✍️ @kavitaurbanist.bsky.social and Ebbensgaard show how individual and communal efforts to reduce exposure (in the case of #heat) or increase exposure (in the case of #sunlight) center the #elemental as a point of struggle for just #urban living and citizenship. 📖 buff.ly/kMvShgR

Check out this piece and all the wonderful articles in the SI. @mathildaros.bsky.social and Lucilla Barchetta have done a fantastic job curating and editing this collection!

The Bread and Puppet Theatre's WHY CHEAP ART MANIFESTO was a huge inspiration for my new book DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Rethink why you create : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... Assembly Press (More on the manifesto here: breadandpuppetpress.org/products/why...)

It’s important to remember that every single one of the Black women whom this administration has targeted has endured this kind of burden — often with far higher costs, in dollars, in violent threats, in social costs. And the world averts its eyes from the weight they carry from these attacks.

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

St Andrews University academic on Gaza aid flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces: Geography lecturer Dr Antonis Vradis joined a boat believed to have been intercepted off the coast of Cyprus. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

our St Andrews colleague Antonis Vradis who bravely joined the Global Sumud Flotilla has also been captured by the IOF in international waters - please share / write to your MP/MSP www.writetothem.com

Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

This is why I keep asking that “so what do older women who lose their academic jobs do” question - and why the answers are nearly always “rely on partner income/family wealth/networking to survive” :/

East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.

Why is the UK so bad at trains? I’ve been on long distance trains every week in May. Every single one of them has been cancelled or late or both. And we can’t even get the project that might help right. Functional, usable trains should be the bare minimum of a country’s infrastructure. 😬

Worth reading as well the lengthy Science investigation into the FBI's shift to targeting Chinese postdocs instead of more senior researchers www.science.org/content/arti...

“Roughly three-quarters of those children… are likely U.S. citizens”

How the fuck did this get IRB approval?!? as a UW grad student I had to jump through so many hoops to record adult’s smartphones with their actual informed consent, these people were gonna do covert recordings of fucking children to train an LLM and it got approved?!?! what?!?!

I promise you none of the people who manage your local bookstores would say the same. www.nbcnews.com/business/ceo...

“The U.S. National Science Foundation X-Labs (NSF X-Labs) initiative is designed to launch and scale a new generation of organizations focused on independent research, development and innovation.” We have those, thanks, they’re called universities and national laboratories.

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Congratulations to our new union comrades at Penn State! Especially glad to hear the union covers temporary and part time faculty as well, to head off attempts to pit adjunct and TT against each other. www.centredaily.com/news/local/e...

The losses to HE continue to mount. This time please donate to colleagues at Nottingham trying to save jobs and departments.

For further context: almost everyone in the Faculty of Arts is at risk of redundancy. Music, Modern Languages & American & Canadian Studies courses to close completely. History will not close but staff numbers will be significantly reduced. This is what 'right-sizing' looks like, apparently.

#skystorians Please sign and share. Petition to save the Humanities at University of Hertfordshire c.org/kK5v9MTdNr

Today’s jobs: - Writing my department’s counter-proposal to the plan to sack over half of us - counselling students - dealing with Canvas hack fallout - trying to imagine what might be taught next semester and by whom (this bit failed).

"Children as young as 4 are being forced to repeatedly appear in court and provide updates on their case, at times without legal help, within a matter of weeks. "Children are feeling 'enormous pressure' and some wet their pants when they have to go to court..." www.cnn.com/2026/04/28/p...

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

some good news FOR ONCE “Perhaps most damaging for the regulator meant to oversee freedom of speech, the accusation of bias in the process was also upheld.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Who Digitized your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

“Most people would see a set of stairs or a bench, but skateboarders see these places differently"

To address the harms chatbots can cause, we need to start at the beginning, D&S exec director Janet Haven tells @npr.org: "Chatbots are designed to be agreeable & validating, and that can become really dangerous when users are spiraling or contemplating harmful actions." www.npr.org/2026/04/23/n...

Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

“Jonathan Caravello, 38, faced up to 20 years in prison if he was convicted of the charge. The verdict is the latest blow to the Trump administration, which has thrown baseless assault charges at people who protest its mass deportation operations — but has repeatedly failed to secure convictions.”

Anyone complaining about college students not protesting a) doesn't spend much time on a college campus, b) has never been to an anti-war protest, c) doesn't understand how much time sustained mass mobilization takes to organize, and d) is oozing disdain for young people leading the charge.

Why choose geography? 🌍 Professor Emma Mawdsley, Head of Department at University of Cambridge, explains why geography is like no other subject. She spoke at our school member lecture this month, sharing insights for teachers and students 🎤 Explore more events and resources at www.rgs.org/schools

“why aren’t college students protesting”

This is also why it's so gutting when Mamdani doesn't fund libraries. The threats are very real. And as big content pushes us towards a post-ownership world, libraries are going to be even more critical resources.

People in this country go about our daily lives as our government commits atrocity after atrocity. I don’t have words for it.

An Israeli strike targeted a marked press car in southern Lebanon on Saturday, killing Ali Shoeib of Al Manar TV, reporter Fatima Ftouni of Al Mayadeen TV, and her brother, freelance cameraman Mohamed Ftouni.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, defence minister says

Wow. This is wild. If they applied these guidelines throughout the school they'd be banning half of the English curriculum.

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’ But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

US just sold $16bn to countries currently under attack because of a war the US started and because they they are hosting US airbases… www.usnews.com/news/top-new...

"Black women ...comprise 6 percent of the overall U.S. labor force and 12 percent of the federal labor force. But of the almost 300,000 federal jobs slashed in 2025, Black women were a stunning 33 percent of those cuts."