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Ben Upton

@benwupton

Freelance reporter based in DC. Previously covered continental Europe from London for @timeshighered @ResearchEurope. Tips welcomed via [email protected]

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Popularity is a real problem. Thanks Pieter Duisenberg, Ruben Puylaert, Geert ten Dam of UvA Amsterdam, Barend van der Meulen of @CHEPS_UT, Annelot Bulten and Rik Peelen for explaining why you can have too much of a good thing.

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Here's his jaw-dropping account, written on his 88th birthday, of witnessing Kristallnacht and the destruction of his father's lingerie shop in Berlin 80 years before: thejc.com/comment/commen…

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Why did masked men steal a ballot box in a Ukrainian university rectoral election and pour green dye in another? Academics are pointing the finger at pro-Russian saboteurs, reports Ben Upton timeshighereducation.com/news/russia-uk…

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You may be back for face-to-face teaching, but are your students? Please do let us know in our Times Higher Education post-pandemic survey: timeshighereducation.com/news/has-stude…

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Our work-life balance survey is back for the first time since '18. Please take <5m to share your own split here: timeshighereducation.com/news/your-care…

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Some great tips on what makes an academic bestseller - from the publishers hunting for the next big hit from academia timeshighereducation.com/depth/how-writ…

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Big week for EU-funded university alliances. Here's a nice graphic hinting at governments' skin in the game, from a January European Parliament-commissioned report europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes…

Big week for EU-funded university alliances. Here's a nice graphic hinting at governments' skin in the game, from a January European Parliament-commissioned report
europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes…
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This is a thread of new / slang words, from different languages, that were coined for the modern world. I’ll start with this one… EgĆ©rmozi (Hungarian) = watching films or shows on a phone (literally ā€˜mouse cinema’)

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'The Victory of the Red Army over Fascism' — Iranian painting (1945) showing Stalin as a Persian archer firing the 'Red Army' arrow at Hitler's heart. Roosevelt and Churchill are pictured behind firing arrows at Mussolini.

'The Victory of the Red Army over Fascism' — Iranian painting (1945) showing Stalin as a Persian archer firing the 'Red Army' arrow at Hitler's heart. Roosevelt and Churchill are pictured behind firing arrows at Mussolini.
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No. Here is the weirdest story ever. King Umberto I of Italy went to a restaurant on July 28, 1900. He had a trusted aide with him and apparently there were a couple witnesses to this. King Umberto and his friends all noticed the owner of the place looked exactly like Umberto.

No. Here is the weirdest story ever.

King Umberto I of Italy went to a restaurant on July 28, 1900. He had a trusted aide with him and apparently there were a couple witnesses to this. King Umberto and his friends all noticed the owner of the place looked exactly like Umberto.
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Kinda inconclusive, but the KMT/colonial SH/Nazi setting is obscure and relevant enough to justify a fictionalised telling, imho

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Former Austrian Foreign Minister and close friend of Putin Karin Kneissl moved to Russia and transported her ponies to St. Petersburg. Her ponies were delivered on a Russian Defense Ministry plane. The VIP ponies flew to Russia with a stopover in Syria aboard the military

Former Austrian Foreign Minister and close friend of Putin Karin Kneissl moved to Russia and transported her ponies to St. Petersburg. Her ponies were delivered on a Russian Defense Ministry plane.

The VIP ponies flew to Russia with a stopover in Syria aboard the military
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People ask me all the time if I am "pro-Israel" because I am a Jew who has lived in Israel, and my answer is that being "pro-Israel" or being "pro-Palestine" or being a "Zionist" does not properly capture the nuance of thought most people do or should have about this issue. It

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America why are you more excited by an eclipse than your election? You're never normally this irrational you're making me love you again. Is Politico launching a tracker on butterfly migration? Can we cut live to the birds for their reactions to a crisp Sunday morning??