No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine @socispal.bsky.social uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

Please share: final 7 hours ‼️ One link, six families and a camp, support every week. Now, the giving circle is helping Mai’s, Ghadeer’s, and Akram’s families urgently flee north Gaza. Every dollar is hope to survive the next minute of this hell. Nothing less. 792/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...

A letter from @socispal.bsky.social to British Sociological Assoc, asking them to take a clear stance on the ongoing Palestinian genocide, the proliferating racist violence of Zionism & the repression of pro-Palestinian solidarity. BSA members please support socispal.wordpress.com/sisp-stateme...

Happy Monday to all ‘at risk’ SHAPE scholars ‘Higher education regulators should monitor subject provision through an ‘at-risk’ regional subject register and funding for ‘at risk’ subjects’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

Judith Butler on the legal & moral shambles & capitulation at Berkeley ‘Lucky that I still have my books. But it cannot be utterly foolish to resist injustice when you so clearly see it, as, I presume, you must’ www-thenation-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.then...

👋 Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians @socispal.bsky.social have joined Bluesky Give them a follow for resources, events and upcoming actions calling on sociological professional bodies to us their platforms to stand with Palestinian If you want to get involved email [email protected]

Welcome to Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians @socispal.bsky.social follow for resources & upcoming actions “calling on sociologists and sociological professional bodies to us their platforms to stand with Palestinians” socispal.wordpress.com

If your are teaching on immigration/racism, this book is open access & includes short "living research" chapters that can be used in teaching. Based on research on govt immigration campaigns that included the "Go Home" vans www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

After 2 years the UN finds that Israel has committed genocide "The Commission recommended that Member States cease the transfer of arms and other equipment that may be used for the commission of genocidal acts to Israel" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People: A Call for Decolonial Praxis Against Complicity (March 2025) www.brismes.ac.uk/files/docume...

“I hold the days and they crumble in my hands like stale bread in a starving mouth. Each morning a weary replica of the last, as if time cycles, then sleeps again. I endure— not out of strength, but because even collapse has grown dull”

“Where are these weapons coming from that are killing us and those we serve? They don't come out of nowhere." www.trtworld.com/article/f053...

However, few institutions in the UK, France and Germany have announced they are cutting links Israeli academia, with Universities UK (UUK) saying it does not support an academic boycott’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

TODAY SATURDAY 13th SEPTEMBER, 🚂 Fascists will be travelling on the same trains. ✍🏽Five Key Messages: - No Comment! - No Personal Details! - No Caution! - No Duty Solicitor! - Ask “Under What Power”! 📖 Recommending reading: a protesting guide carmilladistro.noblogs.org/post/2023/10...

A new Migrant Research Institute at Goldsmiths is looking for an academic director www.gold.ac.uk/research/cen...

Leading biohacker bros (completely silent about the Palestinian genocide) now talking about how sick the world is with Kirk’s murder. Makes sense www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

A new podcast & great listen on cities @thesociologicalreview.org with Romit Chowdhury thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/unc...

Independent scholar fellowships ‘The Independent Social Research Foundation wishes to support Independent Scholars to explore and present original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems’ isrf.org/competitions...

“The belief in eventual moral clarity lets us believe that time itself will sort out moral failure, that history has a correcting function” I’ve been falsely consoling myself with a belated justice for Palestine. I was mistaken mena.rollingstone.com/politics/com...

Aarhus University, invites applications for two assistant or associate professor positions in educational sociology with a focus on the application of quantitative methods international.au.dk/about/profil...

Love this piece by Sarah Franklin on rural Englishness & everyday nationalism & racism. Even more resonant at the moment with all the flag shagging anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14506...

There is no predetermined theme for the conference. We invite scholars to submit abstracts of up to 400 words on topics relating to any aspect of sociology www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

Reading for fascist times www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...

“Keep escalating pressure on your government and the international community to take real action but remember that it is up to us to look after each other and fight for each other.” www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

“The unthinkable is not looming. It is already here. The escalation is underway.” news.un.org/en/story/202...

The Scottish government has banned arms companies which supply the IDF from getting grants and investment support, and will freeze support for trade with Israel. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

On the legacies of the Frankfurt School ‘Logically, then, antisemitism was not a singular prejudice but was related to what he and Horkheimer called “ticket thinking,” meaning that it was conjoined to the hatred of other groups’ blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

I'm very excited to share that the next SSAHE webinar will be a celebration of my new book - Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - and of Bordering Social Reproduction by Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson. Please register and join us online, 9 October, at 5pm #AcademicSky ssahe.net/2025/09/03/n...

Shahram Khosravi: How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times Date & Times: 27th November 2025, 18.O0–20.00 UTC+1 thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

latest report from @forensicarchi.bsky.social finds evidence of Israel arming gangs & militias in Rafah ‘FA satellite imagery and verified videos show that these gangs have seized aid trucks’ www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.alja...

The Demilitarise Education Treaty ded1.co/how-we-do-it...

Some good news for these students. Can’t begin to imagine how complex this multi-sector negotiation must have been www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

We Are Still Here - an anthology of short and long stories, poems, essays, and testimonies written by students from Gaza’s universities darajapress.com/publication/...

New book to inhale @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on globalisation, low cost labour & how capitalism makes & sustains global inequalities @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Just listened to Ahmed’s sublime singing, harmonising with drones with the children from “Gaza Birds Singing” A link here to donate songsfromtherubble.com

Stop letting the far-right define the narrative on migration @migrantsrights.bsky.social migrantsrightsnetwork.substack.com/p/stop-letti...

Rape, colonialism & economic subjugation mediacoop.ca/node/119304

Exactly “There’s a lot of concern about the emboldenment of the far right & also the limited voices within the political mainstream calling for a different narrative around issues of migration. It would be good to see a little more moral leadership rather than pandering”

A Baptist minister has been arrested in Oxford for holding a placard reading ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’. Rev Grote of New Road Baptist Church said ‘I am doing this because of my faith. I’m doing this because I’m a follower of Jesus Christ, who broke the rules and created peace.’

Duke’s AI Ethics Learning Toolkit to engage students in critical conversations about AI across disciplines lile.duke.edu/ai-ethics-le...

Our Autumn issue – Wasafiri 123 – is available to preorder now! Includes interviews with @abagoo.bsky.social and Christina Sharpe, our 2024 Essay Prize winners, and a Tibetan writers and artists showcase, alongside our usual mix of fiction, poetry, reviews, and more. buff.ly/Edj18wU

9th Sept 2025, 5.30pm – 7pm BST Gary Younge & Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, will think through the relationship between love & political organising using a discussion between bell hooks & Stuart Hall, published in Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue (2017). www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/readi...

Researcher post with a dynamic bioethics team at Oxford (2 years, full time) www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/opportunitie...

‘Mothers divide absence as if it were substance, breaking nothing into halves, quarters, crumbs offering what does not exist with hands too tired to pretend’

Doing my online sexual harassment training this morning. The quality of the training we do in unis is (ahem) varied. 'Select Harry behind bars' to understand bullet pointed 'perpetrator' experiences Harry is in an orange jumpsuit

#FeministReview 139 is out! Our most recent #Currents Issue includes research and theoretical articles, and open-space creative writing, with many of them being open access. Have a look and join the conversations/ with us and the authors. Enjoy your reads! #FR139: journals.sagepub.com/toc/fera/139/1

Under the harshest of conditions, Samah, 25, Israa, 31 Abdallah, 27, Majd, 24, Khulud, 28 and thirty-five other students have secured places at UK universities. Help them fulfil their goals. Only takes 5 mins 🙏🏿