Do you work on policy implementation in the Global South? The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a specialization in public policy in the Global South. #AcademicSky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Assistant Professor of Asian Religion and Philosophy - Baton Rouge, Louisiana job with Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge - Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies jobs.chronicle.com/job/37889510...

The project is seeking to identify, describe, challenge, and transform the ways in which the disciplines of Religious Studies and Theology in UK Higher Education exclude and disadvantage UK Minority Ethnic, Global Majority Heritage, and Working Class students and staff.

Very happy to be part of the qualitative team on this. Please join us for the launch!

Here’s my brief introduction to the Race & Class in UK Religious Studies and Theology project I’m co-convening with Dulcie McKenzie and Caroline Starkey. Do join us for the project launch on Wed 1st October to hear more.

.. but also police in other countries use them to hassle minorities, and this is a bad thing! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

2. Countries that have ID cards - like the whole of Europe - still have the same irregular migration problem (you may have heard!!!) & in fact the UK has the lowest share of its economy estimated as irregular economy in Europe so if it fixes the issue WHY DIDNT IT FIX IT THERE?

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

When digital ID is required to access services (eg the NHS, or legal representation, or obtaining a bank account, or renting a flat), and yours has been set to "nope" because the government of the day decides it doesn't like people of Your Sort, what will you be able to do about it? Nothing.

Re-inventing the mandate territory, but with *Tony Blair* in charge. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Poorer families in the UK are finding it increasingly harder to pay basic bills. t.co/NVMlhN3FC2 Isn't this something worth addressing rather than increasing state surveillance through Digital IDs

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

rßing this piece every time I get Hindutva hate mail @audreytruschke.bsky.social with six things you need to know about Hindu nationalism religiondispatches.org/what-in-the-...

There is no escape on this #PoisonedPlanet from #PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution, plus #PFAS and other dangers. For us, or endangered species #OneHealth phys.org/news/2025-09...

Shot dead by right-wing fanatics exactly ten years ago, #MMKalburgi was an indelible figure in the world of #Kannada scholarship. Srikar Raghavan writes on Kalburgi's life and legacy in the crosshairs of history:

Nearly 2 yrs ago we ran an event standing against the Zionist weaponising of ancient history in Palestine. We worked so hard to make that knowledge mainstream - classicists called me a Nazi, an antisemite, a terrorist for doing so. Today it’s in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

New report from colleagues at Durham: Resetting the Balance: Listening to Testimonies of Harm in the Mike Pilavachi Case- www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Published today by ​Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @adambridgen.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social is a new, co-edited, open-access essay collection: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700. Available, for free, at: uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

More and more such incidents happening daily www.bbc.com/news/article...

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

I’m pleased to be proposing this motion today 🇵🇸 The Scottish Government took a big step forward in supporting BDS calls from Green MSPs, but now they must do the same for Councils ⚖️ New powers need to be granted to local authorities or else the government position is just warm words ❌ 💬 🤷

This article about the Elfashir siege is so illuminating, and at the same time infuriating & BAFFLING. It is beyond comprehension that *all this* is happening to a population, and no one in power feels any sense of urgency at all. www.theguardian.com/global-devel... A must read! #KeepEyesOnSudan

Really great to see Feminist Legal Studies responding to contemporary attacks on trans rights with this special issue. Giving space to trans inclusive feminist analysis is crucial in light of the tendency of the anti-gender movement to co-opt the language of feminism.

Modern slavery laws have already been weakened to the point where victims are at serious risk. Further undermining them will be absolutely catastrophic for vulnerable victims. It isn't modern slavery laws which need changing. It's Labour anti-asylum policies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We must continue to see recognition for what it is: counterinsurgency, a means to end Palestinian armed resistance and its struggle for total liberation… Palestinian liberation…is a paradigm… for the world. A gift so many of us are unwilling to receive… open.substack.com/pub/jairofun...

"The Spanish government approves a “total” arms embargo on Israel, part of a package of measures aimed at halting what Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called “the genocide in Gaza.”" www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

This is getting interesting. If Israel attacks the Italian ship, NATO must invoke Article V and defend Italy against its aggressor, Israel www.dw.com/en/italy-sen...

Huge news.

Christian Aid instructs staff not to refer to “genocide” in Gaza: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/09... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

For those interested in the history of British immigration control, I am going to do quick thread of my academic writing on the subject. In 2014, Marinella Marmo and I wrote this book, 'Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control'. link.springer.com/book/10.1057...

Other UK politicians should be coming down on Farage like a ton of bricks on this

Nice surprise to see my article on Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp is out today - have a read if interested in space, the weirdness of the Wirral, local feminisms and anti-nuclear activism in Merseyside, and global solidarity movements in the 1980s academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Activists on board the Global Sumud Flotilla said they heard explosions and saw drone attacks late on Tuesday.

The two (specifically white evangelicalism) aligned because of abortion but it's led to a conservative shift within the US Catholic church such that in in some ways more conservative than the church itself tagging @clairewillett.bsky.social in here because she knows way more than I do

I think people not raised Catholic struggle to understand the church as an institution and are unaware that there's massive strife happening right now within the Catholic Church which in very broad strokes - Rome thinks American Catholicism has been tainted by too close association to evangelicalism

Apologies for post below. As others have mentioned he has reached retirement age. I have to say it didn't come fast enough. Let us hope Papa Leo can inject a bit more diversity and compassion into the sélection for the next Archbishop

There is a God.

Pope Leo is said to have accepted Cardinal Dolan's resignation and to have picked his successor as New York archbishop. Will Dolan serve in retirement as spiritual advisor to Turning Point USA? In any event, his adherence to the GOP is far stronger than his adherence to the Catholic Church.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Starvation in Contexts of Mass Violence and Genocide. Please see the attached notice for full details.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

The state of Western politics in 2025 becomes a lot easier to understand when you acknowledge and reckon with the plain fact that much of the political mainstream - not just the Trumpian right - is racist.

this is heartbreaking reading the shit we make these people put up with and the square root of fuck all we give them and at no point will the BBC reflect on how their own reporting helped create the unbelievably hostile environment they have to endure

Shana tova, y'all. This made me cackle.

Check out this full-time teaching position in Feminist Disability Studies at Georgetown University. It's not tenure track, but it looks like it's renewable, and the teaching load is a manageable 3/3 with latitude to teach some awesome classes. Apply by Oct. 27 apply.interfolio.com/174365

Please God. Can some mainstream news outlet explain properly how long and how costly the immigration process in the UK is? And that there is NO RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS the whole time. And you PAY A SURCHARGE for the NHS. And you pay your taxes.

You can vote in Scotland as long as you live here. No ILR required. It'd be great to see the UK adopt this policy!

No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine @socispal.bsky.social uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

Excellent research on concrete value of diversity in research! Gender- and race-diverse teams= more novel research, more citations & longer-term impact. Researchers from underrepresented groups produced more novel research but their work was systematically undervalued and less likely to be adopted