David Pearson
@dj-pearson.bsky.social
Librarian at SOAS Library
Anthropology, Linguistics, Migration, Food Studies, Teaching, HEIs
https://soas.libguides.com/
Anthropology, Linguistics, Migration, Food Studies, Teaching, HEIs
https://soas.libguides.com/
⚠️ New EU study finds “forever chemical” TFA in over 80% of tested cereal products (bread, pasta, flour). Still unregulated in food.
📄 Full report:
www.pan-europe.info/sites/pan-eu...
#PFAS #FoodSafety #PublicHealth #ForeverChemicals #viaponticafoundation #paneurope
📄 Full report:
www.pan-europe.info/sites/pan-eu...
#PFAS #FoodSafety #PublicHealth #ForeverChemicals #viaponticafoundation #paneurope
December 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Inaugural Lecture from SOAS @soasuni.bsky.social Linguistics Professor Julia Sallabank, titled 'Language revitalisation and reclamation: theorising processes and ideologies'
Dec 11 · 5:30 pm GMT
#linguistics #language #Languagerevitalisation #Endangeredlanguages #Languagedocumentation
Dec 11 · 5:30 pm GMT
#linguistics #language #Languagerevitalisation #Endangeredlanguages #Languagedocumentation
Prof. Julia Sallabank, who leads RISE UP's SOAS team, will give her inaugural lecture on the pressures facing minoritised languages and what is needed to keep them in use.
Although an in-person event, it will be recorded and available to watch online afterwards.
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Although an in-person event, it will be recorded and available to watch online afterwards.
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/inaugural-lecture-series-professor-julia-sallabank"
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Inaugural Lecture from SOAS @soasuni.bsky.social Linguistics Professor Julia Sallabank, titled 'Language revitalisation and reclamation: theorising processes and ideologies'
Dec 11 · 5:30 pm GMT
#linguistics #language #Languagerevitalisation #Endangeredlanguages #Languagedocumentation
Dec 11 · 5:30 pm GMT
#linguistics #language #Languagerevitalisation #Endangeredlanguages #Languagedocumentation
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
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'He told BBC Scotland News he hoped redundancies could be avoided, but said there needed to be a "fundamental look" at the current funding model for universities.'
He's right of course about the funding model, for Scotland, the other UK nations and the UK.
But surely VCs should say more. 1/2
He's right of course about the funding model, for Scotland, the other UK nations and the UK.
But surely VCs should say more. 1/2
Breaking even a 'challenge' for the University of Aberdeen
New principal Prof Peter Edwards says there needs to be a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
'He told BBC Scotland News he hoped redundancies could be avoided, but said there needed to be a "fundamental look" at the current funding model for universities.'
He's right of course about the funding model, for Scotland, the other UK nations and the UK.
But surely VCs should say more. 1/2
He's right of course about the funding model, for Scotland, the other UK nations and the UK.
But surely VCs should say more. 1/2
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Librarians are the single most under-used resource on campus. When was the last time you talked to yours? They can support not only your research but your teaching too.
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Librarians are the single most under-used resource on campus. When was the last time you talked to yours? They can support not only your research but your teaching too.
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✊ Fist (Yantra the Sacred Ink Series), Cedric Arnold (Thailand, 2010)
Detail of sacred yantra tattoos — symbols of protection & strength found across Southeast Asia.
See it in #GiftedExhibition, on view at SOAS Gallery until 13 Dec.
#SOASGallery #SOASCollections
Detail of sacred yantra tattoos — symbols of protection & strength found across Southeast Asia.
See it in #GiftedExhibition, on view at SOAS Gallery until 13 Dec.
#SOASGallery #SOASCollections
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
✊ Fist (Yantra the Sacred Ink Series), Cedric Arnold (Thailand, 2010)
Detail of sacred yantra tattoos — symbols of protection & strength found across Southeast Asia.
See it in #GiftedExhibition, on view at SOAS Gallery until 13 Dec.
#SOASGallery #SOASCollections
Detail of sacred yantra tattoos — symbols of protection & strength found across Southeast Asia.
See it in #GiftedExhibition, on view at SOAS Gallery until 13 Dec.
