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Hamish Kallin

@hamishkallin.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Edinburgh. Interested in cities, housing, capitalism. Sometime artist and drummer.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Day 1 of our strike at the University of Edinburgh while senior management shrugs and says 'crisis, what crisis?' at the complaints about the inevitable falling educational standards and job losses.
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EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com · 10/08/2026
An update on who was running the tax-evading gift shops during the the Princes Street fire. Thanks to @jim.londoncentric.media and @pollysmythe.bsky.social of @londoncentric.media for persisting with investigating this shady Edinburgh saga: www.edinburghminute.com/investigatio...
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Investigation: Finding the Princes Street fire shop owner
An update on who was running the tax-evading gift shops during the the Princes Street fire
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If you're in Glasgow this weekend, my band are playing at the Old Hairdresser's on Saturday. Music kicks off from 8pm and there will be tickets on the door. If you have any interest in moderately punky klezmer, come check it out.
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neilgray00.bsky.social @neilgray00.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Good to see my book, 'Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy', is now published in the US with @CommonNotions (UK release August). Link below👇 Would love to hear from potential reviewers or anyone who can facilitate a talk or book launch. Neil.Gray@glasgow.ac.uk
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I'm looking for sites and collections in and around Edinburgh related to the history of cardboard and paper. Suggestions welcome!
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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
And at the same time Sharon Graham is campaigning to drill the North Sea for gas and oil. With climate change every summer is going to get hotter...
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A brilliant community space in Wester Hailes needs your help - chip in a quid or as much as you can? Fundraiser closes in two days.
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Save Our Community Space!
HELP SAVE OUR COMMUNITY SPACE! We need to raise £6,800 by the end of June! And another £8600 by July 30th! £15,400 total!
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
love this from Martin Wolf
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
this should frighten you
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you're in Edinburgh on the 16th June, here's a chance to see radical Jewish music taken in three different directions on the same night: www.skiddle.com/e/42436986
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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Some recent book reviews on #FirstView now 👇 📚 @tomhulme.bsky.social on @tricksterprince.bsky.social's Songs of Seven Dials 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... 📚 @hamishkallin.bsky.social on @lauracforster.bsky.social's The Paris Commune in Britain 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026
“Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.”
theguardian.com
Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away
Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Everything in this report reflects on what we value, for communities, for peripheral places, for young people, for education, for the future - and it looks like we’ve got it all wrong.
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‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 02/02/2026
Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
awful AI shitslop image of a train in a sort of Scottish looking city that's blue and has a logo on the side formed of a lightning bolt in a thick circlethat same logo in its original blue and red colours, which happens to be the literal flag of the British Union of Fascists
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
If there's a financial crisis at the University of Edinburgh, it is of senior management's making. Staff and students deserve answers. Why should we trust a senior management team responsible for such mismanagement to 'fix' this? www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/depreci...
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Depreciating the University of Edinburgh into the Ground — UCU Edinburgh
There are four key takeaways from the University of Edinburgh’s 2024-25 annual report, which this post explores: The University continues to make a sizeable surplus. What financial pressures exi...
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My klezmer band Och Vey are playing alongside Edinburgh-based Italian folk band The Badwills on 21st Feb, followed by a cumbia set from Peruvian DJ él-pi-b0y. It's gonna be fun, and you're invited. Tickets via www.skiddle.com/e/41960406
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Calum Barnes @balumcarnes.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
utterly depressing to read of the plans to demolish Argyle House, another modernist jewel potentially disappearing from Edinburgh’s urban fabric after the loss of the RBS building on Dundas Street.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Some of our most precarious members, tutors and demonstrators on 'guaranteed hours' contracts, have had their work hours cut or disappeared entirely in management's cost cutting spree. All the money paid to Nous could have gone to them. #StopStaffCutsatUoE www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...
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‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts
Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
At this rate, I honestly don't know why we aren't seeing mass riots against AI, which drains our most precious resources, replaces our jobs, steals our culture, will likely break our economy (again), infantalises us, and syphons money up to the uber rich who see themselves as rulers of our future.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’. It’s Russian.
