Tame Iti on racism, te reo Māori, protest and the art that saved him www.stuff.co.nz/culture/3608...

This is so idiotic. Students get exceptional, competent (the vast majority) and mediocre teachers in every single institution. And success depends not on the teacher but on the student and how hard they work

WTF? You shut down Skype and stole all my credit

I really think a university that is in Astana and not Cardiff should not be called Cardiff University. Place matters, place names matter.

So many Australian colleagues put through a year of worries and uncertainty. All because Nous Consultancy only thrives on a scarcity narrative? Bit if a reminder that those cuts can never be justified in pedagogical or academic term, whatever the spin.

Writing Worlds—Geography's Silence on the Genocide of Palestinians by Amanda Thomas in the New Zealand Geographer onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Please let this be true. Have we passed peak social media? - on.ft.com/4pTb1Di via @FT

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Falling in love with pesky foreigners is seriously discouraged

This is horrific. Shame on whoever thought this was worth spending money on

“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏

I published this piece today, on how the binary gender model and enforced gender roles are a model of hierarchical child abuse that punishes everyone but the capitalists who run the system. It would mean a lot if you read it. This link is unpaywalled. Thank you. 💜 medium.com/prismnpen/wh...

Another day, another email with a REF task. I’ve been at my institution barely a year and already lost so many hours to this bleak stuff. I know everyone hates it but it’s even more exhausting when you’re fixed-term ECR and doing it for an institution that’ll turf you out as soon as contract ends

Discussion forum in Area: 'Open access book publishing: A forum for debate' Read 5 responses to Matthew Gandy's 2023 commentary on OA book publishing and the neoliberal academy, with a further reflection by Gandy on the issue two years on ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

It is time for the BBC and the Labour government to stop pandering to Farage and Reform

They Helped Oust a Dictator. Now the New Regime Is Coming for Them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/w...

Stuart Hall on “Studying the Conjuncture" is so good: “If you don't agree there is a good degree of openness & contingency to every historical conjuncture, you don't believe in politics. You don't believe that anything can be done." youtu.be/bHpht1nNtB0?...

Working in academia = hating Elsevier a little more with each new semester

I've been sick all week and feeling horribly let down by the NHS, elected politicians and (especially) university managers, but today it's #Caturday and it is Lloumi's 12th birthday

Genevieve Bell resigns as Australian National University vice-chancellor after months of controversy www.msn.com/en-au/news/a...

With the phrase “unfunded hobbyist research” the new Universities UK President continues a much longer history of contempt that UUK has shown towards the labour of all those who work in universities

Can we shift away from low-quality UUK leadership?

Ban consultancy spend by universities then. Seriously. It’s the same spreadsheets recycled and the same downward spiral diagnosis every time. And costs hundreds of millions across the sector.

"Hobbyist" is a truly breathtaking choice of phrase. It encapsulates a profound sense of contempt for the labour of academics in the UK, who already have to navigate an underfunded system dominated by precarity and overwork. "Knows the price of everything but the value of nothing" springs to mind

In my university much of the best and highest quality research is unfunded

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Kevin Glynn’s book, “Tabloid Culture,” now 25 yo(!!!), was the first cultural studies monograph to rock me. “Audience of One” kind of updates Glynn, but without the CRUCIAL print archive to which TMC refers. Terry Kirby’s recent book on UK tabloids is good, but you can’t transatlantic this topic.

Yes we could make REF much worse than it already is. Or we could just abolish it

You’ve done absolutely nothing about the crisis in HE. And made life harder for trans kids at school. No thanks

¿Hay alguien en San Pedro de Alcántara que me pueda decir lo que pasó a las casas originarias en la Calle Fuente del Espanto? Yo viví aquí en los 80 y regresé en los 90 pero ahora las casas originarias han desaparecido por completo. ¿Sus habitantes fueron desplazados?

Bravo Banksy. 👏 “A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy has appeared on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in central London.”

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

Is it just me or is anyone else feeling angry/dismayed/overwhelmed by the constant and accelerating erosion of our pedagogic autonomy?

The second Nicaraguan political prisoner to die in custody this week. Carlos Cárdenas was kidnapped by the regime two weeks ago

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

I know this essay works because everybody chooses a different pull-quote. open.substack.com/pub/theameri...

I can

Last night we went out for dinner in rural Wisconsin only to be greeted by this horrific message

Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."

The ECHR creates a backstop of legal appeals against changes to UK Laws. Without it the Government could scrap the State Pension, Minimum Wage, Working Hour Limits and Paid Holiday in 1 day and there is nothing you could do. This is exactly what Farage would do.

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

This is so ludicrous www.thenational.scot/news/2541493...

Nicaragua: Dictadura entrega muerto a preso político Mauricio Alonso confidencial.digital/nacion/dicta...

Surely not, but… astonishingly: yes.

I keep seeing this circulating, and I'm disappointed in my colleagues in the natural sciences who think if they can "shed" enough of their humanity they will some how be protected from fascism. Scientists who are bending to jingoism to try and protect funding aren't asking the right questions.

professional activists and institutional intellectuals be like:

South China Morning Post yesterday. Not ideal. Don't think these things aren't noticed around the world: they are. (1/2)

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...

Tragedia Hogar Seguro: la reconstrucción de los hechos que costaron la vida a 41 menores en 2017 www.prensalibre.com/guatemala/ju...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.