Cool. Just need some synthetic social scientists now. Much more efficient. 👍

Loved this piece and loved the book (everyone else at the book club I read it with absolutely hated it)

Book launch of ‘Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems’ yesterday at @uofgsps.bsky.social, featuring a poem by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

I sort of wish y'all took this more seriously, because this attitude is a reinforcement of heterosexuality as a hierarchy. It's an acknowledgement and understanding that it's not enough to "be with" a woman, or even to father children.

They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.

the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

Good morning. Daylight hours start to increase again in just 34 days.

✍️ My book review of 'Supply Chain Justice' on the @bordercrim.bsky.social blog:

Scotland’s #AI data centres are already using enough fresh water to fill 27m bottles per year. #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...

Abolish the Home Office

Re-reading 'The spatial and temporal development of British
prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation', which prompted me to watch this video of people in Goldthorpe celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher with an effigy and bagpipes www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9K...

We’ve had a strong start to the academic year with our first general meeting & a welcome lunch for those of you who’ve recently joined UCUGlasgow! As we head into balloting (opening Oct 20th), it’s as important as ever to build our organising power. More here: glasgow.web.ucu.org.uk/2025/10/09/w...

Thanks for being there and listening!

Loved listening to @saranahmed.bsky.social speak so movingly and poetically about some of the ideas behind her new book this evening at @lighthousebks.bsky.social

'Further emails suggest BAE Systems required Glasgow university to complete security questions before agreeing to attend events. A “university security questionnaire” sent to Glasgow by the defence company asked if the institution was “aware of any social media protests posts or videos”.'

NEW from Liberty Investigates:

UK universities have offered to monitor students social media accounts for arms companies concerned about campus protests

Full story below

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"It seems very likely that OpenAI will soon be placing ads inside ChatGPT results" can universities please now stop providing these licenses to students or are we not even trying any more to separate learning from corporate sponsorship jeppestricker.substack.com/p/the-age-of...