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BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

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John Oliver sounded the alarm this week on how secret donations to presidential libraries provide cover for bribery. We couldn’t agree more.

It’s time to close the library loophole — and you can help.

Read this story and much more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

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know what's good? a great lecture by someone who really knows their shit

These are labor-intensive forms of teaching, requiring expertise and also relatively small classes. They emphatically do not work with the idea of a de-skilled professorate and complicated the very notion of "student-led"—helpful to keep in mind when admin suggests "flipped" = less work or whatever

Aerial footage documenting the extent of destruction caused by Israeli bombardment and demolitions in the Al-Katiba neighborhood northern Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, after the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces.

My only concern is that a new Nobel Prize would likely do little to address current climate challenges and that it would serve instead as a façade to maintain the status quo...

We need instead to divest from the Nobel and prize-winning culture more broadly.

vive la république.

Historians:

What is your favorite generalist journal?

D. S. Battistoli has authored a wide-ranging substack entry on generational rebellion across the African continent, with a focus on Madagascar.

Safe to say, with these changes, people with “X” gender markers will no longer be able to travel to or even from the U.S. starting October 14.

www.visaverge.com/passport/cbp...

Another little obscenity from the British government: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Are academic journals truly inclusive?

This a great chance to learn from editors like @ckyobutungi.bsky.social @plosglobalpublichealth.org & @briandavidearp.bsky.social

wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The McGill Assoc. of Univ. Teachers (MAUT) yesterday *overwhelmingly* endorsed the academic and cultural boycott of Israel, & calls upon McGill to end its partnerships with Israeli universities & other institutions.

("Overwhelmingly" means 104 yea to 8 nay!)

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

No tones 🙏🏽

Soon, I hope! 🙏🏽

On his election in 1655, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sculpt a skull in marble, which he kept on his desk as a reminder of death's omnipresence. The sculpture was rediscovered in 2021 at Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden

Oh, it will be a remote affiliation, as I can't leave the country...

It sure would be nice
To be back home
Where there's love and affection
And just maybe I
Can convince time to slow up
Giving me enough time
In my life to grow up
Time, be my friend, let me start again

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dslp...