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If you’re from outside the U.S. and thinking of a holiday here I recommend not risking it. This isn’t a safe country for anybody right now.

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A UK citizen has been detained by ICE at the Canadian border. Her possessions confiscated, she’s being held in a cell with limited access to the outside world and no idea when she will be allowed to return home. Stop traveling to the U.S. Vote with your dollar & protect yourself.

submitted 4 hours ago • 13 comments

Surprised more people aren’t talking about this. I’m going to go out on a limb and say: If this was written by a woman, she wouldn’t need 11K words to explain why (US) birth rates have gone down. Have you seen the way this country treats women, mothers and children?

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

submitted 2 days ago • 222 comments

This is an important appeal: REF2029 needs to reconsider its stance on decoupling and portability.

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We're recruiting a journalist/campaigner to lead our work for trans and other minoritised communities. We're paying £55k per annum. goodlawproject.org/vacancy/jour...

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Gah, just submitted my final, corrected book proofs. Here's hoping I weeded out all instances of the persistent and perverse typo I kept repeating when writing about the Hornsey poltergeist

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

My colleague John Sutton is recruiting 6 PhD studentships (Oct 25 start) for the University of Stirling's interdisciplinary Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory-- this is an excellent opportunity to join a thriving new research community! Details below placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

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'Kingston University’s acclaimed philosophy centre is set to close under plans to shut the institution’s humanities department – a move that would also end English literature and modern languages courses.' 1/2

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We've now launched the 2025 round of funding to support the study of @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social archive, library and museum collections. I'm grateful to the Friends of @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social for their support, which makes this possible. Applications welcome! www.abdn.ac.uk/collections/...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

It is very exciting to be told the only thing that matters to keeping my job is vastly increasing student recruitment, and then also be warned not to recruit too many because the admin team has (euphemisms here) "shrunk" and if we recruit too many they won't be able to cope. Uh.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Every faculty who supported police on campus, every one who refused to sign letters of support for their brutalized students: you laid the bricks for politicians to believe they have the authority to crush student voice. Your racism against Palestine is corroding everyone's freedoms.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Every stupid university that unleashed militarized police on legal protestors set up the foundations for the violent persecution of free speech that’s about to come.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

huge congrats to all the reasonable & evenhanded university presidents who set new records for advance compliance on this, since nobody even had to ask before they all lined up to make dissent into a crime

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🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 5 days ago • 156 comments

🗣️ CFP on Contemporary Indigenous Horror! 👇

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Frowning while at the Brownshirt rally I’m attending so that people know I disagree with it

submitted 5 days ago • 54 comments

there has never been a past without trans people and there won’t be a future without them either, no matter what. no law can change that. i refuse to allow them to talk about people i love like that.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:

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Early career historians of science, spiritualism, and/or Popular Fiction-- parlez-vous français? If so, check out this fantastic post-doctoral opportunity at the Sorbonne for a project on 19th-century polymath Camille Flammarion emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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A project from the University of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, uses virtual reality to recreate near-death experiences in people suffering from life-threatening illnesses: english.elpais.com/science-tech...

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Spoke to quite a few parents of uni-age young ppl yesterday. They were all asking me like 'what the hell's going on in HE' and e.g. 'where's my kid's tutor gone'. I explained a series of times. No-one had heard anything about the university crisis. (1/2)

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

The bombardment + mass starvation plan is designed & authorized by the US

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

use of starvation of a civilian population as a weapon of war is a completely unambiguous war crime

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Ahmed has helped me more than anyone else and is trying to help his own family but is struggling to get employment as a refugee in Germany

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Another night in the dark for me and my family, things are still not getting better, resources are very limited, we have barely been able to eat once and we are very hungry, no food, no medicine and no water, this is terrifying🇵🇸💔 #gazagenocide #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #MutualAid

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

submitted 9 days ago • 1333 comments

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no... little enough we can do but I signed this in lingering hope

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

submitted 9 days ago • 243 comments

That press conference was choreographed for an audience of one and he sits in Moscow. Once, we fought tyrants. Today Trump and Vance are bending America’s knee. And that weakens us.

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NEW: Keir Starmer must 'get off his knees' and cancel Donald Trump's state visit to the UK, the SNP have said. It comes after the US president 'bullied' Ukraine's Zelenskyy in an extraordinary White House clash ⬇️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2497351...

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Sending all our solidarity to colleagues at Brunel who are facing over 400 job cuts. May your pickets be blessed with pets and politicians. Keep up the good fight.

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A fantastic opportunity for PGR/ECRs to undertake funded research with Aberdeen's Special Collections! Deadline March 16th. www.abdn.ac.uk/collections/...

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Happy publication day to Modern British Nature Writing, 1789-2020: Land Lines (Paperback) www.waterstones.com/book/modern-... #naturewriting #envhum

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Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the Gaza genocide a year ago today. His memory should stir a fire in our souls, and force us to evaluate our commitment to a better world. https://buff.ly/3XgX2L2 #Palestine #Israel

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

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#UK: While MSF does not receive UK Government funding, we are deeply concerned about the far-reaching impact of repeated and sustained aid reductions. Countries affected by conflict, natural disasters, and disease outbreaks where we operate will suffer immensely.

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(1/11) URGENT: York University @YorkUniversity has suspended admissions to Religious Studies. This is a backdoor tactic to shut down the program without due process. This will ultimately be bad for York and everyone. #YUGOOD --we aren't.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Israel is attacking Syria.

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www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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The National Jewish Book Award winning author of HOW TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM is now DEFENDING NAZI SALUTES I FUCKING CANNOT

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Jerry was a much-loved colleague and worked with us for over 10 years. He was known for his kindness and his commitment to Doctors Without Borders. We stand by his family at this difficult time and send our condolences to his loved ones and colleagues. ow.ly/m0a150V5vzp