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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 2d

This.

Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 3d

It seems absolutely insane to me to read so much news about the ceasefire while Gaza is still being bombed and Palestinians there are being killed. Also, I don't believe in conversations that do not include accountability for a genocide. All of this feels absolutely dystopian.

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 6d

A stunning sunset, exactly two years ago. I couldn’t have imagined that I was about to begin witnessing one of the greatest horrors of my life so far: the ongoing genocide by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 10d

Porto now. Free Palestine.

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 10d

Following Israel's interception of the humanitarian flotilla en route to Gaza, Colombia has expelled Israeli diplomats from the country.

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 11d

I have no words left to describe Trump’s plan for Gaza, immediately endorsed by the European Union and many of its member states, which offers no accountability for the ongoing genocide carried out by Israel and is couched in pure colonial language. Just shame.

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Council for the Defence of British Universities @cdbu.bsky.social · 20d

We are pleased to publish our Position on the Unsustainability of UK University Funding Models. Visit our website to read it in full:

The Unsustainability of University Funding Models | CDBU

cdbu.org.uk

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 25d

The ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza will go down in history as the greatest shame of our time.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27d

ICE killed a father of three in Franklin Park a few days ago. They are snatching people at gas stations, at bus stops, and from their homes and cars, leaving screaming, panicked children in their wake. It is a nightmare, and when ICE has amassed 10,000 new agents, it could be the new normal.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27d

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · Sep 2

'the codification of students as consumers has been marginalising alternative forms of occupying a position in the field of HE, leading to an oversimplification of English undergraduates' discourses and practices' (Azevedo, 2025)

#HigherEd
#UKHE

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Students as (More Than) Consumers? An Exploration of Undergraduates' Discourses and Practices in Marketised Higher Education

‘Students as consumers’ has become the dominant discourse applied to English undergraduate students in the United Kingdom. This construction by policymakers is linked to the marketisation of higher e...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 29d

Each day, we learn of new horrors about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Yet nothing seems sufficient to compel Western governments to take meaningful action to end it. They are dragging us, alongside Israel, to a point of no return.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Sep 3

When people tell you that Israel is a democracy, they are also telling you that they don't view Israel's treatment of the Palestinians as disqualifying it from that classification. In other words, they are effectively telling you that they view Palestinians as sub-human.

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Sep 3

Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners since 7 Oct is comparable to the worst dictatorships on earth.

- the number keeps growing, and is now around 11k
- close to 90% are held without trial
- starvation as policy
- rampant torture
- dozens died in prison, no accountability

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Sep 3

Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners since 7 Oct is comparable to the worst dictatorships on earth.

- the number keeps growing, and is now around 11k
- close to 90% are held without trial
- starvation as policy
- rampant torture
- dozens died in prison, no accountability

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · Sep 1

Many thanks to everyone involved in the reviewing & publication process — editors, reviewers, & production team.

Special thanks are due to Professor Rosemary Deem. Although she has not seen this article, since she examined my PhD, she has offered support & encouragement on several occasions.

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · Sep 1

My new paper is out: "Students as (More Than) Consumers? An Exploration of Undergraduates' Discourses and Practices in Marketised Higher Education."

The full article can be found here: dx.doi.org/10.1111/hequ...

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · Jul 22

All Palestinians in Gaza are at imminent risk of starving to death — unless Israel bombs or shoots them first. Horrifying? Yes. That’s the reality in Gaza. And while this unfolds, so-called world leaders do nothing meaningful to stop the genocide.

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · Jul 18

Portugal, my home country, opposed the inclusion of a reference to the Palestinians’ right to food in a joint declaration by the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP). At this point, this equates to supporting the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · Jul 16

Fifteen Palestinians died of suffocation after toxic gas was released into a crowd at a food distribution site in southern Gaza. Does the use of gas to kill people remind you of anything? The absolute monstrosity of this is beyond words.

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · Jul 15

Even former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is now saying that Israel is, in fact, creating a concentration camp in Gaza. Why do political leaders around the world remain silent?

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · Jul 4

As I'm waiting to board the plane to go back to the UK, I've written a few impressions on the last weeks in Serbia. janabacevic.net/2025/07/03/r...

Revolutionary time

I don’t recall when was the last time I slept throughout the night. The barricades are almost literally under my window; the fact I am between two occupied faculties means I spend most nights at on…

janabacevic.net

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · Jul 4

Students and citizens in #Serbia are being arrested, beaten, and declared enemies of the state for opposing Vučić's authoritarian regime.

Academic colleagues anywhere in the world, please sign this petition in solidarity with them & spread the message.

International Academic Appeal Against Repression in Serbia

We, members of the Serbian academic diaspora and our colleagues from the international academic community, are raising our voices in strong condemnation of the escalating violence, repression, and int...

docs.google.com

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · Jul 12

Yesterday, the world marked the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. The only thing that occurred to me was that we haven't learned anything from it.

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · Jul 11

At least 15 Palestinians, including 10 children, were killed by an Israeli strike as they queued outside a medical point in central Gaza yesterday. We are witnessing an unbearable level of depravity.

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · Jul 9

worthy of a few laughs. In any case, full solidarity with Francesca Albanese. 2/2

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