Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday found dead
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱 🦋193also there are no "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies" in the UK, but Matt's such a proud patriot he gets all his language direct from the States
Anton van Walraven66revolting levels of racism. Cambridge, Eton, Oxford, the whole bunch have always had low standards, otherwise all the sons and daughters of ultra rich parents would never get in.
Steve B20Point made magnificently. MattGPT doesn't stand up to the slightest breeze of scrutiny.
angelac23.bsky.social16Please read and share this breakdown of the abuse faced by Jason Arday. It outlines the perpetrators. newscord.org/editorials/j...
Goodbye Keir Starmer, you rotten fuck12As someone who was born and raised in the same area of Hertfordshire from which Goodwin came, I apologise on behalf of the rest of us for letting him escape.
das Buell 🐈⬛11And lost a by-election and the favour of that Farage cunt too. 😁
Mike Masnick175Had missed this, but yikes. www.middleeasteye.net/features/sui...
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺63Fuck that guy. The hubris can be seen from space.
She Guevara41White people often dont really know what whiteness looks like, but it's this...
August J. Pollak34These people just don’t think black people should be college professors and it’s annoying how many ways they come up with to pretend they’re saying anything different than that
Lisan al-Gabe33This is what is so DISGUSTING about this. I'm considering leaving education because my students use chatgpt for everything and I just can't fucking convince them not to. I teach middle school. My elementary school coworkers say their 3rd graders use it. Chatgpt DESTROYED education.
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈27reminder: we don't have dei in the uk. any 'commentator' pushing that shit is doing so at the behest of outside influencers.
Zoomer Antimillenarian25We really need to get harsher on AI plagiarism in research. Like, don't get me wrong, this shit is great if you use it right. But I spend a LOT of time going line by line checking the math and having it fixed whenever there's an omission or error.
猫好きな人8Absolute fucking nerve of chatgpt plagiarist and failed racist politician Matt Goodwin
Judith Beyer5I just followed @tanitatikaram.bsky.social because she shaped my taste of music when I was a teen - and now she posts on all things politics and is even funny doing so 😍
estarianne5We literally never review why white men are hired.
We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇
Donna The Chicken29It would be great if you could also cite their treatment of others, including Dr Beth Upton, in this, Jess.
Steve 🏳️🌈🇬🇧23www.varsity.co.uk/news/27433 Compare and contrast with the Cambridge Professor accused of Plagiarism... who is white.
Rosie - Artist | Author10Signed. This despicable behaviour by the British press must be fully held to account.
ᒍOᗩᑎᑎE • 1Ø yrs a Ha¡r ẞtyl¡st •8The British press should not be allowed to berate anyone. Be that of colour, gender and religion ( have I missed anything ). If they do, then they are complicit in bullying or causing a death by psyops.
Leah....5Signed and shared ! Resurrect the Leveson Inquiry..
AlyceMiller4Done. US press was nasty, too.
Aliette de Bodard88I can't sign this because not in the uk but if you are please consider? Again it's not about whether he plagiarized or not, it's about the hounding: and the double standards, the press hasn't been even half as vicious towards professors that are not Black
Lisan al-Gabe83I can't really explain the grief I feel over this case. I don't care if he was "wrong." The fact is that Jason Arday is dead and it doesn't fucking matter what he did because he didn't deserve to die.
András Forgács W44LEVESON 2! LEVESON 2! LEVESON 2!
Phil McDuff27They won't do it because they're chickenshit racists who are utterly terrified of the press, but they should be hounded about it anyway.
squidneurone.bsky.social25The Good Law Project is writing to the PM and Culture Secretary calling for a public inquiry into the role of the British media in Jason's death. I've signed it, thought you might be interested: bsky.app/profile/jess...
emma burnett21This was never about his academic performance. This was always about him daring to exist at all. You could call it a witch hunt. You could call it a modern-day lynching. You should sign the below, because it's the absolute least we can do.
Faïza20La presse française ne fait pas mieux. Remember Hamza la douane. Le problème est bel et bien le fascisme.
Marx-Bertil Jonsson Cuckens nemesis8The British press has murdered MANY people.
WillieMillersMoustache5There's a very good reason why Lisa Nandy is culture secretary. And "doing things" that might "make things better" isn't that reason.
Kush5I've signed, but these institutions all protect one another. And i don't mean that in a conspiratorial way necessarily. I just see their common interest in protecting the status quo. Inquiries are an expensive to remind us that - to them - life is cheap.
