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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

the Prairieland defendants (who did a noise demo outside of an ICE facility) are getting fifty year sentences right now. absolutely unreal. far longer than any January 6 convictions

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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

that ideology is opposing state violence. half a century in prison for daring to protest racist state violence. that’s the message.

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Amna Kaleem @amnakaleem.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What better way to learn about migration politics than a pub quiz. My brilliant colleague @patnabuco.bsky.social and the @migrationmatters.bsky.social festival hosted a great pub quiz that both entertained and educated us.

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

(Trigger warning: any sociologists among us may wish to avert their eyes to avoid spontaneous combustion resulting from exposure to the worst theory of social action I have seen in decades) For the rest of you, beware if you are “unhappy” or “looking for justice” you may be on the road to terrorism

Image from the UK dept for education. The “pyramid” theory of terrorism. Image of a pyramid, with layers in ascending order labeled “unhappy people”,”looking for justice”, “frustration, perceived grievances and anger”, “seeks like
Minded individuals or groups”, “further radicalisation”, “attack”

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Professor Indrajit Roy @indrajitroy.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Thanks to everyone for turning up at the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @ipsa.org roundtable on #AcademicFreedom earlier today in #Oxford with @mayatudor.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social & others. You were a fantastic audience who left us with lots of questions to think about. #PSA26

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 27/02/2026

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.

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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The removal of references to ancient Palestine in the BM tells us more about the state of what was once a best-loved cultural institution than our past. Bending reality to please political patrons is a subjugation of culture to those in power. It's a shameful act. www.change.org/p/erasing-a-...

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Erasing a Word Erases a People: Reinstate Palestine in the British Museum

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I just completed this consultation. I’m disgusted at the extreme and punitive changes being proposed and I am also incensed at the grossly punitive and divisive way the consultation itself is structured /-/ questions focus either on how much should we further punish migrants,

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/01/2026

Staff ,supporters and students gathered outside Firth Court today in solidarity with colleagues locked out and facing withheld pay after lawful strike action at @sheffielducu Punishment is not negotiation. ✊

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war

Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Great to see that Mark Pendleton is running for UCU VP (Higher Education). Worked with him on the RHS LGBT+ report and he was consistently, insistently and cheerfully simply ace. Learn more from ucucommons.org/about-mark/ . And regardless, don't ignore your ballot.

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About Mark

About Mark Mark 4 VP - About Mark - Election Statement - Endorsements Support Mark - Contact Mark - Who else should I vote for? What I believe in I have a 25 year history of ac...

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Amna Kaleem @amnakaleem.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

📣Call for abstracts 📣 If you do Critical Security/Terrorism Studies, join our #EISAPEC26 section. We welcome papers, panels, or roundtables. Feel free to get in touch with either myself or @marinegueguin.bsky.social if you have any queries. Deadline is 19 Feb. eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...

This section showcases research that critically analyses the politics of (counter)terrorism and security. We invite papers, panels, and roundtables covering intersectional critiques of international and domestic counter-terrorism policies, critical knowledge production, and methodological innovations and challenges in critical research.

In addition to this, we welcome contributions looking at the practicalities of critically researching terrorism, safeguarding issues for both the researchers and their subjects, the challenges of publishing critical work, and communicating with mainstream audiences.

We will also provide space to focus on academic freedom and discuss how scholars can undertake research-led teaching and bring criticality into the classroom. Given the attacks on academic freedom, especially on scholars involved in Palestine solidarity work, we must also address the need to embody the ethos of scholar-activism in the current climate and discuss how critical research and activism can survive in the neoliberal academy.

If you have any questions about this section, please get in touch with us:
M.Gueguin@leedsbeckett.ac.uk and amna.kaleem@sheffield.ac.uk

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Amna Kaleem @amnakaleem.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

So the Home Office commissioned a counter-extremism video game which led to Prevent referrals for school pupils, cool cool cool!

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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Monday and the start of a second week of being prevented from working by my employer, the University of Sheffield. Management has decided that massive damage to staff morale, student experience and the university’s reputation is worth it in a futile attempt to break the union. Shame on them.

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib

Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib

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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

As things wind down for the holidays, @sheffielducu.bsky.social members are facing a threat of 100% pay deductions from January, thanks to our Scrooge-like management. We’ve now set up a fundraiser to bolster our local solidarity fund. If you can spare some change, please do! gofund.me/ac2b3adcb

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Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton

I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!

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Jeff Lees @leesplez.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.

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Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal

Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🎉Yesterday @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social held their annual conference! 👏Many thanks to the amazing convenors; @amnakaleem.bsky.social , Alice Finden and @rmkhan.bsky.social for all of their hard work! ⭐️The #virtual conference was extremely successful in its critical engagement of terrorism studies.

