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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 3d

Hooray Jools is back but Sunday night is not the best…

Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 3d

10pm TODAY on @BBCTwo

Later... with Jools Holland
s67, Ep 1 of 6

With rock ’n’ roll legend Robert Plant, singer-songwriter Olivia Dean, French singer-songwriter Jehnny Beth, folk musician James Yorkston + spoken word artist, musician & poet Joshua Idehen.

BBC Two - Later... with Jools Holland, Series 67, Episode 1

With Robert Plant, Olivia Dean, Jehnny Beth, James Yorkston and Joshua Idehen.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 3d

Love the update. Both my parents in late 80s are Chase addicts and when I ring home the volume is so high I can hear it on the phone in NL!

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 3d

Had a good titter at this!

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

‘No one’s been willing to take a risk’: are Palestinian films still struggling to get seen?

As a genocide continues, the road to audiences has been smoother for Israeli films while Palestinians must get inventive

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 4d

What a wonderful resource.

Florian Stadtler 🦀 @flostadt.bsky.social · Jul 22

And southasianbritain.org is live - 33 months in the making - partnership by @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social & @britishlibrary.bsky.social, funded by @ukri.org/ahrc - 750+ entries, 30+oral histories, newly digitised archival docs & more; spread the word

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Florian Stadtler 🦀 @flostadt.bsky.social · 20d

To mark the centenary of the 1925 Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, a wrote a blog for @britishlibrary.bsky.social Untold Lives: blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/... find out more on the digital resource South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories @remakingbritain.bsky.social

The 1925 Special Restrictions (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order

2025 marks the centenary of the passing of the ‘Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, requiring maritime workers of colour to register with the police and forcing them to bear a Certifica...

blogs.bl.uk

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 4d

And James Joyce by her side!

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 4d

Very interesting data.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

New from Institute of Jewish Policy Research: most comprehensive study of Jewish attitudes
> Rising experience + perception of antisemitism:feel less safe
> Growing (now majority) criticism of military campaign in Gaza; rising attachment to Israel
(July 2025 fieldwork)
www.jpr.org.uk/reports/two-...

Two years after the October 7 attacks: British Jewish views on antisemitism, Israel and Jewish life

www.jpr.org.uk

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 5d

Please check this website to see if your book(s) were used to train AI. You may be entitled to compensation from the Anthropic settlement. I filed a claim because all of my books were used.

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Homepage | ANT

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 5d

These inaccuracies around this awful event were noticed @BBC

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · May 15

Free Palestine reading list

Free Palestine! A Reading List

Publishing books on the struggle for justice in Palestine has been a central part of Haymarket’s mission since we published our first book, The Struggle for Palestine, in 2001. Here, we pres...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 6d

‘Life-saving’ Gaza student evacuations need ‘collective effort’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/life-sa...

‘Life-saving’ Gaza student evacuations need ‘collective effort’

Gazan students due to begin studies in Ireland and Italy but efforts in other countries remain blocked

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 6d

Our world is demented. People attacking elderly and children at their synagogue on their holiest day and helicopters dropping devices on women snd children collecting food.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 7d

#BREAKING | Israeli forces have arrested Haya al-Yamani, correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, aboard the ship "Sirius" which was part of the Freedom Flotilla sailing toward Gaza.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 7d

Israel has just cut off North Gaza from the South by shutting the Al-Rashid Coastal Road

The Al-Rashid Coastal Road is one of the last vital arteries connecting the north of the Strip with the south - and Israel just shut it, putting military checkpoints in place
www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Israel has just cut off North Gaza from the South by shutting the Al-Rashid Coastal Road

Al-Rashid Coastal Road is one of the last vital arteries connecting the north of the Strip with the south - and Israel just shut it

www.thecanary.co

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: Israeli attack on flotilla underway 'within the hour'

A fleet of Israeli vessels are approaching the boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla as we speak - with crew saying an attack is imminent
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

BREAKING: Israeli attack on flotilla underway 'within the hour'

A fleet of Israeli vessels are approaching the boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla as we speak - with crew saying an attack is imminent

www.thecanary.co

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 7d

She deserves it.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 9d

Follow our live blog for the latest updates as the Global Sumud Flotilla embarks on the final leg of its journey to Gaza 🚨

LIVE: Global Sumud Flotilla on final leg of journey to Gaza

www.thenational.scot

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 9d

The Dutch too- but not outsourced to Palantir.

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 9d

I like this explanation.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11d

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 10d

How nice to have that explained… go find a moral compass.

Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 10d

theintercept.com/2025/09/24/g...

Israel Just Bombed the Building Next Door. Will We Be Next?

Huda Skaik writes on her life in Gaza City for the past week, as her neighbors evacuate and Israel’s air and ground attacks intensify.

theintercept.com

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 10d

I call on my followers to please read this writer, support with a follow and share.

Abdallah Aljazzar @abunour.bsky.social · Jun 30

We’re called men, but we cry like boys. We bury like fathers, though we’re still just sons.
This is what masculinity looks like in Gaza.
I lived it. I wrote it.
🔗 www.972mag.com/gaza-men-mas...

The tears of Gaza’s men are an act of rebellion

Gaza is birthing a new kind of masculinity — based not on militarism or stoicism but on moral clarity and dignity, even in starvation.

www.972mag.com

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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social · 11d

Ah and my lovely supportive ex supervisor @laurasalisbury.bsky.social

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