The launch of 'The Modern World After Colonialism', a @brisunipress.bsky.social textbook developed from the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project resources 📍March 4th 2026, 11am, Zoom @sumingkhoo.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social @thesociologicalreview.org bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hurray! Come join our launch of #TMWaC on 3 March, thanks to the lovely @brisunipress.bsky.social

Royal Academy promoting their new exhibition with this rather wonderful Raoul Dufy: Golfe Juan, 1927

This specially curated list of 100 books celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The titles are personal recommendations from some of today's most celebrated Black writers, artists, & luminaries & curated by the Schomburg Center’s reference division.

Hadn't posted anything on #books2026 zero idea how threads work here. Still on these books, currently chs 4+5 of 5/ - wonderfully written with sensitive insight and around 100 pages into 6/ - tough going but discussions are rewarding. Reading a few pages most days

Measles. Again. Imagine wanting this to happen, out of sheer stupidity and spite

People need to think about this graph

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

Here's the news in English: #ClimateChange #Netherlands www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/c...

The characteristics of this ongoing genocide are utterly horrendous, targeting any vestige of humanity, anything that could help people to survive as human beings.

Boycotting is something

In recent years, American tech money has flooded into Ireland for the construction of data centers and the infrastructure to support their energy needs. This has threatened the country’s boglands, and complicated the debate around its green transition.

In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.

"Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a 'mistake' but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate...Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency."

Data cleaning is not something you'd associate with wellbeing. 'Boring' probably springs to mind. Or 'what's data cleaning?' Yet this little guide on data cleaning for #ResearcherRenew remains one of the most appreciated activities of the month. theresearchcompanion.com/cleandata

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

It was a great @dsaireland conference this year, maybe the one I've enjoyed the most! Thanks to the conference convenor Susan Murphy and a great conference team

If Carbon was 7/ Frankenstein 1818 is 8/ #books2026

Exactly this: “disruption”

‘Our tech overlords like the idea of being Thomas Edison, genius inventor-businessman, but they often have more in common with P.T. Barnum, genius of marketing and hype. Altman could go toe-to-toe with Barnum, and I wouldn’t want to pick a winner.’ John Lanchester: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sir Paul Nurse is an impressive scientist but what the Royal Society needs is Dorothy Bishop to take the helm and clean the place out. Fellows who bring the Society into disrepute need tougher action than himpathy. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

A wise person once told me that two measures should be used to measure social progress: the condition of public libraries and of public toilets.

This reminds me of the old joke about what you would call a hundred lawyers at the bottom of a river. A start.

From "The Waters and the Wild" by Eilish Fisher

Goons are gonna goon

Just about managed to read 30 pages of #books2026 5/ Conundrums of Care and I absolutely love it. Hard to make time to read when marking and admin impose hard deadlines, but I'm going to keep trying

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

If there’s ever been a time in history to educate yourself, it’s now. We’re living through a modern war against intelligence and literacy.

Let Jesus go, and give him a safe warm house to live in and nutritious meals every day. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez: “Spain did not recognise the Maduro regime. But neither will it recognise an intervention that violates international law and pushes the region toward a horizon of uncertainty and belligerence.” No need to like Maduro to recognize the wrongdoing

An aperitif for @anntics.bsky.social

Feeling safe sharing this photo with you now 😁 Pretty sure the "What is the maximum number of robin photos you can post in a year" counter, was set back to zero 2 days ago Happy new year robin to you all 🤗

A canelé for skypeople

Starting my #books2026 thread here too. A set of linked intellectual portraits of Judith Shklar, Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Hannah Arendt and Lionel Trilling. I liked the sideways reading and sometimes snarky commentary

A quiet marina, for skypeople

Ha

Impression, for skypeople

Fruits de mer, for skypeople

Patisserie for skypeople

A lovely picture of a reader for all readers

Some lovely mimosa for skypeople

The 6th ISA Council of National Associations Conference in FLAME University (Pune, India) has gathered 37 delegates from 34 countries, with 28 National Associations represented. December 2025

Reskeeting this as I've only just found it