This is also the point of many of the attacks on Middle East Studies faculty and events, the social media campaigns and calls to trustees and disruptions - no attack has to “succeed” to create a climate where risk averse institutions just decide to do something else that won’t cause headaches.

Fuelled by Male Demand – Women Trafficked and Exploited in Scotland's Sex Trade. 🗓️ Friday 29th May 7-9.30PM 📍 Central Glasgow 🎟️ bit.ly/FiLiAFeministFriday Join FiLiA and Bronagh Andrew from TARA for a vital discussion on the reality of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation in #Scotland

It is my great pleasure to announce that I will be lead editor for A Companion to Deleuze. The collection will be published by John Wiley and Sons.

We must call this for what it is: voter suppression that will silence Black and brown voters. The magnitude of this decision cannot be understated — it guts the Voting Rights Act and its very purpose of protecting all voices. Every American deserves an equal vote.

Last week, the #OpenAccess book "Emotions, Ethics and Mass Atrocities: Perspectives from Scholars, Teachers and Practitioners" was published. Download the whole book here free here: brill.com/display/titl... 1/3

Barbara Huber Scholarship Programme: MPI-Freiburg invites applications from international researchers in criminology, public law, and criminal law. Research stays (2–6 months). Apply by 31 May: csl.mpg.de/en/barbara-h... #AcademicOpportunity #Scholarship

Statement by new French initiative, CLARA, translated by @danielmang.bsky.social, that seeks to reconnect the struggle against antisemitism—in a context of rising attacks— to a broad anti-racist movement & anti-fascist solidarity from below, refusing cynical use of antisemitism to demonise Muslims.

There is this belief that people on the left should come together with people on the far right because the real enemy are the people with only 95% of your same beliefs will always amaze me in its stupidity.

23rd April is the feast of St George, and here St George is depicted slaying the dragon. BL Or 516; አርባዕቱ ወንጌል The Four Gospels; 17th century; Ethiopia; f.99v

A rare series of watercolors by Hilma af Klint, The Tree of Knowledge was created c.1913-15 #WomensArt

Yooo I was just asked to review an article that has almost this exact structure: "We systematically reviewed studies...Following PRISMA 2020..." etc. The ask was from MDPI which I will never review for (and neither should you). But whoa on this seemingly new Systematic Review grift.

The entire book of common prayer?

“For Amal, journalism is not a profession but resistance by other means – where reporting is an act of witnessing, and writing becomes a vital line of defense” — @thepublicsource.bsky.social interview with Amal Khalil, the Lebanese journalist killed by Israel today

I'm on my way to London this morning for the annual conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. Stefano Bacin and I have organized a panel on 'Early Modern German Ethics' - a surprisingly understudied area! More information and full programme here: bshp.org.uk/events/bshp-...

walking from my election party to the Tisza rally and we heard crowds cheering in the distance as Orban officially conceded 🥰

Viktor Orbán has been in power for more than half of my life. Like most people of my generation and younger, I don't remember a Hungary before or without him. #Hungary

meet me at the roger scruton café 😘

Here’s just some of the ways removing the two child limit will change children’s lives ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/cpag...

T-7 days until the Hungarian election. 🇭🇺🗳️ In this third (most likely final) thread before the election, I discuss four potential outcomes of the election and possible scenarios for post-April 12 🧵 1/

Italy celebrated the resurrection of Christ by making sure that innocent people continue to drown in their dozens and then threatening the samaritans trying to save them 71 people are still missing

The passing of the death penalty law reflects the normalization of Kahanist ideology and betrays the values on which the state was founded. It sets Israel on a suicidal path www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I just don’t think you need to love war crimes to be a real man.

Reminder that Trump has, since returning to office, committed a grand total of zero new dollars in military aid to Ukraine (the tiny amount at the start of 2025 was agreed under the Biden administration). www.kielinstitut.de/topics/war-a...

As with many other professions, academics used to put up with nonsense conditions and shoddy attitudes in the expectation it would be temporary before getting a permanent job. This is no longer the case - is no longer a few years in your 20s after getting a PhD

Nancy Fraser on Habermas. Fraser is IMO one of the most insightful critica of Habermas, and this piece reflects on her intellectual debt as well as disagreements with him. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

'A third of [Danish] women no longer work in academia eight years after having a child, according to new research that suggests extra childcare responsibilities are hindering women’s abilities to climb the career ladder.' 1/2

Cannibals are weird. I can't imagine liking people enough to actually eat them.

Gutted had to cancel plans to attend this tomorrow due to house move nightmares, looks so good

The 2026 Best of the Net Anthology is live! Check out all of this year's award-winning poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art plus our full list of 2026 finalists! https://bestofthenetanthology.com/

Didn't know this about German support

A friend of mine going back 15 years. After yrs of struggling through Swedish asylum system & bureaucracy he had life sorted. Then Gaza war came and he got in a huge amount of debt borrowing money to save his family. He never liked fundraisers so a friend did this for him as he is at rock bottom

The Pears Foundation new report on Countering Online Conspiracies in Schools is well worth a read. It makes it very clear schools have become a frontline in the fight against conspiracy theories, and need serious support. counteringconspiracies.publicfirst.co.uk/Commission_i...

A major development in Lebanon. Of course this goes against the grain of Israeli claims about the Lebanese government’s lack of action against the militant group and its sponsor

Yesterday, immediately after an Israeli settler was killed and a Palestinian driver wounded in a collision in the West Bank, settler groups issued calls for revenge across social media. For hours, some 14 Palestinian villages were under attack by dozens of settlers, backed by our government.

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

#PSA26 Annual Conference - NEXT WEEK in Oxford The programme includes a wide range of panels and events for delegates Including PSA Early Career Network @psaecn.bsky.social at PSA26 #EarlyCareerResearchers #ECR #PhD #Students

“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Suella Braverman attacked her on X and drove her off the site alaafromgaza.substack.com/p/attacked-o...

yes please

I don't think this risk is significant. Imo, the more likely scenario is that Orban will hold the elections and recognize his loss, but use his control over various accountability institutions to sabotage/paralyze the new Magyar govt to a very significant extent.

“One political party in Britain has effectively ended up with its own television station. GB News has essentially become Reform TV.” pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/b...

"George Soros funded the Euromaidan" Very good if true. "George Soros is funding the Hungarian opposition" God I hope so. "George Soros invested tons of money into ending the career of Benjamin Netanyahu" Fucking ideal.

The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

Anyways, Mamdani was totally in the right.

An important Gaza voice hoping to do MA at Goldsmiths

Two great documentaries on iplayer on the effect of the war on Ukraine on Russians: "Mr Nobody vs Putin" (which just won an Oscar) about militarisation in schools and "The Zero Line" on dissent against the war and how Russia kills its own soldiers

Schiff: "We are now giving Russia $140 million a day by releasing them from these sanctions when Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to better attack and kill American troops. It is rewarding Russia and punishing Ukraine."