Abhishek Saha
@ObhishekSaha
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Professor of maths @QMUL • founder member @lucaf_london, advisory board @ComAcFreedom, BFSP, co-convenor @AFAF_QMUL • individual liberty, autonomy • views mine.
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Joined September 2013
Academic freedom matters most when contested work is controversial or offensive. Free debate legitimises knowledge: when this freedom is curtailed, even true ideas cease to be rationally justified. My latest for @Quillette: "A Heretic Reprieved". https://t.co/81CQjOVvi1
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Academic freedom is most vital when contested work is controversial or liable to cause offence.
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AxiomProver keeps getting stronger. And @axiommathai keeps growing. I'm excited to share that Prof. Ken Ono @KenOno691 has joined Axiom as Founding Mathematician and FTE #15. He left his tenured position as STEM Advisor to Provost at UVA to build an AI mathematician with us.
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It was a pleasure for @MShipworth and me to see @LauraTrottMP today to discuss the ongoing challenges to free speech and academic freedom. The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was designed to address many of these challenges. The Government has implemented HEFSA’s key
🙏 @LauraTrottMP for meeting with @ObhishekSaha and me to speak about how those who have had our #AcademicFreedom curtailed remain powerless if the government won’t implement the HE #FreedomOfSpeech Act Complaints Scheme and Overseas Transparency Duty. (My story pinned tweet.)
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It was a pleasure for @MShipworth and me to see @LauraTrottMP today to discuss the ongoing challenges to free speech and academic freedom. The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act was designed to address many of these challenges. The Government has implemented HEFSA’s key
🙏 @LauraTrottMP for meeting with @ObhishekSaha and me to speak about how those who have had our #AcademicFreedom curtailed remain powerless if the government won’t implement the HE #FreedomOfSpeech Act Complaints Scheme and Overseas Transparency Duty. (My story pinned tweet.)
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Today, we’re launching SPEAK. Every year, thousands of people in the UK are arrested for what they say online. We’re going to change that. 🎥
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🙏 @LauraTrottMP for meeting with @ObhishekSaha and me to speak about how those who have had our #AcademicFreedom curtailed remain powerless if the government won’t implement the HE #FreedomOfSpeech Act Complaints Scheme and Overseas Transparency Duty. (My story pinned tweet.)
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@Fox_Claire's welcome speech and some PHOTOS! @StudentAFAF @ARUSAFAF @acadofideas @ProfDHayes @JoPhoenix1 @MForstater @ruth_miesch @lawrencepatihis @ianpacemain @ObhishekSaha @JimButcher2
https://t.co/ZyGnYepAdN
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Claire Welcome Speech and PHOTOS!
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I honestly didn’t think it was possible for someone to combine that level of stupidity with a seat in Parliament, but Zarah Sultana keeps proving me wrong. She’s a one-woman chaos engine.
Zarah Sultana says we should "nationalise the entire economy." I asked her what meant in practise.
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@vladtenev @skdh @HarmonicMath @leanprover A more accurate summary, as noted in the chat, is that Aristotle solved "a" version of this problem (indeed, with an olympiad-style proof), but not "the" version.
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Talking of prose quality, yesterday I asked ChatGPT 5.1 to take a draft of an essay I am writing and to rewrite it in the style of Kat Rosenfield. Sadly, as can be seen from the excerpts below, its output was not particularly good.
with the caveat that I lack the full context for whatever the beef between these men, it's oddly heartening to the literary critic in me that my timeline is currently consumed by, of all things, a vicious debate about *prose quality*
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The 60s and early 70s were a really important period for free speech in the US, as groundbreaking court rulings ushered in the modern interpretation of the First Amendment. It must have been an amazing time to be a free speech supporter. Below are three key cases where UK law
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‘The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.’ Tom Stoppard 1937 - 2025
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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is perhaps my favourite play. "Septimus: When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be all alone, on an empty shore. Thomasina: Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?"
RIP Sir Tom Stoppard, 88. Oscar-winning literary genius, and one of the world’s greatest dramatists. What a writer! Sad news.
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Deputy Speaker @Nus_Ghani has stood up for her community’s interests for a decade, defended Parliament’s interests from the Speaker’s chair for 18 months and been sanctioned by China and Russia for defending our country’s interests from dictators. She’s been voted in four times
Today, the Deputy Speaker presiding over the Budget Statement in the UK House of Commons is Nus Ghani. Nus Ghani was born in Kashmir, Pakistan. There should not be a single person born in Pakistan in the UK House of Commons.
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The 60s and early 70s were a really important period for free speech in the US, as groundbreaking court rulings ushered in the modern interpretation of the First Amendment. It must have been an amazing time to be a free speech supporter. Below are three key cases where UK law
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Free speech is not a left or right issue. It is shameful and utterly unacceptable for a state to - directly or indirectly - ban a book. The Terrorism Act is one of numerous laws that curtail free speech in the UK. They must all be repealed.
Now let's see what right-wing "free speech absolutists" have to say about this.
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This is a powerful essay, and a timely reminder that cancel-culture, especially on the topic of evolved sex-differences, long predates the 2014-2022 great awokening.
A powerful article about the cancellation of Randy Thornhill & Craig T. Palmer for forwarding the heretical hypothesis that rape is actually about sex. D’une bonne amie, @nikitakarachoi
https://t.co/jepq6ouVab
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Free speech is not a left or right issue. It is shameful and utterly unacceptable for a state to - directly or indirectly - ban a book. The Terrorism Act is one of numerous laws that curtail free speech in the UK. They must all be repealed.
Now let's see what right-wing "free speech absolutists" have to say about this.
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