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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this is absolutely devastating. 90 programmes. NINETY. this is a gutting of social science, an attack on unionising and collective bargaining, and a colossal disaster that is *squarely* management's fault. solidarity with our edinburgh colleagues, and colleagues across the sector.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026

if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

going on sabbatical? parental leave? gotten a promotion? a gentle reminder to update your @ucu.org.uk account to reflect any recent shifts!

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 02/09/2026

Milo knew exactly who ICE was targeting and exactly how they were treating people. He repeatedly called for more of it and joked about masturbating to the violence. His "Wow my eyes are opened" tour is a dishonest, cynical cash grab and the media shouldn't facilitate it.

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

ted lasso is so disappointing. what a disservice to its characters.

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

where there’s a racist witch hunt, there is also Kauffman, Orr, & ££ from a tech oligarch

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15/08/2026

We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇

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Jason Arday Letter | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Dear twats: even if that racist ableist little shit is “joking” about being a professor of eugenics at Harvard, such a joke is ghoulish and unacceptable, to say nothing of making it IN RESPONSE TO a death he certainly had a hand in.

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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You know who wasn't hounded to suicide for dodgy academic research? ANDREW FUCKING WAKEFIELD.

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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yes they absolutely are. And the message this sends to other people of colour in academia is ‘we weaponised the press against him and we can do it against you’. There’s so much shame to go around here. But there’ll be fuck all contemplation or reflection from the press or Cambridge.

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 14/08/2026

It is in fact about ethics in journalism, and I for one would like to see some

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

not even former prince andrew was hounded like this. fucking vile.

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Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Dalit academics in India have for some time now used the framework of institutional murder in such cases. I think that is a very useful way to look at this.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I hope every person who made the editorial decisions around this story has a long, hard look in the mirror, and then resigns.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jesus. People really don't think about the human costs of such right wing hounding.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The way racism & ableism have been normalized in the present is reprehensible. The effects are devastating.

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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Every editor in chief and news editor should be considering their position tonight. It’s that serious.

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

so much sorrow, shock, and rage. this is horrendous, and so fucking devastating.

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Coming online briefly to express sorrow, rage, love and solidarity for colleagues of the global majority, especially in higher education. If you need to speak, rage, grieve, just sit with someone, drop me a line. Hold each other close

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If only Joe Public would care about academia as much as they do about witch hunts in academia

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Jennie Wetter @jennieindc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“Providing sexual and reproductive health support to women is not a parallel track alongside the Ebola response: It is the Ebola response for the 642,000 women of reproductive age — including an estimated 37,820 pregnant women — in the affected areas,” www.semafor.com/article/07/3...

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Exclusive: State Department pressed to increase aid for women impacted by Ebola outbreak

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Lisa Murkowski want the administration to approve support for a UN agency President Donald Trump withdrew from.

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

it's still wild to me that i can't access any of the Indian opendata portals outside of India. like, what kind of state secret does the HMIS hold? not like my old passport would've done me any good in accessing the data anyway, given they've said it's not proof of citizenship.

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I do think it’s really weird (colonial? morally repugnant?) that scholars whose research careers & books are on/about India, have nothing to say about the protests. Doesn’t matter how much you wrap your work in the language of in/justice, if you can’t engage when it’s spilling over it’s meaningless.

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Cricket Chirp Breaks the Silence

Alt: Cricket Chirp Breaks the Silence

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I can’t explain how funny and sharp the student protestors in India are. The jokes, the memes, the sarcastic commentary, the commentary, the care. We protested too, we hoped too. Woh humara waqt nahi tha, ab inko dekh ke itna garv hai.

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No Evil Eye Kisi Ki Nazar Na Lage

Alt: A person doing a South Asian symbol to ward off the evil eye. The text at the top reads ‘Nazar Na Lage Meri Pyari Ko’ which means may the evil eye not touch my loved ones

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

it is unconscionable to be a sitting head of state, opening the monsoon session of parliament while your young citizens are getting lathi charged & tear gassed down the road … & you have nothing to say to them. what are they demanding, really? accountability from the state. All they get is silence.

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

i'm not sure why, but there seems to be very little international attention on the student protests in India right now. This is a HUGE protest - they're getting brutalised by the police and the state, vilified and called "anti-national", accused of being funded by "external elements". 1/

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

where are all the sarky comments about Rayner back in Housing post?

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

when you're "diaspora", you carry many lands & many homes with you; always incomplete in time/space. a part of you is always missing; pining for smells & foods & the settling that comes with belonging: claiming as much as you are claimed. i yearn for india every protest, the longing to be one.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

SPECIAL REPORT: This is what it is like inside the network of far-right groups behind the recent wave of anti-immigration protests in Glasgow 👇 Read the full story here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Battle of Algiers at 60 conference in Cambridge. CFP deadline 4 August 2026. This will be a great conference on an important anticolonial film. Gutted that France missed this train too. Why can’t French academia celebrate/remember their history?! Sigh! www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/51930/

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The Battle of Algiers at 60 - CRASSH

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/07/2026

JK Rowling through her TERF organization, Beira's Place have sent Amnesty International a demand letter seeking a full retraction of their report, a public apology, and a bar to future criticism of gender critical groups as anti rights orgs. If they don't comply, they'll commence legal action.

