It’s incomprehensible how much money is being poured into them when they do this. and why on earth are unis collaborating ??🤷🏻‍♀️

"If I previously implied".. hah. why oh why is the world burning for this?

"I need to be clear: I don’t have any reliable basis to say that Colnbrook IRC’s VOA valuation appears in a tribunal decision. So if I previously implied that, that was overstated / likely incorrect rather than something I can substantiate."

Turns out it lied. There was no published evidence. When I asked if it had lied, it took a weird passive-aggressive tone...

The uni mandated ChatGPT told me it had found published information about Colnbrook from which it could extrapolate to all IRCs, so I asked for the reference to check...

So I am not an AI adopter, but I thought I'd try to see if it could help me find the business rates paid by IRCs...

Call for Papers: Coloniality of the modern state - REPI - Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale

📣 Call for Papers: Coloniality of the modern state
Submit by 15 May to present at the Brussels workshop in November.

This CfP asks: Can the modern state function as an instrument of decolonization? Or can the master’s tools ever dismantle the master’s house? 👇

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Graphic card with text: "As the state has turned to the communicative capacity of penal power because it has lost the ability to cohere political order and define the benefits of citizenship through other means. To understand the Detention Reengineering Initiative, we must understand how our authoritarian present is a product of failed attempts to manage political crises through crimmigration in the past."

As ICE vastly expands its detention portfolio, analytical responses must consider the history of failed crimmigration, so as to reorient towards a different future. Read the latest blog post by @hallamtuck.bsky.social 👇

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Just a few hours left to apply to our masters' dissertation prize for 2026! The winner and runner up will receive £200 and £100 in books from @routledgebooks.bsky.social and have their work featured on the Border Criminologies blog. Deadline midnight tonight 📚👇

www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

BORDR YouTube video by Border Criminologies

Whenever I see that quote I think of this film my colleague Emma Brierely made: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4ZH...

Testing the Applicability of EU Law Abroad: The Italy–Albania Protocol in the Comeri, Sidilli, and Sedrata Hearings Eleonora Celoria , Post-doctoral researcher, FIERI Andreina De Leo *, Post-doctoral researcher, Maastricht University Marcella Ferri ,...

Does the Italy/Albania asylum deal breach EU law?
Report from and analysis of the latest CJEU hearings on the issue, by Eleonora Celoria, @andreinadeleo.bsky.social and Marcella Ferri eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/04/test...

“Time Is So Precious” - Pedro Figueroa interviewed by Sameer Ashar - Inquest Organizer Pedro Figueroa recounts working while being held in immigration detention, where he earned as little as $1 a day and helped to organize historic labor actions against for-profit prison company GEO Group.

"Tens of thousands of people are being held [in immigration detention], and nobody knows what detention will do to them later in life. Abolishing these places would save a lot of people." Immigrant labor activist Pedro Figueroa in conversation with Sameer Ashar

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...

Our hall, which we have rented as our base of operations for the past five years, requires emergency repairs at short notice. Help us to fund these by donating at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/oxford-mut...

Westgate promotional photography.

In celebration of World Book Night, the Westgate will be partnering with Oxford Westgate Library to host a free book giveaway on Saturday 18th April, 10-3. The giveaway will feature titles to suit readers of all ages, donated by the Westgate Library, at the Guest Experience pod next to JD Sports.

Section 46 of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill in the UK grants the Secretary of State the power to impose a range of counter-terror-style ‘conditions’ on those with limited leave to remain. ⤵️

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

My photo shows a profile view of a small horse figurine with head to the left, displayed against a dark background. Sculpted from mammoth ivory, the surface is a mottled greyish-earthy-brown colour with a shiny patina. It was once likely pale white in colour. It measures 2.5 cm height, 4.8 cm width, and 0.7 cm depth. The head is gracefully lowered with a long and elegant curving neck, and a convex curved back. The four legs are incomplete. The top of the tail remains. The eyes, nostrils, and mouth are carved as indents. The ‘Vogelherd Horse’ was excavated in 1931, together with a number of other ivory animal figurines from the Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. It is the oldest known sculpture of a horse. On display at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, at Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany.

Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend!

A tiny horse figurine carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago!

Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is the world’s oldest known figure of a horse!

📷 by me

#Archaeology

It was awful

For many people arriving in the UK, a phone is the first way to tell their family: “I’ve made it. I’m safe.”

Your support can make that call possible.

We’ve helped 1,000+ people with digital devices since 2023.

Please, if you can, support our spring appeal:
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📅 On Tuesday 9 June, we welcome you to join PLP for the annual London #LegalWalk – a 10km walk supporting free legal advice charities in the UK.

Since the walk began 22 years ago, it has raised £12.5 million in support of vital access to justice.

Join us: publiclawproject.org.uk/support-us/l...

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

Graphic for the Foyle Young Poets Award, with the text 'Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award. Submit your poems at foyleyoungpoets.org.' Images of a keyboard, pen, pencil and pair of glasses, with the top edge of a notebook, in orange blue and green. Logos for The Poetry Society, Foyle Foundation and Arts Council England.

Graphic showing photos of the Foyle Award judges 2026: John McAuliffe and Rachel Long. Their names in black text, as well as the words 'Meet the judges'. At the bottom, the text 'Foyle young poets of the year award 2026'. Images of a keyboard, pen, and pair of glasses, with the top edge of a notebook, in orange blue and green.

Calling all poets aged 11-17: the 2026 Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is now open for entries! We are delighted to have the fantastic poets John McAuliffe and Rachel Long as judges. Visit foyleyoungpoets.org for more details on how to enter.

#FoyleYoungPoets

Restricted leave and new government powers to curtail the

"The lack of procedural safeguards and the wide-ranging nature of these new powers raise significant concerns regarding the rights of all non-nationals in the UK." See today's blog post @bordercrim.bsky.social on new government powers against non-nationals: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Restricted leave and new government powers to curtail the

"The lack of procedural safeguards and the wide-ranging nature of these new powers raise significant concerns regarding the rights of all non-nationals in the UK." See today's blog post @bordercrim.bsky.social on new government powers against non-nationals: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

We are delighted to have partnered with @womenshistnet.bsky.social to offer this award. Please do spread the word

Italy detains rescue ship Aurora despite 71 people missing in Mediterranean Sea #Refugees

Thanks to the support of the community, our costs for repairs have been covered!
Any additional money donated will allow us to re-open at full force and ensure we can cover the additional costs of recovering from this closure!

We are horrified. Over Easter weekend, about 71 people likely drowned in the Mediterranean. Yesterday, our aircraft Seabird 2 spotted an overturned wooden boat: ~15 people clinging desperately to the hull, others in the water, and some lifeless bodies.

"Just wanted to send you my regards for the amazing thing your team does. I have no idea what would I have done without O.M.A.” . Ensure we can keep helping people from hunger by donating to our crowdfunder at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/oxford-mut...