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visiting fellow LSE Sociology · editor at @philosopher1923.bsky.social · co-convenor @bsarace.bsky.social · he/him/they · Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)/London
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The BSA Race & Ethnicity Study Group is excited to launch #criticalcurrents:, a new monthly online seminar series for sharing and discussing work-in-progress on #race and #ethnicity.
Read our CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Deadline: 2 December 2025
#sociology #AcademicSky #BSA
Read our CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Deadline: 2 December 2025
#sociology #AcademicSky #BSA
An excellent opportunity to share your work!
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TODAY: Mon. Dec. 1 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
"Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning"
Kathleen Higgins and Kate Warlow-Corcoran
On grief, and how aesthetic practices can ease the disorienting effects of loss and help communal flourishing.
#Philosophy #Aesthetics
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
"Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning"
Kathleen Higgins and Kate Warlow-Corcoran
On grief, and how aesthetic practices can ease the disorienting effects of loss and help communal flourishing.
#Philosophy #Aesthetics
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
www.tickettailor.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
TODAY: Mon. Dec. 1 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
"Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning"
Kathleen Higgins and Kate Warlow-Corcoran
On grief, and how aesthetic practices can ease the disorienting effects of loss and help communal flourishing.
#Philosophy #Aesthetics
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
"Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning"
Kathleen Higgins and Kate Warlow-Corcoran
On grief, and how aesthetic practices can ease the disorienting effects of loss and help communal flourishing.
#Philosophy #Aesthetics
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
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Sunday read:
"The End Is Not The End"
Nishok G U's discussion of Ben Ware's "On Extinction" reimagines crises like climate collapse and political stagnation not as apocalyptic ends but opportunities for radical renewal.
#Philosophy #ClimateCrisis
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-end...
"The End Is Not The End"
Nishok G U's discussion of Ben Ware's "On Extinction" reimagines crises like climate collapse and political stagnation not as apocalyptic ends but opportunities for radical renewal.
#Philosophy #ClimateCrisis
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-end...
"The End" is not the End
In this review, Nishok G U discusses Ben Ware's book, On Extinction, which reimagines contemporary crises like climate collapse and political stagnation not as apocalyptic ends but as opportunities fo...
www.thephilosopher1923.org
November 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Sunday read:
"The End Is Not The End"
Nishok G U's discussion of Ben Ware's "On Extinction" reimagines crises like climate collapse and political stagnation not as apocalyptic ends but opportunities for radical renewal.
#Philosophy #ClimateCrisis
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-end...
"The End Is Not The End"
Nishok G U's discussion of Ben Ware's "On Extinction" reimagines crises like climate collapse and political stagnation not as apocalyptic ends but opportunities for radical renewal.
#Philosophy #ClimateCrisis
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-end...
@philosopher1923.bsky.social published a beautifully written review of Alexis P. Gumbs’s biography of Audre Lorde by Caleb Ward. I highly recommend it. #BlackFeminism #BlackStudies
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/inherit...
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/inherit...
"Inheriting the Poetry of Survival": Caleb Ward reviews "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Keywords: Poetry; Biography; Black Feminism)
"Something as insubstantial as a poetic image, if it touches on some truth or real feeling, can launch transformations."
www.thephilosopher1923.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
@philosopher1923.bsky.social published a beautifully written review of Alexis P. Gumbs’s biography of Audre Lorde by Caleb Ward. I highly recommend it. #BlackFeminism #BlackStudies
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/inherit...
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/inherit...
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⏰ Reminder: The deadline to submit your paper for our online seminars is 2 December 2025!
The BSA Race & Ethnicity Study Group is excited to launch #criticalcurrents:, a new monthly online seminar series for sharing and discussing work-in-progress on #race and #ethnicity.
Read our CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Deadline: 2 December 2025
#sociology #AcademicSky #BSA
Read our CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Deadline: 2 December 2025
#sociology #AcademicSky #BSA
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
⏰ Reminder: The deadline to submit your paper for our online seminars is 2 December 2025!
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LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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1 Associate Professorship in Sociology, University of Oxford: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE046/a...
Associate Professorship in Sociology at University of Oxford
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Associate Professorship in Sociology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
1 Associate Professorship in Sociology, University of Oxford: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE046/a...
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It's live! To be added, if you're a member, please complete this form: forms.gle/gLVci4AUE9mw...
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
It's live! To be added, if you're a member, please complete this form: forms.gle/gLVci4AUE9mw...
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🎥 VIDEO: Immigration, Policy and Protest
Watch our most recent Conversations event as panellists @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social look at the factors shaping a national conversation.
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Watch our most recent Conversations event as panellists @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social look at the factors shaping a national conversation.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🎥 VIDEO: Immigration, Policy and Protest
Watch our most recent Conversations event as panellists @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social look at the factors shaping a national conversation.
buff.ly/vBALT9v
Watch our most recent Conversations event as panellists @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social look at the factors shaping a national conversation.
