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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 12h

photo of the day: a lovely face
www.instagram.com/p/C6i1G6AofN...

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 2d

Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values

Last week, our FactCheck team exclusively revealed that Israel’s imports of UK arms hit a record high value in June. Now, we can reveal new figures showing September was the second highest month on re...

www.channel4.com

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a great exhibition on now in the ARC at Glasgow Uni with photographs around the theme of climate and mental health assembled by our PhD students in sociology and climate and my esteemed colleague the anthropologist Dr Alicia Davis.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 1d

During these challenging times, we invite you to celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion in everyday life, with a light-hearted exhibition!

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 6d

52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/52-squares...

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow 👇

Urban Studies & Social Policy @uofgussp.bsky.social · 2d

📣 USSP seminar this week 📣

📖 Prof @rachelhumphris.bsky.social in conversation with Prof Engin Isin

🗓️ Wed, 8 Oct 2025 15:30 - 17:00 BST

📍Room 718, 42 Bute Gardens Building, University of Glasgow

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-san...

Making Sanctuary, Enacting Citizenship: Governing, Resisting, Imagining

Book discussion with Professor and author Rachel Humphris and Professor Engin Isin. All welcome!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Urban Studies & Social Policy @uofgussp.bsky.social · 2d

📣 USSP seminar this week 📣

📖 Prof @rachelhumphris.bsky.social in conversation with Prof Engin Isin

🗓️ Wed, 8 Oct 2025 15:30 - 17:00 BST

📍Room 718, 42 Bute Gardens Building, University of Glasgow

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-san...

Making Sanctuary, Enacting Citizenship: Governing, Resisting, Imagining

Book discussion with Professor and author Rachel Humphris and Professor Engin Isin. All welcome!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 5d

Join us to celebrate the diversity in cities and our lives!
Opening on the 27th of October.

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 6d

52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/52-squares...

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 4d

An astounding disconnect

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d

Café and cycle culture is moving up the emirate’s cityscape agenda. But it’s a tall order: on.ft.com/431uFmK

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 5d

Join us to celebrate the diversity in cities and our lives!
Opening on the 27th of October.

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 6d

52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/52-squares...

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 6d

Just a few weeks to our exhibition on how we all experience same moments in different ways 👇

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 6d

52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/52-squares...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 6d

Israel has kidnapped hundreds of people in international waters.

They were trying to break an illegal siege which is starving the people of Gaza.

The flotilla is the best of us 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/israel-kid...

Israel kidnaps Gaza flotilla

Piracy in plain sight.

www.owenjones.news

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Alison McCandlish @crenellatedarts.bsky.social · 6d

Looking forward to facilitating the launch event for this!

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 6d

Just a few weeks to our exhibition on how we all experience same moments in different ways 👇

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 6d

52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/52-squares...

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 6d

The exhibition: 27-31 October, at the James McCune Smith Learning Hub Foyer, University Avenue, Glasgow.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 6d

Extraordinary stuff.

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 6d

The exhibition launch: 1 pm, 27 October, at the James McCune Smith Learning Hub, University Avenue, Glasgow.

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 6d

Just a few weeks to our exhibition on how we all experience same moments in different ways 👇

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 6d

52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/52-squares...

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 6d

52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/52-squares...

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Giovanni Picker @giopicker.bsky.social · 7d

As authoritarian politics tighten their grip across the globe, we need to allow ourselves to press pause and collectively analyze the current conjuncture.

Come discuss with @rachelhumphris.bsky.social, in conversation with Engin Isin, on her Making Sancturay Cities (Stanford 2025). Details below

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 7d

Join us to discuss making sanctuary cities in challenging times!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-san...

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 7d

For details check the link and below 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-san...

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 7d

Join us to discuss making sanctuary cities in challenging times!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-san...

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 20d

Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…

A SmartViz monitoring device installed at a university.

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · 9d

This is horrific. Shame on whoever thought this was worth spending money on

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 20d

Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10d

What we should do is take back everything the billionaires 'own' and give it back to the people who they have stolen it from.

Everybody knows this, and everybody except the handful of billionaires should support it.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 10d

Winning here with Keir. 🥀

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 11d

🗳️ BREAKING | Starmer is now the most unpopular Prime Minister in history - WORSE than Truss

🔴 Starmer – 13% satisfied, 79% dissatisfied

🔵 Liz Truss – 16% satisfied, 67% dissatisfied

Via @Ipsos_in_the_UK, 11-17 Sep

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