The first page of a formal, typed legal letter dated 14 July 2026. It is addressed to the leadership of Amnesty International UK: Helen Horton (Chair, Amnesty International UK Section), Sandy Ruthven (Chair, Amnesty International UK Charitable Trust), and Kerry Moscogiuri (Chief Executive). The contact information and phone numbers in the top-right corner are redacted with a large black block, and a footer at the bottom is also blacked out.
The subject line reads: "BEIRA’S PLACE | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UK PUBLICATION DATED 8 JULY 2026".
The body text states that the sender acts on behalf of Beira’s Place, a sexual violence support service for women in Edinburgh and the Lothians. It asserts the legal right under the Equality Act 2010 to provide single-sex services and references the Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers to define "woman" by biological sex. The letter strongly objects to page 20 of a newly published Amnesty report titled "A growing threat; the anti-rights movement in the UK", which allegedly categorizes Beira's Place as an "anti-rights organization." The letter calls this categorization "grossly offensive and entirely without foundation."

The second page of the formal legal letter, maintaining the same clean, typed layout with a heavy black redaction block covering the footer at the bottom.
Under the heading "Defamation and Malicious Publications (Scotland) Act 2021", the text argues that labeling Beira's Place as "anti-rights" is defamatory and legally actionable. It claims the report has caused severe damage, including threatening correspondence and a 600% spike in hostile website traffic. The text notes that Beira's Place, with the support of its founder J.K. Rowling, will not allow its reputation to be tarnished.
Under the heading "Remedies", the letter lists legal demands to avoid litigation, including:
A permanent withdrawal of the Amnesty report and its methodology.
A public letter of apology on the homepage of Amnesty’s website, apologizing to Beira's Place, its staff, and service users, as well as acknowledging the protected belief that sex is real and immutable.

The final page of the typed legal letter, featuring a large black redaction box covering the signature block in the middle and another covering the footer at the bottom.
The page contains the conclusion of the legal demands, including a third remedy requiring Amnesty to commission an external investigation into how the report was published.
The letter warns that if Amnesty does not agree to these terms, counsel will be instructed to prepare for court action. It concludes with a note that J.K. Rowling, as founder of Beira's Place, will make a formal complaint to the Charity Commission or other appropriate regulator and supports other listed gender-critical organizations taking their own legal actions. It signs off with "Yours faithfully" before the blacked-out signature block.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 14/07/2026

Reimagining Menopause, our new Sociological Review Monograph, links menopause to broader structures of power and inequality. Edited by Shani Orgad, Belinda Steffan and Odessa Hamilton, its 10 chapters examine gender, visibility and neoliberalism. ➡️ buff.ly/2D51Icf @journals.sagepub.com

The Sociological Review
Monograph Vol 74 Issue 4

Shani Orgad, Belinda Steffan and Odessa Hamilton, guest editors

Shani Orgad, Belinda Steffan, Karen Throsby, Lara Bertola, Janina Curbach, Esra Paca, Julia Roloff, Divya Sivaramakrishnan, Debora Gottardello, Rebecca Ann Simmons, Anindita Datta, Deborah Jermyn, Elena Vacchelli, Carina Listerborn, Swagata Basu, Emma Franks,
Alison Ramsey, Louise Anne Wilson

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

Happy publication day to my first book 🤓

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Declining fertility is widely discussed, yet the role of men in this demographic trend remains largely overlooked. Very excited to share this new article where we examine the experiences of childless men who choose vasectomy to forgo fatherhood journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Forgoing Fatherhood: Why Men are Choosing not to Have Children - Martina Yopo Díaz, Loreto Watkins, 2026

The rise of voluntary childlessness among men represents an important shift in family formation, yet research in this area continues to focus primarily on women...

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Manchester pals, recommendations for food/restaurants? (Sorry to be *that* person, but I am showing up for a powerlifting thing so do need to keep an eye on protein levels for at least 2 days… )

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Zia Yusuf claims Farage is bravely "bringing forward" the judgment of "the ultimate authority": the people of Clacton. Two problems here: 1) He's insisting they judge *before* the full evidence has been heard, not *after*; 2) No constituency can exempt its MP from rules designed to protect us all

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

On my way, Clacton.

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

if i lived in clacton, i’d only have two choices: count binface or spoil my ballot. this whole thing is a farce, and what a farce of democracy it is.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 07/07/2026

Do they have a surveillance problem? I mean, do they have any other function? BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES, KILL THEM WITH FIRE

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The level of suppression of speech and action on Palestine in the UK carries on getting more and more shocking. 'The proceedings are believed to be the first brought against a barrister in respect of a jury speech in living memory, possibly ever.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Barrister in Palestine Action trial facing contempt of court proceedings

Rajiv Menon KC accused of defying judge’s orders to not inform jury of right to acquit on basis of conscience

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Trafalgar Square’s St Martin-in-the-Fields gives up secrets of its stones Church marks 300 years with exhibition and online archive telling of UK’s first Black voters, and history of compassion and protest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #History

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Trafalgar Square’s St Martin-in-the-Fields gives up secrets of its stones

Church marks 300 years with exhibition and online archive telling of UK’s first Black voters, and history of compassion and protest

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"The only lasting truth / Is Change." On thys daye yn 1947, Octavia E. Butler was born in Pasadena, California, USA. Her giftes to literature, the art of science fictioun, and the worlde of ideas are immeasurable. Her worke prepared us for thys tyme. www.womenshistory.org/education-re...

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Biography: Octavia Estelle Butler

Octavia Butler was a pioneering writer of science fiction. As one of the first African American and female science fiction writers, Butler wrote novels that concerned themes of injustice towards Afric...

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Quite a busy decade then

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Amy Hall @amyh4ll97.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

As someone who works in pharmaceuticals and studies history of science, I could write a series on the new Eli Lilly advert ‘Obesity is a disease’ Now a product is available, the narrative around obesity has entirely shifted, to the much more biological ‘it’s not your fault’ ‘it’s a disease’ trope

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

i think it’s profoundly undemocratic to leave your elected mayoral post to stand in a by-election triggered by someone stepping down to let you run, winning it, & then-without even serving one day as an MP for your constituency- being touted as the shoo-in for PM.

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