"For Latine communities, the compounded impact of anti-immigration laws, surveillance, and the threat of deportation, detention, or forced family separation often makes traveling for abortion care impossible." Fund Texas Choice's latest for @truthout.org. Read now: nnaf.org/Q

BREAKING: The Scottish Government has confirmed it opposes Labour's plans to introduce compulsory Digital ID

In his first show after being reinstated following his suspension, Jimmy Kimmel greeted the audience with the same opener used by Jack Paar in 1960 when he returned to his show after being censored by his network.

If you thought that the UK Government had actually begun to think coherently about constitutional identity and the sensitivity around national identity in Northern Ireland, the "Brit Card" should disabuse you of this notion...

Justice for Magdalenes Research supports Industrial School survivors’ campaign; urges Government to provide proper health and social supports before it is too late jfmresearch.com/press-releas...

3) 🚨Whether the rectifications are accurate/adequate remains to be seen. It will take time to establish to what extent the issues we’ve been highlighting over the past 2 decades are resolved. This is slow, careful work. Accuracy & ethical considerations take priority over speed.

1) We founded JFM in 2003 when we learned about anomalies at the High Park graves, exposed by Mary Raftery. 22 yrs later, the Srs of Our Lady of Charity (OLC) say they’ve rectified errors & omissions at their Glasnevin graves. A few initial observations: goodshepherdsisters.ie/news-events/...?

2:30pm Sunday, Sep 28th Mick Lally Theatre, Galway Architecture at the Edge Festival Rún Project - Panel Discussion Rún is Ireland’s first-ever survey charting the scale & condition of potential “sites of social conscience” across Ireland. www.eventbrite.com/e/run-irelan...

Delighted to be launching the Feminist Miscarriage Project! Please see our new website and we'll be updating on news and events soon: feministmiscarriageproject.org

Watching what our own @ucu.org.uk union is doing to @uniteucu.bsky.social workers is making me relive a lot of hurt from when QMUL did this to us (I wasn't quite aware of how much this was still live trauma but whew...) Absolutely unconscionable that *our own union* is causing this long-term harm.

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

QM has been quite the bellwether of things to come in HE - namely how management treat their staff - so this certainly unnerves me & is a colossal waste of money

🌍 The Guild is pleased to announce that the Early-Career Research Fellowships programme launched by ARUA is now open to African researchers affiliated with the #AfricaEuropeCoRE! 🧐 Click the link to find out what that means: www.the-guild.eu/news-and-blo...

Hi Bluesky! Have I mentioned my book UNBEARABLE: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy is out October 28? It tells a bigger story of reproduction in America through the experiences of five women, and it’s available for preorder now: bookshop.org/p/books/unbe...

The Obstetric Violence Reading Group has been busy! We’ve explored publications by leading scholars that challenge and enrich how we think about #ObstetricViolence. Read our reflections in our blog series on the Obstetric Violence Blog www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

BREAKING: An SNP bid to scrap the two-child benefit cap has passed the first stage in the House of Commons. The result was 89 Aye, 79 No - with the majority of Labour MPs abstaining. Anyone bloody surprised? Baillie Sarwar any comments? www.thenational.scot/news/2547220...

‘Everybody is London material’ Lots more of this to go round ❤️

Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People: A Call for Decolonial Praxis Against Complicity (March 2025) www.brismes.ac.uk/files/docume...

Great to see the Live Methods special section in issue form!

“We just want what is ours. We don’t want to beg.” Long excluded from labour protections and benefits owing to their caste and gender, female workers in India’s multimillion-dollar tobacco industry are demanding their rights. They talk to Madhuri Kamtam in our September magazine. buff.ly/rEZ9QY4

📢NEW Vacancy📢 Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social Specialising in quantitative sociology ⏰Deadline: 6 October Maternity cover MORE INFO: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a... APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

Tech companies are powerfully influencing our relationships with our kids, starting before they’re even born. I wrote a book about the surveillance, commodification and eugenic thinking embedded in everything from period trackers to baby monitors, and you can buy it now bookshop.org/p/books/seco...

Sending Second Life to all my friends who are/have been growing babies and raising them. My review of @amandahess.bsky.social’s brilliant first book, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨 We are recruiting five 5-year postdoctoral fellows to work with us. Each post will be attached to a specific case study on the project (Abortion Care, AI, Physician Associates and/or LGBTQ+ Health Activism). At:University of Edinburgh Starting: April 2026 Deadline: 2 October 2025

J for Justice, W for waste of resources. After a 2 year investigation, 5 activists have been found not guilty of enabling "the illegal presence in Poland" of migrants to whom they provided humanitarian aid. Prosecutors had been seeking prison sentences. notesfrompoland.com/2025/09/08/a...

