The cover (yellow coloured) of a policy paper published by the Higher Education Policy Institute. The title is 'Preparing for Populism.'

Jesus fucking Christ

Florida professors quietly defy restrictions on race and gender: ‘This is how authoritarianism works’ Sociology faculty are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taught

Sociology faculty in Florida are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taught 'Barrett put it: “It is difficult to fully grasp how profoundly our workplaces could change if those protections disappear.”'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The People Who Hate People Of all the objections NIMBYs raise to new housing and infrastructure, perhaps the most risible is that their community is already too crowded.

Today is a good day to reread this @jerusalem.bsky.social piece on Paul Ehrlich, Zero Population Growth, the Green Revolution, ecofascist immigration politics, and NIMBYism.

Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With 'The Population Bomb, Dies at 93 His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature. Image of Paul ehrlich, an older white man with blue eyes

This obituary makes it sound like he was criticized by polluters and jealous peers, not those who pointed out the links between the movement he sparked (ZPG) and eugenics, the very politics that have delivered us “mass deportations now” and untold border violence

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South: The Womandla! A TWQ Special Issue - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB Womandla! Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South, a new Special Issue in Third World Quarterly (TWQ) originates from the Womandla! Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South online…

Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South: The Womandla! 🌟

A Third World Quarterly and @globalsouthshub.bsky.social special issue of their journal: free to access for Women's History month edited by @drkatelaw.bsky.social Kundai Manamere & Ana Stevenson
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Read here! 👉

Looking forward to participating in this special event on Climate Affects and Liveable Futures in an Age of Planetary Crisis at the @britsoci.bsky.social BSA conference! Organised by @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social

Hey everyone, a collective I'm part of is starting a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle, a city where the last radical bookshop closed around 40 years ago. We've just launched our crowdfunder. Please take a look a share widely!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Excited to be joining the Editorial Board of The Sociological Review!

Revolutionary Abolitionism Against Cops & Capitalism Join authors and organizers brian bean and Shanice Octavia McBean for a discussion on the integral role of policing and state violence in upholding capitalism, and how abolition paves the road toward ...

Revolutionary Abolitionism: Against Cops & Capitalism

Join brian bean and Shanice Octavia McBean for a discussion on the integral role of policing and state violence in upholding capitalism, and how abolition paves the road toward revolution.

Monday, March 9, 2:00 pm ET

RSVP to attend:

The RPRN's two new publications are open for submissions!

Red Lines is a space for political interventions on resisting reaction. The Reactionary Politics Working Paper series aims to publish cutting-edge scholarship on reactionary politics.

Submit your work below!

reacpol.net/publications/

Great to talk to the wonderful @mirandaioss.bsky.social about this article - ecofascism and the banal NGO aesthetic legitimising populist narratives - appears in more places than you think...

#AcademicSky
#PhDSky

The Special Issue on Backlash, Borders, and Bunkers: Antidemocratic Politics and Climate Change Communication that I edited is now available. A huge thanks to @phaedra.bsky.social for the opportunity to edit this project and to all of the contributing authors! www.tandfonline.com/toc/renc20/2...

I have an open access article out today! In a special issue of Environmental Communication edited by @hannamorris.bsky.social - The Populationist Climate Futures Industry: NGO SF Capital, Eco-emotions and Speculative Ecofascism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Email your MP: Take urgent action for the hunger strikers

palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/urgentaction...

thanks :)

New Special Issue!

New Special Issue on Eco-emotions from guest editors
Mihaela Mihai and Danielle Celermajer.

environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...

We co-wrote a book and it’s out in the world now! Reading Science/Fiction: Practices, Pleasures and Publics.

It explores the relationship between reading science in fiction and engaging with science. Find out more here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Silence is complicity

We would not have had 100000 people at a far-right demonstration without Starmer's appalling leadership

Silence is thus unsurprising and what matters now is whether those who actually care accept this and turn to real alternatives rather than give Starmer yet another chance

A Q&A with media scholar Hanna E. Morris on her new book, ‘Apocalyptic Authoritarianism’ In their obsession with the “moderate center” have some journalists become unwitting tools of apocalyptic authoritarianism?

It's a real honor to be featured in the latest podcast episode by @drilledmedia.bsky.social -- a climate news media platform I greatly admire. You can checkout my interview where I discuss Apocalyptic Authoritarianism here: drilled.media/news/hanna-m...

Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power Abstract. In Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power, media scholar Hanna E. Morris reveals how national anxieties following the 201

🚨new book alert! 🚨 'Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power' by our very own alumni affiliate, @hannamorris.bsky.social 📚 Read the e-book here: academic.oup.com/book/59887

Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism? As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...

New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sign the Petition End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University.

Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks.

chng.it/BXNkGMFNJS

Palestine: A Sociological Issue Cairsti Russell, Rafeef Ziadah, Ashjan Ajour and Yasmin Gunaratnam in conversation Part of The Sociological Review Foundation’s Conversations series, this 8 May 2025 event explored the role of sociology in responding to genocide in Gaza, student resistance, campus securitisation, an...

Tomorrow: Palestine, a sociological issue thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

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“Sink the boats – Save the world”: Ecobordering narratives on the British far right - Undisciplined Environments Many far-right groups claim that migration drives environmental destruction, from river pollution to climate breakdown. These ‘ecobordering’ narratives greenwash racism and cover up the political...

Read this article by Cable Collective on ecobordering narratives and the British far right

undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/04/22/s...

How to Have a Trade Dispute Over Funding In Higher Education · Zoom · Luma A cross-branch UCU online meeting in support of a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over the current funding model. Supported by: Queen…

​HE is in crisis. Join an online cross branch @ucu.org.uk meeting 10 April 6-7:30pm BST to develop a strategy for a dispute with Sec of State for Ed to tackle funding @qmucu.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ucuessex.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=Av7h7B

Hello, I’d like to join please :)

Looks amazing!

A digital graphic with a red and blue colour scheme comparing MP Chi Onwurah’s stance in 2023 and 2025. On the left, a red-tinted photo of Chi Onwurah from 2023 is paired with a speech bubble that reads: “Why is this Government making it so hard for our kids?” On the right, a blue-tinted 2025 photo of Chi Onwurah appears with a red speech bubble containing a zipper-mouth emoji (🤐), implying silence. A large blue arrow points from the 2023 quote to the 2025 image, with bold text reading: “What changed?” The background features faded images of protest banners, and the years "2023" and "2025" are prominently displayed next to Chi Onwurah’s name.

📢 What changed, Chi? 50% of kids in Newcastle live in poverty! In 2023, @chionwurah.bsky.social asked why the government was making life so hard for kids. But in 2025, with a new government in power, the policies keeping children in poverty are still in place!