It’s the glee that shames them. Whether driven by sadism, racism or both, the way so many people in the media revelled obscenely in the exposure of Jason Arday’s wrongdoing is hideous. It was utterly disproportionate & would have broken almost anyone. The guilty will, of course, learn nothing. 1/2
James O’Brien878Your tier two ghouls used his plight to argue that people who disagree with them about anything from Brexit to the treatment of transgender people had somehow been humiliated or had their entire worldview challenged. Their circle jerk was gross but not really about Jason. It was pure bigotry. 2/2
The Telegraph and Allison Pearson have alot to answer for.
Laurie Dunkin Wedd77Xitter, Farage, Tommy, Braverman, Daily Mail and Mahmood have normalised racism. This is the result. Maybe ‘woke’ was a good thing, eh?
Has he gone yet? 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱67Totally unsurprising who one of the main culprits was - the vilest commentator in the U.K. press. Allison Pearson. Stupid and shameless
barlony.bsky.social58James, many media outlets have turned commenting off where they have an article about Jason Arday but sadly not LBC that seems to welcome the hate mongers. Have a word.
Kate Moore54And so little attention paid to this.... except by @bylinetimes.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social podcast 👇 Curious wot?!
Paula4One of the few sane media people in the U.K. ⬇️
Helen McCarthy4Jason Arday is being hounded for giving us the story we wanted, the one that made us feel safe and proud of ourselves. It shames us as a society that the academic establishment had so little real respect or concern for him, or for its own standards and values.
The problem can be summed up with one question: how many people who can name Jason Arday can name the plagiarising professor at the same institution who is still in post? How many people can name the VC criticised by name in an employment tribunal this week?
Will Cooling260Or even name another currently practising academic in the field of sociology
Prof Christina Pagel36also much of the reporting was over claims about his life that had zero to do with his job or academic competence.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ34How many know about the process under which Cofnas was hired?
Dan Davies30I can name one prominent academic who has been associated with very blatant research fraud (for which his collaborator got fired but he didn't) *and* who is quite prominent in the Epstein files asking for the phone number of "that redhead"
John Rowan14I think "who is making the most noise about this, what are their motives, and why are they making more noise about this than other, similar cases?" is a useful starting point in the current social media climate.
Mrs Quent11TBF, even the people who posted about e.g. O’Reilly are less likely to remember his name because they’ll have only seen it once or twice rather than the million times Arday had been on their news and sm feed. I’m not sure I’d hold them liable
Euan Healey150I'd wager every academic will be able to tell you of at least one person in their field who has credible suspicions of plagiarism or related misconduct against them. Few to none lose their jobs for it, fewer even publish retractions or corrections! It's blinding how confected the whole panic was.
James Austin38This. And the thing is... we shouldn't need to know those names. These shouldnt be national stories. Similar shit happens at workplaces across the country every day and, rightly, its not national news. But for various pretty bad reasons this was
Neil Stenhouse9Dan Ariely is an extremely prominent social scientist who had an NBC drama loosely based on him run for two seasons. How many people outside academia know his name in connection with all the fraud he engaged in? How many would know it if he was not white?
Ben Fulford3This and the next few replies
Feargal Cochrane3And where are the dozen+ articles a day about the much more scandalous behaviour within academia (and there’s plenty of it) not least from white VCs, including recent arrests over fraud? Close to zero interest…wonder why?
The guy who started the pile-on that led to Jason Arday's death is an actual full-scale white supremacist.
Paul Duane 🥔105Interestingly, because I subscribe to this transphobia blocklist, I already have him blocked. What does that say about the overlap between transphobes and actual white supremacists? bsky.app/profile/did:...
Polly Curley22Anyone who describes themselves as a "Race Realist" can be automatically hoofed into the column titled "Racist As Fuck". If they also subscribe to the idiocy that is "Eugenics" they get shifted one column to the right. The one headed "Nazi". You should always punch nazis.
AlyceMiller20Cofnas was also fired from Cambridge.
Sarah J Miles10He looks like H. P. Lovecraft, and I absolutely mean that as an insult.
Red Dog10Why do White Supremacists always look anything but supreme...?
mogadon7we really need to get back to publicly assaulting and humiliating these pricks. they're not scared any more. it was better when they were scared. 43 group, assemble!
AlyceMiller40Nathan Cofnas lost his job at Cambridge, then went after Jason Arday with a vengeance. This was an internal personnel matter that should have been handled by Cambridge, not plastered all over the news by relentless & savage media taking pleasure in the downfall of a Black academic.
Phil McDuff33Like here's the thing. We're supposed to think it's bad that when people said "we got a race scientist here who says this black guy is faking being smart" we didn't believe them? Naaah fuck you!
