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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14h

The new film “Roofman" transforms an absurd tale of a criminal on the run into an intimate character study, grounded by highlighting life’s mundane thrills, Shirley Li writes:

A Surprisingly Endearing True-Crime Movie

Roofman stays grounded by highlighting life’s mundane thrills.

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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 15h

Coming up Mon. Oct. 20 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK

"AI and the Digital: On Cloud Ethics and Beyond"

Join Louise Amoore with Audrewy Borowski as they discuss how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society.

www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...

AI and the Digital: On Cloud Ethics and Beyond

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Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social · 17h

Come and join us at History of Education! We're looking for a new editor for our special section 'Workspace'. Deadline is 30 October. More information here: historyofeducation.org.uk/e:oi_special...
@lottiehoare.bsky.social @stephanieolsen.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social #histed

Call for Expressions of Interest: Special Section Editor of ‘Workspace’ - History of Education Society

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 1d

New publication alert! 🚨

Relational resistance and transformative pedagogy in the global south: insights from Bangladeshi higher education

By Xianwei Gao et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HigherEd #TransformativePedagogy

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Relational resistance and transformative pedagogy in the global south: insights from Bangladeshi higher education by Xianwei Gao, Monjurul Islam, Shaiful Islam and Alizah Lambri. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 3d

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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Sumi Madhok @sumimadhok.bsky.social · 2d

Coloniality 101: “…we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires, a wretched population who…must be fed and watered while the world works out what to do with them.

And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 2d

It is a most delicious irony that Malinowski's notes for (lectures on) Primitive Economy are written on the back of the Commonwealth of Australia's War-time Profits for Tax Assessment 😀

(in other news, enjoying my @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded research on nonreciprocity in @lselibrary.bsky.social 😊)

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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 5d

ICYMI: James Bridle in conversation with Audrey Borowski

"On Ways of Being"

On technology and hope, the legacy of enlightenment, what counts as intelligence, how to navigate our ever-changing world, and putting lessons into practice.
#Philosophy

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"On Ways of Being": James Bridle in conversation with Audrey Borowski

YouTube video by The Philosopher

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5d

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are walking back to Gaza City as the Israeli military begins its withdrawal from the area following the ceasefire agreement.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum is there, watching what he described as ‘an endless tide of humans’.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5d

Landmark visit sees nations seeking solutions to border issues, status of Syrian prisoners and fate of Syrian refugees.

Syrian FM in Beirut on first high-profile visit since al-Assad era

Landmark visit sees nations seeking solutions to border issues, status of Syrian prisoners and fate of Syrian refugees.

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning, in today's edition of How UK Universities are Becoming More Like the US, but not in terms of quality, research rigour, or internalisation www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social · 5d

Sharing my working space with the queen today. Or, better, she is. #niece

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 6d

Universities: we teach critical thinking, we are so passionate about challenging orthodoxies

Also universities: here is our entirely uncritical adoption of AI-bleat that turns platitudes (about both the nature of academic labour and 'the digital') into "policy"

What gives, mates

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 7d

Such an important essay by Rawad Wehbe on poetry in a time of genocide:

“When a poet is relegated to mere commentary, regardless of context, language ceases to be an intervention, and the poet is no longer an agitator”

Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com · 10d

Rawad Wehbe writes with a critique of the representation of Arabic poetry in leading Western publications. Too often, the over-promotion of a representative figure will stand in for engagement with a rich tradition—and the full truth of the Gaza genocide.

proteanmag.com/2025/10/05/t...

The End of Palestine in English • Protean Magazine

Rawad Wehbe writes with an extended critique of the shallow representationalism and tokenization that have marked the orientation of leading Western media spaces towards Palestinian poetry. Rather tha...

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Chris Parr @chrisjparr.bsky.social · 8d

Risk-averse universities “hindering REF performance” by ignoring non-traditional research.

Institutions should “pull their socks up”, @nataliejessic10.bsky.social tells the 2025 Hidden REF Festival (@hiddenref.bsky.social).

Free to read: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Risk-averse universities ‘hindering own REF performance’ - Research Professional News

Hidden REF Festival: Institutions urged to “pull their socks up” and submit more non-traditional outputs

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 8d

New Special Issue: Getting Critical About Critique in Higher Education 🚨

The SI rethinks the meaning and practices of ‘criticality’, foregrounds diverse perspectives (Confucianism, Arabic-Islamic philosophy...), and opens new pathways for global scholarship

www.tandfonline.com/toc/cthe20/3...

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. The cover also states the name of the Special Issue (Getting Critical About Critique in Higher Education) and the Guest Editors (Kathy Luckett, Ibrar Bhatt and Alison MacKenzie)

List of contents (please see the link for the full list of articles in the Special Issue)

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 8d

🥪 Our Research Practice Seminars are back!

Join us in exploring some of the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice

Thursdays from 12-2pm, a sandwich lunch is provided
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research-practice-seminars/

Research Practice Seminar - CRASSH

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

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LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 9d

💥New: Academic careers have become a professional sport

✍️ @swallaschek.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #ECRchat #AcademicCareers

Academic careers have become a professional sport - Impact of Social Sciences

Academia like professional sports is increasingly a system defined by competition, precarity and quantification does this lead to a loss of meaning?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 9d

TODAY: Mon., Oct. 6 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK

"AI and the Digital: On Ways of Being"

James Bridle and Audrey Borowski on how natural systems reveal their complexity and knowledge as new technologies threaten to cause their extinction. #Philosophy

Register:
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...

AI and the Digital: On Ways of Being

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Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social · 9d

Today I presented my BA/Leverhulme research project to the 'meithel' of doctoral students in Philosophy of Education at UCD, Dublin. What a joy to discuss & theorise reading with such a group of engaged students. A special thanks to the @pesgb.bsky.social for funding this visit 😊

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Internazionale @internazionale.it · 12d

Il mondo dalla parte di Gaza. Foto di copertina di Emanuele Donazza. Leggi il sommario del nuovo numero di Internazionale: intern.az/1Ohi

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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · 12d

Statement from the Syrian community in the UK ❤️

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Statement from the Syrian Community in the UK on the Tragic Attack in Crumpsall – Syrian British Consortium

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 12d

The world hasn't stopped falling apart, but if relevant, Monday onwards I'll be observing this from the vantage point of @lselibrary.bsky.social archives & research for my @leverhulme.ac.uk project on non-reciprocity (janabacevic.net/research/und...), so give us a shout if around!

Uncategorical imperatives: understanding nonreciprocity

This research project, supported by the Leverhulme Trust, seeks to understand nonreciprocity as both a constitutive and ethically neutral force in social and political life. By conceptualizing ever…

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Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social · 13d

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Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social · 13d

I chaired a wonderful Viva today. Such a privilege and pleasure to see students defend their thesis with true passion and a commitment to change. Now heading home to enjoy... ❤️
#vivavoce

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