Giovanni Picker
@giopicker.bsky.social
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Thanks to colleagues at the Universities of Brighton and Surrey for curating this Race, Ethnicity and Antiracism Learning (REAL) resource bank for the social sciences in higher education: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/realresource...
The REAL Resource Bank: Race, Ethnicity and Antiracism Learning
for the Social Sciences in Higher Education
blogs.brighton.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Thanks to colleagues at the Universities of Brighton and Surrey for curating this Race, Ethnicity and Antiracism Learning (REAL) resource bank for the social sciences in higher education: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/realresource...
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Details below of a Summer School on Anti-Racism, Social Justice and the European City taking place in Padua this July. The summer school is an independent, collaborative platform bringing together postgraduate students, activists and scholars, including our own @giopicker.bsky.social
arjec 2026
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January 8, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Details below of a Summer School on Anti-Racism, Social Justice and the European City taking place in Padua this July. The summer school is an independent, collaborative platform bringing together postgraduate students, activists and scholars, including our own @giopicker.bsky.social
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Last week, we announced a plan to make child care universal. Today, applications are open for pre-K & 3-K. If your child is turning 3 or 4, apply now for the fall at: myschools.nyc
January 14, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Last week, we announced a plan to make child care universal. Today, applications are open for pre-K & 3-K. If your child is turning 3 or 4, apply now for the fall at: myschools.nyc
Wednesday, 21 January 2026
University of Glasgow Racial Justice Lecture Series
Policing #Race: #Militarization and the Imperial Boomerang in #Britain and the United States.
By @juliango.bsky.social
www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/vi... cc @uofgsociology.bsky.social
University of Glasgow Racial Justice Lecture Series
Policing #Race: #Militarization and the Imperial Boomerang in #Britain and the United States.
By @juliango.bsky.social
www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/vi... cc @uofgsociology.bsky.social
What’s On? | The Hunterian | University of Glasgow
Explore our calendar of events, exhibitions, talks and tours!
www.gla.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Wednesday, 21 January 2026
University of Glasgow Racial Justice Lecture Series
Policing #Race: #Militarization and the Imperial Boomerang in #Britain and the United States.
By @juliango.bsky.social
www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/vi... cc @uofgsociology.bsky.social
University of Glasgow Racial Justice Lecture Series
Policing #Race: #Militarization and the Imperial Boomerang in #Britain and the United States.
By @juliango.bsky.social
www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/vi... cc @uofgsociology.bsky.social
Starting 2026 with inspiring ideas. Thanks @mollycrabapple.bsky.social for drawing the connection. Cultural archives may disclose generative and unexpected perspectives, especially on the urban.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Starting 2026 with inspiring ideas. Thanks @mollycrabapple.bsky.social for drawing the connection. Cultural archives may disclose generative and unexpected perspectives, especially on the urban.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please consider donating to University of Glasgow’s masters student from #Gaza, Shadi Salem.
His wife and two children are trying to survive the winter, housed in the tent pictured below
gofund.me/844f1aa10
His wife and two children are trying to survive the winter, housed in the tent pictured below
gofund.me/844f1aa10
Donate to Reunite a Father with His Wife and Two Children from Gaza, organized by Shadi Salem
I am a Palestinian student and father currently living in the UK… Shadi Salem needs your support for Reunite a Father with His Wife and Two Children from Gaza
gofund.me
December 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Please consider donating to University of Glasgow’s masters student from #Gaza, Shadi Salem.
His wife and two children are trying to survive the winter, housed in the tent pictured below
gofund.me/844f1aa10
His wife and two children are trying to survive the winter, housed in the tent pictured below
gofund.me/844f1aa10
I have just signed this petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...
Reinstate Melanie Goldberg at the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
We call on HMDT to reinstate Melanie to her role.
actionnetwork.org
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I have just signed this petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...
Four of my family members, upon the Nazi invasion of Hungary, managed to flee to Australia. A mother and three daughters. The husband/father, after helping them escape, was deported to Auschwitz, dehumanized and killed.
It is hard, right now, not to hear echoes of the past. Ah Freilechen Hannuakkah.
It is hard, right now, not to hear echoes of the past. Ah Freilechen Hannuakkah.
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Four of my family members, upon the Nazi invasion of Hungary, managed to flee to Australia. A mother and three daughters. The husband/father, after helping them escape, was deported to Auschwitz, dehumanized and killed.
It is hard, right now, not to hear echoes of the past. Ah Freilechen Hannuakkah.
It is hard, right now, not to hear echoes of the past. Ah Freilechen Hannuakkah.
