Jamie-Lukas Campbell
@jamielukas.bsky.social
Fueled by iced coffee ☕ and #Corrie | NYC roots🗽, Belfast living | Passionate about inclusion and conversations that matter
Fortresses were never meant to last forever.
The humanities' disconcerting position on AI and the serious threat it poses to the systemic and cultural change that the academy so desperately needs. #DecolonizeTheAcademy
blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/11/...
The humanities' disconcerting position on AI and the serious threat it poses to the systemic and cultural change that the academy so desperately needs. #DecolonizeTheAcademy
blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/11/...
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Fortresses were never meant to last forever.
The humanities' disconcerting position on AI and the serious threat it poses to the systemic and cultural change that the academy so desperately needs. #DecolonizeTheAcademy
blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/11/...
The humanities' disconcerting position on AI and the serious threat it poses to the systemic and cultural change that the academy so desperately needs. #DecolonizeTheAcademy
blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/11/...
I can’t wait to get my hand on a copy of this. @conorbrockbank.bsky.social is a thoughtful and passionate thinker — cannot wait to read his piece!
Childhood and the Irish: A Miscellany edited by @salvadorryan.bsky.social is available for pre-order. The collection explores a variety of experiences including my own article on the childhoods of two Irish Carmelite missionaries, who were brothers, in Co. Wicklow!
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November 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I can’t wait to get my hand on a copy of this. @conorbrockbank.bsky.social is a thoughtful and passionate thinker — cannot wait to read his piece!
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JD Vance is refusing to condemn racist and antisemitic messages from Republican groups and Trump's press secretary is saying the Democratic Party is filled with "Hamas terrorists" and "violent criminals."
October 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
JD Vance is refusing to condemn racist and antisemitic messages from Republican groups and Trump's press secretary is saying the Democratic Party is filled with "Hamas terrorists" and "violent criminals."
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In a sane reality, this insane comment would’ve ended the career of any other press secretary. In this reality, it’s just another Thursday.
But when the Trump fever breaks, and it will break, these people will have to reckon with the digital footprints of their own depravity.
But when the Trump fever breaks, and it will break, these people will have to reckon with the digital footprints of their own depravity.
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
In a sane reality, this insane comment would’ve ended the career of any other press secretary. In this reality, it’s just another Thursday.
But when the Trump fever breaks, and it will break, these people will have to reckon with the digital footprints of their own depravity.
But when the Trump fever breaks, and it will break, these people will have to reckon with the digital footprints of their own depravity.
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Oklahoma drops plan to force schools to teach Bible lessons in social studies classes - buff.ly/fqEvoF0
October 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Oklahoma drops plan to force schools to teach Bible lessons in social studies classes - buff.ly/fqEvoF0
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Substack keeps feeding me ghosts of assimilation—voices longing for lost respectability, mistaking obedience for belonging. I trace their grief, their drift rightward, and reclaim the simple, ungovernable act of reaching for myself.
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Obedience Was Never Belonging: On Assimilation, Algorithm, and the Act of Reaching
A Study of Safety, Obedience, and the Machinery of Conditional Belonging
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October 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Substack keeps feeding me ghosts of assimilation—voices longing for lost respectability, mistaking obedience for belonging. I trace their grief, their drift rightward, and reclaim the simple, ungovernable act of reaching for myself.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
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Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar this Friday from QUB’s @jamielukas.bsky.social. Do note the room change for this week only. Honoured to be asked to chair the seminar this week. More details & sign up to join online via link below:
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October 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar this Friday from QUB’s @jamielukas.bsky.social. Do note the room change for this week only. Honoured to be asked to chair the seminar this week. More details & sign up to join online via link below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...
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I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.
“I will end my career writing dissent, that is my future. And you understand that you’re writing for a future society. That dissents are not about today. Dissents are writing for a future society that will take that dissent, that will be ready for that dissent, & enact it”
@nhannahjones.bsky.social
@nhannahjones.bsky.social
The Trump administration has attacked diversity programs, historical discussions of slavery, civil rights and more as he pressures civic institutions to de-emphasize race. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of The 1619 Project, discusses what led to this movement. nyti.ms/4msq3x8
September 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.
New blog: 'On AI and the Academy: Dragging heels ‘til they outsource themselves out of a job.'
