The world hasn't stopped falling apart, but if relevant, Monday onwards I'll be observing this from the vantage point of @lselibrary.bsky.social archives & research for my @leverhulme.ac.uk project on non-reciprocity (janabacevic.net/research/und...), so give us a shout if around!

I chaired a wonderful Viva today. Such a privilege and pleasure to see students defend their thesis with true passion and a commitment to change. Now heading home to enjoy... ❤️ #vivavoce

❤️ (hi Tom)

This. Now.

Israel has intercepted and bombed the Sumud flotilla www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

UKCGE to Partner on £3.4m Project on AI Researcher Development Network.

Looking forward to reading this.

Earlier this year my department somehow published this, where I offer reflections on my visiting fellowship at @ucsandiego.bsky.social, and write about why, if we are committed to higher education, we must fight for a borderless world: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

My talk at the ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference (ESISyNC) 2025 on "Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST", Frankfurt, 9.9.2025, to be found here on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=phDq...

Sunday read: "Marx's Capital: A Conversation with Paul North" Marx challenges capitalism's apparent inevitability, offering a framework to see capitalism's operations and imagine its undoing. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/marx-s-...

“When Palestine in English revolts, it’s because Palestine in Arabic gives it life. Palestine in English resists becoming ghost because Palestine in Arabic is never ghost, no matter the immensity of ruin”: Fady Joudah in @parapraxismag.bsky.social www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/exh...

Interested in feminist approaches to age and mental health? Join our new reading group starting October 28th where we will be discussing part 2 of Simone de Beauvoir's "Old Age". Sign up and and see the schedule here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/laun...

On September 3rd, we launched our network with an exciting and inspiring event designed for and led by ECRS across the Midlands. If you missed it, you can read our report here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/birm...

ICYMI: "On Nature's Free Gifts" Alyssa Battistoni's discussion with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia on the limits and social costs of capitalism, the socialization of nature, and freedom in a post-capitalist future. Please like and subscribe on our YouTube channel! #Philosophy

"...shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to the political violence that Klein and company rightly abhor. It is, quite literally, the least one can do to ensure rules of social conduct that upheld minimal levels of dignity for all involved." - @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

In the #Rationale magazine, cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson gives his take on what’s happening in current affairs. Check out his other recent cartoons here: rationalemagazine.com/index.php/au... @mbjcartoonist.bsky.social

Really great take, and explains why some colleagues continue to say its so good for initial research (for eg) even in situations where they've had to admit to me that half the refs are fabricated.

📢 Join us today for a new episode of #EUIConversation with Dacia Maraini! A discussion on literature, society, & personal stories w/ one of the most relevant Italian writers in today's narrative. 📌 16:00-17:30 CEST 🗣️ Event in Italian Livestream on our YouTube channel: https://loom.ly/oHa0tpY

The Leverhulme Trust has teamed up with @britishacademy.bsky.social to produce Confessions of an Early Career Researcher, a new podcast by ECRs for ECRs. Tune in now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/... Read more about this collaboration: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/confess...

Moltissima gente alla manifestazione

Sunday read: "On Housecraft" Emma Wilkins reviews "Home Work" by Helen Hayward. Society dismisses domestic work as trivial, bt it can be deeply meaningful. Wilkins explores why some jobs are elevated and others overlooked. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/on-hous...

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

Boredom on many levels of inquiry: as body feelings, subjective slowing down of time, and related insular cortex activity. Review out by @wanjawolff.bsky.social and team.

Jimmy Kimmel has been taken off air at the direction of the state. In the coming weeks and months, others deemed critical of the Trump regime will be deplatformed, threatened, arrested and deported. The US is well on track to becoming an authoritarian state.

Send to all your colleagues either extolling or quivering before LLM-reliant writing

Unfathomable yet needs to be spoken of.

Don't forget to register for our seminar taking place in two days at 12:00 CET! Famous Raewyn Connell (@raewynconnell) will talk about "The global economy of knowledge and its dynamics" Link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist

Sounds fascinating!

"Go birds, fuck Ice and free Palestine!" "I feel like it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel...” - Hannah Einbinder www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Niv & Vanshika Gupta produced this anthology of stories, reinterpreted from the oral life histories of socially marginalised, critical academics in the Indian academy. 📖more here doi.org/10.5281/zeno... With Nandita Dhawan of the School of Women's Studies, at Jadavpur University

Announcing: On Philosophy, Fall 2025!! All events are free, Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK (except Oct. 27th at 3pm ET) featuring Alyssa Battistoni, Quill Kukla, James Bridle, Louise Amoore, Athene Donald, Francesca Peacock, Jennifer Park, Dan McQuillan, and so many more! #Philosophy #PhilEvents

Your Sunday read: "Bergson and Intuitive Knowledge" Alan Shepherd examines Henri Bergson's view of intuition as a key to metaphysical knowledge, revealing a creative, loving force behind life and offering deep, spiritual truths. #Philosophy

Was "Let's make our universities financially dependent on overseas tuition fees." Then "Let's make it more difficult and less attractive for overseas students to come to the UK." Now "Oops."

This week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast we examine the bombshell merger announcement between the University of Greenwich and the University of Kent

Ugh. For shame. source: buff.ly/I4WIuem unpaywalled: buff.ly/B9EXLV8 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #AddToBlackEduSky #FeministSky

With the phrase “unfunded hobbyist research” the new Universities UK President continues a much longer history of contempt that UUK has shown towards the labour of all those who work in universities

Historian Joan Scott on maintaining the “stubborn resistance” that is the legacy of her father — in the face of so many craven responses within universities to the imposition of authoritarianism www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Da 300 giorni Alberto Trentini, cooperante umanitario, è detenuto in Venezuela. Il governo italiano tace, mentre Alberto non ha mai potuto incontrare la sua legale, né conoscere il capo d’accusa. Continuiamo ad illuminare la sua vicenda, a chiedere LIBERTÀ PER ALBERTO TRENTINI.

Permanent Vacation, Jim Jarmusch (1980)

Important projects looking at resistance in universities in the past; from which to learn. Out yesterday: 'University of Durban-Westville, 1961–2003: Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture' - ed. Badat & Vahed ukznpress.co.za?class=bb_ukz... #SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Resistance

Opening the gates to severe floods & no life jackets in sight. It's madness.

Philosophy department, Belgrade #ECER2025

'As universities close courses and departments in response to financial pressures...students in parts of the North, South West and East of England, as well as large areas of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, are losing access to social sciences, humanities and arts (SHAPE) courses.' 1/2

Money on what the new wave of global protests (Serbia, Indonesia, Nepal, Turkey, everywhere where there is resistance to genocide in Gaza) is going to be called?

This.

In Belgrade this week for #ECER2025

All of this is true. I would add sometimes your paper is stuck because the editor is just a person and it is ok to ask

‘It’s hard to articulate what Sturgeon’s feminism meant to someone like me who moved back to Scotland in the mid-1990s, a country stifled by all-male clubs and all-male panels, with its politics and journalism dominated by “big beasts”.’ @danigaravelli.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...