Su-ming Khoo
@sumingkhoo.bsky.social
Sociologist. Interested in development, human rights, higher education, books, transdisciplinary stuff. Posts personal. #academicsky
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@sumingkhoo.bsky.social In thee conditions in Gaza, with severe shortages of medical care and treatment, my son Qais has been infected with a dangerous virus. I am unable to provide him with the treatment he urgently needs, especially in this cold. Any help could save his life
January 31, 2026 at 3:21 PM
@sumingkhoo.bsky.social In thee conditions in Gaza, with severe shortages of medical care and treatment, my son Qais has been infected with a dangerous virus. I am unable to provide him with the treatment he urgently needs, especially in this cold. Any help could save his life
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@sumingkhoo.bsky.social
"The cold and water are flooding the place 💔, everything around me is soaked and freezing, I have no warm clothes or dry place to sleep. The weather is getting worse, and my children's health is deteriorating 🙏 Help us quickly before we die from the cold and hunger."
"The cold and water are flooding the place 💔, everything around me is soaked and freezing, I have no warm clothes or dry place to sleep. The weather is getting worse, and my children's health is deteriorating 🙏 Help us quickly before we die from the cold and hunger."
February 2, 2026 at 8:54 PM
@sumingkhoo.bsky.social
"The cold and water are flooding the place 💔, everything around me is soaked and freezing, I have no warm clothes or dry place to sleep. The weather is getting worse, and my children's health is deteriorating 🙏 Help us quickly before we die from the cold and hunger."
"The cold and water are flooding the place 💔, everything around me is soaked and freezing, I have no warm clothes or dry place to sleep. The weather is getting worse, and my children's health is deteriorating 🙏 Help us quickly before we die from the cold and hunger."
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Royal Academy promoting their new exhibition with this rather wonderful Raoul Dufy: Golfe Juan, 1927
January 29, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Royal Academy promoting their new exhibition with this rather wonderful Raoul Dufy: Golfe Juan, 1927
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This specially curated list of 100 books celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The titles are personal recommendations from some of today's most celebrated Black writers, artists, & luminaries & curated by the Schomburg Center’s reference division.
www.nypl.org
January 29, 2026 at 3:48 PM
This specially curated list of 100 books celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The titles are personal recommendations from some of today's most celebrated Black writers, artists, & luminaries & curated by the Schomburg Center’s reference division.
Hadn't posted anything on #books2026 zero idea how threads work here. Still on these books, currently chs 4+5 of 5/ - wonderfully written with sensitive insight and around 100 pages into 6/ - tough going but discussions are rewarding. Reading a few pages most days
Books 5/ and 6/ of #books2026 are Wendy Harcourt's Conundrums of Care a d TM Scanlon's What We Owe to Each Other, to be read with different groups of friends
January 29, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Hadn't posted anything on #books2026 zero idea how threads work here. Still on these books, currently chs 4+5 of 5/ - wonderfully written with sensitive insight and around 100 pages into 6/ - tough going but discussions are rewarding. Reading a few pages most days
Measles. Again. Imagine wanting this to happen, out of sheer stupidity and spite
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 29, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Measles. Again. Imagine wanting this to happen, out of sheer stupidity and spite
People need to think about this graph
Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia
January 29, 2026 at 7:28 AM
People need to think about this graph
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Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia
January 29, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia
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Court Orders the Netherlands to Protect a Caribbean Island From Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:22 AM
The characteristics of this ongoing genocide are utterly horrendous, targeting any vestige of humanity, anything that could help people to survive as human beings.
Last night, israeli occupation forces raided Al Kamandjati Center located in Qalandiya Refugee Camp, destroying all musical instruments inside the center.
This will be met, yet again, with silence from our classical music industry
www.instagram.com/p/DUBUWwSiCxl/
This will be met, yet again, with silence from our classical music industry
www.instagram.com/p/DUBUWwSiCxl/
Al Kamandjati - الكمنجاتي on Instagram: " قامت قوات الاحتلال ليلة أمس باقتحام مركز الكمنجاتي الكائن في مخيم قلنديا لللاجئين والذي يعود ملكيته لجمعية مركز البرامج النسوية في المخيم. حيث قامت قوات ا...
427 likes, 15 comments - alkamandjati on January 27, 2026: " قامت قوات الاحتلال ليلة أمس باقتحام مركز الكمنجاتي الكائن في مخيم قلنديا لللاجئين والذي يعود ملكيته لجمعية مركز البرامج النسوية في المخيم...
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January 29, 2026 at 7:26 AM
The characteristics of this ongoing genocide are utterly horrendous, targeting any vestige of humanity, anything that could help people to survive as human beings.
Boycotting is something
ICE agents at a hotel in St. Paul woke up this morning to news that they’re getting kicked out of their hotel today at noon.
