Sharing this excerpt from my foreword to Alaa Abd el-Fattah's extraordinary collection of prison writings, "You Have Not Yet Been Defeated." Stay tuned... lithub.com/naomi-klein-...

A shred of good news in a grim time - Egypt has pardoned Alaa Abd El Fattah after more than a decade of intermittent arbitrary and isolating detention. Hoping that this is permanent freedom for Alaa.

Today, this weekend, this month, this year, this timeline.

It has been a week of awful news for various people. Here are some links that might be helpful in the UK. The Samaritans are available any time with various forms of contact. Call 116123, chat online, or you can write an email and letter. More information here. www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-h...

Det här är fascinerande och på många sätt talande för hur högerns politiska världsbild formas. Premissen för de politiska förslag man ställer sig bakom är att man saknar kunskap om den verklighet som förslagen handlar om.

Sverige kommer alltså att missa alla klimatmål, på grund av regeringens politik. Vi missar EU-målen. Vi missar de nationella målen. Med rejäl marginal. I decennier var vi en förebild, som drev på utvecklingen mot ett hållbart samhälle. På bara tre år har allt slagits sönder omni.se/regeringen-m...

Have a good weekend

As Reporters Without Borders, which co-ordinated the unprecedented international campaign, explains: “This isn’t just a war against Gaza, it’s a war against journalism … Without them, who will alert us to the famine? Who will expose war crimes? Who will show us the genocides?”

Today, my amazing students and I played “guess George Clooney’s age” and I won.

Really sad news. Jonathan was a mensch and Bookseller Crow is a joy.

These are incredibly useful tips for all teachers and professors starting a new academic year...

‘Given the current rate at which tech companies are spending money without much return — a long-term bet that AI will all but make human labor obsolete — … revenue would have to increase ten-fold just to break even. Anything's possible, of course, but it doesn't seem like a hot bet.’

Du har pengar i sjunde AP-fonden om du inte aktivt valt något annat för din premiepension. För att kolla, logga in på minpension.se och klicka på Intjänat > Allmän pension > Premiepension. Scrolla ner till listan Fondnamn.

Att tunga Sverigedemokrater girigt kalasar med den fängelsedömda Allra-grundaren är politiskt logiskt. Triadäktenskapet mellan sossehat, främlingsfientlighet och pensionsfondskapitalism styr Sverige www.dn.se/kultur/johan...

Höstens första Historieverkstad Malmö handlar om minnen, historia och nutid med fokus på Bosnien - 30 år sedan Srebrenica, och 30 år sedan kriget tog slut. Hur minns vi dessa händelser och hur närmar vi oss sår i historien? @kenanhabul.bsky.social och Livia Malmborg Nygaard deltar.

“Cora” shares a pic of the raisin process in CAs San Joaquin Valley. Workers spread grapes on sheets of paper to be dried into raisins, earning 34 cents for each sheet. Dirty and poorly paid, the 100° temps made it unbearable and she was sent home by noon. #WeFeedYou

Den 18/9 drar Historieverkstad Malmö igång igen - den här gången med hjälp av @kenanhabul.bsky.social och Livia Malmborg Nygaard. Vi uppmärksammar att det är 30 år sedan folkmordet och freden i Bosnien, och frågar oss hur kan vi närma oss svåra händelser, historier och erfarenheter i då- och nutid.

”Offentlig sektor får inte hamna efter” Varför inte det? Vore det inte bra att låta privat sektor bugga loss i den här jävla röran och sedan efter det plocka det som funkar till offentlig sektor utan att läcka personuppgifter till utländska miljardär-techbros?

Oh, this is GREAT.

Kolla vilket fantastiskt program som planeringsgruppen har satt ihop! Kom om du kan! Plats: Gustav Adolfs torg, Malmö Tid: 22 - 23 augusti

I want to learn things; I want to read; I want to write; I love radio. I became a journalist, then a historian, and a podcast producer to claw some of that radio back in. My mission for the academic year is to be more creative. Will I manage amid all the teaching and admin? Hm.

