Thanks to everyone for turning up at the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @ipsa.org roundtable on #AcademicFreedom earlier today in #Oxford with @mayatudor.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social & others.

You were a fantastic audience who left us with lots of questions to think about.

#PSA26

Stay safe Fatima, you’ll be in my prayers.

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.

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Sign the Petition Erasing a Word Erases a People: Reinstate Palestine in the British Museum

The removal of references to ancient Palestine in the BM tells us more about the state of what was once a best-loved cultural institution than our past. Bending reality to please political patrons is a subjugation of culture to those in power. It's a shameful act. www.change.org/p/erasing-a-...

I just completed this consultation. I’m disgusted at the extreme and punitive changes being proposed and I am also incensed at the grossly punitive and divisive way the consultation itself is structured /-/ questions focus either on how much should we further punish migrants,

Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!

We are involved in a mighty struggle to save our university from the corruption of corporate power. Please, help us with a donation, however small. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

Staff ,supporters and students gathered outside Firth Court today in solidarity with colleagues locked out and facing withheld pay after lawful strike action at
@sheffielducu

Punishment is not negotiation. ✊

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

About Mark About Mark Mark 4 VP - About Mark - Election Statement - Endorsements Support Mark - Contact Mark - Who else should I vote for? What I believe in I have a 25 year history of ac...

Great to see that Mark Pendleton is running for UCU VP (Higher Education). Worked with him on the RHS LGBT+ report and he was consistently, insistently and cheerfully simply ace. Learn more from ucucommons.org/about-mark/ . And regardless, don't ignore your ballot.

📣Call for abstracts 📣 If you do Critical Security/Terrorism Studies, join our #EISAPEC26 section. We welcome papers, panels, or roundtables. Feel free to get in touch with either myself or @marinegueguin.bsky.social if you have any queries. Deadline is 19 Feb.
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📣Call for abstracts 📣 If you do Critical Security/Terrorism Studies, join our #EISAPEC26 section. We welcome papers, panels, or roundtables. Feel free to get in touch with either myself or @marinegueguin.bsky.social if you have any queries. Deadline is 19 Feb.
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No lockout for University of Sheffield staff UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of educ...

Please, keep signing and sharing. We should not be forced to choose between our principles and food for our families. @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

So the Home Office commissioned a counter-extremism video game which led to Prevent referrals for school pupils, cool cool cool!

Monday and the start of a second week of being prevented from working by my employer, the University of Sheffield. Management has decided that massive damage to staff morale, student experience and the university’s reputation is worth it in a futile attempt to break the union. Shame on them.

Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social

My Sheffield colleagues are locked out for not mitigating strike action and doing the teaching they haven’t been paid for, please donate to @sheffielducu.bsky.social if you can spare a few quid: www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!

As things wind down for the holidays, @sheffielducu.bsky.social members are facing a threat of 100% pay deductions from January, thanks to our Scrooge-like management. We’ve now set up a fundraiser to bolster our local solidarity fund. If you can spare some change, please do! gofund.me/ac2b3adcb

Call on MP and Secretary of Justice David Lammy to intervene and protect the hunger strikers Eight prisoners currently held on remand for alleged actions in solidarity with Palestine have been on a hunger strike which began on 2nd November. Their names are Amu Gib, Qesser Zuhrah, Heba Muraisi...

actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests

Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.

🎉Yesterday @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social held their annual conference!

👏Many thanks to the amazing convenors; @amnakaleem.bsky.social , Alice Finden and @rmkhan.bsky.social for all of their hard work!

⭐️The #virtual conference was extremely successful in its critical engagement of terrorism studies.

We started off our annual conference this morning saying a fond farewell and thank you to our wonderful outgoing convenor @amnakaleem.bsky.social and welcoming two new convenors @marinegueguin.bsky.social and @mcneilwillson.bsky.social who will be joining Rabea and Alice @mybisa.bsky.social

Call for papers: Critical Studies on Terrorism annual virtual conference - Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) | BISA - Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Working Group

Last chance to register for the annual @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social

'Contemporary Issues in Critical Terrorism Studies' 🌎
9 September on Zoom 💻

Register now 👉 buff.ly/SyRkSaU

@aliceellafinden.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social

Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse

Enjoyed presenting work in progress and meeting new colleagues at #EISAPEC2025. Particular shout out to @amnakaleem.bsky.social for organizing an excellent set of sessions on critical terrorism studies

Call for papers: Critical Studies on Terrorism annual virtual conference - Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) | BISA - Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Working Group

Register now for the annual @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social conference! 🎉

'Contemporary Issues in Critical Terrorism Studies' - "The world is on fire!" 🌎
Taking place 9 September on zoom 💻

Find out more here 👉 buff.ly/wRyt0Bt

@aliceellafinden.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social

NO CONFERENCING AS USUAL DURING GENOCIDE
Please read and spread the following message as we gather in Bologna this week #EISAPEC25

We have organised this exhibition with our students to archive and celebrate the Sheffield encampment that ran for 92 days last year. If you are around Sheffield on 22-23 July, please visit us at Bloc Projects on Eyre Street #FreePalestine

📢📢Call for Papers!

This year's CTS Annual Conference will take place online on 9 September.

➡️Submit an abstract by 30 July