The latest in "foreign students taking places from British ones" news www.thetimes.com/article/9ad6...

Foreign student slump forces A* universities to accept BBB grades

Our analysis reveals just how much higher education has relied on international fees — and what happens when those students stop applying

thetimes.com

The deadline for submissions to our annual conference (this time in lovely Exeter) has been extended to July 31st. Full details 👇

Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought @biapt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A sweltering hot day is the perfect time to think about a winter trip. Come join us January 6th-8th in beautiful Exeter for the next BIAPT conference! Deadline for submissions is July 24th. Full cfp 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

"A Potential Second Suez Crisis Averted by Argentina's Last-Minute Intervention.

Prompts away.

Be aware that a malicious website is using guttenberg (two “T” not one) to distribute malware. We haven’t been able to neutralize them yet, still working on it.

The only way London has become "Singapore-on-Thames" after Brexit.

Me surveying the 2020s critical theory scene

Why propaganda and disinformation are essential to far right parties like Reform in a nutshell.

Had David Lynch directed Dune now, he would have found the perfect medium in the current model of Turkish TV series, where each weekly episode stretches over a mind-bending 3 hours.

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

Extremely informative visualisation of how this deeply disappointing Labour government has lost ground on both its left and right, to both Greens and to Reform. It also shows how the shape of British politics can no longer be contained within a First Past the Post system.

We start by positioning our concept of raced finance within a set of conceptual categories: racial capitalism, race, and racialization, drawing inspiration from @maliniranga.bsky.social, Nikhil Pal Singh, @tilley101.bsky.social, @robbieshilliam.bsky.social, @ulasince.bsky.social and others 3/n

Nominations are still open. Please consider nominating a colleague whose work you admire. Or nominate yourself!

Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought @biapt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are delighted to invite nominations (including self-nominations) for the 2026 BIAPT Early-Career and Mid-Career prizes! The deadline for nominations is May 22nd. Full details are below 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-prizes...

New article! How is finance ‘raced’, and why is this the case? With what consequences for our understandings of race, finance, and capitalism? To explore this, we develop a 'raced finance' analytic, grounded in political economy and racial capitalism debates. Link 👇🏾and 🧵:

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast. In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically. Most people have no idea. 🧵

What I tell my students every time.

Dr. K@katekaynak.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Direct empirical confirmation of my theory of the "immigration doom loop" in UK politics.... ☹️

Zach Dickson@zachdickson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

jonny over on masto doing god's work: > anthropic [is running] an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS. neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)

Attached: 1 image reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funn...

neuromatch.social

This is a really insightful and informative episode with @nsrnicek.bsky.social particularly for how it pushes back against the leftist urge to dismiss AI as politically old hat and philosophically irrelevant thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek

Featuring Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchy—and of global contests for...

thedigradio.com

It's a book, I guess. *Before the Color Line* is ready to leave the building for clearance review.

Pope quoted Donna Haraway, now IMF is quoting Gramsci…

John Carl Baker@johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The IMF and the World Bank are quoting Gramsci www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...

This lot makes Gwyneth Paltrow look like Neil DeGrasse Tyson. FUBAR.

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

theguardian.com

Let's see how well this ages.

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research. Run, don’t walk.

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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APSA 2025 impression: academic conference receptions are practically Hieronymous Bosch paintings.

As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...

Warren Terra@warrenterra.bsky.social · last yr.

From the replies (bsky.app/profile/dasb...) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it.

I have reviewed Inés Valdez's book, Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, for Political Theory journal. I highly recommend it on its integration of political economy into political theorizing. 👇

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Here's your "fiscal headroom."

UK families ‘seize moment’ to buy exclusive London homes as non-doms retreat

Domestic buyers take advantage of tumbling prices as new non-dom tax regime cools interest from abroad

ft.com

Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

My article on capitalist racialization and Chinese migration in British Asia received an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Article Award from APSA's International History and Politics Section. Open access👇