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Malcolm MacLean
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UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/
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johnmunro.bsky.social
"...a past that can never quite be forgotten."

Indeed. Find time in your day to read this, and think about it.
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'The global scientific community has been urged to adopt and support non-profit scholarly publishing models to help solve the problems caused by today’s predominant systems—described as “arguably the largest science crisis of all time”.' 1/3
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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michaelplanknz.bsky.social
"Universities teach us to ask questions without tidy answers. They train us to look for truths we didn’t know existed and to challenge assumptions we didn’t realise we held. At their best, they remind us that intellect isn’t about having opinions, it’s about earning them."
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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orarunswild.bsky.social
I was wondering when phrenology would be back in. Everything old is new again... eventually.
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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markanthonyneal.bsky.social
A Retrospective of Trailblazing Artist Faith Ringgold Centers Narratives of Black Americans
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/fait...
A Retrospective of Trailblazing Artist Faith Ringgold Centers Narratives of Black Americans
Faith Ringgold is renowned for her story quilts, which combine fabric and embroidery with painted tableaux of scenes around Harlem and beyond.
www.thisiscolossal.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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orarunswild.bsky.social
Really, do.
November 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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julesboykoff.bsky.social
My latest @theguardian.com: As a genuine soccer fan & generational political talent, freshly elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani might be able to achieve the unthinkable: force the FIFA behemoth to share its lucre by targeting its tax exemptions & extreme privilege www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Zohran Mamdani has upended US politics. Now he should take on Fifa | Jules Boykoff
New York’s mayor-elect has taken on powerful institutions. With the World Cup taking place in his city, he should challenge Fifa next
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November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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jacobinmag.bsky.social
An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.
Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum
An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
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November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Pretty extraordinary story here
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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wakerevolt.bsky.social
Im glad you asked!

rebhallphd.org/self-defense...
Self-Defense, Non-Violence and the Diversity of Tactics
(This essay was written in 2017) There is a lot of discussion about non-violence as a moral belief, as a strategy, and as a tactic. I often see the following claim: “Non-violence is the only valid app...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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siouxsiew.bsky.social
Morning peeps! I’ve written a piece for @thespinoff.bsky.social on why I ended up taking legal action against my employer and a little bit about how it played out. The whole story needs a book to tell but this is a good start 😂 thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1... thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1...
Siouxsie Wiles: Why I’m crowdfunding despite winning my legal battle
'Between the ERA and the Employment Court, my husband and I have spent over $632,000.'
thespinoff.co.nz
October 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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The #NASSH2026 Call for Paper & Session Proposals is available! The conference will take place in 2 locations from May 22-25, the University of Texas at Austin & the New College on the downtown St. George campus of the University of Toronto, along with a virtual option. #SportHistory #Skystorians
NASSH 20226: Call for Paper and Session Proposals
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October 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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jonasgjerso.bsky.social
📅 Save the date!

The University of Stavanger, invites you to a symposium entitled:

Freedom of Expression in Times of Genocide

🗓 Wed. Nov 12, 5–7:30 pm | Sølvberget, Stavanger & online

Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw

More details to follow.
October 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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labourlabel.bsky.social
Making sure Big Fashion brands pay their fare share of tax is a good effort. We have a lot of work left to do on workers' rights and wages across the sector, however: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reeves expected to scrap ‘low-value imports’ loophole that benefits Shein and Temu
Chancellor reportedly plans to close tax loophole in budget, after complaints by UK retailers of uneven playing field
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October 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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#jobfairy the short deadline suggests they may have someone in mind for this role already, but icymi Univ. of Auckland seeks a historian of Aotearoa New Zealand for a permanent position: deadline 31 Oct. 🗃️
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD267/l...
Lecturer in Aotearoa New Zealand History at University of Auckland, New Zealand
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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labourstart.bsky.social
BANGLADESH: Key ILO Conventions on safety and gender equality ratified following long union campaign www.industriall-union.org/bangladesh-r...
Bangladesh ratifies key ILO Conventions on safety and gender equality following long union campaign
Bangladesh has become the first country in South Asia to ratify ILO Conventions 190, 155 and 187, addressing violence and harassment, occupational safety and health (OSH), and the promotional framewor...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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julialaite.bsky.social
Here is my first publication from my new project on the history of colonial Newfoundland and the Beothuk people, and I'm rather nervous to put it out in the world. Genuinely, all thoughts on this work are welcome as I head into writing a book about it...
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New in 'Transactions': 'Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829' bit.ly/4oygf5V