'In fairness to GPT5, in my career I have indeed encountered PhDs with this level of commitment to their particular blueberry.' kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

"Teenagers who formerly worked for Inside Success said they were not paid or were paid late for their 'degrading' work in which they felt they were encouraged to portray themselves as potential future victims of knife crime."

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

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Due to a glitch with the application platform the deadline for Europe regional editor at The International Journal of the History of Sport has been extended by one week to August 13 #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️ @ijhs.bsky.social

“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly, yet it is not; it is this world, and what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras.”

If government wants to hear about “efficiency”: as all of us have to buy out time to do any research, since unis overload other work & often don’t even notionally cover research, we’re ALL made to apply to those things. So we’re all spending weeks writing apps rather than doing actual research.

Yep yep yep: not only do we not need to credulously adopt AI in our teaching, assessment and research, we also do not in fact need to take it upon ourselves to cheerlead for this crap.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Same, but make it the John Lewis foodhall.

Mycket stark text av Tanvir Mansur, om svälten som ärvs ned i generationer. Israels brott begås idag - och i framtiden: www.etc.se/ledare/jag-k...

Unhappy mothers: Women, motherhood, and social change in postwar Britain is out in the world and it's open access! Here's a wee sample of the conclusion (you can read more here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/) which gives, I think, a sense of the themes and rhythms of the book.

”My goal as a parent is not to optimize childhood but to raise kids who feel some control over their own lives, can make their own choices, appreciate balance, and like to like things.”

“I did sometimes wonder if it might have been more straightforward for the students to, you know, actually read the sources and write the essays themselves.”

This is such a good piece. Also: looking at the medical advice it’s tied to, it repeats bullshit advice about both alcohol and caffeine in pregnancy and the entire tone is so… hectoring. One of the big problems about nutritional advice in pregnancy is being talked to like a recalcitrant child.

I don’t know how any other Swedish-English families are feeling right now, but we are _tense_. We were hoping we’d meet in the final. We’re not prepared for this.

WE ARE HIRING @edgehist.bsky.social!!! For a PERMANENT American historian (broadly defined). Quite a tight turnaround (institutional processes) but no internal candidate/nefarious intent. GORGEOUS campus, lovely team, amazing students. APPLY! #skystorians 🗃️ jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Excellent reading for people in Sweden keen to catch the phonics wave 15 years after the UK rolled it out in primary schools across the country.

Årsdagen av Srebrenica I Bosnien lämnas ofta lite kaffe, en fildžan (kopp) kvar i džezva (kanna). Man vet aldrig när grannen kan dyka upp. Konstinstallationen Što te nema (Varför är du inte här, Aida Šehović) skapar en minnesplats för de avrättade i Srebrenica. Tusentals icke-uppdruckna fildžani.

My department at Lund University recruits 3 Associate Senior Lecturers (BUL) Gender studies: lnkd.in/dPzNNC7G; Social anthropology: lnkd.in/deXFaPXf; Sociology: lnkd.in/dK5BnZxz. Positions correspond to tenure-track (50/50 research/teaching) w/h permanent employment after 4 yrs. Apply by 31 August!

Lovely historians, please do share this opportunity with MA students interested in contemporary British history :) @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @conteurohistory.bsky.social

Come join the @ijhs.bsky.social Editorial team! IJHS is looking for a new Europe regional editor as the current one will soon become the Journal’s Managing Editor (so if you have any Q’s about the role just ask!) 🗃️ #sporthistory #skystorians think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is [email protected]

Känner igen det här från Storbritannien - där mitt barn skulle lära sig ’British values’ på förskolan (t.ex. demokrati! Att respektera andra!) som tvååring. De är bara typiskt brittiska värderingar om man aldrig träffat människor som inte är britter, och de delas uppenbarligen inte av alla britter.

📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025. 🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections. 🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h... #WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage

History: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Early Education, Education, Education: Childcare in the Policy and Imagination of New Labour’s England, 1994-2003 Swansea University - History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR740/h...

PhD Studentship: Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project- Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth - Department of History www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU289/p... #skystorians 🗃️