Nicholas Guyatt

@nicholasguyatt.bsky.social

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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

If you want to know what the next speech by Britain's spymasters is going to say...

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?!!

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

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

This particular piece is drenched in distortions and/or bad-faith claims - see this paragraph in which the author loses their shit over the national anthem & fails to mention that the "sociology professor" was long retired AND instantly stripped of her emerita titles for her stupid & hateful tweet

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Nicholas Guyatt

just a matter of time until I get booted out of *another* college

taking these guys with me when I am asked to leave

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

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Natalia Cecire

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

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

Actually incredible to see professional historians openly endorsing population transfer in UK national newspapers

"The Gazans just need to give up on Gaza and then they'll be safe"

"Success comes when you just move on, you know?"

Just back from work to find these on our doorstep, happy halloween everyone

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Laura Seay

TLH’s output in the 70s was even weirder than his Left Behind phase (this from my book _Have a Nice Doomsday_)

a little too much? be honest

Amazed on my US trip by how many people had heard of Keir Starmer and already knew that he was the continuity-capitalism candidate to succeed Rishi Sunak as PM next year

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Craig Moore

it does have that vibe

Ten years ago this week I was in Chile for complicated reasons and decided on a whim (!) to go to the Atacama desert, as you do. If you've never been it really is the most amazing place

tfw when you look at a photo again after ten years and realise you seem to have posed next to a giant cock and balls

Back on In Our Time tomorrow, after being mysteriously passed over for the Plankton episode

Have somehow held onto my "AND" rider when it comes to the credits