Hannah Wright
@hannahwright.bsky.social
Researching militarism, coloniality, state violence, abolition, gender, race, class. Lecturer at University of Manchester. She/her. ♿️
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah-wright
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah-wright
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My suspicion is that the Trans community and allies left Twitter and arrived here early but it’s still worth re-upping this for those who left it a little longer:
go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F
go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F
January 12, 2026 at 4:26 PM
My suspicion is that the Trans community and allies left Twitter and arrived here early but it’s still worth re-upping this for those who left it a little longer:
go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F
go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F
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I hope we can refocus away from takes and towards what we can + must do. Six families and a camp of fifteen more are facing severe weather RIGHT NOW—most in tents, the rest in window-less rooms.
Emergency healthcare, winter supplies, rent & more:
Emergency healthcare, winter supplies, rent & more:
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
chuffed.org
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
I hope we can refocus away from takes and towards what we can + must do. Six families and a camp of fifteen more are facing severe weather RIGHT NOW—most in tents, the rest in window-less rooms.
Emergency healthcare, winter supplies, rent & more:
Emergency healthcare, winter supplies, rent & more:
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The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on:
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
January 13, 2026 at 7:37 AM
The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on:
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
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@talilalewis.bsky.social has the best definition of ableism, which applies here! 👀
If you are newer to thinking critically about ableism, please take a moment to check out the Disability Justice framework of 10 interconnected principles that we ALL need to invest in: sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...
If you are newer to thinking critically about ableism, please take a moment to check out the Disability Justice framework of 10 interconnected principles that we ALL need to invest in: sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
@talilalewis.bsky.social has the best definition of ableism, which applies here! 👀
If you are newer to thinking critically about ableism, please take a moment to check out the Disability Justice framework of 10 interconnected principles that we ALL need to invest in: sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...
If you are newer to thinking critically about ableism, please take a moment to check out the Disability Justice framework of 10 interconnected principles that we ALL need to invest in: sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...
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Incidentally, this aligns with my thesis that most fights over teaching "the Western Canon" are between people who couldn't quote you a single line from it. There are those of us who see it as not a totemic issue, but rather a big stack of good books that we enjoy without yelling about it.*
January 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Incidentally, this aligns with my thesis that most fights over teaching "the Western Canon" are between people who couldn't quote you a single line from it. There are those of us who see it as not a totemic issue, but rather a big stack of good books that we enjoy without yelling about it.*
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Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.
I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.
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tapping the sign www.thenation.com/article/poli...
January 7, 2026 at 6:26 PM
tapping the sign www.thenation.com/article/poli...
I enjoy marking student essays and I really hate how GenAI has infested the whole process with this feeling of paranoia. I want to take pleasure in reading my students' ideas without constantly questioning whether these are really their ideas. It's just sad for everyone involved.
January 7, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I enjoy marking student essays and I really hate how GenAI has infested the whole process with this feeling of paranoia. I want to take pleasure in reading my students' ideas without constantly questioning whether these are really their ideas. It's just sad for everyone involved.
Essay question here for pol econ colleagues
If “capitalism is so great” and “socialism never works” how come capitalists always gotta overthrow socialist governments and steal their shit?
January 7, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Essay question here for pol econ colleagues
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Scarce research funding is becoming more economically costly than the actual investment, especially when it’s a drop in the bucket for profoundly stupid fad topics like “GenAI to solve Africa’s problems.” This piece is SO important: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Scarce research funding is becoming more economically costly than the actual investment, especially when it’s a drop in the bucket for profoundly stupid fad topics like “GenAI to solve Africa’s problems.” This piece is SO important: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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BREAKING 🇵🇸 Israeli regime forces have stormed Birzeit University campus in the Occupied West Bank, injuring 41 students, including 9 with live bullets.
January 6, 2026 at 12:46 PM
BREAKING 🇵🇸 Israeli regime forces have stormed Birzeit University campus in the Occupied West Bank, injuring 41 students, including 9 with live bullets.
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Job alert! For our latest project, Valuable Lives, we're looking for:
- a Research Fellow (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
- 2 Research Assistants (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
Application deadline: 23 January 2026
Find out more about this exciting project here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
- a Research Fellow (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
- 2 Research Assistants (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
Application deadline: 23 January 2026
Find out more about this exciting project here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Valuable Lives: Black Unfreedom and the Collapse of Slavery in Jamaica
Valuable Lives is a major CSLBS project aimed at creating the first and most comprehensive publicly available database on black lives under British slavery.
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Job alert! For our latest project, Valuable Lives, we're looking for:
- a Research Fellow (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
- 2 Research Assistants (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
Application deadline: 23 January 2026
Find out more about this exciting project here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
- a Research Fellow (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
- 2 Research Assistants (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...)
Application deadline: 23 January 2026
Find out more about this exciting project here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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I've learned that Edinburgh University is planning to cut 20% of academics in some departments
To decide who gets the chop, they generated an academic contribution metric that is a raw count of *any type* of output, including book reviews.
The management of UK Universities continues to amaze
To decide who gets the chop, they generated an academic contribution metric that is a raw count of *any type* of output, including book reviews.
The management of UK Universities continues to amaze
January 5, 2026 at 9:20 AM
I've learned that Edinburgh University is planning to cut 20% of academics in some departments
To decide who gets the chop, they generated an academic contribution metric that is a raw count of *any type* of output, including book reviews.
The management of UK Universities continues to amaze
To decide who gets the chop, they generated an academic contribution metric that is a raw count of *any type* of output, including book reviews.
The management of UK Universities continues to amaze
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"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
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One year into peacemaker-in-chief's 'America First'
"Since taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, Trump has overseen at least 626 air strikes ... By comparison, his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, launched a total of 555 strikes in his entire four-year term."
www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
"Since taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, Trump has overseen at least 626 air strikes ... By comparison, his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, launched a total of 555 strikes in his entire four-year term."
www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
A year of strikes: US military operations surge under Trump
President Trump has presided over a surge of U.S. military activity abroad since returning to the Oval Office.
www.militarytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:23 AM
One year into peacemaker-in-chief's 'America First'
"Since taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, Trump has overseen at least 626 air strikes ... By comparison, his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, launched a total of 555 strikes in his entire four-year term."
www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
"Since taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, Trump has overseen at least 626 air strikes ... By comparison, his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, launched a total of 555 strikes in his entire four-year term."
www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
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Now with AI you can…Google restaurants and recipes and such, only now they are wrong. Amazing!
December 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Now with AI you can…Google restaurants and recipes and such, only now they are wrong. Amazing!
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94, and a bloody awful painter until her last breath. RIP, queen. May we all be blessed with even a fraction of your confidence.
December 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
94, and a bloody awful painter until her last breath. RIP, queen. May we all be blessed with even a fraction of your confidence.
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for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism
December 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism
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This is very good on the recent grotesque behaviour of BBC news editorial:
The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people.
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace.
New piece:
oolong.medium.com/biological-m...
‘Biological male’ is a pseudoscientific dogwhistle
The BBC should be better than this.
oolong.medium.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This is very good on the recent grotesque behaviour of BBC news editorial:
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
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LMAOOOOO
December 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
LMAOOOOO
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Historical revisionism about COVID-19 and the public health response is now mainstream. The next pandemic will likely be even harder to manage due to a relentless propaganda campaign to weaken public support for masking, vaccines, social distancing, etc.
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Historical revisionism about COVID-19 and the public health response is now mainstream. The next pandemic will likely be even harder to manage due to a relentless propaganda campaign to weaken public support for masking, vaccines, social distancing, etc.
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"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you."
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
December 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you."
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.