Daily Links: International Edition

• Australia is (also) cutting dough for higher ed, and this writer worries about the health effects on the health of academics themselves.  
• From England, a young PhD student wonders why there aren't more black women in the humanities. She holds up UNC as a favorable example of diversity. Speaking of which, here's a spotlight on how CA is finding alternatives to affirmative action, as the practice seems threatened in the Supreme Court. 
• In Mali, scholars literally preserved knowledge by hiding away medieval manuscripts from those who would destroy them. 
• And is Virginia a foreign country? If you're trying to file a Freedom of Information Act request, it might as well be. A librarian's take on how a quietly important recent SCOTUS ruling might affect academic research.