Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Turns out if you ask AI about a character you’ve just made up, more often than not they’re very important to the plot 😂 120
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 04/04/2026For those interested in the links between settler colonialism and species extinction, I’ve written about the Tasmanian tiger in this special issue tidsskrift.dk/privacy_stud...tidsskrift.dk Settler Colonial Intrusion, Tasmanian Tiger Extinction, and Animal Privacy in Walton Ford’s The Undead | Privacy Studies Journal 020
Reposted by Matt WhittleThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/11/2025Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Maliktheguardian.comShabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 135127
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 04/11/2025“He was convinced that all AI really does is enable us to experience the ‘spectacle of thought’ rather than engaging in thought itself”. 040
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 23/10/2025“Persisting w/ an inadequate fees-led model of higher education, in which universities are run as competing businesses funded by student consumers, is producing a dystopian academic landscape. A more stable system of public funding is urgently required.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on campus discontent: listen to those on the frontline | EditorialEditorial: The government’s funding plans, announced in this week’s white paper, won’t do much to alleviate a deepening crisis of morale among university staff 050
Reposted by Matt WhittleSettler Colonialisms / British Empire @scbenetwork.bsky.social · 19/10/2025One week left to apply! ✉️ 021
Reposted by Matt WhittleRehnuma Sazzad @rsazzad.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Please see below a Call for Papers: 2026 Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social: community-languages.org.uk/scs/annual-s...community-languages.org.ukCall for Papers: 2026 Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies – Society for Caribbean Studies 143
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Very interesting read! A Labour govt sowing *more* suspicion of both migrants & people who claim benefits. These proposals will make it so migrants must pay into the system but can’t take from it at a time of need. What kind of society are they building? 040
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Enjoyed this book launch. Lots of great insights (inc how the climate crisis will affect political mobilisation). Looking forward to reading into alternatives to the current climate transition 040
Reposted by Matt WhittleAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...stuarthallfoundation.orgStuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall FoundationThe second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ... 080107
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Agreed! Also ends with a mere side note on Humanities degrees & this expert insight framing History & English as prepping students for quaint little hobbies 🤦♂️ 130
Reposted by Matt WhittleHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 01/09/2025It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news. 15742241229
Reposted by Matt WhittleAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.comagainst-a-i.comAGAINST AI 36727415
Reposted by Matt WhittleMatt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Application round for the Charles Wallace India Trust Writing Fellowship is now open! Enables a creative writer from India to come and work at the University of Kent & develop their own prose/poetry project for up to twelve weeks in Spring 2026. research.kent.ac.uk/colonialandp...research.kent.ac.ukThe Charles Wallace Trust - Colonial and Postcolonial Studies - Research at KentSince 1991, the Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) has sponsored an annual Fellowship that enables a writer from India to come and work at the University of Kent for the Spring Term. Hosted by the Sch... 031
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Application round for the Charles Wallace India Trust Writing Fellowship is now open! Enables a creative writer from India to come and work at the University of Kent & develop their own prose/poetry project for up to twelve weeks in Spring 2026. research.kent.ac.uk/colonialandp...research.kent.ac.ukThe Charles Wallace Trust - Colonial and Postcolonial Studies - Research at KentSince 1991, the Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) has sponsored an annual Fellowship that enables a writer from India to come and work at the University of Kent for the Spring Term. Hosted by the Sch... 031
Reposted by Matt Whittlehannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...telegraph.co.ukI should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in GazaHome Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone 5385345
Reposted by Matt WhittleNew Voices in Postcolonial Literature Network @nvpoco.bsky.social · 17/07/2025*Please share with your networks 📣* Are you a PGR interested in Postcolonial Studies? Are you interested in gaining experience in a director role? We want to hear from you! The NVPoco network will need a new director for the coming academic year. (1/2) 123
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This was one of the best conferences I’ve been to - a welcoming arena for conversation & exchange of ideas about how literature & culture intervene in Hostile Environment policy & discourse 130
Reposted by Matt WhittleThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/06/2025Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Maliktheguardian.comWestern leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine MalikThe political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 28281120
Reposted by Matt WhittleBritish Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social · 30/05/2025New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Network x University of Westminster present 'American Dream/American Nightmare' 💭 A two-day, hybrid conference on the fantastical & the horrific in a US context. Online - 3rd July In-person - 4th Julybuff.lyAmerican Dream/American Nightmare Conference - British Association for American StudiesThe American Dream/American Nightmare Conference is hosted in collaboration with the University of Westminster and is concerned with the fantastical and the horrific in the American context,… 044
Reposted by Matt WhittleJim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 | Ngugi wa Thiong'o | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/...theguardian.comNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’ 02918
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Gary Younge nails it, as always. Listen to his full response to Labour’s abysmal “island of strangers” rhetoric @overunderpod.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Matt WhittleWasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 17/05/2025If you're a creative nonfiction/memoir writer, submit now to the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Life Writing category. Translated work is accepted across all categories. Deadline: 30 June. buff.ly/xq4ptaC 014
Reposted by Matt WhittleNew Voices in Postcolonial Literature Network @nvpoco.bsky.social · 06/05/2025We're excited to present our 8th and final author in our series of posts on the contributions to New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Magazine No. 2: "Imagining Postcolonial Futures"! ✨ ▶︎ To frame the magazine issue, we present an Introduction by Dr Matthew Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social 121
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Great network here for new scholars working across postcolonial & indigenous studies - recommend a follow! 020
