Masterclass announcement! Lori Beaman of @nonreligioncf.bsky.social will be talking to us on "Exploring Deep Equality" next week on Thursday 16th October. 3pm South Africa / 9am Canada / 10am Brazil / 2pm UK Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8160513998... Access code: 108926

Can't wait to host this!

We are delighted to announce our upcoming seminar with @tariqmodood.bsky.social on global racisms and euro-americentricity. You can join the seminar with this link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8174893023... , passcode: 546157.

Am delighted to be doing this

One of our team members, @ninianjames.bsky.social has recently had a blog published on the @vox-pol.bsky.social blog! In it, he discusses the pros and cons of different approaches to studying social media in 2025 voxpol.eu/accessing-so...

How latest seminar "To the Right, the Feminine: Religious Women and the Struggles Over the Public Policy Repertoire in Health in Brazil" is now available to watch online from our YouTube! @lellanouri.bsky.social @cmillerphd.bsky.social @ninianjames.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5R8...

in retrospect i guess it was inevitable there would be attempts to frame any pushback against tech as the same "annoying hippie lib busybody" stereotype the left has been getting hit with for decades

Another very good example of the Times spreading fact free propaganda. It has been bad for a long time but feels like it’s getting worse over the last months.

FIDE's official position is that women are lesser than men. they simply cannot have a person with a male name also have a title from a female competition that people might think was from a male competition.

When it comes to death in Gaza, apparently everybody has lost basic math skills. It was 39,000 killed by December 2023. Every building in Gaza is in ashes. You have seen footage of dead Palestinians every day since. You have seen verified footage of mass graves. Do the fucking math.

all anyone is ever doing by saying stuff like this is admitting they're a useful mark the right can exploit to push their wedge issues further. amazing that otherwise smart people still don't realize how this game is played

New blog from me about collecting social media data. I talk about the ethical, legal, and practical considerations of accessing this data and offer practical tips on how to create large datasets. Researcher access is increasingly restricted but we can still do our work voxpol.eu/accessing-so...

‘The inability of Western powers to condemn Israel’s conduct – much less bring it to an end – has made a mockery of the rules-based order that they claim to uphold.’ Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

you know which parents have legitimate concerns? parents who love their trans kids and want them to be able to get the medicine they need and to be able to play sports with their friends if they want to

NEW: Am told over the weekend that Sarah Champion’s letter calling on the PM to recognise a Palestinian state has now been signed by 254 MPs.

This is one of those moments when the hollowness of our democratic systems becomes visible to the public. Facts are verified, but deliberation is pure performance, and accountability is nowhere. The system absorbs truth without ever acting on it.

Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland overwhelmingly reject 3.6% pay rise

He accepted a caution which will now show up on his DBS checks which he's trying to get removed. Everyone should know that a caution will stay on your record and you should never accept one without getting advice from a solicitor you trust. No caution, no comment. Find a solicitor first

Funny how "legitimate concerns" are always those of a far-right minority The concerns of the communities at the sharp end or that of the many more opposing the far right are just incoherent noise As always, the mainstreaming of far-right politics is a top-down, mainstream-driven affair

wouldn't necessarily say that "giving the racist rioters exactly what they wanted, and showing them that rioting works" can be seen as "having dealt with the issue"? I mean I guess it is in a way, but www.ft.com/content/7fa5...

Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause. Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause. As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.

I recently complained to the BBC about their biased news coverage and in the reply they said that they have a duty to report the world as it is, not how people wish it was. Aside from being patronising guff, it would seem they’re quite happy to avoid how the world actually is when it suits them.

Ideally, we teach our students to think critically about the world, and hopefully, to care and want/work to change it for the better but then we stomped on their bodies, futures and speech when they do exactly what we allegedly train them to do. The past years have been devastating in higher ed.

So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

BREAKING: Israeli military attacks humanitarian aid vessel Handala in international waters 30 miles from Gaza — in violation of maritime law — and has abducted 21 people on board, including U.S. citizens. The ship was carrying life-saving aid, which Israel has seized.

Have been covering this genocidal war since day one, with deep respect for my sources. Please reach out, and please share with your networks:

"Wherever your new home is, Chambers says, 'You should be able to go out the front door, and know that there are local amenities to walk to, and ‘turn up and go’ public transport. The current planning system is not delivering this vision.'”

‘I want to be a Lioness’: research shows more girls than ever engaging with football

I just donated to several of these (vetted) organizations. Please consider doing the same if you have the means and are outraged by the Israeli starvation of the Gaza population.

Do you teach undergrad pol sci research methods? Do you assign journal articles to your students? I'm building a sharable tagged library of student-friendly articles, tagged by methods and other features. Please share your syllabus to help me build. Email leanne at leannecpowner dot com

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

"I want to be clear – what is being done to Palestinians in Gaza is barbaric and entirely preventable…. From inside Nasser hospital, I am telling you: this is deliberate. This is preventable. And this must stop now.” Dr Nick Maynard www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

People are dying of starvation in Gaza, aid agencies are pleading to be allowed to take food in, Israel is blocking it, & meanwhile the UK cabinet is having a fussy little conversation about whether this is an opportune time to recognise Palestinian statehood www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

What I'm reading here is that if you want your concerns addressed you shouldn't throw paint on planes or march peacefully, you should set fire to things and riot.

A sudden dramatic shift in the BBC's coverage. Why? Because everybody knows that the utter calamity engulfing Gaza is going to be impossible to hide. For the Guilty Men of the media: you all had ample warning for 21 months! You did this! Everything that now happens is on you.

Nice

This is in just an hour! @ninianjames.bsky.social @cmillerphd.bsky.social @nathgalexander.bsky.social @nonreligioncf.bsky.social

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Out of curiosity I wanted to know how the massive LMS Instructure (company that runs Canvas) is using the massive amounts of data it collects on students. Oh. (This article is nominally not a press release?) www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...

This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.

system designed to impose maximum violence on trans women and girls works as intended

A very powerful essay by Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov, arguing that: a) Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and b) denying this threatens to "undermine everything that Holocaust scholarship and commemoration have stood for." Do read the whole thing www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

To be clear on what they're proposing: human beings using water for drinking, washing, and growing crops will be rationed. The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.

Time to get this petition over the line and give MPs the platform from which to publicly and loudly raise all this stuff. bsky.app/profile/phil...