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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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We've stood up to them before. We can do it again.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today is the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street so why not explore the story of what did (and didn't) happen on the most famous day in British anti-fascist history in this uncommonly concise episode of Origin Story

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... of scapegoating, surveillance, and control—cloaked, as they often are, in a mantle of feigned official care. Astonishing, unprecedented, and necessary."

Here's my shout for its cover: "From a decade of gaining unlikely access into hidden archives, Ewa Majewska has assembled a masterful analysis of government repression and surveillance of gay men in Poland that bristles with relevance for today’s authoritarian mechanisms ...

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The Caring Leviathan? Hiacynt Pink Files, Biopolitics, and the Queer Critical Theory

My dear friend Ewa Majewska has a new book out next week: "The Caring Leviathan? Hiacynt Pink Files, Biopolitics, and the Queer Critical Theory" The "Hiacynt action" was a series of police and secret services' surveillance operations targeting gay men. brill.com/display/titl...

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"The Caring Leviathan? Hiacynt Pink Files, Biopolitics, and the Queer Critical Theory" published on 29 Sep 2026 by Brill.

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XV Internationales Bauhaus-KolloquiumXV Internationales Bauhaus-Kolloquium – Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

XV International Bauhaus Colloquium: Politics of Research 4 – 7 November 2026 Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Confusing website, but great lineup. www.bauhaus-kolloquium.de

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Migration Museum, London, is hiring a part-time (3 days per week) curator for a year to help build the vision of the new museum. £40k pro rata plus 5% matched pension contribution. Deadline for applications 18 October.

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We’re Hiring: Curator, Contemporary Art (Part-time)

The Migration Museum is seeking a Contemporary Art Curator to join their team on a part-time basis. Application deadline: 18 October 2026.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 02/10/2026

This is much worse than the usual sort of behaviour the media will hound a person to death for. I wonder why the same pile-on hasn't happened to Orr. Can't imagine...

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175

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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad

James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 02/10/2026

"Pleasure is at the root of endless creativity, but it is by no means beholden to production. Days and years of endeavour, focussed work, can be expended growing flowers, writing songs, or discovering new sexual positions without for a moment contributing to GDP or flows of money and power."

Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Who would like to read a short piece about pleasure in advance of the weekend? Here I defend the sharing of pleasure as a foundational ethical value. www.tim-waterman.co.uk/pleasure/

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Pleasure – Tim Waterman

Here is a short piece I wrote about pleasure as a foundational ethical value. It was intended for a collection on the theme of "Flow" but my contribution was to

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 02/10/2026

Before people learned music with 'do re mi', the sequence once began with 'ut' as the lowest note. The absolute lowest note recognised in medieval music was 'Γ ut', with the Greek letter gamma, and 'Γ ut' came to refer to the full range of possible notes. This is behind the phrase 'run the gamut'.

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What an appetiser! This special issue now online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/clar20/5... Looking forward to a detailed read. From conversations w/ Tim Ingold on Tues and @kateraworth.bsky.social & Robin Wall Kimmerer yesterday, 'Care' (I'd add 'as responsibility') is the unexpected theme of my week.

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Landscape Research

Landscapes of Care. Volume 51, Issue 6 of Landscape Research

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Nationalism is everywhere the same. Sold as civilisation's perfect evolution but is only a cul de sac we've all been stuck in on the way to something better.

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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026

As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So many different people, groups, and organizations have come together to push back against the attack on the freedom to read, including students themselves. Read more about what students in Florida are doing here:

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No more book bans: how Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boards

Local communities are fighting back against the influence of conservative groups like Moms for Liberty in education

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/10/2026

The poet, translator and physician Dr. Fady Joudah will give this year’s Edward W. Said London Lecture, titled ‘Notes on Solidarity’, on 15 October at the Royal Geographical Society. Tickets here: mosaicrooms.org/edward-w-sai...

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Excellent choice!! Congratulations Guy!!

Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 01/10/2026

It's on Bandcamp. My favourite album of hers is "All of this is Chance". I hope you like it!

This is just perverse. With climate change we'll all be wearing nothing but budgie smugglers in deepest winter. Layers are so last epoch.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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📌 ICYMI — Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations — Samantha Asumadu The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK…

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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations

The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding

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Landscapes of Care - Landscape Research Group

The incomparable Zannah Matson and I launch our special issue of Landscape Research on 'Landscapes of Care' tomorrow in two events at times calculated for planetary reach. Booking necessary. Online event. landscaperesearch.org/event/landsc...

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Join the editors and contributing authors of the forthcoming Landscape Research special issue Landscapes of Care for two online launch events exploring how landscapes are formed, experienced and maint...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

😳 On 9/29/26, Argentina’s Supreme cleared the way for President Javier Milei’s administration to scrap historical restrictions on foreign land ownership, opening the door to the likes of Peter Thiel & Sam Altman who have shown great interest in the region … 1/ share.google/t7nTsPAkbpC8...

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Supreme Ct clears way for Milei to scrap limits on foreign land purchases

Opposition parties condemn the ruling, question its scope and warn that it leaves the door open to unrestricted foreign ownership of rural land.

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Lisa O'Neill has a wonderful song about Mother Jones on her newest album "The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right"

BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Submissions are welcome for the London Topographical Society's Anne Saunders Prize: £1,000 for an original & unpublished research essay on the topography, development, or buildings of #London in any period. Details here: londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann... #skystorians 🗃️

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Ann Saunders essay prize - London Topographical Society

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Thank you! Followed him, followed you!

Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you! I'm sceptical of Monbiot's desire for 'natural regeneration' when probably ecosystems will need a lot of human help in years to come. I've been telling landscape architects for some time now that part of their job is to plant anticipating climate change & helping ecologies to move.

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Fantastic that the government plans to increase tree cover But trees live a long time, and our climate will be very different by the time they mature So do we plant species thriving here now, or species that will thrive in future conditions? It's not a simple question, but we should be asking it!

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As the world gets hotter, could helping trees migrate northwards protect them?

With the climate changing, many species are marching towards cooler climes – but trees are being outpaced. Some ecologists say assisted movement is the answer

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CFP: "Ecocide": special issue for GlobalEurope Journal networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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'Unspecified proposals by UK Research and Innovation to phase out some “specific” QR funding streams could reduce institutional diversity and weaken regional research capacity, specialist universities have warned.'

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UKRI’s plans to cut QR funding risk ‘weakening regional capacity’

Proposed loss of certain quality-related streams could undermine specialist institutions’ ability to build research capacity

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Interesting they're showing horror as daytime television these days. Used to be on after midnight only.

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That white suitcase is going to continue looking pristine for all of 32 seconds.

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Folks, you know what you have to do here. Drink up to help out!