“He was convinced that all AI really does is enable us to experience the ‘spectacle of thought’ rather than engaging in thought itself”.

“Persisting w/ an inadequate fees-led model of higher education, in which universities are run as competing businesses funded by student consumers, is producing a dystopian academic landscape. A more stable system of public funding is urgently required.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One week left to apply! ✉️

Please see below a Call for Papers: 2026 Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social: community-languages.org.uk/scs/annual-s...

Very interesting read! A Labour govt sowing *more* suspicion of both migrants & people who claim benefits. These proposals will make it so migrants must pay into the system but can’t take from it at a time of need. What kind of society are they building?

Enjoyed this book launch. Lots of great insights (inc how the climate crisis will affect political mobilisation). Looking forward to reading into alternatives to the current climate transition

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Agreed! Also ends with a mere side note on Humanities degrees & this expert insight framing History & English as prepping students for quaint little hobbies 🤦‍♂️

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Application round for the Charles Wallace India Trust Writing Fellowship is now open! Enables a creative writer from India to come and work at the University of Kent & develop their own prose/poetry project for up to twelve weeks in Spring 2026. research.kent.ac.uk/colonialandp...

Application round for the Charles Wallace India Trust Writing Fellowship is now open! Enables a creative writer from India to come and work at the University of Kent & develop their own prose/poetry project for up to twelve weeks in Spring 2026. research.kent.ac.uk/colonialandp...

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

*Please share with your networks 📣* Are you a PGR interested in Postcolonial Studies? Are you interested in gaining experience in a director role? We want to hear from you! The NVPoco network will need a new director for the coming academic year. (1/2)

This was one of the best conferences I’ve been to - a welcoming arena for conversation & exchange of ideas about how literature & culture intervene in Hostile Environment policy & discourse

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik

New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Network x University of Westminster present 'American Dream/American Nightmare' 💭 A two-day, hybrid conference on the fantastical & the horrific in a US context. Online - 3rd July In-person - 4th July

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 | Ngugi wa Thiong'o | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/...

Gary Younge nails it, as always. Listen to his full response to Labour’s abysmal “island of strangers” rhetoric @overunderpod.bsky.social

If you're a creative nonfiction/memoir writer, submit now to the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Life Writing category. Translated work is accepted across all categories. Deadline: 30 June. buff.ly/xq4ptaC

We're excited to present our 8th and final author in our series of posts on the contributions to New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Magazine No. 2: "Imagining Postcolonial Futures"! ✨ ▶︎ To frame the magazine issue, we present an Introduction by Dr Matthew Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social

Great network here for new scholars working across postcolonial & indigenous studies - recommend a follow!

Just had it confirmed that Meta has stolen my monographs to train its AI. Parasitic & unethical behaviour that’s taking the human out of the Humanities. Use the link below to check for yourself and take action.

This new book from one of my Kent Uni colleagues sounds great! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Call for papers for the #migration studies folks! ‘Hostile Environments & Hospitable Praxes’ @ University of Kent, UK, 23rd – 24th June 2025 Deadline for abstracts is March 17 blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvir...

I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.

Seems rather important at a time when there is foolish talk of a third runway at Heathrow ... petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.

This is very good. Focus is on Zuckerberg, but also offers a brief recent history of how social media got to where it is today + some thoughts on where it goes from here podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Climate policy & immigration policy are increasingly intimately linked, not least because when you legitimise bad actors like Farage you give them the power to popularise this dangerous nonsense

📣 Job opportunity with our small but mighty team! 📣 Come and work for Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group as an administrator and frontline worker. 🌟 We’d love to hear from you 🌟 www.gdwg.org.uk/s/GDWG-Job-D...

Engrossed by this book of interviews atm. Love this from 1974: “If you ask me for a visual picture of the future, I think it’ll be increasingly lunar [where] individual actions & individual pieces of behaviour & individual thoughts sit in isolation, like pieces of sculpture embedded in a dune”.

A really powerful opening story on this week’s @overunderpod.bsky.social about Ibrahima Bah & the shameful criminalisation of people seeking asylum in the UK Plus a great analysis of the Starmer “reset” podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

Climate Breakdown , now playing across the globe to abysmal reviews . Fossil fuel companies are trashing our planet– it’s why I’m calling on the Government to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships– no more greenwashing their dirty reputations with unlimited £££ ! Sign at lovera.ge/ban-ffa

I've been helping to launch POLTERGEIST, a new peer-reviewed journal from Queen Mary University of London's School of the Arts, and I'm excited to announce that it's now online and available to read and download! Find it here: sedpoltergeist.com?page_id=95

A short piece I wrote in response to the UK’s Far Right riots this summer has just come out along with this collage I made. It takes aim at “multiculturalism has failed” rhetoric. Read for free here: sedpoltergeist.com?page_id=304

For anyone interested in postcolonial & Indigenous studies, I made this starter pack - it’s by no means definitive but hopefully a good way to find your feet on here

It’s Dec 1st and you can open the first window of our online secular calendar of refugee tales at 28for28.org and the first window is Jeremy Irons reading The Prologue. Don’t miss! www.28for28.org/videos/prolo...

I just updated the starter pack on folks working on #ClimateMigration and environmental (im)mobilities. Let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/Dan29j

Christmas gift ideas for those who want to support refugees, a list (please do add and circulate) - The Other Side of Hope literary magazine, written by migrants. You can subscribe or contribute to their fundraiser. othersideofhope.com/index.html 1/5

Environmental humanities is a priority theme at IASH and we would love to host more scholars working on #envhum in Edinburgh!

Against Settler-Colonialism: A Reading List

👋 hi to new followers - it’s a very welcome change from all the bots Over There! Currently thinking thru how novels intervene in debates about climate-induced migration. Getting well-versed in different views on migration projections & the ‘national security’ issue

Welcome Refugee Tales! @refugeetales.bsky.social Recommended follow for anyone who wants a future without asylum detention

The brilliant @overunderpod.bsky.social has joined - big welcome! Give em a follow & a listen

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Among a range of others, I spoke at length with the Times Higher journalist about student number controls for this piece, and I'd say it gives a balanced account. It comes on the same day news breaks that we anticipate as many as 10,000 jobs going in HE *this year* alone.

#Migration & #ecocriticism people, check out this great network - free to join and get involved in the different workstreams www.climatemobilities.network

Updated! Was being a bit glitchy before