Hannah Wright
@hannahwright.bsky.social
Researching militarism, coloniality, state violence, abolition, gender, race, class. Lecturer at University of Manchester. She/her. ♿️
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah-wright
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah-wright
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In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
UK drops target for international student recruitment
Government to encourage education providers to open campuses overseas as it focuses on reducing migration
www.ft.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:01 AM
In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
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People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
January 17, 2026 at 9:08 PM
People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
So when is it acceptable as a reviewer (anon) to tell an author they should cite your work? I've never done it before, but have been sent something which makes the same argument I have made in published work. I assume this is an instance where it's best to tell them, it just feels a little icky?
January 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
So when is it acceptable as a reviewer (anon) to tell an author they should cite your work? I've never done it before, but have been sent something which makes the same argument I have made in published work. I assume this is an instance where it's best to tell them, it just feels a little icky?
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Cannot stress enough that you can just do stuff. You don't need permission. You can just do stuff because it needs to be done by someone.
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Cannot stress enough that you can just do stuff. You don't need permission. You can just do stuff because it needs to be done by someone.
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Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program..
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike
Four more who had paused opt not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program..
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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CHSTM and the Division of Medical Education at UoM are organising/have organised a few interesting events on neurodiversity. Have a look here:
blogs.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2025/12...
blogs.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2025/12...
January 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
CHSTM and the Division of Medical Education at UoM are organising/have organised a few interesting events on neurodiversity. Have a look here:
blogs.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2025/12...
blogs.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2025/12...
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The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)
January 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)
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My suspicion is that the Trans community and allies left Twitter and arrived here early but it’s still worth re-upping this for those who left it a little longer:
go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F
go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F
January 12, 2026 at 4:26 PM
My suspicion is that the Trans community and allies left Twitter and arrived here early but it’s still worth re-upping this for those who left it a little longer:
go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F
go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F
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I hope we can refocus away from takes and towards what we can + must do. Six families and a camp of fifteen more are facing severe weather RIGHT NOW—most in tents, the rest in window-less rooms.
Emergency healthcare, winter supplies, rent & more:
Emergency healthcare, winter supplies, rent & more:
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
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January 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
I hope we can refocus away from takes and towards what we can + must do. Six families and a camp of fifteen more are facing severe weather RIGHT NOW—most in tents, the rest in window-less rooms.
Emergency healthcare, winter supplies, rent & more:
Emergency healthcare, winter supplies, rent & more:
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The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on:
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
January 13, 2026 at 7:37 AM
The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on:
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
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@talilalewis.bsky.social has the best definition of ableism, which applies here! 👀
If you are newer to thinking critically about ableism, please take a moment to check out the Disability Justice framework of 10 interconnected principles that we ALL need to invest in: sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...
If you are newer to thinking critically about ableism, please take a moment to check out the Disability Justice framework of 10 interconnected principles that we ALL need to invest in: sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
@talilalewis.bsky.social has the best definition of ableism, which applies here! 👀
If you are newer to thinking critically about ableism, please take a moment to check out the Disability Justice framework of 10 interconnected principles that we ALL need to invest in: sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...
If you are newer to thinking critically about ableism, please take a moment to check out the Disability Justice framework of 10 interconnected principles that we ALL need to invest in: sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...
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Incidentally, this aligns with my thesis that most fights over teaching "the Western Canon" are between people who couldn't quote you a single line from it. There are those of us who see it as not a totemic issue, but rather a big stack of good books that we enjoy without yelling about it.*
January 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Incidentally, this aligns with my thesis that most fights over teaching "the Western Canon" are between people who couldn't quote you a single line from it. There are those of us who see it as not a totemic issue, but rather a big stack of good books that we enjoy without yelling about it.*
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Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.
I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.
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tapping the sign www.thenation.com/article/poli...
January 7, 2026 at 6:26 PM
tapping the sign www.thenation.com/article/poli...
I enjoy marking student essays and I really hate how GenAI has infested the whole process with this feeling of paranoia. I want to take pleasure in reading my students' ideas without constantly questioning whether these are really their ideas. It's just sad for everyone involved.
January 7, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I enjoy marking student essays and I really hate how GenAI has infested the whole process with this feeling of paranoia. I want to take pleasure in reading my students' ideas without constantly questioning whether these are really their ideas. It's just sad for everyone involved.
Essay question here for pol econ colleagues
If “capitalism is so great” and “socialism never works” how come capitalists always gotta overthrow socialist governments and steal their shit?
January 7, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Essay question here for pol econ colleagues
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Scarce research funding is becoming more economically costly than the actual investment, especially when it’s a drop in the bucket for profoundly stupid fad topics like “GenAI to solve Africa’s problems.” This piece is SO important: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Scarce research funding is becoming more economically costly than the actual investment, especially when it’s a drop in the bucket for profoundly stupid fad topics like “GenAI to solve Africa’s problems.” This piece is SO important: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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BREAKING 🇵🇸 Israeli regime forces have stormed Birzeit University campus in the Occupied West Bank, injuring 41 students, including 9 with live bullets.
January 6, 2026 at 12:46 PM
BREAKING 🇵🇸 Israeli regime forces have stormed Birzeit University campus in the Occupied West Bank, injuring 41 students, including 9 with live bullets.
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Job alert! For our latest project, Valuable Lives, we're looking for:
- a Research Fellow (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
- 2 Research Assistants (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
Application deadline: 23 January 2026
Find out more about this exciting project here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
- a Research Fellow (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
- 2 Research Assistants (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
Application deadline: 23 January 2026
Find out more about this exciting project here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Valuable Lives: Black Unfreedom and the Collapse of Slavery in Jamaica
Valuable Lives is a major CSLBS project aimed at creating the first and most comprehensive publicly available database on black lives under British slavery.
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Job alert! For our latest project, Valuable Lives, we're looking for:
- a Research Fellow (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
- 2 Research Assistants (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
Application deadline: 23 January 2026
Find out more about this exciting project here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
- a Research Fellow (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
- 2 Research Assistants (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
Application deadline: 23 January 2026
Find out more about this exciting project here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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I've learned that Edinburgh University is planning to cut 20% of academics in some departments
To decide who gets the chop, they generated an academic contribution metric that is a raw count of *any type* of output, including book reviews.
The management of UK Universities continues to amaze
To decide who gets the chop, they generated an academic contribution metric that is a raw count of *any type* of output, including book reviews.
The management of UK Universities continues to amaze
January 5, 2026 at 9:20 AM
I've learned that Edinburgh University is planning to cut 20% of academics in some departments
To decide who gets the chop, they generated an academic contribution metric that is a raw count of *any type* of output, including book reviews.
The management of UK Universities continues to amaze
To decide who gets the chop, they generated an academic contribution metric that is a raw count of *any type* of output, including book reviews.
The management of UK Universities continues to amaze
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"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
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One year into peacemaker-in-chief's 'America First'
"Since taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, Trump has overseen at least 626 air strikes ... By comparison, his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, launched a total of 555 strikes in his entire four-year term."
www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
"Since taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, Trump has overseen at least 626 air strikes ... By comparison, his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, launched a total of 555 strikes in his entire four-year term."
www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
A year of strikes: US military operations surge under Trump
President Trump has presided over a surge of U.S. military activity abroad since returning to the Oval Office.
www.militarytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:23 AM
One year into peacemaker-in-chief's 'America First'
"Since taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, Trump has overseen at least 626 air strikes ... By comparison, his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, launched a total of 555 strikes in his entire four-year term."
www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
"Since taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, Trump has overseen at least 626 air strikes ... By comparison, his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, launched a total of 555 strikes in his entire four-year term."
www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...