I ran a workshop on jobs in history outside universities for PhD students at the University of Vienna earlier this year and got very good feedback from participants, so I'm looking to run it again later this year. Please get in touch if this would interest your students or department.

For @newleftreview.bsky.social I wrote about Timothy Mitchell's fascinating and frustrating book The Alibi of Capital. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

As someone who has written a whole book about the importance of Twitter to public discourse I cannot emphasise enough important it is for people to log off the current incarnation of the site.

@profjmcadam.bsky.social & Maja Janmyr on UNHCR archives at risk (along with everything else) rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/06/29/u...

“What we have is a shifting baseline,” said Dr Rob Robinson @btobirds.bsky.social... “People engaging in nature today are going to think the numbers they are seeing are normal, particularly children. But if you go back 50yrs, they would have been able to experience a much richer environment"

It's still a case of "More & More & More" of everything. The clean energy transition requires complete substitution, not simply addition!

I wish UCU would actually push some cases of fake redundancy to court. Our own plan is to leave 3 people to do all the teaching. Next year that would be 37.5 hours in class alone each - the full week, without doing any preparation, research, marking etc. That’s not a real redundancy situation.

"in-hospital mortality increases for Black, but not White, patients as hospitals reach capacity... We identify rationing by wait times as a mechanism, documenting that sicker Black patients wait longer for care than healthier White patients at almost all capacity levels"

I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH

"[Rwanda's] immigration service, with the support of the Ministry in charge of refugees and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is currently conducting a [biomretric] registration campaign in all refugee camps as well as in urban centers." www.sosmediasburundi.org/en/2026/06/1...

Huh. I wonder why the “users give scans of their eyeballs to Sam Altman for no discernible benefit” startup is failing

Should researchers still be posting their data openly online? It’s a question being debated by some researchers now that bots are routinely mining open-access databases and scientific publications to train artificial-intelligence tools'.

Very honored to be quoted in 'Project Profile,' journalist Naipanoi Lepapa's compassionate, in-depth, six-part investigative report on the use of biometrics in the humanitarian sector: www.theelephant.info/investigatio... www.theelephant.info/author/nlepa...

BREAKING: Google DeepMind workers in UK have voted 98% in favour of unionising — demanding an end to AI use by Israel and the US military for perpetrating genocide in Gaza. If successful, they’ll be the first frontier AI lab in the world to unionise.

Well done @utaw.tech!!!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Check out this interview with my excellent colleague, Ib! And check out his new book, already nominated for a major prize in his field: academic.oup.com/book/60056

Rwanda: 'By the 2027 deadline, banks, hospitals, telecom companies, and government institutions are expected to use the [Single Digital ID] authentication system.' www.newtimes.co.rw/article/3439...

AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme — Africa Oxford initiative Applications are now Open until 15th May 2026 www.afox.ox.ac.uk/research/afo...

Congrats to my colleague Ib: His innovative new book, China and African Parliaments, is shortlisted for the prestigious L.H.M. Ling award! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Congratulations to Dr Innocent (Ib) Batsani-Ncube, whose book has been shortlisted for L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize. Ib examines China's expanding influence, using parliament buildings as a lens for understanding China–Africa relations. Read more👇 www.qmul.ac.uk/society-and-...

i need the “llms are might be conscious” folx to read this

"If humanitarian data is no longer the sole responsibility of traditional actors like UN humanitarian agencies...and humanitarian NGOs – assuming it ever was – we must ask ourselves if existing concepts and tools for governing humanitarian data are still tenable in a new era." tinyurl.com/34w6remb

Opportunity to contribute to a public consultation on the UK's digital ID scheme roadmap-for-modern-digital-government.campaign.gov.uk/digital-id-c...

Very excited to read Trishula Patel’s new book!!!

A short brief from me on #statelessness and digital identity just published by Caribou; thanks to @emryss.bsky.social & @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social for their inputs and support #legalidentity #digitalID caribou.global/publications...

This is the country we are living in....

