Today is #DemocracyDay. Democracy thrives on people’s voices, choices & participation — but faces disinformation, shrinking civic space & inequalities. “From Voice to Action” is a call to protect rights, build trust & reimagine democracy that works for all. #VoiceToAction #ReformInitiatives

The brilliant @sosowemimo.bsky.social joined me & @livunihss.bsky.social colleague Stephen Kenny yesterday to talk racism, colonialism and health @britsciassoc.bsky.social

Call for papers: 'On the body' conference 7 Nov, Uni of Dundee Race & racialisation in medicine and humanities. More info 👇🏾 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Independent scholar fellowships ‘The Independent Social Research Foundation wishes to support Independent Scholars to explore and present original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems’ isrf.org/competitions...

#tdih Stono Rebellion (1739), Association for the Study of African American Life and History @asalh-bhm.bsky.social founding (1915), Attica Prison Uprising (1971). Read about each event in 🧵 ⬇️and consider the connection between all three. Defend right to #TeachTruth #TeachOutsideTextbook

The global sumud flotilla, which is sailing to break Israels siege of Gaza, has been attacked while in Tunisian waters.

Yesterday the President (Michele Burman) and Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology brought the society into disrepute by refusing to allow a vote on collaboration with Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Statement by Criminologists for Palestine:

A necessary conversation today on gendered anti-Muslim racism in Liverpool region w/ @commonswec.parliament.uk Racism and misogyny are public health crises the UK must address

#LaborDay is a time to remind ourselves of the importance of solidarity — that progress comes when people recognize that we need each other and organize together. We offer free lessons on labor history #FreedomtoLearn ⬇️ Art by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/news/labor-h...

Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

Resolution from the International Association of Genocide Scholars - link to the full document below

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

New piece on Carbon Colonialism, net-zero nonsense, and how the UK Government's climate advisors (and many experts) shy away from speaking truth to power. We need a fundamental reboot of climate policy; - physics doesn't care about political sensibilities. theconversation.com/the-uks-year...

Duke’s AI Ethics Learning Toolkit to engage students in critical conversations about AI across disciplines lile.duke.edu/ai-ethics-le...

New book to inhale @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on globalisation, low cost labour & how capitalism makes & sustains global inequalities @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Racism harms and racial trauma is real. Guilaine Kinouani wants to show that it is possible to resist and to practice radical self-care while navigating white supremacy. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

Super excited to be sharing this call for abstracts for a new book I will be editing with Dr Katy Proctor ✨️ www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-bo...

Call from Palestinian Scholars to boycott the European Society of Criminology #EuroCrim2025 Link below

Every state defines its own rules for gaining and losing citizenship. This clear, visually rich report by @globalcit.bsky.social captures the diverse ways countries shape and control who belongs and who doesn’t. globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/global-state...

Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.

Glad to have made it for @d6culture.bsky.social launch tonight in Newcastle with incredible international artists working on decolonising heritage. Looking forward to tomorrow's conference! #decolonise #heritage

"Prevent missed chance to treat Southport killer, says review - BBC News " Researchers & activists saying this for years. Hyper focus on imagined harms of 'Islamism' = violence more broadly, esp the epidemic against women & girls, is not seen as priority. Scrap PREVENT share.google/fFFKp43sk4Ky...

Francesca Albanese's press conference is starting now! webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1a...

