CFP: Radical Imaginations: Political Poetics and Forms of (R)existence networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

CFP: Mythical Archipelagos: Islands, Narratives, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria dfmti.ulpgc.es/app/pages/in...

CFP: Eco-Narratives of Volcanic Ecologies from Past Until the Present: a Geo-Ontological Turn" networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Geography's 'combination of STEM, social science and arts and humanities can sit uneasily within university faculty systems, heightening the risk that we are dismantled into separate components.' 1/2

Just had a very attractive invitation to speak at an event in the US. I'd love to go but I declined. I'm not going to the US until the fascism is over.

A real loss in this moment of darkness.

UK & EU responding to fact that Trump can 'switch off' Visa and Mastercard. We should all be worried about this and also all the US software that can be switched off. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

I can't even begin to understand this. Everyone in society suffered from the lockdowns, and academics worked double or triple loads to support students during that time. The diminished life experience of students in that time was not the fault of universities. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Je vous rappel que pour traiter le fascisme il existe déjà une méthode scientifique qui a fait ses preuves. Elle est présenté ici par Alfred Hitchcock

I can't see a picture of RFK Jr now without thinking of an observation I read once that he looks like a face carved into a testicle.

The utterly magnificent Lisa O'Neill has a brilliant song about Mother Jones on her new album 'The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right' www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpFx...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

The new batch of Epstein files make me retch. They reveal the rot of abuse & corruption at the highest levels of government, finance & tech. As Rebecca Solnit observes, it feels like: “rapists all the way down, and enablers all the way up.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal. It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.

Food delivery robots and Waymos are not our friends. www.404media.co/serve-food-d...

Another example (just like the Essex campus closure) of how refusing to have a structured and effective HE policy destroys the rest of the government’s place-based goals www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"Whereas contemporary fascists are giving voice to the ugly authoritarian & reactionary face of popular opposition to the political and economic establishment, an egalitarian & inclusive left popular radicalism ... 1/2 criticallegalthinking.com/2017/12/05/f...

No great loss here. A badly run company with annoying branding and subaverage beer. This will hopefully make more room for better brewers and businesspeople. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CFP: Interdisciplinary Conference, “Rivers in Crisis. Fluvial Representations and Agencies in the Anthropocene”, Graz, 20.-21.11.2026 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott

Hi everyone. As you know, I am our trans rights lead at Good Law Project. I have been working alongside a fantastic team on our challenge since May last year. But whilst what we have achieved is significant - there is still a lot further to go. If you can, please donate and help us keep fighting.

This piece is quite something.

I'm working on a guide for community opposition. There's going to be so many ways to make this impossible to materialize if people are willing to put in the work. Local community efforts dealing with zoning, building codes, etc will be vital. We must stop this www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Sign to get the wicked fascist Palantir out of UK services

There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Another grant application bit the dust today. Sigh.

This is big: high court rules proscription of Palestine Action is unlawful. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

CFP: Illuminating the Dark! Night Histories from Byzantion to Istanbul en.iae.org.tr/Event-Detail...

The Stuart Hall Foundation seeks two new Trustees www.stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie...

I've just seen the Trump "government" described as a Muppet show. The Muppets are far too wholesome. It's much more like "Meet the Feebles" (Peter Jackson, 1989). Warning, this trailer is X-rated and not for the weak, even though it's made with puppets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrwf...

Google gave ICE the sensitive personal data of a student journalist, including his bank account and credit card info, without even letting him know. The company is also helping bankroll Trump’s vanity ballroom project. Google is enabling fascism — all to protect its bottom line.

If you were trying to come up with more harmful guidance towards trans and non-binary young people you would be hard pressed to find it. The fact it is backed by Cass shows how wrong it is. We are already seeing an increase in suicide rates among trans young people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK just proposed new school guidance that effectively bans even social transition for trans students (using a different name, pronoun or haircut). It implements a full bathroom ban while requiring mandatory outing of trans youth if a teacher suspects they are trans. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Court Rules Oats Don't Have Teats

Friendly reminder if in Amsterdam and nearby: presentation of MOULD’s (and ours) book: 'Architecture is Climate,' looking at how architecture needs to reform itself in the face of climate breakdown. 🗓️ 26 February 2026 🕖 20:00h 📍 Academy of Architecture, ARCAM Come and join!!

🚨 Job alert! Following the recent announcement of significant new investment, we are seeking an England Development Manager (Heritage Revival Fund) to co‑lead our core grants and advisory programme across England. Find more details and a full job description: ⬇️ ahfund.org.uk/what-we-do/i...

Teaching arts, humanities, and languages is a public health investment.

Open Rights Group: "the UK needs to build and protect sovereignty over its digital infrastructure, and not leave itself vulnerable to the policies and actions of foreign powers such as the US and China." www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...

Donella Meadows would also like a word with the LibDems...

“AI accelerated certain tasks, which raised expectations for speed; higher speed made workers more reliant on AI. Increased reliance widened the scope of what workers attempted, and a wider scope further expanded the quantity and density of work.” AI distorts how we feel about work. It’s dangerous.

Is this a lot? It sounds like a lot...

Congressional candidate Brad Lander argues in The Nation that peace in the region begins with ending US military support for Israel’s war on Gaza. https://bit.ly/3LZNZfe

The whole world is about to watch as a country of people get forced into starvation for no reason www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Post a banger not in English Stereo Total's love triangle song "Liebe Zu Dritt" and its adorable video www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdlR...

This is exciting! I can finally announce that I'll be headlining the Kairos Spring Residency at the beautiful Selgars Mill in mid-Devon. Join us for ideas about the worldmaking imagination and landscape exploration. Fees are subsidised and sliding-scale. www.kairos.london/event/kairos...

Since the #Olympics are on, let's repost a classic thread here: a brief history of the practice of "sex verification" in sport. Content warning: This thread will mention anti-intersex discrimination, FGM practices and body shaming.

CFP: UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies Special Issue: "Grains" currents.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cu...

Well I sure as heck stand with the Debating and Political Society of Bangor University.