Phoenix Calida27Least shocking thing ive heard about this story so far
JJ DeBenedictis2Quoting this to hopefully boost the criticism without boosting the evil dude's video.
Clearyb2Awaiting the return of eugenics posts that were extinguished by WW2. Dark times. Incidentally, one of the previous professors of eugenics was the father of the man who took on the drug company Grünenthal & stopped the thalidomide disaster harming more children. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widukin...
Sonia has written and posted obsessively about Jason Arday over the past week or so but would like everyone to stop talking about that please
pickwick166Half of her X output is about free speech but I see she's turned the quotes and replies off
Jesz✨97Ah yes, the standard terf response when they push someone too far of misusing the samaritans media guidelines to shut people up.
Hannah Nicholson 🦭 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸53bsky.app/profile/mart... I'm almost sad to have her blocked on here because I'd be waving this under her nose. She's a horrible old ghoul.
Gibbsy Gambit ♟️ 🏉 ⚽ 💚 🏃💨🍺🌳🐿️🏞️30She will face no real consequences. The self pitying "cancelled/hounded" article will shortly follow without a hint of irony
Matthew Beswick (they/them)28Racist GCs only care about suicide in the way its reasons are unfathomable and therefore they're automatically absolved from anything they've previously said or done
Steve 🏳️🌈🇬🇧12"Stop drawing attention to the things I said"
Dave Andress1040The columnariat are, quite simply, some of the worst people in society. They will murder you, cry at your funeral, and turn in 800 words on how your death is the fault of the wokes.
Mallory Moore229Note that Sonia Sodha sees the connections between her attempts to depoliticise trans suicide with her present attempts to rule out considering the harm people chose to do leading to Arday's death
Euan148I wrote this article about why it’s good to bully trans people into suicide, sharing it today in case it’s helpful to anyone looking to justify recently bullying a Black man into suicide
Crowsa Luxemburg33sodha has fairly consistently argued against "politicising" suicide (i.e. trying to stop it from happening) because she thinks it's good when certain groups do it
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈32'sure trans ppl might commit suicide if we strip them of their healthcare but, hear me out, that would mean fewer trans ppl so you see how that would be a benefit' — sonia sodha
Charlotte32“suicide is a tragedy, but I already wrote in 2023 about the dangers of telling me to not drive people into suicide”
Astrid22she thinks this because of her views on trans people btw sadly understanding British media GCs is key to understanding so much of how the broadsheet press became like this
Steven Perkins19imagine hounding people to the point of suicide often enough that not only do you have to write an article explaining that it isn't your fault, you keep having to refer back to it
strigix14People on Bluesky are asking, "What's the reason why all the media professionals who were obsessed with Arday for the last several weeks suddenly want to stop talking about him today" and the answer is just transparently "They don't want to take responsibility for the monstrosity that they support."
Jughead J'onzz12"My 'suicide is always tragic' t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions answered by my 2023 article about the dangers of using the suicide of someone I harassed in their final days to make political points unfavourable to me. Sharing today in case anyone thinks of holding me accountable."
Very interesting that @privateeyenews.bsky.social has deleted the videos of @helenlewis.bsky.social laughing at Jason Arday. I wonder why.
Andy Churnwell218Helen is one of those rare account that is both on The Spectator garden party list, the transphobe list, and a private school attendee. No wonder she's enjoying success as a journalist in this country.
Magic Money Tree36They can't delete it all bsky.app/profile/magi...
Kris (he/him)21It's because they are cowards as well as being scum.
Old Hobbit🐸13Nasty person. There are some elitist sneerers at that magazine.
Jojo she/her10Disgusting wretches. I hope its all bern archived
Omelette Coleman10We should get Ratbiter (AKA "the Octopus") onto the case. He always wants to sniff out in injustice among the establishment wherever he finds it!
Dr Alex Fitzpatrick196can this finally be the end of people pretending Helen Lewis has ever said anything of value she’s a transphobe and a racist and no amount of anti-Trump “feminist” pieces will ever absolve her of the violence she has directly and indirectly contributed to
Emily Hamilton10Transphobes and racists. All part of the same squalid little gang.
Louise Hector7And Kathleen Stock wrote one of the hit pieces. Guys, a thought has just occurred to me. Is it possible that TERFs are just plain old bigots and it was never about protecting women?
To be a prominent antiracist Black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob. My latest @TheEmancipator.org. theemancipator.org/2026/08/15/i...
