Die Erde brennt buchstäblich, und wir haben nichts Besseres zu tun als über die Elenden zu diskutieren, die versuchen, auch ein besseres Leben zu finden in einer Welt, die wir verbrennen. Wir sind wie Ertrinkende, die alle Werte aufgeben, um ein wenig später zu ertrinken, statt alle zu retten

Fellow foreigners in the UK, can anyone recommend a good immigration lawyer (for a friend)?

I’ve been putting together overviews for Humanities PhD students and graduates about fellowships available in the UK and Europe that students with UK PhDs are eligible for. It’s work in progress but drop me a line with your email address and I’ll send them over next week.

Beyond this there’s a decent comparison here with stretched universities that also can’t find any more savings

New book: "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" @rutgersupress.bsky.social by our colleague Jennifer Boum Make (Georgetown) www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/decolonial-c... #caribbeanstudies #environment #ecology #caribbean - Congratulations, Jennifer!

The new @sfps.bsky.social Bulletin is out, featuring Don Joseph, 'Assembling an Archive of Resistance in Péyi An Nou: Accommodation, Hospitality and the BUMIDOM' and an array of book reviews by Jennifer Boum Make, Paul F. Bandia, Miriam Gordon,and Estrella Sendra sfps.org.uk/bulletin-of-...

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs! Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🗓 Deadline: 25 August 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil... 🔹 Associate Professor 🗓 Deadline: 8 September 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

Overly simplistic on the history of migration to Brussels, nevertheless interesting on the city's shifting multilingualism - and its relationship to monolingual Flemish nationalism thhttps://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-borders-french-language-flanders-wallonia-vub-culture-diversity-migration/

Yet another institution in our immediate neighbourhood threatening their Modern Languages programmes. Please sign and share: chng.it/6XsK48XmkL

Today is the first day a student ever called me “funny” in their feedback so I can retire happily now that I’ve been awarded the Most Funny German Award 🥇

Farid Guendoul (28) was chased by 11 teenagers through Guben in East Germany in 1999. He hurled himself through a glass door and cut an artery. No one helped him and he died bleeding out in the doorway. Farid was from Algeria+had sought asylum to escape the civil war that killed my own grandparents.

OTD in 1993, 4 men set fire to the home of a family of Turkish origin in Solingen, Germany. Gürsün İnce, 27, jumped out of a window and died. Her 4-year-old daughter, whom she had held in her arms, survived. Hatice Genç (18), Gülistan Öztürk (12), Hülya Genç (9) and Saime Genç (4) died in the flames

Another day, another institution putting colleagues at risk of compulsory redundancies. Please sign and share 🙏🏽 chng.it/QJn2bvwWSro

I'm the guest on the next episode of @riskpodcast.bsky.social - out tomorrow theinternationalriskpodcast.com

I’m putting together funding resources and an overview of essay prizes etc for PhDs and postdocs in my department and am so impressed with the work @slaslatam.bsky.social does. Remit of funding, etc. all ahead of the curve! We can all learn from you 🌞

This is bleak reading

Downside of being called “Sarah” is not that it was a popular name in the 80s everywhere but that it’s really easy to type “best wishes, Satan” instead 😬

Some immensely helpful feedback I recently got for a funding application that you might useful (also for reading other people’s stuff): - What kinds of questions and challenges inspire your research? - How do you situate yourself as a [insert field/approach] researcher to address these questions?

But tell us again how the humanities not not important. Every single authoritarian goes after the libraries, the archives, the writers, and the thinkers.

Worse than 2022 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

To mark VE day, I am posting an old folder of anti-fascist posters from the Spanish Civil War. I originally started collecting these to try and choose an image for my book cover, and kept going because they're objectively awesome. Lost many in the last laptop migration, but the best remain...

