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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 1d

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox.

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

usccareers.usc.edu

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 1d

Can you be more specific?

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 2d

Your most cited paper will be the one you finished in a panic and still aren’t sure is right

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4d

#OtD 4 Oct 1936 the Battle of Cable St took place when Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through East London. They were met by over 100k local workers who fought the blackshirts and the police protecting them, stopping the march workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 2d

We’re recruiting for a Research and Policy Officer (mat cover).

Are you a policy-oriented researcher with strong economic analytical skills and a commitment to gender equality? If so, this could be the role for you.

Closing date Mon 27 Oct.

Find out more and apply 👇

www.wbg.org.uk/careers/

We're hiring Research and Policy Officer maternity cover

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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 3d

What a way for @qucl.bsky.social to kick off 2025-2026 — with Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social for a sold out event!

In collaboration with @sprc-ucl.bsky.social

qUCL @qucl.bsky.social · 19d

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade
6 Oct 6-8pm
Discussing the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade

qUCL and the SPRC are pleased to jointly host Dean Spade, who will discuss the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives righ...

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 4d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 4d

When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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qUCL @qucl.bsky.social · 19d

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade
6 Oct 6-8pm
Discussing the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Sticking Together in Tough Times' with Dean Spade

qUCL and the SPRC are pleased to jointly host Dean Spade, who will discuss the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives righ...

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 6d

I enjoyed Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle immensely ☺️

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 9d

Save 30% on #NewBook "Policing Black Lives," by Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social, which documents how a half a century of police reforms in Canada have expanded the scope and scale of policing and perpetuated anti-Black violence. #BlackStudies buff.ly/zsCOj1C

Cover of Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard. The background features a grainy, black-and-white image of a Black individual facing a wall. The person's posture and the ruler markings adjacent to the figure suggest that the image is a mugshot. The entire cover has a gritty feel and is overlaid with a grainy, stippled texture. The title text is bold and distressed.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d

At Cornell, the Dean broke policy and ignored the disciplinary committee's findings that there wasn't evidence of discrimination, and forwarded the complaint to the Provost anyway. The Provost then opened an investigation.

A committee member, who reviewed the transcript of the exchange between Cheyfitz and Renard and spoke on the condition of anonymity because the proceedings are confidential, said Cheyfitz had brought up Renard’s views in a way that was “ambiguous” and “not particularly coherent.” The committee member said “there wasn’t clear evidence” of discrimination because it was not apparent whether Cheyfitz had intended to comment on Renard’s pro-Israel opinions or his identity as an Israeli.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 9d

just gonna have to keep saying, in company of so many others:

we are jewish faculty against the astroturf antisemitism persecution of jewish faculty by our own universities, by online hate groups, and by the regime

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint

Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

www.thenation.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 10d

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 9d

The staircase Harriet Jacobs was pushed down (producing injuries so extensive that she “was unable to turn myself in bed for days”) is in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem and examined now by @molliebarnes.bsky.net and Susanna Ashton:

theconversation.com/a-staircase-...

A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement

The staircase was originally acquired due to its craftsmanship. Only later did scholars realize that it was where Harriet Jacobs suffered abuse at the hands of her enslaver.

theconversation.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d

Professor Florence Ashley was placed on (non-disciplinary) leave by the University of Alberta because of CK social media posts.

This is a blatant violation of academic freedom in Canada. CAUT should be examining censuring UA for this violation.

cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/09...

Florence Ashley
I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination—comments that unquestionably fall within the scope of academic freedom and freedom of expression. I know that many others have been placed on leave, disciplined, or fired for their comments, and feel compelled to speak up in light of my firm belief that the health of a democratic society depends upon its protection of academic freedom and freedom of expression.

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 9d

I think that maybe, before or during reading and according attention to Michael Clune's novel, comrades might want to check out his January 29, 2025 testimony on Ohio Senate Bill 1 (tweeted/brought to our attention earlier this year by @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) cc: @patblanchfield.bsky.social

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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 9d

Wow!!!!

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 9d

We are thrilled to share the shortlists for the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, judged by Anton Hur (Fiction), @noreenmasud.bsky.social (Life Writing), and Yasmine Seale (Poetry), and chaired by Romesh Gunesekera.

Discover the shortlists in the full announcement here: buff.ly/KoSXsrb

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 12d

Turns out Dr. Alex Byrne, a philosophy professor at MIT who was named in my legal action against MIT at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, was a coauthor of the Trump administration's report attacking trans health care. 🤬

www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/a-philosop...

A Philosophy Professor Is the Only Known Author of Trump's Big Trans Health Care Report. Why?

Alex Byrne has been an MIT philosophy professor since 1995. But his focus on gender only started in 2018.

www.unclosetedmedia.com

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Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · 10d

I just got indefinite leave to remain 2 years ago, so I'm reading this like, I don't even know what the fuck this means. We pay taxes, we pay TWICE for the NHS, we pay an exorbitant fee for visas to reach ILR, our income is constantly scrutinised. How the fuck more are people supposed to contribute?

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 11d

Dehumanisation as policy.
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...

Shabana Mahmood vows law reforms to prove migrants 'contribute' to UK society

The home secretary signalled in her first major interview since taking over the reins that she believed migration "has been too high".

news.sky.com

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 10d

If you’re posting about how Keir Starmer has (finally, but far too late) called Nigel Farage’s plan to eliminate indefinite leave to remain “racist” but have also conveniently left out the part where Starmer’s new Home Secretary wants to restrict indefinite leave to remain anyway? You’re not an ally

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