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Amna Kaleem
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Univ of Sheffield Politics. Talk to me about counter-terrorism and communities. She/Her.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/amna-kaleem
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mybisa.bsky.social
🎉Yesterday @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social held their annual conference!

👏Many thanks to the amazing convenors; @amnakaleem.bsky.social , Alice Finden and @rmkhan.bsky.social for all of their hard work!

⭐️The #virtual conference was extremely successful in its critical engagement of terrorism studies.
September 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social
We started off our annual conference this morning saying a fond farewell and thank you to our wonderful outgoing convenor @amnakaleem.bsky.social and welcoming two new convenors @marinegueguin.bsky.social and @mcneilwillson.bsky.social who will be joining Rabea and Alice @mybisa.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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mybisa.bsky.social
Last chance to register for the annual @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social

'Contemporary Issues in Critical Terrorism Studies' 🌎
9 September on Zoom 💻

Register now 👉 buff.ly/SyRkSaU

@aliceellafinden.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social
Call for papers: Critical Studies on Terrorism annual virtual conference - Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) | BISA
- Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Working Group
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September 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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heartinamber.bsky.social
Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse
davidwearing.bsky.social David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Aug 31
And if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.
minnierahman.bsky.social Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · Aug 31
People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
August 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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lisastampnitzky.bsky.social
Enjoyed presenting work in progress and meeting new colleagues at #EISAPEC2025. Particular shout out to @amnakaleem.bsky.social for organizing an excellent set of sessions on critical terrorism studies
nawalabu72.bsky.social Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social · Aug 27
Excited to listen to the role of Critical/Orthodox Terrorism Studies in the permissibility of violence this morning with @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social @nicolapratt.bsky.social Madeline-sophie abbas and @amnakaleem.bsky.social
#eisapec2025
August 31, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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mybisa.bsky.social
Register now for the annual @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social conference! 🎉

'Contemporary Issues in Critical Terrorism Studies' - "The world is on fire!" 🌎
Taking place 9 September on zoom 💻

Find out more here 👉 buff.ly/wRyt0Bt

@aliceellafinden.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social
Call for papers: Critical Studies on Terrorism annual virtual conference - Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) | BISA
- Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Working Group
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August 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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olovsebastian.bsky.social
NO CONFERENCING AS USUAL DURING GENOCIDE
Please read and spread the following message as we gather in Bologna this week #EISAPEC25
August 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
amnakaleem.bsky.social
We have organised this exhibition with our students to archive and celebrate the Sheffield encampment that ran for 92 days last year. If you are around Sheffield on 22-23 July, please visit us at Bloc Projects on Eyre Street #FreePalestine
July 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social
📢📢Call for Papers!

This year's CTS Annual Conference will take place online on 9 September.

➡️Submit an abstract by 30 July
July 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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davidwearing.bsky.social
Ultimately, what is really being policed here is opposition to British foreign policy. This is political policing which will function to intimidate into silence people whose opposition to government policy is expressed in the same terms as are used by leading, mainstream civil society organisations.
madoc.bsky.social madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Jul 15
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 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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aliceellafinden.bsky.social
Honoured to have received this award along with my co-conspirators @amnakaleem.bsky.social and @rmkhan.bsky.social !
mybisa.bsky.social BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Jul 9
Our 2025 Working Group Prize was awarded to @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social 🎉

After they were ''instrumental” in putting forward ISA sponsored panels & made significant contributions to advancing the field of security studies' 🌟

Read more 👉 buff.ly/OTk1esS

@aliceellafinden.bsky.social
Purple Prize certificate with the words WINNER, the BISA 50 year logo and Best Working Group Prize 2025 Critical Studies in Terrorism (CST) Alice Finden, Amna Kaleem and Rabea Khan "We are honoured to receive the recognition of our peers and look forward to continuing the work of creating an inclusive community for critical researchers."
July 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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mybisa.bsky.social
🚨Become a co-convenor for @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social🚨

2025's WG of the year winners is looking for a new co-convenor! Post starts September for a three-year term 🎉
Deadline to apply 20 July 2025 🌟

