@SlightPeeve @ProfAliceS @hedgehognothog What are the lies? Please point them out ie the deliberate falsehoods. Should be the work of a moment to enlighten us. Looking forward to seeing them enumerated.
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Philip Swallow
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Philip Swallow
@PhilipSwallow2
Hazlitt, corduroy jackets, leather elbow patches, wrong side of the history man, changing places, waiting for the barbarian while the British Museum falls down
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@ProfAliceS @hedgehognothog Total lies from obsessive trans haters.
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Prof Michael Biggs and Dr Ace North @hedgehognothog
Transgender Homicides in Britain, 2000-2025: Victims and Perpetrators
"Almost all cases involved natal males identifying as transwomen. The victim-perpetrator ratio among these individuals closely resembles that for males overall and differs markedly from that for females. BBC News published more than four times as many articles on transgender victims as on perpetrators, contributing to perceptions of exceptional vulnerability."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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@johncox510456 @sharrond62 Yes. Biggs & North did exactly that & say so in the paper. So now worth the paper?
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@sharrond62 Isn't this report by Michael Biggs, trustee of Sex Matters the gender-criticam, anti- transgender advocacy group?
Did Michael distinguish between perpetrators who were male at time of crime, and who later became trans. If not, his report isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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BBC ran four times more stories on trans victims than perpetrators - UnHerd. And 100 x more stories than highlighting the sports women losing out! Because that’ll be zero there… unherd.com/newsroom/bbc-r…
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When the education of our children is reduced to bullet points...might this be an indication that something has gone very badly wrong?
Paul Embery@PaulEmbery
Helping no.2 child with GCSE ‘Citizenship’ revision. Get a load of this.
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@ramendik @MForstater I said nothing about any particular incident at any particular university so thanks for your opinion about that even though it was not relevant to what I asked. No suffices. I'll look forward to your condemnation of the next occasion at which such tactics are employed.
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@PhilipSwallow2 @MForstater The university did nothing wrong and was correctly exonerated.
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Jo Phoenix on what is relevant and irrelevant to protecting academic freedom.
Prof Jo Phoenix@JoPhoenix1
I share the sense of shock and bewilderment at the Sussex v Office for Students high court case. I am also deeply troubled by the "delight" in the win by Sussex - especially given that the evidence in the public domain of how their employees and their students acted does not exactly cover the institution in glory. jophoenix.substack.com/p/irrelevant-c…
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@ramendik @MForstater How about non violently, but physically, preventing lawful speech from being heard by those who choose & have a right to hear it, by say, physically blocking the entrance to the venue, setting off fire alarms, banging on the windows to drown out the speech etc. OK with that?
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@MForstater Protection of "feelings" of gendercriticals from public criticism by those not in power over them, including nonviolent student protest, is the exat opposite of free speech.
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@JamiePaterson26 @MichaelTomlin @ripx4nutmeg @ClareCraigPath Nonsense. He works on social movements.
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@MichaelTomlin @ripx4nutmeg @ClareCraigPath The author, Michael Biggs, is also a known transphobe and has generated controversy for the uni since at least 2018 - a supposed sociologist whose publications focus almost entirely on biology.
How the uni's ethics board approved this is beyond me.
oxfordstudent.com/2018/10/26/tra…
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New Oxford University study on BBC reporting of 'transgender' people:
Since 2000 in the UK
• 11 were murdered (mostly killed by their male partners). This generated 137 news stories
• 20 committed murder. This generated just 58 news stories, of which only 23 mentioned trans
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@lsshnkr Pre publication working papers are the norm throughout the sciences. You are supposed to contribute to the scientific process by subjecting the content, not the writers, to examination. Any fatal flaws in the content?
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not peer reviewed, effectively self-published;
Declaration of Interest: "Michael Biggs is a trustee of Sex Matters (charity registered in England and Wales)";
North works in the Department of Zoology: can't work out how this relates to criminology and sociology.
ripx4nutmeg@ripx4nutmeg
New Oxford University study on BBC reporting of 'transgender' people: Since 2000 in the UK • 11 were murdered (mostly killed by their male partners). This generated 137 news stories • 20 committed murder. This generated just 58 news stories, of which only 23 mentioned trans
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Philip Swallow retweetledi
In light of the High Court ruling about the Sussex University fine, I went down memory lane for @unherd unherd.com/2026/05/the-re…
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@EdmundCB @Lewis_Brackpool Kind of a weird title though. PhD in history, sure, Keith Thomas etc, Anthropology, plenty of magic there. Science, not so much.
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@Lewis_Brackpool It's only absurd if you expect to come out as Harry Potter. Why should studying the subject of magic as a historical and social phenomenon be any more absurd than studying theology or Ancient Greek drama? Or are you just a closet philistine who wants only engineers (jobs or no.)
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I genuinely had to check if this was real.
The University of Exeter now offers a PhD in Magic and Occult Science.
Even if you don’t believe in any of it, the sheer number of absurd courses our universities are offering students is staggering.
I would love to shut this down.
