Pedro Porro has had an excellent world cup. It will break my heart to see him eating cheeseburgers with Trump in the Whitehouse tomorrow.

Alan Shearer, you have 82 minutes to pass the don't chat shit challenge

We might have hated that pre-kick off show, but I'm afraid we'll feel nostalgic for it come half time

Tom Cruise not everything is about you

Just so cool to be cooking us alive in the name of the people like this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A few weeks ago, @wellcometrust.bsky.social announced that scholars in the republic of Ireland would no longer be eligible to lead bids to the flagship discovery research scheme. We think this decision is badly flawed, and are asking them to rethink: www.irishhumanities.ie/assets/PDFs/...

I'm sort of continually confused by how much skin Roy Keane has in the game (England football team). Definitely not my place to say. But also have some self respect.

A colleague of mine looked shocked when I described this government not simply as inept but malignant 🤷

Another reason why Starmer is so awful.

Back on my bullsh

I'm super happy to see this SI on Transnational Plant Studies out; I can't speak highly enough of Sushmita and Banu as editors and their introduction is such a valuable provocation - a must-read for anyone interested in the plant turn, plant studies, and/or the environmental humanities more broadly!

Another day another disgusting policy, which will simply serve to reinscribe and secure the impoverishment of some of the most vulnerable people www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The University of Nottingham is cutting over 600 academic jobs. This includes 1 in 3 #geography lecturers. "The lecturers *are* the University, and without them it's nothing" - Geography student (BBC interview): www.instagram.com/reels/DYprAN...

“Data work is a popular side gig for many Philippine football league players looking for additional income…”

Further reading on Musk, Mars, and terrestrial ruin from my colleagues David and Niall, here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Always a good day and a massive relief when an article you've battled with and against for a number of years is finally accepted. Looking forward to sharing more soon!

Will be interesting to see whether Labour learn any lessons from the failure of the last 2 years - and therefore cut the labour right out of their decision-making. Or will we be here doing the same thing in 18 months as a pre-election cleanse?

This looks like a fabulous special issue of Social Text which brings Sylvia Wynter's work into deeper dialogue with questions concerning technology read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

"This incident comes not long after racist pogroms on the streets of Belfast that targeted minority families, and is a direct consequence of political rhetoric that demonises entire communities."

A thing I've been thinking through recently is the ways computational capital articulates the human-as-a-sensor - an interface that sutures dead labour to the social. This news is certainly not challenging my view

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

I love this. Unmute.

Occasionally you stumble across the detritus of digital culture and you're forced to ask: what are we doing here, lads?

Abolish Sam Matterface

If you're interested in this talk but can't make it today, I'll be re-hashing a version with more emphasis on care services for the Newcastle Youth Studies seminar tomorrow (Wednesday) at 9am GMT. Registration here www.eventbrite.com.au/e/from-resis...

Conversely, I'm disgusted we have a trillionaire in the world (full stop). The fact that they are a fascist is entirely unsurprising when situated in the long history of highly concentrated wealth

The Automation of General Intellect: A conversation with Matteo Pasquinelli Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra portolan-journal.org?post=the-aut...

A eulogy from Will here on what we were able to do at PERC, with a handful of staff, a small budget, a willingness to carry furniture when organising events, a brilliant wider network & some amazing students. It was a very special time and place.

We are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...

A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This brings "AI" slop in line with all other products: "AI" is basically the only product where a provider can deliver unchecked garbage and put all liability on the consumer.

It's the same every time. I go to watch the Russel T. Davies thing, do a wince, and leave it

I don’t like Bluesky asking me “what’s up”… but I do like to share how you can join our @leverhulmecal.bsky.social community…

The National Rebirth Party came to Southampton dressed for 1930. Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson joined Restore Britain the same day. New piece on what the British far right is building in the wake of the Nowak verdict.

Thought for the day

I'm telling you: if you like someone's book or article, straight up email them that. It'll make their day. There are not enough compliments in academia.

New tripleC article: Capital’s Media, Digital Command, and the Fate of Public Communication: Reflections on David Harvey’s The Story of Capital By John Bessai doi.org/10.31269/m4s... @davidharvey.org

Predatory recruitment ‘will cause UK university failures’. Hepi report proposes capping student numbers for high-tariff universities with soaring undergraduate recruitment. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Very excited to see my article "When Resistance Turns Right: Counter-Conduct and The Rise of Authoritarian Populism" out in EJST! It interrogates the conceptual space that allows authoritarian populists to successfully mobilise resistance narratives. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Books From Below will have a stall at the Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday 30th March at the @starandshadow.bsky.social Cinema. We’ll be selling second hand books, tshirts, tote bags, and some prints! Hope to see you there!

Max Haiven actually wrote a great text on this a few years back. www.plutobooks.com/product/reve...

Looking forward to getting my hands on this in the near future mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...

Latest in the saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud news

Lazzarato has in many ways followed the same trajectory as Rockhill, rejecting contemporary French philosophy for its failures to address imperialism (but without the conspiracy theories). www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/05/disc...

Really quite incredible some of the refereeing decisions arsenal have got this season, but my my that was red all day long.

Back to my teenage stomping grounds in Durham for a workshop and I'm pleased to see traces of a recognisable cultural politics of the area

A nice trip through histories of capitalist management. Interesting to see both Samuel Bentham and Josiah Wedgewood popping up, as they also featured in a piece of writing I drafted up late last year.

Ahead of her address at our Public Lecture in September, @mit.edu’s Angela Saini shares her thoughts on the importance of sociology in medical research, why classifications of race and sex matter, and the links between power, knowledge and science. buff.ly/KnRoD80

May not keep this one up too long, but here is a temperature check of where we are at these days with formerly 'just a normal classical liberal' types

But how is Bentham, famous for his thinking on the panopticon, not basically a cop?