Universities collect student voice through surveys but ignore it when it challenges their decisions, says Moé Suzuki. Is there another way? blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

📒Experiences of early career researchers racialised as ‘non-white’ In 2024/2025, I led a project investigating how racialised ECRs at LSE experience the institution, funded by the ECR Network. Read the report here: moesuzuki.owlstown.net/pages/racial... But here are some key points ⬇️

UKHE staff: please sign. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🎧 Thrilled to be featured on this podcast series on AI and the media industries. The episode explores how streamers like Netflix use audience data and how this impacts creative practices. Hosts: Paul McDonald & @aorcuncan.bsky.social Production: Melis Uslu Link: open.spotify.com/episode/2s5U...

‘The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley’ restofworld.org/2025/ai-reso...

Reading the white paper on immigration and I feel my inner teacher marking it: “Evidence?”; “cherry-picking evidence”; “can you find a more recent source?”

I’m organising an event to launch the report from my project on the experiences of early career researchers at LSE who are racialised as ‘non-white’. 4th June, 15:30-17:00. The event is hybrid, open to LSE staff and PhD students! Details & registration here: racialised-ecr-lse.eventbrite.co.uk

On International Worker's Day @uea-ucu.bluesky.social began 9 days of strike action to save jobs & avoid compulsory redundancy. We have already given the university considerable savings via "voluntary" measures. Now mgmt needs to do the right thing & call this off. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1400...

🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸 Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine. 🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online 🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah 🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

"A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs." restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...

Sandra Duffy responds to the #ForWomenScotland decision of the UK Supreme Court, which creates the category of legally-female-but-not-a-woman for the purposes of equality law! criticallegalthinking.com/2025/04/24/s...

We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

Today we launched our crowdfunder to challenge last week’s Supreme Court’s decision – which we believe has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act 🏳️‍⚧️

DeepMind UK staff seek to unionise and challenge defence deals and Israel links on.ft.com/44GylMq

The @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social is providing support to various civilian-led groups providing relief and protection support in N. Darfur where hundreds of thousands are fleeing the RSF's genocidal violence. To support pls go to sudansolidarity.com. Pls consider becoming a monthly donor 🙏🏿.

Hey, academics! Have you signed a book contract lately? You should report your royalty/advance rate anonymously on this spreadsheet. Are you negotiating, or about to be negotiating, a book contract? You should take a look at the spreadsheet. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

🚨🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS! The PSA's Race, Migration & Intersectionality Working group is hosting a symposium entitled, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics.' We invite abstracts of up to 200 words by Friday 25 April 2025. forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuu...

I had no idea Anduril’s bordering technology had reached the shores of the UK…. the founder of Anduril, Palmer Luckey, is the founder of Oculus VR (now part of Meta). In my PhD I discussed the framing of VR technology as “empathy machine” vis-a-vis uses of VR for border violence/“killing machine”.

Looking forward to attending my second PSA soon! I’ll be speaking about the ‘humanisation’ of refugees as part of a panel organised by the @psa-race.bsky.social working group. Please say hi if you’re around!

Our team at LSE100 is hiring! Happy to have a chat with anyone interested in applying. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

We are a group of autonomous writers, artists, educators and translators coming together to offer online courses and workshops to raise money for people in Gaza 🥀🥀🥀

Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World – Verso, May 2023 (e-book free to download) www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Come join our team✨ LSE100 is looking for a new fellow to teach seminars on artificial intelligence & climate futures. Starting in Jan 2024. Happy to chat to anyone interested in applying! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

The killing of Elianne Andam – patriarchy as a theory of gender by Alanah Mortlock blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2023/...

In case you missed it, there's now a recording of the 2023 Antipode @RGS_IBG Lecture, “Decommissioning Anti-Racism: Police Power, State Capture, and Black Radical Traditions”, presented by Adam Elliott-Cooper. at antipodeonline.org/2023/08/24/2... #geosky #geography #geo #sociology #socialtheory

Very excited for this event at LSE on 27 Oct: 'Of Black Study - A Conversation with Dr Joshua Myers' www.eventbrite.ca/e/of-black-s... The book is even more relevant now as I start teaching on an "interdisciplinary" course for undergraduate students...