📢Call for Abstracts📢

Two-day workshop aiming to develop an #interdisciplinary discussion about the epistemologies & practices of scale

Scholars from ANY discipline are invited to submit by 3rd Nov 2025

📅23-24 Feb 2026
📍Bristol, UK
🌐 bit.ly/438ddgt

#CallforAbstracts #CallforPapers

‘What’s happening in Gaza is an even clearer case of public figures with command authority declaring their intention to blockade food and then doing so. It is a mystery how anyone can call it a “humanitarian disaster” rather than a genocide.’

@naoisedolan.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

The EASA Executive Committee announces the publication of Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions.

Find out more and access the full Guidelines here:
easaonline.org/implementati...

Bittersweet farewell to my job at @hcrinstitute.bsky.social this month, especially after seeing some of my students graduate today! A sincere thanks to great colleagues, and to Manchester, where I did my PhD and where I got my first lecturer role. Exciting new things coming in October! 👀

I feel like I was the last person to learn that Zohran Mamdani is the son of postcolonial scholar Mahmood Mamdani, who I read as an undergraduate and postgraduate student.

Tinkering with the central statement for my book project 🛠️📚
"For those who live or work in favelas, forms of relating and knowing both urban space and its armed actors—gangs and police—are central to navigating urban insecurity."

‘What Israel has created in Gaza is an environment so toxic to human life that the unnaturally high level of deaths (at least 54,000 since October 2023) would continue even if the bombing were to stop immediately.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

...whereby a humanitarian actor trains the state in the management of lives under threat, not through emergency aid but by reshaping the state's governance of urban violence.

#CriticalHumanitarianism #UrbanViolence

Moved from Twitter to here, so re-promoting my publications 📄

In this article for Humanity Journal, I argue that the @icrc.org attempt of addressing urban armed violence as a humanitarian issue in Rio de Janeiro becomes a form of biopolitical tutoring...

muse.jhu.edu/article/876515

Call for participants: As part of my @researchireland.ie funded project, I am looking to speak to women/people from non-EU migrant background, who have experienced pregnancy in Ireland over the last 15 years. Please feel free to amplify this call for participants.

#maternalhealth #migranthealth

#AcademicFreedom is the right to say everything but not anything. It is based on the rejection of bullshit. It only exists when it is actively practiced in the everyday. Refusing bullshit and telling the truth is practicing academic freedom.

I am hiring a PhD researcher! Join our international team of Social scientists and take part in an exciting collaborative research project that seeks to push interdisciplinary boundaries in innovative ways!

Essa história mostra que (a) bolsonarismo é organização criminosa, com métodos de organização criminosa e (b) é sempre, sempre com jornalista mulher.

Hoje, pela primeira vez na carreira acadêmica, vou citar a @revistapiaui.bsky.social numa proposta de financiamento para pesquisa. Esperando que traga sorte 🤞