Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

What I tell my students every time.

Direct empirical confirmation of my theory of the "immigration doom loop" in UK politics.... ☹️

jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social) Attached: 1 image reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funn...

jonny over on masto doing god's work:

> anthropic [is running] an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS.

neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

Congrats, Duncan!

Silicon Empires w/ Nick Srnicek Featuring Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI. A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum of the authoritarian tech oligarchy—and of global contests for...

This is a really insightful and informative episode with @nsrnicek.bsky.social particularly for how it pushes back against the leftist urge to dismiss AI as politically old hat and philosophically irrelevant thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

I just saw the ToC of the book. 🔥 I'd love to see the essay. I'll send you an email.

Thanks, Fabi!

Thanks a lot, Leonardo (I really like your essay in Menon & Yazdani, btw). The book's construction is admittedly a bit unorthodox but it kind of works.

It's a book, I guess. *Before the Color Line* is ready to leave the building for clearance review.

Pope quoted Donna Haraway, now IMF is quoting Gramsci…

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

This lot makes Gwyneth Paltrow look like Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

FUBAR.

Let's see how well this ages.

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.

APSA 2025 impression: academic conference receptions are practically Hieronymous Bosch paintings.

As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...

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I have reviewed Inés Valdez's book, Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, for Political Theory journal.

I highly recommend it on its integration of political economy into political theorizing. 👇

UK families ‘seize moment’ to buy exclusive London homes as non-doms retreat Domestic buyers take advantage of tumbling prices as new non-dom tax regime cools interest from abroad

Here's your "fiscal headroom."

Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

My article on capitalist racialization and Chinese migration in British Asia received an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Article Award from APSA's International History and Politics Section.

Open access👇

Nominations are now open for BIAPT’s Early and Mid-career prizes. Please consider nominating someone’s whose contribution to our field you really value. Note that self-nominations *are* permitted. Deadline is May 23rd. Details 👇 www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk?p=4842&previ...

A useful overview of the state of the art on "racial capitalism."

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

You get a lot of centrist YIMBY types going on about planning and "get government red tape out the way and just build build build!" but impossible to look at this graph and draw any conclusion other than "oh, shit, the shortfall is just state housing"

Join us on 11 April at SOAS for the workshop, "Globalizing Political Economy: Uneven Topographies of Capitalism."

Full program below.

Attendees need to register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...

Join us on 11 April at SOAS for the workshop, "Globalizing Political Economy: Uneven Topographies of Capitalism."

Full program below.

Attendees need to register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...

Corporate America won’t stop Trump’s tariffs. Here’s why | Alex Bronzini-Vender Whether among executives, lobbyists or university trustees, an elite backlash to the Trump administration won’t. Only working people can resist Trump

"“We are living through the nightmare edition of ‘Great Men Make History’,” wrote the leftwing theorist Mike Davis shortly before his death in 2022. “... there are few safety switches between today’s maximum leaders and Armageddon."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"I'm an American prince with 10 million dollars that I need to get out of the country. I will give you one million dollar if you help me. Please send me your bank account information. God bless you."

Empire and its afterlives - Contemporary Political Theory Contemporary Political Theory -

I've been insisting on this for over a decade, against the dismissals of "capitalism" as a "loaded and disturbingly sloppy" category of intellectual history.

My quick two cents on the matter are here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Last call -- happening tomorrow

"Empire and Emancipation"

Call for Submissions, JHI Blog Forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History” Inspired by a panel at the 2025 American Historical Association annual conference, this JHI Blog Forum will collect and publish short reflections on the relationship between new work in intellectual h...

An excellent initiative.

"The Return of Political Economy to Intellectual History."