Colleges investing in AI and assessing students = big wins, greater investments, happier students.
Anti-AI campuses = departmental breakdowns and revenue losses.
blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/09/...
Colleges investing in AI and assessing students = big wins, greater investments, happier students.
Anti-AI campuses = departmental breakdowns and revenue losses.
blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/09/...
On AI and the Academy: Dragging heels ‘til they outsource themselves out of a job. – Jamie-Lukas Campbell
blogs.qub.ac.uk
September 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
New blog: 'On AI and the Academy: Dragging heels ‘til they outsource themselves out of a job.'
Colleges investing in AI and assessing students = big wins, greater investments, happier students.
Anti-AI campuses = departmental breakdowns and revenue losses.
blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/09/...
Colleges investing in AI and assessing students = big wins, greater investments, happier students.
Anti-AI campuses = departmental breakdowns and revenue losses.
blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/09/...
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The diminishment of prominent Black journalists is the latest indication that a period of progress in America has ended and a period of retrenchment is in full bloom.
trib.al/VSbmOMm
trib.al/VSbmOMm
September 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The diminishment of prominent Black journalists is the latest indication that a period of progress in America has ended and a period of retrenchment is in full bloom.
trib.al/VSbmOMm
trib.al/VSbmOMm
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luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.
September 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.
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This could have been us America.
Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil
Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This could have been us America.
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Funny how this keeps happening?
EXCLUSIVE | A man convicted of the attempted murder of a 14-year-old child is now part of a group of vigilantes, who have been ‘patrolling’ Belfast's streets and claim to be protecting women and children from migrants
Thug convicted of bid to murder child is part of far right ‘save our children’ vigilante group in east Belfast
A man convicted of the attempted murder of a 14-year-old child is part of a far-right vigilante ‘save our children’ group patrolling Belfast’s streets.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Funny how this keeps happening?
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When I wrote this in 2019 some accused me of exaggerating the connection between the intellectual bigotry/racism of the Spectator and Telegraph (as exemplified by Scruton and Murray) and BNP/street-level thuggery. If anything I was too cautious..
www.politics.co.uk/comment-anal...
www.politics.co.uk/comment-anal...
Scruton is part of an intellectual culture giving respectability to racism
Howls of outrage over philosopher Sir Roger Scruton's loss of a government job ignore the reality of his output.
www.politics.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
When I wrote this in 2019 some accused me of exaggerating the connection between the intellectual bigotry/racism of the Spectator and Telegraph (as exemplified by Scruton and Murray) and BNP/street-level thuggery. If anything I was too cautious..
www.politics.co.uk/comment-anal...
www.politics.co.uk/comment-anal...
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"The politicians and pundits who crack the whip on immigration need to be asked, right now, where this ends."
@jonathanliew.bsky.social is absolutely right here. Long past time to stand up to the dangerous racism infecting our political discourse.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@jonathanliew.bsky.social is absolutely right here. Long past time to stand up to the dangerous racism infecting our political discourse.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew
The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"The politicians and pundits who crack the whip on immigration need to be asked, right now, where this ends."
@jonathanliew.bsky.social is absolutely right here. Long past time to stand up to the dangerous racism infecting our political discourse.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@jonathanliew.bsky.social is absolutely right here. Long past time to stand up to the dangerous racism infecting our political discourse.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Research papers and position statements debate methods, but students remain unheard. This essay follows echoes—from old battlefields to today’s classrooms—naming how fidelity cultures erase voice, and why access is the fight.
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Not Another Forgotten Echo: Student Voice, Fidelity Culture, and the Fight for Access
Walking Between Research and Reality in Today’s Math Classrooms
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September 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Research papers and position statements debate methods, but students remain unheard. This essay follows echoes—from old battlefields to today’s classrooms—naming how fidelity cultures erase voice, and why access is the fight.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
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"[...] Language that cuts through the fidelity culture of curriculum publishers, who would rather train teachers to withhold support than risk deviating from the pacing guide. Fidelity—how that word stings. It is presented as virtue, but in practice it is often erasure."
"[...] Language that cuts through the fidelity culture of curriculum publishers, who would rather train teachers to withhold support than risk deviating from the pacing guide. Fidelity—how that word stings. It is presented as virtue, but in practice it is often erasure."
