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Labour MP Sarah Champion, who chairs the International Development Select Committee, tells @cathynewman that she is "gutted" the aid budget has been cut to pay for increases in defence spending. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/cutting...

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the imperial fantasy gets weirder and more obscene by the day

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Just 5% of eligible parents take shared parental leave in the UK: @ktwamley.bsky.social explains why reform is sorely needed, and how to achieve it tinyurl.com/5n8xe5mz #sociology

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Children who died because the policy is to expose them to the risk of dying, as a warning to others

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Since Labour took office, 10,000 more children have been plunged into poverty by the refusal to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Increasing military spending while millions of children go hungry is not a tough decision. It’s the wrong decision.

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www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Daniel Edmiston takes a closer look at the assumption that destitution is experienced only by people outside of Europe and North America. 🔎 The #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project provides free educational resources, including video lectures and lesson plans.

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I believe that, as academics, we have a responsibility to shine a light into the darkness of post-truth, to reveal the illusions and historical erasures that have enabled post-factuality. Thus, decolonisation continues to be urgent, timely, and necessary. folukeafrica.com/decolonisati...

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The government has announced it will pay for more weapons and bombs by cutting support for the world's poorest people. A deplorable decision that will only create a more unstable and unequal world. What is the government doing to bring about peace?

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#ICYMI: Black routes – charting migration’s turbulent Mediterranean histories Daniel Tödt’s look at the hidden faces of African migration in our issue The Sea is one of the Magazine’s #2024mostread. https://buff.ly/3zL1M36

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📌Exploring carceral intersections of race, class & disability - Margarita Aragon 📆12pm 20 March 2025 (hybrid) @uomsoss.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social @racerootsresist.bsky.social @ersjournal.com @identitiesjournal.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...

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From our friends at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 📅 Weds 26 February 16.00-18.00, Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths, University of London. Podcasting as Care: feminist contact zones w/Zoha Zokaei, Agata Lisiak, Saba Zavarei, Sabrina Etherington, Ros Gill, Nirmal Puwar www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

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Boosting

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A fantastic article about experimental physicist Chien-Shiung Wu and her contributions outside of the Manhattan Project. ⚛️ 🧪 #scicomm pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

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Stolen Land

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If you or your children enjoy coloring books, check out this beautiful (and educational!) free coloring book about trispots—threatened fish that are endemic to the rivers of Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee: mcusercontent.com/7239378d247b...

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Fellow book lovers! There is a better way to buy our books than Amazon. Instead of putting $ in Bezos' pocket, every purchase on @bookshop-org.bsky.social financially supports independent bookstores. You can even select the bookstore you'd like to support.

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I have a piece at the LRB blog on the UK government's intention to permanently block refugees from citizenship.

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Pleased to be one of the co-editors of this soecial issue on Domestic Abuse and Violence. Submission deadline has been extended to 9 April 2025! journals.sagepub.com/page/qsw/cal...

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What does #sociology have to say about #gender & #class in 2025? Join renowned feminist sociologists Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social & @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the first of the Foundation’s new Conversation series. 📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online #IWD2025 🎟️ https://buff.ly/4gOe3TB

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Catherine Hall explores the toppling of #EdwardColston, the “disavowal” of history and who is or is not remembered. 🔎 Our #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project offers open-access educational resources, including video lectures, lesson plans and reading lists.

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#ICYMI: Field notes – how football chants keep folk traditions alive Les Back’s contribution to our Games and Play issue is one of the Magazine’s #2024mostread. https://buff.ly/3YH19RU

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“The mothers shared a strong sense of responsibility, describing the pride they had in providing for their children, yet feeling they were still falling short.” Anne Angsten Clark and Hayley James on the financial and mental burdens placed on mothers. #OpenAccess https://buff.ly/410I90l

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Next week! Flying While Muslim & Driving While Black: Examining the Differences in Racialized Surveillance & Policing for African American Muslims 24 Feb, 4-5.30pm (Online) eventbrite.co.uk/e/f... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

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Genevieve LeBaron outlines how discussions around modern slavery often overlook the colonial roots of unfree labour. 🔎 Explore #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project's open-access educational resources, including video lectures, lesson plans and reading lists.

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#ICYMI: “Why are the soldiers hurting Palestinian children?” Parenthood, identity and culture during #genocide. Ala Sirriyeh’s look at how the war on Gaza has affected children and parents across the Palestinian diaspora is among the Magazine’s #2024mostread. https://buff.ly/3VlVH3S

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Taking a baby from its mother is one of the most draconian actions imaginable, and racism must never be ignored. We send love & strength to all affected by this traumatic case, which brings sharp focus to the harm the prison system causes mothers & children www.birthcompanions.org.uk/articles/moj...

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Free speech? @jdvance1.bsky.social

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Some friends are special, right, @benjaminhodaye.bsky.social ? They send us over 9 hours of the conference on the French national archives site (INA). Fanon begins speaking at 4h 40 mins. Amazing voice and I'll try and speak like him form now on in French :-) www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-...

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We march again… 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

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Both Labour and the Tories agreeing that only White people should be allowed to apply for asylum. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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From #Identities' latest issue 32.1: 'Beyond physical and representational violence: the violence of Black children’s invisibility in public spaces' by Neal A. Lester & Elizabeth McNeil doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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UK shipping firm used enslaved workers in Caribbean after abolition, study finds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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“When people worry about women drinking I say, ‘Shouldn’t you be worried about men who take these actions?‘” – Ash, Australia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social Kiran Pienaar and Fay Dennis @sociology-gold.bsky.social on male violence and a woman's right to experience pleasure. buff.ly/4hE0Qye

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British Muslim creators 'herded' into Prevent funding, says Equi think tank Report warns that Muslim are often herded into receiving funding from the contentious Prevent counter-extremism programme which "toxifies, devalues and limits artistic intent". www.middleeasteye.net/news/new-bri...

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Life expectancy dropped by more than 30 years during the first 12 months of the genocide in Gaza. These are conservative numbers. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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My latest in @theguardian.com argues that Trump’s obsession with immigration is an obsession with it as a tool of segregation and white supremacy, which is how it has long been used in the United States. www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

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Full solidarity w/ Mahmoud Muna, the owner of the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem, who has been detained by Israeli police officers. Additionally, many books have been confiscated. Many European diplomats, including the German ambassador to Israel, have expressed concern & are following the case.

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“Displacement is not only a shock event and a disruption of the normal but a day-to-day problem of social reproduction.” @dariakrivonos.bsky.social on how the experience of crisis is embedded in the everyday lives of Ukrainian refugees living in Warsaw. https://buff.ly/3WRtyTV

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Just published 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2025.2455477

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Sobering read in @timeshighered.bsky.social from the frontline of academia in the face of the redundancy crisis, including @academicdiary.bsky.social on the urgent need for repair amidst unprecedented fear and insecurity among colleagues www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-re...

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#ICYMI: All eyes on Gaza: how citizen journalists are challenging mass media’s dominant narratives. Saida Hamad’s look at genocide and hasbara, silences and complicity is one of the Magazine’s #2024mostread. https://buff.ly/3W1EsXA

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'In the letter, made public on 10 February, Julia Black...says the “range of cutbacks we are seeing across universities is leading to a severe loss in UK capability".' Nearly 100 HEIs are “contracting or closing” social sciences, humanities & the arts disciplines “in the face of a financial crisis”.

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Every article about Nigel Farage should start with the sentence: 'Nigel Farage makes more than £1 million a year on top of his MP salary' I think it would make it then a little harder to argue he is the voice of the 'left behind', despite the media's demophobia

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