The UK’s Sentencing Act Leaves the Door Open for Big Tech to Build Digital Prisons www.techpolicy.press/the-uks-sent...

I’m really pleased that my application to the first Stuart Hall Foundation / Stuart Hall Archive Project Summer School Fellowship has been accepted! From 1-14 June, I’ll be based at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, exploring Hall’s archived papers alongside a group of other researchers and artists. 📑

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-...

Wee email from ResearchGate informing me of a cool (to me at least) ECR milestone: the first time my work has been cited in an academic article (I think) - www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... Bird et al. (2024) yeeehaw

good morning colson whitehead, most accomplished of maker workers! "Some people say, “I just use it to brainstorm ideas.” If you don’t know what to paint, or compose, or write, you’re in the wrong job. Art is the business of making up stuff — go make up some stuff." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

"[The prison] has been empty since July 2024 after high levels of radon, a toxic gas that occurs naturally in soil and rocks and can cause lung cancer, were recorded..." https://www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/prince-william-2m-taxpayer-prison-hmp-dartmoor-duchy-cornwall-cqg58j507

love this analysis! i made this resource because several women at my workplace were called "emotional" for raising questions about our institution's uncritical embrace of generative AI: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

at some point we're probably going to need to have a reckoning with the fact that for huge swathes of the British establishment having been a supporter of the Labour Party between 2015 and 2019 is a crime so heinous that no punishment is disproportionate

Cool. Just need some synthetic social scientists now. Much more efficient. 👍

Loved this piece and loved the book (everyone else at the book club I read it with absolutely hated it)

Book launch of ‘Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems’ yesterday at @uofgsps.bsky.social, featuring a poem by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

I sort of wish y'all took this more seriously, because this attitude is a reinforcement of heterosexuality as a hierarchy. It's an acknowledgement and understanding that it's not enough to "be with" a woman, or even to father children. They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.

the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything

Good morning. Daylight hours start to increase again in just 34 days.

✍️ My book review of 'Supply Chain Justice' on the @bordercrim.bsky.social blog:

Scotland’s #AI data centres are already using enough fresh water to fill 27m bottles per year. #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...

Abolish the Home Office

Re-reading 'The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation', which prompted me to watch this video of people in Goldthorpe celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher with an effigy and bagpipes www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9K...

We’ve had a strong start to the academic year with our first general meeting & a welcome lunch for those of you who’ve recently joined UCUGlasgow! As we head into balloting (opening Oct 20th), it’s as important as ever to build our organising power. More here: glasgow.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/10/09/w...

Thanks for being there and listening!

Loved listening to @saranahmed.bsky.social speak so movingly and poetically about some of the ideas behind her new book this evening at @lighthousebks.bsky.social

'Further emails suggest BAE Systems required Glasgow university to complete security questions before agreeing to attend events. A “university security questionnaire” sent to Glasgow by the defence company asked if the institution was “aware of any social media protests posts or videos”.'

NEW from Liberty Investigates: UK universities have offered to monitor students social media accounts for arms companies concerned about campus protests Full story below www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"It seems very likely that OpenAI will soon be placing ads inside ChatGPT results" can universities please now stop providing these licenses to students or are we not even trying any more to separate learning from corporate sponsorship jeppestricker.substack.com/p/the-age-of...