On this day in 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin forcefully pinned George Floyd to the ground and held his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes until he died.

What a tune of my childhood. I also named my first dog after this song ❤️

I think the real two cultures divide is between fields where you can obtain a right or wrong answer and fields where you can only hope to offer a more persuasive answer.

Whalers buried in the Norwegian Arctic in the 1600s and 1700s are thawing out of the permafrost, underscoring the threat of climate change to archaeological sites around the world.

Here’s a recent report written by Indigenous and decolonial researchers and activists that offers a historically and empirically substantiated analysis of the socio-political position of Indigenous populations in Russia-colonised territories It’s open access: assets.zyrosite.com/kvOYI6NwLEJ3...

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Funding for provenance research in colonial contexts in public museums+collections, including libraries+archives, in Germany. Applications for long-term projects can be submitted on 1 Oct and 1 Apr; rolling deadline for extensions and short-term projects. kulturgutverluste.de/en/contexts/...

“Russian propaganda on Bluesky first became notable during Germany’s elections last year, when the Kremlin sought to bolster Germany’s far right, led by the Alternative for Germany party, known as AfD.” #giftlink #disinformation #propaganda

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Well worth reading the whole thread

‘The Senate bill…concerns six sets of remains that were exhumed for anthropological purposes in the late 19th century and have remained in public collections ever since.’ Performers often died abroad, only to be collected and experimented upon. This is long overdue for all denied eternal rest.

This artwork is titled "Don't Turn Around — They're Still Here" by Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya. The painting is an acrylic on canvas work completed in 2025.

Who needs to understand the rest of the world?

I'm losing 100% of my pay this month, and for the foreseeable future, because of management's punitive response to the marking and assessment boycott launched by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social to try and stop compulsory redundancies. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1448...

The erasure of social from postwar housing

I have a lot of thoughts about this, but @eicathomefinn.bsky.social has put together a much more eloquent thread on this, well worth a read 👇🏽

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Three chicks in the Red-tailed Hawk nest on Central Park South near Seventh Avenue.

The dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is associated with measurable increases in Africa, especially in areas most dependent on the agency’s support.

Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy

Save Black Studies at Birmingham City University c.org/WHPJzGKR

🧳 We're very pleased to announce the launch of some brand new scholarships to support transformative year abroad opportunities for language, culture and film students from under-represented backgrounds. All the details here ⤵️

Colleagues: The Festival of Social Sciences is a great opportunity to share your work with the public and introduce a wider audience to you and your ideas. Plus there's funding available for your ideas 💡👇

'Singing, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, according to the latest study to link taking an active interest in art and culture with improved health.' Study after study after study suggests funding the arts funds good health, not that policy reflects it. 1/2

“it is hard to square Liverpool’s self-referential and pre-supposed Leftism with some of the results from this week’s local elections in neighbouring boroughs within Liverpool City Region (the city of Liverpool proper doesn’t go to the polls until next May)” unherd.com/2026/05/cosm...

📰 University academics Drs Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova and @richardstupart.com, both from @commmedia.bsky.social, attended the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day in Lusaka, Zambia recently to share their research into journalist safety and press freedom. Read about their work here ➡️

This amazing image really captures the Tennessee fight and it's all over the internet. I am reposting it to encourage people to credit photographer Nicole Hester and the Tennessean.

Interrupting doomscrolling with this little guy:

Deadline is tomorrow! Don’t forget to submit your article for the 2026 @sfps.bsky.social essay prize! 🏆

TWO TEMPORARY JOBS IN FRENCH (different deadlines) @livunihss.bsky.social: - Part-time University Teacher in French (Mat cover, 1 Sept 26-30 Jan 27) Deadline: 25-May-26 23:30 - Lecturer (US: VAP) in French Film Studies (1 Sept26-31 Aug27) Deadline: 02-Jun-26 23:30 my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...

JOBS: Lecturer (US: Assistant Prof) at @livunihss.bsky.social w/ expertise relevant to criminology and/or critical social policy, ideally working on issues of ‘race’ and ethnicity, social exclusion, and/or quantitative research methods. Deadline 26 May 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ047/l...

We are offering two great initiatives for humanities and social sciences researchers interested in applying to Horizon Europe. On 1st June we are holding an ERC Reading Day where you can read previously successful ERC grant proposals from a selection of 50 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/projects/eur...

if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today

In April 1955, 29 Asian and African states met in Bandung - as rivals, as allies, and as everything in between. In my latest article, I explore how backroom diplomacy and ingenious publicity created a new kind of global politics. engelsbergideas.com/essays/bandu...

Others have phrased this more eloquently,but keep thinking about the long-term impact of accelerated conspiratorial thinking as a response to events/actions of the Trump administration and others. It's not the result of a process anymore,it's the knee-jerk response, just look at any comment section.

Bluesky now has blue ticks as well? lol

Reminder: deadline coming up for the 2026 SFPS Essay Prize on Friday, 8 May 2026, 5pm UK time!

“Scouse, not English” “City of Sanctuary” Meanwhile, this is also Liverpool @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social

MLO | Most Read 'Italo Pizzi’s Shahnameh: Oriental Studies, Comparison, and Translation at the Origins of the Italian Nation' by @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social ➡️ Read it freely #OA: bit.ly/MLO-Hartley @hpartzsch.bsky.social @drmirnasolic.bsky.social @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social

Wonderful to be able to host @britishacademy.bsky.social Global Professor Tetyana Antsupova of @biicl.bsky.social for the first Languages x Law research seminar at @livunihss.bsky.social

Reminder: this is happening next week! Come join us (in person or virtually) to listen to three excellent early-career scholars present their new work!

My book is on sale! It is a beautiful thing to hold in your hands. boydellandbrewer.com/book/transna...

Reminder: Two 4.5-year @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded postdoc positions at @livunihss.bsky.social Deadline 7 May 2026

Hybrid seminar: 'Francophone Landscapes' @livunihss.bsky.social 29 April 2026 | 3-4.30pm UK time | directions and MS Teams link upon registration here: www.ticketsource.com/lcf-departme...

I don’t care, *this* is the most pope in DZ picture, sorry.

Germanophones, can you recommend any YouTube resources, music, etc. for level B1/B2 German level?

Whatever this might bring but Hungary reminded us tonight that they do not last.

Hey @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social when are you going to do something about them?

@livunipol.bsky.social invite applications for Bowes Chair PhD Studentship in Politics in any aspect of democratisation, nationalism, and ethnicity studies (broadly understood) relating to Central and Eastern Europe or comparative studies with other regions. www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la...