 of 4: Staff strike at Imperial.
UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
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UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
🧵(1/)
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🚨 Day 2 of 4: Staff strike at Imperial.
UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
🧵(1/)
UCU & Unite are on the picket lines Tues–Fri, followed by two weeks of UCU teaching-targeted action until the end of term.
What began as a pay dispute has become a serious governance crisis.
🧵(1/)
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
Oh I enjoyed this muchly.
hyperallergic.com/1058360/maur...
hyperallergic.com/1058360/maur...
Maurizio Cattelan Is No Duchamp
One elevated the prosaic. The other merely gilded the familiar.
hyperallergic.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Oh I enjoyed this muchly.
hyperallergic.com/1058360/maur...
hyperallergic.com/1058360/maur...
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This is on the X account of the UK Home Office. A Labour government.
Where is this country going?
I would like to remind the British government that among the taxpayers in the UK there are millions of non-British people.
#notonationalism #migrantsarenotcriminals
Where is this country going?
I would like to remind the British government that among the taxpayers in the UK there are millions of non-British people.
#notonationalism #migrantsarenotcriminals
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This is on the X account of the UK Home Office. A Labour government.
Where is this country going?
I would like to remind the British government that among the taxpayers in the UK there are millions of non-British people.
#notonationalism #migrantsarenotcriminals
Where is this country going?
I would like to remind the British government that among the taxpayers in the UK there are millions of non-British people.
#notonationalism #migrantsarenotcriminals
Of interest to many researchers @eui-history.bsky.social
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Of interest to many researchers @eui-history.bsky.social
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It's almost Eyes Wide Shut holiday screening days. The way it replaced It's A Wonderful Life as the go-to family christmas film is a triumph of not just cinema, but cinéastes themselves.
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
It's almost Eyes Wide Shut holiday screening days. The way it replaced It's A Wonderful Life as the go-to family christmas film is a triumph of not just cinema, but cinéastes themselves.
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And people still look me square in the face and deadass ask me why women don't report.
"A Regina police officer has pleaded guilty to using police databases to pursue intimate and personal relationships with women. [...] It's not clear how many people Semenchuk may have contacted."
Regina officer pleads guilty to using police databases to pursue women | CBC News
Sergeant Robert Eric Semenchuck remains suspended with pay, as required under the province's Police Act. He has pleaded guilty to breach of trust and unauthorized use of a computer
www.cbc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
And people still look me square in the face and deadass ask me why women don't report.
Ponzi austerity, for an entire nation.
It's time to commercialize AI, "for the benefit of humanity," PM Carney says after landing some UAE IOUs for critical minerals upgrading. 🤔 nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/21/c...
Carney wraps United Arab Emirates visit with pledge of $70B to be…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Ponzi austerity, for an entire nation.
a key moment (and painfully prolonged set of moments) that profoundly changed my view of my university as an employer and, unfortunately, my union.
“Covid-19 has thrown into stark relief how universities are prioritising institutional reputation over social responsibility”
Almost too painful to go back to the USSbrief that several of us published 12 March 2000, when British unis were largely doing business as usual medium.com/ussbriefs/re...
Almost too painful to go back to the USSbrief that several of us published 12 March 2000, when British unis were largely doing business as usual medium.com/ussbriefs/re...
Reputation over responsibility: UK HE and the Covid-19 crisis
Number 92: #USSbriefs92
medium.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
a key moment (and painfully prolonged set of moments) that profoundly changed my view of my university as an employer and, unfortunately, my union.
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Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
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Please join us for the next session of the Joint Center for History & Economics seminar (in person and on Zoom) on Fri 21 Nov at 12pm EST. @malickghachem.bsky.social (MIT) will discuss 'Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue & the Debt of France. Click for further information and Zoom link.
MALICK GHACHEM
Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue and the Debt of France
histecon.fas.harvard.edu
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Please join us for the next session of the Joint Center for History & Economics seminar (in person and on Zoom) on Fri 21 Nov at 12pm EST. @malickghachem.bsky.social (MIT) will discuss 'Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue & the Debt of France. Click for further information and Zoom link.
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We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb.
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb.
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
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🍾 We are proud to announce “Introduction: New Perspectives in Global Economic History” by @alkaraman.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk ), author of the piece and editor of the special issue on global economic history in @rhi-ihr.bsky.social .
Read it open access 👉 doi.org/10.1344/rhi-...
Read it open access 👉 doi.org/10.1344/rhi-...
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🍾 We are proud to announce “Introduction: New Perspectives in Global Economic History” by @alkaraman.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk ), author of the piece and editor of the special issue on global economic history in @rhi-ihr.bsky.social .
Read it open access 👉 doi.org/10.1344/rhi-...
Read it open access 👉 doi.org/10.1344/rhi-...
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Where else to catch the best of new scholarship in business history?
We are delighted to bring you the first of this year's three Krooss Prize summaries, with Joshua Lappen's Cultures of Power: Electrification, Politics, and Visibility in Greater Los Angeles." Available now, Open Access.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cultures of Power: Electrification, Politics, and Visibility in Greater Los Angeles | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Cultures of Power: Electrification, Politics, and Visibility in Greater Los Angeles
www.cambridge.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Where else to catch the best of new scholarship in business history?