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Kevin Sanders

@kjsanders.eurosky.social

PhD candidate on the politics of open research and publishing environments at [redacted]. OBC Board of Stewards. Copim. Synths. Tapes. Perennial pain. Skullduggery. Ⓐ 🍉 ORCID: 0000-0003-1217-0149. https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/ (he/him).

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition)@inquiline.myatproto.social · yesterday

"To understand how the far right has taken root here, it helps to consider changing features of Brazilian capitalism over the past two decades. Since turn of century, China’s reordering of global capitalism has pushed S America to become one of the world’s main sources for ag & mineral commodities"

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Rise of agri-Bolsonarismo: "The ethnographer Caio Pompeia has shown how radicalized farmers and ranchers entered state-level producer associations, coordinating their efforts across the country until they were powerful enough to shape the large agrarian caucus in Congress, pushing it to the right"

Lauren Fraser@walkyouhome.bsky.social · 16h ago

Work is ongoing to get University of Edinburgh to #StopTheCuts, save staff and programmes and get all the contributions and services the good workers of Edinburgh University make to their own institution and far beyond, back up and running. Until then, support the strikes ✊🏻

Journal of Information Literacy@jinfolit.bsky.social · 2d ago

Quick update: Journal of Information Literacy. We apologise that the Journal of Information Literacy website is currently down. Work is ongoing to restore the site. We’ll update you once it is back. journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/index 🛠️ #InfoLit

Kevin Sanders@kjsanders.eurosky.social · 16h ago

I've been threading together a few lines of thought together regarding situated practices and the wider sociopolitical contexts in which practices occur. I keep stumbling into the absurdity of the wider lenses. I'm increasingly leaning towards seeing the 'atavars of ideology' as expanding barriers.

Open Book Publishers@openbookpublish.bsky.social · 23h ago

NEW - @defendresearch.bsky.social campaign to raise money to conduct a rigorous, evidence-based analysis of the aggregated impact of U.S. government censorship: donorbox.org/defendresearch

Protecting public health research and epidemiology from government censorship | Research Consulting Limited (Powered by Donorbox)

Banning words to silence scholars. Disappearing databases to prevent access to information. Canceling funding of research projects because of who they focus on. Suppressing articles and reports that d...

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Kevin Sanders@kjsanders.eurosky.social · 23h ago

The contradictions within institutions point to the problems we face. For example, supporting community-led OA publishing is good, AND closing down the faculties etc. is bad. This also helps us to identify that institutions are not allies. People are. People. Not institutions.

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · yesterday

Under Labour large swathes of the UK outside of London and Manchester are losing access to much of Europe and Britain's cultural heritage. Burnham talks a good game about regional pride even as his government mindlessly watches many of its foundations collapse beyond the Southeast and Northwest

Bleddyn Bowen@bleddb.bsky.social · yesterday

That’s both Leicester and Nottingham closing down languages then, after Lincoln closed theirs in 2024.

hannah@hannahkateboast.bsky.social · yesterday

Second week on strike with UCU Edinburgh. We will be on strike for five weeks - taking out the entire first half of term, up to the first assessments - but we could be back in the classroom tomorrow if management withdrew the threat of compulsory redundancies.

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · yesterday

ffs I just read a European job ad that explicitly requires TWO PUBLISHED MONOGRAPHS for an asst prof position. yes, yes, I knew it was like this but it's truly startling to see TWO required. it's official: unis have zero respect for books & the ppl who write & publish them. Nothing affirms it more.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2d ago

So not about the AI video, but generally: You cannot return to the past *definitionally* and you especially cannot learn from it if you hold it up like white supremacist Americans hold up the 1950s. Time's arrow moves one way: learning from the past requires understanding it, not worshipping it.