Ik heb deze open brief aan minister Prevot “graag” mee ondertekend. Geef mensen met een visum in Gaza een kans om bij hun familie hier te zijn. “Het is onverteerbaar dat de sanc- ties dode letter blijven, terwijl de evacuaties een stille dood stierven.“ www.demorgen.be/meningen/ope...

“Every day, Michael Geoffrey Asia spent eight consecutive hours at his laptop in Kenya staring at porn, annotating what was happening in every frame for an AI data labeling company.” www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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We are dismayed to learn about further proposed HE cuts, this time at the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Exeter. In solidarity, please join us by signing and sharing the two urgent petitions below. 🚨🖊️ 1/3

#skystorians can anyone point me to a document or source excerpt that gives a voice to any of the Black groups involved in Sierra Leone colonisation in the 1790s/1800s - African locals, the Nova Scotia 'Loyalists', deported Maroons...?

"Dit is noord-korea niet" zegt Van Doesburg nadat ze een partijvoorzitter van de oppositie in de bak draait 🤡

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

DR Congo superfan denied US visa to support team at World Cup

Michel Kuka Mboladinga is iconic for his motionless tribute at DRC games, but a US World Cup repeat has been denied.

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Thread très important sur le Mali

Yvan Guichaoua@yguichaoua.bsky.social · last mo.

Zarho, 200 km à l'est de Tombouctou, Mali, 23 juin. Les Russes ont tué deux jeunes Touaregs. L'un d'entre eux a été décapité et démembré. Ses bras et ses jambes ont été placés au sol autour de sa tête pour former une croix gammée. La photo fait le tour des réseaux depuis hier

I see AC as pretty much in the same category as EVs. They are both badly required but also "required" can mean many things Minimising demand for them is good, but requires long-term structural change. Ensure those who need them get them in the short-term, to save lives www.wri.org/insights/eur...

📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder

Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

“Overbodig, onduidelijk en ongeoorloofd”. Over het wetsvoorstel woonstbetredingen. Het @BelgaNewsAgency vergeet dan nog de harde kritiek vanuit de federale politie. Uiteindelijk zal het ook op dag 2 (behalve dan Marc Bossuyt) evengoed die weg uitgaan. Schrap dit wetsvoorstel.

Pascal Debruyne@pdbruyne.bsky.social · last mo.

De Orde van Vlaamse balies, magistraten, federale politie. En nogveen anderen die gaan komen (behalve Marc Bossuyt als het mannetje van N-VA): allemaal kraken ze wetsontwerp woonstbetredingen af. Juridisch broddelwerk dat onnodig is, ethisch verwerpelijk in een rechtstaat & praktisch destructief.

It is 2026, and people still think Saidiya Hartman and Natalie Zemon Davis invented historical information in their works. I am by no means an expert on critical fabulation, but it is not a practice about making up historical information.

"academics must use their knowledge to make the world a better place, countering disinformation and silencing. If not, what actually is the point of us?"

folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · last mo.

For minoritised scholars, the tensions between scholar and activist are complicated. The academy forces such scholars specifically to demand visibility as human in their work. The existence of those human demands is then used to label scholarly work as activist work. folukeafrica.com/activist-or-...

Getwijfeld of ik dit zou doen. De Cofnas-affaire heeft me de laatste maanden veel tijd en energie gekost (wat uiteraard m'n eigen keuze was). Maar bij deze dan toch: een draadje als reactie op het recente Doorbraak-artikel over het vakgroepstatement /1

What's it going to be like in 10, 20, 30, 40 years' time? Worse. Much, much worse.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2mo ago

France bans alcohol in red-alert areas, Spain and Germany cancel sports events and Britain warns of "tropical nights" as Europe swelters through a heatwave threatening to break June temperature records. u.afp.com/Sz2A

Waouh les Léopards !!! 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 Quelle match

Oh les léopards ! The best dressed team, but also not giving in to Portugal during the first half!

I sometimes say many historians aren't radical (talking also about myself), because we/they keep seeking "complexity" --maybe also up to a point where it becomes complicity. But Bloch managed to be always nuanced and nevertheless acted when it was most needed. Be like Bloch.

Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today's the anniversary of the Nazis executing Marc Bloch. Or, someone who could sit with uncertainty, champion inquiry & trying to understand, and recognise plurality & perplexity. And, in that knowledge, made the choice not to remain passive. Bloch, Historian’s Craft (MUP, 1992), pp. 64, 119, 160.

‘The Sahara is now one of the most inhospitable places on earth, but not because of the desert. It is a dumping ground in which distant powers and states jettison their problems.’ Rahmane Idrissa on a human history of the Sahara. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Rahmane Idrissa · AK-47 and Guitar: Versions of the Sahara

The Sahara is now one of the most inhospitable places on earth, but not because of the desert. It is a dumping ground in...

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And she was right.

Boudry: "VRT wil niet dat het over Islam gaat" Ook Boudry: "VRT heeft mij uitgenodigd omdat ze wisten dat ik het over de Islam zou hebben"

'The career ladder in academia is of particular interest as it is a “greedy” occupation due to its lack of substitutability among workers, long hours with increasing returns to productivity, and the importance of establishing and maintaining personal contacts.' Academia is a "greedy" occupation.

The lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities - LSE Impact

Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ...

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‘Racist’

Paul Singh 🇪🇺🇬🇧@paulsingh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Belfast riots latest: Nurse chased into hospital by ‘racist’ masked gang as police injured in violent protests www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Reading about the manosphere for work. It's enraging but ultimately frustrating. The frustration: so little emphasis is placed on just befriending people -yes, including women! - and on being part of a community instead of trying to conquer it. It's fine just being nice. You don't need to be a King.

Now let me tell you all about the thousands of students, employees, business owners, and government officials from Africa that are denied visas to Europe and the US..[checks notes]..every single day. #Artan

Lerares Frans, 3de of 4de secundair: "je hebt een slecht karakter" en "er zal nooit iets goeds van je komen"

Sofie Van Hyfte@sofievhyfte.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Uit het absolute niets: ik denk plots aan die keer dat mijn lerares Engels mijn examen voorlas voor de klas in het vijfde middelbaar, omdat het zo slecht was en ze niet geloofde dat ik niet beter kon. Welk moment staat op gelijkaardige manier in jullie geheugen gegrift?

Ik moest plots terugdenken aan Parody-Boudry / Maarten Baudry. Maarten heeft toen zeer consequent en met veel gevoel voor humor aanvaard dat hij het onderwerp was van een parodie!

"De reactie van Boudry op mijn stuk is illustratief: valse info verspreiden om verwarring te creëren over feiten en waarheid. Een grote speler in de mainstream pers aanvallen en verdachtmaken als links onevenwichtige pers. Een ex-collega aanvallen met pesterijen proberen het zwijgen op te leggen."