Any good critical read on AI in higher ed recently? Would like to catch up on the discourse...

Google marks all Gemini-created text with its SynthID text watermarking system. They have released public detectors for media. They have not for text, and they have not publicly said why they haven't. Regulators and legislators should ask them.

guys why does it feel so weird when academics write 'I am hiring' lol, might have done it myself, cringing

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.

"In October 2024, the University of Bristol provided the firm with a list of student protest groups it wished to receive alerts about, an internal university email suggests. It included pro-Palestinian and animal rights activists." www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

I do speak French, not the point

probably not intellectual enough, but find it so annoying when authors leave quotes in French in EN academic texts untranslated (not even in the footnote).

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.

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

this kind of thing is happening too often and too widely, and we're just sitting ducks in the face of it. good on al jazeera and liberty investigates for their work in uncovering it.

New Tasks and New Forces: International Legal Thought After Neo/Liberal Legalism - Faculty of Law | University of Macau New Tasks and New Forces: International Legal Thought After Neo/Liberal Legalism NTINA TZOUVALA Information Macau Journal of Global Legal Studies, Volume 3 (2026)View PDF

Taking a break from my holiday to share this piece that has been torturing me for months: fll.um.edu.mo/new-tasks-an... I explore whether there is something genuinely new about this moment (yes, for sure), why is neo/liberal legalism collapsing, and what does this all mean for IL scholarship

Editorial in the new issue: @vbogoesky.bsky.social on the Court's AMWD decision and its impact on social europe.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Greta Thunberg is right.

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants.

Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

For those in Amsterdam: Tomorrow (April 8, 7-9pm) the second event of the "Week of Resistance for Migrant Justice" is taking place at the UvA, REC campus, Room A3.15. The event will address the exploitative working conditions, hostile societal environment and increasing state repression in NL & US.

Resistance for Migrant Justice 3.0: Advocacy across the Atlantic Event with migrant workers and organizations examining tools and materials to build migrant rights and respect

Three important events on Migrant Justice next week together with comrades from the dairy worker organization Migrant Justice from Vermont, USA. If you are in the Hague or Amsterdam next week, check them out: www.iss.nl/en/events/re...

Thank you for sharing it with us 💜 Looking amazing!

Things I have seen in the rubble of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon over the past week. More up here: www.instagram.com/p/DWPjaZSjUv...

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Why are people so forgiving of Habermas Gaza genocide denialism

Habermas as an ethnic thinker Par Excellence: on critique, Palestine and the role of intellectuals Irfan Ahmad Taking Habermas’ 2023 statement on Palestinians-Israel as the point of entry, this article examines his concept of critique. Against the dominant view of him as a philosopher of ‘universalism’ and ‘critical rationality,’ my thesis is that Habermas is an ethnic thinker, for, his ideas of critique and universalism unidirectionally rest on ‘to all’ rather than ‘from all.’ Consequently, it is missionary and borders on Islamophobia, particularly after 9/11. I show how Habermas’ denial of Palestinians’ genocide and his unqualified support to ‘Israel's right to exist’ as integral to Germany's ‘democratic ethos’ is neither an ample departure from his participation in the Hitler Youth nor from his understanding of the Enlightenment-modernity but largely their offshoots. I also juxtapose Habermas’ role as a public intellectual with that of Imam Malik (d. 795) who chose to be flogged rather than parrot unjust language of power elites. I conclude with three broad implications this article has in the field of teaching in higher education.

This piece goes so hard:

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

It’s packed ❤️🥰

No to war in Iran!

So many billionaires currently being openly nazis isn't getting enough attention, like literally from elons daily tweets to the epstein files. It is so bad

it's past simple, use it

After so many years of writing in English I still tend to overuse present perfect, no hope (reading copy edits)

haven't used the fascist website forever, and oddly only now i thought of deleting the account

The University as a Site of Struggle: Scholarship and Teaching in Times of Genocide - Decolonial Futures This panel examines what it means to teach, research, and produce knowledge at a moment of profound rupture. As we witness the ongoing genocide in Gaza, universities have emerged not as neutral spaces...

We had such a good conversation at this event two weeks ago. Just 1.5 hour is basically nothing esp if you want to discuss both more big picture context and on the ground solidarity activities. In any case, will plan at least a whole day thing next time decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...

Government criticised for inaction on farmworkers abuse Criticism comes after the rejection of various ideas, put forward by its own advisers, on how to protect migrant workers from exploitation

Thank you, as always @mellino.bsky.social, for excellent reporting on the ongoing scandal of conidtions for the workers who put food on our tables 🙏

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

When fake neutrality is the most political statement of all

At the Berlinale, Art Is Political. Except on Palestine. How the Berlinale Jury’s Turn to “Neutrality” Exposed the Limits of Solidarity in Germany’s Cultural Sphere

At the Berlinale, Art Is Political. Except on Palestine. My Latest on Substack
hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/the-most-p...

Government criticised for inaction on farmworkers abuse Criticism comes after the rejection of various ideas, put forward by its own advisers, on how to protect migrant workers from exploitation

In 2024 the government's Migration Advisory Committee recommended a series of reforms of the seasonal worker visa to protect workers from exploitation.

18 months later,the government has rejected or ignored the bulk of the worker rights recommendations
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...