Our new piece, collectively authored by the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social, reflecting on the state today.

@campolis.bsky.social

Link to the full piece below:

British universities paid security firm to monitor pro-Palestine students - Liberty Investigates Horus provided reports about student protesters' social media use and undertook background checks on a Palestinian guest speaker

My former employer is selling one of its campuses, ending almost all journal subscriptions, and shutting down programs (& laying off staff) left and right, but it has plenty of money to subject its community to surveillance and thought policing.

The problem when I graduated was that there were 200 modern British history PhDs putting in applications for every job, you had to apply for like 50 jobs to get one, and a fair few people left academia before they did. That was unpleasant in its own way, but it wasn’t a death spiral like it is now.

@haymarketbooks.org and I proudly present: Read Theory

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-e...

LETS FUCKING GO

Vote for my pal and campaign for the greens!!!!

Newcastle has a long and proud history of resistance, solidarity, and political struggle. But there hasn’t been a radical bookshop here since the 80s.

Books from Below are fundraising to open a new radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle UK!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

Diabolical

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Things are SO awful in UKHE; solidarity with all academics navigating an incredibly brutal landscape

A graphic for an article on the MIT Press Reader featuring an assortment of 60s-era sketches above a headline that reads "The 1960s Art School Experiment That Redefined Creativity" and a subheading of "A groundbreaking study revealed taht the most compelling artists seek to find problems, not solve them. Under that, the author's name (Keith Sawyer).

A graphic for an article on the MIT Press Reader featuring a field of crabapple trees above a headline that reads "What the Crabapples Are Telling Us" and a subheading of "In Ohio, a familiar spring ritual is arriving earlier — and with it, quiet signs of a changing climate.". Under that, the author's name (Theresa Crimmins).

We're launching a new series today! "Footnotes" asks authors to reflect on a person, study, or curiosity that shaped their thinking or never quite made it into their work. This week: Keith Sawyer on creativity research & Theresa Crimmins on shifting seasons: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/footnotes/

Collapse Finance, Part 1: Introduction - Notes - e-flux Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou introduces an essay series on “collapse finance” as a framework for understanding how finance increasingly governs through crisis. Part 1 of 4.

"Categories that once gave structure to financial crisis response—risk, security, recovery, “the market” itself—are becoming increasingly unstable. Risk appears less calculable, volatility continuous+the distinction between breakdown+opportunity difficult to sustain."

www.e-flux.com/notes/678348...

you love to see it

Lmao every apartment I’ve seen has like 3 people who make twice as much money as me also going to see it and bidding up the price. If you do this kind of shit you are the problem and should consider killing yourself instead

some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small

SEN BERNIE SANDERS: Artificial intelligence is coming for the working class. We must fight back Legislation sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for a federal moratorium on new AI data centers until safeguards protect workers from mass job losses driven by Big Tech oligarchs.

"The reality is that the AI oligarchs do not want to just replace specific jobs. They want to replace workers."

www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-...

Baptists, Bengalis, and the Construction of Agricultural and Horticultural Science in India, 1793-1840 | NACBS Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Laura Tavolacci’s recent work Baptists, Bengalis, and the Construction of Agricultural and Horticultural Science in India, 1793-1840. Anna Winterbottom will ...

📢Online book event!

Join us next week to hear more about Laura Tavolacci's new book Baptists, Bengalis, and the Construction of Agricultural and Horticultural Science in India, 1793-1840.

📅April 23
⏰12pm noon ET
Free and open to the public

Info and rsvp here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

“Yale admits roughly 2,300 students a year. SUNY’s 64-campus system serves nearly 400,000.”

Photograph of archive boxes on shelves in one of our strongrooms.

Photograph of archive boxes at our external store.

What's not to love? #ArchiveStorage #Archive30

A bright coral red graphic with black and white Yugoslavian stamps accross the bottom. Text in the centre reads Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961 - 1979. With University of Exeter. Uncover fresh insights into Cold War socialism and anti-colonialism from a Yugoslav perspective, centering on the largely unexamined Joint Translation Service (JTS) bulletins. Deadline Tuesday 5 May.

Applications now open for a fully-funded PhD studentship exploring Yugoslavia’s multifaceted role during the Cold War, co-supervised with @exeter.ac.uk .

This is one of a number of studentships available as part of AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme.

Find out more: link.bl.uk/q95

The Warehouse, in Plain Sight That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

Please read @charmainechua.bsky.social on the warehouse as not so much a space of storage as it is a switch (turning off and on movement of capital and goods) and a trap (for low wage workers) and, now, a space of literal DHS incarceration. placesjournal.org/article/the-...

Brooklyn Public Library art exhibit asks visitors to imagine world without prisons “The Warehouse” is a collaboration between artist Vic Liu and abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba builds an environment for possible answers

The terrific @prismreports.org wrote about The Warehouse!

If you're in NYC, check out this free exhibit through June 27.

Radical Histories - Manchester University Press The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.

Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Lmao

We're staring down a brutally hot summer and energy and food shocks and cost of living crisis that climate change intensifies. There's endless money for war. But voters want policies that address the real threats to their security. At @cplusc.bsky.social, our new agenda has the solutions🧵

At its core, the political economy of scholarship was never supposed to rely on ~$50k from a smelting fortune. Institutions have hollowed out their support, the feds have done the same, and all that's left is inadequate private funding.

Inject this into my veins.

Polanski's Greens visit Lewisham estate after launching housing-focussed local election campaign | South West Londoner Polanski launches Green local election campaign Zack Polanski visited a Lewisham housing estate yesterday to highlight the impact of ‘failing Labour councils’ following the Green Party’s local election campaign launch.

“We need to make sure that we are building the homes that people actually need, that are fit to live in, that are affordable and accessible.”

www.swlondoner.co.uk/news/1004202...

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

lol

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate