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UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow

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Alison Phipps OBE FRSE FRSA FAcSS a University of Glasgow professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and holds the first UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. She has been awarded the Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. .. more

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 6h
Onto-genesis indeed

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 13h
This reminds me of a Cambridge professor who once told me:

“We do the *hard thinking* at Oxbridge…[pause]…whereas the *doing* is done in the provinces…”

🙃

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 14h
““We don’t do hard luck stories,” sniffed one academic. “Oxford doesn’t do remedial education,” complained another…”

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No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better | Lee Elliot Major
Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the back foot, says professor of social mobility at ...
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 14h
This year, for RESEARCHFISH SEASON, I intend to accompany the sore-fingered-textbox-filling-typing-narrative-tickbox-metrics-extravaganza with actual fish. Saved the last ones @alastairmci.bsky.social took us out fishing for, specially. With the last of the allotment tatties and fresh kale.
10 mackerel in bucket

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 16h
A hearing at the Court of Session in Edinburgh today, deciding whether a judicial review of the decision to proscribe Palestine Action can be pursued under Scots law is underway

You can get updates from the court from our live blog
Live updates as court hears bid to end Palestine Action ban in Scotland
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 18h
The language issue at the heart of Gaza is where thought that has failed and academic disciplines and organisations that have been unable to articulate the evidence of their own eyes will be and is being remade. Out of Ashlaa.
khawlabadwan.bsky.social Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 19h
Gaza is a language issue at heart. A key issue for the reluctant discipline of Applied Linguistics whose broken premise is about the use and abuse of language in the 'real world'.

Tribute to Gaza, humanity's eternal heartbreak

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 18h
“What do you need at the moment?” The power of community when statutory provision crumbles under cuts www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘The response is a beautiful thing’: how Glasgow is squaring up to Reform
In the face of Nigel Farage, flag-waving and a longstanding housing crisis, some Glaswegians are taking on anti-immigration rhetoric
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 19h
"Its taken 7 years but the ICJ will finally hear arguments alleging that Myanmar's military committed genocide against the Rohingya in 2016 and 2017"

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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 19h
Gaza is a language issue at heart. A key issue for the reluctant discipline of Applied Linguistics whose broken premise is about the use and abuse of language in the 'real world'.

Tribute to Gaza, humanity's eternal heartbreak

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Slashing jury trials could clear courts backlog within a decade, says Lammy
Slashing jury trials could clear courts backlog within a decade, says Lammy
Exclusive: Lord chancellor urges MPs to back judge-only trials in thousands of criminal cases in England and Wales The backlog of nearly 80,000 trials clogging up the court system could be cleared within a decade if parliament agrees to slash the number of jury trials, David Lammy, the lord chancellor, has claimed. In an interview with the Guardian, the deputy prime minister, who is facing a backbench rebellion over the proposals, has urged Labour MPs and the public to back a version of Canada’s judge-only trials in thousands of criminal cases in England and Wales. Continue reading...
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Reposted by Serge Guimond, Alison Phipps, Michael Larkin

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 1d
I BEG every smug commentator who praised Mahmood for doing the “tough but necessary thing” to read this.

All the disadvantages of plummeting immigration for the economy & public services, for NO POLITICAL GAIN.

Labour in DESPERATE need of a 180 change of course on immigration
Guardian article screen shot saying 2/3 Brits wrongly think immigration is still rising

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d
‘A good society feeds its people well’

I talk to Scotland’s inaugural Food Tsar as she launches the nation’s new Food Commission about ‘public food’: the meals in schools & hospitals. She says we must double the money spent if people are to get the food they deserve

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Jones has become the very first chief executive of the new Scottish Food Commission
Jayne Jones has just become head of the new Scottish Food Commission. She talks candidly to our Writer at Large about why the SNP government needs…
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d
Israeli forces raided a Palestinian wedding ceremony in occupied East Jerusalem, firing live ammunition and stun grenades at attendees. Several men, including the groom, were detained.

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Philippe K - Amish 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇱 🇸🇩 🍉 🇵🇸 !!SAVE GAZA!! @thunderbirds3.bsky.social · 2d
Bisan Owda "I receive hundreds of questions about where and how people are living, watch this video‼️" #Gaza #Genocide

