Explosions and drones targeting Gaza aid flotilla boats, activists say

Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today. A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):

Happy #SilkSong Day! 🎉 Kudos to all who kept the faith!

#SanctionIsraelNow. Suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Stand for humanity. 🇵🇸 In this week's ProgPage, MEP @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social calls on Europe to take long overdue action on the humanitarian tragedy in #Gaza and the Israeli government's crimes. 🗞️ feps-europe.eu/sanction-isr...

Military veterans object to Donald Trump deploying soldiers to Los Angeles protests https://www.ft.com/content/ff61c9b0-6466-4cd0-8ccf-b6903b329bb2

**Madleen is in Ashdod Port** We have just received confirmation that all 11 volunteers and one Al Jazeera reporter from the ‘Madleen’ are currently at Ashdod Port. They are being processed and transferred to detention. They are expected to be moved to the Ramleh detention facility unless ...2/

Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.

Free webinar from Financial Justice Ireland on the implications of the Irish Central Bank’s trading of Israeli war bonds which play a direct role in funding genocide in Gaza #SpéirGhorm tinyurl.com/yuv3h3z8

The Gaza Health Ministry has released a new 1,000-page document with the names, ages and other statistical information of 52,959 Palestinians killed in Gaza. The first 100 pages (over 5,000 names), the age is listed at 5 years or younger. The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year)

Some good news! Like so many, I can trace pro-social values to Gordon, Luis, Susan, Maria, Gina and Bob (and sarcasm to Oscar of course)! A world without #SesameStreet would be a poorer place. apnews.com/article/sesa...

Eurovision has always been a political project - for European unity; integration of East & West; positive LGBTQI+ visibility; censuring of Russia. Platforming the Netanyahu regime & banning performers' displays of solidarity with Palestine: also political. I will not be watching. @rte.ie #eurovision

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Can anyone tell me if there has been/is likely to be any response to, not just this event, but the legislation cited, in terms of language-based discrimination? Either from the Irish State or from the EU? #spéirgorm #Gaeilge #minoritylanguages www.thejournal.ie/irish-pro-pa...

Had to share this. All credit to hariybaby.com for their genius. Let me get my order in before you clear them out. #spéirgorm #NotJustASkort #CamogieEquality

La France vient de dépasser les 100 000 signatures à elle seule ! On a besoin d'aide pour pousser les autres pays à signer plus ! Vous pouvez aider en envoyer ces posts traduits et le lien aux asso, personnalités, partis, médias des 27 pays de l'UE ! 🎯 1 million ! eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

After all the millions spent on investigations, reviews, reports and recommendations to address racism, homophobia and misogyny in the Met? Plus ça change... How depressing for residents, for officers from affected minority communities and for allies in the service. @london.gov.uk

🇫🇷🚨 La librairie queer Les Vagues, à Nantes, a été vandalisée. Depuis son ouverture en 2024, ce lieu est un refuge pour les cultures queer, les luttes féministes, antiracistes, les droits LGBTQIA+. ✊ Soutien total.

Are you a qualified scientist or medical expert? Please sign* this letter in support of trans & non-binary people. It is clear that sex is not a binary. As any qualified professional is aware, sex is a continuum or spectrum. We must stand up to dangerous pseudoscience. Biology Is Not Binary

Universities have more power to “push back” against politicians than they realise as the source of the “brain power” driving countries’ economies, scholars have stressed. @julietterowsell.bsky.social reports from #THEeurope #AcademicSky

University leaders should work to shield research and teaching communities from undue external pressure and interference. Read EUA's position paper on 'How universities can protect and promote academic freedom'. buff.ly/35qwaif #AcademicSky

Given the Trump administration's deleting trans from federal stats, re-sharing my paper with @miambloom.bsky.social and @sophiamoskalenko.bsky.social, where we show the dangerous spillover into extremism from political marginalisation of the LGBTQ+ community! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For Eva Cerezo @www.unizar.es , the inclusion of a gender perspective in research projects not only improves the quality & relevance of their results, but also contributes to the construction of a fairer & more equitable society. 🔗 buff.ly/UOUAY3c #DoctoralDebate #GenderMainstreaming #EDI #EduSky

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

University of Oxford is hiring: Departmental Lecturer in Sociology

I would like to apologise to #spéirgorm for the drop in temperatures today and for the weekend. I purchased summer clothing yesterday. In this isolated case, I am convinced that correlation does equal causation.