Ibram X. Kendi145And if you die from all the attacks, the media still calls the attacks on you “accusations” to wash their hands of the blood. Your lynchers announce your death as if they had no role in your lynching. theemancipator.org/2026/08/15/i...
revrrecio.bsky.social7I just became aware of this story, but the reporting should have been restrained as it involved mere allegations and no conclusions by a trusted panel. That it wasn't suggests that Arday was subject to a double standard.
TRay2This is a tragedy. This does not happen to Goodwin, Abram’s, and others that misrepresented their sources. Our tech world has become dangerous.
Demiurge21A serial academic fraud is found out, and kills himself. The Kendi solution - attack the media who found him out.
Katiesaurus47"All told, a Black Cambridge professor endured 249 times more media coverage for an accusation of plagiarism by a known racist propagandist than a White Cambridge professor found guilty of plagiarism."
Joe Stieb40There’s a big middle ground btw this wild claim and the unseemly gloating over Arday’s story
isabella mori36"The media published 249 articles in 22 days on Jason Arday ... By comparison, in 2024, in the weeks after the released Epstein files showed long-standing ties between Epstein and Peter Mandelson, former UK Ambassador to the US, the UK media mentioned Mandelson 119 times."
Brooklyn Ben30Antiracism is the only way forward
Ginnette Powell Bluesky is not a dating app16Louder for the people in the back!
Jason Arday might have lied about the amount he was paid to write a book. Michael Gove literally bragged the £10bn stolen during the Covid PPE scam was an 'honest mistake'. One was instantly forgotten about, the other was hounded to his death.
BladeoftheSun56The crooked UK Billionaire Media need to be shutdown.
R A Turner (he/him)4Farage, Reform Limited and the Tories are responsible for the rise of racism in the UK using the stealth of Brexit to turn people against others. This would not have happened had he been white, to be explicit. There are no excuses. The British press and media are complicit.
The evidence is clear. He was wounded to death. Nothing he did remotely justifies what was done to him. Even after he resigned, they continued. They pushed him to suicide. If you do not recognise the obvious racism here you are part of the problem. newscord.org/editorials/j...
Rebecca Solnit103And for those for whom the story is unfamiliar, here's a bit of it (but I think she means hounded). Just limited who can comment because I don't platform racists.
elia ayoub43It looks so much worse when you see the intensity of media coverage throughout the country. They hounded him to death bsky.app/profile/ayou...
Liz as in lizard 🏳️⚧️6Even if you believe his plagiarism accusations were genuinely major enough to warrant coverage (an insane base but alright) the fact that coverage continued after it was “resolved” should be galling to you!
Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹2the british tabloid press is like if libsoftiktok was put at the tills in every single supermarket
Jason Arday was a Black, autistic professor who worked hard for his achievements and who spent his life bringing his whole entire heart and all its beauty to the world...
Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author29He was a human being, just like every single one of us. Yet in recent years, he was not treated like a human being. He was treated like a specimen under a microscope. Scrutinized in a way that none of us would be able to survive without intolerable amounts of trauma.
Jessica J5This was the saddest situation ever.
Dr. Kimm1autism is greatly misunderstood. i am glad Jason had the chance to live a fruitful life for a number of years. still i think the people closest to him let him down. they need advocates to assist in making decisions and talking about themselves. not because they're dumb but the world is chaotic.
Maybe Jason Arday’s death can offer us lessons in not rushing to glib judgements; in not joining the unthinking pack; and – above all - in keeping a sense of proportion and plain humanity. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
StephenB4A bit fucking early to be talking glibly about learning lessons, don’t you think? Those who initiated and sustained the hideous pile-on - and there were plenty of progressives, as well as the usual suspects - should be identified and publicly shamed first.
Marchie4I wish I shared your optimism. Comment without consequence seems to be the standard of modern media and public discourse. And people refusing to leave X won't improve that.
Malcolm Reed3Maybe, but I'm afraid I don't hold out much hope, Alan.
TRC - The Reality Check3The people who should learn from Arday's death will learn nothing because of their self-righteous feeling of entitlement. The fact that the Reform Party is riding high demonstrates how hate has replaced kindness and humanity in our society, especially against minorities and their presence. Very sad
Toby Johns2Tell that to the Guardian.
Philip Taylor2Not much sign of it here. bsky.app/profile/gerr...
Jason Arday. Young, autistic, black academic bullied to death Michael West and Aleta Moriarty reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/jason-arday-young-autistic-black-academic-bullied-to-death/
Robynne8Fuck them all. A lynch squad that decided to pursue a black man who refused to stay in the box they had decided he belonged in. My heart goes out to his loved ones.
Julian’s Scrawings5@ketanjoshi.co shared a snapshot of press coverage of this and the gutter press are absolutely sickening: bsky.app/profile/keta...
