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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thinking about bridges and liminality. #newmaterialism #bitesizephilosophy #Blanchot

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Bridges as liminal spaces

What do you doodle when your mind wanders and your body can’t wander with it? I doodle bridges. Always bridges. I think my obsession with bridges possibly began when I was a teenager in the industr…

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Jun 23

Books and existence rhubarbandrobin.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/b...
#newmaterialism #materialculture #latour #STS

Books: fiction and human existence

I was visiting a friend’s house yesterday (a serious book-lover) and we fell into our usual routine: she put the kettle on whilst I fondled the latest books in the pile next to the sofa. Handling a…

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Jun 22

An excellent place to ponder/escape world events, and possibly a door to a better world. dreamerygardens.co.uk#northwoodtrail #placeconnection #educationyork

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · May 6

Save 30% on #NewBook "Magic's Translations" by @margaretjwiener.bsky.social , which examines how the concept of magic emerged out of historical struggles between Europe and the rest of the world. #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies
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Cover of Magic’s Translations: Reality Politics in Colonial Indonesia by Margaret J. Wiener. The design features a textured blue background with the faint outline of a large tree. The title appears prominently in white. Below the title, the subtitle is displayed, and the author's name is positioned in the upper right corner. In the lower right corner the words "with an Afterword by Isabelle Stengers" appear. The overall aesthetic conveys a sense of mystery and historical depth.

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Nick Stock @89stock.bsky.social · Jun 10

'The Lacanian Teacher. Education, Pedagogy and Enjoyment.'

Out in July with the Palgrave Lacan Series link.springer.com/book/9783031...

The Lacanian Teacher

This book provides a reading of Lacan and education with powerful implications for a rethinking of the figure of the teacher.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Jun 5

"The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony," writes Luiz Pessoa, author of "The Entangled Brain":

How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays

The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Jun 3

Blogginess on objects and stuff (academic overspillings rather than seriousity) rhubarbandrobin.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/o...
#STS #newmaterialism #research #subjectobject #educationresearch (maybe) #tea #blogsaboutlife

Objectivi-tea

Freshly made mint tea, Atlas mountains, Morocco. As you do. There are some things that need explaining. The object. The ivit. The tea (Ah, the tea, the tea!). I shall start with the easy one. These…

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · May 28

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · May 28

Last week I had the privilege to work with brilliant colleagues and friends at Uppsala & Mälardalens Universities, exploring Latour’s modes of existence and HE pedagogies. An inspiring trip; I look forward to our continuing work. #STS #educationresearch @iterc.bsky.social
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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · May 26

Well, that’s the next book cover sorted…. Thanks Stockholm! 😎

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · May 26

Two benches facing each other next to Stockholm’s archipelago waters.

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · May 14

An important paper on Russell Group universities and public intellectualism through the digital sphere www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#educationresearch #highereducationresearch

The digital public sphere, universities and intellectualising the public

This article explores the role of universities in fostering public intellectualism in the rapidly developing digital public sphere. Specifically, the paper asks: Is there a viable role for universi...

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Jan 16

A chance to explore global perspectives in teacher education and challenge the standard education model. Promises to be an interesting space for open debate and thinking otherwise. www.bera.ac.uk/event/global...
#teachereducation #education #educationresearch

Global Perspectives in Teacher Education: Challenging the Standard Education Model

Leeds Beckett University, in association with the British Educational Research Association, invite you to participate in our inaugural international conference entitled Global Perspectives in...

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European Educational Research Association - EERA @ecer-eera.bsky.social · Jan 13

ECER 2025, Belgrade. Learn about the Keynote Speakers (https://buff.ly/4gfs4uf) and find the Call for Proposals and how to submit to #ECER2025 (https://buff.ly/4gfOHhA). Submission deadline: 31 January

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Jan 8

The Call for Papers for the annual Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference is open. See ethnographyandeducation.org
Conference dates: Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th September 2025
#ethnography #education #educationresearch

Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Oct 1

ITE Senior Lectureship in the north of England open for applications. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

#teachereducation

Job Opportunity at York St John University: Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education (Primary)

Full time permanent Location: YorkSalary: £47,874 to £58,596 per annum About YSJYork St John is an ambitious, modern university at the heart of historic York and there has never been a more exciting t...

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Sep 20

Hot off the press! ‘Teacher Education and Its Discontents: Politics, Knowledge, and Ethics’. A unique collection of essays from researchers and teacher educators from around the world, presenting innovative approaches to education theory and practices. #educationresearch #education #teachereducation

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Sep 20

An excellent role model of stodgy beige politics (…sorry, food) at the most prosperous of times.

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Sep 19

What is meant by place?
Campus smells of lavender
Place is brain honey.

Ah, the start of a new semester…

#haiku #yorkstjohn

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Sep 17

‘We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless “information” that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility.’ This is ‘reverence for the infinite connectedness’ in complex human-nonhuman relations. #STS #education #poetry #goodreads

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · Aug 29

“What we now know is that if we grit our teeth and continue to trust in growth, we are heading, as they say, 'straight into a wall'.” Isabelle Stengers (2009)

Book cover for ‘Au Temps des Catastrophes’ by Isabelle Stengers.

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Sep 11

Yay! There you are.

Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Sep 11

Two weeks later and I’m still existing on the intellectuel fuel of #ECER2024. Towards a Weak Ontology of/for Education symposium photo, with ITERC colleagues. Can we shift the ITERC social media over to here too @pragmarxist.bsky.social?

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Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social · Sep 11

Well this promises to be rather fabulous. Pre-ordered. #goodreads

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 11

In "Poor Things," @lendavis.bsky.social writes about “poornography”: distorted narratives of poverty written by and for the middle and upper classes. Read the introduction for free now: assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...

Cover of Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those without It by Lennard J. Davis. Cover features a halftone illustration of an adult hand dropping a coin into the outstretched palm of a child. A color filter overlays the image; most of the image is blue-tone, but the hands are encircled in bright red. The text “Poor Things” is in white chunky lettering.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 9

Today a senior exec from Taylor & Francis replied confirming that T&F journal articles *are* and will continue to be provided to its AI partners for model training, with *no opt-out*. Guess we know where we stand now - academics are creators of data for value generation by Big AI and publishers

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Aug 24

As a T&F journal editor - where we publish a lot of critical work on AI - I think it's ethically essential the publishers - all of them - get fully transparent about their AI training partnerships with Big Tech cos fast. It's an awful situation because academic authors are truly locked in... (1/2)

Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · Aug 24

I will continue working on this and try to make sure HAS NOT also translates into WILL NOT/WILL NEVER. I have asked for an official statement of this which I can share with journal editors, who are worried about the possibility of boycotts.

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