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Just had it confirmed that Meta has stolen my monographs to train its AI. Parasitic & unethical behaviour that’s taking the human out of the Humanities. Use the link below to check for yourself and take action. 010
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This new book from one of my Kent Uni colleagues sounds great! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...theguardian.comTheft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review – a masterclass in quicksilver storytellingThe Nobel laureate’s wonderful new novel connects a trio of east African teens as they come of age, moving from small-scale dramas to wide-ranging social panoramas 042
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Call for papers for the #migration studies folks! ‘Hostile Environments & Hospitable Praxes’ @ University of Kent, UK, 23rd – 24th June 2025 Deadline for abstracts is March 17 blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvir...blogs.kent.ac.ukHostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes – Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politicsdesign1 010
Reposted by Matt WhittleCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response. 7301107
Reposted by Matt WhittleVenus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Seems rather important at a time when there is foolish talk of a third runway at Heathrow ... petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Run a public information campaign on the climate crisisCommunicate clearly: 1) the science behind the climate crisis - how & why for the first time in the last year we've averaged 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels 2) the implications of going beyond... 011
Reposted by Matt WhittleDolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.environmentalhumanities.orgEnvironmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press 27262
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 21/01/2025This is very good. Focus is on Zuckerberg, but also offers a brief recent history of how social media got to where it is today + some thoughts on where it goes from here podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...podcasts.apple.comThe New ZuckerbergPodcast Episode · Search Engine · 18/01/2025 · 1h 17m 000
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Climate policy & immigration policy are increasingly intimately linked, not least because when you legitimise bad actors like Farage you give them the power to popularise this dangerous nonsense 194
Reposted by Matt Whittlerefugeetales.bsky.social @refugeetales.bsky.social · 20/12/2024📣 Job opportunity with our small but mighty team! 📣 Come and work for Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group as an administrator and frontline worker. 🌟 We’d love to hear from you 🌟 www.gdwg.org.uk/s/GDWG-Job-D...gdwg.org.uk 024
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Engrossed by this book of interviews atm. Love this from 1974: “If you ask me for a visual picture of the future, I think it’ll be increasingly lunar [where] individual actions & individual pieces of behaviour & individual thoughts sit in isolation, like pieces of sculpture embedded in a dune”. 010
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 06/12/2024A really powerful opening story on this week’s @overunderpod.bsky.social about Ibrahima Bah & the shameful criminalisation of people seeking asylum in the UK Plus a great analysis of the Starmer “reset” podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...podcasts.apple.comGreg Wallace, Starmer's stumble, ibrahima Bah and Congo's orphansPodcast Episode · Over The Top Under The Radar · 06/12/2024 · 43m 032
Reposted by Matt WhittleChris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Climate Breakdown , now playing across the globe to abysmal reviews . Fossil fuel companies are trashing our planet– it’s why I’m calling on the Government to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships– no more greenwashing their dirty reputations with unlimited £££ ! Sign at lovera.ge/ban-ffa 6699203
Reposted by Matt WhittleOscar Nearly @nearlyoscar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I've been helping to launch POLTERGEIST, a new peer-reviewed journal from Queen Mary University of London's School of the Arts, and I'm excited to announce that it's now online and available to read and download! Find it here: sedpoltergeist.com?page_id=95 172
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 04/12/2024A short piece I wrote in response to the UK’s Far Right riots this summer has just come out along with this collage I made. It takes aim at “multiculturalism has failed” rhetoric. Read for free here: sedpoltergeist.com?page_id=304 040
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 02/12/2024For anyone interested in postcolonial & Indigenous studies, I made this starter pack - it’s by no means definitive but hopefully a good way to find your feet on here 032
Reposted by Matt Whittlerefugeetales.bsky.social @refugeetales.bsky.social · 01/12/2024It’s Dec 1st and you can open the first window of our online secular calendar of refugee tales at 28for28.org and the first window is Jeremy Irons reading The Prologue. Don’t miss! www.28for28.org/videos/prolo...28for28.orgRefugee Tales: 28 Tales for 28 Days 022
Reposted by Matt WhittleSimon Bunchuay-Peth @simonbunchuaypeth.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I just updated the starter pack on folks working on #ClimateMigration and environmental (im)mobilities. Let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/Dan29j 294
Reposted by Matt WhittleAlf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Christmas gift ideas for those who want to support refugees, a list (please do add and circulate) - The Other Side of Hope literary magazine, written by migrants. You can subscribe or contribute to their fundraiser. othersideofhope.com/index.html 1/5 8217134
Reposted by Matt Whittlehannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Environmental humanities is a priority theme at IASH and we would love to host more scholars working on #envhum in Edinburgh! 0147
Reposted by Matt WhittleHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 26/11/2024Against Settler-Colonialism: A Reading Listhaymarketbooks.orgAgainst Settler Colonialism: A Reading ListFrom Turtle Island to Palestine, Indigenous people across the world continue to resist settler-colonial domination, extraction, and exploitation of their land and communities. More than a year into... 223487
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024👋 hi to new followers - it’s a very welcome change from all the bots Over There! Currently thinking thru how novels intervene in debates about climate-induced migration. Getting well-versed in different views on migration projections & the ‘national security’ issue 000
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Welcome Refugee Tales! @refugeetales.bsky.social Recommended follow for anyone who wants a future without asylum detention 031
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social · 22/11/2024The brilliant @overunderpod.bsky.social has joined - big welcome! Give em a follow & a listen 151
Reposted by Matt WhittleDr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...leeds.ac.ukGazan Humanitarian ScholarshipWe offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK). 1812991403
Reposted by Matt WhittleDr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Among a range of others, I spoke at length with the Times Higher journalist about student number controls for this piece, and I'd say it gives a balanced account. It comes on the same day news breaks that we anticipate as many as 10,000 jobs going in HE *this year* alone.timeshighereducation.comIs it time to reintroduce student number controls in England?The removal of recruitment caps in 2015 was hailed by ministers as a boon to institutions’ and students’ ambitions. But the tuition fee’s declining value and the Russell Group’s ever-growing market sh... 56740