More than half of the kids in state care are Indigenous people. Ford is attempting to hide Ontario's contribution to Canada's ongoing genocide against Indigenous people. From residential schools to the present child "welfare" system, Canada has never stopped committing crimes against humanity.

My son survived Gaza’s hunger,a tiny hero who refused to die. But now,the light is fading from his tired eyes.He defeated starvation only to lose his sight. My heart is breaking. Please, help me save his vision.Let him see the life he saved. Verified by @mommunism.bsky.social ✅ gofund.me/5f2429cda

Hey skystorians and Native studies 👋 American Philosophical Society has an a fantastic grant funding program through the Phillips Fund for Native American research. This fund has supported me several times for Alaska oral history research I’m helping to get the word out to apply by March 2! 🗃️

If Einstein generates ‘per-assignment’, what other punctuation features does it get right, or… not so right?

We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology. Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.

The next instalment of #EnglishCreates is all about reading, beginning with @bobeaglestone.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social @literacy-trust.bsky.social @rbtownsend.bsky.social @barbarableiman.bsky.social

Tomorrow, I will be teaching A.S. Byatt in the context of the Blue Humanities and the links, which I am developing in my book project, between cultural, regional, geo-coastal, and ecological memory. The texts are dense, but I’m curious to see what the students will make of them!

Baraa has lost two little daughters to Israel's genocide. Please help her keep her remaining son Ibrahim alive. Bluesky keeps deleting & suspending her so she's been unable to post for herself. She & Ibrahim need urgent help:

And she paid with her life. May she rest in power.

As per national guidance, the police won't be officially naming this Norfolk man in his sixties arrested over suspicion of misconduct in public office!

💯 Audre Lorde diagnosed a kind of man whose "American maleness overcomes or supersedes anything else, so that they relate to me, to the world, to children, to the fence, to a plant, to a tree first of all as an American male. And there I find, by definition, a position of false power, intolerable.”

This. It’s also not a new cause for him: I remember pre-Harry and Meghan wedding that him, Kate and H did a whole campaign on how it’s ok not to be ok, and how important it is to have conversations. A video-call of him with Lady Gaga followed, which he closed with ‘thank you for speaking to us’.

Why rivers in the far north are turning orange - brightly coloured waterways in the Arctic are a sign that permafrost is thawing, with potentially hazardous consequences #climatecrisis www.ft.com/content/2ffa...

#CFP: "Nature Remembers: War, Trauma, and Environmental Postmemory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature and Culture"; Beyond Postmemory Research Project (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Deadline: 30 April 2026 Info: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/... #envhum #ecolit #ecocriticism

ALSO - if you missed out on your childhood measles vaccine and haven't had measles, you can get *free* MMR vaccination from your GP! (whether as an older child, teenager or adult). I got my MMR about 10 years ago! www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

I am gutted for the students who struggled with the experience, and I am angry for them that they have to pay extortionate fees at all. That, in fact, is one of the things we have fought against during years of strikes. But *everyone* suffered, some considerably more than this, during a pandemic.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

As if Wenders’s work had ever been apolitical.

“To hear them say that art should not be political is jaw-dropping. It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time" www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

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...

CfP - Listening to Possible Worlds: Sound and Music in Speculative Literature and Culture deadline for submissions: March 30, 2026 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...

Families falling apart because of UK’s ‘broken’ paternity leave, study suggests

Due to a terrible misreading of a hashtag, we prepared something to post tomorrow, then realised it was wrong. So today, let's celebrate #GalenTines Day. Here's what Galen of Pergamon (c129BCE-216BCE) had to say about the gynaecological anatomy which influenced physicians for over a millennium...

Huge solidarity with @ucuessex.bsky.social and @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social, both out on strike today over threats to jobs and pensions. Let’s do this #UCU #UKHE

will the dogs that ate the dead bodies of the martyrs turn into humans?

A very rare (depressingly rare) thing: Support for low income students who want to study at MA level. Please share with anyone who might be able to get this info to aspiring postgrads. www.durham.ac.uk/study/schola...

Reform's Sarah Pochin (the one who complained about brown people being in adverts) wrote to Bangor university's student debating society asking to be hosted. They said 'no thanks, you're a bit of a racist, we don't like those' & now Reform are threatening to shut down the entire university!

Lol.

CFP Scotland Along the New Silk Road @iassl.bsky.social 5th World Congress 17–20 June 2027, Nanjing This congress seeks to foster reciprocal understanding & cultural collaborations between Scotland & the diverse voices of the New Silk Road #litstudies scotlit-iassl.org/2025/11/11/c...

#CFP: "Contagion, Information, Territory" Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2026 Info: champ.ly/CoipfUIV#CFP #smellstudies #olfactorystudies #sensorystudies #callforpapers #callforsubmissions #envhum

‘Call Starmer’s decision shortsighted, stupid, unwise, but it cannot be described as uncalculated. Mandelson’s value to the party leadership mattered more than his association with the world’s best-known child sex offender. And therefore must have mattered more than the victims.’ Malik’s latest.

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone. He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein We have published it in full. www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

My teaching this afternoon: thinking about compassion, queer eco-memories and the politics/taboo of touch in the AIDS epidemic, and now. So much to be said on power and the politicisation of bodies, especially those belonging to subjects often deprived of a voice and an agency of their own.

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org ********************************* Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

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Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them

I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.

Mass detention camps. Or, as they were called in other contexts (such as South Africa during the Boer War and a few places since), concentration camps.

Thread👇. This is also why I am suspicious of caps on bus fares which, granted, make bus travel cheap if I go, say, from central Newcastle to the coast, but don’t help at all when using the bus to ride two stops between my local high street, when I have bags&buggy, and home.

The Royal Astronomical Society is gravely concerned at the drastic cuts to support for UK astronomy outlined by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Read our statement 👉 ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

The post-US world is already taking shape – look at the massive EU-India trade deal | Ravinder Kaur

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Palestinians 'desperate' for Rafah crossing to open as prolonged closures compound widespread suffering, warns the UN https://aje.news/zyqb38

Please please vaccinate your child against measles. This is from our @independentsage.bsky.social report from last year, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & @helensalisbury.bsky.social independentsage.org/wp-content/u...

The plan treats Gaza as vacant beachfront property, proposing glass towers and industrial zones over historic sites.