If you suddenly halved UK higher-education student enrolments, that would be 1.5 million people needing full-time work, immediately, and another half-million people joining that list, every year...

Excitingly if you’re a British citizen you can sign this even if you no longer live in the UK:

A good day to revisit Robert Warrior's 1989 "Canaanites, Cowboys, and Indians: Deliverance, Conquest, and Liberation Theology Today": "Is there a god who will hear us and stand with us at Wounded Knee? Is there a god able to move among the pain of Nablus, Gaza and Soweto"?

Why not post the question about *digital* ID cards, which is what's actually being proposed, and has far far less public support? 🤔🤔🤔

She died free. Exiled from her homeland and her nation, but free. Long live Assata Shakur and long live the Black Liberation Army, past, present, and future 🟥🟥🟥🟥 ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩

it is once again shut the fuck up shabbos

Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Mo Chara has been thrown out www.thejournal.ie/kneecap-mo-c...

Keep pressuring Microsoft to end all complicity! As a consumer, boycott Microsoft products whenever possible and join the Xbox boycott.

Microsoft has terminated unit 8200’s access to select cloud storage and AI services, making it the first giant tech company to terminate any services to apartheid Israel at least since the beginning of its Gaza genocide. Read more: loom.ly/aS6eYUQ #NoTechForApartheid #NoTechForGenocide

“Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire (or the material conditions that shape desire)” Claire Wilmot @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Very happy to be part of the qualitative team on this. Please join us for the launch!

It's that time of year when I do my periodic update of books available for review in Literature & Theology. Instructions on how to request a book are found via the link in the very top row. This is LAST CALL for books published in 2023. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Orna what the hell

Funding call for Research Ireland postdocs is up now! Feel free to get in touch if you've got an idea and are on the hunt for an academic mentor: www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...

A girl just rolled down her car window to yell „can I have your boots?“ at me, most confusing street harassment I’ve experienced yet

Reading the Augsburg Confession and very struck by this bit about confession, anyone have thoughts about what's going on here?

Ah yes St Paul, a universally beloved and not at all polarising and divisive figure

‘Politicians engage in stochastic terrorism all the time, don’t they?’

Really excellent piece on AI chatbots by @robhorning.bsky.social: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Durham are going to be so insufferable about this, levels of Doxbridge never before known to humankind

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

What platforms are people using to share copies of their published work that are not academia dot edu? I think the latest round of AI nonsense might be the breaking point for me

do you work in a university/faculty/school in the UK that abolished “departments”? willing to share experiences (by DM if preferred)? RTs also appreciated

🎧 New episode on our podcast on Star Trek (beginning with Enterprise) and the franchise era, with Adam Kotsko and David Seitz. share.transistor.fm/s/1a04a2fd

So far my favourite thing about living in Dublin is that neither Google nor the official transport app have the slightest idea when a bus will actually show up

bidoun.org/articles/hou... incisive essay. oh to be free of these institutions and their repugnant things said pleasantly

Remember the international response when there was a fire at Notre Dame Cathedral

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

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The £22bn deal announced today between the British government and Microsoft to build AI data centres across the country makes it all the more imperative that we read @pbresnihan.bsky.social and Pat Brody’s new book From the Bog to the Cloud. A quick thread. 1/7

Our bird feeder ran empty while we were away for the weekend and I came back to it’s camera roll full of disappointed looking birds

anyone who thought angela rayner was "one of the good ones" was only fooling themselves

So the DFS sale really has been going on as long as we thought

Wait Ethan Klein and Ezra Klein are different people?

truly there is no one worse at understanding the future big tech is creating

So it really just rains all the time in Ireland huh

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

When you’re the paper of record and have definitely understood the franchise up until this point

Absolute legends: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

tldr: they'll have to make AI say "I don't know" to at least 30% of the queries ("a conservative estimate") and it will drive users away, who by now are too used to getting answers for whatever they ask

STARMER: hey I'm appointing this close friend of the world's most notorious paedophile to be US ambassador :) BRITISH PRESS: ok :) [One year later] BRITISH PRESS: wait a minute

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

In case you missed it yesterday, here’s my new review of three memoirs engaging the concept of Arab-Jewish identity and the histories of Jews in Algeria, Egypt, and Iraq. I think with them to raise questions about colonial temporality: what must belong to the past, and what possible futures exist?

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

University College Dublin teams up again with Israel's Technion electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...

I will always repost this when the chance arises. I would listen to 10,000 hours of this noise

This attack on another Gaza aid flotilla ship — this one sailing under the British flag — comes just hours before the Israeli president is set to visit the UK

This motion just passed unanimously. It's times like these that 5 million trade unionist voices matter. The Labour Party and Bridget Philipson were lambasted in the speeches.