Relieved to see more coverage of the grip Nous is getting on #UKHE. Thanks @privateeyenews.bsky.social! A million pound @cardiffucu.bsky.social alone. That’s a lot of money for the very same PowerPoint…

I finally started my substack back up! This post includes a draft project proposal for my new research project on character AI. I would LOVE feedback! Please comment and share, I want to build my subscriber base back up after a 2 year medical hiatus.🌈🎓 #AI #feministsky #leftist

Strangest part of today was the Avanti west coast train arriving on time despite the heat. The pendolino carriages did their usual work of making me sick as a dog, then disgorged me into a metallic, roaring sun I can hardly believe belongs to Glasgow. It is still May

The Beckmann at the Baltimore Museum of Art leaves one reeling artbma.org/artwork/stil...

Our colleague and comrade geographer Dr Antonis Vradis has been abducted by Israel and his whereabouts are currently unknown

Reposting with full alt text, because it’s important that this stuff is accessible.

Not really handling it being almost a quarter of a century since I lived in Baltimore. Attempted to metabolise the movements of history by searching out @redemmas.org (emerged 3 years after I left) to buy the current issue (number 4) of @pinko.online

Capitol is 2 blocks away: that’s where the criminals are (Amtrak employee shouting over a long line at Union Station DC bag storage)

Orozco Test Panel in a side corridor of the library: Man Released from the Mechanistic into the Creative Life

I’ve come to Dartmouth College for my uncle’s memorial service tomorrow afternoon and I’m sitting in the basement of the library looking at the Orozco murals and thinking about all that has happened since I first saw them in 1990 when he invited me to live with him for several months

In the aftermath of the “rally against antisemitism” in London this weekend, to which Zack Polanski was not invited, read the interview with Barnaby Raine published a few days ago in @equatormag.bsky.social

“Don’t you ever tire, demon? You greet me on my threshold. You watch me in my bed. You turn quiet to dread. What is left of my existence is captive to your humming, as you hunt your next prey. Evil suspended above us, you promise butcheries. The horror will never leave us. “ — Ahmad Sbaih

Aye. Heard today that my university is closing UG History, Philosophy, English Lit, Linguistics, and Creative Writing in one go.

I have just reviewed a paper for a journal that I am convinced was entirely AI-generated. But I have no idea how to make a strong accusation, nor can I advise the journal on what to do next. The 'author' seems to have produced a large amount of smooth, vacuous publications in the last six months...

I'm Lead Judge of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, awarded at University of Edinburgh since 1919 and due to be announced this month. But the university is currently withholding 100% of my pay for participating in a marking and assessment boycott. So, at present, there will be no prize.

If you are the editor of a journal and you have received a submission from me that looks a bit weird (weirder than usual) please assume it is a LLM-generated paper from a ghost author. This has happened four times in recent weeks. In each case it is possible to see how a genuine published paper 1/2

Eight years ago, I wrote that the OfS was an obscenity. Senior academics told me I was hyperbolic. Some said it would 'never use' its powers. Much still to be said about the complacent attitude of uni leadership and senior academics. /1 punkacademic.org/2018/01/03/i...

🇵🇸Palestine Action activists dismissed their lawyers yesterday to address the jury directly about why they targeted an Israeli arms firm in Bristol. “I can say with absolute certainty that this is the best thing that I have ever done”, said Zoe Rogers👇 www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...

Judgment effectively outlines that the OFS was determined to make an example of Sussex to force other universities into submission to its ideological position.

In the light of current topics, we are releasing a free PDF of one of the essays published in the AYASU? book - 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝐵𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝐷𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑜𝑟 𝐹𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑡𝑠 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 by 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗼 📖 Read here: aksioma.org/pdf/toscano....

Koda Sokol takes on “trans contagion” “all people understand and perform their genders fundamentally depends on their exposures to and encounters with others. All gender is contagious, in other words” read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

‘The landscape of English poetry changed after the publication of Prynne’s second book, 𝘒𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴, in 1968.’ On the blog: the editors on J.H. Prynne, who died on Wednesday. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

We are hiring an Assistsnt Professor of Human Geography with a focus on Health. I’m happy to answer any questions. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

University management spent £80 million on new building that wasn't needed (presently for sale at £14 million) and now decide 600 staff should go to 'save' £50 million. This is the math currently shaping future of UK HE. Staff paying the price for mismanagement. Govt looking the other way

Glasgow! Including interventions from Sita Balani (QMUL), Natalia Cecire (Sussex), Sophie Jones (Strathclyde)

It seems that Yousof is being punished for doing exactly what we want social scientists to do: to use their expertise to improve public understanding of the world. His real crime seems to be to do that while also being Iranian. You can sign a petition by using the link below.

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval

A short piece on the strange pleasures to be found in the poetry of J.H. Prynne

If this whets your appetite for #LesbianHistory, I've got two fun open access pieces for you to dive into: A chapter on British lesbian safer-sex activism www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK616... And an article on queer women's health activism in 90s Birmingham! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Keston Sutherland on Prynne in the eternally-riveting Glossator, which devoted an entire issue to Prynne as well as publishing his Tintern essay. glossator.org/wp-content/u...

Very sorry to hear that the poet J.H. Prynne has died, at the age of 89. Here, from 10 years ago, is my attempt to describe the man and the work

Avgi Saketopoulou develops here what she calls “exigent sadism” in the context of an anti-reparative turn. I disagree with some of the moves she makes within her readings of psychoanalysis, but certainly found this very rich to think with read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...

450 redundancies announced at the Ulster University. The impact of this will be devastating to staff, students & the functioning of the North as a whole. From social sciences speaking truth to power, to art giving this place joy - the decision must be reversed. Can you sign & share this petition?

More on the state of British academia. Such cruelty and brutalisation effected through these processes that are dismantling disciplines and universities in the face of governmental indifference

I am remembering how in 2019 the current VC of Bristol, then Acting Principal at KCL, apologized after a report found security staff passed on names of 13 students (including those in Action Palestine) to Met police www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Pls read this editorial by @kirstenweld.bsky.social about how our Provost's plan for "viewpoint diversity" hires further erodes faculty governance at my university. (And never mind "veritas"!) 8 hires--but humanities hiring generally has been frozen since 3/25. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

We absolutely have to move to a position where university workers on repeat contracts at the same institution are understood as working for the university and not the funder.

Things are SO awful in UKHE; solidarity with all academics navigating an incredibly brutal landscape

I’ve donated; can you? Radical bookshops needed now more than ever

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Please let this be good. Waiting for the final weeks to tick down till I can see it www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/...

Many people still think we’re exaggerating when we speak of annihilationist projects against trans people in Britain

Today is the one-year anniversary of the publication of my book, Teaching Gender! It's been fab to hear from people who have read, & taught, it in the last year. If you have institutional access, you can read it here: academic.oup.com/book/59787 - or ask your library to acquire a copy!

Beautiful review. And it opens crucial questions for all who saw the Noah Davis in its Barbican iteration, too

The state of British academia: my partner was made redundant from one uni after 14 (14)yrs on fixed-term contracts, & has now begun a short-term fixed contract at another that is threatening to put all (all) its academic staff at risk of redundancy in a “fire & rehire” www.ucu.org.uk/article/1445...

Experienced this last term. Thinking of you @vincent.northsky.social

Caught up with Yoni Gelernter's essay on the logic of Zionism in @thedriftmag.com

This is fascinating on the dream logics, the figure of the wounded child, and the pulsation of the unconscious through the image worlds of Trump 2.0