Germany’s abortion law dates back to 1871, and despite reforms over the decades, it remains a criminal offence. Now, as the fight to remove §218 continues, patients and providers in Berlin are pushing for access that treats abortion as essential healthcare.

This week, we also have a generative workshop for fiction writers of all levels led by novelist Chantal James. Think together about writing in the role of someone who writes out of the community they come from. Supports the Sameer Project's medical campaign. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/sto...

#OtD 15 Sep 1845 5000 women cotton mill workers in and around Pittsburgh went on strike for a 10-hour day and an end to child labour. Although unsuccessful, it got national attention and led to a 10-hour law which unfortunately was not enforced stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8736...

A dose of Stuart Hall for what ails us.

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

Give Victor, not Charlie Kirk, a medal.

“There is no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign, and refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins ‘Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.’” Fucking wonderful piece.

Eurovision embodies a culture of unity, defiance & joy. To platform Israel, a state carrying out genocide in Gaza, killing 64,000+ people & silencing journalists on that stage, is obscene. The BBC must join Irish state broadcaster others in saying: no genocide in Eurovision.

The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.

‘Inspirational’ human rights lawyer Conor Gearty dies aged 67. President Michael D Higgins leads tributes for Longford-born law professor and author www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Hi #TUC2025 & @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social, enjoy congress! Can you reaffirm the movement's commitment to challenge disproportionate pay deductions for Action Short of Strike and upholding the democratically-voted-upon policies of a union? +have a word w our GS... uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

Brighton is the place to be for trade union conversations this week with #TUC2025! Hoping that while you're there, you could question the replication of employers' union-busting tactics by UCU's senior management against Unite members, @tuc.org.uk @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social? Cross-union solidarity

Paul Nowak, @tuc.org.uk General Secretary, stands with UCU members. In October we ballot over pay, agreements, and jobs. Vote YES. #WeAreTheUniversity #ucu

Important that it is not *only* about pay. The local disputes, where colleagues are organising against redundancies and worsening conditions (including: fire & rehire...) are part of this larger dispute. #UKHE

Really helpful post here about the upcoming ballot which you'll have seen an email about on Monday. #WeAreTheUniversity - vote yes to: ▶️protect jobs and prevent cuts ▶️defend the agreements that support our work ▶️demand a pay uplift.

Why is our trade union emulating the worst behaviour of our employers towards UCU staff? How many of our letters, motions, attempts to bring motions from lay members pressing for resolution have been ignored now? Solidarity with all @uniteucu.bsky.social #UnionStrong #ReclaimUCU

OTD in 2021, the Taliban declared control over Afghanistan after the fall of the Panjshir valley. From the HW archive, Elisabeth Leake (@emleake.bsky.social) on the past and future of Afghan nationhood and citizenship, forged by intellectuals, combatants and refugees.

“This attempt at silencing Palestinian voices is the latest in a relentless, decades-long campaign by Israel and its allies to erase the Palestinian people and systematically deny their collective right to self-determination and return’ Al-Haq, PCHR & Al-Mezan statement www.alhaq.org/advocacy/266...

The last update (during the night) is that the students and citizens held captive inside the Rectorate have been allowed to exit. The police are still in. One of the Schools (separate building, Maths & Sciences) has remained police-free as the Dean explicitly told the police they are not invited in.

In my classes, I often talk to students how metaphors used for non-humans are infused with social/political/cultural concepts - viz. 'worker' bees and 'queen' mothers. Here are ants reminding us that connecting reproductive capacities&categorical difference ('species') is a very human invention 😊👇

Over a dozen healthcare workers face arrest under the Terrorism Act for defying the Palestine Action ban. Their duty to protect life compelled them to oppose genocide and the draconian proscription of a group which disrupted the Israeli weapons industry.

UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties” Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh! policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...

Delighted that @jdmcinally.bsky.social and I are taking our event with the wonderful François d’Adesky to Edinburgh on 9 September as part of @royalsoced.bsky.social’s ‘Curious’ festival. Tickets are free. @sta-modlangs.bsky.social rse.org.uk/event/lost-m...

BREAKING: More than a thousand people are risking 'terror' arrests in Parliament Square as resistance grows against complicity in genocide and the Palestine Action ban. It is clear from this turnout that the public will not be intimidated.

"Zack Polanski said it was 'rank hypocrisy' for Nigel Farage to call for Angela Rayner's resignation and not to do so himself." inews.co.uk/news/green-p...