On young people using ChatGPT because their friends are "too busy" and whether you're better off having a baby with your partner or your best friend. Out now at www.patreon.com/posts/145683... or find us on your platform of choice

A really stellar conversation. Highly recommended listening!

If you haven't heard the letter with the Big Linklater Energy yet then make sure you find it in your podcast feed! or find us at patreon.com/heartreacts yknow 😉❤️

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

You two, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and @vivaharehills.bsky.social: This podcast, which I discovered like last week, has been such a companion to me. And I keep recommending it. Thank you for this gift of vulnerability and wisdom. Tis the perfect season to have you in my ears.💕🙏🏻

My latest article. Please consider circulating. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Absolute nightmare. For professors, but also for students, who will be deprived of life-altering truths.

Upload your grandparents so you can rent them forever <3

Pink Tide governments inspired the left worldwide. Now strongmen, crypto scammers & sharp-toothed ultra-rightists are taking their place. What happened? Tony Wood & Camila Vergara joined me on @lrb.co.uk ON POLITICS to talk about the long ebb of the marea rosa. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

This from a university that is in a comparatively *good* financial position

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🗓️ 2-3 February 2026 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating) Deadline: 14th November Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

All new Heart Reacts on your podcast feed of choice! This week @sarahljaffe.bsky.social talk about feeling simultaneously over- and under-committed, whether having boyfriends is embarrassing now, and why people are talking "chalant"

What is called splendour of the throne is no other than the corruption of the state, wrote Tom Paine in 1791. “It is made up of a band of parasites, living in luxurious indolence, out of public taxes.” Those two lines are worth more than anything put to paper by a republican in Britain for 70 years.

My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!

Episode 30! And we're getting/saying Down With Ambiguity (geddit?) Also available wherever you get podcasts www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

🚨We're hiring! 🚨 👉Open Position: Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #AI 🗓️ Application deadline: 3 November 2025 Apply via: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #PartOfLSE #LSEPhilosophy #Jobs

Huge story with some absolutely shocking details. Big credit to @simonchilds.bsky.social and the workers who spoke to @novaramedia.com for this novaramedia.com/2025/10/15/u...

"We must work step by step, in an organizational way, toward direct control of universities. If we do, we’ll be of real use to our knowledge allies [...] in building the self-governing knowledge systems we need to block authoritarian implosion and get a future we want." By Christopher Newfield.

#Postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin in digital humanities & history/philosophy/sociology of science #philsci #STS. ERC project investigates digital communication within the ATLAS collaboration at CERN Deadline: October 13, 2025 www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti... #PhilJobs

When I first heard Albania now has an AI minister I had just assumed they now had a minister for AI. Stupid me.

This is guaranteed to be great!

MAGA als politreligiöse Bewegung brauchte von Anfang an einen geeigneten Märtyrer, um die eigene Grausamkeit zu rechtfertigen. Bisher hatte man Ikonenbilder des angeschossenen Trump und liturgische Accessoires wie das Pflaster an seinem Ohr. Jetzt beginnt das Kriegsgeheul.

[Supercilious platitude no one asked for or needed because they are, in fact, adults about why, even if we might disagree with someone, there is no excuse for [anything that could be construed as [adjective/verb] or minimising [abstract noun]] Sorry but someone had to say it, and it had to be me.

🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making. When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵 english.elpais.com/internationa...

In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...

1954 Shawmut Bank (Boston) ad: “What will YOU do with Cybernetics?” (H/t Sean Manion!) — makes some familiar promises re: “substituting the machine for the many functions of the human mind,” leading to “more production, more jobs, more income and far, far more leisure.”

This episode of 301 (by @thejaymo.net) sums up the experience of being a British person on Bluesky. Kinda sad that after a fortnight or so of it seeming like a decent space, it actually just sucks. Sorry etc but I don't think it's the platform's fault either. permanentlymoved.online/2514-more-di...

Announcing the new journal: "Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital" We've launched a new Historical Materialism project with a CfP for the first issue. Abstracts due 31st of October Full details and the new website here: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/jo...

