🚨NEW ESSAY ALERT🚨Broken Connections: Fieldnotes from the Old Internet. The most personal thing I've written in years. I trace my history with internet communities & online relationships & how much of that is now gone. And a lot about LiveJournal. Open Access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This excellent paper from @alicetiara.bsky.social et al gives an insight into why this stuff is so powerful… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Come and work with us! We’re looking for an Associate Publisher / Publishing Manager to join the team in Sheffield (hybrid). Deadline for applications is 20 April.
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What's that? A rare permanent academic job? Come join me in our School of Arts as a Lecturer in Theatre!
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More evidence of the long-term impact of austerity on children and families: hardship and poverty. Plenty of us argued at the time that these would be the outcomes but George Osborne and the rest continued regardless (and continue to thrive now). www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Incredible voice. An Indian cultural legend.
Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.
If you are young and have writing ambitions do check out this ace competition, arranged by @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social. Deadline not far off. Please share widely.
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I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
A lot has bothered me about the reporting of the Kanye West banned. Firstly how it has been framed as all about it the Jewish community - but we should all be against Nazism! This country fought Nazis. Songs called Heil Hitler should not just be for the Jewish community to object to. And secondly…
The Fascist International
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A very small percentage of people who submit to Broken Sleep Books actually buy a book from us. If every submitter bought just 1 title, it would make a huge difference.
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🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Want to know capitalism’s endgame? Just look at private equity – it has captured our everyday lives | Hettie O'Brien
Today in “Only Christians get to be political in America”
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Osborne, Gove, and others, all trotting along merrily ignoring the consequences of the policies they championed. Many of us howled into the wind about it at the time and were dismissed.
Another datapoint for, "The Consequences of George Osborne" @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review!
We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵
Oh so now copyright matters.
The Constitution, not the president, decides who is a citizen.
Jeez, Susie, what a mess x
We call them The Other Place, obvs! Yes, hope to make it up the hill. The book sounds great.
Halfway through series 6 of #TheWestWing and the two storylines are whether to bomb Iran and Toby encouraging Belarus to adopt a parliamentary system of govt because of the risk of authoritarianism. *Sigh*
Two universities in our city, Glen! Will try to get over to see you.
My cuz is a season ticket holder. She will not be happy at all.
A couple of handfuls of the world's richest people are literally orchestrating the collapse of the democratic public sphere, globally, and everyone else is just letting them.
2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free
2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30
Was just reading this article, and it's great that this has taken another step forward, pity still three years away
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The short/medium term aim is not actually to deport anyone, but to make all minorities feel afraid, to justify discrimination in real life - in the labour market, in housing, on the streets - and to normalise racism. They hope the 'chill effect' will shove ppl into the shadows of nonparticipation