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Please consider donating to University of Glasgow masters student Shadi Salem’s family from Gaza. His wife and two children are trying to survive the winter, housed in the tent pictured below — gofund.me/844f1aa10
Donate to Reunite a Father with His Wife and Two Children from Gaza, organized by Shadi Salem
I am a Palestinian student and father currently living in the UK… Shadi Salem needs your support for Reunite a Father with His Wife and Two Children from Gaza
gofund.me
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Please consider donating to University of Glasgow masters student Shadi Salem’s family from Gaza. His wife and two children are trying to survive the winter, housed in the tent pictured below — gofund.me/844f1aa10
This will be of interest to many in our community - @uofgsociology.bsky.social @ucuglasgow.bsky.social ky.social
@uofgsps.bsky.social - December 10, 15:30-17:00.
@uofgsps.bsky.social - December 10, 15:30-17:00.
Join the seminar: Reclaiming Spatial Justice - The Emancipatory Power of Commoning
Stavros Stavrides will discuss role of commoning in just urban futures.
Co-organised by Just City by the Med Research Network & Urban Studies and Social Policy Seminar Series.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...
Stavros Stavrides will discuss role of commoning in just urban futures.
Co-organised by Just City by the Med Research Network & Urban Studies and Social Policy Seminar Series.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...
December 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This will be of interest to many in our community - @uofgsociology.bsky.social @ucuglasgow.bsky.social ky.social
@uofgsps.bsky.social - December 10, 15:30-17:00.
@uofgsps.bsky.social - December 10, 15:30-17:00.
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Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8
November 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Our Winter School "Inherited Futures: Ruptures and Contestations" is starting tomorrow in Basel! It's part of a EUCOR partnership between the universities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Freiburg, but everyone is welcome to the public sessions. Please contact the Basel organizers here tinyurl.com/bdfx8cj8
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📣 Live now! FXB's Roma Program Director, Dr. @magdamatache.bsky.social has just launched her new book, The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences" during the MEMOROBIA conference: tinyurl.com/6w9bj9wt
More information about the book: tinyurl.com/5v6hwuxh
More information about the book: tinyurl.com/5v6hwuxh
The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences
Anti-Roma racism, one of Europe’s oldest and most enduring racisms, has been neglected in mainstream theories and discourse. This book situates anti-Roma racism within national and intra-continental h...
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
📣 Live now! FXB's Roma Program Director, Dr. @magdamatache.bsky.social has just launched her new book, The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences" during the MEMOROBIA conference: tinyurl.com/6w9bj9wt
More information about the book: tinyurl.com/5v6hwuxh
More information about the book: tinyurl.com/5v6hwuxh
Please consider donating to University of Glasgow masters student Shadi Salem’s family from Gaza. His wife and two children are trying to survive the winter, housed in the tent pictured below — gofund.me/844f1aa10
Donate to Reunite a Father with His Wife and Two Children from Gaza, organized by Shadi Salem
I am a Palestinian student and father currently living in the UK… Shadi Salem needs your support for Reunite a Father with His Wife and Two Children from Gaza
gofund.me
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Please consider donating to University of Glasgow masters student Shadi Salem’s family from Gaza. His wife and two children are trying to survive the winter, housed in the tent pictured below — gofund.me/844f1aa10
Reposted by Giovanni Picker
Join the seminar: Reclaiming Spatial Justice - The Emancipatory Power of Commoning
Stavros Stavrides will discuss role of commoning in just urban futures.
Co-organised by Just City by the Med Research Network & Urban Studies and Social Policy Seminar Series.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...
Stavros Stavrides will discuss role of commoning in just urban futures.
Co-organised by Just City by the Med Research Network & Urban Studies and Social Policy Seminar Series.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Join the seminar: Reclaiming Spatial Justice - The Emancipatory Power of Commoning
Stavros Stavrides will discuss role of commoning in just urban futures.
Co-organised by Just City by the Med Research Network & Urban Studies and Social Policy Seminar Series.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...
Stavros Stavrides will discuss role of commoning in just urban futures.
Co-organised by Just City by the Med Research Network & Urban Studies and Social Policy Seminar Series.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reclaiming...
Al Chet additions for 5786 (some, only):
Al Chet for the sin of stealing another’s land.
Al Chet for the sin of bringing death and devastation upon our neighbor.
Al Chet for the sin of starving people, especially innocent children.
Al Chet for the sin of indifference and blindness.
#yomkippur
Al Chet for the sin of stealing another’s land.
Al Chet for the sin of bringing death and devastation upon our neighbor.
Al Chet for the sin of starving people, especially innocent children.
Al Chet for the sin of indifference and blindness.
#yomkippur
'For the sins we have committed': Reimagining Yom Kippur liturgy in a post-Oct. 7 world
Hovering over this 5786 holiday season is a sense of moral and spiritual crisis that calls out for liturgical innovation.
forward.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Al Chet additions for 5786 (some, only):
Al Chet for the sin of stealing another’s land.
Al Chet for the sin of bringing death and devastation upon our neighbor.
Al Chet for the sin of starving people, especially innocent children.
Al Chet for the sin of indifference and blindness.
