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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 02/10/2026

The drastic decline in local government spending from 2010 was associated with a 9% lower probability of giving birth among the poorest third of women in England. Laura Sochas and Jenny Chanfreau write about #reproductivejustice and #austerity in The Sociological Review magazine. buff.ly/lyJ7i4U

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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Coming up: Mon Oct 5 ~ 2pm ET /7pm UK "Reproductive Injustice and Settler Colonialism" Gala Rexer with Andrea Becker How fertility treatment became a key site of investment for the Israeli state, and the politics of reproduction across settler-colonial states. www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

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Select tickets – "Reproductive Injustice and Settler Colonialism": Gala Rexer in conversation with Andrea Becker – Zoom

"Reproductive Injustice and Settler Colonialism": Gala Rexer in conversation with Andrea Becker – Zoom, Mon 5 Oct 2026 - What does it mean for Palestinian women to seek fertility treatment inside medi...

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Solidarity with colleagues on strike in Edinburgh

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'll be on book tour for "Demographic Anxieties Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel" this fall! Book talks & conversations with amazing friends, colleagues & comrades across Germany, the UK, and the US! @ucpress.bsky.social

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Berlin Events! Book talk & conversation with @hahauenstein.bsky.social Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations & Migrationsforschung (BIM), 11/6, 6-8pm In conversation with @jacobinoire.bsky.social, José Segebre & Jesse Olszynko-Gryn at diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery, 11/8, 7pm

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

reviewing article revisions and the authors left their AI's ask more/explain prompts at the end of the document 🤡 whyyyy

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 21/09/2026

“This special issue is a reckoning for what the role of sociology is – in terms of theory, analysis and praxis.” Guest editors @galarexer.bsky.social, Karis Campion @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social introduce a journal Special Section, Sociology in the Times of Genocide. Out now: buff.ly/rg8TXRE

The Sociological Review Special Section: Sociology in the Times of Genocide

Gala Rexer, Kirsteen Paton and
Karis Campion, guest editors

Featuring: Gala Rexer, Kirsteen Paton, Karis Campion, Hala Shoman, Mai Taha, Rana Sukarieh, Shereen Fernandez, Waqas Tufail, Isabel Frey, Ben Rogaly, Sociologists for Palestine

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/74/5/

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not even that far into this year's job market season, and I simply cannot understand how, in *this economy*, search committees come up with the excellent idea of asking for materials that are *completely* different from any other university/application form I've ever seen ☹️ xoxo, tired applicant

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 18/09/2026

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 74:5, featuring 16 new papers💡 Includes a Special Section, Sociology in the Times of Genocide, guest edited by @galarexer.bsky.social, Karis Campion and @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social buff.ly/KuDpTMf @journals.sagepub.com

The Sociological Review Journal Vol 74 Issue 5 With contributions from Gala Rexer, Kirsteen Paton, Karis Campion, Hala Shoman, Mai Taha, Rana Sukarieh, Shereen Fernandez, Waqas Tufail, Isabel Frey, Ben Rogaly, Sociologists for Palestine, Katherine Appleford, Fatima Rajina, Sonya Sharma, Angela Man Xu, Josephine Browne, Phil Crockett Thomas, Iveta Ķešāne Maija Spuriņa, Diana García-Catena, Anastasios Hadjisolomou, Dennis Nickson, Malene Lue Kessing, Peter J. Hemming, Anna Strhan, Joanna Malone, Sarah Neal, Kate Summers, Daniel Edmiston, Ben Baumberg Geiger, Jo Ingold, Lisa Scullion, Robert de Vries, David Young

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Sociology in the Times of Genocide" is out now, co-edited with @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social & Karis Campion for @thesociologicalreview.org. Articles on sociology’s limits & potential to deal with genocide, campus protests, transnational Palestine solidarity &more journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very excited for @hebagowayed.bsky.social's forthcoming new book "The Cost of Borders"

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

London book launch for "Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel" with Osama Tanous, Ghada Majadli, Ala Sirriyeh, and Patricia Hamilton, chaired by Seth Anziska @sprc-ucl.bsky.social x @uclmiddleeast.bsky.social Sign up: bit.ly/demographic-...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The UK government is destroying the things the UK actually does well in the hope of becoming 'world leaders' in AI, which won't happen anyway, and wouldn't be a good thing if it did. Thanks Labour, once more

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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Cancelled Futures: Class, Race & Place in Post-Industrial Britain 16th September at UCL I'll be talking race, class & place with @alexkelbert.bsky.social & @lukedenoronha.bsky.social Hosted by @uclsociology.bsky.social & @sprc-ucl.bsky.social Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cancelled-...

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Onur Erdur @onurerdur.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s UK publication day! Today my book on the colonial roots of French theory is officially out with @politybooks.bsky.social. Thanks for the wonderful blurbs from @stuartelden.bsky.social, @juliango.bsky.social, Adam Rosenthal, and Joachim Whaley. (US publication date: October 6th)

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Wake up babe the @soc4pal.bsky.social conference programme for "Resisting Authoritarianism: Global Solidarity & Democratic" for those boycotting ASA has dropped: tinyurl.com/ResistSoc2026 see you all in NYC!

