Su-ming Khoo
@sumingkhoo.bsky.social
Sociologist. Interested in development, human rights, higher education, books, transdisciplinary stuff. Posts personal. #academicsky
Sign this open letter for a more balanced, accountable research system that doesn't ignore the humanities and social sciences and that works for the public interest in Ireland #SociologySky openletter.earth/concern-abou...
Concern about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan
openletter.earth
Great to be at the @sociologyireland.bsky.social Annual Conference at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social & to reconnect with the SAI Race & Ethnicity Study Group in-person. #SAI2026 #sociology #SociologyIreland #race #ethnicity #EDI @sumingkhoo.bsky.social @aislingwalsh.bsky.social
📢Latest issue of the #SociologicalObserver, “Rethinking Inclusion: EDI in a Time of Uncertainty”, which I co-edited w/ @sumingkhoo.bsky.social. Developed as part of the @sociologyireland.bsky.social Race & Ethnicity Study Group. 👉 sociology.ie/wp-content/u... #Equality #Diversity #Inclusion #EDI
Learning from the Luddites “A still-underappreciated truism of our technological moment is that there is great solidarity to be found in refusing a technology—AI, mostly—that is used to exploit or replace a worker” www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...
Learning from the Luddites
The key to an alternative is building a movement.
bostonreview.net
Be like Betty, Join a union !
In our latest episode, we're so lucky to be able to tell the story of the 1926 General Strike using the voices of workers involved. People like Betty Harrison who began work in Bradford's textile industry when she was just 13. More here: www.patreon.com/posts/e118-1... #GeneralStrike100
How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size? The bias is so obviously blatant. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
‘The tide is turning’, Green party leader tells crowd at march against far right – as it happened
Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right
theguardian.com
Picked the last winter vegetables from my (small & urban) garden this weekend - looking forward to warmer weather in Northern England 🥶 💨 ☔️ ⛈️
@fcomim.bsky.social we were discussing Habermas and Nancy Fraser and she's written this @lrb.co.uk blog
‘My ties to Habermas were multi-layered. He was a mentor and an antagonist; a figure who showed me early on how to practise “critique with an emancipatory intent” but from whom I eventually had to distance myself.’ Nancy Fraser on the philosopher, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...