Five million years ago, I coined the term 'bounding' to describe the tendency to reduce women (esp. not-white women) scholars' knowledge claims to "politics", "identity", or "experience"(journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....). Here's Kimberlé Crenshaw being referred to as...activist, today

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TBF, millions of people did learn that very lesson. Then commercial landlords started screaming in agony...

this is so, so true. I travelled in Lenapehoking (with full awareness of its history) in 2023, but both there and in other places I walk/hike, this is evident. It's not the American hiking culture only (or per se), of course - it's white people's hiking culture. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

this is...just brilliant

Flower/kingfisher

The UK is a country-shaped embarrassment in motion. A country that has one of the cleanest electricity supplies ever *yet* chooses to drill the North Sea for gas. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"This is classic Negotiating 101 courtesy of the Faceless God himself. Sure, he may have kicked it up a notch from 'sheer madness' to 'abject depravity,' but that's for the pundits to debate."

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

Transgender rights = human rights. In many countries around the world, the rights of trans people are under attack. This International Transgender Day of Visibility, we continue to work for a world where all people can enjoy their rights fully.

In case you need a more explicit reminder of the truth of the saying "Capitalism thrives on death --> death to capitalism" www.eatg.org/hiv-news/pre...

#mutualaid #Kropotkinwasright www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How's my homie Starmer doing

this...this late-night bromance is so cringe

I strongly dislike institutionalised learning and I hate hierarchy (and academic authority tends to come with both), but the joy of seeing one of your students write a theoretically nuanced and well-referenced argument is unmatchable

UK higher education, a masterclass in self-extinction

On the plus side, I've just written the conclusion to my book On the minus side, I still have about four (out of eight) preceding chapters to write 😌😔

I've been predominantly vegetarian/pescatarian most of my (adult) life. I have stopped eating fish once I actually took the time to learn how the majority are caught and what that does to sea life. "Time" is about 20 minutes of your day, btw. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

***UK-Linked Components Traced to Tomahawk Missile That Struck Iranian School*** Debris analysis and US procurement records reveal British links to the weapon that killed over a hundred school children in Iran, reports Isa Osman and Iain Overton bylinetimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

I see the UK again in denial about airborne transmission so let's repeat what I wrote about Covid in 2020: - When scientists say "we do not know", they mean "we cannot establish with experimental certainty a causal effect", NOT "unlikely" or "no evidence exists" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I see the UK again in denial about airborne transmission so let's repeat what I wrote about Covid in 2020: - When scientists say "we do not know", they mean "we cannot establish with experimental certainty a causal effect", NOT "unlikely" or "no evidence exists" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ICYMI - the in-house climate denier at Bari Weiss' The Free Press took part in an effort to claim the final report into Spain's blackout was released on March 15th, and claimed renewables were the cause... ..........but the report was released on March 20, and does not say that 🍾

We wrote this article in 2020. For several reasons, it took a few years for it to be published. In this sense, the public inquiry confirms what those of us working on the intersection between public health, epistemology, and governance know well: it is never 'unpredictable'.

A reminder that, as the Covid-19 inquiry in the UK publishes another report, all of this was truly avoidable: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

If you are interested in some of the implications of this analysis, here is a policy brief I wrote for the @britishacademy.bsky.social Global (Dis)order project on what we can (and cannot) know about the future: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

A reminder that, as the Covid-19 inquiry in the UK publishes another report, all of this was truly avoidable: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Anyway so I am (still, also) reading Eating Animals and here is something for all of yous staying in the academia:

As they say, not that I have published on the intersection of academic freedom and freedom of speech (and why confusing them is dangerous), but -- oh wait, that is *exactly* what I had published on (a thread/selection, and DM me up if you need access to anything): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

There are many reasons I like Buddhism (obviously) but among others is the possibility of existence of this kind of sentence: 😊💓🐟🐢🛞🪷

“This is not a court of morality”: Newcastle Crown Court "When good citizens like Holly, Georgia and Summer are criminalised, without regard for their honesty or motivation there is a dangerous erosion of trust in society" northeastbylines.co.uk/region/tynes...

hmm, wondering what viral disease that is impacted by vaccine under-production and likely in (overcrowded, underventilated, unmasked) university environments was also described as "unprecedented"...🤔 www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

War is a climate story that billionaire media owners would prefer goes unreported So far, billionaire media owners are getting their way...

The verdict in the first Prairieland trial is due any day now. The prosecution aims to lay the groundwork to criminalize all forms of confrontational protest. To share information about this case and the broader patterns of repression, print and distribute this zine: crimethinc.com/zines/the-ro...

this part of JSF's "Eating animals" on Shame is really good - wondering what other recent resources on shame as a (broadly) positive thing there are? (I recall @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social's excellent essay in @bostonreview.bsky.social a few months back). Suggestions welcome.

"So, despite Trump and Bessent whipping up their cult with chants of “Drill, baby, Drill,” a phrase popularized by that known deep thinker, Sarah Palin, they ain’t. Because the oil isn’t there. More details on that here."

Introducing fracking in the UK is often justified on the grounds it would lower people's electricity bills. London School of Economics has stated, in the UK, fracking is unlikely to lower energy bills: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst... 3/5

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran. Iraq lessons must be learned. Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe. Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

Knowing this I am still in shock that we do not have climate change under control one bit - that we have let it get this extreme, and still think that a bright future is possible. I am starting to think that this may not even be the case for 'some', although clearly some will topple before others.

A lot of UK oil extraction is done out at sea, out of sight, out of mind. @oceanauk.bsky.social works to raise awareness of the harm oil pollution is causing to wildlife in our waters. share.google/YUtRuZNar5Bv...

The annual social cost of urban road noise in England is £7-£10 billion & the WHO identified environmental noise as the second largest environmental health risk in Western Europe. LTNs & 20mph speed limits can massively improve this.

Here is the direct link to @unsocialtheory.bsky.social's paper exploring what we can and cannot know about the future www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...

Some projects are long in the making because the questions are complex, the process iterative, and the answers not simple. The first batch of interventions from @britishacademy.bsky.social 'Global Disorders' is here - feat. a paper by yours truly 👇: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...

Is it still wrong to do it if my anti-cheating measure *works*? We talked about Louise Amoore’s “Machine Learning Political Orders.” www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Appalling that this is the kind of ad (Facebook, logged once in a blue moon) the UK's *ruling party* promotes in order to (try and) beat its alleged opponent, the *checks notes* party that wants free public transport and not exactly killing older people. Reform much yet, folks?

This Saturday, Manchester will see Britain First’s racist March for Remigration. Greater Manchester Police have imposed a Section 35 ‘dispersal order’ using the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. This power should not be used to target protesters. But guess what...

And there was I, thinking for a moment that Thiel meant the Von Trier film