'Understanding the 2024 Summer Riots in the UK: Three Case Studies'
- These events were riots not ‘protests’
- More people were involved than far-right activists
- There were significant community defence actions.
@ukri.org @behaviourresuk.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
If after reading @gelliottmorris.com's excellent piece on how most voters are non-ideologues you want to know how these non-ideologues still reason about politics in a halfway predictable way - we have a paper on that:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New preprint (with @profjohndrury.bsky.social ) on prefigurative politics in Chile’s 2019 social explosion, based on interviews with participants in demonstrations and cabildos🧵:
That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
Emotional responses to state repression predict collective climate action intentions
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Do better.
28.02.2026 18:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV
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(1) Casey Means is a dreadful nominee and should not be confirmed.
(2) I don't have any desire to defend for-profit advertising of any kind.
(3) "Obesity is a national crisis" as a message both relies on and perpetuates bias against fat people.
Reflexivity and Positionality Statements in Quantitative Research
"Choices about research questions, data sources, analytical techniques, and interpretation are all influenced by researchers’ epistemological commitments, their lived experiences..."
By @maddipow.bsky.social & @scordoban.bsky.social
This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.
If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.
How do scientists balance science with protest? My new piece for @theconversation.com, explores how scientists transition into activism and sustain their engagement.
This is based on my recently published ethnographic paper journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
theconversation.com/how-climate-...
Scientists as activists: An ethnography of the ‘critical moments’ in scientists’ transition to climate activism
New from @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September.
The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe.
🗓 Deadline: May 17
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
Solidarity to all UCU branches!
We continue to fight against compulsory redundancies at the University of Dundee.
“There’s no end in sight”
Student journalist comments as Dundee University announces a further 180 FTE staff to go.
One of our students is conducting interviews with academic staff to learn how we navigate our academic and labour identities - I think about this a lot especially when we navigate strikes. If you work at a Scottish Uni please consider participating and please share widely!
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If you care about the social responsibility of scientists, don’t miss this mid-March talk at the @royalsociety.org
Jeff Waage, @abiperrin.bsky.social & @charliejgardner.bsky.social are courageous colleagues who lead by example.
You’ll want to hear what they have to say!
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One of our students is conducting interviews with academic staff to learn how we navigate our academic and labour identities - I think about this a lot especially when we navigate strikes. If you work at a Scottish Uni please consider participating and please share widely!
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Reimagining Social Relations Through Care and Collective
Joy: The Formation of Collectivity Among Volunteers Along
the Lines of In/Formality
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
the actual story of what happened at the National Endowment for the Humanities last year is even more infuriating than we thought
20.02.2026 07:32 — 👍 508 🔁 235 💬 0 📌 0It can happen anywhere and everywhere.
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POWES CONFERENCE 2026 Call for abstracts on feminist connection and social justice. Submission deadline 27th Feb 2026. tinyurl.com/powes2026
📢Abstract submissions are now OPEN for #powes2026
⚖️The conference theme this year is 'Feminist Connection and Social Justice'
⏰Submission deadline: 27 February 2026
ℹ️More info: tinyurl.com/powes2026
📢The 2026 POWES Student Prizes are open!
🎓UG & PG dissertation work from 2022-26
🌍Entries from under‑represented students- e.g. Black & minoritised, LGBTQIA+, disabled, based o/s UK or working in a 2nd language, partic. welcome!
🗓 Deadline: 3 April 2026
🔗 Details: www.bps.org.uk/node/1718#aw...
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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SCCAN climate communcations series Workshop: How to talk about climate Image has a green background with black text, next to an image of a pinkish sunset with a couple sitting under a tree
Workshop: How to talk about climate.
🗓️ Tuesday 17 February 10-12, online.
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On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
'To boo, or not to boo? Why do fans do it?'
Disappointing evolutionary explanation in the article. I'm sure others on here - @adokerrison.bsky.social @markdoidge.bsky.social @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social - can say something more interesting about football fans booing.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
CALL FOR CHAPTERS!
Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...
Old tweet from @shelfcomedy: me: god, why must you give me your hardest battles god: i don't. you are my weakest soldier and these battles are so easy. it's an email why are you crying
The morning so far
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