IALS is inviting applications for a practitioner in residence for the academic year 2025-26. We would be especially interested in proposals that respond to the building, its past and potential futures. Full details here 👇 ials.sas.ac.uk/news/call-pr... #LawAndCreativity

Mapping the Arts and Humanities is launching Law & the Humanities in Practice with LHub (@ials.bsky.social), spotlighting how law, arts & humanities shape each other. Blog and podcast now live. Explore the map & get involved! 🎧 Listen to the podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/0mif... #MAHP

This whole series is such timely and valuable work. I may have to frame this paragraph and keep it on my desk as a reminder/mantra.

Now out! Multimodal Appreciation: A Kit for Evaluating Multimodal Works in Anthropology and Beyond Written by J. Albrecht, T. Criado, I. Farías, A. Gilbert, C.J. Maier. Published CC BY SA Institut für Europäische Ethnologie · HU Berlin, 2025 + info/download: www2.hu-berlin.de/multimodalap...

We've been working with Octopus Legacy, which got us thinking about octopuses, and now we're here describing one for your enjoyment 🐙

✨Enlivening legal education through The Postal Museum: we have released a guide to support Collaborators in identifying items in The Postal Museum Collections that relate to core legal subjects @thepostalmuseum.bsky.social @lawbore.bsky.social

Have a listen to this brilliant podcast from one of my former students: Renato Urtus uastegui soundcloud.com/user-5172277...

This week on the SLSA Blog, @aperrykessaris.bsky.social shares her thoughts on making the Engagement and Impact dimension of REF2029 meaningful for law schools: www.slsa.ac.uk/post/making-...

'Andrew Knapp....will highlight the crucial role that museum collections around the world play in modern scientific research, and how modern technology can be used to get new information from old specimens.' UCL Grant Museum, 22 October 2025, 1:15 pm–2:00 pm, free and open to the public.

✨ Making the Engagement and Impact dimension of REF2029 meaningful for law schools: a blog post. amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/10/16/m...

…or to distinguish them from non-facts (falsehoods/yet-to-be-knowns)

All networking events need at least one designated host who goes around looking for people on their own and introduces them to others with similar interests. This takes maybe a couple of minutes per person and is pretty fun and easy if you know what you’re doing!

✨ Making the Engagement and Impact dimension of REF2029 meaningful for law schools: a blog post. amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/10/16/m...

The next three episodes of Confessions of an Early Career Researcher are out! From navigating the ECR landscape to building your academic community, tune in as fellow researchers share their academia survival tips. All episodes are now available across podcasting platforms. https://bit.ly/47PXZQH

This whole symposium is very useful on how to approach AI with your full critical faculties: head, heart, and soul.

I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n

I've been away from bsky for quite a few months, but I'm finally back, and have some big news to share! My #monograph on #Cyprus #law and #politics has now been published and is available online. Attached the discount count for those who would like to purchase a print or digital copy!

I miss the days when higher education was seen as a social good, a national treasure. When the social, cultural and intellectual contribution of higher education was valued as highly as economic contribution. When students from poorer backgrounds had proper financial support. When the humanities 1/

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

🔥 These things got us talking at our annual workshop: creatively disrupting hostile border systems; navigating abolition; borderless empires vs bordered reparations. Watch to find out more! 👇 @juliawinkler.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @smilivojevic.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

This is just brilliant. Make sure you take a few mins to watch.

Here I provide snapshots of 20+ films that have something to tell us about law and race and argue for their use as pedagogical tools. The post also includes a rare clip from Death is Part of the Process [1986], a film about the early days of Umkhonto we Sizwe. folukeafrica.com/the-law-and-...

In this post, I reflect on what the TV series Black Earth Rising (Michaela Coel, John Goodman) tells us about how an inescapable colonial past bleeds into our meanings of home, truth, justice, and global hierarchies of power that collapse past, present, and future. folukeafrica.com/blackearthri...

