@leedsunimedia.bsky.social great work from our Int Journalism MA student Gabriel Kennedy

West Yorkshire Police “are sorry that the man involved is unhappy”… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

An inspiring essay—in Chinese and English—by the legendary Chinese journalist 江雪 in @mjdanganguan on how, in the end, the silenced in China will have their say. Read it and subscribe (for free) on substack. open.substack.com/pub/chinauno...

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

We here @citap.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ @mariher.bsky.social & Kristóf Szombati, put together a timely and important reading list. Authoritarian Politics: How to Understand It and How to Resist It. We hope you'll read, reflect, and share this tool broadly. 1/ citap.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Trump White House redefines ‘the press’: “Whether you are a TikTok content creator, a blogger, a podcaster … if you are producing legitimate news content, you will be allowed to apply for press credentials to this White House” Seems small, huge ramifications! www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/whit...

What’s happening on Xiaohongshu now is PHENOMENAL. Ppl are tired of nationalistic doctrine from both sides, tired of being sandwiched between states and platform corporates, yearning for a borderless space for some authentic convo not orchestrated by either states or corporates, tho it won’t last

OMG Elon Musk is a Royal Society fellow?? @royalsociety.bsky.social

Today 45 activists in HK were sentenced to a total of 245 years and six months in prison for trying to use democratic means (ie primaries) to contest an election. A generation of civil society leaders has been jailed. hongkongfp.com/2024/11/19/b...

Yessssss! Journal editors and board members let’s do this! Folks on academic org committees! We can make the case to at the very least change the “Your Twitter handle” box on everything to something like “Your social media profile” #commsky I for one would be thrilled by “Share to Bluesky”

We are delighted to announce our next research seminar: "Algorithms of resistance: The everyday fight against platform power", with Tiziano Bonini and @emilianotrere.bsky.social Wednesday 20 Nov, 3.45–5pm (UTC), ONLINE 💻 Details and registration: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...