Michael Munnik
@michaelmunnik.bsky.social
Canadian pilgrim in Wales. Sociologist of media and religion, senior lecturer at Cardiff University, Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK. Musical side-hustle at https://michaelmunnik.ca/
Reposted by Michael Munnik
I love talking about making sense of feedback with my students - it's an excuse to play @pauldavids.bsky.social video about Paul Simon giving him notes on a tutorial video. A brilliant example of giving and receiving feedback well. youtu.be/Y2PVGuLPWcU?...
I GOT AN E-MAIL FROM PAUL SIMON (saying I was wrong!)
YouTube video by Paul Davids
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I love talking about making sense of feedback with my students - it's an excuse to play @pauldavids.bsky.social video about Paul Simon giving him notes on a tutorial video. A brilliant example of giving and receiving feedback well. youtu.be/Y2PVGuLPWcU?...
Reposted by Michael Munnik
Want to make your mid-career stage more visible, supported and sustainable? Book now for ‘Mid-Career Forum Manifesto: A Collective Conversation’, a BSA Mid-Career Forum free online event, 16 January tinyurl.com/2yy5etw4 #sociology
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Want to make your mid-career stage more visible, supported and sustainable? Book now for ‘Mid-Career Forum Manifesto: A Collective Conversation’, a BSA Mid-Career Forum free online event, 16 January tinyurl.com/2yy5etw4 #sociology
Reposted by Michael Munnik
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Michael Munnik
On this day in 1976, The Band performed their final concert. Called The Last Waltz, it featured many guest performers and was turned into a critically-acclaimed documentary directed by Martin Scorsese. The album produced from the concert reached the top 20 in 11 countries.
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
On this day in 1976, The Band performed their final concert. Called The Last Waltz, it featured many guest performers and was turned into a critically-acclaimed documentary directed by Martin Scorsese. The album produced from the concert reached the top 20 in 11 countries.
I've complained. As Bluesky won't show the post Huw is himself quote-posting (unless you click through), it is the editing of @rutgerbregman.com's Reith Lectures to remove his analysis of Donald Trump's corruption.
Please complain. I get the context, but it is so important that we resist this.
Please complain. I get the context, but it is so important that we resist this.
The BBC is accountable to its viewers & listeners not foreign electoral autocracies. Everyone should a complaint, otherwise nothing will happen. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I've complained. As Bluesky won't show the post Huw is himself quote-posting (unless you click through), it is the editing of @rutgerbregman.com's Reith Lectures to remove his analysis of Donald Trump's corruption.
Please complain. I get the context, but it is so important that we resist this.
Please complain. I get the context, but it is so important that we resist this.
Very disappointed in this development from the BBC, though I absolutely understand the context from which it comes. Well done Rutger Bregman for sharing your original analysis. It sadly could not demonstrate better the sense of your lecture as a whole.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Very disappointed in this development from the BBC, though I absolutely understand the context from which it comes. Well done Rutger Bregman for sharing your original analysis. It sadly could not demonstrate better the sense of your lecture as a whole.
Reposted by Michael Munnik
Just heard the news that Jimmy Cliff has died
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
RON SINGS "SITTING IN LIMBO" BY JIMMY CLIFF
YouTube video by Rawnboy
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Just heard the news that Jimmy Cliff has died
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
I first heard his music when I lived out in Victoria BC
back in 1983
So many amazing songs and such a beautiful voice RS
youtu.be/HvlPMddEyoI?...
"The higher the tech, the sharper the corners."
Everything may be bad, but hot dang there's a new Strongbad email today.
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"The higher the tech, the sharper the corners."
Reposted by Michael Munnik
I'm seeing a trend in our students at UBC as well. STEM students, but particularly CS students, looking to the humanities to provide more depth and meaning to their studies. Lean in and stay strong, humanities. Your time is here!
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I'm seeing a trend in our students at UBC as well. STEM students, but particularly CS students, looking to the humanities to provide more depth and meaning to their studies. Lean in and stay strong, humanities. Your time is here!
Getting some teas for the rest of the family and came across this monstrosity of 21st Century consumerism.
On the one hand, what the hell, Twinings?
On the other hand, I'm all in for it.
#FiveDaysEarlGreysFiveWays
On the one hand, what the hell, Twinings?
