What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation? Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8

My latest book, A New Wave of Anti-Racism in Europe? Racialized Minorities at the Centre, co-edited with Ilke Adam and Mariska Jung is now published!! AND open-access! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

This is so sadistic. These people are proud of the terror they're inflicting. They're enjoying it.

This is to fund a 'strategy'. What kind of 'strategy' relies on impoverishing staff?

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

The double standards here are astonishing, given selective and/or often fabricated torrent of media distributed by Trump's supporters in justifying Jan 6. That British politicians are publicly pressurising the BBC over this is even more shocking.

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?

Denmark steals possessions of people seeking asylum, as policy. It returns people to situations where they are killed. Mahmood is copying some of the worst policies going. Labour once again showing it's just another anti-asylum, anti-human rights, government. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is excellent lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

the tory proposal to deport 4-7% of the uk population is a fascist one - & we have to call it that my latest with @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/tories-con...

Was talking to a junior colleague about this exact problem yesterday. I wonder if REF panels (made up of experienced and secure academics) have considered this?

“Welcome to Hell” is a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held during that time and released, almost all with no charges. Full report: www.btselem.org/publications...

This was a fun email to receive from my employer yesterday

Kate Clanchy’s “i’ve been cancelled” tour has been going on for FOUR YEARS and in that period publishing of books by Black authors has declined. So who’s really been cancelled?

This was self evident from the beginning; and why I find universities' uncritical relationships with OpenAI and Microsoft CoPilot etc so very problematic--we know what the long term goals of these projects/companies are, and their imbrications within technofascism. How can you reconcile this?

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

If you are an academic—instructor or grad student—please sign this letter of solidarity for Professor Farhana Sultana who has been vilified by the right for calling CK what he was. They are trying to come for her job. This is the time for solidarity. forms.gle/8MayBcCmtYg1...

Powerful questioning from my colleague @elliechowns.bsky.social, pinning the government on exactly what it needs to do - NOW - to bring about an end to the atrocities being committed in Sudan.

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Babies born to black mothers 81% more likely to die in neonatal care, NHS study shows

Shameful to evade accountability. The murder of Stephen Lawrence was in 1993 (I think?). His killers not even sentenced until 20 years later and this? To suffer the loss of your offspring to violence and then be subjected further to the betrayal decades of police surveillance… unacceptable

Tests don't improve literacy. And being 'ready to take on unions' really translates as 'I'm trying to pander to some parts of the electorate by needlessly fighting with those who actually work in the sector'.

Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

This chart always makes me think about how we made the streets "safer" by making sure no one goes outside ever, especially kids

THREAD A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.

When is a pledge not a pledge …

There is a non-zero chance the Conservatives stated policy ends up being to retrospectively deport their leader's family...

It is harrowing to see the Home Office once again preventing families from being safely reunited in the UK. No child — from Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan or any other war zone should be left to face horrific violence alone because of a bureaucracy blind to their suffering www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Most of the time we ask the wrong questions in relation to asylum policy. What this new report on asylum accommodation shows, for me, is that we need to be asking all the time "who materially benefits from the current policy approach?"

A few more pics from yesterday's absurdly adorable press conference.

"The result would be removals on an epic scale. The comparison with Idi Amin's expulsion of Ugandan Asians is not one many Tory MPs welcome. Some appear unaware their own policy was that monstrous, until Lam spelled it out in a newspaper interview" - Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

She's saying it because she understands the world through the underlying framework of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory--that asylum seekers and immigrants are parasites that will destroy the nation--even if she knows the specific claim is false. It *feels* true to her

Pro-Life “Christians”. “We heard multiple stories of women losing their pregnancies in detention and suffering from the lack of proper medical care,” Cho said. “Those stories, I think, really are some of the most chilling stories I’ve heard about detention.”

The masks have not just slipped, they've been smashed to pieces as it's clear they have no interest in ever rowing back Full commitment to a deeply reactionary project whose logical conclusion is very clear

Yes, they are actually saying that a "foreigner" who has worked here for decades, paid National Insurance, & is entitled BECAUSE OF THAT to a state pension, would be deported for the crime of claiming it.

I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.

This is both terrifying and ridiculous. Also, I got married and immigrated to the UK prior to 2012 and I cannot overstate how badly any of the legislation passed from 2012 onwards would have screwed up my life.

Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign. notinourname.org.uk

Systematic murder and torture as a matter of deliberate state policy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

While you were momentarily distracted, Israel has full-on trashed last week’s “ceasefire”, because it can.

Israel has violated ceasefire 47 times and killed 38 Palestinians, says Gaza media office Authorities urge UN to intervene ‘to protect unarmed civilian populations’ after attack on bus that killed 11 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

There is now mountains of incontrovertible evidence that if you repeat, amplify and parrot the #FarRight then voters go and vote for *them* in numbers. Will any of the centre learn this before it’s already far too late?? All signs from Labour say point to no ☹️ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.

Years of normalisation of far-right politics as "legitimate grievances" in a top-down manner have led to this The responsibility does not just lie with Reform but with all those mainstream elite actors who have indulged these reactionary, demophobic fantasies

I’ve been thinking a lot lately how it is essential to the rebuilding of democracy and the rule of law that those who rode roughshod over them face justice and are seen to face justice. I believe it needs to be part of any effective truth and reconciliation process. You can’t just hug this out.

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