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Bilge Serin

@noxyin.bsky.social

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Dreaming to be somewhere by the sea. Urbanist, reseacher, lecturer in Global Urbanism at @uofgussp.bsky.social justcitymed.org

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just City by the Med Research Network connects researchers investigating social justice and inequality in cities and exploring pathways towards just urban futures, through the context of the Mediterranean. Check justcitymed.org for details 👇

Just City by the Med

Research network exploring social justice and inequality in Mediterranean urban contexts.

justcitymed.org

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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 10h

Strip out London, and Britain’s GDP per capita is just 3% larger than Poland’s 🤯

Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 11h

🇵🇱 My @thetimes column: Poland’s economic miracle

12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain

When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 6h

Today's little moment of joy: My cat neighbour let me pet him AND purred back to me!

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 11h

Missing it already 🌊
www.instagram.com/p/DNDbcCftk9...

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 1d

Opening with a panel and Q&A at 1 pm, 27 Oct, at James McCune Smith Learning Hub.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/52-squares...

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 1d

During these challenging times, we invite you to celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion in everyday life, with a light-hearted exhibition!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/52-squares...

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 1d

We've obviously reached a point where they both act unlawful, unethical or plain evil, and brag about it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 3d

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

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 4d

photo of the day: a lovely face
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 6d

Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values

Last week, our FactCheck team exclusively revealed that Israel’s imports of UK arms hit a record high value in June. Now, we can reveal new figures showing September was the second highest month on re...

www.channel4.com

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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social · 5d

There’s a great exhibition on now in the ARC at Glasgow Uni with photographs around the theme of climate and mental health assembled by our PhD students in sociology and climate and my esteemed colleague the anthropologist Dr Alicia Davis.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 5d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 5d

During these challenging times, we invite you to celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion in everyday life, with a light-hearted exhibition!

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 10d

52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/52-squares...

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 5d

Tomorrow 👇

Urban Studies & Social Policy @uofgussp.bsky.social · 6d

📣 USSP seminar this week 📣

📖 Prof @rachelhumphris.bsky.social in conversation with Prof Engin Isin

🗓️ Wed, 8 Oct 2025 15:30 - 17:00 BST

📍Room 718, 42 Bute Gardens Building, University of Glasgow

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-san...

Making Sanctuary, Enacting Citizenship: Governing, Resisting, Imagining

Book discussion with Professor and author Rachel Humphris and Professor Engin Isin. All welcome!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Urban Studies & Social Policy @uofgussp.bsky.social · 6d

Making Sanctuary, Enacting Citizenship: Governing, Resisting, Imagining

Book discussion with Professor and author Rachel Humphris and Professor Engin Isin. All welcome!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 9d

Join us to celebrate the diversity in cities and our lives!
Opening on the 27th of October.

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 10d

52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/52-squares...

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 8d

An astounding disconnect

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 8d

Café and cycle culture is moving up the emirate’s cityscape agenda. But it’s a tall order: on.ft.com/431uFmK

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 9d

Join us to celebrate the diversity in cities and our lives!
Opening on the 27th of October.

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 10d

52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/52-squares...

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Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 10d

Just a few weeks to our exhibition on how we all experience same moments in different ways 👇

Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 10d

52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/52-squares...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10d

Israel has kidnapped hundreds of people in international waters.

They were trying to break an illegal siege which is starving the people of Gaza.

The flotilla is the best of us 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/israel-kid...