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Josh Bowsher

@jbowsher.bsky.social
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Capitalism Hater, Sociology Lecturer: the cybernetic and the computational, STS, critical human rights studies. Author of The Informational Logic of Human Rights (Edinburgh University Press) (he/him)

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Raucous, joyouse scenes at the demo of the UCU workers and students of Dundee and Edinburgh University, protesting the cuts to thousands of jobs: "Management has already pushed through hundreds of hidden redundancies, with some classes doubling in size over the past couple of years as a result."
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can only set aside my feelings about Amol Rajan for a very very short time. Hoping for good news in the next 24 hours
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Strike action begins this week! Wednesday: meet on the steps outside Portland at noon to collect and then distribute flyers. Thursday: picket from 8:30-11:30 on University Park's West Entrance and then walk to a 12 PM Rally at Trent's South Entrance. See you there and solidarity.
JOIN US ON THE PICKET LINE

Thursday 1st October

Picket: 8:30-11:30 AM, University Park, West Entrance

Rally: 12 PM, Trent Building, South Entrance

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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Solidarity with everyone going on strike at Edinburgh today. All of us in UCU are with you.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 23/09/2026
Emily Robinson from the University of Sussex and Alison Garden from Queen’s University Belfast are winner and runner up in The Conversation Prize for writers 2026.
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Emily Robinson wins The Conversation Prize for writers 2026 for her entry on the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd
Emily Robinson from the University of Sussex and Alison Garden from Queen’s University Belfast are winner and runner up in The Conversation Prize for writers 2026.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Exceptional Postdoc here in Law @uoe-sps.bsky.social Edinburgh: "how do we wish to live with and alongside algorithmic technologies?" I love the phrasing. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
We are seeking to appoint a talented researcher to the role of Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to work on The Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life (LCAL). LCAL is a major new interdisciplinar...
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The London Review of International Law Lecture: Climate Change and the Future of the State Professor Anne Orford Thursday 1 October 2026 6.30pm - 8pm LSE, Room MAR 1.04, Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PX www.lse.ac.uk/law/events/p...
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Climate Change and the Future of the State
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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you are *not* prepared for what this technology company is called, nothing can prepare you
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UK installs AI facial scanning technology at residence halls
The University of Kentucky is installing artificial intelligence facial scanning technology on several campus buildings.
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm really pleased to be able to share that my article 'The Human-as-Sensor: Instrumentality, Situatedness, and Human Rights Counter-investigations' has been accepted for publication by Theory, Culture, and Society.
The article title and abstract are sat within a white text box front and centre of the page. The background is an urban landscape illuminated in red, orange, yellow, green and blue.
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm really pleased to be able to share that my article 'The Human-as-Sensor: Instrumentality, Situatedness, and Human Rights Counter-investigations' has been accepted for publication by Theory, Culture, and Society.
The article title and abstract are sat within a white text box front and centre of the page. The background is an urban landscape illuminated in red, orange, yellow, green and blue.
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That's right. Never give to the powers of state regulation what might be achieved by a quasi-fascist militarised software company.
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Dr Margie Cheesman @margchee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tomorrow - @merltech.bsky.social host the launch of AID & ID. Practitioners will discuss the future of identity governance in humanitarian aid. Join us! Book copies are £10 and all proceeds go to the asylum charity SASS. Order here: www.lulu.com/shop/margie-...
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Aid and ID: Making People Matter
Humanitarian aid is undergoing a profound transformation. As budgets shrink, institutions retreat, and digital systems take on ever greater responsibility, identity management has quietly become one o...
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hmm a culture shift that looks and smells like reheated neoliberal shite, then. Great stuff. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'Culture shift' needed in how UK does business, Andy Burnham urges
Burnham has said those who take risks should be backed by government, but his government has been criticised for increasing business costs.
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Inspired by the von Mises Institute no doubt: mises.org/mises-daily/... Right is wrong, good is bad, let me show you with some economic analysis.
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Scrooge Defended
His business benefits his employees, society, and himself.
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I have not said much about the Jason Arday affair (it goes without saying f**k white supremacy and whoever gives it safe harbour) but it strikes me that Stuart Hall's famous essay 'Spectacle of the Other' remains important and instructive www.scribd.com/doc/24858034...
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Client Challenge
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Since i travelled to the ESA an interesting cultural figure has died every day. Thinking of coming home early just to end this madness.
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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Some pretty telling demographic differences in those supporting ghent University's move against cofnass and those opposing it (and supporting him). ghent-letters.pages.dev
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Two letters: an academic divide
The academics behind competing open letters about Ghent University’s suspension of Nathan Cofnas.
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Paper done. Cherry ale in. An excellent day in Warsaw so far #ESA2026
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you're an American in Poland definitely don't be extolling the virtues of British colonialism and proudly exclaiming you've never read Marx but he's a piece of shit FFS
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A is for Anthropocene #ESA2026
Mans hand holding an apple. Stamped in gold into the apple is the logo.of the European Sociological Association Conference 2026 Warsaw
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Niki Cheong @nikicheong.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My Dept @kingsdh.bsky.social is hiring for a 1-year fixed term role ahead of the new academic year my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...
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Fast Capitalism @fast-capitalism.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
