When their position becomes absolutely untenable Comfortables will announce "I have always opposed burning down orphanages in certain circumstances." Then claim it is abuse and trolling when people aren't in awe of their courageous moral stand. Other Comfortables will praise them as heroes.

Wrote about 'Resistance', Steve McQueen's exhibition on 20th century protest. Some wonderful photographs, and some difficult questions about how to tell this story in our current moment. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

if you're a #Skystorian in the UK, at assoc/full prof level who hasn't won a grant since 2020 and/or with a 'lifetime' capture (indiv. share) <£100,000 I'd love to have you as an example that this is normal. I know DMs are hard for us in the UK -I am also at drvheggie at the mail that is g dot com

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

It is not Germany if there is no statelessness drama experienced. Radical filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta was also an ‚alien’ until her 1st marriage in FRG. Show @ n.b.k. +Babylon,Berlin. Esp.enjoyed ‚Die blierne Zeit’ exhibit, correspondence w Gudrun Ensslin‘s sister Christiane, &Christa Wolf.

The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.

I keep thinking about Zohran on some podcast being like “these billionaires are spending more money to defeat me than I would tax them” lmfao

Mamdani's speech is SO GOOD: respectful, generous, sparkling.

'Strategisch' stemmen is echt de grootst mogelijke BULLSHIT. Het werkt niet. Maak niet wéér die fout. Het maakt Nederland MINDER groen, diervriendelijk & medemenselijk. 🔥 Stem dus met je hart. Voor rechtvaardigheid voor alles wat leeft. Stem @partijvoordedieren.nl ❤️

‘69, not just l’année érotique, but also a year when some architects in the manufacturing sector - surprise, surprise - sided with Enoch Powell

The Marxism and Culture stream is the biggest it has ever been, and the biggest stream throughout the conference. Excellent papers and panels – on Jameson, Müntzer, the avant-garde, etc. etc. – programme should be available shortly.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to raise Capital Gains Tax to the same level as Income Tax, and explains that right now a cleaner can be paying a higher rate of tax than the person who owns the building they clean.

5/ "Hegel, Marx, and the Laughing Matter of Spirit is brilliant, mordant, and politically astute—a powerful riposte to “left wing melancholia,” to the pieties of memory politics, and the heroics of failure. At a time of global counterrevolution, this eloquent manifesto

spotted Victor Burgin in Wellcome collection, London.The kind of celebrity I recognise

Here's an insightful piece about Lorde confronting Germany's silences, drawing from the archive and painting some resonances with today. newlinesmag.com/essays/how-a...

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Nederlandse technische universiteiten delen hun kennis met Israëlische bedrijven: ‘Je kunt ervan uitgaan dat die in de oorlog wordt gebruikt’

Dear community, erasing our Academia online profiles is just a start. this symposium on collective infrastructures and feminist approaches to publishing on4th Oct in London provides hopeful alternatives

📣Two new events in collaboration with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social! 📣 Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800 | 15 Oct | 5.30 - 7.30pm tinyurl.com/2uayfe7r From Bones to Books to Blitz Scrap – What London Recycled during the Second World War | 10 Dec | 5.30 - 7.30pm tinyurl.com/3t2f435p

'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets. nos.nl/artikel/2583...

As was posted earlier, how to delete your account without agreeing to the ToS: Opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

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

"It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to powers that are clearly willing to destroy the basic principles that protect the university’s independence against external manipulations." www.chronicle.com/article/when...

here is the job ad in English: vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...

Medio volgend jaar word ik 67. De advertentie voor een nieuwe directeur @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social staat vanaf vandaag online. Zegt het voort! vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...

This is actually the first time in my life to see coal as a household fuel. And it is (checks notes) in leafy Prenzlauerberg, Berlin, 2025. Not in the picture, single human carrying these full baskets of coal on his back.

'"You can’t have hobbyist research that’s unfunded going on in institutions. We can’t afford it.”' Such a badly formulated phrasing of the issues, so open to so many misinterpretations. If this is the level of thinking about research among sector leaders and policy-makers, be very afraid.

an exhibition to look forward to

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

The empire of gimmicks

Local authorities have long warned that cycle lanes are overloaded and were not designed for the mix of vehicles and speeds now using them.

I may open here a documentation channel about everyday microagressions in Germany, especially towards foreigners. They frustrate so much of my daily energy and time. Lived in Austria, UK, Sweden, everywhere as a foreigner. But nowhere are people so awful before I even open my mouth as in Deutschland

Some would say I am priviledged to even ask this question. But, genuinely interested in how other underpaid ECR academic international immigrant couples (without grannies at hand) manage their working days/writing&funding deadlines/job interviews when the nursery is on a summer break?

Let's be clear: all the AI in edtech stuff (Canvas, Blackboard, Grammarly, Duolingo, OpenAI, the rest) is all about the "lock-in" - locking in students as subscribers or institutions via long-term license agreements for value generation. Is there good pedagogic evidence for it? No.

good morning happy back to school to all who celebrate, happy one week of summer left to all the syllabus scramblers, happy grr to the quarter system people, here's some help for all of us in the college classroom against-a-i.com

very happy to see this announced in reality, and really looking forwards... save the date, register and join us in October What Is Infrastructural Critique? A conference in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt @eflux.bsky.social

people with books in their bathrooms are my favourite

Serbian architect and Belgrade mayor, Bogdan Bogdanovic, argued the history of the west could be seen as a war waged by the city haters against those who love the city and its diverse cosmopolitanism. I think about that a lot

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A support letter from former + current Chevening scholarship holders, please sign if you were an award recepient: "We are calling for immediate action to ensure the safe evacuation of eight Chevening awardees from Gaza, who remain trapped due to unaddressed bureaucratic and political barriers."

The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

so nice, they had to do it twice www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The Bloomsbury Global Encylopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2020 is now online! A huge achievement by Karen Burns & Lori Brown. Pleased to have had the chance to write some of the entries. preview31.sspbloomsbury.co.uk/bloomsbury-g...

The reason these data centers eat so much water is evaporative cooling. They produce so much heat that they have to actively cool everything. The cheapest way to do that is to pump up ground water and evaporate it. They boil away our drinking water to create spam and misinformation.

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

'communities that regard themselves as victimized can cultivate their victimhood status with such intensity that they can become perpetrators of heinous crimes.' Powerful analysis by Ger Duijzings as ever. With a glimpse on Germany's silence.

Ko ne pamti genocid taj je ćaci