#SOASGallery #SOASCollections
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📣 Our departmental research seminar continues continues tomorrow:
Our own Naomi Leite will be speaking about
'Doubt, Dissonance and Divided Selves in the "Rational" West'
📅 3 December, 3–5pm
📍 Main Building, RB01 | In-person & hybrid
Join online at this link: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9374936443...
Our own Naomi Leite will be speaking about
'Doubt, Dissonance and Divided Selves in the "Rational" West'
📅 3 December, 3–5pm
📍 Main Building, RB01 | In-person & hybrid
Join online at this link: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9374936443...
Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
📣 Our departmental research seminar continues continues tomorrow:
Our own Naomi Leite will be speaking about
'Doubt, Dissonance and Divided Selves in the "Rational" West'
📅 3 December, 3–5pm
📍 Main Building, RB01 | In-person & hybrid
Join online at this link: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9374936443...
Our own Naomi Leite will be speaking about
'Doubt, Dissonance and Divided Selves in the "Rational" West'
📅 3 December, 3–5pm
📍 Main Building, RB01 | In-person & hybrid
Join online at this link: soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/9374936443...
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Behind the story: Amrit Sufi on how writing enabled her to share her culture
Behind the story: Amrit Sufi on how writing enabled her to share her culture
As part of our “Behind the Story” challenge fundraising campaign, we feature Amrit Sufi from India, who shares why working on a particular story was important. Please consider donating to keep GV strong.
community.globalvoices.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Behind the story: Amrit Sufi on how writing enabled her to share her culture
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"Amrit Sufi, who speaks the Angika language of India’s eastern state of Bihar, said that it is not used in schools and is rarely written down, which is accelerating its downfall. Some people are also ashamed to speak it, seeing it as inferior to dominant languages such as Hindi."
January 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"Amrit Sufi, who speaks the Angika language of India’s eastern state of Bihar, said that it is not used in schools and is rarely written down, which is accelerating its downfall. Some people are also ashamed to speak it, seeing it as inferior to dominant languages such as Hindi."
How citizen archivists in South Asia confront the online marginalization of oral cultures and languages by Amrit Sufi
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How citizen archivists in South Asia confront the online marginalization of oral cultures and languages
Recording of Bisukallu song. Image via Wikipedia by Santhosh Notagar99. CC0. What can an O Bele folk song from the Tulu community in southern India tell us about how farmers wou…
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December 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
How citizen archivists in South Asia confront the online marginalization of oral cultures and languages by Amrit Sufi
diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/27/h...
diff.wikimedia.org/2025/11/27/h...
Large language mistake by @benjaminjriley.bsky.social -
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Large language mistake by @benjaminjriley.bsky.social -
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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📣 Join us for a screening of Berke Baş’s 'Hold Still' and a discussion with the director and scholars.
The discussion marks the public launch of Archives of Solidarity, an AHRC-funded project at SOAS.
📅 3 Dec, 5–8pm
📍 RG01, SOAS Main Building
Details & registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
The discussion marks the public launch of Archives of Solidarity, an AHRC-funded project at SOAS.
📅 3 Dec, 5–8pm
📍 RG01, SOAS Main Building
Details & registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Film Screening and Public Launch Discussion: 'Dargeçit' (Hold Still) and Archives of Solidarity
The Archives of Solidarity project team presents a film screening and discussion on archives of disappearance, violence and solidarity.
www.soas.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
📣 Join us for a screening of Berke Baş’s 'Hold Still' and a discussion with the director and scholars.
The discussion marks the public launch of Archives of Solidarity, an AHRC-funded project at SOAS.
📅 3 Dec, 5–8pm
📍 RG01, SOAS Main Building
Details & registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
The discussion marks the public launch of Archives of Solidarity, an AHRC-funded project at SOAS.
📅 3 Dec, 5–8pm
📍 RG01, SOAS Main Building
Details & registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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Great book launch at the Marx Memorial Library yesterday for Henry Dee’s ‘Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa’. Dee pictured right; beside him is Dr Wayne Dooling of SOAS, who kindly acted as discussant sslh.org.uk/2025/11/04/m...
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Great book launch at the Marx Memorial Library yesterday for Henry Dee’s ‘Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa’. Dee pictured right; beside him is Dr Wayne Dooling of SOAS, who kindly acted as discussant sslh.org.uk/2025/11/04/m...
