Mike
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The sentence 'IQ is 50% genetic' is meaningless.
December 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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🚨 Hot off the press!

New article on urban leadership & climate change from our own @davidwglasgow.bsky.social & @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk-based @gjallan.bsky.social & @graemeroy.bsky.social 🤓

Read #OpenAccess in @regionalstudies.bsky.social 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Why is support for the @greenparty.org.uk growing among British Jews and how do we understand this? A letter by @dmf101.bsky.social, @bengidley.bsky.social and me for the Guardian. 1/5
The Green party’s policies on Israel are appealing to young British Jews | Letter
Letter: Prof David Feldman, Dr Ben Gidley and Dr Brendan McGeever from the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism say it is wrong to characterise Jewish support for the Greens as ‘paradoxica...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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We then stuck with open-ends but changed the question a little.

Most pollsters ask about issues facing the country.

When we ask about people's day-to-day lives, the change is starkly different.

Immigration is only mentioned in a tenth of results. A majority mentioned the Cost of Living.
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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🔴 MPs are banned from been paid to give 'political advice' - but Lords can.

And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.

New on Democracy for Sale

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
The Lords’ Work? How Tory Shadow Ministers Are Cashing In
Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid to ‘advise’ the same industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
democracyforsale.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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I really loved being interviewed for this edition, Spare a Thought on Stuart Hall and the historic Open Door episode It Ain’t Half Racist Mum spareathought.podbean.com/e/it-aint-ha...
It Ain't Half Racist Mum | Spare a Thought
In today’s episode Tom speaks to Professor Les Back, a lecturer of Sociology at the University of Glasgow about 1979 TV episode of Open Door called It Aint Half Racist Mum. Together Tom and Les discus...
spareathought.podbean.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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'How different opinions in Black Lives Matter (#BLM) regarding the notion of ally shed light on social movement and ally studies'

From #Identities' latest issue 32.5, by Yannicke de Stexhe

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@tandfresearch.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/1070...
October 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Book now for ‘Feeling and Living Nature: A Relational Ontology’, a free online event run by the BSA New Materialisms Study Group, 3 November tinyurl.com/yhrerhb6 #sociology
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, Identities presents a curated selection of articles that illuminate Black histories and lived experiences across the Black Atlantic.

Read the collection with #FreeAccess:
www.tandfonline.com/...

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October 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Our hearts are with the victims and their families at this terrible time.
October 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Tragic scenes at Heaton Park Synagogue and loss of life there, and the need in our time for vigilance against all forms of racism and violence www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Manchester synagogue attack: What we know so far
Two Jewish people died in a car and stabbing attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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My commentary on Brazil's Supreme Court decision to convict Bolsonaro. I am cautiosly optimistic - we did what the US should have done with Trump. However, this came before the vote for the "Amnesty" bill in the congress, which further complicates the political landscape.

t.co/tZ5IKjkucz
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Only read one thing on your phone today trans friends & make it this. Ruth’s writing is a gift & this essay is a little parcel of hope & possibility (wrapped in a bow of grief because it’s still a trans essay). I read it on my phone & now I’m putting my phone down. Think about how we create together
New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING.

It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment.

It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.
Reject Trans Doom-Posting
This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…
ruthpearce.net
September 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University

- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant

But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?

Please read 👇

Sign the petition 👇

chng.it/7F52bThYqn
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
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July 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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This is a brilliant easy on empire loyalism, multicultural drift and dispossessed whiteness in outer south London.

Cc @academicdiary.bsky.social @transpontine.bsky.social @ashdisorient.bsky.social @liamliburd.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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So Trump is imposing new tariffs on Canadian lumber & on films produced outside the US.

*Notice that the one industry he is leaving unharmed is oil & gas?*

It's a tell...🧵

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Canadian softwood producers hit with new 10% tariff on lumber shipments into U.S.
Trump issued a proclamation Monday night, imposing a new tariff on imports of softwood from Canada and other countries, effective Oct. 14
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Wonderful surprise to hear from a friend that this student powerful radio project by former Goldsmiths student Magdalena Moursy was broadcast on Radio 4 yesterday. Always say ‘yes’ to students because they are the makers and shakers of tomorrow www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
New Storytellers - Remembering the New Cross Fire - BBC Sounds
Commemorating the 1981 New Cross fire that killed 13 black teenagers at a birthday party.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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New from The #Identities Podcast!

Episode 7: On The Unfinished Politics of Race

With Les Back, John Solomos, Michael Keith, Anya Ahmed & Trishauna Stewart

open.spotify.com/epi...

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August 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Current state of UK political discourse.
September 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The new podcast from @identitiesjournal.bsky.social is out now, with contributions from Michael Keith, Anya Ahmed, Trishauna Stewart, @baggieyiannis.bsky.social and our own @academicdiary.bsky.social.
August 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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#ICYMI: watch Writing About Activists, our recent Conversations series event chaired by @academicdiary.bsky.social and featuring scholars Hannah Ishmael, John Narayan & A.S. Francis.

🎥 VIDEO buff.ly/o11njAN

🎧 Listen to our #podcast mini-series Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism buff.ly/EUCdEHZ
August 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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This is worth continually reposting.
August 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM