Reposted by adam searleOnni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 05/10/202641% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking. 1516181
adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026www.skipthepaywall.com/read?url=htt... non paywalled version of the article 👇skipthepaywall.comSkip the Paywall — Read any article for freePaste any paywalled article URL and read the full content instantly. No signup required. 000
adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026pictures from the feature in the sunday times about our ongoing industrial action at the university of nottingham 1112
Reposted by adam searleNadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Solidarity with @uonucu.bsky.social members once again striking against compulsory redundancies and course closures. Such an outcome would devastate workers, students, and our city, as well as UK research. I urge the university leadership to do the right thing and protect jobs and courses. 2278
Reposted by adam searleUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026Nottingham today. Everywhere tomorrow. 2,700 staff put at risk. 600+ jobs targeted. At least 48 courses facing closure. What happens here sets the template for the sector. Stand with Nottingham. 16645
Reposted by adam searleParis Marx @parismarx.com · 30/09/2026i legitimately wonder if it’s just being ill-informed and naive on AI, but when i see so many of these orgs reaching out to cultists like Nate Soares instead of left tech critics to make sense of this, i feel we’re seeing the problem of a business model that relies on sensationalism to drive traffic 6738
Reposted by adam searleUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning. 17842
Reposted by adam searlemichelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thanks to Aya Nassar, Sterling Johnson, Paroj Banerjee and AbdouMaliq Simone for their reviews of For a Liberatory Politics of Home @dukepress.bsky.social in @dialogueshg.bsky.social In my response, I focus on the inner violence of our institutional homes journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comOn complicity: Home, the military and the university - Michele Lancione, 2026 042
Reposted by adam searleTheory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · 27/09/2026From the Archive: Eva Giraud and Gregory Hollin, 'Care, Laboratory Beagles and Affective Utopia' - focuses on the ambivalent role of care within the first large-scale experimental beagle colony at the University of California, Davis (1951–86). (2016) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 021
adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026gutted its so pricey, especially when most university libraries are reluctant to buy anything (ours is anyway!!), and after how brilliant the progress article was!! 111
Reposted by adam searleMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026'In the most notable case, the University of Nottingham’s University and College Union (UCU) branch has declared strike action of 67 days, expected to last for the majority of the autumn term, as the institution looks to cut 600 full-time equivalent jobs.'timeshighereducation.comUK universities face autumn of chaos as ‘prolonged’ strikes plannedUnprecedentedly long strikes at Nottingham, Edinburgh and Dundee could be the shape of things to come, observers say 14432
adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I came away from the Intensity session quite disappointed I didn’t get to see the applause method in action..! 010
Reposted by adam searleNadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026When blackshirts are marching through the streets of Dover and Portsmouth, the focus shouldn’t be on the disruption they cause, but on their fascist ideology and deliberate intimidation of migrants and people of colour. [1/2] 801510345
Reposted by adam searleNate O @nateo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Plagiarism is only one part of a much broader scope of academic misconduct, and ‘race realism’ is itself a form of academic misconduct: using academia to launder long-discredited and empirically refuted white supremacist propaganda. It is disseminating pernicious lies into broader society 8927300
Reposted by adam searleThe British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Do your interests lie at the intersection of climate change, nature and human wellbeing? We invite researchers, policymakers, practitioners and independent experts to submit proposals for discussion papers on our new programme ‘Humanity, Climate & Nature’. Find out more: bit.ly/4hH2qlA 036
Reposted by adam searleHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Now do everywhere else www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comMeta glasses banned from courts in England and WalesExclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave 1238595
Reposted by adam searleGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comMurderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George MonbiotAs climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 6821671054
Reposted by adam searleMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/03/2026The thing is, I think these are all fundamentally correct & completely reconcilable political economies of the contemporary. 1828565
Reposted by adam searleScience as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026📢 Another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy! 📜 In "Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy," Owen Marshall examines crypto-mining as a foundational ritual practice of tech oligarchy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...doi.orgRite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchyPublished in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026) 022
adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026excellent article journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....journals.sagepub.comGeography and the classics? - José Luis Romanillos, 2026This paper examines the interdisciplinary relationship between geography and ‘the classics’. It attends to the relative paucity of (re)engagements with antiquit... 021
Reposted by adam searleJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth... 22068472696
Reposted by adam searleProf Rob Dover @robdover.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.com‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotionExclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities 20572230
Reposted by adam searleChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026What a harrowing story and an incredible work of #scicomm in the reporting. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgExclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made publicParents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals 413859
Reposted by adam searleKatja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026#newbookalert Daniele Valisena's "Italian Lives, Belgian Coal: An Environmental History of Labour and Migration" will be published this fall with @upittpress.bsky.social #envhist 👇 upittpress.org/books/978082... 03916