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TODAY at 5PM
Join SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies' in-depth conversation with Lana Tatour about her co-edited book, Race and the Question of Palestine (2025)
Event info & registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
📚Read the book: soas.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1482762...
Join SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies' in-depth conversation with Lana Tatour about her co-edited book, Race and the Question of Palestine (2025)
Event info & registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
📚Read the book: soas.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1482762...
Race and the Question of Palestine
Imperial and settler-colonial projects cannot be understood outside the grammar of race; 'Race and the Question of Palestine' explores how race operates as a framework for oppression in Palestine.
www.soas.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
TODAY at 5PM
Join SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies' in-depth conversation with Lana Tatour about her co-edited book, Race and the Question of Palestine (2025)
Event info & registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
📚Read the book: soas.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1482762...
Join SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies' in-depth conversation with Lana Tatour about her co-edited book, Race and the Question of Palestine (2025)
Event info & registration: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
📚Read the book: soas.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1482762...
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Spring, summer and autumn are the party seasons for trees but winter is when you really get to know them as people.
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Spring, summer and autumn are the party seasons for trees but winter is when you really get to know them as people.
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The Doctor is right and correct
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Doctor is right and correct
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'TEF uses programme level metrics to make judgements about institutional quality. It is both conceptual and methodological nonsense to attempt to scale-up judgements of quality from the programme to the institutional level in this way'. 1/3
WEEKEND READING: Three reasons why the TEF will collapse under the weight of OfS and DfE expectations - HEPI
This blog was kindly authored by Paul Ashwin, Professor of Higher Education, Lancaster University. The Office for Students (OfS) and the Department of Education (DfE) have big plans to make the TEF mu...
www.hepi.ac.uk
November 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
'TEF uses programme level metrics to make judgements about institutional quality. It is both conceptual and methodological nonsense to attempt to scale-up judgements of quality from the programme to the institutional level in this way'. 1/3
Fabulous
this is one of my favourites - it's short, but full of punch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv6V...
1970: VICTORIAN TEENAGERS reminisce | Yesterday's Witness | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Fabulous
This is nuts - "at least 52 per cent of internet content was machine-generated by May this year"
Will AI eat itself?
Will AI eat itself?
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This is nuts - "at least 52 per cent of internet content was machine-generated by May this year"
Will AI eat itself?
Will AI eat itself?
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Your occasional reminder that @bookshop.org is open for all of your Christmas book shopping needs. Every sale supports independent bookstores, the books arrive beautifully packaged, and they even have gift wrapping options.
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookshops.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookshops.
uk.bookshop.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Your occasional reminder that @bookshop.org is open for all of your Christmas book shopping needs. Every sale supports independent bookstores, the books arrive beautifully packaged, and they even have gift wrapping options.
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
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Informative, illuminating and full of love for the genre - @gautambhatia88.bsky.social is always on point when he talks about SF. Must read essay about the history of SF in India, most of which I didn’t know about. Can’t wait to check out the many recommendations!!!
Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Informative, illuminating and full of love for the genre - @gautambhatia88.bsky.social is always on point when he talks about SF. Must read essay about the history of SF in India, most of which I didn’t know about. Can’t wait to check out the many recommendations!!!
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Since today will be awash with dire UK university news, here's something positive. Have finally gotten around to reading the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social /ESRC Progressing Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) in the Social Sciences report and associated resources. Really excellent. 1/2
AcSS & ESRC Project: Equality, Diversity & Inclusion – Academy of Social Sciences
acss.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Since today will be awash with dire UK university news, here's something positive. Have finally gotten around to reading the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social /ESRC Progressing Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) in the Social Sciences report and associated resources. Really excellent. 1/2
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oh man, literally my professional life and my hobby are colliding! Interesting library job at Games Workshop!
jobs.games-workshop.com/search-and-a...
jobs.games-workshop.com/search-and-a...
Collections Management Librarian - Games Workshop Jobs
About the Job Games Workshop has an exciting new role for a Collections Management Librarian to join our Archiving team, where you will be responsible for
jobs.games-workshop.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
oh man, literally my professional life and my hobby are colliding! Interesting library job at Games Workshop!
jobs.games-workshop.com/search-and-a...
jobs.games-workshop.com/search-and-a...