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Felicity Callard
@felicitycallard.bsky.social
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Researching daydreams and fantasies. I am employed as a human geographer and also work in the medical humanities

Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18h
Here’s the video of Tareq Baconi telling us this bsky.app/profile/drop...
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Video: Palestine Festival of Literature via X (@PalFest) (@palfest.bsky.social)

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18h
“The path between a fascist or decolonial future runs directly through Palestine”
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Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar and writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas and the history of Palestinian resistance, points to three factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed to continue. The gaslighting by governments and major media creates a “dual reality” that denies what people can see for themselves. And at its core, he says, the genocide exposes the colonial foundations of Western power. Baconi stresses that the path between a fascist or decolonial future runs directly through Palestine. via @PalFest

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18h
This week I spoke to a research student who told me, her voice exploding with disgust, that the academic teaching one of the courses she was taking had powered up his teaching presentation while saying, proudly, “AI made my slides” [she clarified he meant content not just layout]

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 18h
Video: Palestine Festival of Literature via X (@PalFest) (@palfest.bsky.social)

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 18h
Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar and writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas and the history of Palestinian resistance, points to three factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed to continue. The gaslighting by governments and major media creates a “dual reality” that denies what people can see for themselves. And at its core, he says, the genocide exposes the colonial foundations of Western power. Baconi stresses that the path between a fascist or decolonial future runs directly through Palestine. via @PalFest

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 1d
Not sure where things go from here. Now common for only 1-2 out of every 20 submissions to the journal I edit to be in scope. The rest are out-of-scope and/or probably AI-generated, and take a lot of time to go over and process. And what meaning do journal acceptance rates have in such a context?

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2565129...
University of Glasgow targeted by spray paint amid arms divestment calls
A building at the University of Glasgow has been doused in red paint in an apparent protest over its investment in the arms trade
www.heraldscotland.com

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 2d
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
Walking back after my repeated lecture of earlier today (size of lecture halls means we do a 2nd turn later in the day) and they have removed DIVEST which hovers in its absence surrounded by lots of remaining red paint
Lots of red paint sprayed on a university building with a patch wiped clean in the middle)

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
DIVEST

Walking past one of the main university buildings on my way to lecture this morning
DIVEST sprayed in red paint with lots of red paint behind it on a glass fronted university building. The building is cordoned off.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
“Meeting the demands made by people of conscience across the world in the case of Gaza – suspending the sale of arms and imposing economic sanctions – remains the only way to prevent the true worst-case scenario from reaching every Palestinian village, town, and city in the West Bank”
versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 3d
"As Israel ostensibly redirects its weapons away from Gaza, the West Bank braces to receive them full-force.

What is the step from local ethnic cleansing to all-out genocide, when the world splits no hairs over international law?"

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
The Death that Keeps on Going
How much can one village physically take? The worst-case scenario has already happened countless times in the small West Bank community of Umm al-Khair. It happened when prominent Palestinian activist...
www.versobooks.com

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 3d
"As Israel ostensibly redirects its weapons away from Gaza, the West Bank braces to receive them full-force.

What is the step from local ethnic cleansing to all-out genocide, when the world splits no hairs over international law?"

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
The Death that Keeps on Going
How much can one village physically take? The worst-case scenario has already happened countless times in the small West Bank community of Umm al-Khair. It happened when prominent Palestinian activist...
www.versobooks.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
“exiting the market”
In the next category down, where the OfS is concerned about the risk of exit within 12 months, Lapworth said there are currently seven large and 17 small institutions. "That's us being conservative so we are on the right foot and engaging...we're not saying they are going to exit in a disorderly way," Lapworth said. "I'm confident we understand what's happening in those situations." In a third category for providers with a two-to-three-year risk of exit, Lapworth said there are 26 institutions. "The pattern generally is that the smaller ones are those that we're more worried about than the larger ones," Lapworth said.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
Let me get up early to remind myself of the debates over how to construe Marx on the fetishism of commodities before I teach the first year geography students

<3 hours later still in the thickets never coming back out>

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 4d
everyone is talking about getting copies of University Keywords (or other JHU Press books) for all their friends, students, and comrades for the holidays, especially when it is 40% off with the code HHOL25.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4d
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
How We are Not Using Al in the Classroom By Sonja Drimmer & Christopher J. Nygren Premise Prompt engineering is a term that has become commonplace since the widespread availability of generative AI applications like ChatGPT. The idea is that the outputs of the large language models (LLMs) on which these applications are based are only as good as the prompts that are input: vague prompts result in equally vague outputs. And thus was born the race to train for careers in prompt engineering. Unfortunately, the bubble seems to have burst before even the first generation of students was trained for this career outcome. We were given a prompt as an invitation to participate in this newsletter: "How are you using Al in the classroom?" While we have accepted this invitation, we are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine-refusing the prompt.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7d
Images of the first amputee football tournament in Gaza by photojournalist Rizek Abdel Jawad.

nbmediacoop.org/2025/11/21/p...

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 7d
In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p
Cover of Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya by Hanno Brankamp. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of a refugee camp with small structures that have corrugated metal roofs. In the foreground, a dirt ground stretches across the image with people walking, sitting, and standing near a vehicle. A vertical yellow line runs from top to bottom, dividing the composition. The title and subtitle appear in white text on the left side of the cover, with the author's name at the bottom right.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 8d
Such a terrible time. I remember so clearly the desperate conversations we had on picket lines as it became clear that the virus had already spread much more extensively than many were still predicting.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 8d
“Covid-19 has thrown into stark relief how universities are prioritising institutional reputation over social responsibility”

Almost too painful to go back to the USSbrief that several of us published 12 March 2000, when British unis were largely doing business as usual medium.com/ussbriefs/re...
Reputation over responsibility: UK HE and the Covid-19 crisis
Number 92: #USSbriefs92
medium.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 8d
23k lives could have been saved if lockdown had been 1wk earlier. My mind turns away from those weeks of Feb/March 2020: the memories are too painful. Desperately trying to push universities to close. All of us who fell so ill **infected before Johnson finally locked down**. All those of us who died

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 9d
Going great with universities in Britain
on.ft.com/4oVmSQw
Philippa Pickford, Ofs director of regulation, said the sector had "become more realistic and prudent" but that some universities continued to rely on "unrealistic expectations of growth" *We do not expect multiple universities to close in the short term. But some institutions need to take radical action," she added.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 9d
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
Landscape for a Good Woman. Carolyn Steedman. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/landscape-for-a-good-woman/9780813512587/

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 9d
Each of these sentences is devastating to read. Worlds upon worlds being destroyed
voicesbend.bsky.social Julie Beth Napolin @voicesbend.bsky.social · 9d
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.

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History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 9d
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives

Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social and Sarah Marks @sarahvmarks.bsky.social’s introduction to their special issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025
Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 9d
I love that essay

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 9d
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!

My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com

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Julie Beth Napolin @voicesbend.bsky.social · 9d
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Felicity Callard

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 10d
I'm glad to have signed this statement in support of queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who by the sounds of it are going through an awful time at the moment: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11d
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com