CFP: Precarity, Debt, and Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🚨 New paper out 🚨 “Plebeian cooperativism: Reconciling workplace democracy with the iron law of oligarchy” in @polstudies.bsky.social Grassroots democracy at work is oft criticized for creating new hierarchies, but I argue that contestation from below can arrest the tendency for democratic decline.
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Among the many, I have discovered a new kind of academic wound: when a journal editor tells a scholar to basically ignore your review of their manuscript 😶‍🌫️
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Great reporting by @404media.co on Amazon's involvement in buying up and shredding books for AI. The logo for the Amazon bookshredder department has a very unsubtle semiotics. It's definitely giving "are we the baddies?" www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Looks like a brilliant addition to my module next year
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Me, an idiot: you know, since I became a parent I don't really get hangovers because I'm just so tired I always feel hungover. Also me: [pained and incoherent rambling]
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The world is burning but this exists ... youtu.be/4Qpq6OWrMYs?...
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Snail Mail - "Light On Our Feet" (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Snail Mail
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Miriam Tedeschi @mitede.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Critical Legal Conference 2026 - Registration Details criticallegalthinking.com/2026/08/10/c...
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Critical Legal Conference 2026 - Registration Details
Conference Information Update Registration, Plenaries, and Accommodation deals are now live on the CLC2026 website. Please
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
'“Black British academics – like Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Hazel Carby and Isaac Julien – punch way above their weight globally. The idea that this one incident in some way reflects Black British academia in general is bonkers,” one academic said.'
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‘Old racist wine in a new bottle’: Black academics respond to Jason Arday affair
Figures in higher education feel double standards are being used to delegitimise work of minority groups
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
'Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement posted on X that Americans deserve an energy system built on common sense and not one dependent on "costly subsidies".' This is straight up agnatology but saying this while paying a BILLION dollars to subsidise a firm to switch to fossil fuels: 🤯
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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Mai Taha and I wrote this article on sonic cartographies of internationalism, now up on @antipodeonline.bsky.social! It traces how radio broadcasting was central to liberation struggles around the world, asking how sound draws out different maps of solidarity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It's a Bourdieu Hater Summer
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I don’t think AI is the future and I’m 100% basing this on how nobody likes those kitchen trash cans with the powered lids.
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Pedro Porro has had an excellent world cup. It will break my heart to see him eating cheeseburgers with Trump in the Whitehouse tomorrow.
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Alan Shearer, you have 82 minutes to pass the don't chat shit challenge
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
We might have hated that pre-kick off show, but I'm afraid we'll feel nostalgic for it come half time
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Tom Cruise not everything is about you
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Just so cool to be cooking us alive in the name of the people like this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licenses.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A few weeks ago, @wellcometrust.bsky.social announced that scholars in the republic of Ireland would no longer be eligible to lead bids to the flagship discovery research scheme. We think this decision is badly flawed, and are asking them to rethink: www.irishhumanities.ie/assets/PDFs/...
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I'm sort of continually confused by how much skin Roy Keane has in the game (England football team). Definitely not my place to say. But also have some self respect.
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A colleague of mine looked shocked when I described this government not simply as inept but malignant 🤷
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Another reason why Starmer is so awful.
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Brandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Back on my bullsh
an image that has boxes and a flow chart- GET A NEW IDEA > START A NEW PROJECT > TELL EVERYONE. the pattern repeats circularly, ignoring the box that says FINISH PROJECT
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Eva Haifa Giraud @evahaifa.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I'm super happy to see this SI on Transnational Plant Studies out; I can't speak highly enough of Sushmita and Banu as editors and their introduction is such a valuable provocation - a must-read for anyone interested in the plant turn, plant studies, and/or the environmental humanities more broadly!
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Another day another disgusting policy, which will simply serve to reinscribe and secure the impoverishment of some of the most vulnerable people www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Refugees would be told to repay around £10,000 under new asylum bill
The Home Office will be given powers to recover costs from adults who have received asylum support under new laws.
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Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The University of Nottingham is cutting over 600 academic jobs. This includes 1 in 3 #geography lecturers. "The lecturers *are* the University, and without them it's nothing" - Geography student (BBC interview): www.instagram.com/reels/DYprAN...
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BBC Nottingham on Instagram: "The action would "effectively block the university from handing out graduation certificates". Students have joined lecturers on the picket line at a protest over job los...
6,038 likes, 179 comments - bbceastmidlands on May 22, 2026: "The action would "effectively block the university from handing out graduation certificates". Students have joined lecturers on the picke...
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“Data work is a popular side gig for many Philippine football league players looking for additional income…”
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Josh Bowsher @jbowsher.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Further reading on Musk, Mars, and terrestrial ruin from my colleagues David and Niall, here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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An anticipatory regime of multiplanetary life: on SpaceX, Martian colonisation and terrestrial ruin
In recent years, the aerospace engineering corporation SpaceX has been a vocal – and perhaps the foremost – contributor to the recent repopularisation of a discourse proposing the colonisation of M...
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