UK, German and French aid cuts will take ‘devastating toll’ on most vulnerable, says study

My son's world in gaza is vanishing into darkness. Every second we wait, his light fades a little more. We have one final chance to save his sight, but we can't do it alone. Please, don't let him go blind. Be the miracle he's praying for. Verified by : molly shah chuffed.org/project/1624...

Delighted to be in beautiful Kapadokya for the imminently starting Blue Humanities conference. I’m greatly looking forward to these days of research exchanges and discussions, and the beautiful location is certainly a bonus!

Up bright and early to fly to Turkey for the #BlueHumanities2026 conference at the University of Kapadokya. I’m excited to be presenting new work, to be able to connect with colleagues internationally, and I’m still chuffed from reading the essays my students wrote for my Writing the Sea module.

The gothic genre, known for its queer roots, is a useful framing in understanding how climate change is haunting us, even when it shows up in beautiful forms.

Want to stop some vandals? Sign this petition. c.org/qpWLqNByRB

Please give if you are able. No one will save us but us and Palestinians are us.

From the death of the author to the death of the student, the teacher, and the subject. Huge solidarity to colleagues at secondary level working in these conditions.

Please help Mohammed get his son treatment for his vision loss. His family's gone through the ordeal of nearly losing Elias to Israel's ongoing genocidal famine, & you all helped him survive. He needs your help again:

#Skyhistorians ££££ for MA and PhD students and ECRs working on women's and gender history. Spread the word (repost: liking is nice, but it won't reach an audience beyond yourself).

✨Funded placement opportunity✨with @nationaltrust.org.uk and @britishlibrary.bsky.social! We're looking for a PhD student to work on the National Trust Sound Archive of oral history interviews. 3 months FT or 6 months PT from September. For more info, see www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/r...

🚨Please stop🚨😭👇🏿 I am Suad and this is my child Omar I lost all my family members in the war; I have no one left but my child Omar This campaign is our only source of income My child is suffering from malnutritionEven $10 could save his life Please donate here 🙏🏼👇🏿 Soad 😭💔🙏🏼 chuffed.org/project/soad

Voters without ID have just one day left to apply for a free Voter Authority Certificate to use at the upcoming local elections in England. To vote at a polling station, voters must present an accepted form of photo ID. A Voter Authority Cert. is a free form of ID for those who lack any.

It's wonderful to see this plan to open a new radical bookshop in Newcastle - Books from Below. A worthy successor to (among others) the 1930s People's Bookshop on Westgate Road (home of the northeast committee for British supporters of the International Brigade). Four days left to support!

Student Seraj is his family's sole provider, and right now, he especially needs us to help carry the load while his teen sister fights to survive a bullet wound in her skull...! Every ounce helps. They rarely get support. Listed goal is by Monday. Hit “weekly/monthly” ! chuffed.org/project/1232...

We're urging everyone who is eligible to register to vote before the deadline at 11:59pm on Monday 20 April 🗳️ You can also apply to vote by post or proxy instead of going to a polling place📮

🚨 1 in 4 staff at Goldsmiths to be axed. All while senior management get eye-watering pay rises and £16m is spent on consultants and lawyers. This is the reality of Higher Education in the UK. Our members have voted for industrial action, support them. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1447...

When reality trumps fiction: reading about this poor baby made me think of Sarah Moss’s 2011 Night Waking, which focuses on precisely one such baby, born illegitimately in Victorian Scotland, and catalysing the fragile links between life, death, class, and our hunger for finding meaning in history.

🔥 CFP: Indigenous Feminist Pedagogies, Fall 2027 issue of WSQ. Submit by July 31, 2026! feministpress.org/pages/curren... @feministpress.bsky.social

Today, the emperor penguin has moved from Near Threatened to Endangered on the @sscmarine.bsky.social IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 🛰️ Satellite images suggest that the population declined by 10% between 2009 and 2018 alone, equating to more than 20,000 adult penguins. Thread:

GUARDIAN: “Israel has carried out its largest attack on Lebanon since its war with Hezbollah began, killing at least 254 and wounding 837, an assault that prompted Iranian officials to warn Tehran could withdraw from the ceasefire…” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Please help Alaa, she's in a very difficult situation. Her husband is imprisoned and she just gave birth 🙏🥺

Prior to her death, Virginia Giuffre accused Epstein of trafficking her to Charles's brother, the former Prince Andrew.

Just a few hours left on this drive: sustaining internet for Palestinians. Internet is still out in most places, so eSIMs are a lifeline: to let us know about the ongoing genocide in Gaza. £5 sponsors someone's data for a month. Can you click "monthly" on it? bit.ly/esimsUK

Crips for eSIMs for Gaza keeps Palestinian journalists, doctors, students, and more stay connected to the world. This is a key lifeline as internet remains weak. Help them stay connected. With the team in the red, this connectivity can't be sustained. Make it monthly if you can! bit.ly/esimsUK

The resilience of the Palestinian people in the face of globally endorsed extermination should inspire more people to, at the very least, help them stay alive. That's what the fundraisers are for. Click share, donate. Support has fallen terribly. They're human, they can't do this alone.

From the article: ‘The inventors of the Transformer, the T in ChatGPT, believed, against the grain of research at the time, that language was the key to abstraction.’ I’m innerly screaming in linguistics, theology, and the whole history of human knowledge. I just can’t fathom such lack of thought.

Israel’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli Novak

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

For folks with an EU passport. The new Israeli law introducing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners condemned for terrorism has to be stopped.👇👇

A reminder that are around 10000 Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons, most without charge or trial. A % of those are children. This is a carte blanche to execute all of them.

Abhorrent, shameful and cruel.

Nobel Prize Winner for Literature turns to AI to write content

ALL supplies, including food & clean water, are king's ransom expensive b/c they all have to be smuggled through the genocidal blockade. Hard to find. Impossible to afford w/o help. Feed the kids. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

lets help Elias today!! chuffed.org/project/1624...

Palestinian Authority calls the bill a 'war crime' against Palestinians, says it breaches the Fourth Geneva Convention.

BARS | BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship 2026 Call for Applications @ Liverpool John Moores University offers unaffiliated ECRs a platform from which to pursue their research, while also organising an academic event or a workshop. More info and how to apply: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6399

CFP deadline this week for our Brontë Studies special issue on Poetry - the abstracts are starting to flock in - still time to send in yours!

Does it work properly? No. Are the people making it acting in good faith? No. Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No. Does it make people's lives better? No. Will it make people's lives better? No. Is it profitable? No. Is it popular? No. Is it harmless? No. The argument for AI.

Glad bigger outlets are writing this kind of thing, but holy hell are the comments a wild ride. Suddenly everyone pretends that boycotting media empires doesn’t achieve anything, when a few months ago people were sure proud of doing it to get Jimmy Kimmel back on TV.

Latest ranking of English universities based on their contribution to social mobility. University of Bradford, Aston University and the University of Wolverhampton take the top three places.