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Malcolm MacLean
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UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/

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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 1d
Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
History: Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to the present (RS936) - Swansea University
We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
www.swansea.ac.uk

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 1d
Some colleagues in my old department in Trondheim are recruiting a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and/or STS on the "Imagining Positive Energy Futures" project. 3 years, fully funded. Norway's a good place to do a PhD and Trondheim's a nice place to live!
PhD candidate within Gender Studies and/or STS: Imagining Positive Energy Futures (294972) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: PhD candidate within Gender Studies and/or STS: Imagining Positive Energy Futures (294972), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no

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Antifa News @antifa-ultras.bsky.social · 3d
#Italy - A massive student protest against ICE in Milan.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d
Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago.

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Mills recognized that as the power elite becomes increasingly degenerate, it is increasingly difficult for their intellectual acolytes to formulate reasonable ideological justifications for their corrupt and irresponsible actions. In these circumstances, the power elite resorts to intellectual repression against those who call attention to their declining political capacities; that is, the intelligentsia who work in universities, museums, the arts, scientific institutes, entertainment, and the mass media.

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Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social · 5d
For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social

www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC):London Senate House - Hybrid
The University of London is both the UK’s largest provider of international distance and online learning and the convenor of a federation of 17 renowned higher education institutions.
www.jobs.london.ac.uk

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 6d
‘What happens when a city loses its university?’ And 52% of students at Essex’s Southend campus on health and social care courses are local.
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com

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Dr Rebecca Hall WakeProductions @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 6d
Interesting. I always assumed the malignant narcissism was just a component of white supremacy, but she argues we need a name change

youtube.com/shorts/eZR21...
I vote for a name change. What we’re watching isn’t power. It’s panic when the spotlight moves.
YouTube video by Ashley B
youtube.com

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 7d
Full time AHRC doctoral studentships now available in Arts & Humanities at University of Hertfordshire for October 2026 start - please do share widely!! This includes both History & Heritage Studies among other subjects 🌟😀 www.herts.ac.uk/research/res...
AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award studentships
The AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award is a major new funding scheme from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Its aim is to grow the UK’s capacity for doctoral research in the arts and humanit...
www.herts.ac.uk

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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 7d
📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 7d
I'm here on BBC World Service's History Hour about 10.25mins in, talking about the history of children's protests! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... #skystorians #histchild #historyhit
BBC World Service - The History Hour, Chile’s Penguin Revolution and the 5,000-year-old frozen mummy
Children march in protest in Chile and a perfectly preserved mummy is found in the Alps
www.bbc.co.uk

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NOlympics LA @nolympicsla.bsky.social · 10d
Just to recap the past week for the Olympics:

- LA28 chair Casey Wasserman in most recent Epstein Files dump
- ICE going to Italy
- International calls to Boycott and Cancel World Cup and Olympics grow louder
- Entire world hates the USA
- LA County unveils plan to disappear the unhoused for LA28

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Leonardo Mancini @mlaenoc.bsky.social · 13d
PhD project on offer - Savannah-on-a-chip - part of the Leverhulme DTC in ecological data science
ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html
at @glasgow.ac.uk

Microfluidics, bacteria and phages. Interactions with eco-epidemiology and physics of life.

Deadline early March - get in touch!

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 14d
Trump has fully or partly blocked entry into the United States for citizens of four nation-states whose teams have already qualified: Ivory Coast, Haiti, Iran, and Senegal.

#BoycottUSWorldCup

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14d
NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.

Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

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Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 15d
"Let us not be surprised if the most humble, hesitant, shy or self-conscious citizens start to speak up louder, while those who seemed to be extremely confident and sure of their own convictions suddenly start to stammer." @elifsafak.bsky.social on introverts, extroverts, and these times
Do You Have to Live Boldly to Write Boldly?
There are authors and poets who have lived luminous lives, done tons of crazy and eccentric things, and gained quite a bit of fame as rebels, dissenters, mavericks.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16d
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

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Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 17d
On Minneapolis, and organising for action; a timely and important reminder...
harshawalia.bsky.social Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 17d
With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 17d
With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:

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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social · 17d
‘“As organizations and society, we’re forgetting how to set taboos and boundaries, and how to defend values,” Göttlich said. “Taboos are an essential part of our stance”’

If any 🇩🇪 football federation vice-president is going to say this, it’s going to be the one from St Pauli 🏴‍☠️

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laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 17d
If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Digital Tools for Manuscript Studies
www.sas.ac.uk

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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 18d
I wrote about Minneapolis.

nymag.com/intelligence...
The People vs. ICE
Renee Good’s death galvanized a city eager to push back against Trump’s invasion.
nymag.com

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Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 18d
It's 50 years to the day - 23 Jan 1976 - since Paul Robeson's death: football player, singer, actor, leading voice in the international working class movement.... Joe Hill seemed fitting for these times www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnw...
Paul Robeson sings "Joe Hill" for the workers at Sydney Opera House
YouTube video by John Mather
www.youtube.com

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 19d
Since so many people are fangirling over Carney's supposed "historic" speech in Davos, I want to offer an alternative reading.

This is not left cynicism, but a sober reading of imperial positioning in this moment.

1) Carney squarely positioned Canada as a middle power.

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North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) @nassh1972.bsky.social · 19d
Call for Papers - Contributions to Anthology on Queering Sport/Physical Culture #SportHistory #Skystorians #NASSH2026 @mjveri.bsky.social
Sport History Opportunity (Call for papers)
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 22d
Full Circle’: American Indian Movement patrols are back on Minneapolis streets as tensions rise. ictnews.org/news/full-ci...
'Full Circle': AIM patrols back on Minneapolis streets as tensions rise - ICT
Supporters are pouring in from across Indian Country to protect the Minnesota community from ICE
ictnews.org

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 23d
#OtD 17 Jan 1893 a coup d'état took place in Hawaii, organised by United States. A republic was briefly declared, and the island was annexed by the US five years later: the first of many overseas imperialist conquests by the nation stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8879...

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Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 25d
The struggle continues against the suppression of solidarity actions with Palestine: please sign this statement in solidarity with Palestine prisoners and Greta Thunberg. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
Statement in solidarity with Palestine prisoners and Greta Thunberg
This statement is a declaration of support for the campaign by prisoners detained for their Palestine solidarity activism who are demanding that the UK government respects their fundamental rights to ...
actionnetwork.org

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 29d
"Vice signals are not just cultural messages or aesthetic poses. They also come with a body count."

Empire of Vice | @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp... | @bostonreview.bsky.social
Empire of Vice
In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.
www.bostonreview.net

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jan 10
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.

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Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.