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Critical Terrorism Studies Working Group @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

We started off our annual conference this morning saying a fond farewell and thank you to our wonderful outgoing convenor @amnakaleem.bsky.social and welcoming two new convenors @marinegueguin.bsky.social and @mcneilwillson.bsky.social who will be joining Rabea and Alice @mybisa.bsky.social

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Tamar but spooky @heartinamber.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Enjoyed presenting work in progress and meeting new colleagues at #EISAPEC2025. Particular shout out to @amnakaleem.bsky.social for organizing an excellent set of sessions on critical terrorism studies

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Sebastian Larsson @olovsebastian.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

NO CONFERENCING AS USUAL DURING GENOCIDE Please read and spread the following message as we gather in Bologna this week #EISAPEC25

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Amna Kaleem @amnakaleem.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

We have organised this exhibition with our students to archive and celebrate the Sheffield encampment that ran for 92 days last year. If you are around Sheffield on 22-23 July, please visit us at Bloc Projects on Eyre Street #FreePalestine

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Critical Terrorism Studies Working Group @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

📢📢Call for Papers! This year's CTS Annual Conference will take place online on 9 September. ➡️Submit an abstract by 30 July

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Ultimately, what is really being policed here is opposition to British foreign policy. This is political policing which will function to intimidate into silence people whose opposition to government policy is expressed in the same terms as are used by leading, mainstream civil society organisations.

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Alice Finden @aliceellafinden.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Honoured to have received this award along with my co-conspirators @amnakaleem.bsky.social and @rmkhan.bsky.social !

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🚨Become a co-convenor for @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social🚨 2025's WG of the year winners is looking for a new co-convenor! Post starts September for a three-year term 🎉 Deadline to apply 20 July 2025 🌟 Apply - buff.ly/SsW597x @aliceellafinden.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social

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Join the Critical Studies on Terrorism convener team!- Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) | BISA

- Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Working Group

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Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Sheffield UCU took part in the Workers Day of Action on Trans Rights from our picket lines today! The UK Trade Union movement stands behind our trans siblings #tradeunionists4transrights

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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Great day of #SUCUstrike action at the University of #Sheffield. Today we started our #Palestine support roving picket, which much solidarity around the campus. Join us! ucu.group.shef.ac.uk @drvaleriehobbs.bsky.social @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social

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Amna Kaleem @amnakaleem.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Sheffield friends, please check out the Gaza Remains the Story exhibit. It’s curated by the Palestinian Museum in the West Bank and brought to Sheffield by Annapurna Menon as part of the Festival of Debate. The exhibit runs until 9 May (11am-4pm) at Soft Ground, The Moor.

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Sheffield Transformed @sheffieldtransformed.org · 17/04/2025

We're not the organisers of this protest but we'll be there showing our support on Saturday 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

A poster with a solidarity fist in trans rights colours.

Text:

Emergency Demo
Trans Liberation
2pm
Sat 19th April
Sheffield Town Hall

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Statistically in Britain if you are a cis man and you rape someone you are overwhelmingly likely to get away with it, there is a vanishingly small likelihood that you will be convicted. That is a feminist issue. Trans women wanting to use women’s toilets or play women’s football: not so much.

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Speak up for Momodou Taal. Your silence will not protect you. Academics outside the US esp have a moral duty to publicly come out in support and organise. ICE will disappear Momodou Taal. Your trips to the US can wait, seriously! theintercept.com/2025/03/21/t...

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He Sued Trump Over Free Speech. Then ICE Demanded He Turn Himself In.

Cornell student Momodou Taal’s lawyers said the demand was “retribution” for his lawsuit against the crackdown on pro-Palestine speech.

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

If nothing else, the sentencing of climate change protestors in the UK makes it very clear who and what the state values and protects here.

A BBC report on the reduction of Just Stop Oil founder Roger Hallam's prison sentence from five years to four years, upon appeal.

BBC News excerpt: We are closing our live coverage of former BBC presenter Huw Edwards, who has been given a six-month sentence - suspended for two years - for child abuse image offences.

The 63-year-old faced chief magistrate Paul Goldspring at Westminster Magistrates' Court today, two months after pleading guilty to three charges of making indecent images of children.

Today we heard remarks from the prosecution and defence outlining the case, plus mitigating factors.

After being told his reputation was in "tatters", Edwards was given a six-month suspended sentence for a period of two years.

BBC News excerpt: A former assistant head teacher has been jailed for more than two years after she sexually assaulted a pupil.

Catherine Pearl, from Abingdon, had been working at Didcot Girls' School whilst the victim was a pupil at the school.

The 50-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a girl as an adult abusing a position of trust in November last year.

BBC News story excerpt: A "coward" who repeatedly bit and beat his girlfriend during a terrifying attack has been jailed.

Brandon Holding, 25, also suffocated and stamped on the woman during the half hour ordeal in May last year, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

The woman, who was left with multiple injuries, said she feared she was going to be killed and had been left traumatised.

Holding, of Shafto Street in Newcastle, admitted causing grievous bodily harm and was jailed for two years and four months.

Holding and the woman had known each other since school and had been in a relationship for two years, prosecutor Joe Culley said.

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

You may think AI is useless but this new study just discovered that history is not just facts but also interpretation! Just think about how many more basic foundations of existing scholarship we might be able to “discover” if we let chat gpt burn through all of earths remaining fossil fuels!

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Where is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya? What is Israel doing to him?

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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“we are funning low on funds again and have 4600+ active eSims, many of which need to be regularly topped up to ensure continuous Internet. these eSims go to hospitals, journalists, students, professors, families.” bit.ly/eSimsRUs

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Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

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Marine Guéguin @marinegueguin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I’ve created a starter pack for those working on terrorism, counterterrorism, etc. let me know if you’d like to be added ! go.bsky.app/XNdPyw

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