The Trump administration is extending the Global Gag Rule beyond abortion to include “diversity, equity and inclusion” and “gender ideology" - just how broadly this will be interpreted is unknown but it will further expose and heighten violence towards trans & LGTBQI folks globally.

Brilliant student-led teaching here! They will have learnt so much!

Just what I needed! Looking forward to reading this book as I design a new participatory methods course.

💥New | Does rapport always make better research interviews? ✍️ @aliyarao.bsky.social (@lsemethodology.bsky.social) #QualitativeResearch #ResearchInterviews #SocialScience

2026 off to a meaningful start for me with this exploration of in situ learning about local history and activism

While the police forces & British courts pursue prosecutions relating to Palestine Action, an actual proscribed terror group is operating freely in N. Ireland and the police are covering up and downplaying white supremacist terror, violence and mass forced displacement of racial & ethnic minorities.

Professor Flora Cornish spent yesterday conducting a different type of knowledge exchange... a walking tour based on her research into Grenfell Tower 💚 See more in her thread below⤵️

Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A first for me today, I offered a walking tour of North Kensington to a group of international housing scholars on the workshop "Epistemes of non-dominant habitation". Thanks to Paroj Banerjee for the invitation, I had a great time with the group!

On the 6/01 IDF broke into the Birzeit campus shooting injuring 12 students+. This is only the latest of a long list of violence and disruption to the Palestinian education community. David Lewis and I have put together an open letter with over 400 signatures, let's get to 1000 lnkd.in/e_eJxWG5

I only want to read articles where an author takes responsibility for every sentence. Please don't disrespect my limited time by presenting me with sentences produced by an LLM that are not full of the meaning that YOU want to say. I want to connect with an author and trust their integrity.

The AI and social science publishing problem is SO MUCH bigger than this. The peer review system is close to broken, nobody has time to edit or review properly, and LLM-polished or -generated work that looks good in form but is weak in its fundaments ia flooding submissions. It"s not sustainable.

Imagining a regime of kindness as radical as this regime of cruelty.

This is now overt UK state terror enforced at the behest of genocide defenders and enablers in the Cabinet. Release all the on-remand Palestine Action activists on bail with tags. They are not going anywhere. If she dies no one will vote Labour again. news.sky.com/story/palest...

For #showmeyourknits today I did my first ripping back to a lifeline in lace knitting! Column of holes misaligned. I had to first PUT IN the lifeline as i did not trust myself to find all the stitches otherwise. With 1 or 2 small anomalies, it has worked. PHEW! High stakes for a relaxing hobby! 😵‍💫🧶

Statement from Birzeit University on the Israeli military invasion of its campus and shooting of students www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...

Written for these times

Crucial resource here from the world expert on reflexivity in social science research

Still fuming about the deranged interviewing of Ed Davey on BBC R4 Today prog today on Venezuela - interviewer arguing that the invasion was justified because Maduro was bad. Both-sidesism should not take precedence over basic reasoning. It really is a relativising curse.

Oh wow this looks amazing!

Having one of those writing days where I curse myself for treating a book-length topic in an article format. "But to understand this, we have to lay out that, all the way down" 😭

If one of your New Year's resolutions is to stop doing everything yourself because there's not enough time or capacity to do things that aren't what you're expert in anyway, we can help. Let us take care of turning your research data into transcripts so you can focus on analysis and write-up 👇

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Phil Ochs 1966 Cops of the World Grim that this is the vibe today 60 years later youtu.be/fgrehW44g5s?...

The Filton 24 are political prisoners, interned without trial. 8 are on hunger strike, at risk of death. They are not getting a hearing or adequate care. The British govt has done this before in Northern Ireland. It is again inhumane and a stain on the country. www.linkedin.com/posts/ugcPos...

The UK media’s silence on the Palestine Action activists’ hunger strikes is a deliberate editorial choice blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

Does anyone worry that the overcrowding of job applications, conference abstracts, journal submissions etc with AI slop is going to lead us to rely on our personal networks to inform our gatekeeping of these goods? I do.

Heartening to see this fundraiser moving towards its goal. Contribute if you can! ❤️

The enshittification of my profession is so dispiriting and not beginning to be grasped by our institutions

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

In the most beautiful place in the world for Xmas. Today's sunrise.

Peer reviewers, please don't let an LLM make judgements or comments for you! Authors have to respond rigorously to every point in your review. Do you want them to be spending precious time responding to an LLM?

As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing

Anyway if you have a public event or podcast or festival or medical journal and want a speaker or editorial please lmk b/c apparently to keep my job I have to ensure this one specific person “hears about me doing stuff” even tho’ they refuse to tell me where they look for evidence of me doing stuff

10/10, big love for a species of mammal that has evolved to have fringes by default

If you are looking to make a Christmas donation, Disability Justice for Palestine Collective are fundraising for shelter for blind people in Gaza. They come recommended. I've donated 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1597...

If you are looking to make a Christmas donation, Disability Justice for Palestine Collective are fundraising for shelter for blind people in Gaza. They come recommended. I've donated 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1597...

Read the latest from @aliyarao.bsky.social for @lseinequalities.bsky.social Blog ⤵️

🌍 Help shape a new Migration Museum for Britain! We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027. 📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili

Something we should have learned from the last 10 years is that yes indeed it can keep getting worse in ways our former selves would have considered dystopian fiction. Good thread 🙏

A piece on “Abolitionist Futures” where I try to think a bit about positive abolition and resisting the worst elements of state-led inquiries. With a cameo from @clannproject.bsky.social abolitionistfutures.com/latest-news/...

Time for a (long - apologies)🧵 summarizing the findings! The paper was born out of a shared annoyance with some of the wild claims flying around about AI. Things like 'AI could destroy or save humanity'. For a recent example, see e.g., this piece in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Academia can be a very tough environment right now. This book is a trusty companion. Highly recommemd!

02.12.25 Most Christmas lights are turned on by the mayor or local panto star. Not in Paris. youtu.be/ivVPqwFiocg?...

"AI is epistemological death" Helps me understand my horror at the emptiness.

Elitism has really eaten away at Global North academics' critical thinking. My brilliant Latin American colleagues challenge global health assumptions, drawing on their rich tradition in the social determination of health. Meanwhile elite institutions bleat about journal rank and USA publishers

Spent a relaxing Sunday afternoon at Badge Cafe at Rich Mix, yesterday. On a theme of mushrooms and utopia-making, how could I resist! A real space of care, beauty and joy 🍄❤️🍂 Its on every Sunday so anyone can drop in for an inclusive, fun, crafty time. richmix.org.uk/events/badge...

If anyone is looking for Christmas cards, my partner has made some based on his sister, Sally's, art designs to raise money for the Adrenal Cortical Cancer Support charity (@amenduk.bsky.social). All proceeds go to the charity. sallyz-art.square.site

I am so angry about this - also about my own sense of futile anger. My bio says "disempower the powerful". I do think that stopping the accumulation of power is one good principle. Returning to my day's work editing a sp issue on everyday activism which is all about redistributing power ✊️