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Adam Woodage
@adamwoodage.bsky.social
Putting concepts to work - in the archives, on the street.

Thinking about universities and worlds otherwise.

OUFC. Imperial formations. Trail running. Civilisational states. Urban politics. India. Las 3000 Viviendas. A few places in between.
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Famine Review Committee Alert❗

The FRC has determined that #Famine is currently occurring in Gaza Governorate. Furthermore, the FRC projects Famine thresholds to be crossed in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis Governorates in the coming weeks.

Read more: www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...
August 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Excited to see the @restofworld.org x @contextnewsroom.bsky.social partnership video we produced last year win a Murrow Award for Excellence in Video. www.rtdna.org/2025-nationa...

Watch the film and rest of the series here: restofworld.org/2024/gig-wor...
How migrant delivery workers in South Africa protect each other from violent crime and deadly roads
From sharing vital information to fundraising for medical bills, informal unions have become a lifeline for South Africa’s delivery workers.
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August 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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this is why scientists and scholars of every stripe cannot be silent or stay on the sidelines. There are no more sidelines. Huge swaths of people put their faith in "Grok" and related "AI" for basic knowledge. If there is not a tsunami of resistance then this BS becomes baseline "knowledge."
Over at X, "Grok" now cites Arthur Jensen and JP Rushton in favor of genetic "root causes" of racial differences in IQ scores.
July 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.
July 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Children's doctors shared their views and frustrations about how child poverty is affecting their patients' health in our new report with @rcpch.bsky.social

'I am fed up of sending children back to homes that are making them sick.'
July 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Historians who work with oral history etc know this effect. It increases significantly around traumatic events, & over multiple retellings, which is one reason testimony around eg the JFK assassination is contradictory. Memory isn’t a record of events; it’s your brain forming a narrative for you.
This is, incidentally, exactly why you should be very sceptical of most war memoirs that weren’t written shortly after the war in question (and even then memory can prove surprisingly malleable even unconsciously)
All my mates know the harrowing story of how I nearly drowned as a kid and had to be rescued by helicopter. The story came up at a birthday meal and my mum said that never happened. After a lot of arguing and Googling we've figured out I fell asleep watching a 999 TV reenactment
July 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
July 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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“By tracing how ... archaeological objects were taken from their contexts, and where they traveled, we can start to understand how U.S. imperialism jumbles historical landscapes—and contemporary ones.”

Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
June 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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.
June 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him
I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.
June 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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When I became an academic, his work continued to inspire me, and specifically his early insistence on seeing and seeking the connected, entangled, permeable nature of cultural matter.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 'Borders and Bridges: Seeking Connections between Things' ( @dukepress.bsky.social , 2000).
May 31, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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This week on Wonkhe: International students may be being misled by false promises from recruitment agents. But for Michael Salmon, constant changes to visa terms and post-study work arrangements represent a much deeper deception
It’s the Home Office that’s misselling UK higher education
International students may be being misled by false promises from recruitment agents. But for Michael Salmon, constant changes to visa terms and post-study work arrangements represent a much deeper deception
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May 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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How Protest Became a Crime in the UK: "We’re All Arrestables Now"
How Protest Became a Crime in the UK: "We’re All Arrestables Now"
What do these laws mean for democracy, and who is being targeted? From activists to everyday citizens, no one is exempt.
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May 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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We’re thrilled that #PENPresents & #PENTranslates award-winner Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, trans. from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi has won the #InternationalBooker2025, the first work translated from Kannada to appear on the @thebookerprizes.bsky.social shortlist. Congratulations to the winners!
May 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Yo entiendo que hay boicots comerciales que resulta difícil llevar a la práctica. Pero negarse a ver Eurovisión, donde se blanquea a un Estado que está cometiendo crímenes de lesa humanidad, no me parece que implique un gran sacrificio, sinceramente.
May 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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The dismantling of the ICC has begun and it won't stop there. When we look back eventually, Israel's genocide in Gaza will have been the last nail in the coffin of the post war liberal order.
The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.

American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.

NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
apnews.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Recorded sessions from the Caste as Practice research network are now live on CRASSH's YouTube channel www.youtube.com/playlist?lis....
May 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
📍 Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan, May 2025
May 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM