Nicholas Guyatt

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I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review

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Hello kindly Blueskyers! Cambridge is hiring a twelve-month visiting assistant professor in U.S. history since 1800 for 2024-25. Any field, UK AND non-UK applicants warmly welcome Sorry this ad is so late, it takes us forever because we rely on owls rather than email www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/46922/

No one in Cambridge has seen skies like this since Samuel Taylor Coleridge quit laudanum

Spooky that this morning's warnings from MI5 about foreign infiltration of UK universities precisely follow the lead given four days ago by....US apocalyptic televangelist John Hagee

Insanely busy 2024 so far but I am hoping to find my way back into your hearts with cat content

Channel surfing and thought I'd check out the gorgeous Cambridge locations in Professor T but Professor T is apparently IN PRISON?!!

TFW you are already working crazy hours and then a super-rich UK university gets in touch to ask you to write a tenure letter "ideally over the weekend"

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Cambridge University college issued legal notice over potential 'complicity' in war crimeswww.middleeasteye.net The rights group issued a notice to Cambridge's Trinity College following a Middle East Eye report on its investments

So my university inadvertently hired a 'race realist', then put him in charge of examining students' work, and now can't fire him because of the government's 'Freedom of Speech' (2023) act, which seems designed precisely to perpetuate this farce

Uni academic head admits ‘failures’ over ‘race-realist’ fellowwww.varsity.co.uk A town hall at Emmanuel College and a protest on Sidgwick site were held this week to address Cofnas’ ongoing employment by the University

Enjoying the Telegraph’s lavish-but-angry coverage of the New Year’s Honours List

One of the crazier stories from this year's industrial action in UK higher ed: even by the standards of UK university management, the senior leadership team at Queen Mary had a spectacularly villainous 2023

The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price | Ad...www.theguardian.com Even Scrooge would marvel at Queen Mary’s pay-docking over a marking boycott. No wonder higher education is in turmoil, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

I love this story and I hope it's true

As ChatGPT gets “lazy,” people test “winter break hypothesis” as the causearstechnica.com Unproven hypothesis seeks to explain ChatGPT's seemingly new reluctance to do hard work.

So much craziness in UK academia but on the plus side we don’t have big donors trying to fire university leaders or dictate what can be taught, mostly because we don’t have big donors

Statement of the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on Marc Rowan’s Questions to Penn Trustees | AAUP��...aaup-penn.org December 12, 2023 Today, unelected trustees with no academic expertise are evidently attempting a hostile takeover of the core academic functions of the University of Pennsylvania—functions related ...

Same day, two different takes on the same crisis in UK higher ed

The speed with which right-wingers (and right-adjacent 'liberals') have rushed to direct hatred towards universities and their workers over the past week has been shocking even for those of us with very low expectations of the discourse

Strange to see this presented as a surprise when economists/business-friendly commentators were openly discussing 'greedflation' on the radio last year as a cheeky but understandable indulgence for companies supposedly hard-hit by the pandemic

Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study showswww.theguardian.com Multinationals in particular hiked prices far above rise in costs to deliver an outsize impact on cost of living crisis, report concludes

A bit worried that my office Christmas lights are going to put me on a collision course with English Heritage, they are about as tasteful as the Griswolds' house in CHRISTMAS VACATION

A reminder that you have SIX DAYS to apply for the swanky Mellon chair in American history at Cambridge ; application mercifully straightforward (just a cover letter and research statement), deadline Dec 11. Email me if you have questions, and if you're at all Cambridge-curious, please APPLY!

OK so this is finally happening: the University of Cambridge is searching for a new MELLON PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN HISTORY to succeed Gary Gerstle, who retires next summer. The ad has just been posted; if you're a senior Americanist, we would love for you to apply!

Paul Mellon Professorship of American History - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridgewww.jobs.cam.ac.uk Paul Mellon Professorship of American History in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.

have been MIA from Bluesky for weeks, work has been bonkers, but have returned with wholesome seasonal content

ALL-CAPS REMINDER! The History Faculty at Cambridge is searching for a new Mellon Chair in American History to succeed Gary Gerstle; if you're a relatively senior Americanist, we would LOVE for you to apply. Full info below; application deadline *DECEMBER 11* www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk/files/mellon...

An absolute shitheel, even by the standards of Trumpian 'populist' shitheels www.theguardian.com/world/2023/n...

Argentina presidential election: far-right libertarian Javier Milei wins after rival concedeswww.theguardian.com Victory for TV celebrity-turned politician catapults South America’s second-largest economy into an unpredictable future

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Some folks asking about the deadline--we know it's a crazy time, so we're extending it until next Wednesday, November 15. Please apply (to both if you're eligible!) & share! Always glad to answer questions. 🗃️

Deadline to apply for the Richards Center's 2024 postdoctoral fellowships in African American history & Civil War Era history (~1830s-1890s) is next Friday 11/10. These are TWO-year postdocs, include significant research & community support, & no teaching. tinyurl.com/5daj2n9f tinyurl.com/mrxknede

Postdoctoral Scholar, African American Historytinyurl.com APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Idea for Netflix comedy: a sun-loving but absentminded academic thinks they're applying for the Mellon Professorship in Rome but accidentally gets appointed to the Mellon Professorship at Cambridge. Am going to crack the story in the writers' room

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How much of this job involves dealing with you?

omg Renaud's research got a write-up in Ars! Congrats, @renaudmorieux.bsky.social

“I cannot wait to possess you”: Reading 18th-century letters for the first timearstechnica.com Some things are universal: One sailor's mother chided him for not writing more often.

Came home from the office but still needed to finish marking some essays, have just been rumbled by my wife

You've read about his amazing discovery of a tranche of unopened letters from the Seven Years' War; now FOLLOW HIM ON BLUESKY @renaudmorieux.bsky.social is finally among us! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

Unopened 18th-century love letters to French sailors read for first timewww.theguardian.com Letters from loved ones of captured ship’s crew during seven years’ war lay forgotten for centuries

Still seems likeliest to me that, if Netanyahu can't make transfer happen, we'll get an extreme 'mowing the lawn' operation which attempts to restore the status quo of the past twenty years: relative security & prosperity for Israel, permanent occupation for Palestinians

Israel plans ‘indefinite’ controls over Gaza, says Benjamin Netanyahuwww.ft.com Move to retain ‘overall security responsibility’ aims to ensure Palestinian territory cannot be dominated by Hamas

My wife is complaining that the Streisand audiobook is FORTY-EIGHT HOURS LONG, this is about five hours longer than _Bleak House_

My lovely colleague Renaud Morieux (not yet on Bluesky alas) has made the news!

Letters from Seven Years' War opened 250 years laterwww.bbc.co.uk The academic who discovered the letters said reading them was "very emotional".