Optimo (Espacio)’s JD Twitch has died. RIP to an all-time great of UK dance music 🖤

Edinburgh University staff set to walkout amid £140m cuts plan dispute www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

Comrades, registration for the twenty-second annual Historical Materialism Conference in London is now open. The plenaries and programme will be released soon. Join us this year (and every year) in November!

Interesting reflection on the removal of the Kirkgate benches by Connor Robertson. What did it signify and why does it matter? "The benches are back, but the battle for the right to the city continues."

"And what is happening may yet come to define its darkest eras, one that casts a stain on humanity which will endure for generations" Truly chilling two minutes here.

“Palestine: A Sociological Issue is a way to reflect on the role of sociology in times of genocidal violence & settler colonialism" @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social All the articles in the special section are free to access here journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/73/2/

This is incredibly powerful from the WHO’s Emergencies Director, Dr Mike Ryan, on the world doing nothing as the children of Gaza die. “This is an abomination.” (🎥 Middle East Eye)

Delighted about this. 🇵🇸

Join us on Tuesday in Edinburgh for the relaunch of 'Culture is Bad for You'....

Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.

632 job cuts have been proposed by the executive team at the University of Dundee. Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee. Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632 youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI

I’m giving up for Lent

Culture is bad for you is doing a book tour! @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social or me in Bristol 24th March (in person), Manchester 27th March (in person), Edinburgh 1st April (online & in person) & Sheffield 9th April (in person). Details/tickets manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/

Now only one working day away!

I'm speaking about 'The Working Day in Contemporary Art' on Friday (28th) as part of the Marxism in Culture seminar series in London - join us if you can: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Opening tonight! Petra Bauer: Sisters! at @fruitmarket.bsky.social Edinburgh. Curated by students on the MScR Collections and Curating Practices programme and supported by the University of Edinburgh's Contemporary Art Research Collection. www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/petra-...

This week the Travelling Gallery will be visiting St Andrews with the exhibition Between Women: Franki Raffles, Sylvia Grace Borda, Sandra George, Carolyn Scott and Niu Weiyu.

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

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Thirty years ago today

Activists from Rise Up for Rojava have occupied the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. They are demanding "recognition of the northeast Syrian self-government, an end to Turkish jihadist attacks on the region, and a halt to arms exports to Ankara". @defendrojava.bsky.social

For all those wanting to follow members of the Historical Materialism Editorial Board, Corresponding Editorial Board, and Advisory Board, we have put together a little starter pack...

This was a fantastic rally. Let nobody forget that Scotland is only on the verge of reintroducing rent controls because of the patient, brilliant organising of Living Rent. Today is a momentous day in the Scottish Parliament for anyone who cares about housing justice. England take note.

Love @dieworkwear.bsky.social‬ - am so delighted he is here.

The solidarity that Scottish firefighters have shown their Palestinian colleagues over many years is an inspiring example of workers’ internationalism. It’s disgraceful that Israel has impounded a fire engine on the way to Palestine where it is desperately needed.

Now with alt-text. For those in Edinburgh. Summerhall needs you. The current top bid to buy the site is AMA Holding, who "have a thing for building student flats." There is a QR code on the flyer to scan for more details. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

The Kiss Of Life depicts a Florida lineman, Randall Champion, being revived by one of his colleagues, JD Thompson, following a severe electric shock. Champion miraculously survived. The 1967 picture went on to win a Pulitzer Prize. Read more about it here: eu.jacksonville.com/story/news/201…

Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?

They missed a trick here. The Housing Question? www.theguardian.com/business/art...

Boundary Crossing: The Transnational Travels of Social Reproduction One-day seminar, Friday 3 May, University of Edinburgh, led by Hemangini Gupta & Tatiana Sanchez Parra and featuring “academic interventions and multimodal provocations”. Places still available! docs.google.com/forms/d/1BhQ...

Fully funded AHRC PhD studentship with me, Chris Elsden, and the Traverse theatre! on the "Pasts, Presents and Futures of Digitally-Mediated Theatre". I would appreciate sharing and signposting this to potential candidates... thanks!

New year, new website! kirstenlloyd.co.uk Working on it reminded me how many incredible folk I’ve worked with over the years. And that time passes pretty fast…..

Bloody hell. Really? REALLY? Suspending the EDI committee with immediate effect???

Update: there is now an open letter to UKRI here, calling on them to reject this attack on academic freedom and political interference in the decision-making and governance of UKRI. I would invite academic colleagues to sign and share docs.google.com/document/d/e...