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Hugh Pumphrey @hughpumphrey.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I do hope that Peter Mathieson can hear this from his office and that he is finding it REALLY annoying. Well done, @hamishkallin.bsky.social
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
RALLY TOMORROW! Join the fightback against job cuts! Wednesday 19th November at 1pm at the Scottish parliament.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Calling all staff and students at UoE, and all those who care about its future: join us on the picket lines! Teach outs, picket locations, bake sale... see our FAQ #UCU #WearetheUniversity #StopStaffCutsatUoE www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/industrial-d...
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Industrial Action FAQ — UCU Edinburgh
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK
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Calum Barnes @balumcarnes.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
my band Shinlifter have their EP launch on Saturday and with impeccable timing our Instagram has been hacked so we’ve lost our main channel for promoting it. if anyone wanted to help share this brilliant poster by my pal Grace there, here or elsewhere we’d be very grateful!
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Universities across the world seeing this: "its only wrong 45% of the time!! Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!! Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Published: 12:01 am, 22 October 2025
Updated: 06:10 pm, 22 October 2025
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Chakrabortty on fine form: this is economically, politically, and morally bankrupt nonsense from Steve Reed, the new Labour housing minister.
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A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty
Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
New commentary in Transactions: 'Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution' by James D. Sidaway In this commentary, Sidaway responds to @hamishkallin.bsky.social's recent TIBG paper on the reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches in geography. doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Screenshot of a commentary abstract in Transactions by James D. Sidaway (2025) entitled 'Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution' with a red banner at the top.

This commentary appreciates Hamish Kallin's (2024) account of the prospects for reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches via engaging Henri Lefebvre's work, but signals equivocation about Lefebvre triggered by his depictions of colonialism, Islam and the tropics. I argue that these are inconsistent with ongoing decolonial moves in geography.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I see we're at the "put Jewish people on a special surveillance list" stage of "combating antisemitism"
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Playing on pickets is always immensely fun, I recommend it.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We're striking to stop budget cuts and mass redundancies and standing up for the future of our students' education. There is no deficit.
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Interesting reflection on the removal of the Kirkgate benches by Connor Robertson. What did it signify and why does it matter? "The benches are back, but the battle for the right to the city continues."
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Holding the Line: Gentrification and the Dispossession of the Kirkgate Benches
EXCLUSIVE FEATURE
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Lovely show on the life and politics of the anarchist Colin Ward on @resonancefm.bsky.social just now. You can listen via the link below.
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Resonance Extra
Resonance Extra is a 24/7 digital broadcasting platform dedicated to global music, sound art and radio art based at Resonance, London's community radio station for the arts.
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Israeli forces bulldozed Palestinian seed bank in Al-Khalil/Hebron, home to 22 years of seed collection efforts to preserve heritage varieties and plants with valuable traits: e360.yale.edu/digest/hebro...
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Israeli Forces Bulldoze Palestinian Seed Bank
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
There was a time when the government would piss on us and tell us it was raining; now they're pissing on us and telling us it's piss.
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I watch some football highlights on Youtube, and it recommends I watch these next (on a browser with no cookies or account). If the internet is now our public space, how do we fight the far right without fighting this algorithmic shepherding? This feels so urgent and impossible.
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Additional word on my door as of this morning. I think I'm officially old now.
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
An important response to the IHRA debate - many Jewish staff at Edinburgh (myself included) believe it must be scrapped.
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Many Jewish staff in Scottish universities reject IHRA definition of antisemitism | Letter
Letter: Prof Philip Wadler responds to an article about Edinburgh University reviewing its adoption of the IHRA definition
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Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage Sign & share ⏬️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Any Edinburgh colleagues know anything about this shady group?
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
No words 💔
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Gaza suffering man-made mass starvation, says WHO chief
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issues warning, as more than 100 aid groups urge Israel to ease blockade
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
📣 Call for Papers: Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki 🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025 🏹 Please spread the word!
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I realise this isn't the most pressing issue in the world right now, but I find the signage for tickets at Edinburgh Tram stops really irritating.
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This story is chilling, and the Police response is profoundly authoritarian. Responsibility for this lies with the Labour Party. It is not a criminal offence to say FREE GAZA.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
"But as well as inflicting pain and impoverishing academic offerings, a hard-line approach to staff redundancies may eventually cost them more money than they will save in the short term." Important stuff from my colleague @nickmegoran.bsky.social -
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 26/05/2025
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
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Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say
An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
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