“From the Politics of Affect to the Politics of Being Affected By/With Others: A Commentary on the Special Issue” by Lucy Avraamidou @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social and Betzabe Torres Olave @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sce.70019

Genocide has been committed by Israel. Parties to the Genocide Convention were warned of plausibility in Jan 2024. They attacked those warning. Now it’s too late to stop a genocide. Now it’s about trying to stop it getting ever worse. Uniting for Peace Resolution needed this GA. BDS. Protest

If anyone is still not convinced #Israel is committing #genocide in #Gaza, I urge that person to watch this @aljazeera.com report and reconsider. The facts are on the table for anyone to see. This is not a "war". This is the deliberate attempt to destroy a people. www.aljazeera.com/video/inside...

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Gente simpática por acá, veámonos en Copenhagen in a SEEDS meet up? 💌

Our Statement in support of Francesca Albanese We call upon academic institutions, governments & civil society actors around the world to publicly repudiate these unjustified sanctions & to uphold the independence & legitimacy of the UN human rights system. @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide. It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International. No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

Congratulations to this year's Newer Researcher Award winners @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social, @jesspilgrimbrown.bsky.social, and Yabing Liu! Learn more about their projects on our website: srhe.ac.uk/research/lat...

Imagine, just imagine, the response from the West if the Iranian government, in international waters, had rammed and then boarded a European ship, filled with European citizens, and taken them captive. But it's Israel, so it's all good. Our citizens don't matter.

Climate-U conference open for submissions! 5-8 Nov in Belém (Brazil) and online. Event is free of charge. Submissions welcome on all aspects of HE and the climate crisis (individual paper, symposium, workshop or artistic) www.climate-uni.com/network-conf...

Things happen, and I will be moving to the Netherlands in 3 months. Receiving all the Dutch-related stuff advice here (and "goodbyes catch-ups" in the UK, although I will be here now and then). www.rug.nl/news/2025/02...

I'm hosting a free online workshop series on Anti-Racism and Reparations in Education. Please join us! 10am UK time: June 11, June 18 and July 2. Details and registration: baice.ac.uk/baice-presid... Please help spread the word to academic/education folx! 🙌🏾

World leaders can make as many statements as they like opposing Israel's actions in Gaza. Until they end the sale of weapons to Israel, they remain complicit in the mass murder of Palestinians. Stop arming genocide, now.

My piece in ⁦‪National‬⁩ today on ten stages of genocide and on genocide denial. It is imperative that food and medicine enter Gaza. The consequences are already catastrophic www.thenational.scot/news/world/2...

This excellent short (23 min) film explain why some scientists have been compelled to take direct action in an effort to get governments to respond to the climate crisis. Please watch and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNvk...

"In the film Life Invisible, directed by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff, we travel to the the Atacama Desert of Chile, where researcher Cristina Dorador is searching for new treatments to fight infectious diseases" @nobelprize.bsky.social nobelprizemuseum.se/en/fighting-...

Our next Anti-Genocide University event is next Friday "Global Laboratories of Repression, Global Visions of Liberation" Alexander_Avina – with William A. Booth 9 May, 5-6:30pm (UK time), online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-lab...

Excited about this event! We’re hosting an event for PhDs & ECRs. Join us for a workshop on inequalities in HE & student political participation with Prof Agnès van Zanten and Prof @rachelbrooks.bsky.social 🌟. Don’t miss it! @britsoci.bsky.social @education.ox.ac.uk tinyurl.com/4een2w3e

🎓 We’re researching undergraduate students' perspectives on the distribution of higher education opportunities, and we’re looking for participants! If you are studying a social science degree at Oxford University, contact us to take part! ✨ Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Some ideas around critical imagination and its role in transformative agency for science teacher education (thinking with #Freire and #Weil 🥰) @scienceed-wiley.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

100% to this, to build trust in the sciences, we also need to make them relevant in dialogues across disciplines, rather than continuing with the myth of strongly insulated spaces.

Pope Francis used his final public address to call for a ceasefire in Gaza: “Unarmed civilians are subjected to bombings and shootings. It is terrorism.” Even in hospital, he checked in daily on Gaza’s Christian community. The world has lost a brave voice for peace and justice.

Pope Francis dedicated his life to the marginalised, displaced and dispossessed. A rare voice for humanity, he spent his final days on this earth calling for peace. Let his enduring legacy — of empathy, courage and kindness — inspire us to build a more humane world for all.

As a physics teacher who ofc wanted to be an astronaut as a child what I pictured was never space tourism while people on Earth are experiencing climate catastrophes &genocide Opening the STEM box is not just for people to enter but also to change its (at times) harmful culture w/people & the planet

🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸 Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine. 🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online 🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah 🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

✨👾 Get in touch if you’d like to join us for a critical discussion on normativities, medicine and algorithms!

