"This emperor has $1 trillion and not a stitch to wear." broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...

I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train

"The current moment, between war and disintegration, and cooperation and renewal, demands intellectual creativity and openness." Great read @frankmaracchione.bsky.social

After a decade of annual festival work, we're taking a break to think about how the festival can take a more active role in systems change... We'll still have a few great events in 2026 though, because we just can't help ourselves! More info at the link below 👇🏼

Combine the explosion of generative AI with shaky moderation on social media and you get ‘content creators’ posting hateful videos – and sometimes even profiting from it

Racist and violent AI-generated videos – some showing migrants on boats getting killed – are being used to gain followers and even make money on TikTok This video alone racked up half a million views 👇

Wonderful to be part of the @vox-pol.bsky.social Next Gen Conference in Prague last week - huge thanks to Johnathan Collins for all the organising - it was great to catch up with with colleagues, meet new ones and present my work on ecofascism. #AcademicChatter #PhDlife

Continuing the solid academic tradition of last minute slide updates in the airport en route to a conference #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDlife

Oh good, it's lucky there isn't data to suggest it could be bad for critical thinking or that ChatGPT users “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

The People's Front of Judea called - they wanted to remind you they were satire, not role models www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Ireland is a great example... As the country’s data centre expansion sucked the grid dry, operators are scrambling to hook directly into dirty gas networks, desperate for tonnes of fossil methane to fuel their insatiable hunger. Amazon’s lobbying disclosures in Ireland are endless" Crikey indeed.

🚨 Large far-right demo in central London today, organised by Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) under the banner Unite the Kingdom. HOPE not hate will be monitoring closely. Follow this thread for updates throughout the day.

Did you know that University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social has a metric tonne of books #Free2DownloadAndRead in their Open Access page? All available here: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/o...

The far right turnout today is much smaller than the number of people who came to protest at London Trans Pride this year, but the far right will of course get infinitely more press coverage.

Happy to have been part of the cohort behind this short piece arguing against research which links biological invasion and human migration - generally I'm all for interdisciplinary work but in this case... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to say I'll be taking on my first module as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in this coming semester. Advancing with Digital Methods - bring it on! #AcademicSky #PhDchatter

"Cuts to AtW risk increasing the unemployment rate for disabled people and support workers alike, in clear contrast to the government's stated aims..." Latest piece for @nowthenmag.bsky.social on Access to Work #disability #disabilitybenefits #disabilityjustice #AccesstoWork bit.ly/3HOr2JI

Confirmation review passed. Doctoral status officially confirmed. Time to get on with it then! #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

🚨 The first publication from the HITS project is now out: "Institutional Responses to Threats and Harassment of Academics: Evidence From a Survey Among Political Scientists in Norway" by @arjupskas.bsky.social, Iris B. Segers, & @audreygagnon.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It would be really great if the Prime Minister could remember that appeasing the far-right doesn't work

Bookish checkpoint 🕯️ 🔸last book you read: If it Bleeds by Stephen King 🔸your current read: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler 🔸last book added to tbr: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson 🔸next read: Going Mainstream by Julia Ebner #booksky #books

Best academic summer out of office so far this year: "Dear sender, My email and I are on a break. But don't worry, it's not permanent. We just need some time apart. We will be back together on 18/08/2025." You love to see it 👏👏👏 #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

Some fascinating and absolutely wild reads in this thread

Ain't no lie though... www.thenational.scot/news/2534018...

"A second order Trump signed on Wednesday calls for deregulating AI development, increasing the building of datacentres and removing environmental protections that could hamper their construction." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW FROM ME: new research has found millions of ex's of personal info, including credit cards, passports, résumés, birth certificates etc in 1 of the largest web-scraped datasets used to train image generation AI models. It's a major privacy violation. www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...

Shifting the Overton Window and mainstream media coverage to the right is a stated aim of far-right parties and extremists alike... Fair coverage could go some way to interrupting this

Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

Thanks to @crexuio.bsky.social @vox-pol.bsky.social @audreygagnon.bsky.social and Nicola Mathieson for an incredibly inspiring week in beautiful Oslo. So much exciting and important research happening and a genuine balm to the soul to meet the wonderful people doing this work

First international academic presentation ✅ Also, Oslo is amazing, can I have a job here please?

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

I've said it before and I'll no doubt say it again. "Harvard referencing sucks." (Hill, 2025) #academicsky #wordcountwoes

"Centre-left parties have followed the male gaze into chasing an outdated interpretation of the “working-class” voter (narrowly defined as white men with rightwing sociocultural views)." Great piece from @casmudde.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

UK politicians know they don't HAVE to follow the US direction of travel, right?

"The media have a role to play that perpetuates crises. When you put your TV on, the NGOs will have an advert that focuses on who needs food in a war zone, and not the political nature of [the conflict]" – Boucka Koffi speaking at our @symaag.bsky.social event on 'Activism Across Borders' #FofD

"The kind of people in this book have not been written about. These are amazing people who have changed Britain" @lanre-bakare.bsky.social in conversation with @desireereynolds.bsky.social about 'We Were There', his book telling the story of Black Britain beyond the capital. #FofD #Sheffield

Wonderful to play host for this tonight - I love when my academic work and my activist work comes together... Thanks @jasonhickel.bsky.social and @globaljusticenow.bsky.social We still have a few more weeks of festival to go, check out the programme here - www.festivalofdebate.com

Coming up this week at Festival of Debate! 🎉 Still some tickets left for three really interesting and varied events this week 🙂

Protecting profits over the environment. Again. Super 🙄 "Even if a huge impact is somehow identified, the bill insists that the levy for offsetting habitat destruction cannot be high enough to make the development “economically unviable”. " www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's here! After a great Q&A with the co-authors, and a particularly excellent and nourishing conversation with @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social post event, this went straight to the top of my tbr. Important work examining the radical Right as a global phenomenon. #AcademicSky 💙📚💡

My latest dives deep into this breaks down, dissecting how global democracies have succeeded in holding leaders accountable while US institutions and elites shielded power and exploring what we must learn from this failure.

Essential piece on foreign exchange liquidity - one I'll have to read again when it's not early in the morning for me!

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

👋 The People's Newsroom is launching a brand new book club starting on 29 April! If you're interested in learning & discussing with others how we might shape new worlds through media & storytelling, this is the book club for you. ➡️ loom.ly/qgSo2dU

My article on the German far-right's anti-gender rhetoric and its overlap with its own neoliberal tradition is open access and perhaps sadly of interests for some given the contemporary context. Its an old one now, but... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Trump is targeting US universities as never before. Here are four ways to help them" A Guardian op-Ed based on an earlier Bluesky thread.

🚨 Last chance! 🚨 Two opportunities to come work with us on just transition projects close today. First up, as part of an exciting systems change project we're looking for a Workshop Designer and Facilitator. Find out more about the role or apply ⬇️ #Sheffield #SheffieldJobs

💥 Join Opus as our Sheffield Transition Finance Facility Coordinator! We're looking for a passionate strategic thinker to contribute to our upcoming 'Demonstrators' systems change project, to bring this transformative work to life. Apply before 6 April.

Can't quite believe we've been doing this for 10 years - but honestly it's an immense privilege and I'm so excited for this line up. Hope to see you there - bookings open now!