New article published with a team of fantastic women Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

Dockworkers from across Europe will converge on Genoa, Italy, today and tomorrow to coordinate an effort to block shipments of weapons that could be used in Gaza — but the push could broaden into a much wider trade boycott of Israel.

Slovenia sanctions Israel's Netanyahu in an EU first - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/slovenia-bans-netanyahu-entry-first-eu-sanction-against-israels-prime-minister

Italy to send second naval frigate to support Global Sumud Flotilla - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/italy-send-second-naval-frigate-support-global-sumud-flotilla

📌🟢 Press Release from the Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas: The targeting of several ships of the Global Steadfastness Flotilla by Israeli drones at sea and in international waters is an act of terrorism and dangerous behavior that paves the way for more severe attacks against...

After Italy, Spain to send navy ship to assist Gaza aid flotilla - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/after-italy-spain-send-navy-ship-assist-gaza-aid-flotilla

'Choose your side': Italian unions launch nationwide strike over genocide in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/italian-dockworkers-warn-they-will-shut-down-europe-if-gaza-sumud-flotilla-attacked

Why is a condition for recognising #Palestine "to demilitarise the Palestinian State"? Will #Israel & every other State with an army also be demilitarised as a condition of their statehood? Or does the #PalestineException live on in all this fake 'recognition'? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Sciopero per Gaza domani su treni, bus, navi e a scuola. Ma i disagi continueranno fino a novembre https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2025/09/21/news/sciopero_22_settembre_gaza_treni_bus_manifestazioni_scuola-424860244/?rss

#Siracusa, Sicilia 🍉🕊✊🏼🇵🇸🕊🍉 #Sumud #FreedomFlotilla #FreePalestine #BDS www.siracusanews.it/oltre-200-pe...

#PalestinaLibera🍉🕊 #Torino #PiazzaCastello #UniversitaTorino 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

8. And if you want more than the news and journalism take then our new book is out and open access. 360 pages in A Handbook of Integration with Refugees from @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social 👉🏼 www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/... 👉🏼https://zenodo.org/records/16412875

Question for auto-ethnographers: who should I read on analysing multiple autoethnographies? It's for research that involves analysing themes across multiple autoethnographic accounts🙏 #Ethnography #Autoethnography #SocialScience #Methodology #HigherEducation #QualitativeResearch #ThematicAnalysis

📆 17/10/25 12:00 BST Most Western universities make a big exception when it comes to dismantling colonial thinking: Universities should reject all settler-colonialism, including Israel's & its enablers' www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-palest... #OpenUniversity #OpenSocietalChallenge #PalestineException

As I transition from AI military-funded #Spotify to #Qobuz, here's a reminder of #FromTheRiverToTheSeaPalestineWillBeFree by #Lowkey #IsraelIsATerrorState funded by #UK #Europe #USA to sustain their nuclear imperialisms #FreePalestine🍉 www.qobuz.com/gb-en/discover open.spotify.com/track/6JlN6T...

'Sono siciliano, nord-africano, un po' norvegese, un po' saraceno, europeo-palermitano, un po' finlandese, un po' catanese' pure scozzese e venexiana - siamo in tanti a star tranquilli nel nostro pluralismo. Sono i nefasti a guastarci la feste🕊 #LucioDalla #SonoSiciliano 🎶 Si riparte 🛤 #InterRail

I will never forgive the #UK & #Europe, two nation states I just happen to be a citizen of, for enabling & funding the decade-long ethnic cleansing of #Palestine as part of their greedy colonial imperialiast racism. #Israel is a western-funded nuclear invention, a nation state committing #genocide.

When @fadiadk.bsky.social presented some of her research on slow reading in higher education, especailly doctoral education at @srhe.bsky.social conference in december last year, it met with furious approval srheblog.com/2025/06/20/r... Intense head-nodding. Lovely to hear more about it.

Hi @ukcge.bsky.social, do you know if anything similar has been or is being published on #UK #DoctoralEducation? 👇🏼 Thanks. #GraduateSchool #HigherEducation

Hi @alcs.co.uk, please see my query below 👇🏼 Is this something you can advise me on? Many thanks.

Hi @societyofauthors.bsky.social, can I contact you for advice-guidance on an AI addendum I'm being asked to sign by an academic publisher? Or who else can I get some independent advice from? I'm unsure what is being asked of me or what the implications are, thx #AcademicPublishing #GenAI #AcWri

I will never forgive the #UK & #Europe, two nation states I just happen to be a citizen of, for enabling & funding the decade-long ethnic cleansing of #Palestine as part of their greedy colonial imperialiast racism. #Israel is a western-funded nuclear invention, a nation state committing #genocide.

#Solidarity ✊ ✊ ✊ 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine!

