CFP for 2027 Media Industries Conference, held June 14-16 in Madrid, hosted by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Submission deadline: Monday 14 September 2026. Details of CFP as link_attached as images w/ alt-text or summary. Direct Qs to media-industries@kcl.ac.uk. media.licdn.com/dms/document...

PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

@simongandrew.bsky.social any idea what this might be?

Marguerite Dabaie/مارغريت دباعي/ダバ-イ マルガリ-ト@mrrg.bsky.social · 4w ago

I heard an Arabized version of this Ninja Gaiden song when I was young. Please! What is it?? 😭 #nes #ninjagaiden #arabicsong

OK, let's start the search. Adrienne Shaw is on the lookout for two titles of early LGBTQ software that predate Caper in the Castro. One is called VAPOR PALACE. The other features Tom of Finland art but has no discovered name yet. The search is on - if you know more details or... have a copy? ping.

I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...

Post-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge

Remote

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NEW ISSUE: Campus Politics--Palestine and the New University Order is out today! The issue features a suite of articles reflecting on two years of student encampments and struggles for academic freedom and against authoritarianism in the US, Europe and the Middle East.

Campus Politics–Palestine and the New University Order

Spring 2026

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Bears mentioning that everything everyone on this site feared Trump would do to Iran yesterday, Israel is doing to Lebanon today.

A fantastic piece by @nargesbajoghli.bsky.social, explaining where those viral Iranian AI lego videos came from, and the generational experiences informing them. Narges is one of the best placed researchers to explain the social worlds of Iranian media and digital life 1/2 nymag.com/intelligence...

In the Room With Iran’s Social Media Savants

The new generation of IRGC content creators is younger, quicker, and less afraid of the U.S.

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Support MERIP! One of the best sources for perspectives on the SWANA/MENA region, that gives you complexity with you needing to already be an expert

Middle East Research and Information Project@merip.bsky.social · 5mo ago

SUPPORT MERIP! From April 1 to May 7, MERIP is participating in Delco Gives. Every donation of $10 or more helps us expand our impact. Read more about the fundraiser and give below!

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

The Inattention Economy

Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...

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“The VA General Assembly voted to give over half a million public sector workers collective bargaining rights. But not me. I'm an adjunct faculty member who was just left behind to endure the exploitation of higher education.” @abigailspanberger.com, please correct course & add us back in.

Collective Bargaining is One Solution to Ending Higher Ed Worker Exploitation – I Should Know.

One adjunct professor argues that without the legal leverage of collective bargaining, she is a 'sitting duck' for institutions to profit from her expertise while leaving her vulnerable to financial i...

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Postdoc in Palestine Studies at the University of Toronto for next academic year. Applications are due April 6. Please share and apply.

An excellent place to get updates

مصدر عام | The Public Source@thepublicsource.bsky.social · 6mo ago

[Dispatches from the Lebanese Stronghold] Announcing the launch of our live blog for reports, testimonies, interviews, commentary, and photo blogs on the imperial war against the region — with coverage brought to you from the Lebanese stronghold.

Hello, if you are looking for reliable resources to follow as things escalate in Lebanon, I've got you ! Now is an especially good time to check out these accounts since there is very little media coverage of what's going on in Lebanon ! go.bsky.app/Bwe7hSf

PITCH US: MERIP's editors are inviting open pitches for our Summer 2026 issue on Visual Art and Cultural Production in the Middle East and North Africa! Read more and pitch at the link below.

Call for Pitches—Visual Art & Cultural Production in the Middle East and North Africa

MERIP is seeking pitches for our Summer 2026 issue exploring visual art and cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa. We invite submissions that center artistic practices and cultural…

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Re: Trump seizure of Venezuelan oil and its sale via traders Vitol and Trafigura means that the money goes into a Qatari bank account and out of the hand of Venezuela’s creditors. Vitol and Trafigura have been big donors to Trump. So, the oil capture benefits *some* capitalists, but not others.

Bill Siemering, founding program director of NPR, author of its mission statement, has asked me to inquire if any profs might be interested in a Zoom class visit? No honorarium necessary. Bill founded All Things Considered, Fresh Air, won a MacArthur, etc.

A Founding Father of NPR Worries About Its Fate

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1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...

Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time

By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.

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Everyone so often you have a conversation with people that really makes the world make more sense, and so this conversation turned into an article that tries to recreate that. what a joy to have worked on this with @msteinbrg.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social @rahmuk.bsky.social and Joe Khalil!

Marc Steinberg@msteinbrg.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Excellent op-ed by environmental sociologist Eric Bond and Viktor Newby. "We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs." virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...

Data centers, non-disclosure agreements and democracy • Virginia Mercury

We fear that the widespread use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and a larger ethic of secrecy regarding data-center development curtails meaningful debate and impairs local democracy, write guest ...

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Ian Carrillo@iansociologo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Funded opportunity for graduate students and early career scholars!

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South@iasnuq.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Applications are now open for the 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School: Transformations, Cultures, Heritage, and Possibilities across Asia! 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: December 10, 2025 Apply here: bit.ly/4hcgBgk

A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted Here's the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being…

Applications are now open for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School (January 6–8, Doha, Qatar) on "Media Policy and Governance," hosted by #IAS_NUQ at @nuqatar.bsky.social. Deadline: Sept 15, 2025 Apply here: bit.ly/2026winterschool

POMEPS is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-2026. The deadline to apply is Sept. 15. More info: pomeps.org/pomeps-junio...

Call for Proposals: POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops 2025-2026 - Project on Middle East Political Science

The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-...

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Not convinced. Citing your paternal lineage only works as a flex if you can credibly do it in a language with formal conventions for it, eg Arabic "Andrew, Ibn Mario Ibn Andrea" or Icelandic, "I'm Andrew Mariosson"

Ben Rosen@benrosen.bsky.social · last yr.

*after getting my head punched clean off my neck in the first round* ah but now it’s round two

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...? @aaup @aaupmason.bsky.social

Opinion | The Plot to Oust the President of George Mason University

This campaign is not about policy. It’s about power.

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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...