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New video work: 'Being Kind'. those who exhort us to 'be kind' on social media are also those most likely to behave sociopathically. Authoritarians trying to force people to adopt their narrow world view on pain of cancellation. They will try to beat you into submission. 1/5

More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone go.nature.com/4uH7o54

Yes! @MaeveHalligan for PM 💪

ok, so who had trannies and islamists teaming up and pretending to save trees on their bingo card? shit got weird, man...

I spent hours asking ChatGPT one question: on what philosophical basis should women be compelled to undress in front of male-bodied people? After systematic deflection, scope inflation, and emotional management, it finally admitted: there is no such basis. No coherent mechanism exists. I’ve written up what happened and what it reveals about how AI systems handle women’s sex-based rights arguments. open.substack.com/pub/marlenebar…

Hard to believe that the man who claimed he could make tits larger through hypnosis is prone to exaggerating things elsewhere in his past but there you go. Rum.

Leicester SU have REJECTED our application, saying our society isn't needed (see full reasoning in the form in our bio).

We stand up for women's art, autonomy, and their global liberation. We are the world's only organisation doing this, tackling the unique issues women and girls face as a result of global sex based oppression, and what it means for their freedom of expression.

2026, and still, this is what artists like @TheFamousArtBR are facing. It's time to change the culture. Women shouldn't be facing this for having legally held beliefs and doing their jobs. Check back soon for our updated site.

My 3 minute film of the @NoMinWPrisons Saturday protest outside HMP Downview, concerning our government's continued placement of male prisoners in the female estate #NoMenInWomensPrisons youtube.com/watch?v=3igtGv…

I wrote about how Dame Carmen Callil protested against my cancellation - marvelous and outdated as Athena with a trident. Link 👇👇👇👇

BREAKING: "Hypnotherapy with Zack Polanski changed my life," says Oxford academic.

The old Arabist ‘Camel Corps’ of the British Foreign Office in full cry. Nothings changes. Twas always thus. Attacks on Jews are the fault of Jews for not being sufficiently robust in criticising Israel. Hamas gets a pass. Even antisemitism is in quotes as if it’s not really a thing.

@HeadWarriorTWM The Culture Wars 😂😱😭😭😭

Tell me your passion in life That which you know back to front. For me it's film.

What do you think any autistic students might make of their tutor turning up every day wearing a gigantic pair of fake breasts? Do you think they believe he respects women, or despises them?

@realitybasedguy dang!

@sheela_na You missed the gay hanging 🥵

Newly-minted member of the Twinset-n-Keffiyah class? Vote Green! Enjoy afternoon tea with the ladies after your Saturday hate march? Vote Green! Want to elect an MP for Gaza-North? Vote Green? Want a dollop of misogyny to garnish your giant serving of anti-semitism? Vote Green!

I’ve delivered training to colleagues at Sussex several times in the past couple of years, and I can confirm that Kathleen Stock’s description of a “culture of student complaints, disciplinary investigations, and fear” remains an accurate reflection of how colleagues there are feeling today. You can see it in their eyes. You can hear it in the slight, but constant, stutter in their voices. The descriptions of the problems staff use are hesitant; more is implied than described. “Some of the student interactions we have are…tricky, particularly in relation to, er, protected characteristics.” “We’ve definitely seen a shift when it comes to students, er, behaving, well, presenting in ways that can be, I guess, challenging.” “We’ve had some problems in recent years, which you’ll probably have heard about.” That kind of thing. Every now and again, you get someone in the group who is a hardcore believer ✊. They’ll be the first to test the waters by telling the room that they are also “mindful of neurodiversity”. And they won’t stutter as terms like “safe space”, “LGBTQ+” and “student voice” dance from their semi-grins. This colleague tends not to give their name on the feedback forms at the end of the training session, but I’ll know them by their comment that “The session tended to frame the student as the problem”, or by the one lonely tick in the “disagree” box under the question about whether or not the trainer was effective. However, the hardcore believers are surprisingly rare. Maybe they self-select out of my training in favour of other types of event. Maybe they don’t think they need training. Or maybe I am getting to work with a representative sample and the believers really are a surprisingly small minority. When they speak, I would generally describe the vibe among their colleagues in the room as tired. This is not just a Sussex problem. Other university campuses are very similar, if sometimes a little less hesitant about naming it. However, it’s a very real problem - and, as this @unherd article sets out, no court appeal ruling on the technical meaning of the term “governing documents” will do anything to change the reality of what it’s like to work in a university today. The planet goes on being round. If I am invited to deliver training on Sussex’s campus again, I know I’ll again walk under that underpass that takes me from the station to the buildings that I always need a map to tell apart. And, just as I’ve done on each recent visit, I’ll imagine it was my name on rows of menacing posters lining that tiled tunnel. I’ll imagine I’m walking to work, knowing that the reactions of my managers, all the way up, are almost certain to range from “I don’t want to get involved” to “You’ve brought this on yourself”, with not an ounce of humanity or liberty on offer. And I’ll know that no salary offer would ever be enough to give up my freedom and rejoin the ranks of the permanent university employee. Sadly, the OfS’ errors of process, probably combined with some overzealous interpretation work from the court, have empowered the people in the sector who deny there’s a free speech problem. This ruling will be spun and it will be misinterpreted as some kind of clean bill of health. But, trust me, if you ever find yourself delivering training to a room full of academics, a court judgment like this will seem very unreal indeed.

@verdur_in 😱

The horror at the realisation that it may be, in one version of our universe, my job to read and write about the Greens' cultural policy.

'Gedoormogged' has sent me 🤣🤣🤣

It’s epic and it’s finished. Now to frame and on to the next. Here is what it’s all about if you have questions or want yo support my work and this particular project (Looking for more patrons ;) 👇 jessdewahls.com/well-this-is-p…