How close/far apart do the words 'action' and 'Palestine' need to be to warrant arrest or censorship? Honest question. Are we talking same sentence, paragraph, section, separate chapters in edited monograph, distance between intro & conclusion? Have #police #HomeOffice issued editorial guidance?

These interviews with historian Hazem Jamjoun via @palestinedeepdive.bsky.social re. Ghassan Kanafani are🌊. Aside from fact-checking imperial accounts of #zionism, they testify to the vital role & legacy of translators, who contribute to history being democratised. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv7b...

On a recent trip to northern Portugal, a😥anectode was shared with me: soft #Fado 🎶melodies at a #Braga music house-turned-AirBnB have ceded to jarring rattles of trolley cases on cobbles. Silence on #LaSerenissima has been similarly polluted. #DuffleBag for #SustainableTravel & #ConsiderateTravel

Very telling insight into the #PalestineException as it plays out amongst non-academic folks: people I talk to in non-work life know what #Israel is doing is wrong & that #BBC is complicit but can't say why 🍉 For info, I'm doing a #LiteratureReview for societal-challenges.open.ac.uk/challenges/t...

I posted our whole synopsis over on Insta, but if I leave this here you’ll get the idea.

Commissioned street art: new view from my study window🍉 #Watermelon by #K1 @ www.instagram.com/kaption_one/

'The group was banned due to “serious property damage for a political cause”, not because of racism or alleged violence against people. It is false to claim the organisation had violent intent against people [...] the group didn’t advocate violence or pose a threat.' observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

On the #Palestine exception via @insidehighered.com #AcademicPublishing #AcademicFreedom Academic anticipatory censorship in action www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

The more depraved Israel’s actions, the more antisemitic it is to point out the truth. The painful reality is that, through Israel, the West can dress up boilerplate colonialism as a 'Jewish' project. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-bl...

Remind me of his (and similars', including politicians') credentials for having anything to do with AI! How is it that those with absolutely no educational credentials or values get to tell educators that they need AI? This is undemocratic interference by fiat. It simply has to stop & be resisted.

#NHS SCAM ALERT [1/2] Beware of emails inviting you to medical appointments (especially if you were expecting one) that don't exist. I received 2 emails recently from what looked like the usual emails I get from the NHS. A few things made me suspicious, such a 'third party drdoctor', but I checked

How do you all deal, cope with, respond to big macro abstract stuff playing out in concrete detailed practice? I'm really struggling with neoliberal ideology colonising #HigherEducation (eg students=customers) that everyone says is 'terrible' yet actual colleagues literally call students customers.

🗣To use our voices to make history. Banging the pots and pans, making noise, clatter, shatter, the pots emptied of food filled with sound. So they can hear the horror of empty pans🗣 SCREAM FREE PALESTINE

Between 1776 and 2019, the US carried out Over 392 military interventions worldwide Killing millions in the process and condemning Many millions more to a life of agony and despair [A new world ...] A phoenix will rise from the embers of empire in #Gaza #GenocideJoe open.spotify.com/track/2Uk1OJ...

⏰Message from Huwaida Arraf⏰ The 'Handala' along with us, just civilians, was carrying baby formula, medicine, and essential aid to Gaza because governments and institutions fail to break the illegal Israeli siege. ...2/

[[[noticing a lot more people coming out of the woodwork now it seems safe to do so - good, of course (better-late-than-never and all that), but can't help bittering that more action, disgust & outrage way back should have happened. Still a ton to do. Voting for peace is a step in that direction]]]🇵🇸

Grace is completely right! That's why the left needs Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn's new political party to give people some hope that things can get better.

🎶C'è chi l'amore lo fa per noia chi se lo sceglie per professione bocca di rosa né l'uno né l'altro lei lo faceva per passione🎶 #BoccaDiRosa 🌹 open.spotify.com/track/3eAjS2...

"for students like me, writing is more than a skill. It’s a form of resistance. It’s how we carve out space in institutions that weren’t built for us. And anyone who helps us do that — respectfully, ethically, collaboratively — is part of that resistance too." #PACEspace {JM}

"writing isn’t just academic. It’s survival. It’s the way we make space for ourselves in systems that would rather we stay invisible. The pressure to sound “neutral” is often the pressure to be less ourselves" Should you pay to be yourself? #WhatMakesWritingAcademic www.thecanary.co/discovery/fe...

"Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity. Black women are expected to use our anger only in the service of other people’s salvation or learning. But that time is over." www.blackpast.org/african-amer...

Do any academic writers & teachers of #AcademicWriting know about www.masterpapers.com? They got plugged via www.thecanary.co/discovery/fe... There is a market, some of it reputable, for academic writing coaching so checking in here for informed thoughts. #AcWri #AcademicCoaching #HigherEducation