job alert: My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are. Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897

Really enjoyed this conversation with Nick Boggs on his new biography of James Baldwin. The book reminds us that radical love is radical politics, especially in troubled times.

I wrote about Nicholas Boggs' new James Balddwin biography for @thenation.com Read here: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Lucid, convincing case for a tax on high-value property, from the UK's most eminent housing economist, John Muellbauer. Would raise revenue *and* be good for growth. ://www.ft.com/content/bb4e7566-4bc6-45c9-87e4-271cc40c66a5

Wow--incredible interview with Arundhati Roy on her mother, rising authoritarianism in India and the US, and other things: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/m...

I am sad to learn of the passing of Brinkley Messick, a great scholar and ethnographer, a dear colleague with whom I worked very closely with for more than a decade. Here he is at a panel celebrating his wonderful book *Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology* in 2018.

"I entrust you with Palestine – the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The syllabus for my first course as a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Amazonas, where I will teach at Brazil’s flagship graduate program on the Amazon rainforest. www.academia.edu/143301619/Sy...

We are greatly saddened by the passing of Michel Callon, a key contributor to debates in our journal about economization, marketization, and ecologization. RIP www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...

“Northwestern reassigned her grant funding, closed her lab and FORCIBLY ADMITTED HER TO THE UNIVERSITY’s PSYCHOATRIC HOSPITAL” Never ever ever forget how racist the China initiative was, how it was pushed by both parties, and how it ruined the careers and terrorized the lives of many scientists.

Harvard sociologist Theda Skocpol in TPM:

If the government wants to find the money (£7bn or so) to make up for its welfare U-turn, there's an easy answer - just don't implement the Immigration White Paper. ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration_...

Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.

The output of computer-vision research is overwhelmingly aimed towards monitoring humans https://go.nature.com/45HQI4f

This morning I woke up to the news that Zohran and his amazing, underdog run, HAVE made history! His father was one of my PhD supervisors. Watching his campaign has been a revelation. It brings a message of hope, despite dark times and our polluted media ecosystem.

RIP to Sly Stone. Calling someone a genius has mostly lost meaning, except when you apply it to Sly. I'm glad Questlove gave him a revealing and rewarding documentary with SLY LIVES (AKA THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS). I wrote about it for @ebertvoices.bsky.social.

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

RIP Alasdair MacIntyre, a theorist who has a lot to teach us about thinking of ethics, community and tradition, in post-liberal times.

The AHA urges Ohioans to write to Governor DeWine and ask him to veto SB 1. This dangerous bill would undermine the integrity, quality, and reputation of public higher education in Ohio. Read our action alert for more information. 🗃️

If you're a graduate student or junior scholar interested in the intersection between racial politics and political economy please consider attending the 2025 Johns Hopkins University Racial Politics Summer School (June 2-6). Applications now open! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Still struggling with this syllabus for Data from the Margins and part of the issue is, you could do a whole class just on W.E.B. Du Bois and data.

Israeli settlers tried to murder Hamdan Ballal today, and now he’s missing after the IDF kidnapped him from the ambulance he was in. No one knows where he is. All this is targeted. The US and others have censored this film despite it winning an Oscar.

Trump isn’t just gutting programs that help people out of homelessness—he's dismantling those meant to prevent it. The US Interagency Council on Homelessness directs the federal response to this crisis. Eliminating it is an utterly reckless move that will make an already dire emergency even worse.

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

Life is just a moment Better enjoy it, you only got one time to live that thang RIP #RoyAyers youtu.be/7wJZGIq_6r8?...

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

We'll be hosting the first UK PPE conference in July - please do submit your abstracts and spread the news!

Our academic, Professor Mark Pennington, explored themes from his forthcoming book at a lecture held at LSE 🗣️📚 Catch 'Power, freedom, and justice: rethinking Foucault' in full here ⬇️ www.youtube.com/live/WbuQO7O...

QMUL UCU is doing the kind of work we need UCU to do nationally to highlight the catastrophic destruction of higher education across the regions & nations. Thousands of jobs & so much talent and expertise lost. Shame on this Govt for sitting by & letting it happen qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Join us on February 28 for a moderated discussion between Patrick Deneen and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social on liberalism and its fate. RSVP here: tinyurl.com/u2ehzmak @ieres-gwu.bsky.social

new by @walterolson.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-ant...

This book was waiting for me today when I got to my office. I wish he were still around to talk to us. Even though he would not have been happy at all that this book came out in exactly the right moment🥲

New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

Happy Brexit Day! Five years on, what is the economic impact of Brexit? My article in the Oxford Encylopedia of Economics and Finance reviews and summarises the evidence on trade, investment, immigration, and economic growth overall. (1/2) oxfordre.com/economics/di...

Media and STS friends! There's just 3 days left to submit your paper abstracts to our #4S2025 Open panel, Reverberation and/as Mediation. Submit by Feb 2 here: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope... Feel free to contact me or @mojojojosef.bsky.social for questions!

I'm excited to announce a new 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins to advance research in historical & contemporary intersections of empire, migration, & racial hierarchy and help support our new major Critical Diaspora Studies. Pls share! apply.interfolio.com/162692

Below is a list of initiatives and resources to support Palestinian students, academics and universities, particularly in the UK and Ireland (but some opportunities are further afield). Please use the form below to add to this list, and please share widely. docs.google.com/forms/d/1mKm...

I don't know why I bother saying these things again and again, but: (1) Cutting won't save you, it'll make things worse and it'll be redundancies again in a couple of years (2) You can't make national infrastructure like this depend on short-term student numbers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Join us on 3 March for the return of the Department of Political Economy Distinguished Lecture series 🗣️🎓 Professor Kaushik Basu will dissect the foundations of authoritarian rule, how it morphs over time, and how, despite appearances, it is often fragile. 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-gramma...

What is the average professor afraid of? - mainly: „train delays“ - the projector in the class room not working again - being invited to things - explaining what they do again at parties that they were regrettably invited to after all - the continued destruction of their whole field - Eduroam

I adapted some work I’ve been doing on Keynes & time into a long-form essay for @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook! “Are We All Dead in the Long Run?” Why we have misunderstood Keynes’s quip about the long run and what it opens up instead adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

America is a place where homelessness skyrockets to a record high while unemployment falls. We really need to grapple with how these two headlines can appear within weeks of each other.

Interested in researching migration and refugee narratives? This online research training session will introduce participants to a wealth of resources and is free to attend. 🗓 20 March 2025 🕰 14:00-15:30 BST 🖥 Online Register today via: https://buff.ly/3ZgvjdC

Don't make a drama out of a bond market crisis: me in @theguardian.com on why Reeves should stick to her plan. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are please to announce that the new issue of History Workshop Journal 98 is now live! This issue features articles along the theme of 'Unbordered Histories', with many articles available open access. academic.oup.com/hwj...