Historians for Trans Rights - open letter, please sign - you don’t have to be a UK based historian to sign the letter #allyship #solidarity docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

I have one of these handsome chaps in my garden. He is so vocal in advertising his availability that I can hear him from inside the house. He also sounds like a car alarm going off all day. Please direct any available mates his way before I resort to ear defenders. (1/2) #spéirgorm #birdsofbluesky

The European Centre for the Study of Hate (ECSH) joined the launch of UL’s Research Week 2025. Prof. Jennifer Schweppe showcased the ECSH’s interdisciplinary, impact-focused work, dedicated to understanding and addressing group-based hate. #ResearchWeekUL #StayCurious @unioflimerick.bsky.social

🚨 The British Medical Association has today Condemned what it called the Supreme Court’s “scientifically illiterate, biologically nonsensical ruling” They will continue to affirm the rights of trans and non-binary individuals to live their lives with dignity, having their identity respected.

Really grateful @jordynbzim.bsky.social wrote this. While speaking autistic people have made their grievances known, non-speaking ones deserve a platform.

#elxn45 "researchers say an increasing volume of misinformation is coming from the US, including from rightwing podcasters and influencers as well as bots on American social media platforms that have reduced content controls" www.ft.com/content/743c...

All set for the start of #ResearchWeekUL tomorrow. Check out the diverse, innovative programme of events. ul.ie/researchweek All events are free but you need to register. #ResearchImpact ##StayCurious #ResearchAtUL

“Public sociology is a form of education: speaking out beyond the university also performs an educative function.” Just before he died, Michael Burawoy talked to @michaelacbenson.bsky.social about his career-defining evangelism for public – or, alternatively, a living – sociology. buff.ly/6WD2fzQ

Fixed term teaching post (10 months) in critical criminology in the University of Liverpool's Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMV424/l...

The University of Limerick, Ireland, has advertised the position of Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (Permanent) Salary Scale: €108,936 - €145,613 p.a. Information & application material: www.ul.ie/hrvacancies Closing 8th May 2025 before 12 noon, Irish Standard Time #jobfairy #DEI #EDI

Its not post modern to supprt trans liberation-Judith Butler writes ‘if you think of rights stripping as a form of state repression, on a spectrum with detention & deportation, then you see that authoritarian powers include all three kinds of legal destitution’ socialistworker.co.uk/lgbt/judith-...

Must-read piece by @tupped.bsky.social on recent CJEU ruling that national laws impeding access to rights under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights or other EU provisions, due to incorrectly recording sex assigned at birth rather than lived gender identity, must be disregarded. #TransWomenAreWomen

The UK Supreme Court ruling redefining the category of women to exclude trans and non-binary people, is a travesty. It erases lived realities and undermines decades of progress toward equality. I support calls for an appeal (1/2). 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransWomenAreWomen

The Polish president Andrzej Duda effectively blocked the new law extending hate crime and hate speech protections to sexual orientation, gender, disability, and age, by asking the compromised Constitutional Court for a legal review.

Still time to submit your abstract! Deadline: 25th April 2025

Submissions for the @BscHcn 'Sophie and Sylvia Lancaster Prize 2025' are now open. Details on the eligibility criteria and the nomination process can be found in the flyer below. Please send submissions to me at [email protected] by 5pm on Friday 16 May 2025

For some actual facts about autism and autistic people's experiences, I highly recommend We're Not Broken by #ActuallyAutistic @ericmgarcia.bsky.social #spéirgorm

I wanted to post about RFK's press conference/campaign against autistic inclusion yesterday, but I was too angry. I won't repost his misinformation. Instead I will link to the response from #ActuallyAutistic @ericmgarcia.bsky.social #spéirgorm www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... (1/3)

1 in 3 women in the EU have experienced violence at home, at work or in public, found the @eu-eurostat.extwitter.link / @eurightsagency.bsky.social / EIGE EU gender-based violence survey. How is it in your country? For more, and other headline figures across Europe, see: europa.eu/!cfGdFT

3 year Research Fellow post in Historical Criminology based at Sussex. Working with me and @esmoriemiller.bsky.social on Leverhulme funded project Imagining Race, Crime and Justice in Sailortown, 1870-1939. Please repost, send to anyone who might be interested: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/18442578...

❔ Wondering what makes the SALAAM Project such a unique anti-racism training in Ireland? Let Niera –one of the co-trainers– tell you! #SALAAMProject #AntiRacism #AntiRacismTraining #INAR #StandAgainstRacism

Points to note: - already-inadequate conditions deteriorating - rates of violence high and rising - drugs presenting ongoing threat - self-harm rate very high - 3 in 10 prisoners locked up during working day - governor focused on improving standards.