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Claire Nevin-Field @clairenf.bsky.social · 2d
“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
Redirecting...
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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d
Yep, The Times is going with 'The murder of Renee Nicole Good is the fault of immigrants'.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d
The US is considering military action to seize Greenland, in a move that could cause divisions within the NATO alliance.
Greenland claims: How close have NATO members come to fighting each other?
The US is considering military action to seize Greenland, in a move that could cause divisions within the NATO alliance.
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 2d
79 authors have withdrawn from Adelaide Writers Week now, that we know of - others are rumoured to have done so without declaring so publicly, if you’re wondering why different numbers are floating around. More than half of the festival gone. sakr.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
Authors Who Have Withdrawn From the Apartheid Adelaide Writers Festival Percival Everett, M. Gessen, Zadie Smith, Michelle de Kretser, Yanis Varoufakis, Helen Garner, Hannah Kent, Melissa Lucashenko, Evelyn Araluen, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Larissa Behrendt, Laila Lalami, Trent Dalton, Kathy Lette, Robbie Arnott, Amy McQuire, Walter Marsh, Bernadette Brennan, David Marr, Angie Faye Martin, Jane Caro, Jennifer Mills, Paul Daley, James Bradley, Nikos Papastergiadis, Amy Remeikis, Hannah Ferguson, Laura Tingle, Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts, Peter Greste, Mike Ladd, Alisa Ahmed, Tasma Walton, Bri Lee, Chelsea Watego, Emily Lighezzolo, Clare Wright, Chris Hammer, Kenneth Roth, Micaela Sahhar, Emma Shortis, Madeleine Gray, Peter FitzSimons, Chloe Hooper, Sarah Krasnostein, Kate Mildenhall, Drusilla Modjeska, Ren Wyld, Dominic Guerrera, Marieke Hardy, Jonathan Green, Vincenzo Latronico, Francesca Wade, Molly Murn, Susie Anderson, Eoin McNamee, Danny Nour, Emilie Zoey Baker, Grace Yee, Richard King, Sam Guthrie, Cam Wilson, Jacinta Parsons, Jacqueline Maley, Andy Jackson, Sue Turnbull, Lyn Dickens, Courtney Jaye, Ariel Bogel, Natasha Lester, Sonia Orchard, Louise Milligan, Mathew Hooten, Tim Ayliffe, Lucy Nelson, Lainie Anderson, Roisin O'Donnell, Michael Veitch, Lance Richardson. sakr.substack.com

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 2d
“It was cold-blooded murder.”

@premthakker.bsky.social heads to Minnesota following the murder of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother who was killed by an ICE agent.

At the memorial, he spoke w/ Senator Omar Fateh & Good’s neighbors as her community comes together.

🔗 zeteo.com/p/omar-fateh...

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 3d
I think it’s largely irrelevant - he’s going to do, take, say and grab whatever he wants. Appeasement is a futile now as IG was for Chamberlain #StateVisit #Banquet

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 3d
‘Netanyahu’s abiding fear is not that peace can never be achieved but that it might be.’

Jacqueline Rose on Netanyahu, the genocide in Gaza, and the crisis in Israel:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jacqueline Rose · When the Messiah Comes: When I met Netanyahu
Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without...
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 3d
My MP signed. Has yours?

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Clare M @clamc.bsky.social · 3d
Re the imminent deaths of Palestine Action Hunger Strikers, some of whom are approaching 70 days!!

Please email your MP to sign this new Early Day Motion ASAP!
David Lammy to date refuses to meet with their lawyers.

#HungerStrike
#PalestineAction
#Genocide

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Hunger strike by pro-Palestinian activists - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Justice to engage urgently with the legal representatives of the pro-Palestinian activists who are on hunger strike in UK prisons; notes that, alt...
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d
code of conduct here btw
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d
I mean let's see: there is the open support for AfD, Tommy Robinson, Andrew Tate, the incitement of violence in UK, the slashing of overseas US aid and development in DOGE, projected to cost millions of lives, and the generation of disgusting sexualised images of children and women with Grok.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 3d
Marmalade Season…. Just walked into the kitchen, a hive of activity and smelling amazing!
Jars of home made marmalade

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d
very disappointing.

There is a code of conduct for Royal Society fellows - it's not a value judgement to say that Musk has contravened it!

see relevant bits of code and the Royal Society stated values below.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 3d
In more vexatious litigation news ….
scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: The rector of the University of Glasgow has been cleared of misconduct by medical watchdogs over alleged antisemitism and support for Hamas

The case related to a newspaper article by Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitta and two social media posts

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: The rector of the University of Glasgow has been cleared of misconduct by medical watchdogs over alleged antisemitism and support for Hamas

The case related to a newspaper article by Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitta and two social media posts

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Scottish Refugee Council @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social · 3d
More than 1 in 3 MSPs have taken our pledge to detoxify the debate on immigration.

We’ve seen first-hand the damage caused when dehumanising language is used to describe refugees and people seeking asylum.

Find out if your MSP has signed here: scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/msps-pledge-...
MSPs pledge to detoxify immigration debate - Scottish Refugee Council
Dozens of MSPs have taken our pledge to detoxify the debate around immigration by speaking about refugees with dignity and compassion.
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