London book launch for "Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel" with Osama Tanous, Ghada Majadli, Ala Sirriyeh, and Patricia Hamilton, chaired by Seth Anziska @sprc-ucl.bsky.social x @uclmiddleeast.bsky.social Sign up: bit.ly/demographic-...

The UK government is destroying the things the UK actually does well in the hope of becoming 'world leaders' in AI, which won't happen anyway, and wouldn't be a good thing if it did. Thanks Labour, once more

Dr Beth@drbeth.bsky.social · 2d ago

If we spend money supporting research, education and practice in areas we're actually good at, there might not be enough money to throw at the long shot of being 'world leaders" in AI.

Cancelled Futures: Class, Race & Place in Post-Industrial Britain 16th September at UCL I'll be talking race, class & place with @alexkelbert.bsky.social & @lukedenoronha.bsky.social Hosted by @uclsociology.bsky.social & @sprc-ucl.bsky.social Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cancelled-...

It’s UK publication day! Today my book on the colonial roots of French theory is officially out with @politybooks.bsky.social. Thanks for the wonderful blurbs from @stuartelden.bsky.social, @juliango.bsky.social, Adam Rosenthal, and Joachim Whaley. (US publication date: October 6th)

Onur Erdur@onurerdur.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Out in July! "School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory". More details & pre-orders here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @politybooks.bsky.social

Wake up babe the @soc4pal.bsky.social conference programme for "Resisting Authoritarianism: Global Solidarity & Democratic" for those boycotting ASA has dropped: tinyurl.com/ResistSoc2026 see you all in NYC!

sadlol

Susannah Crockford@suscrockford.bsky.social · 2w ago

Radical change in the UK: a prime minister who went to Cambridge instead of Oxford

The new issue is live! Catch us on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/issue/57134 Work by @profcrunk.bsky.social, @samanthapinto.bsky.social, @durba.bsky.social, Vanessa Pitts-Taylor, Julie Enszer, and more! Our dossier on teaching WGS now is free and accessible on MUSE.

British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.

British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage

As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...

thebritishacademy.ac.uk

I’m so bored with the utterly trivial intellectual and informational level that mainstream, otherwise very educated, Germans conduct their discussions about Palestine. Read a book m8

Michael Kobel@michael-kobel.bsky.social · last mo.

Kein Kind wäre ohne die menschenverachtenden, barbarischen Taten der Hamas am 7.Oktober gestorben. Der Krieg hätte jeden Tag enden können, wenn die Hamas-Verbrecher aufgegeben hätten. Denen ist das Leiden des eigenen Volkes egal. Übrigens zog Israel 2005 aus Gaza ab. Zum Dank gab's 18 Jahre Raketen.

I can’t believe I’ve just heard about the University of Exeter campus being built in Egypt while, in Devon, 500+ staff are at risk of redundancy. It’s giving farce this time around.

This looks terrific. It’s now on my ‘to read and teach’ list. Congratulations, @galarexer.bsky.social

Gala Rexer@galarexer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Demographic Anxieties” can now be preordered (pub date June 30)! It shows how the Israeli settler-colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women’s reproductive freedom, but it is also an ethnography working through what it means to research Palestine as 1/2 www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Insightful reviews from my colleagues at @sociowarwick.bsky.social on Shourideh Molavi's crucial book about Israeli settler colonialism and environmental warfare

Antipode@antipodeonline.bsky.social · last mo.

Book review forum -- the Just Eco-Geo-Political Futures research cluster @sociowarwick.bsky.social reads Shourideh Molavi’s “Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance” antipodeonline.org/2026/06/29/b... @plutopress.bsky.social

Happy publication day to my first book 🤓

Gala Rexer@galarexer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Demographic Anxieties” can now be preordered (pub date June 30)! It shows how the Israeli settler-colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women’s reproductive freedom, but it is also an ethnography working through what it means to research Palestine as 1/2 www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...

1 desk rejection and 1 job rejection on a climate change induced heatwave Friday 👹

UCL IOE announces partnership w Gaza’s three non-profit universities Al-Aqsa University, Al Azhar University, Islamic University of Gaza Congratulations Profs Li Wei and Rachel Rosen and colleagues for making this possible on our side Let’s go @bdsucl.bsky.social! www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

theguardian.com

examples of what the FBI included as evidence of "Antifa terrorism" in the Prairieland case: -Narcan spray -Anarchist tattoos -a highlighted copy of Emergent Strategy -a zine made of a 2019 review of Hereditary and Midsommar from @reproutopia.bsky.social -First Aid Kits -seeds for garden vegetables

What is happening to the humanities at British universities? Here is my report, published in today's FAZ:

You know that UK HE is truly f*cked when a scholar like @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, one of the most prolific and important writers in the humanities & social sciences today, is at risk of redundancy (obv also if lesser known/junior scholars made redundant, but this case just shows how far we've come)

Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social · last mo.

Friends of Exeter, former students and alumni, can you please sign the petition below: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Higher education policy under the last few UK governments seems to be shaping up into an experiment in how you sustain a knowledge economy without knowledge

I am once again begging universities to realise that staff - academic, professional services, estates, all of them - are the product they are trying to sell. Without staff there is nothing to sell. No amount of flashy buildings will replace staff in universities. UKHE is in freefall.

a German, and how to write a book about Palestine during an ongoing genocide. This is a work of anti-colonial thought, with a ton of very detailed historical footnotes, which also tell my own journey to anti-Zionism. I’ve been working on this for 10(!) years and am v proud of what it has become! 2/2

“Demographic Anxieties” can now be preordered (pub date June 30)! It shows how the Israeli settler-colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women’s reproductive freedom, but it is also an ethnography working through what it means to research Palestine as 1/2 www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...

Demographic Anxieties by Gala Rexer - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

ucpress.edu

“Demographic Anxieties” can now be preordered (pub date June 30)! It shows how the Israeli settler-colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women’s reproductive freedom, but it is also an ethnography working through what it means to research Palestine as 1/2 www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...

Demographic Anxieties by Gala Rexer - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

ucpress.edu

this is a masterpiece

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

A. lived in Germany since he was two months and last year gained German citizenship. Now he’s been stripped of it because of pro-Palestinian Instagram posts, in a disturbing legal case that points to the rise of citizenship-on-probation. My latest @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/05/germ...

Abdallah A., a Nonperson Because of His Instagram Posts

Abdallah A. lived in Germany since he was two months old and last year gained German citizenship. But now he’s been stripped of it because of pro-Palestinian Instagram posts, in a disturbing legal cas...

jacobin.com