If you’re already working on or are building a non-carceral community crisis response team or other intervention without the cops or other carceral systems, and are looking for thought partnership or support, we have a free Transformative Justice Help Desk, staffed by IC Fellow Shira Hassan:

These look like two amazing PhD opportunities on the 'moral economies of racial reckoning' jobs.unisg.ch/offene-stell...

Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of the prison-industrial complex (PIC) is so useful. As Gilmore and Craig Gilmore note, equating industrial with profit can disappear the state, and "the outcome of capitalist activity stands in for the complicated relationships that enable or change that outcome."

"Underpinning a current of WPS activism and scholarship is a radical conceptualisation of feminist peace rooted in anti-militarism, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism." Check out Hannah Wright & Columba Achilleos-Sarll's article in our latest issue! 📘 👉 buff.ly/nSQ1tei

I am Baraa of Gaza, we need your help The war has stopped but the suffering continues and the life in tents has not ended and our house has been destroyed. Please help me travel to build my future. Please do not be afraid.🙏🏻😭🍉 tinyurl.com/Help-Baraa

Nice to see this piece has an issue number now, just as we pass the 25th anniversary of UNSCR 1325. @columbaachilleos.bsky.social and I also have a short follow up conversations piece coming shortly... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please share and donate if you can to support @mwa11j1-mmfert.bsky.social's family of 15 as they face the coming winter: chuffed.org/project/1315...

Please keep sharing and donating if you can - like many Palestinians, Mohammed's Bluesky account was banned so he can't post here himself. He is on Instagram as moh.ammedalsibakhi. chuffed.org/project/1315...

I just want the 'synonyms' function back in Microsoft Word, not the option to ask ChatGPT to write for me.

I'm curious what other researchers are doing when finding relevant literature in languages they don't speak, especially when not part of a funded study with a budget for translation. Are people finding funds for this somewhere, or just not really looking at literature in other languages?

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

This person took this when they called the race

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Teen Vogue and their incredible reporters have been the bar for a bunch of years... Their reporting was the frontline of holding back fascism and protecting all of us. Today is a dark day. (And personally, Lex and the other Teen Vogue reporters are just awesome people.)

This sucks. Was just talking yesterday about what an amazing thing Teen Vogue is for its political coverage.

This is such an awesome programme, hoping to one day have a teaching schedule that enables me to attend

This should be the biggest news story in the world right now

"As long as the university system in the UK is so wildly underfunded as it is now, universities will be vulnerable to attacks like this." That’s the crux of it, isn’t it?

“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

The State of Critical Race Disability Studies A White Paper Report from the Disabled Scholars of Color Collective disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/10/15/g...

Florida’s decision to end vaccine mandates is 100% going to make Disney World one of the world’s biggest infectious disease reservoirs, what with the huge numbers of visitors from around the world that mix there - right?

I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

🚨 Call for papers 🚨 Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial 12th annual workshop - a one-day in-person event focussing on the ethical commitments of academic research, scholarship and teaching 🎉 Send in your papers now 👉 https://ow.ly/nUy250XjIZw niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif

These are prisons. The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here. This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Putting together a panel for #BISA2026 on grassroots resistance. If you have a paper, get in touch! I'm keen to bring together diverse perspectives and approaches. 📧 DM if you're interested ⏰ Deadline: October 30th @mybisa.bsky.social

I'll be making myself available this winter to participate in Zooms with book clubs and reading groups that are discussing Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. You can reach out through my website to arrange a convo with your group.

I’ve been saying it for ages, what we’re seeing is a repackaging of the “ain’t no Black in the Union Jack” nationalism of the 60s, 70s and 80s History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes Britain beat the far-right then, and we’ll do it again

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

📣 #NoWar2025 starts TODAY. There’s still time to register and join us on Zoom to explore how abolitionist movements—against war, police, prisons, borders, and more—intersect and build towards collective liberation. Don’t miss it! Get your ticket NOW!

Brilliant open access essay of Ethnic & Racial Studies SI on the 'how' of racism. Esp that institutions require 'mechanics' to run--and those 'mechanics' are people! Bonilla-Siliva & Lewis reorient the discussion in a meaningful way. Power does not operate of its own volition, they suggest.

Pleased to see mine and @columbaachilleos.bsky.social 's article, 'Towards an Abolitionist Feminist Peace: State Violence, Anti-Militarism and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda' in this new collection:

Chapter 15, "Race, racialisation & coloniality in the humanitarian aid sector" by Lata Narayanaswamy argues that the Global North has centred & invisibilised (aspirational) whiteness as integral to the racial hierarchies prevalent in humanitarian work (15/x) aidnography.blogspot.com/2025/04/hand...

🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship: 'A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre Supervisors: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social & Kerry Pimblott Apply by Fri 14 Nov 2025 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Do consider submitting your @mybisa.bsky.social 2026 conference proposals to CAWP! We are especially interested in work that pushes the boundaries of IR, including alternative formats.

Do we want militarised schools?🪖 The UK government is investing £70m to expand cadet forces in schools. Government-commissioned research claims social benefits, but questions remain over the independence and methodology of these evaluations. Full investigation➡️https://tinyurl.com/2d332hy2

I'm seeing a lot less UCU discourse on here than I used to in the Bad Place and so have no idea what the chat is re: the upcoming ballot. What am I missing? Are there people I should really be following for this stuff?

We could be super efficient and keep toddlers in a box until they’re age 25, say, with ChatGPT to teach them everything they need to know

"One chapter in the report, “Artificial intelligence and the future of research in universities”, is authored by the AI chatbot ChatGPT" (sic). I had to read that several times to make sure it said what it said.

Amazing opportunity to join the Politics Department and the JUST centre at the University of Manchester!

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

I’m excited to announce the first two webinars in the WAARC series “Dreaming Up A Disability-Inclusive Workplace”. 29 Oct: Intersecting Identities and Disabled Joy with Amelia Lander-Cavallo lnkd.in/e7v9dNkf 26 Nov: Complicated Pride: Disability, Neurodiversity and Ambivalence lnkd.in/e3y32vkg

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

Is it dystopian science fiction or UK HE? Always hard to tell.

Tracing Antifa back to Weimar is definitely not the pwn he thinks it is.