On the other hand, I'm all in for it.
#FiveDaysEarlGreysFiveWays
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Getting some teas for the rest of the family and came across this monstrosity of 21st Century consumerism.
On the one hand, what the hell, Twinings?
On the other hand, I'm all in for it.
#FiveDaysEarlGreysFiveWays
On the one hand, what the hell, Twinings?
On the other hand, I'm all in for it.
#FiveDaysEarlGreysFiveWays
Reposted by Michael Munnik
An actual must-read article, as pretty much all of Malik's are. I genuinely worry how long she can keep up being the single British commentator who can say any of this stuff.
On Shabana Mahmood's contemptible attempt to mobilise her identity in support of her sadistic immigration policies, this from Nesrine Malik is exactly what needed saying.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
An actual must-read article, as pretty much all of Malik's are. I genuinely worry how long she can keep up being the single British commentator who can say any of this stuff.
A movie that takes place where you're from (double bill)
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from (double bill)
This is me, by the way. I'm the one in my family with indefinite leave to remain. The father, the husband who would be hived off under these proposals.
There are proposals to cancel Indefinite Leave to Remain.
That would tear families apart — including my own.
My wife could have been separated from her children under. People like my friend Tariq, who’ve lived here since babies, could be taken from their communities.
These people are Britain.
That would tear families apart — including my own.
My wife could have been separated from her children under. People like my friend Tariq, who’ve lived here since babies, could be taken from their communities.
These people are Britain.
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is me, by the way. I'm the one in my family with indefinite leave to remain. The father, the husband who would be hived off under these proposals.
Reposted by Michael Munnik
It’s just that almost everything is worse today than it was even a year ago. I hate it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It’s just that almost everything is worse today than it was even a year ago. I hate it.
Reposted by Michael Munnik
The amount of times I've had to remind an excited academic asking how they too can try a Trojan horse about how nothing will puncture student trust faster than this - and to be very fair, they always immediately agree and drop it - it shows the hazard of these articles normalising such behaviour...
One of my foundational values as a teacher is trust and respect, what I call radical honesty. I posted a thread on this on 11/17/24. That's where I want to start. If you're "trying an experiment," "setting a trap," or planting a "Trojan horse" into your assignments, you've already lost the game. 3/8
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The amount of times I've had to remind an excited academic asking how they too can try a Trojan horse about how nothing will puncture student trust faster than this - and to be very fair, they always immediately agree and drop it - it shows the hazard of these articles normalising such behaviour...
Lovely to have Mark Drakeford, former First Minister for Wales, at the celebration and anticipation of our community garden at Canton Uniting Church. A good use of his time, and speaking of green space as a need in these densely populated urban neighbourhoods.
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Lovely to have Mark Drakeford, former First Minister for Wales, at the celebration and anticipation of our community garden at Canton Uniting Church. A good use of his time, and speaking of green space as a need in these densely populated urban neighbourhoods.
Reposted by Michael Munnik
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
Reposted by Michael Munnik
Vice Chancellor Wendy Larner speaks about how the Islam-UK Centre aligns with @cardiffuni.bsky.social's priorities as a global-civic institution. This was from our 20th anniversary celebration event in September.
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Vice Chancellor Wendy Larner speaks about how the Islam-UK Centre aligns with @cardiffuni.bsky.social's priorities as a global-civic institution. This was from our 20th anniversary celebration event in September.
Reposted by Michael Munnik
One of the problems with public discourse in the UK is that we weren't allowed Boaty McBoatface but we were allowed Brexit. Trapped in a state of laughing the wrong things off
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
One of the problems with public discourse in the UK is that we weren't allowed Boaty McBoatface but we were allowed Brexit. Trapped in a state of laughing the wrong things off
Reposted by Michael Munnik
We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
(1/2)
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
(1/2)
Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
(1/2)
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
(1/2)
Reposted by Michael Munnik
This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)
Reposted by Michael Munnik
someone please come up with something so clever they don't even realize they've been Boaty McBoatfaced.
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
someone please come up with something so clever they don't even realize they've been Boaty McBoatfaced.
Reposted by Michael Munnik
Ooh a challenge for the Old English bods! Scip Scipsunu?
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Ooh a challenge for the Old English bods! Scip Scipsunu?