New Writing New Media bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/05/17/n...

Jayro Bustamante estrena “Cordillera de Fuego” en Guatemala y elige Santiago Atitlán para proyectarla por primera vez en el país www.prensalibre.com/vida/escenar...

Hoy es un buen día para Guatemala. El país tiene un nuevo fiscal y estamos estrenando Cordillera de Fuego en Santiago Atitlán

I am so struggling with the idea that a vice-chancellor believes that ruining people's lives and careers is exciting www.timeshighereducation.com/news/notting...

Amig@s si están en Santiago Atitlán mañana, estamos estrenando nuestra película Cordillera de Fuego en Chukmuk. Entrada libre

Wake up! The House of Commons Education Committee says fifty - yes fifty - Higher Education Institutions are at risk of insolvency within the next three years. Wake up! committees.parliament.uk/work/9012/hi...

Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.

Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM

It would also be helpful if the political elites would stop attacking media studies courses. We need students able to understand and analyse media more than ever

Ideas for episode titles for a new six-part drama series about the modern university: 1. The ‘business case’ 2. ‘No decision has been made’ 3. The 'listening exercise' 4. The counter-proposal 5. ‘We’re not doing this lightly’ 6. Your email account will be deleted at midnight.

One of our participants in our Creole Connections project, Mr Rodney Salomon from Bluefields, has sadly passed away fb.watch/G_ZsYWkF2X/

OMG the Greens have won Edinburgh Central!!!

The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

Nicaragua entre los 12 países con la peor libertad de prensa en el mundo y es el más represivo de América www.divergentes.com/nicaragua-pe...

If ChatGPT was a tool, drug or food item that was leading to untimely, premature or sudden deaths it would be immediately withdrawn from the market.

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

UN sources believe that Nicaraguan Indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera who was disappeared by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship in September 2023 and hasn't been seen since might have died in prison. confidencial.digital/nacion/exper...

My academic book, ‘JK Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic,’ is out September 2026. It is my analysis of the moral panic from Edinburgh, the ‘city of JK Rowling,’ where I study and work at JKR’s former university as it became a hub for anti-trans organizing … ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

These are extraordinary findings for the High Court to make. Hard to see how the so-called Office for Students can survive in its current form.

This is such good news

Nicaragua: from dream to nightmare Interview with ex-prisoner Irving Larios Sánchez lab.org.uk/nicaragua-fr...

Former Nicaraguan political prisoner detained by ICE 100noticias.tv/migracion/14...

Nicaragua: A Revolution Betrayed bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/04/27/n...

We are hiring an Assistsnt Professor of Human Geography with a focus on Health. I’m happy to answer any questions. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

More bad news for democracy in Guatemala www.reuters.com/world/americ...

8 years ago today, Orteguista thugs murdered one of our research participants, the Bluefields journalist Ángel Gahona, while he was reporting on the protests against the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship #NiPerdonNiOlvido

The tragic history of the illegal adoptions of Guatemalan children, the sooner Consuelo Porras is gone the better plazapublica.com.gt/justicia/rep...

Disgusting, heartbreaking, wrong. HE leaders are callous vandals, we can't go on like this

To commemorate the 8th anniversary of the 2018 popular rebellion in Nicaragua, we're screening Operación Guardabarranco n Edinburgh and Glasgow. We're joined by former political prisoner, Irving Larios, who will talk about life in exile and the struggle for democracy cinemaattic.com/event/guarda...

No Need for Gender: A Brief Meditation on Nonbinary Life by Marquis Bey socialtextjournal.org/no-need-for-...

To commemorate the 8th anniversary of the 2018 popular rebellion in Nicaragua, we're screening Operación Guardabarranco n Edinburgh and Glasgow. We're joined by former political prisoner, Irving Larios, who will talk about life in exile and the struggle for democracy cinemaattic.com/event/guarda...

Management consultants are ruining UK universities ft.trib.al/0LelZP9 | opinion

The Pitt ICE episode is 🔥🔥🔥

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

The countries in which we do research should be decided by researchers and not by UKRI www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

'Staff at the University of Edinburgh have demanded an end to the institution’s partnership with technology giant OpenAI, calling it “unsafe” and “insecure”. 1/2

Our university travel management service was not very good, so it has been replaced by the previous university travel management that also wasn’t very good and had to be replaced by the one it is now replacing.

The Nicaraguan dictatorship has released Indigenous political prisoner Nancy Henríquez after 30 months of incarceration confidencial.digital/politica/dic...

University notice boards were once a wonderful eclectic mix of student/staff notices and posters- events, groups, teams, rooms for rent, textbooks for sale etc. Now you need approval from an official entity to ensure your poster is appropriate. One of the many ways universities have lost their way.

If you live in Edinburgh, A. Rae Dunlap’s The Resurrectionist is an amazing read

Where is Brooklyn Rivera? 73-year old Nicaraguan Indigenous leader, Brooklyn Rivera, was disappeared by the dictatorship on 29 September 2023. Neither his family nor his lawyers have been told where he is. confidencial.digital/nacion/brook...

Hey Shabana Mahmood, why has Nicaragua been added to the list of citizens requiring visas to visit the UK? We are talking about a v. small number of people (lots leave but mostly go to US or Costa Rica) but most will be fleeing political repression. Someone explain the rationale to me please.

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

Why can’t Starmer just say to Trump that we’d love to help out with his war, but we simply can’t afford it? In Britain, we can’t even afford to properly fund healthcare or education. There are even British people that don’t have a home or enough food and have to rely on charities to survive.

Frankenstein’ Lead Oscar Isaac, ‘La Llorona’ Director Jayro Bustamante Push for Guatemala Film Law variety.com/2026/film/gl...

From the journal Science in 1890, physics for the lads!

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded. 2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning. Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription, delete your account. And tell at least one person why. My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

By me: Today marks 10 years since the assassination of Indigenous environmentalist Berta Cáceres, a rare leader whose death marked a before and after for many including me. Despite some justice, the extractive economic model and its criminal modus operandi continues apace. drilled.media/news/berta

When will the UK government wake up to the wholesale destruction of HE that's happening? This affects towns and cites across the UK, our businesses, the NHS, schools, young people, our global standing, everything! Higher Education, Universities, contribute over £265 BILLION to the economy.

‘Year after year, members of Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo have circled the square in central Buenos Aires, arm in arm, to demand the return of their forcibly disappeared grandchildren. They’re still marching.’ Rachel Nolan on Argentina’s missing children: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...