this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

I think Obama very clearly wants to be a party elder on Mount Olympus, keeping his powder dry so when he hurls down a thunderbolt it has the most impact/salience but not exactly surprised to see that strategy crumble if other party leaders aren't pulling their weight

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”. They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left. This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

In London, hate will never win.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Coates just doesn't miss. He doesn't. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

I'm really excited that a collection of fascinating work on fandom, fans and AI that @suzannerblack.bsky.social and I co-edited is out today in the new volume of @journal.transformativeworks.org - and as the journal's first 'New Currents' section! Read our editorial here doi.org/10.3983/twc....

Good thread with some interesting suggestions for improving the peer review process... I notice there's a track at DRS this year about innovation in publishing of design research, would be nice to see such things considered.

“(T)he way someone makes the argument – how nice they look, how erudite they sound, how polite they seem – has long taken precedent over the actual argument itself… as long as the tone is cheerful, there's no need to examine the ugliness of the words.” campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-white-ci...

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

With the new season of Jeopardy! about to begin amid public grappling with AI, a look back at the 2011 showdown between the question-answering computer system Watson and two human opponents reveals "a prime-time preview of the anxious, angry moment we’re in now." slate.com/culture/2025...

This. The absolute temerity of slamming ‘low quality research’ while squandering millions on garbage reports based on 20th century management ‘theory’. Such irony.

I'm devastated by Conor Gearty's passing. His seminars were electrifying, his research courageous and inspirational, and as a doctoral supervisor he was never less than kind, diligent, and wise. It is such a huge loss. In this beautiful article, he left us some of his wisdom, humour, and humility.

Can we shift away from low-quality UUK leadership?

With the phrase “unfunded hobbyist research” the new Universities UK President continues a much longer history of contempt that UUK has shown towards the labour of all those who work in universities

'For the first time pupils across Scotland, from age 3 to 18, will have the opportunity to study Film and Screen as a practical arts subject.' 1/2

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

permanent Liberal Arts lecturership (= assistant professorship) in Glasgow: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM506/l...

I’m at Helmsley Literature Festival this weekend talking about walking, writing, mourning and the north with Wendy Pratt. Come! helmsleyarts.co.uk/whats-on/hel...

Rain or shine, we can't wait for our campus to be full of students again when the new term starts! 🌹

We've got a chunky @britishacademy.bsky.social report out looking at the emergence of 'cold spots' where you can't study arts, humanities or social science subjects close to home. We call for an urgent review of HE funding & monitoring of at risk subjects www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

Crisis at England universities created by successive govts. Freeze on student fees Real cuts in govt grants Harder to enrol foreign students Home student numbers falling £267bn student debt Real wage cuts 40% of universities in trouble. Local economies decline with university decline

Lancaster University staff to be balloted over strike action www.bbc.com/news/article...

"INTO UNCERTAIN WEATHERS is an interactive installation and performance of poetry, weather balloons, mylar and haze... During the event, the audience can ask questions both online + in-person—only to receive cryptic answers modulated by a NYC weather API and accompanied by NASA satellite imagery."

Oh look, Labour has spent months targeting the wrong voters.

We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...

One of our most anticipated September books is feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty's "Insurgent Visions," which explores methods of anticapitalist resistance to radically transform everyday life. buff.ly/Kn3Bk2m

📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣 🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation. 🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

For people at the RGS-IBG, we have a panel on our book later today, between 14.40-16.20 in lecture theatre 2 - with Angharad Closs-Stephens, Mitch Rose, Jessica Pykett, Jason Dittmer and Fiona McConnell. Should be fun!

If you would like a sneak peek at our special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age, have a look at some of the commentaries that have come out already in OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/home/DDS

Delighted to have Ricardo Sanin's latest piece, developing his philosophy in new directions, with a compelling engagement with Quentin Meillassoux's Hyper-chaos: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/08/28/f...

Come along to Living with failure through care and creativity this morning at 9am in Muirhead 113 as part of @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference. For zine-making, modelling, creative writing and more!

If you are going to the RGS-IBG conference we’re selling copies of The Promise of Cultural Geography at the registration desk. £10 for a beautiful object, that covers costs and will allow us to develop future projects …

New book to inhale @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on globalisation, low cost labour & how capitalism makes & sustains global inequalities @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Newsom: "We're doing this in reaction to a president that called the governor of the state of Texas and said 'find me 5 seats' ... we cannot unilaterally disarm ... other blue states need to stand up"

In Crip Screens, Olivia Banner provides a wide-ranging and ongoing history of Black, feminist-of-color, and crip resistance to psychiatry’s incorporation of hegemonic media technologies into treatment and research. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/JELG5Be

I was a @softwaresaved.bsky.social fellow this year, and it has been fantastic. For #DH people - SSI provides a cool spot for interdisciplinary thinking centered around research software. Applications open now for next year!

Looks like a very cool project/perspective

Going in town today with leaflets and my easygoing personality to gather support from the community against the mass redundancies at Lancaster University. If you see us (wearing some fancy UCU garmets) please come to say hi! chng.it/qbVXbwydfy

And the un-paywalled HEPI post with this and more data is: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/08/08/t...

This looks 🔥🔥🔥 Read the full CFP and submit your proposals here: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/raceandmedia/

I'm currently looking for visiting lecturing/tutoring work for the autumn 💛 I've worked in English, Media Arts and Liberal Arts departments, and have taught poetry, literature, film, television and critical theory. If you know of any vacancies, or anyone that might be looking, please let me know 😊

Claire Blencowe, Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism and the Geology of Race - @manchesterup.bsky.social, March 2025 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526176509/

We have an opening for a one-year Sociology Lectureship in Glasgow focused on teaching the sociology of class. Please share it with anyone interested. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

These are enormously confronting, disturbing, distressing times & if you're feeling overwhelmed or exhausted, seems sensible to remember that's pretty realistic in this context. Find connection where you can, & rest. And have faith there are many many good people out there.

This may prove an interesting test case for the meaning of new freedom of speech requirements for universities, in force from 1 August 2025. Will 'discouraging' military equipment company recruiters be protected by free speech, or only encouraging them?

Before (or after) you watch that #Jubilee video, listen to our #UncommonSense episode with @aaronwinter.bsky.social on Free Speech to learn what’s wrong with #DebateMe culture and the value placed on appearing to be controversial – especially when dealing with far-right discourse. buff.ly/320qEJ7

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...

Shedding light on our dark times: join us at the University of Glasgow on 27 November to hear from renowned #migration scholar Shahram Khosravi. The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025 is free to attend. Book your place now: buff.ly/3xyE2hM #anthropology #ethnography #Iran #displacement

CfP for an exciting workshop I'm co-organising at the Uni of Sheffield - Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling Times. (More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug) tinyurl.com/qstorytelling