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Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The new issue is live! Catch us on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/issue/57134 Work by @profcrunk.bsky.social, @samanthapinto.bsky.social, @durba.bsky.social, Vanessa Pitts-Taylor, Julie Enszer, and more! Our dossier on teaching WGS now is free and accessible on MUSE.

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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I’m so bored with the utterly trivial intellectual and informational level that mainstream, otherwise very educated, Germans conduct their discussions about Palestine. Read a book m8

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I can’t believe I’ve just heard about the University of Exeter campus being built in Egypt while, in Devon, 500+ staff are at risk of redundancy. It’s giving farce this time around.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Maybe its how US focussed this app is but people aren’t worried enough in general about the fact that fascists basically assured to come to power in germany soon.

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Sumi Madhok @sumimadhok.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This looks terrific. It’s now on my ‘to read and teach’ list. Congratulations, @galarexer.bsky.social

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Insightful reviews from my colleagues at @sociowarwick.bsky.social on Shourideh Molavi's crucial book about Israeli settler colonialism and environmental warfare

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Happy publication day to my first book 🤓

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

1 desk rejection and 1 job rejection on a climate change induced heatwave Friday 👹

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Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

UCL IOE announces partnership w Gaza’s three non-profit universities Al-Aqsa University, Al Azhar University, Islamic University of Gaza Congratulations Profs Li Wei and Rachel Rosen and colleagues for making this possible on our side Let’s go @bdsucl.bsky.social! www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...

Historic partnership with Gaza’s three non-profit universities

UCL Institute of Education (IOE) announces Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with the three non-profit universities in Gaza: Al-Aqsa University, Al Azhar University, and the Islamic University of Gaza.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026

examples of what the FBI included as evidence of "Antifa terrorism" in the Prairieland case: -Narcan spray -Anarchist tattoos -a highlighted copy of Emergent Strategy -a zine made of a 2019 review of Hereditary and Midsommar from @reproutopia.bsky.social -First Aid Kits -seeds for garden vegetables

collage of: a tattoo flash sheet by Des Revol; black face masks; patches reading "fuck 12", "FTP", "ACAB"; a gun; Narcan spray

a pile of zines taken during an FBI raid. on the bottom left is a zine made of a 2019 film review about Midsommar and Hereditary by Sophie Lewis

FBI exhibit file from the Prairieland case of plant propagatoin zines and seeds for garden vegetables

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Daniel Siemens @danielsiemens.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

What is happening to the humanities at British universities? Here is my report, published in today's FAZ:

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

You know that UK HE is truly f*cked when a scholar like @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, one of the most prolific and important writers in the humanities & social sciences today, is at risk of redundancy (obv also if lesser known/junior scholars made redundant, but this case just shows how far we've come)

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Higher education policy under the last few UK governments seems to be shaping up into an experiment in how you sustain a knowledge economy without knowledge

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 23/06/2026

I am once again begging universities to realise that staff - academic, professional services, estates, all of them - are the product they are trying to sell. Without staff there is nothing to sell. No amount of flashy buildings will replace staff in universities. UKHE is in freefall.

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

a German, and how to write a book about Palestine during an ongoing genocide. This is a work of anti-colonial thought, with a ton of very detailed historical footnotes, which also tell my own journey to anti-Zionism. I’ve been working on this for 10(!) years and am v proud of what it has become! 2/2

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Gala Rexer @galarexer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“Demographic Anxieties” can now be preordered (pub date June 30)! It shows how the Israeli settler-colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women’s reproductive freedom, but it is also an ethnography working through what it means to research Palestine as 1/2 www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...

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Demographic Anxieties by Gala Rexer - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Demographic Anxieties by Gala Rexer - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

this is a masterpiece

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.

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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A. lived in Germany since he was two months and last year gained German citizenship. Now he’s been stripped of it because of pro-Palestinian Instagram posts, in a disturbing legal case that points to the rise of citizenship-on-probation. My latest @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/05/germ...

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Abdallah A., a Nonperson Because of His Instagram Posts

Abdallah A. lived in Germany since he was two months old and last year gained German citizenship. But now he’s been stripped of it because of pro-Palestinian Instagram posts, in a disturbing legal cas...

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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“I think the answer to why they’re being very clearly misrepresented as hate marches is to undermine the hundreds and thousands of people who are turning up on the street. It’s to distract from the government’s complicity in these crimes." www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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British Palestinians feel ‘gaslit’ and unable to speak out, says leading activist

Ahead of Nakba march, Sara Husseini says many feel they are being treated as suspects rather than victims of mass suffering

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Look obviously having to live in a country governed like this is not great, but it will also be very very funny if the eternally useless Labour Party manage to blow up the government without actually removing the prime minister.

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