Forgive me if I’ve been a bit mouthy on here this week but me & many colleagues in my post-92 have had formal “at potential risk of redundancy” letters this week.

Do we want an HE system where Arts & Humanities are only taught & researched at Russell Groups?

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

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So well-deserved!

Kenya: Gov't dissolves vetting committees (good news); Chiefs to be held accountable for ID issuance (not necessarily any better news...) What are due process protections?? #digitalID #legalidentity citizen.digital/news/govt-diss…

having to embrace post prague spring style czech absurdism to be able to express oneself at free liberal etc western university

Generative AI should be called Normative AI, as all it's doing is an endless rearrangement of elements according to the statistical norms it has learned from its training data. AI is the sedimentation of the status quo.

Interested to see what this will mean in practice....the-star.co.ke/news/realtime/…

Hello Political theorists, here is a great job opportunity:

Come join us ⁦School of Politics & IR at Queen Mary⁩ as Lecturer in Political Theory. jobs.ac.uk/job/DHJ467/lec…

Are you a politics & gender scholar who fancies working with niharika pandit Rainbow Murray @[email protected] Paul Kirby Hannah Wright Alex Dr Sofia Collignon Kim Hutchings, Nivi Manchanda, & other brilliant colleagues & students School of Politics & IR at Queen Mary (+ fab faculty feminists)?
jbs.ac.uk/job/DHI796/lec…

#IStandWithNadera ⁦Queen Mary University of London⁩

#IStandWithNadera

Queen Mary University of London

#IStandWithNadera

Queen Mary University of London

#IStandWithNadera

@qmul Queen Mary University of LondonPalestine

⁦Queen Mary University of London⁩ ⁦Queen Mary University of LondonPalestine⁩

My colleague Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kavorkian was attacked by her main employer, arrested, and subject to inhumane treatment while held under custody. Queen Mary University of London must condemn this treatment and cut ties with Hebrew University immediately #IStandWithNadera @qmulPalestine

podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/globa… The first episode on doctoral research at School of Politics & IR at Queen Mary spotlights Zak Tobias whose research is on the Aqaba Digital Hub, and Charlie Thomas, who works on trade union internationalism in relation to Palestine.

I can confirm that even faculty IDs are deactivated at Columbia today, and that it is impossible to access the buildings without (possibly) security escort.