📸 From Portugal to Pakistan, a new global index ranking journalists' safety has been launched, led by UoL academic Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova. The index will help protect journalists' lives and press freedom around the world news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/08/u... @commmedia.bsky.social #AcademicSky

The 2025 @sfps.bsky.social annual postgraduate study day at Cambridge provides an opportunity to learn more about research emerging at the intersection of Francophone postcolonial studies and the environmental humanities, v reduced fees for PG attendants: sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-...

"We send the EU £350 million a week..."

Re that response of the German Foreign Office to Rubio: there’s a deep-seated German cultural superiority complex towards the US that even now, where the AfD is second largest party+polling strongest, and where democratic institutions and processes are eroding at a horrible speed, is still palpable

Can anyone recommend good write ups of what is happening in Burkina Faso?

Unbelievably shameful behaviour from the senior management of my almer mater: Edinburgh Uni owns basically half of the second most expensive city in the UK, plus makes an annual fortune by renting out land and property to the Fringe festival.

"Management have refused to give a number for job losses, but based on these figures, the number at risk is likely well over a thousand. A 12% cut would mean about 1 in 8 staff losing their jobs." www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/c48z2b8...

oh this postdoc position at uva sounds great: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3507...

Five mins on a local train in West Germany and an argument breaks out between two women (for context, both white Germans) and one calls the other “communist vermin” (“Kommunistenpack”) and that’s definitely one I’ve never heard before here.

Two permanent lectureships going in UCC History Department, one in International Economic History post-WWI and one in Irish Seventeenth Century History. You'd get to work with wonderful colleagues there. Share widely.

Similar to the reporting on Western NC not getting aid this would’ve been a national scandal for weeks on end if it were happening under the other party. www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/w...

Thanks so much 🥹! Please do get in touch if you want to be added (or removed!) glad to be working in this supportive field!

Looking through old clothes I’ve still got at my mum’s and turns out I was an alright teen 😂

RIP V.Y. Mudimbe. A true intellectual giant has left us today.

Low down on the list in a world on fire, but nothing, and I repeat ✨ nothing ✨ is causing me to cringe as badly as pseudo-intellectual liberal discourse on this app in German. As far as first languages go, German must be the cringiest and that’s a scientific hill I’m willing to die on.

No one sighs louder than my unemployed, debt-free dog, who sleeps most of the day.

This was always my biggest fear. A lot of Africans think that DJT not knowing or caring anything about Africa means he will leave us alone. But what it means is that he will reduce us to sources of raw materials, targets for thinly veiled Islamophobic securitisation, and markets for weapons.

Adham is so close to his goal! Help him out if you can

Because we all need some good news.

We've been completely blown away by the interest in our upcoming #climate and #migrant #justice workshop - three quarters of available tickets have already gone! Get yours before they run out ❤️

This disturbing article abt Musk's eugenicism never once addresses his false claim of a global population decline-or that he wants only more WHITE kids. Instead it ventriloquises w/o Q his nonsense: "Musk has warned that 'civilization is going to crumble' if people don’t start having more children,"

I never thought I'd say this but thank god for Harvard using their exorbitant, unjustified wealth to offer a flicker of sanity.

MAGA demands for viewpoint diversity at Harvard are what the Nazis attempted: Every faculty and student screened for ideological acceptability, every unit (math, chemistry, English, sociology) to be "individually viewpoint diverse" among teachers and students. It's a fascist wet dream.

Solidarity with the Birmingham bin workers! Yet again it’s working-class labour action that is showing the white-collar unions how it’s done 🫡💪🏽

Calling all Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers - Join us for IHR@Liverpool on 9 June 2025. A one-day workshop on the subject of Difficult Histories. Travel bursaries available. www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...

Are there any classics of decolonial/anticolonial thought that extend their argument beyond the human (i.e. beyond Fanon's la décolonisation est véritablement création d'homme nouveau)?

Has anyone been to the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Belgium recently and could tell me whether that small room near the entrance that used to house “problematic objects” is open again or gone for good?

We’re (the Antifascist Archives project team at Liverpool) are struggling to decipher this name, anyone able to help us? From the League of Nations’ archive of communications relating to the Spanish Civil War.