A very short @uk.theconversation.com piece is out. Good luck to all nominees - the 2025 #Booker Prize winner will be announced next Monday! theconversation.com/booker-prize...

AKS Lab YR 1 workshop at Lancaster canal 😅 Thanks to everyone who participated! @nikialsford.bsky.social, @hannes-mosler.bsky.social

Giving keynote lectures, with my colleague Niki @nikialsford.bsky.social at the Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia, as a part of Korea Foundation workshop on Korean Studies. Thanks for the invitation to such a lovely place, with wonderful students. 😇

Preston Sejong Institute is recruiting an administrator (part time, fixed term). Deadline: 1 October 2025, 11.59 PM Apply via: www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/preston... Any inquiries, email to: [email protected] #Sejong #Preston #UniLancashire #Recruitment #Job #Korea

2025 Korea Day at the University of Lancashire 8 October 2025 (Wed) 12 PM - 3 PM: Korea Day activities (find details below 👇) 2.30 PM - 4.30 PM: Documentary Screening about North Korean defector's memoir Open to all! #Korea #KoreaDay #IKSU #SouthKorea #NorthKorea #Sejong #UniLancashire

President Donald Trump’s latest effort to overhaul America’s legal immigration system — raising the annual fee on H-1B visa applicants from $215 to $100,000 — could deal a major blow to some US industries that rely on skilled foreign workers.

Starmer set to announce UK recognition of Palestinian state on.ft.com/4ngcj9X

British Academy funded workshop Democracy, part II, at University of Lancashire. Part I was done at University of Bologna with core team, and part II has just completed with bigger super team. Happy to meet new colleagues and truly excited with new knowledge and what we will work on together. 😇

Since Kim Jong-un's trip to China with his daughter, I have received the same question from several media outlets: Why did he take his daughter to China? My simple answer can be found within the following threads.

A new taxonomy provides a clear framework for declaring AI’s role in research: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/why-u... #AI #Research #AIEthics

Dear Smithsonian.......send your historical records to Canada before they're destroyed.

US universities face growing threats to academic freedom – both at home and abroad. Here’s how leaders and academics can guard against #authoritarianism: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-p... #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #HigherEd ‪@jhu.edu‬ @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social

Another book on North Korea (this time, in Korean), co-written, is published. Ebook will also be available soon. 😄

Number of job cuts that have been made in UK higher education could be much higher than previously thought, with more than 20,000 roles potentially affected, say @beccaeharrison.bsky.social @davidharvie.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

It is now officially signed! For next three years, I will work with my fabulous colleagues, Kevin Gray at the University of Sussex, Hannes Mosler at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Marco Milani at the University of Bologna, and my past PhD supervisee, Dr Queralt Boadella Prunell.

In pictures: The nationwide ‘No Kings’ protests cnn.it/3HEZ2HW

Westminster Colorado 💙 #nokings #fdt

Spokane, WA continues to mobilize in the streets for the No Kings

No Kings demonstration in downtown Toledo OH. Early shot before everybody got there.

MSNBC reporter in gas mask in Los Angeles: I think it was Sheriffs deploying CS gas, tear gas, pepper spray, and flash bang grenades in large numbers. Mounted units pushing against protesters.., every single gathering I saw today was 100% peaceful

#Nokings San Diego

Some ducks have joined one of the #NoKings rallies in Portland, OR!

This morning in Fort Myers, FL #NoKings

And happening right now.. Sedona AZ #nokings #democracy

Hell yes, Olympia #nokings!

#NoKings New York

Chicago ✊

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

There water system in Gaza is at risk of collapsing completely. You can help provide urgently needed aid including fuel and drinking water by donating to the Gaza Appeal using the link below. bit.ly/4gehXoy

Political appointees at the US state department cancelled dozens of scholarships offered by the bipartisan initiative, mainly on the basis of research topics, people familiar with the matter said. www.ft.com/content/0a47....

Pam Bondi has issued a warning to American businesses after the Department of Justice announced it was suing a Californian coffee shop over the name of one if its menu items.

Gaza: Video shows crowds in Gaza scale fences to rush for aid

Israel won’t allow a flotilla of activists — including Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg — sailing toward the Gaza Strip to reach the coastal enclave, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday.

President Donald Trump will send the National Guard to restore order in Los Angeles in response to growing unrest over a wave of federal immigration raids.

A Palestinian militia operating with tacit approval from Israel has surfaced in the Gaza Strip, offering a prospective postwar alternative to Hamas governance.

A thunderstorm warning means Jazzin' the Park 2025 won't take place in a park after all, but indoors at 53 Degrees 🎺

Trump-Musks spectacular split minute-by-minute: How the president and the First Buddy’s friendship unraveled online

BBC & Independent interviews.. It is a relief that we made the shift of the ruling party, but it is too early to celebrate as it can just be the beginning of another chapter of the same playbook. www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-as...

'I’m telling you this is going to happen,' the JPMorgan Chase chief executive said to regulators. 'And you are going to panic. I’m not going to panic. We’ll be fine.' https://on.ft.com/3Z5fYxh

At least 26 Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces opened fire near a Gaza aid distribution center, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said

Institute for Area and Migration Studies (AMIS) day-long workshop and members' meeting is about to begin. It is at ME414, University of Central Lancashire . All are welcome, especially if you are interested in applying grants more efficiently! 😀

The Trump Administration told Harvard University it can’t enroll international students, delivering a major blow to the school after the government froze billions of dollars of federal funding

[ Korean Teacher Training Programme ] Registration Period: 19 - 28 May 2025 Registration via: forms.gle/jdJPkH4SwV2F... Fee: free Online course begins: 20 June Practicum: October-November 2025 (subject to change) Select venue (questionnaire No 2) Preston to participate in the UK.

On my way back from fieldwork in Fiji, for an impact case study on period poverty, with our own PhD Kate Martin (36-hour flight, plus train trip between London and Preston!), thanks to University of Central Lancashire QR Policy Research Funding scheme. All set for writing a paper - wait for it!

Study unravels mystery of how Haenyeo women spend hours underwater without oxygen

2025 Sem 3 onlune Korean Language Class Registration Deadline: until 20 June 2025 onlineshop.uclan.ac.uk/short-course... More Information: www.lancashire.ac.uk/cpd/courses/...

▪️Korean Studies Summer School ▪️ Date: 23-25 June 2025 Time: 9 AM – 2.30 PM (UK Time) Venue: Online via MS TEAMS Tuition Fee: GBP 30 Registration Period: until 15 June 2025 Register & Tuition Fee Payment: onlineshop.uclan.ac.uk/short-course...