Horrified and angry by the violence in Manchester today. What are we when people cannot worship in peace?!

Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings

Racial minorities in France face substantial earnings penalties, with Middle Eastern/North African and Sub-Saharan African individuals most affected. This is one of the key findings of a new study by @yajnagovind.bsky.social @paolosantini.bsky.social & E. Derenoncourt. ▶️ wid.world/news-article...

Before the end of the day we're going to hear about how the Israeli army found copies of Mein Kampf inside tins of baby formula.

found the last remaining pure place on the Internet and it seems to be a livestream of a waterhole in Namibia www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYD...

it takes a lot to make me say i'm proud of being Australian but Julie Bindel saying we're a laughing stock will absolutely do it for me

it is either international solidarity or barbarism

City walls of Oyo-ile www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-city-s...

can someone introduce Azealia Banks to the concept of Africa

Arriving at Joburg international airport to find I was connected to eduroam was probably the highlight of my academic life; all downhill from there I fear

Telegraph admits article by Conservative immigration spokeperson Katie Lam used entirely fictional stats from Centre for Policy Studies (no, *not* the £234 bn, different ones!). Publishes entirely inadequate correction which still makes false claims about migrant wages. archive.ph/FkywM

🇸🇳 VIDEO: Record turnout for Dakar-Goree swim crossing in Senegal More than 900 swimmers participate in the Dakar-Goree crossing, "a record," according to the island's mayor.

I absolutely don't trust Switzerland to have non-European food and the first Chinese restaurant I've seen in Zurich is called "Restaurant Chopstick" so, like,

I'm submitting my PhD dissertation today, with the defence scheduled in early December. Long years of work, but proud of the outcome and excited to develop it further. Thought I'd share the first few pages of the front matter:

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Diamonds are only really valuable when scarce and I've written in @thecontinent.org about what the industry did historically to African societies to keep them scarce. My article and the whole issue is free to read: bit.ly/TC_215

that new statesmen memo is probably one of the worst-written pieces of political writing of the 21st century outside a Troy Bramston column

I don't think the average person is going to learn much by accessing a paywalled scientific paper. But the current system keeps out journalists, science communicators, policy researchers, and fact checkers from reading into a topic as well.

What have we learned from research on electricity infrastructure? How can this inform Mission 300? Register to join this important VoxDev-World Bank discussion on October 9th with Stephane Straub, Robyn Meeks, Franz Drees-Gross & Andrew Dabalen here: www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

🆕 Does index insurance work? Insights from eight experiments in agriculture Today on VoxDev, Pauline Castaing (World Bank) & @gazeaud.bsky.social (@cerdi.bsky.social) discuss the impact of index insurance on smallholder productivity in developing countries: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

A magical shower of benefits for the Volk to be paid for, somehow, by the expulsion of Johnny Foreigner has been the absolute bread and butter of a strain of far right rhetoric for over a century, what are you talking about

A reminder that simply assuming that greater supply will reduce prices/wages turns out not always to be true.

Economics Seminar at @upna.bsky.social ! 📅 Date and time: Tuesday, September 30, 12:00 PM. 📍 Location: Meeting Room (Los Madroños 2nd floor, 2026). 👤 Speaker: Luis Bértola 📜 Title: "The economic history of colonial continental Spanish America: social relations and inequality".

Another little bit of the Murdock map puzzle: obviously the map has a wildly difficult time accounting for widely dispersed populations like the Fulani: in Cameroon, the nearest thing to a 'homeland' you could ascribe to the Fulani is the Adamawa polygon, but the distribution of the population is:

Chris Elliot and I argue that it’s past time for the Australian War Memorial to update its Ben Roberts-Smith exhibits to give a full, unvarnished accounting of his crimes and their impact on victims. www.abc.net.au/religion/aus...

HAPPY SUNDAY 🎉 the African Translation Project needs $3575 by October 31 to fully fund the translation of TWO BOOKS! 🎉🎉🎉 Share Donate Browse the art shoppe (Donate a piece to the art shop?) share! ko-fi.com/africantrans...

A city-state at the forest edge: The history of Bonduku, Cote D'ivoire, ca. 1600-1897. [Journal of African Cities: chapter 17] www.patreon.com/posts/139889...

ok the solution is a worldwide sorting of birthday months by hemisphere. i had a dogshit birthday month in the southern hemisphere so i just moved north and now it rules

The climate predictions that were wrong were the ones by the contrarians/deniers during the post-1998 “hiatus”. They said temperatures would start to fall as part of a natural cycle.

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org: A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye. #OSINT

"Something happened in Northeast Africa in the early thirteenth century. It was swift, violent, destructive, and perpetrated by non-Muslims. It might have been accompanied by an outbreak of disease; it might have had apocalyptic overtones; it might have been several events rolled into one."

Regular reminder: the 1920s quotas that cut immigration to the U.S. by more than 80% "did not result in higher wages for U.S.-born workers. Instead, wages fell for U.S. workers in labor markets that were most affected by the decline in immigrant numbers." economics.princeton.edu/working-pape...

Motherfucker this is the London review of books you better take your sensitive ass back to the Atlantic

Awful news that Kaleb Horton died. A talented writer who in another time would've been getting $5 a word with an expense account. Read his skilled filleting of the Entourage movie web.archive.org/web/20150605...

Also related....JNIM's burning of a fuel convey is leading to shortages in Mali.

I feel like Bluesky missed a trick in attracting some of the old twitter crowd by not making the like button a ⭐

there has to be at least one cannibal on bluesky by now right

Examining the recent slow growth in manufacturing productivity, from Enghin Atalay, Ali Hortaçsu, Nicole Kimmel, and Chad Syverson https://www.nber.org/papers/w34264

"JNIM, the most prominent jihadist network in the Sahel, stepped up a campaign of economic sabotage in Mali. The group has sought to strangle the supply of fuel to the capital, Bamako, and impose blockades on two cities in the country’s west." | The Economist

CHOTINER: Record shows you didn’t post a Chotiner meme until Thursday? ME: That’s correct. CHOTINER: That seems unusual. Wouldn’t you say you usually jump on all the viral ‘bits?’ ME: I’d say so, but I had lots of work to do yesterday. CHOTINER: So, that work is done now?

Another really important story on ABC News today, from @matthewdoran1.bsky.social and @chantellealkhouri.bsky.social — the testimonies from Australian doctors in Gaza is horrifying. “We have legs hanging on by only skin or a tendon, brain matter out, the guts are out, all in one patient.”

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

Extraordinary opportunities opening up for future sociologists /historians/cliometricians to explain how this coincided with Republican domination of the agricultural midwest and their having a Senate majority leader from North Dakota.

we should pass a law that says any mention in the press of someone who took a ride on the Lolita Express mentions that fact

Great undercover reporting in the Times about the rise of anti abortion counselling in the UK ‘UK charity encouraged me to take controversial abortion reversal pill’ www.thetimes.com/article/4b7c...

As someone who has been on the MMS train for like a decade I am so happy with how widely he’s breaking into the literature scene.

Xi's new NDC calls for only 7-10% ghg reductions by 2035. This is deeply disappointing, more consistent with 3 degrees C of warming than 2.5, let alone 2 or 1.5. Of course Trump is worse and this is still directionally correct, but this is pathetic for the state that wants to be the climate leader.

The state as a stationary bandit in quite a literal way

Death toll surges in early Israeli bombardment with the heaviest carnage in besieged Gaza City.