Speakers include: @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social @silviahedley.bsky.social @margchee.bsky.social Andreas Hackl @deryaozkul.bsky.social @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Sanjay Sharma, Kim Snooks

Given that people is asking me for the numbers, here the table provided by UKRI:

Today, I've been watching Keir Starmer and the Labour Party's pro-Digital ID Twitter campaign implode. 'Reverse Midas touch' really does capture it. It's like they are gunning to lose the next election. And they've managed to fuel BOTH right-wing AND left-wing conspiracy theories. Truly remarkable.

Wtaf? "Software giant Palantir snubs ‘undemocratic’ digital ID scheme". This would actually be funny if we weren't living in an emergent technofascism powered by the likes of Palantir... archive.ph/MncRd

Public criticism of compulsory ID has a long history in the UK, which predates the advent of Twitter/X (in fact, it even predates the Blair-era controversy over biometric ID cards in the early 2000s). Also, criticism of the new scheme is coming from BOTH the right & left of the political spectrum.

As Keir Starmer anounces a new Digital ID scheme, we revisit an article from the summer, warning that past attempts at introducing a national identity card point to a moral minefield without necessarily helping tackle irregular immigration. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

As I said on BBC this morning, the Britcard isn't a carefully thought-out digitization strategy; it's a reactive policy response to right-wing populism & moral panic about asylum seekers. A piece from earlier this year w/ @margchee.bsky.social & @empo11on.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

You may already have seen her on the BBC this morning, but journalists and policy experts looking for experts on digital ID cards - you need to speak to @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social This is a post from earlier this year blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

It appears the UK Labor government is moving forward with plans to introduce digital IDs to address complex migration challenges www.ft.com/content/f2b3... In July, @margchee.bsky.social, @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social and I wrote about the challenges that lie ahead blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper. 1/

Can't believe that Silicon Valley just brought back layaway and rebranded it as "fintech".

New paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on #humanitarian #data #sovereignty💥 doi.org/10.1177/2053... My deep gratitude to @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social, @margchee.bsky.social, @emryss.bsky.social, Quito Tsui, Paul Currion, @sophiebt.bsky.social, and @massimomarelli.bsky.social for the inspiration ❤️

New blog based on our research with humanitarians navigating the current funding crisis. What should the future of humanitarian data management look like? caribou.global/publications... @emryss.bsky.social

Our latest on Labour's ill-advised "Britcard" blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp... with @empo11on.bsky.social and @margchee.bsky.social

Excited to share my latest article. It examines how humanitarian data came to be repurposed for citizenship determination, focusing on an often-overlooked form of biometric border-making: the digitized mechanisms for keeping citizens out of refugee camps. tinyurl.com/bde5a6dw

With @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social, I've been exploring the intersection of AI governance & #digitalidentity. In an essay in the new #openaccess 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 collection, we reflect on how companies like @world.org are resignifying #biometrics in the AI age libraopen.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/...

Very excited to be part of this volume, “Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity,” with Aaron Martin @empo11on.bsky.social. Where we discuss tech companies like 'World' and the quest of biometrically authenticated 'personhood' in the AI age. doi.org/10.18130/03d...

How do grassroots movements resist state collapse in Sudan? Raga Makawi, Co-Director of Studies for the 2025 Sudan & South Sudan Course, shares reflections on civic politics and community resilience. Watch full video: youtu.be/YK4IhRGtC8U More info: courses.riftvalley.net

Proud to announce the launch of our report on the challenges that refugees and migrants in Kenya face accessing state-issued identification, generously funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and co-produced w/ Haki na Sheria w/ support from Caribou Digital www.cariboudigital.net/publication/...

For those of you not able to attend in person but who would like to listen to the recording, here is a link: soundcloud.com/qmulofficial... It was a beautiful tribute to Elleni Centime Zeleke w/ comments from Layli Uddin, Safia Aidid, Richard Drayton, Chris Moffat, & Alden Young. Please listen/share

For those of you in the London are: My colleague Layli Uddin & I are hosting an event in honor of the memory/legacy of Elleni Centime Zeleke, author of the trailblazing book, Ethiopia in Theory, on 27 February: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dialogue-e...

Sharing a post from late last year with @empo11on.bsky.social. Our reflections attending the Biometrics Institute Congress, about how the biometrics sector is grappling with 'AI'... medium.com/caribou-digi...