#yomkippur
Al Chet for the sin of stealing another’s land.
Al Chet for the sin of bringing death and devastation upon our neighbor.
Al Chet for the sin of starving people, especially innocent children.
Al Chet for the sin of indifference and blindness.
#yomkippur
"As Jews we beg you: do not let the Manchester attack be weaponised" - A forceful statement. archive.ph/BRTCY#select...
archive.ph
October 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
"As Jews we beg you: do not let the Manchester attack be weaponised" - A forceful statement. archive.ph/BRTCY#select...
As authoritarian politics tighten their grip across the globe, we need to allow ourselves to press pause and collectively analyze the current conjuncture.
Come discuss with @rachelhumphris.bsky.social, in conversation with Engin Isin, on her Making Sancturay Cities (Stanford 2025). Details below
Come discuss with @rachelhumphris.bsky.social, in conversation with Engin Isin, on her Making Sancturay Cities (Stanford 2025). Details below
Join us to discuss making sanctuary cities in challenging times!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-san...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-san...
October 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
As authoritarian politics tighten their grip across the globe, we need to allow ourselves to press pause and collectively analyze the current conjuncture.
Come discuss with @rachelhumphris.bsky.social, in conversation with Engin Isin, on her Making Sancturay Cities (Stanford 2025). Details below
Come discuss with @rachelhumphris.bsky.social, in conversation with Engin Isin, on her Making Sancturay Cities (Stanford 2025). Details below
“In the face of ongoing authoritarian repression in the United States, the SSJ Open University initiative aims to build independent sites of study, collaborative engagement, and intellectual community.” See the various calls- www.scholarsforsocialjustice.com/ssj-open-uni...
Services 1 — Scholars For Social Justice
www.scholarsforsocialjustice.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:43 AM
“In the face of ongoing authoritarian repression in the United States, the SSJ Open University initiative aims to build independent sites of study, collaborative engagement, and intellectual community.” See the various calls- www.scholarsforsocialjustice.com/ssj-open-uni...
If you are an academic based in the UK, please consider signing and circulating this letter. It's important. cc @ophiragamliel.bsky.social @cairsti.bsky.social @erdemavsar.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social
Academic Sign-On Letter: Support for Gazan Students with UK University Offers
This form is to collect signatures from academics at UK universities in support of an urgent open letter addressed to the UK government. The letter highlights the critical and ongoing barriers faced b...
docs.google.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
If you are an academic based in the UK, please consider signing and circulating this letter. It's important. cc @ophiragamliel.bsky.social @cairsti.bsky.social @erdemavsar.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social
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"I trust that the UK Government will take the right decision. Please, don't let me choose between my family and my education, because it's impossible for me to be separated from them."
www.thenational.scot/news/2548316...
www.thenational.scot/news/2548316...
Gaza student hoping for Glasgow PhD in urgent plea as family blocked from entering UK
A student from Gaza hoping to study in Scotland has issued a plea to the UK Government urging them not to "make her choose" between her…
www.thenational.scot
September 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"I trust that the UK Government will take the right decision. Please, don't let me choose between my family and my education, because it's impossible for me to be separated from them."
www.thenational.scot/news/2548316...
www.thenational.scot/news/2548316...
"We’ve been a place where controversial public issues can be freely debated. We have different views on Israel-Palestine. We need to hear them even when they upset us. That is the spirit of the place that I have been championing and affirming for 30 years.” Prof Judith Butler
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move – Aurdip
aurdip.org
September 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"We’ve been a place where controversial public issues can be freely debated. We have different views on Israel-Palestine. We need to hear them even when they upset us. That is the spirit of the place that I have been championing and affirming for 30 years.” Prof Judith Butler
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Just City by the Med Research Network connects researchers investigating social justice and inequality in cities and exploring pathways towards just urban futures, through the context of the Mediterranean. Check justcitymed.org for details 👇
Just City by the Med
Research network exploring social justice and inequality in Mediterranean urban contexts.
justcitymed.org
September 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Just City by the Med Research Network connects researchers investigating social justice and inequality in cities and exploring pathways towards just urban futures, through the context of the Mediterranean. Check justcitymed.org for details 👇
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Help Sajida Umm Tulin and her family survive and rebuild in Gaza chuffed.org/project/1274...
Help Sajida Umm Tulin and her family survive and rebuild in Gaza
Hi, My name is Avigail, I'm a US citizen, organizing this fundraiser on behalf of my friend Sajida who is raising funds to support her family in Gaza. Here are her words:
chuffed.org
June 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Help Sajida Umm Tulin and her family survive and rebuild in Gaza chuffed.org/project/1274...
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Beacon of hope.
Spain rejects Nato plan for member states to spend 5% of GDP on defence
PM Pedro Sánchez says he wants a ‘more flexible formula’ that would make target optional or allow Madrid to opt out
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Beacon of hope.