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Enjoyed joining the panel for bbc radio 4 start the week this morning discussing the history of the campaign for wages for housework and the resonance for how we value unpaid care now www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Furious about attacks on DEI? Exquisite timing for this awesome new collection edited by Guo Chen and LaToya Eaves @spacedemands.bsky.social with chapters on strategies across academia and community action. Thrilled to be a contributor. @geographers.bsky.social www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/how...

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Now out and #openaccess in issue 30(1): "A Cultural Geopolitics of Hosting: Domesticity, Violence and Hospitality in the Home" by Olivia Mason and Sarah M. Hughes @oliviamason.bsky.social @sarahhughes90.bsky.social Download and read for free:

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📢 We're hiring! Lecturer in Social and Public Policy. Conduct world-class research, teach on leading programmes, and shape the future of social policy! 📅 Apply by: 3rd March 2025 🔗 Apply here: tinyurl.com/2p8rfxjb #AcademicJobs #SocialPolicy #HigherEdJobs

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A great interview of Judith Butler, well worth the read 👇🏻

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Three-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Geography at Mount Holyoke College. They are looking for a human or physical geographer, and candidates with expertise in critical geography, urban studies, and/or planning are encouraged to apply! mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

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Exhibition in Tower Hamlets: Researchers uncover stories of Black Londoners who escaped slavery: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #History #BlackHistory 🗃️

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Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

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💥 BREAKING: At Apple's 2025 annual meeting of shareholders today, proposal entitled “Request to Cease DEI Efforts" is rejected by shareholders. Right-wing nonprofit National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) proposal was also rejected by Costco shareholders 98-2 percent.

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Manchester mental health workers strike to defend services 👇Bosses are underfunding vital mental health services in Manchester, but workers are fighting back

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"I find myself torn btw wanting to support the ppl who are trying to change things from the inside, + having seen overwhelmingly how that quite simply doesn’t work. You don’t end up changing the system, the system ends up changing you."

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Palestinian says Israeli interrogators poured acid on him during torture - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ex-palestinian-prisoner-shows-signs-torture-acid-attack-during-israeli-detention

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Statement from the Lausanne Universities Collective for Academic Freedom, Solidarity and Democracy (CLADS) on the danger facing US research and researchers. What Trump is doing looks like a coup d'état and endangers democracy. clads.ch/en/us-resear...

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A Chinese national political adviser has recommended lowering the legal age for marriage to 18 to boost fertility chances in the face of a declining population and ‘unleash reproductive potential,’ a state-backed newspaper said reut.rs/3QvcAal

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In other news, Ramadan is starting on Saturday. Be kind to your Muslims friends who are fasting. If you think we're ignoring you around 5 pm, just know we're in a Ramadan Hibernation Zone preparing for sunset when we can eat and drink.

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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

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Time to be thunderous people

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"A federal judge has paused changes to U.S. Department of Homeland Security policy that would allow immigration enforcement agents to enter houses of worship." share.inquirer.com/DsMqw5 [gift link]

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ICE's controversial collective sending off currently under review by DOGE using VAR technology. but the rule on the field will stand

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Wow! So 1+1 really does equal 2. The Texas measles outbreak is hitting the area with the highest vaccine exemption rates. Shocking—if you ignore science.

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Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

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From $7,000 public library plaques to renaming mountains, there's a lot going on out there.

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I've written a new post for the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social UK Universities are reluctant to break a toxic social media relationship. A thread. I've collated data that backs this up and expanded on my spreadsheet docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Article blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... 1/13

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👀ICYMI: “We … [used] … to make our acceptance those articles that we felt would make a contribution to the international literature. Now our basis for rejection is often ‘I don’t think this paper is going to be cited’.” #AcWri #Citations #ResearchCulture

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Today I learned that before the Great War, mentally ill patients, both Europeans and locals, from West Africa and North Africa were sent, by force if necessary, to an asylum in Marseille. The history here is fascinating. shs.cairn.info/revue-tiers-...

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This is great. www.theverge.com/news/617014/...

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‘Messiaen’s free-spirited outlook, as much as his enchanted modernism, made him a magnet for adventurous young composers, who saw him as the Sartre of the music world, a symbol of artistic authenticity.’ Adam Shatz on the 20th-century French composer: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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President of Finland Alexander Stubb speaking in Kyiv today: ▪️ It’s not Russia who decides on EU membership,its the European Union who does that ▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on NATO membership,it’s the alliance itself ▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on what Ukraine has by its border,when,where&how

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Spain, with a Socialist led government, has a growing economy, of which the renewable market is a healthy part. Also these figures are worthy of note - look how Cuba has managed,despite a 60yr embargo by USA⬇️ #socialism #capitalism #billionaires

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I’ve just finished Toxic Town, the new Netflix drama, about the Corby Steelworks Poisonings. Starring Jodie Whitaker, Robert Carlyle and Aimee Lou Wood and written by Jack Thorne, who will be on Start The Week on BBC radio 4 with me tomorrow morning. 10/10. Deeply moving, superb television.

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www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-lond... it’s a time for real solidarity in the face of these attacks

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Corbyn said problem is Occupation,the solution a negotiated settlement.Zionists wanted to go on land-grabbing.They couldn't buy/bully him so they smeared him.Hislop joined in.Having read the Forde Report& seen the Labour Files,he knows the truth yet persists in the lie.BBC satire =propaganda

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This hits hard.

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

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Horrifying. Solidarity to everyone in Cardiff

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‘Russia seeks to recolonise Ukraine. Israel relentlessly appropriates Palestinian land. Trump speaks of “reclaiming” Canada, Greenland. The conditions that make colonisation a possibility are still with us.’ Rahmane Idrissa on colonisation’s history: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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I miss the days when YA drama was like "This person in my debut group one-starred my book on Goodreads" and not like "this school district in Florida set a bunch of books on fire and also the FBI now has me on a list for writing about Black people."

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The gesture echoes one Trump ally Elon Musk made just a month earlier.

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"“In the US, we appeal rulings we disagree with – we don’t ignore court orders or threaten judges with impeachment just because we don’t like the decision. This is a coup, plain and simple,” Arizona’s attorney general, Kris Mayes, said." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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US President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office, previously unpublished Department of Homeland Security data show, far less than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns in the last full year of Joe Biden's administration reut.rs/3QrUQfQ

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Hypocrite says what?

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“My secret is that I want to be a Black woman…I want to be able to share my ideas without the barrier of looking the way I do…As a professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies I have made it my entire life’s work to amplify the voices of marginalized communities.”

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