Reposted by adam searleMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Working in partnership with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, the Food Museum, the Glasgow Life Museum, the Hastings Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum of Free Derry, the Migration Museum (London) is seeking 10 Community Curators. Might this be you?migrationmuseum.orgMigration Museum partners with museums and galleries to launch new UK-wide Community Curators programmeThe Migration Museum is partnering with five museums and galleries across the UK to launch a new programme bringing diverse voices, lived experiences, and perspectives into the creation of a series of... 02219
Reposted by adam searlePlanetary Praxis @planetarypraxis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026In the new article, ‘Digital fire technologies and community networks’, Jennifer Gabrys, Paula Tiara Torres and Pablo González Rivas analyse how digital technologies influence fire prevention, response, and recovery in La Araucanía, Chile: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 166
Reposted by adam searleGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comRead these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George MonbiotShabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot 931798523
Reposted by adam searleTech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 16/07/2026Before the Luddites and the arrival of capitalism, it wasn’t just workers pushing back against technology; governments did too. This week @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how refusal of technology has a very long history. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/337_... 77021
Reposted by adam searleMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026'Students’ positivity about all aspects of UK higher education courses has increased despite the problems facing the sector, according to the latest National Student Survey (NSS) results.' 80.9% positivity, up from 78.4% last year. So go on, sack us. 1/3timeshighereducation.comNSS 2026: positivity scores up across the board despite pressuresStudents more positive about teaching and free speech but some institutions still perform poorly on course management 12814
Reposted by adam searleMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026'Politicians from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages have told the university’s executive “in the strongest possible terms to reconsider” the plans, in a letter seen by Times Higher Education.' 1/3timeshighereducation.com‘Cold spot’ fears over Nottingham language cutsPlans to close courses would have national impact, politicians write in letter urging university to reconsider 13322
Reposted by adam searleWIRED @wired.com · 02/07/2026New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.wrd.cmInside the Luddite Festival Harnessing Gen Z’s Rage Against Big TechNew York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech. 017657
Reposted by adam searleNatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Redundancies at a post-92 are just as catastrophic--if not more--as redundancies at the institutions that are members of a group specifically set up to structurally advantage themselves at the expense of post-92s. Solidarity with everyone at risk. We are all very much needed. 110532
Reposted by adam searleAlicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Join our #FAccT2026 CRAFT session on resistance to & refusal of AI this Sunday, June 28 at 2:15pm! panel discussion w Renée Sieber @cyberlyra.bsky.social @ali-alkhatib.com @jordant.bsky.social @stoopt.bsky.social @hagenblix.bsky.social & collage workshop to explore resistance together 22411
Reposted by adam searleAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026only baltimore's largest employer higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties; destroying universities is economic sabotage 6337161
adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026new episode of is it a satirical plotline from Venomous Lumpsucker or real life just dropped 020
Reposted by adam searleEmily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026As the Trump administration moves to weaken endangered species protections, it's backing an effort to build a national biobank for endangered and threatened species. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/coloss...wired.comColossal and the US Government Are Creating an Endangered Species ‘BioVault’The move comes as the Trump administration is trying to weaken the act that’s meant to protect endangered species from going extinct in the first place. 1108
Reposted by adam searleOnni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Second day of 'The Fetal Archive' workshop today in London with curators, biologists, philosophers, geographers, geneticists, historians & sociologists from 7 different countries. We're looking at how we understand, interpret, display & analyse, historic fetal & embryological remains. 192
Reposted by adam searlePhil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I don't feel sorry for Starmer. I feel for the Palestinians whose slaughter he enabled, for the trans people and refugees he's victimised, and my colleagues who've had their careers wrecked by Labour's assault on universities. A record to be ashamed of. 19774236
Reposted by adam searleFraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 22/06/2026He didn’t even pay for his own spectacles … he only ever saw the world through the lenses of a plutocrat. 193
adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026having heard @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social present this work a few weeks ago, I am really excited to read this critical work which seems at its heart a discussion of how technology and infrastructure affect what counts as a “good life,” and I suppose how this might be resisted at the micro scale 120
adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026last week to register interest for our Blue Speculations group, if you are based near the coast and interested in experimental approaches to reading and writing about coastal futures... PLUS you will get free copies of Eva Meijer's "See Now!" and Ben Smith's "Doggerland" bluespeculations.cargo.sitebluespeculations.cargo.siteBlue Speculationscargo.site 142
Reposted by adam searlegillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026reposting this which enthuses not only about Sarah Sharma's book but also the work of Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social. @dukepress.bsky.social @goodrobotpod.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @ahjackman.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social @alinau27.bsky.social 02210
Reposted by adam searleNatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 10/06/2026"Decisions arrive without clear rationale. Restructures are announced before the evidence that triggered them has been shared. Policies are reversed before they have been embedded. Courses are closed or launched with speed." 22911
Reposted by adam searleGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026In Doppelganger, @naomiaklein.bsky.social shows how white supremacists assume the victimhood of those they oppress, presenting the evils they do as evils done to them. In Britain, where black people are 7 times more likely than white people to die after police restraint, this is what we are seeing. 131030348