Sadiah Qureshi
@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
Little 🦈. Historian of race, science & empire. Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction (Penguin, 2025). Shortlisted for the Royal Society’s Trivedi Book Prize. 🦖🦣🦤🐅
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Sadiah Qureshi
@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
· Oct 13
Providing medical aid to Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees
For over 30 years, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has been reaching out to Palestinian communities, striving to deliver health and medical care to those worst affected by conflict, occupation and ...
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Today I was talking to a mentee about their book proposal and I was so moved I shed tears. It’s on a profoundly neglected topic but, more importantly, this person will do justice to the stories they’re telling and they’ve been entrusted with. I’m honoured to help this book come into being.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Today I was talking to a mentee about their book proposal and I was so moved I shed tears. It’s on a profoundly neglected topic but, more importantly, this person will do justice to the stories they’re telling and they’ve been entrusted with. I’m honoured to help this book come into being.
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“No one can pretend they didn’t know the harm it was causing.
Politicians – both those with a blue or a red rosette – let it continue anyway.”
My col. on the end of the two child benefit limit (and a climate that means even feeding toddlers gets a backlash). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Politicians – both those with a blue or a red rosette – let it continue anyway.”
My col. on the end of the two child benefit limit (and a climate that means even feeding toddlers gets a backlash). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The two-child limit is abolished at last. Watch out for the narrative that will follow | Frances Ryan
The right is already in a frenzy about the migrant groups it thinks will benefit – and the budget contained other trade-offs, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
“No one can pretend they didn’t know the harm it was causing.
Politicians – both those with a blue or a red rosette – let it continue anyway.”
My col. on the end of the two child benefit limit (and a climate that means even feeding toddlers gets a backlash). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Politicians – both those with a blue or a red rosette – let it continue anyway.”
My col. on the end of the two child benefit limit (and a climate that means even feeding toddlers gets a backlash). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I know people love to dunk on modern architecture, but citing a house’s age, over the fact that it’s worth over £2 million pounds, as a reason not to pay a fairer share of tax is not a winning argument. People really need a better sense of where they sit in terms of their wealth to others.
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I know people love to dunk on modern architecture, but citing a house’s age, over the fact that it’s worth over £2 million pounds, as a reason not to pay a fairer share of tax is not a winning argument. People really need a better sense of where they sit in terms of their wealth to others.
Me to a student who has chosen to work with me for a second time: so last time you got an 82. Let’s see if we can push that even higher this time.🤞🏽
Student: great, I’d really like to try. 💡
Me: fabulous. Tell me about your ideas and why you really care about them and we can take it from there. 😀
Student: great, I’d really like to try. 💡
Me: fabulous. Tell me about your ideas and why you really care about them and we can take it from there. 😀
A student asked me for a reference specifically because they said that I’d helped them do their best work so far. Over the years, so many students have said similar things about my courses. Bless them, because there are so many difficult days on which this knowledge was the thing that kept me going.
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Me to a student who has chosen to work with me for a second time: so last time you got an 82. Let’s see if we can push that even higher this time.🤞🏽
Student: great, I’d really like to try. 💡
Me: fabulous. Tell me about your ideas and why you really care about them and we can take it from there. 😀
Student: great, I’d really like to try. 💡
Me: fabulous. Tell me about your ideas and why you really care about them and we can take it from there. 😀
Oh my. What a way to express opposition to AI.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Oh my. What a way to express opposition to AI.
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The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
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November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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This article suggests a sustained and worrying obsession with race and ethnicity that doesn’t seem to have ebbed away. No matter what the perpetrator’s intentions, claiming lack of intent is an attempt to deny the legacy of his actions on his chosen targets.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
Now that my former classmate has finally spoken about the allegations of his behaviour at school, I feel compelled to address his points directly, says Peter Ettedgui, a film director and producer
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
This article suggests a sustained and worrying obsession with race and ethnicity that doesn’t seem to have ebbed away. No matter what the perpetrator’s intentions, claiming lack of intent is an attempt to deny the legacy of his actions on his chosen targets.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Partly an effect of the business speak (and approach) applied to universities. “Providers” “exit markets” all the time. It’s how The market works! Collective institutions of public good…now those are different things.
7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Partly an effect of the business speak (and approach) applied to universities. “Providers” “exit markets” all the time. It’s how The market works! Collective institutions of public good…now those are different things.
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📢📢📢📢📢📢#Book peeps: ONLY 3 weeks remain till submissions close for Jhalak Prize for its landmark 10th anniversary year. What are you waiting for? Send in those amazing books! #publishing #books #representationmatters #jhalakprizeat10 #jhalakprize www.thebookseller.com/news/news/jh...
Jhalak Prize submissions open for 10th year
Submissions for the 10th year of the Jhalak Prize are open.
www.thebookseller.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
📢📢📢📢📢📢#Book peeps: ONLY 3 weeks remain till submissions close for Jhalak Prize for its landmark 10th anniversary year. What are you waiting for? Send in those amazing books! #publishing #books #representationmatters #jhalakprizeat10 #jhalakprize www.thebookseller.com/news/news/jh...
