They share Starmer's forensic sensibilities.

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.

And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.

And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.

And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

A brutal reading that must be circulated once and again.

Flyer with USF Logo for the 2026 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS of the International Fellowships on a Photo by Zeke Tucker

Flyer with USF Logo for the 2026 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS of the International Fellowships, on a blue background, with the following details: Open to early-to-mid-career urban scholars from the Global South; PhD must have been awarded within the last 10 years; Requires a Mentor at your chosen host university; deadline 6 July 2026 at 23:59 UTC +0; Apply online; This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.

📢 2026 USF International Fellowships - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.

Deadline: 6 July 2026
Read more & apply : https://ow.ly/ezMb50YILbw

21 April 14:30 BST Online

Theorizing from Lived Experience: Feminist and Queer Theory

A roundtable with:

Jo Littler (Goldsmiths) @jolittler.bsky.social
Billy Holzberg (KCL)
Nicola Smith (Birmingham)
Lois McNay (Oxford)

Free and open to all. To register, follow the link tinyurl.com/4dw285x6

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon.

You are being lied to

Queen's in Canada has done some of the resource-gathering about Nous: qcaa.ca/resources/no...

But yes, we need a list. Because Nous itself has become *very* evasive in whom they're selling their nonsense to, no longer naming even when using 'testimonies' in casestudies: nousgroup.com/case-studies

Yo encuentro más intuitivo contar por palabras. Como 2000-2500 dan para quince minutos, dependiendo de qué tan rápido hable uno.

Steak and lobster for Pentagon Nazis, black rain, death, and bunker-busters for everyone else.

Israel used white phosphorus in Lebanon: Report <article data-history-node-id="435216" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-used-white-phosphorus-lebanon-report" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-used-white-phosphorus-lebanon-report" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel used white phosphorus in Lebanon: Report </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><article data-scroll-anchor="true" data-testid="conversation-turn-262" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-WEB:43424b1b-1af2-4bbf-8c03-469b2ced62cf-130" dir="auto" tabindex="-1"> <p data-end="95" data-start="0">Human Rights Watch said on Monday that the Israeli military fired white phosphorus munitions over residential areas in southern Lebanon earlier this month which is illegal under international law.</p> <p data-end="533" data-start="298">According to the rights group, the incident occurred on March 3 in the town of Yohmor. Investigators said they verified and geolocated seven images showing airburst white phosphorus munitions detonating above a populated neighbourhood.</p> <p data-end="651" data-start="535">The images also showed civil defence crews responding to fires in at least two homes and a car in the affected area.</p> <p data-end="977" data-start="653">“The Israeli military’s unlawful use of white phosphorus over residential areas is extremely alarming and will have dire consequences for civilians,” said Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The incendiary effects of white phosphorous can cause death or cruel injuries that result in lifelong suffering.”</p> <p data-end="1153" data-start="979">White phosphorus is a chemical substance delivered through artillery shells, rockets or bombs. It ignites when it comes into contact with oxygen and can rapidly spread fires.</p> <p data-end="1408" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="1155">Human Rights Watch said the use of airburst white phosphorus in populated areas is considered indiscriminate under international humanitarian law and fails to meet legal obligations requiring forces to take all feasible precautions to protect civilians.</p> </article> </div> </div> </article>

Israel used white phosphorus in Lebanon: Report - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-upda...

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

Unleashing utter hell, and not even having a clue why www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I'm out of words here

War crime upon war crime upon war crime

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

they double bombed an elementary school for girls

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.

NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

In any other sector this would be front page news along with government funding announcements.

The UK just seems to not value higher education.

Book Launch: From the Bog to the Cloud, with Patrick Bresnihan Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie, From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland, 17 February

Today: @pbresnihan.bsky.social will be in Edinburgh to discuss his new book, From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Screenshot of email that reads: “This status will remain in place until the University receives notification that you are no longer participating in that action. During this period, any work undertaken will be regarded as voluntary.”

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Hector Becerril, Ben Anderson & Alejandro de Coss Corzo (2026) entitled: 'The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico' with a red banner at the top. The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid-and-Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named and felt as an exception to ordinary life. By focusing on how exceptionality was and is produced, the paper supplements how human geography understands and relates to events, arguing for an approach that focuses on the ‘life of events’: following how events begin, happen, change, end and live on. This approach sits between social constructivist and realist approaches to events, orientating inquiry to the ongoing mediation of impactive experience, via Lauren Berlant's work. Through this approach, the paper tracks the affective-material variations through which Ingrid-and-Manuel became and remains an exception: excess, (dis)connection, loss and damage, recovery.

New in TIBG:

'The life of events: Exception and everyday life in Acapulco, Mexico' by Hector Becerril, @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social

This paper draws on Berlant to consider how certain events, such as storms, become exceptions to ordinary life.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Because sharing is caring, below you'll find some calls for papers for this year's @rgsibg.bsky.social conference that have been circulated through the mailing lists I'm suscribed to. I'm leaving deadlines / contact info for each, in case you'd like to know more. #RGS2026

Rethinking the urban South? Centering “unprecedented” risk and repair As the climate crisis intensifies, those least responsible for its root causes are disproportionately affected by disaster, where loss and damage are the presumptive endpoints of unmitigated ecolog...

Dr Beki McElvain, Lecturer in Human Geography @lborogeog.bsky.social, has joined the Editorial Board of Urban Geography. 👏

Beki also recently published in the journal, together with @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social, on 'Rethinking the urban South?'. Read open access here: doi.org/10.1080/0272...

Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action

The Guardian doing inexplicable voluntary free public relations work for a corporation profiting from sexual abuse by headlining this as the image gen being "turned off". It isn't off: they've just monetised it. What the fuck are we doing here people, come on.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Water Access in Mexico City: A Review of Local Research Approaches Water has shaped Mexico City since its origin as a city in a lake through the transformation of this territory into a mega city with inequalities in water supply, distribution, and consumption. Throu...

Gerardo Sámano Romero and Alma Chávez-Mejía have just published a review of scholarship on water access in Mexico City. A valuable resource for those studying this city, or interested in contemporary approaches to the urban political ecology of water: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Guardian, following the bold steps of Keir Starmer, cannot even bring themselves to call the kidnapping of a sitting president illegal, instead going for the 'but what if the fascists get angry at us?' adjective "controversial".

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.

Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

The BBC keeps calling the imperialist actions of the US 'unprecedented'; I wonder if they know anything about the history of Latin America in the last 200 years or so.

Small blue house perched precariously on the edge of a concrete structure against a cloudy sky.

📣Join the States of Precarity team for the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report.

📅 Wednesday 14 January
🎦 Online
👉 Sign up to attend: https://bit.ly/4rvQgP2

Check out the report before the launch: https://bit.ly/44HTUvg

🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role.

Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...