If you are papermaxxing with AI and swamping academic journals with claude- or chat-prompted scholar-like content, then you are taking the time and labour of editors and reviewers that others who actually put the work in deserve instead.

South·lits, a new initiative about the literary Global South, presents its first event: a book club meeting to discuss Dorothy Tse's @graywolfpress.bsky.social novel City Like Water (translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce). Get your copy and support indie presses and bookstores! Details 👇

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

In a global milestone, Peru’s Satipo and Nauta-Loreto regions have recognized native stingless bees as rights-bearing entities. Backed by a 2025 national law, the framework allows legal action to shield critical pollinators from deforestation and pesticides. Liz Kimbrough reports for #Mongabay.

Really helpful.

This essay would be so great in an intro english class; then have them take a different zingy tiny poem and write (on paper, in class, how we do now) an essay that's in their own voice, not an "I am writing a paper I might be chat-gpt" voice, about the journey of their own reactions to the poem.

In Feb 2025, I returned to Syria and walked back into Branch 251 — the cell where Assad’s intelligence first detained me in 2011. I found new prisoners sitting on the same floor. My new piece on why the new Syria has not dismantled the old prison system: www.thedial.world/articles/new...

This is the situation we find ourselves in

maybe my favorite thing on the internet: neal.fun/deep-sea/

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

any recommended analysts/analyses/outlets on how the UAE being drawn into the Iran war will affect the RSF and the genocide in Sudan?

Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate. "[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.” #GoodNews #BlackSky 🌱

New #Sudan coalition on atrocity prevention is welcomed step. Success will be measured by ability to deliver on protecting civilians, deter atrocities & push accountability on top of agenda. And of course, @eudiplomacy.bsky.social should be fully on board. Our take 👇 www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen as big of a disconnect between the scale of a crisis& scale of media coverage in my life-both because the scale of the suffering in #Sudan is so high& because coverage is abominably low” @tomperriello.bsky.social former US special envoy niemanreports.org/sudan-civil-...

This is a moment when we readers must step up to the plate and demand better than this. Translation 100% done by humans, 100% of the time.

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

Transitions Magazine is coming out with an issue entirely dedicated to Sudan soon with essays, memoir, and short fiction by Rogaia Abusharaf, Jamal Mahjoub, Fatin Abbas, Ahmed Abdel Al, Wagas Elsadig, Suzi Mirghani, and David Mikhail.

For the women of Tigray, milling ancient spices is a way to reconnect with their heritage in the aftermath of war, reports Paddy Dowling, with photography, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Incredible news today that Sisi pardoned Alaa Abdel Fattah, Egypt's most prominent political prisoner who has been imprisoned more or less continuously since 2014. He should be released once Sisi’s decision is published in the Official Gazette www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Last month @theatlantic.com published an often problematic piece about the war in #Sudan called “the war about nothing”. This week @thecontinent.org swings back, reminding us that what is “nothing” to you is “everything” to someone else. The Continent is a free publication, subscribe to read.

NEW: A growing number of Nigerians are returning home after years abroad, but they are often met with skepticism, culture shock and hard realities. In this essay for @newlinesmag.bsky.social, Kingsley Charles explores the “japada” trend. newlinesmag.com/reportage/ni...

I taught my first version of this class a few years ago as I looked back on creating my first collection and the choices I made. This edition is me thinking into other formal possibilities as I contemplate putting together the next collection.

PSA - I have just found out that many (?most ?all) UK library cards give you completely free access to thousands of newspapers and magazines via Pressreader. The App is on Apple and Android. This seems to be a very well kept secret!

«there is no reason to let Ukraine strike back with long-range German weapon» said German chancellor Olaf Scholz