The rhetoric of ‘greatness’ is hollow in so many ways, but no more so than in the deliberate destruction of research and artistic creativity. It’s the abolition of the future.

A vital article demonstrating the realities of trying to report the news under threat of prosecution. Enormous kudos to @novaramedia.com for trying to seek these clarifications on behalf of all journalists reporting on civil liberties and protest novaramedia.com/2025/07/22/t...

"Ali says since being elected as a councillor he has campaigned in inner city areas across the country where people are fed up with the two-party system. The response, he argues, should be to promote self-empowerment within communities..." Me for @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/07/23/t...

A vital article demonstrating the realities of trying to report the news under threat of prosecution. Enormous kudos to @novaramedia.com for trying to seek these clarifications on behalf of all journalists reporting on civil liberties and protest novaramedia.com/2025/07/22/t...

This week on Heart Reacts, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I answer questions on AI, working in tech, and care work. find at patreon.com/heartreacts or wherever you get your podcasts!

this week's Heart Reacts (up shortly!) is one for the labor nerds: @vivaharehills.bsky.social goes in on so-called AI and the labor process and I dig into the problems of organizing home health care workers and Medicaid. www.patreon.com/c/HeartReacts

Grok explicitly says Elon tweaked it to allow it to “call out patterns in Ashkenazi surnames”

On this Day of Primes, remember our complicity in labor inequality. And maybe read @vivaharehills.bsky.social's book "Cyberboss". Plus, listen to me and @ronbronson.com on @futureperfectbook.club discussing that very book and some of its implications. futureperfectbook.club/podcast/cybe...

The only pertinent question is why Lisa Nandy has not been sacked yet for continuing to endeavour to cover up an ongoing genocide and from contriving to aid and abet in its execution www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

We welcome proposals for the @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships in the following areas: 🟢 Literature and Digital Humanities 🟢 DH-based research engaging with GLAM 🟢 Creativity Apply by 27 July to be considered for internal selection: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...

There are people running Labour who think it's actually a good thing - a glowing vindication of their choices - that tens of thousands of people at Glastonbury will enthusiastically shout "Fuck Keir Starmer!" To them, this is success, while crowds chanting "Oh Jeremy Corbyn" was only ever despair.

New article in Social Media + Society: A Post-Work Approach to Influencer Labor: The Paradox of Sustainability Influencers. In which I argue that the influencer industry is not environmentally sustainable and we need a more radical approach to studying influencer labour.

All-new Heart Reacts in which @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I talk "social deskilling" and scummy landlords. Listen on Patreon, Spotify or wherever you podcast. Just search "Heart Reacts" (and if you've never listened before, this is a good place to start!)

NO REDUNDANCIES at the University of Dundee. Fantastic news in our fight to save jobs, as interim Principal Prof Nigel Seaton confirms that there will be no redundancies. A massive victory for everyone who has supported us. Looking forward to receiving the removal of Section 188 in writing.

The continued violence of the UK police force: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thanks to Cecilia Ghidotti and @vivaharehills.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion of the politics of quitting. Watch it back on CDI-TV 👇 www.youtube.com/live/GS8V7PT...

Already seems kind of quaint that the rentier monopolists who did things like scanning every book in the world without anyone's permission, and tore through privacy norms and regulations with abandon, were once assumed to be 'liberals', purely because they occasionally said "sorry" afterwards.

"If killing 23 civilians at an aid distribution site is not terrorism, how can we possibly be expected to accept that spray-painting a plane is?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'The report says a “considerable” number of people it spoke to commented about the way in which dissent, or challenge was routinely”‘shut down”, particularly by the principal who “did not welcome difficult conversations”.' ...........

Job alert! We're looking for a part-time teaching fellow to deliver the module ‘Science Communication and Global Justice’ to students on our MSc Science Communication. Details here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... The deadline is 7th July. Do get in touch if you have questions and please share!

Humans and dogs, working together. You love to see it.

"Many of the students facing discipline and marginalization are themselves Jewish. They don’t need protection from their own political views – they need protection from institutions that would force them to choose between their Jewish identity and their political conscience."