If you wanted to end America’s supremacy in space this is exactly how you would do it. A book burning on this scale would also take too long so it will just be “disappeared.” #HGT #booksky #libraries #krasnov smnewsnet.com/archives/554...

Brigitte Bardot, actress, 1934-2025 ft.trib.al/IWUezpC

It's not as if we weren't warned.

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

@startribune.com finally stands up for the truly forgotten! White men! Can't make this shit up www.startribune.com/2026-reading...

Here are the latest trends in comics censorship from 2025. As you might expect, more comics are being targeted and in particular, manga is feeling the heat. So, too, are adaptations, women's non fic, and more. Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights. bookriot.com/trends-in-co...

A very happy Christmas from all of us at SOAS Gallery 🎄✨ Whether you celebrate or not, we hope you are enjoying a restful break with family, friends, or some well-earned quiet time. We look forward to welcoming you back in the new year.

2025's last advent book is Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social, a dazzling & completely captivating weave of stories: the tale of a disabled author, & the scifi book she decides to write. Nigerian culture and folklore, discrimination, ai, robots, publishing - brilliant & thought-provoking! 💙📚

What’s even better is that you can read the online version for FREE here: uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Titles by Miriam Toews, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Yiyun Li, and more are among the best reviewed nonfiction books of 2025.

"Historians will study how bad this book is. English teachers will hold this book aloft at their students to remind them that literally anyone can write a book" Round up from @literaryhub.bsky.social's Bookmarks lithub.com/the-most-sca...

Festive shrimp? Erm...OK. #foodart

Need some encouragement getting into the festive spirit? Well, here's a link to last year's British Food History Podcast Christmas special: A Tudor Christmas with the fantastic Brigitte Webster ( @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social ) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Would you like to know how to make a zine? Here's easy step-by-step instructions on how to make your own without the use of a computer by @thorazos.bsky.social

It literally cannot come up with new ideas though

Buy people books for Christmas. Fin.

If you can't come tonight, this is being recorded and will be on SOAS' YouTube after 7 days www.youtube.com/@soasuni/vid...

@4cat.nl Hi, Are there any legal issues with using 4Cat pull data from social media platforms when their terms of use prohibit scraping? Thanks

Kedgeree originated in fourteenth century India with a dish of rice, lentils and fish called Khichuri. A perfect breakfast for Christmas morning! You can find the recipe at piespuddingsandpottages.com/recipe-post/... #britishfood #foodhistory #recipe #rice #smoked haddock #breakfast

@deepvellum.bsky.social Hello, Do you have a UK distributor? I ask because Wei Tchou's Little seed isn't readily available from UK suppliers

Inaugural Lecture from SOAS @soasuni.bsky.social Linguistics Professor Julia Sallabank, titled 'Language revitalisation and reclamation: theorising processes and ideologies' Dec 11 · 5:30 pm GMT #linguistics #language #Languagerevitalisation #Endangeredlanguages #Languagedocumentation

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This is good stuff. I love the opening sentence.

'He told BBC Scotland News he hoped redundancies could be avoided, but said there needed to be a "fundamental look" at the current funding model for universities.' He's right of course about the funding model, for Scotland, the other UK nations and the UK. But surely VCs should say more. 1/2

Librarians are the single most under-used resource on campus. When was the last time you talked to yours? They can support not only your research but your teaching too.

✊ Fist (Yantra the Sacred Ink Series), Cedric Arnold (Thailand, 2010) Detail of sacred yantra tattoos — symbols of protection & strength found across Southeast Asia. See it in #GiftedExhibition, on view at SOAS Gallery until 13 Dec. #SOASGallery #SOASCollections

📣 Our departmental research seminar continues continues tomorrow: Our own Naomi Leite will be speaking about 'Doubt, Dissonance and Divided Selves in the "Rational" West' 📅 3 December, 3–5pm 📍 Main Building, RB01 | In-person & hybrid Join online at this link: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9374936443...

Behind the story: Amrit Sufi on how writing enabled her to share her culture

"Amrit Sufi, who speaks the Angika language of India’s eastern state of Bihar, said that it is not used in schools and is rarely written down, which is accelerating its downfall. Some people are also ashamed to speak it, seeing it as inferior to dominant languages such as Hindi."

How citizen archivists in South Asia confront the online marginalization of oral cultures and languages by Amrit Sufi diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/27/h...

Large language mistake by @benjaminjriley.bsky.social - Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

📣 Join us for a screening of Berke Baş’s 'Hold Still' and a discussion with the director and scholars. The discussion marks the public launch of Archives of Solidarity, an AHRC-funded project at SOAS. 📅 3 Dec, 5–8pm 📍 RG01, SOAS Main Building Details & registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Great book launch at the Marx Memorial Library yesterday for Henry Dee’s ‘Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa’. Dee pictured right; beside him is Dr Wayne Dooling of SOAS, who kindly acted as discussant sslh.org.uk/2025/11/04/m...

TODAY at 5PM Join SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies' in-depth conversation with Lana Tatour about her co-edited book, Race and the Question of Palestine (2025) Event info & registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... 📚Read the book: soas.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1482762...

Spring, summer and autumn are the party seasons for trees but winter is when you really get to know them as people.

The Doctor is right and correct

'TEF uses programme level metrics to make judgements about institutional quality. It is both conceptual and methodological nonsense to attempt to scale-up judgements of quality from the programme to the institutional level in this way'. 1/3

Fabulous

This is nuts - "at least 52 per cent of internet content was machine-generated by May this year" Will AI eat itself?

Your occasional reminder that @bookshop.org is open for all of your Christmas book shopping needs. Every sale supports independent bookstores, the books arrive beautifully packaged, and they even have gift wrapping options. Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox uk.bookshop.org?next=t

Informative, illuminating and full of love for the genre - @gautambhatia88.bsky.social is always on point when he talks about SF. Must read essay about the history of SF in India, most of which I didn’t know about. Can’t wait to check out the many recommendations!!!

Since today will be awash with dire UK university news, here's something positive. Have finally gotten around to reading the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social /ESRC Progressing Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) in the Social Sciences report and associated resources. Really excellent. 1/2

oh man, literally my professional life and my hobby are colliding! Interesting library job at Games Workshop! jobs.games-workshop.com/search-and-a...

Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society

'The economic impact of international students in the UK surged from £31.3 billion in 2018/19 to £41.9 billion by 2021/22. On average, every parliamentary constituency in Britain benefits by £58 million.' 1/3

Welcome to our three-part series on book rebinding, where Library of Congress advanced book conservation interns Brittany and Devon will take you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection. Stay tuned for parts two and three!