Our urge for endless consumption is sacrificing ecosystems and indigenous communities across the world. Mining for Li the Salar de Atacama is dewatering unique and precious ecologies. Salt flats aren’t mines; they’re ecosystems”. Chilean scientist Cristina Dorador grist.org/energy/chile...

Deadline extended to 4/9!! Nominate yourself to be part of the SEEDS Leadership Team. This is a great opportunity to shape SEEDS’ efforts in researching, building, and sustaining transformative educational opportunities in science with all students through critical engagement.

AAA Science Education Research colleagues 🔜 Don't miss the #ESERA sponsored session at #NARST25 #NARST2025 Date: Wed 26th Time: 9-10:30 Room: Baltimore 3

Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free." - For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza. 23 and he knew to leave a death note.

Currently ranked #1 in Global 'Warming and Ecology' on Amazon's Best Sellers Rank! 🤩 Available to order via ethical book sellers, too 😉

Wrote a piece about the return of "brain training", a very old phrenological and pseudoneuroscientific business now being re-booted as a pedagogy of "mental fitness" with wearable neurotechnologies and "brain models" trained on users' neurodata codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/t...

Today at 4pm 🥰 @saratolbert.bsky.social "Solidarity, Science Education, and ‘Anticipatory Dis-obedience’ in the Trumpocene" ccpp.leeds.ac.uk/events/solid...

I was born in 1986, when NASA first produced this classic depiction of the Earth-system & its interactions. Since then there has been a paradigm shift in our understanding of humankind's place in the planetary system. This thread looks at how our understanding has changed during my lifetime...🧵

Today, mothers and fathers in Gaza are mourning their children because governments across the world did not deem their lives worthy of protection.

This is in a week here at Leeds 😍 Solidarity, Science Education, and ‘Anticipatory Dis-obedience’ in the Trumpocene by Prof. Sara Tolbert from Monash university. cc @lawatleeds.bsky.social @srmleeds.bsky.social @leedsteaching.bsky.social @lssi.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social

"This Is All Retaliatory": Judge Blocks Mahmoud Khalil's Deportation as Trump Vows More Arrests

In the journal @scienceed-wiley.bsky.social, we are launching a new section, Climate Change and Environmental Education. Please see our editorial advocating for a paradigm shift in climate change education research. Thanks Asli, Fikile, and Mark! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"Academics can no longer resort to only publishing papers... there is a need to consider how to make best use of academic knowledge & creativity to support diverse activism: in board rooms, with corporate leaders, with politicians, youth organisations, universities, & in the streets"

It took a bit of time to elaborate these ideas in science education,but here we are, Carbon plunging into the realm of the changeable. Mini special issue with Gert Biesta, Elisabet Lengman and Stefano Oliveiro on World-Centred Education journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Through a dynamic Q-and-A format, ‘In Conversation with Syed Farid Alatas: Re-Thinking Knowledge, Intellectual Canons, and the Decolonisation of Academia’ will explore how alternative epistemologies can challenge dominant academic frameworks. srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civ...

Partnerships with Palestine: A guide to UK-Palestinian HE collaborations Launch event (hybrid) Tues 25th Feb, 14:00-15:30 (UK) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/partnershi...

Very happy to share that we will have the amazing Prof Sara Tolbert (Monash uni) at Leeds on the 20th of March with the talk "Solidarity, Science Education, and ‘Anticipatory Dis-obedience’ in the Trumpocene". Join us for the discussion🥰. Here is more info: ccpp.leeds.ac.uk/events/solid...

Los salares no son minas, son humedales, son ecosistemas 🦩🐟🐸🐦🐝🪱🪺🦠🪲🦙🌵🪷 #DíaMundialDeLosHumedales

Oh justice! I don’t know what you look like. But I know under the rubble you died. #KeepTellingofGaza

Happy to be serving on the editorial board here from this year to 2027. Thanks to the new editors for the invitation 💌 (I guess I am representing sudamerica and Europe in this one 🤔.) Next task expanding languages? 🤓 (Which I know some contributors have been doing, and I love it ❤️)

I will probably be asleep by then, but if you are a night owl on this side of the world (11.30pm GMT)... go here ⬇️

@criordor.bsky.social Chilean scientists warn that an AES megaproject planned for Atacama will obscure the view of the stars AES plans to make green fuel in the Atacama desert, which has the clearest skies in the world www.elciudadano.com/actualidad/t...

For me, an ecological approach to teaching about/against AI also means investigating how historically & today AI is entwined w militaries. "In recent years, documents show, Microsoft has also provided the Israeli military with large-scale access to OpenAI’s GPT-4 model – the engine behind ChatGPT"

Spent much of this week at a *massive* edtech industry trade show. These events are literally where edtech and big tech sell their brands and products to schools and universities - but they're so much more too (photo thread coming IYI)...