Today is the Workplace Day of Action for Palestine, a great small step is to familiarise yourself with and share The Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy's recent manifesto: cdn.prod.website-files.com/6881c6f1848e...

A very cool petrocultures opportunity!!

They arrived!! I’m so pleased with the front cover, a photo by Patrick Baz of the late Mireille Honein’s Undress 522 installation, which you can read about in the conclusion. Thanks so much to ABAAD for permission to use it. Get yours/ request to a library here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Also brought me to tears. I can’t tell you how many friends I’ve lost for supporting Palestine throughout my life, since I was very, very young. And now to see this? Old white grannies and grandpas getting dragged away for this cause? I can’t even articulate how it feels.

Morning walk

This what I mean when I talk about art collectives as the future

There are 2883 food banks in the UK

Woo! I’m in this! Pre-order at your libraries folks!

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Exciting WIWL developments; the network is active and waiting for you to join in!

How to switch off the AI crap on your academia.edu account:

We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Who knew that they could make the ProQuest online ebook platform WORSE! What a time to be alive!

Not enough folks are connecting the attacks on labor organizing over the last 50 years to the moment we find ourselves in. Labor is now our ONLY organizing asset that still has power & possibility of turning this ship in a different direction

"Autumn Night" - my oil painting

Spotted @jendeavour.bsky.social and @joanpassey.bsky.social’s books in the wild (“the wild” being The Bodies in the Bookshop in Cambridge in this instance)

A reminder to ask your institution library to buy my first monograph: LIVING WITH GHOSTS!

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Having seen an early version of this I am SO excited that this is out in the world - make sure to order a copy to your institution library!

I will be running an all day continuing education course day on BYRON! (Who else?) It's at Liverpool Uni and I'd love for you to join us! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

I know everyone is busy waiting for MCR tickets, but also my book LIVING WITH GHOSTS quietly came out yesterday and I would love it if you would ask your library to order a copy: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Nilanjana Bhattacharjya reviews Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking #Zombies in World Literature, Film, and Media in the latest issue of the Journal of Asian Studies doi.org/10.1215/0021... @roxannedouglas.bsky.social @giuliachampion.bsky.social The unwieldy abstractions is probably me!

I like to think of myself as fairly athletic and physically capable, but my day has been mired by the fact that I seem to have pulled a muscle in, you guessed it, my little finger from holding a book wrong last night...

Finally finished _Deep Sniff_ by @adamzmith.bsky.social despite buying it yonks ago - run, do not walk to get yourself a copy. A beautifully written, engaging example of how research writing could be. I loved his writing, and his thoughts on freedom, pleasure and community - bravo!

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

This is brave. If only universities and other organizations followed suit, to show they can’t be bought, and that ethics and academic freedom is paramount, instead of collaborating with this oppressive regime.

“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.

0.7FTE for six months? I think we might have different definitions of “opportunity”…

From my linked in feed.

If you're a person affected by: 📂Forced family separation (eg adoption, boarding out) 📂Magdalene Laundries 📂Industrial Schools You can learn how to access your records & challenge the withholding/redaction of your documents here: clannproject.org/records/

Happy Birthday Clueless! 30 years of giving the wrong impression of how cool clothes for teenagers were in the 1990s.

bastille! no prisons, no kings. yes public goods, yes pro-social state.

A happy Bastille Day to all celebrating!

Almost every “successful” AI use case involves knocking the first rungs out of a career ladder, but those are the very positions our students desperately need to become acculturated into the professional spaces that will eventually require experienced professionals to replace the current cohort.

@roxannedouglas.bsky.social @giuliachampion.bsky.social

And another thing! Posting so that others can use as a template just in case:

ripped everything down and replaced it with this... so much for the project of open access and collegial sharing with ease...

Disrespectfully, what the fuck Adacemia.edu? I absolutely do NOT want my IP fed to AI 😡😡🤬🤬🤬 I’m about to delete the content on there - if you want any papers of mine message or email me

If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.

Amazing news from India! 🇮🇳 www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/26/i...

"Every bombed village is my hometown." —James Baldwin Artwork/Graphic by @silveiraworks (via Instagram)

I was raised around Iranian families. They were and are my friends, my loved ones, members of my family. They're just like me. They're just like you. What we're doing to the people of Iran is sick and evil, a defilement of human dignity and an insult to peace, joy, and life itself.

Mahmoud Khalil is free.

"You have to understand, kid: it would write emails for me"

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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