Cambridge Histories of Marronage (CHoM) Workshop

#CHoM: All things #Marronage and #Maroons, a #SubjectGroup at @Cambridge_Uni’s @CamHistory. #Maroon #Maroons #MarronageHistory #MaroonHistory #MaroonArchives

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

The truth about America only seems offensive because you’ve grown accustomed to lies

[Black Capital @Blackcapitalis]

Never be the only Black person. Add

[EVA COLE @EvaCole888]

✝️🕊️REST IN PEACE🕊️✝️
#Nolan #NolanWells #NolanXavierWells

[Leyla 🇩🇴 🌹 @LaLey_01]

The history of the South means we cannot & will not sit quietly while another Black child dies under "unclear circumstances."

We are tired of the silence. We demand the truth!
We demand a full, transparent investigation 🗣️🔊 🧵 (2/2)
#RIPNolan #NolanWells #JusticeForNolan

[Atlanta Black Star @ATLBlackStar]

UPDATE 🚨: A heartbreaking search for Mississippi teen Nolan Wells has ended in tragedy after authorities confirmed a body was found days after he disappeared following a Fourth of July celebration with white friends. #nolanwells #blackthreads
https://t.co/EUr5aGPg2g

[The William Monroe Trotter Collaborative @harvard_trotter]

Our Faculty Director, @cornellwbrooks, joined Yael Bromberg on The Weekend Show with Anthony Davis to discuss their new @DemocracyDocket op-ed and why the 26th Amendment could be the foundation for a “Second Founding” led by young voters.

https://t.co/lNpK9BiAdd

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

I had a long-form chat with Paddy O'Connell on Newsnight YouTube -- about why study the deep past, whether we are living through an age of particular turbulence, what historians have to offer. Give it a watch: https://t.co/Gbqk1KQD9m

[Cambridge University Press - History @cambUP_History]

Take advantage of our conference offers for British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Conference until July 31. Apply code 105687 at checkout #BRISMES2026.
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[Cambridge University @Cambridge_Uni]

Congratulations to everyone who graduated last week 👏

Hats off to Saturday’s graduates from @FitzwilliamColl, @ChurchillCol, @MECCambridge, @WolfsonCam, @RobinsonCamb, @LucyCavColl, @StEdmundsCam, @Hughes_Hall and @HomertonCollege

You should all be very proud of your accomplishments and we wish you all the best in your future endeavours.

Welcome to the #CambridgeAlumni community! 🎓

📸 Lloyd Mann and Nick Saffell

[Routledge Books @routledgebooks]

Your academic voice is unique; don't sacrifice it trying to sound like everyone else.

Clarity and authenticity matter more than complexity.

#MondayMotivation #PhDchat #AcademicTwitter

[Rev. & Prof. Cornell William Brooks @CornellWBrooks]

Black parents must both avoid racial stereotypes and face the reality of racially unsafe spaces for their children.

[Rev. & Prof. Cornell William Brooks @CornellWBrooks]

YOU’RE BLACK,
WHY WORRY?

This is when the “America is not systemically racist” crowd wonders why Black parents worry so much? Why do you worry about your children being with friends who may be smiling threats & friendly enemies.

There are a million stories & stats, that’s why.

[Cambridge Black Advisory Hub @CambridgeBAH]

EXTREME #WhiteSupremacy. #WhiteExtremacy #WhiteExtremism.

[Cambridge Afro-Americans @CamAfrAm]

"...not many #NonNatives are aware that just a few paragraphs after #Jefferson jotted the famed preamble to the Declaration—“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”—he went on to contradict himself by referring to us as “#MercilessIndianSavages.”

[Slavery Adverts 250 @SlaveAdverts250]

Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: "A Negro Woman. TO be SOLD, a likely young Negro Woman that understands House-work... Inquire of the Printer." (Continental Journal 7/4/1776)

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

A crowd gathers outside the Myers family home, trying to scare away the first black family in Levittown, Pa. August 16, 1957.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A student submitted an essay she wrote by hand. Her university ran it through an AI detector. The detector said she cheated. She is autistic.

Her name is Moira Olmsted. Adelphi University. February 2026. Turnitin flagged her essay as 100% AI-generated. She was disciplined.

Two other AI detectors classified the same essay as human-written.

She sued. She won. The court called the school's decision "arbitrary and capricious."

She is not the only one.

In May 2026, a high school student in Palo Alto was expelled after an AI detector flagged his work. He faced visa revocation. He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

A researcher at Griffith University just proved mathematically why this keeps happening. The paper is on arXiv. The finding is one sentence.

AI text detectors have a structural flaw that no amount of better engineering can fix.

Here is what the math says.

If a university wants its detector to catch 80% of cheaters, at least 750 out of every 10,000 innocent students will be wrongly accused. That is not a software problem. It is a theorem.

If the university tries to limit false accusations to 1%, detection power collapses to 6%. It catches 6 out of every 100 AI-written papers. The other 94 get through.

There is no setting where the detector is both fair and effective.

The reason is diversity. Every student writes differently. Non-native English speakers use simpler vocabulary. Shorter sentences. Clearer structures. So does AI. A Stanford study found that 61.3% of TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers were misclassified as AI-generated. A separate analysis tested 14 commercial detection tools. Zero out of 14 reached 80% accuracy.

The students most likely to be wrongly accused are non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and anyone who writes with clarity and precision. The qualities that make their writing effective are the same qualities the detector mistakes for a machine.

Vanderbilt University understood this. They disabled Turnitin's AI detection in 2023 after calculating that even a 1% error rate across 75,000 submissions would produce 750 wrongful accusations per year.

750 students accused of cheating for writing like themselves.

The paper's conclusion is not that we need better detectors. It is that the diversity of human writing itself makes accurate detection mathematically impossible.

The same thing that makes your writing yours is the thing that gets you accused.

https://t.co/L91ldtXP05

[Sinai Fleary 🇬🇩🇻🇨 @S_Fleary1]

Firstly, Happy #WindrushDay

Today we celebrate people from The Caribbean who were invited to rebuild Britain after World War II.

DO NOT forget those who are STILL waiting for compensation after being wrongfully treated like illegal immigrants by the Home Office.

#WindrushDay

[Cambridge Black Advisory Hub @CambridgeBAH]

#UKKK Racism. #UKKKRacism #UK #Racism

[Tim Wilde @TimWilde16]

@piersmorgan "Not another one"