January 18, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Boycotting is something
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In recent years, American tech money has flooded into Ireland for the construction of data centers and the infrastructure to support their energy needs. This has threatened the country’s boglands, and complicated the debate around its green transition.
Bog Trouble | Caitlín Doherty
In Ireland, a preference for a traditional fuel source is overridden by a Green Party more concerned with household emissions than poverty.
thebaffler.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:02 PM
In recent years, American tech money has flooded into Ireland for the construction of data centers and the infrastructure to support their energy needs. This has threatened the country’s boglands, and complicated the debate around its green transition.
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In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.
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"Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a 'mistake' but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate...Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency."
In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:03 PM
"Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a 'mistake' but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate...Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency."
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Data cleaning is not something you'd associate with wellbeing. 'Boring' probably springs to mind. Or 'what's data cleaning?'
Yet this little guide on data cleaning for #ResearcherRenew remains one of the most appreciated activities of the month.
theresearchcompanion.com/cleandata
Yet this little guide on data cleaning for #ResearcherRenew remains one of the most appreciated activities of the month.
theresearchcompanion.com/cleandata
Clean your data - The Research Companion
Data cleaning is a hugely underrated skill. Learn how to clean up data and your future self will thank you.
theresearchcompanion.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Data cleaning is not something you'd associate with wellbeing. 'Boring' probably springs to mind. Or 'what's data cleaning?'
Yet this little guide on data cleaning for #ResearcherRenew remains one of the most appreciated activities of the month.
theresearchcompanion.com/cleandata
Yet this little guide on data cleaning for #ResearcherRenew remains one of the most appreciated activities of the month.
theresearchcompanion.com/cleandata
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Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
It was a great @dsaireland conference this year, maybe the one I've enjoyed the most! Thanks to the conference convenor Susan Murphy and a great conference team
DSAI Annual Conference 2026 Day 1.
Today we welcome scholars, practitioners, and partners as our DSAI Annual Conference 2026 begins. We look forward to two days of thoughtful dialogue and shared insight.
Today we welcome scholars, practitioners, and partners as our DSAI Annual Conference 2026 begins. We look forward to two days of thoughtful dialogue and shared insight.
January 16, 2026 at 5:56 PM
It was a great @dsaireland conference this year, maybe the one I've enjoyed the most! Thanks to the conference convenor Susan Murphy and a great conference team
If Carbon was 7/ Frankenstein 1818 is 8/ #books2026
Read 1818 original version of Frankenstein, for my keynote. What an amazing book #books2026
January 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
If Carbon was 7/ Frankenstein 1818 is 8/ #books2026
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Exactly this: “disruption”
Trump is doing to politics what biz schools taught future CEOs to do: break the social contract (e.g., the one btw mgmt & labor that once ensured steady jobs) & extract all the value stored inside.
This will have the same effect on politics as it did on the labor mkt: instability & immiseration.
This will have the same effect on politics as it did on the labor mkt: instability & immiseration.
If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
January 11, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Exactly this: “disruption”
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‘Our tech overlords like the idea of being Thomas Edison, genius inventor-businessman, but they often have more in common with P.T. Barnum, genius of marketing and hype. Altman could go toe-to-toe with Barnum, and I wouldn’t want to pick a winner.’
John Lanchester:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lanchester:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lanchester · King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI bubble burst?
Nvidia shares are the purest bet you can make on the impact of AI. The leading firms are lending money to one another in...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 12:11 PM
‘Our tech overlords like the idea of being Thomas Edison, genius inventor-businessman, but they often have more in common with P.T. Barnum, genius of marketing and hype. Altman could go toe-to-toe with Barnum, and I wouldn’t want to pick a winner.’
John Lanchester:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Lanchester:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Sir Paul Nurse is an impressive scientist but what the Royal Society needs is Dorothy Bishop to take the helm and clean the place out. Fellows who bring the Society into disrepute need tougher action than himpathy.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
‘Lots of people don’t want to do it’: Paul Nurse on his controversial second term as Royal Society president
The Nobel prize winner discusses claims of a ‘boys’ club’, Elon Musk’s fellowship and rightwing attacks on science
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Sir Paul Nurse is an impressive scientist but what the Royal Society needs is Dorothy Bishop to take the helm and clean the place out. Fellows who bring the Society into disrepute need tougher action than himpathy.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
A wise person once told me that two measures should be used to measure social progress: the condition of public libraries and of public toilets.
January 11, 2026 at 12:29 PM
A wise person once told me that two measures should be used to measure social progress: the condition of public libraries and of public toilets.
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This reminds me of the old joke about what you would call a hundred lawyers at the bottom of a river. A start.
"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives
January 8, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This reminds me of the old joke about what you would call a hundred lawyers at the bottom of a river. A start.
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From "The Waters and the Wild" by Eilish Fisher
January 5, 2026 at 9:32 PM
From "The Waters and the Wild" by Eilish Fisher