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We would like to start our own Starter Pack 🦋, please join it by completing this form:
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#AcademicSky #Sociology #BSA #ESRC #StarterPack
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#AcademicSky #Sociology #BSA #ESRC #StarterPack
BSA RESG Starter Pack 🦋
Join Our Starter Pack on Bluesky
Please complete this form if you would like to be added to our Starter Pack on Bluesky.
To be included, you must be a member of our Race and Ethnicity Study Group (mem...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
We would like to start our own Starter Pack 🦋, please join it by completing this form:
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#AcademicSky #Sociology #BSA #ESRC #StarterPack
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#AcademicSky #Sociology #BSA #ESRC #StarterPack
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To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, Identities presents a curated selection of articles that illuminate Black histories and lived experiences across the Black Atlantic.
Read the collection with #FreeAccess:
www.tandfonline.com/...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Read the collection with #FreeAccess:
www.tandfonline.com/...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, Identities presents a curated selection of articles that illuminate Black histories and lived experiences across the Black Atlantic.
Read the collection with #FreeAccess:
www.tandfonline.com/...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Read the collection with #FreeAccess:
www.tandfonline.com/...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Asylum accommodation: "The Home Office has undoubtedly been operating in an extremely challenging environment, but its chaotic response has demonstrated that it has not been up to the challenge", MPs report. publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
The Home Office's management of asylum accommodation
publications.parliament.uk
October 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Asylum accommodation: "The Home Office has undoubtedly been operating in an extremely challenging environment, but its chaotic response has demonstrated that it has not been up to the challenge", MPs report. publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cm...
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As the BSA Race and Ethnicity Convenors, we express our full support for the demands outlined by Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians. This letter was sent to Professor Rachel Brooks (BSA President) and Professor Les Back (BSA Vice President).
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
As the BSA Race and Ethnicity Convenors, we express our full support for the demands outlined by Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians. This letter was sent to Professor Rachel Brooks (BSA President) and Professor Les Back (BSA Vice President).
An excellent opportunity to share your work!
The BSA Race & Ethnicity Study Group is excited to launch #criticalcurrents:, a new monthly online seminar series for sharing and discussing work-in-progress on #race and #ethnicity.
Read our CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Deadline: 2 December 2025
#sociology #AcademicSky #BSA
Read our CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Deadline: 2 December 2025
#sociology #AcademicSky #BSA
October 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
An excellent opportunity to share your work!
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A dispatch from SCI Huntingdon in Pennsylvania about the time Luigi Mangione arrived at the prison.
When Luigi Mangione Came to Our Prison
Luigi Mangione was incarcerated at my Pennsylvania prison, SCI Huntingdon, for close to two weeks in December. Here's what we saw.
prisonjournalismproject.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A dispatch from SCI Huntingdon in Pennsylvania about the time Luigi Mangione arrived at the prison.
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The new report by @franceskalbs.bsky.social is out. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
October 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The new report by @franceskalbs.bsky.social is out. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
Sometimes I think about the conditions in which one becomes an academic today. (1/4)
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Sometimes I think about the conditions in which one becomes an academic today. (1/4)
Join our next screening at the Chestnut Community Centre in Haringey! Free for all!
‘No One Leaves Home Unless…’: Our Autumn Series on Migration
This summer, our first series of film screenings, focused on recent local history in Haringey and Tottenham in particular. We began with The Hard Stop (2015), which took an intimate look at the liv…
haringeycommunitycinema.uk
October 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Join our next screening at the Chestnut Community Centre in Haringey! Free for all!
Fiona and I will be at Sussex University to talk about & make zines! thanks to @idanewid.bsky.social for inviting us! 🪸 #beautyasamethod #zine #creativemethodologies #qualitativeresearch
October 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Fiona and I will be at Sussex University to talk about & make zines! thanks to @idanewid.bsky.social for inviting us! 🪸 #beautyasamethod #zine #creativemethodologies #qualitativeresearch
September 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
After years of helping people navigate the #hostileenvironment, I'm raising money for my own battle against it. Donate/Share if you like!
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September 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
After years of helping people navigate the #hostileenvironment, I'm raising money for my own battle against it. Donate/Share if you like!
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🥳 Officially a Dr! Thanks to my supervisors, Prof Chetan Bhatt & Dr @sarasalem.bsky.social, to the generous engagement with my thesis by Prof @jean23bean.bsky.social and Dr @kojokoram.bsky.social 🙏🏾
August 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🥳 Officially a Dr! Thanks to my supervisors, Prof Chetan Bhatt & Dr @sarasalem.bsky.social, to the generous engagement with my thesis by Prof @jean23bean.bsky.social and Dr @kojokoram.bsky.social 🙏🏾
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replugging this in the week of Fanon's 100th birthday, because the way he is misinterpreted keeps me up at night
www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/h...
www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/h...
Rahul Rao · Review article: How settler colonialism ends (2024)
www.radicalphilosophy.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
replugging this in the week of Fanon's 100th birthday, because the way he is misinterpreted keeps me up at night
www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/h...
www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/h...