Apply - buff.ly/SsW597x

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Join the Critical Studies on Terrorism convener team!- Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) | BISA
- Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Working Group
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July 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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sheffielducu.bsky.social
Sheffield UCU took part in the Workers Day of Action on Trans Rights from our picket lines today! The UK Trade Union movement stands behind our trans siblings
#tradeunionists4transrights
May 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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umbertoalbarella.bsky.social
Great day of #SUCUstrike action at the University of #Sheffield. Today we started our #Palestine support roving picket, which much solidarity around the campus. Join us! ucu.group.shef.ac.uk @drvaleriehobbs.bsky.social @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
amnakaleem.bsky.social
Sheffield friends, please check out the Gaza Remains the Story exhibit. It’s curated by the Palestinian Museum in the West Bank and brought to Sheffield by Annapurna Menon as part of the Festival of Debate. The exhibit runs until 9 May (11am-4pm) at Soft Ground, The Moor.
April 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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sheffieldtransformed.org
We're not the organisers of this protest but we'll be there showing our support on Saturday 🏳️‍⚧️❤️
A poster with a solidarity fist in trans rights colours. Text: Emergency Demo Trans Liberation 2pm Sat 19th April Sheffield Town Hall
April 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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lottelydia.bsky.social
Statistically in Britain if you are a cis man and you rape someone you are overwhelmingly likely to get away with it, there is a vanishingly small likelihood that you will be convicted. That is a feminist issue. Trans women wanting to use women’s toilets or play women’s football: not so much.
April 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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sandeepbak.bsky.social
Speak up for Momodou Taal. Your silence will not protect you.
Academics outside the US esp have a moral duty to publicly come out in support and organise. ICE will disappear Momodou Taal.
Your trips to the US can wait, seriously!

theintercept.com/2025/03/21/t...
He Sued Trump Over Free Speech. Then ICE Demanded He Turn Himself In.
Cornell student Momodou Taal’s lawyers said the demand was “retribution” for his lawsuit against the crackdown on pro-Palestine speech.
theintercept.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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drbenwhitham.bsky.social
If nothing else, the sentencing of climate change protestors in the UK makes it very clear who and what the state values and protects here.
A BBC report on the reduction of Just Stop Oil founder Roger Hallam's prison sentence from five years to four years, upon appeal. BBC News excerpt: We are closing our live coverage of former BBC presenter Huw Edwards, who has been given a six-month sentence - suspended for two years - for child abuse image offences. The 63-year-old faced chief magistrate Paul Goldspring at Westminster Magistrates' Court today, two months after pleading guilty to three charges of making indecent images of children. Today we heard remarks from the prosecution and defence outlining the case, plus mitigating factors. After being told his reputation was in "tatters", Edwards was given a six-month suspended sentence for a period of two years. BBC News excerpt: A former assistant head teacher has been jailed for more than two years after she sexually assaulted a pupil. Catherine Pearl, from Abingdon, had been working at Didcot Girls' School whilst the victim was a pupil at the school. The 50-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a girl as an adult abusing a position of trust in November last year. BBC News story excerpt: A "coward" who repeatedly bit and beat his girlfriend during a terrifying attack has been jailed. Brandon Holding, 25, also suffocated and stamped on the woman during the half hour ordeal in May last year, Newcastle Crown Court heard. The woman, who was left with multiple injuries, said she feared she was going to be killed and had been left traumatised. Holding, of Shafto Street in Newcastle, admitted causing grievous bodily harm and was jailed for two years and four months. Holding and the woman had known each other since school and had been in a relationship for two years, prosecutor Joe Culley said.
March 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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lisastampnitzky.bsky.social
You may think AI is useless but this new study just discovered that history is not just facts but also interpretation! Just think about how many more basic foundations of existing scholarship we might be able to “discover” if we let chat gpt burn through all of earths remaining fossil fuels!
christinekooi.bsky.social Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · Jan 23
“I thought the AI chatbots would do a lot better,” said del Rio-Chanona, corresponding author of the study and assistant professor at UCL. “History is often viewed as facts, but sometimes interpretation is necessary to make sense of it.”

Where does one even start....🗃️
www.earth.com/news/ai-stru...
AI struggles to understand human history and fails miserably when tested
The study, which is the first of its kind, evaluates the historical knowledge of leading AI models such as ChatGPT-4, Llama, and Gemini.
www.earth.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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carlosazevedo.bsky.social
Where is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya? What is Israel doing to him?
December 30, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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insurgentthought.bsky.social
“we are funning low on funds again and have 4600+ active eSims, many of which need to be regularly topped up to ensure continuous Internet.

these eSims go to hospitals, journalists, students, professors, families.”

bit.ly/eSimsRUs
Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
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December 18, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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sadiahabib.bsky.social
"Western universities are increasingly prioritizing ideas of neutrality over a principled commitment to free speech and the pursuit of truth".

theconversation.com/universities...

#Palestine #EndGenocide
Universities should not silence research and speech on Palestine
Universities play an indispensable role in supporting the free inquiry needed to do the essential work of analysis, evidence gathering and recording of war crimes.
theconversation.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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nesrinemalik.bsky.social
I wrote the foreword for Runnymede's excellent report on Islamophobia, published today.

www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...
Islamophobia: the intensification of racism against Muslim communities in the UK
Perspectives paper highlighting how Islamophobia is growing in the UK, and its structural nature across British society.
www.runnymedetrust.org
November 18, 2024 at 1:51 PM