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Dr Sarah Irving
@drtermagant.bsky.social
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Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 10d
I’ve just seen Tony Iommi play Paranoid live on a stage full of ballet dancers. I can die happy:
Theatre stage with a large group of people, two with electric guitars, one of them Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath in a long black coat Two men with electric guitars on a theatre stage, with ballet dancers behind, one of them Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7h
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 4h
After the anticipated and hoped for prisoners/hostage exchange, there will remain in Israeli prisons thousands more Palestinians than there had been there on 6th October 2023.
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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 18d
A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation.

My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.
Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life
This article critically examines environmental salvage projects undertaken in northeastern Turkey by focusing on political and technoscientific actors…
www.sciencedirect.com
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British Institute at Ankara @thebiaankara.bsky.social · 1d
📆 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE: Canals and colonialism: Trans-Palestinian waterways from the Ottoman era to social media

Hybrid event

🗣 Sarah Irving (University of Staffordshire)
📆Wednesday, 22nd October 2025
ℹ️ REGISTER for in-person or online attendance at biaa.ac.uk/events/canal...
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you 🙏
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British Institute at Ankara @thebiaankara.bsky.social · 2d
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Join us if you want to learn about how the BIAA can support your research!
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British Institute at Ankara @thebiaankara.bsky.social · 12d
🚨 Are you a UK Higher Education Institution-affiliated researcher working within the humanities and social sciences and planning a project in Türkiye and/or the Black Sea region next year?

If so, join us for a webinar on how the BIAA can support your research: biaa.ac.uk/events/webin...
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Jenni Barclay @volcanojenni.bsky.social · 1d
We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project
Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.
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Tom Gill @tomgillpredicts.bsky.social · 3d
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1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 2d
Beth Hapworth, 32, spent her entire 20s grafting, hustling and girl-bossing her way through her event photography career only to find she now needs to nap for the entirety of her 30s.
Boss! Autistic woman smashing work goals rewarded with burnout
An autistic woman has smashed the glass ceiling only to become too fucking exhausted to reap any of the rewards, it has been confirmed. Beth Hapworth, 32, spent her entire 20s grafting, hustling and…
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 3d
Building a nuclear power plant just to satisfy projected energy demands from data centers. 🫠

www.kosu.org/show/stateim...
Oklahoma regulators to balance costly nuclear potential with projected wave of energy demand
Elected state officials voted to require the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to investigate whether the Sooner State could generate nuclear energy or hold off on welcoming the industry.
www.kosu.org
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 3d
"[T]wo million [Italian] workers demonstrated and walked off the streets on Friday."

"Workers across the world must follow this example [.] and send a message to the entire world: the labor movement will not allow Israel to massacre the Palestinian people."
#Italy #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
2 Million People Paralyze Italy in a General Strike for Gaza and the Flotilla - Left Voice
Workers across Italy brought the country to a halt with a massive national strike to denounce Israel’s attacks against the Global Sumud Flotilla — defying Meloni’s repression and showing the power of…
www.leftvoice.org
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 5d
"My only crime is that I am a doctor"

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital, is being unlawfully held by Israel since late December 2024. He is being deliberately starved and denied medical care, as a lawyer from PHRI confirms.

Picture seen on @mosababutoha.bsky.social IG account
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 3d
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 3d
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 5d
🧵 Libertarian economist Tyler Cowen is making headlines for an extremely creepy post at Bari Weiss's blog fantasizing about robot virgins and the AI character Tilly Norwood.

Unfortunately, the story behind is much worse...
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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 8d
Why not force the Oxbridge colleges to merge & create a system that shares their wealth & resources with other UK universities & looks for the succes & stability of all?
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 4d
‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’
This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...
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Polari Press @polari.press · 4d
After launching them at Queeriosities last weekend, the A3 Risograph posters are now up on our website with all profits going to the Sameer Project in Gaza: polari.press/throw-sand-i...
A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in red. A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in green.
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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 4d
our @fossilfreebooks.org comrade @peter.polari.com has made these gorgeous risograph prints to raise money for the Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid group supporting people in Gaza. Only 50: get yours quick polari.press/shop/art-pri...
risograph print - red flowers, green print over saying THROW SAND IN THE GEARS OF GENOCIDE risograph print - green flowers, red print over saying THROW SAND IN THE GEARS OF GENOCIDE
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d
MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...
This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers. We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah. Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 4d
You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.
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Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera @aje.io.web.brid.gy · 7d
LIVE: A least 61 killed as Global Sumud Flotilla nears Gaza
At least 61 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a flotilla of more than 50 ships carrying aid approach.
www.aljazeera.com
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16d
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?
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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 4d
Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d
Posted by the President of the United States.
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