Via British Medical Association’s annual conference yday: "It is now BMA policy that condemning Israel is not antisemitic per se, that students and medics should be able to advocate for Palestine without harassment by universities and trusts, and condemns اsraeا for killing health workers" (cont:)

Can we talk about how children and young people especially will be unjustly criminalised by UK move to proscribe Palestine Action? Just for 'supporting' non violent protest? #childrights #righttoprotest #Prevent

My students would definitely fail using this methodology

@ucu.org.uk Congress opening speeches were amazing! @jogrady.bsky.social President Maxine Looby & Grenada Reparations Commission Chair Arley Gill. Taking Arley to Merseyside African Caribbean Centre to discuss their fight to stay open as an issue of reparative justice was an honour

OUT TODAY 🎧 we spoke with @jgo34 about the imperial boomerang, the creation of civil police forces and how they were modeled after colonial police, how racialization and criminalization are baked into the global capitalist system, fascism, and much more

"Academic and policy approaches that ignore #racism as the fundamental cause of ethnic inequalities in health, social, and economic outcomes will only partially address ethnic inequalities in the long-term." raceequalityfoundation.org.uk/blog/racism-...

Today marks Nakba Day (Palestinian Catastrophe) commemorating the destruction of Palestinian society & homeland in 1948 when Zionist militias expelled 750k Palestinians & captured 78% of historic Palestine. A glimpse into Palestine before the Nakba, in 100 photos. www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

In a lead letter to @thetimes.com, Professor Costas Milas has criticised the Government's proposal to introduce a levy of 6% on foreign students and stressed this is a very bad idea for UK universities ⬇️ www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

My latest interview is with Palestinian-American legal scholar and Rutgers University professor, Noura Erakat. 👉 youtu.be/JoG5ZP1B07E?...

It was a privilege to share a platform with Angela Haynes, Onyekachi Wambu and @drleona.bsky.social, and to have such a long discussion with the audience about statues, Fallism, and abolition in all its forms ✨🙏 further pics: 1/ the boxed-up plinth outside the museum

From the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention. #StopIsrael #EndTheGenocide #EndTheApartheid #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

Incredibly powerful workshop on racial trauma and what it means for research and practice by psychotherapist and co-founder of Anthony Walker Foundation Stephanie Walker @livunihss.bsky.social Collaboration with @liverpoolmuseums.bsky.social on Medical Mistrust in Black communities

@unesco.org Master Class Against Racism in Paris today with Rev Dr Canon Sharon Prentis Deputy Director @churchofengland.org Racial Justice Unit in advance of the Church gathering at @livuninews.bsky.social June 2025

Hello! We are Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation (ARFA for short). You can learn more about us at our website here: archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com Watch this space for blog posts, events, and commentary on the co-option and misuse of heritage in the near future.

Inspiring talk by @sosowemimo.bsky.social at @nhm-london.bsky.social & visit to @wellcomecollection.bsky.social today for research trip with this great team from @livunihss.bsky.social & @liverpoolmuseums.bsky.social Ideas a-plenty!!

“Crimes without Criminals”—talks about public memory, oppression and resistance at the site where the statue of Robert Milligan was removed in 2020 next Sat (10 May) me, @drleona.bsky.social and Angela Haynes at London Museum Docklands sign up here (free) >> www.londonmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/cri...

Thought provoking and engaging discussion with Dr Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social

An attack on a humanitarian group in international waters. Why is this not on every news channel round the world?

A great two days kicking off @musicfuturesuk.bsky.social and starting the @advancehe.bsky.social Diversifying Leadership programme for future HE leaders Busy and exciting times ahead!

Overnight the UK bombed Yemen In 2020 Starmer said blindly following the Americans was the wrong thing to do & he promised to pass legislation that said military action could be taken if you got the consent of the Commons. Did you get that consent Keir?

Reparations is not in most textbooks, yet it is vital to teach about the long history of the demands, roots of inequality today, and to explore reparative policies that recognize the magnitude of theft & harm. Lesson ⬇️for grade 7+ to #TeachOutsideTextbook www.zinnedproject.org/materials/st...

Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of NMAAHC reminds us: “One can tell a great deal about a country by what it chooses to remember [...] One can tell even more by what a nation chooses to forget: what memories are erased and what aspects of its past are feared.”

Mind-blowing column by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com (with a hell of a final paragraph)

Who better to lead a counterterrorism center than someone who has aided and supported the right-wing paramilitary movement?