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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

then I left the facility and drove home a free man. I guess what I'm saying is it would be interesting to put the discourses about "performative woke" and "virtue signalling" next to the discourse about what counts as a "luxury belief"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 6

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 1d

*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.

LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 1d

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU

Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 2d

Reading this by m'learned colleague, and the nostalgia for 50s Britain is a crock. Much of the country was an exhausted dump. The Potteries were described as 'seven miles of concentrated ugliness and dirt'. Stoke was full of 'old clay working, old coal dumps, canal and industrial waste'. (1/2)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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SD @sonalidhanpal.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to share, please send me your email?

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 2d

I’m a tenured professor with an endowed chair.

Looking back, I don’t think the freshly minted PhD version of me could land a job in today’s market. I was smart, I was driven — but mostly, I was lucky.

More of us in academia need to admit that.

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 2d

Diacritics author and board member Grant Farred writes about nostalgia for late industrial capitalism in his most recent publication "The Prettiest Woman," forthcoming with @uminnpress.bsky.social
For more information, see here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...

The Prettiest Woman

Uncovering Hollywood’s perpetual longing for a lost industrial America “We don’t make things in America anymore”: like clockwork, this refrain resurf...

www.upress.umn.edu

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

#OtD 9 Oct 1972 3000 council tenants in Kirkby, England launched a rent strike against the Housing Finances Act which increased rents. It lasted 14 months stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

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SD @sonalidhanpal.bsky.social · 3d

If you don’t have access, and would like a copy, please let me know!

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SD @sonalidhanpal.bsky.social · 3d

This is such a huge compliment to get from of the best urban historians of Britain

My article is the first from my second project on race, empire and post war housing in Britain! It’s in a Special Issue on State Effects in Grey Room edited by Zeynep Celik Alexander with Lucia Allais.

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SD @sonalidhanpal.bsky.social · 3d

This has made my day Sam, especially because it’s coming from you!

Thanks so much.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 5d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 9d

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 8d

I'm co-hosting this event, titled "Values of Waste," with Alistair Cartwright at the University of Liverpool in two weeks! Please come if you happen to be in the area! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/values-of-...

Values of Waste

This day-long symposium explores the social and material histories of bio-based construction and architecture.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 9d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 9d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · 11d

out today from @ucpress.bsky.social comes with words and a map. can be displayed and/or read.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 10d

I hope @nplusonemag.com streams or records this sold-out event! "Can New Yorkers have nice things? With a Mamdani mayoralty almost in reach, it seems tantalizingly possible—but what kinds of nice things should we have?" All ?'s newly complicated by DC's threats secure.givelively.org/event/n1-fou...

What Could Mamdani’s New York Look Like?
Tue, Oct 14th 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT · By n+1 Foundation
Date & Time
Tue, Oct 14th 2025 at 6:00 - 8:00pm ET
Center for Architecture Foundation
536 LaGuardia Place
New York New York, 10012
Event Details
Can New Yorkers have nice things? With a Mamdani mayoralty almost in reach, it seems tantalizingly possible—but what kinds of nice things should we have?

On Tuesday, October 14, n+1 and the Center for Architecture will host a freewheeling discussion of usable pasts, working models, and radical horizons for building a social democratic New York. From the humblest bike lane to the most utopian social housing, the conversation will open a space to dream big while also grappling with the policy mechanics and power dynamics of governing America’s largest city. Cultural geographer Cindi Katz, urban planner Daphne Lundi, architectural historian and editor Mariana Mogilevich, and housing researcher and writer Samuel Stein will be joined in conversation by n+1 coeditor Mark Krotov and senior editor Colin Vanderburg.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 12d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥

Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 12d

I put this night on with @alexniven.bsky.social and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social.

Come and stroke your chin and drink loads of pints.

Lort Burn Specials @lortburnspecials.bsky.social · 12d

LORT BURN SPECIALS: 3

Featuring OWEN HATHERLEY, ANDREW HANKINSON, KATE LISTON and music from BEN LOWES-SMITH

SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER 7PM

@alphabettitheatre.bsky.social

MAKE NEWCASTLE MITTELEUROPA AGAIN

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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 17d

Very pleased that my piece 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' has been published in @urbanhistory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S096...
Many thanks to @mctom.bsky.social for organising the roundtable that got these thoughts going back in 2023! #UrbanHist #EnvHums

Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity | Urban History | Cambridge Core

Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14d

#OtD 28 Sep 1975 three Black liberation activists held up the Knightsbridge Spaghetti House restaurant in London, UK, hoping to steal the weekly takings. The robbery went wrong and turned into a five-day stand-off with police until they surrendered stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1006...

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 16d

A must-read for environmental historians, labour historians, & historians of embodiment, trade, Britain, the Thames, and more.

Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement.

#envhist

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 16d

New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"

by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*

Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t

doi.org

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 16d

Cuts to and closures of university presses are 100% part of the separation (or as @mattseybold.bsky.social has called it "unbundling") of research and teaching in the humanities and the devaluation of both quite frankly--in this case at the expense of the career training admin claims to care about.

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 16d

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net

A post from Feeding the

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