Research papers and position statements debate methods, but students remain unheard. This essay follows echoes—from old battlefields to today’s classrooms—naming how fidelity cultures erase voice, and why access is the fight.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
Not Another Forgotten Echo: Student Voice, Fidelity Culture, and the Fight for Access
Walking Between Research and Reality in Today’s Math Classrooms
open.substack.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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"[...] Language that cuts through the fidelity culture of curriculum publishers, who would rather train teachers to withhold support than risk deviating from the pacing guide. Fidelity—how that word stings. It is presented as virtue, but in practice it is often erasure."
"[...] Language that cuts through the fidelity culture of curriculum publishers, who would rather train teachers to withhold support than risk deviating from the pacing guide. Fidelity—how that word stings. It is presented as virtue, but in practice it is often erasure."
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Former Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.), a vocal critic of his uncle Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is calling on the Health and Human Services secretary to resign.
Joe Kennedy Calls On RFK Jr. To Resign
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September 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Former Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.), a vocal critic of his uncle Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is calling on the Health and Human Services secretary to resign.
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My article on the coloniality of academic freedom and the Palestine exception still has free access. Check it out when you get a chance.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Coloniality of Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception
This article reflects on my experience of being suspended and reinstated. It demonstrates how administrators, including those at my institution, knowingly violate academic freedom and free speech. ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 16, 2024 at 4:43 PM
My article on the coloniality of academic freedom and the Palestine exception still has free access. Check it out when you get a chance.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Academic journals gatekeep knowledge. The AutSide builds something else: open, rigorous, needs-based writing shaped by lived experience. We don’t need more prestige—we need trust, access, and solidarity. We already did the work.
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We Already Did the Work: A Response to the Academic Publishing Paradox
Why Peer-Reviewed Paywalls Can’t Hold What We’ve Already Built: On Decentralised Knowledge, Autistic Praxis, and the Archive We Made Together
open.substack.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Academic journals gatekeep knowledge. The AutSide builds something else: open, rigorous, needs-based writing shaped by lived experience. We don’t need more prestige—we need trust, access, and solidarity. We already did the work.
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
open.substack.com/pub/autside/...
The most New York commentary: www.newstatesman.com/culture/life...
September 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The most New York commentary: www.newstatesman.com/culture/life...
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In a moment when the foundations of American democracy are being shaken – and its past reshaped to serve partisan ends – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, joins us for a conversation on the erosion of democracy and the tools for resistance.
@nhannahjones.bsky.social
@nhannahjones.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In a moment when the foundations of American democracy are being shaken – and its past reshaped to serve partisan ends – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, joins us for a conversation on the erosion of democracy and the tools for resistance.
@nhannahjones.bsky.social
@nhannahjones.bsky.social
New blog: If research doesn’t serve, connect, or empower, then who is it really for?
I wrote about the disconnect between academia and community, and why decolonial research must be accessible, inclusive, and relational.
blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/07/...
#DecolonizeTheAcademy #BlackInAcademia
I wrote about the disconnect between academia and community, and why decolonial research must be accessible, inclusive, and relational.
blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/07/...
#DecolonizeTheAcademy #BlackInAcademia
If Research Isn’t Accessible, What Are We Doing? – Jamie-Lukas Campbell
blogs.qub.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New blog: If research doesn’t serve, connect, or empower, then who is it really for?
I wrote about the disconnect between academia and community, and why decolonial research must be accessible, inclusive, and relational.
blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/07/...
#DecolonizeTheAcademy #BlackInAcademia
I wrote about the disconnect between academia and community, and why decolonial research must be accessible, inclusive, and relational.
blogs.qub.ac.uk/jlc/2025/07/...
#DecolonizeTheAcademy #BlackInAcademia
@jdportes.bsky.social outstanding job on @gbnewsonline.bsky.social just now. So grateful for you standing your ground. I watched the hosts joke about migrants sinking on boats, and watched Bev Turner this morning refer to migrants as "cultural vandalism" in London. Thank you for bringing facts!
July 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
@jdportes.bsky.social outstanding job on @gbnewsonline.bsky.social just now. So grateful for you standing your ground. I watched the hosts joke about migrants sinking on boats, and watched Bev Turner this morning refer to migrants as "cultural vandalism" in London. Thank you for bringing facts!