"Heaven is a fed girl"

Delighted to share this super line-up of speakers, thinkers and doers at our seminar exploring civic intermediaries and urban change in the UK and Italy. 📅 January 28, 3.30-5pm 🧭 U of G Advanced Research Centre Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/civic-inte...

Wednesday, 21 January 2026 University of Glasgow Racial Justice Lecture Series Policing #Race: #Militarization and the Imperial Boomerang in #Britain and the United States. By @juliango.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/vi... cc @uofgsociology.bsky.social

Had a first go at creating a starter pack for social policy research. I’m new here and have surely missed lots so please say if you’d like added or removed!

I feel like I could post this every day.

Why not throw a (political) punch? New PSUK out now - this week, Nish and Coco discuss UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's response to Trump's strike on Venezuela, with co-host of @PodSaveAmerica.crooked.com and Pod Save the World, Tommy Vietor. Link in bio! #PodSaveTheUK #Politics #UK #News

I am horrified by the murder of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent. This is what fascism looks like in real time, where a far-right government emboldens a violent death squad to terrorise communities with impunity.

Keir Starmer is less popular than Nicolás Maduro. He's within the margin of error of Hamas.

Starting 2026 with an academic publication out is good news: "EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter-measures" (IJURR, open access). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy birthday to the University of Glasgow, founded in this city because Pope Nicholas V had heard good things about the weather and the food.

Donald Trump's attack on Venezuela is naked, loud and proud colonialism. And it's only the start. Next: Colombia, Cuba, Greenland, Mexico...

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

The Truth about Venezuela.

“Black losses”. Deaths from causes unknown. Seven million cleaner fish have died at Scottish farms since 2020. The government doesn’t publish the totals. It tok one man three years of FOI requests to uncover the toll. Find out more: www.theferret.scot/m...

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Why has Trump attacked Venezuela? Oil have to have a think about that..

This is an incredibly weak response from the EU, and a dangerous position to take. Maduro's legitimacy is not the issue at hand. The US is acting as a rogue state, and will embolden other states to use unchecked military power for their own ends. We need international law, not gangsterism.

The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela. This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources. It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

The US to the rescue of Iran! Great! What could go wrong? Remember how the US rescued Iraq? Oh, hold on. But remember how the US rescued Libya? OK, maybe not... But remember how the US rescued Afghanistan? Errrr

Here we go!

And finally, my favorite December 2025 photo is of my city, Reykjavík, looking cozy and beautiful in midnight snowfall. Thanks everyone for looking back at the year with me and being such a great group of people. Happy New Year! #yearinreview #winter #newyearseve

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

Güzel bir yıl olsun. Hava açık olsun. Sağlık olsun, iş-güç olsun, aşk olsun, dostluk olsun.

Where would the world be if the parasitic class was unable to keep rewarding itself for failure?

"The question is whether political leaders are brave enough to speak the truth? Immigration is good for this country and that we have a clear, moral responsibility to protect those failed by global injustice and political neglect." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Merry Christmas. ❤️

Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.

As America's labor market slows, AI-led interviews and auto-generated cover letters are dramatically changing the process of getting a job. And maybe not for the better. https://cnn.it/49kHdt4

‘Jesus was a refugee. As a child he had to go to Egypt for safety. So please: think what the message of Christmas really means’ The head of the Church of Scotland tells me Christmas is about welcoming the outsider as she speaks out against the hate growing in society In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

I've been following reporting on the attack on bilingual children, which is more of about race than the bilingalism itself. But, made me reflect on my own experience. www.instagram.com/reel/DSI-EQy...

This is incredibly obviously going to be the rolling problem with a “tougher” immigration stance. We still need people to do things. And, ultimately, either we hire/retain them or the things don’t get done. Everything else is hollow rhetoric.

To sum up 2025 from CaCHE, Centre Director Prof Ken Gibb has reflected back on the previous year and looks forward to 2026 in a new blog post published on our website. You can read the blog here: housingevidence.ac.uk/caches-2025-...

Proper sick pay and ventilation as key infrastructure. Simple, achievable, life saving measures, yet neglected.

Visa restrictions in leading anglophone destinations have fuelled student search interest in Western Europe, according to new data #EduSky #Intled

⛽🛢️☠️Fossil Fuel False Solutions Boost Power, Harm Justice New ICTA-UAB study reveals that many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies operate as false solutions fail to effectively reduce emissions www.miragenews.com/fossil-fuel-...

Last year today I moved house! Can't believe it's been a year since then! Most stressful best decision ever.

photo of the day 👇

‼️ The last USSP seminar of the year is TODAY ‼️ Don't miss it 🤓

It's the little titbit at the end, that the impact assessment found reducing migration would have a negligible impact on community cohesion, that I especially like. That seems to be the government's current sole justification for their policies: www.ft.com/content/2b60...

A £10 billion hole in the economy and a deepening care crisis — to appease the far right (which will never be appeased anyway)

Such a bloody fantastic day?! Hope it stops howling at night #stormbran

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic

Join the seminar: Reclaiming Spatial Justice - The Emancipatory Power of Commoning Stavros Stavrides will discuss role of commoning in just urban futures. Co-organised by Just City by the Med Research Network & Urban Studies and Social Policy Seminar Series. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...