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'Exiting the market' is such a crap euphemism. It's not like the 'university' will then go and apply all its assets to another market. Those assets (human and non-human) will be dispersed, wasted, destroyed. Un-creative destruction. Which we can't afford as a society.
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
'Exiting the market' is such a crap euphemism. It's not like the 'university' will then go and apply all its assets to another market. Those assets (human and non-human) will be dispersed, wasted, destroyed. Un-creative destruction. Which we can't afford as a society.
Being a first generation academic means many beloveds google me every time they’re telling others about me because they don’t fully understand what I do even if they’ve been to university. I don’t mind, but it is striking how much of a mystery it all is.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Being a first generation academic means many beloveds google me every time they’re telling others about me because they don’t fully understand what I do even if they’ve been to university. I don’t mind, but it is striking how much of a mystery it all is.
This thread details the appalling lack of understanding of HE among many people responsible for HE. Utterly shocking disregard for a sector that is as economically significant as it is, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
here's your headline:
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This thread details the appalling lack of understanding of HE among many people responsible for HE. Utterly shocking disregard for a sector that is as economically significant as it is, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
A student asked me for a reference specifically because they said that I’d helped them do their best work so far. Over the years, so many students have said similar things about my courses. Bless them, because there are so many difficult days on which this knowledge was the thing that kept me going.
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A student asked me for a reference specifically because they said that I’d helped them do their best work so far. Over the years, so many students have said similar things about my courses. Bless them, because there are so many difficult days on which this knowledge was the thing that kept me going.
BBC History Extra has chosen Vanished as one of its books of the year! Amazed and grateful that my roar has reached far further than I imagined.
I was also on a podcast for them earlier this year. Link here: historyextra.supportingcast.fm/listen/histo....
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
I was also on a podcast for them earlier this year. Link here: historyextra.supportingcast.fm/listen/histo....
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
Best history books 2025: BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year
In the roster of laudable history books published in 2025, authors tackled topics as diverse as Gaza, Indian partition, extinction, medieval and Stuart monarchs – even historians themselves. Here, a p...
www.historyextra.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
BBC History Extra has chosen Vanished as one of its books of the year! Amazed and grateful that my roar has reached far further than I imagined.
I was also on a podcast for them earlier this year. Link here: historyextra.supportingcast.fm/listen/histo....
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
I was also on a podcast for them earlier this year. Link here: historyextra.supportingcast.fm/listen/histo....
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
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The singer recorded more than 30 albums and won two Grammys during his six-decade career.
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae music pioneer, dies at 81
The singer recorded more than 30 albums and won two Grammys during his six-decade career.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The singer recorded more than 30 albums and won two Grammys during his six-decade career.
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Some history of science jobs to share.
An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Some history of science jobs to share.
An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
An assistant professorship in Environmental History at the Uni of Warwick, FT, open-ended/Permanent, £46-57k, deadline 5 Jan. I know some great people in that department, including historians of science.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
A story about the horrendous labour conditions endured by exploited workers to supply tuna, including major supermarkets. These remarkable fishes might be eaten to extinction while workers suffer appalling abuse to supply insatiable demand.
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(Gift link for 3 people)
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The dark truth behind supermarket tuna
Major retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they are exploited and abused
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November 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A story about the horrendous labour conditions endured by exploited workers to supply tuna, including major supermarkets. These remarkable fishes might be eaten to extinction while workers suffer appalling abuse to supply insatiable demand.
(Gift link for 3 people)
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
(Gift link for 3 people)
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Long ago to a disappointed soul: ‘Let their bigoted imaginations be their limit, not yours. Never yours.’
November 23, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Long ago to a disappointed soul: ‘Let their bigoted imaginations be their limit, not yours. Never yours.’
A decade of amazing work in commissioning artists for the trophies and showcasing wonderful books and writers. A huge congratulations to everyone who helped establish the prize and make this happen.
ICYMI: Submissions for the 10th year of the Jhalak Prize are open 👇 #BookSky
Jhalak Prize submissions open for 10th year
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November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A decade of amazing work in commissioning artists for the trophies and showcasing wonderful books and writers. A huge congratulations to everyone who helped establish the prize and make this happen.
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
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I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
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We are seeing multiple university course closures across a range of arts, humanities & social sciences. I'll be in the East Midlands at De Montfort University on Thurs 27 Nov talking about why these disciplines are essential to the future of the UK. All welcome
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
Shaping a Brighter Future
The first event in our Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, delivered by Hetan Shah, Chief Executive, The British Academy
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November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
We are seeing multiple university course closures across a range of arts, humanities & social sciences. I'll be in the East Midlands at De Montfort University on Thurs 27 Nov talking about why these disciplines are essential to the future of the UK. All welcome
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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