Thinking about bridges and liminality. #newmaterialism #bitesizephilosophy #Blanchot rhubarbandrobin.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/b...

Books and existence rhubarbandrobin.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/b... #newmaterialism #materialculture #latour #STS

An excellent place to ponder/escape world events, and possibly a door to a better world. dreamerygardens.co.uk#northwoodtrail #placeconnection #educationyork

Save 30% on #NewBook "Magic's Translations" by @margaretjwiener.bsky.social , which examines how the concept of magic emerged out of historical struggles between Europe and the rest of the world. #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies buff.ly/X2Fe74u

'The Lacanian Teacher. Education, Pedagogy and Enjoyment.' Out in July with the Palgrave Lacan Series link.springer.com/book/9783031...

"The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony," writes Luiz Pessoa, author of "The Entangled Brain":

Blogginess on objects and stuff (academic overspillings rather than seriousity) rhubarbandrobin.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/o... #STS #newmaterialism #research #subjectobject #educationresearch (maybe) #tea #blogsaboutlife

Last week I had the privilege to work with brilliant colleagues and friends at Uppsala & Mälardalens Universities, exploring Latour’s modes of existence and HE pedagogies. An inspiring trip; I look forward to our continuing work. #STS #educationresearch @iterc.bsky.social @pragmarxist.bsky.social

An important paper on Russell Group universities and public intellectualism through the digital sphere www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #educationresearch #highereducationresearch

A chance to explore global perspectives in teacher education and challenge the standard education model. Promises to be an interesting space for open debate and thinking otherwise. www.bera.ac.uk/event/global... #teachereducation #education #educationresearch

ECER 2025, Belgrade. Learn about the Keynote Speakers (https://buff.ly/4gfs4uf) and find the Call for Proposals and how to submit to #ECER2025 (https://buff.ly/4gfOHhA). Submission deadline: 31 January

The Call for Papers for the annual Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference is open. See ethnographyandeducation.org Conference dates: Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th September 2025 #ethnography #education #educationresearch

ITE Senior Lectureship in the north of England open for applications. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #teachereducation

Hot off the press! ‘Teacher Education and Its Discontents: Politics, Knowledge, and Ethics’. A unique collection of essays from researchers and teacher educators from around the world, presenting innovative approaches to education theory and practices. #educationresearch #education #teachereducation

What is meant by place? Campus smells of lavender Place is brain honey. Ah, the start of a new semester… #haiku #yorkstjohn

‘We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless “information” that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility.’ This is ‘reverence for the infinite connectedness’ in complex human-nonhuman relations. #STS #education #poetry #goodreads

“What we now know is that if we grit our teeth and continue to trust in growth, we are heading, as they say, 'straight into a wall'.” Isabelle Stengers (2009)

Two weeks later and I’m still existing on the intellectuel fuel of #ECER2024. Towards a Weak Ontology of/for Education symposium photo, with ITERC colleagues. Can we shift the ITERC social media over to here too @pragmarxist.bsky.social?

Well this promises to be rather fabulous. Pre-ordered. #goodreads

Today a senior exec from Taylor & Francis replied confirming that T&F journal articles *are* and will continue to be provided to its AI partners for model training, with *no opt-out*. Guess we know where we stand now - academics are creators of data for value generation by Big AI and publishers

Fancy £10k for humanities or social science research? We’ve opened the call for our small research grants. Do share. Awards will be allocated through partial randomisation - awarded randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

Great week at ECER2024, talking Latour, AIME and instauration.