Time for an explainer on how to get funding for a PhD in the UK (1/n)

New blog post from @aperrykessaris.bsky.social on the SLSA Blog! www.slsa.ac.uk/post/diversi...

This engaging and informative event brought together two forms of participatory proto-legal activity (citizens' assemblies and legislative theatre) that incorporate + promote designerly ways @cchwalisz.bsky.social @katyrubin.bsky.social @theconduitlondon.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyYs...

✨‘Diversity’ of outputs in law REF2029 submissions. New blog post inspired by @hiddenref.bsky.social amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/09/16/d...

Lisa Cook did some groundbreaking research about patents a while ago which is nicely introduced here on Planet Money www.npr.org/transcripts/...

✨‘Diversity’ of outputs in law REF2029 submissions. New blog post inspired by @hiddenref.bsky.social amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/09/16/d...

The Edinburgh Legal Theory group is delighted to share with you the line-up for our Autumn semester. We have lots of exciting events coming up, so make sure to save the dates in your calendar and to come along for what we can guarantee will be lively and inspiring discussions. See you there! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

My latest blog post is a detailed invitation to join a research network devoted to critical pedagogies of race and imperialism in law. In it, I outline who its organisers are, the reasons why we have set up the network,and what we hope to achieve in it. Welcome! folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...

‘Fantasy legal exhibitions’ @aperrykessaris.bsky.social, Victoria Barnes @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social doi.org/10.53386/nil...

Unexpected research insight (again) from Podyssey: this one is full of useful sparks for thinking about interspecies councils as a pathway to unlocking human imagination ✨

Another resource deploying designerly ways to enhance legal education from maestra Emily Allbon ✨ @thecitylawschool.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/emilya...

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX... Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

✨ Law and Design: a monograph-in-progress, contracted for publication by Routledge @routledgelaw.bsky.social‬ amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/07/29/l...

A genuinely uplifting moment. Sir Alan Bates getting a lovely ovation and a Doctorate Honoris Causa at @exeter.ac.uk Watch from 1'21" lnkd.in/eHXpjBVC

✨ How can we use archives to enliven legal education? Emily Allbon (@TheCityLawSchool.bsky.social) + I are partnering with The Postal Museum to find out. Care to join us? Details on project website. Deadline 05.09.25. amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/07/16/legal-education-through-the-postal-museum/

here's a good thing we did www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ting Xu: The Legal Fiction of State Neutrality: Rethinking Accountability in Disability Home Adaptations ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/09/t...

Over the weekend @benedictdouglas.bsky.social and I were lucky enough to run an amazing zine making session at the East Midlands NEU Activist Summer School Throughout the day we reflected on our role in addressing the rise of the right & its corrosion of our democracies 👇🏼Link to our zine below

The cultural artifacts in the game are based on real-world pieces in Western museums, such as the Ngadji drum, a wooden drum made by the Pokomo people in Kenya confiscated by the British in 1902 and has since remained in the British Museum. Relooted - youtu.be/BIWE7kx8SBM?...

"When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning." deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

2026 Annual Conference, University of Sussex 30 March-1 April Call for current topics open! Deadline is 18.00 (BST) on 28 August 2025. A current topic is a one-off contemporary topic of debate/ issue of emerging importance, attracting at least six papers. See more ⬇️ slsa.ac.uk/index.php/ne...

I'll be reading this about universities today, looks really interesting: 'What flexibility exists is taken up with a focus on the latest emergency... rhythms of crisis-emergency-crisis suck life gradually out of the creativity and functionality of the sector'. So we end with a 'slow death'. (1/2)

This is so infuriating- something I did not ask for & do not want (for so many reasons). Academia.edu - which I don’t use, has generated an AI podcast of one of my (really old!!) papers with a fake voice. The equivalent of reading the abstract & assuming it gives you all you need to know.

Over 120 people from 19 different countries have registered for Legal Education & the Human Lawyer, coming up this Friday, June 27. The symposium is fully online and there is still time to register at educatinghumanlawyers.com @altlaw.bsky.social @theltjournal.bsky.social @osgoode.bsky.social