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@becimay Ah, I see. It's an analogy now, hence the inverted commas. I'd call that ground shifting. But, hey, it's only words, right?
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@PhilipSwallow2 I need ‘profit’ to make the analogy work and it’s an appropriate term in the context
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The history of the modern university is the story of capitalism: a group of businesspeople recognise the profit-making potential of a form of labour; they set out to make money from it without understanding the nature of the work; working conditions deteriorate
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Philip Swallow retweetledi
The suggestion that lectures be read in advance directly ignores academic freedom. It would create a prior restraint mechanism triggered by complaints. Which effectively gives complainers and incentive to just complain. A de facto licensing system.
Empowers non-expert administrators (often in EDI, compliance, or legal/risk roles) to scrutinise, suggest edits to, or block lawful academic content.
Undermines the academic’s direct responsibility and autonomy, turning academic freedom into something conditional on bureaucratic approval.
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@ProfAliceS @cwknews And one wonders, by what procedure will the person be chosen who will be given the task of reading the text and producing the Solomonic judgment as to whether it is fit to be heard by those that are interested jn hearing it?
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So if someone complains about a lecture they haven't heard, the university has to vet it in advance? Have I got this right?
Professor Alice Sullivan@ProfAliceS
There is much that is troubling in Mrs Justice Lieven's judgment in favour of the University of Sussex, but this stands out. The judge suggests that if someone objects to a 'gender critical feminist lecture' it might be reasonable for the university to demand that the lecture should be read in advance by 'the university'. So lecturers who believe that sex is real should have their lectures vetted by administrators if someone complains in advance of the lecture. This type of incentive is exactly what activists thrive on. And it suggests a regime which strips academics of all autonomy and acadmic freedom. judiciary.uk/judgments/the-…
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@becimay It is a legal distinction. Words have meanings. We probably agree about many of the faults of UK universities, but framing the problem as pursuing profit will not help you to diagnose the causes.
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@PhilipSwallow2 This is just terminological. They don’t behave like charities but like badly run businesses, and if the money gets spent on fat payouts to themselves I don’t see how it’s any different than profit. Our pensions are gone because of their bad investments. It’s finance capitalism.
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@becimay You mean they use the revenue they receive from fees, grant overheads, REF funding etc to pay salaries, invest in infra structure & pursue the educational objectives consistent with their charitable status. As exempt charities they do not make profits.
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@PhilipSwallow2 Until recently, universities spent their profits on giant upper management salaries, absurdly blingy buildings, and confusing tech. Now that the money’s drying up they keep these things and fire academics.
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@EdmundCB Somebody needs to write the paper introducing the (no shit) Sherlock index.
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Party game for academics: Obscure the part of an abstract that begins "We found ..." Read the opening and guess the ending. How surprised/wrong were you? Very common endings: "It sucks being poor", "more could be done against discrimination", "if you lack a resource you suffer".
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The liberal in me thinks: if a man wants to wear a pair of comedy breasts, it's a bit odd, but hey, people are strange. The HOD in me thinks: if you are a university teacher you shouldn't be making yourself the story in the classroom, so cover them up. It's fuzzy at the edges
Kanenas@K_A_N_E_N_A_S
NU ESTE FAKE! Dacă vreți să studiați chimie la Oxford 👇 Matt Rattley este un lector în Biochimie la Universitatea din Oxford, afiliat la St Hilda's College, unde predă din octombrie 2023.
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Bandiera Rossa at Wadham?
Jon Pike@runthinkwrite
Here's a story that will tell you a bit about @UniofOxford (and a bit about me). When I was an undergraduate in the 80's I had a girlfriend, who I will call C, who was not at my college (Trinity) and not on my course (PPE). Her college and her course had an eminent, youngish, left wing don, with a significant profile and a feminist-friendly reputation. But he was a bit of a drunk, and quite bit of a lecher, who made C feel uncomfortable, in the days when that meant something. C, being C, a socialist feminist, decided to do something about this, and put the word out that she wanted to do something. C arranged a meeting and *every single female undergraduate on that course in the whole college* - some twenty people- turned up. They reported the same sorts of behaviour conducted in private: drunk tutorials, inappropriate remarks, sitting down, too close, to individual student on the sofa, leering, organizing one to one tutorials, with the female students but not the males, oversharing about his private life, all the actions you can imagine. Every single woman knew what he was like, every woman objected, despite the fact that many of them had applied to that particular college because of their respect for him. By acting, C broke the spell. They arranged to see the head of the College. All of them, every single female student studying X at college Y. The head of the college had to act, and an unsatisfactory Oxford compromise ensued. The don in question was relieved of all undergraduate teaching and moved to a graduate only college. He wasn't dismissed, and there was no publicity. But I remain full of admiration for C. Sexual harassment at Oxford is not new - and this 👇is sexual harassment. Some clever men in positions of authority engage in this sort of action with impunity, particularly putting female students on edge, even when their behaviour is otherwise formally correct. It takes great courage to call them out, especially for female undergraduate students . But maybe, when you do, you will find that lots of female students feel the same.
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