@julialaite.bsky.social shows how overlapping maps highlight complexity of encounter with place over a coherence of colonial ideologies. What were peripheries of some people’s empires were centres of others' worlds 1/2
Opening page for the new Transactions article: 'Ppssible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'. Full abstract: "Islands have a disproportionate role – as strategic locations, as imaginative or symbolic locales, as extractive zones and as ecological bellwethers – in oceanic imperial histories. They were and are places of ‘great practical use and metaphorical power’. And yet Newfoundland was seen (and continues to be seen) as marginal and peripheral, even if the biomass that was pulled out of its ocean fed – quite literally – a global network of exploitation. This article uses four overlapping maps to tell four overlapping stories: James Cook’s circumnavigation of the island in 1763–8; Lt David Buchan’s trek into the interior to contact the Beothuk in 1811 and 1820; William Eppes Cormack and Joseph Sylvester’s trek across the island in 1822; and finally, a series of story-maps created by Shanawdithit, who is apocryphally known as ‘the last of the Beothuk’. In doing so, it draws in Indigenous ‘storywork’ and cartographic histories and makes a case for storytelling as powerful methodology for examining overlooked colonial histories. These maps and stories highlight the complexity of encounter with a place rather than a coherence of colonial ideologies. Through the stories these maps help me tell, I hope to show how the peripheries of some people’s empires were the centres of other people’s worlds." Extract from Julia Laite's new TRHS article with image of Clarence Brown's 'The Newfoundland Centred World' (1977), reproduced with permission from the Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.
October 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
malcomaxx.bsky.social
I have been reminded of this excellent piece by @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social & Matilda Fitzmaurice exploring the meaning of and forces affecting academic freedom; it's a useful reminder of the landscape and stakes involved: precarity, managerialism, coercive power, a hostile media ecology, and more
Academic freedom and the knowledge commons
By Matilda Fitzmaurice and Dion Georgiou This article represents an attempt to establish some basic, but contingent, principles on academic freedom. It does not put forward a ‘UCU Commons position’…
ucucommons.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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wvmierlo.bsky.social
PhD opportunity with fee-waiver. I'm always interested in supervising projects in textual scholarship and editing, literary archives and modernism (especially the work of James Joyce and W. B. Yeats).

www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

#phd #humanities #lboro
School of Social Sciences and Humanities | Postgraduate study | Loughborough University
We are keen to receive proposals from scholars interested in working within or across a wide range of areas within the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.
www.lboro.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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ethnicityuk.bsky.social
🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship:

'A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre

Supervisors: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social & Kerry Pimblott

Apply by Fri 14 Nov 2025
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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from the resources section:

labornotes.org/strikes
How to Strike and Win: A Labor Notes Guide
After a long absence, the strike seems to be making a comeback in the U.S. The teacher strike wave of 2018-19 caught everyone off guard—but showed that workers’ most powerful tool can still win. As we...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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labourlabel.bsky.social
We're gathering TONIGHT at Pelican House. Join us: www.tickettailor.com/events/labou...
October 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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uomsociology.bsky.social
Fully funded PhD opportunity

Centring older ethnically minoritised residents' experiences in N Manchester to create more resilient communities

Apply by 14 Nov

Working with Camilla Lewis @tinebuffel.bsky.social @muarg.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Building resilient communities through urban regeneration: Centring older ethnically minoritised residents' experiences in North Manchester at The University of Manchester on Fi...
PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Building resilient communities through urban regeneration: Centring older ethnically minoritised residents' experiences in North Manchester at The University o...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM