Research Seminar Series: Gender Works in Progress with @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and PhD alumni and Visting Fellows @senelw.bsky.social and @clairelwilmot.bsky.social this afternoon!
10.12.2025 12:26 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@rkdasgupta.bsky.social
Associate Professor, London School of Economics| Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow| Labour & Coop Party Councillor| Chair of Council & First Citizen, London Borough of Newham 25-26| He/They| https://linktr.ee/rohitkdasgupta
Research Seminar Series: Gender Works in Progress with @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and PhD alumni and Visting Fellows @senelw.bsky.social and @clairelwilmot.bsky.social this afternoon!
10.12.2025 12:26 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@rkdasgupta.bsky.social is speaking at Kolkata Literary Festival in January! โฌ๏ธ
www.aklf.in/index.html
Gender Department Christmas Lunch! ๐ด๐
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@asiyaislam.bsky.social
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@rkdasgupta.bsky.social
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Their courage reminds us that sacrifice knows no borders, and that our shared histories bind us together in the pursuit of a more just and peaceful world.
10.11.2025 18:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0On Remembrance Sunday, we honour all those who gave their lives in the service of peace and freedom. As we remember, we must also acknowledge the extraordinary diversity of those who served from every corner of the Commonwealth, of every faith and background.
10.11.2025 18:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
17.10.2025 01:15 โ ๐ 7805 ๐ 3774 ๐ฌ 93 ๐ 344ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right
I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed
A 2024 survey shows 57% of inhabitants of Dal Lake experienced decreasing rainfall, 75% saw less snowfall, and 60% saw a decline in stream discharge.
Nearly 75% are experiencing more frequent and stronger extreme weather occurrences, significantly impacting agricultural output and livelihoods.
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WELCOME 2025? COMPLETED IT MATE โ
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Weโre delighted to welcome our new cohort and our brilliant new LSE Fellows R and Zuzana!
Special thanks to our PSS colleagues, our HoD @sumimadhok.bsky.social and @rkdasgupta.bsky.social for a fantastic Welcome Lecture.
Bring it on!
Hug. Been a while since I have seen you. Hope youโre keeping well x
25.09.2025 23:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The recording of yesterdayโs brilliant Welcome Lecture is now available on our YouTube channel! ๐บ ๐ฟ
@rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social
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25.09.2025 22:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thank you :)
25.09.2025 22:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0NEW ARTICLE out now. Thatโs my service to the discipline sorted for the next decade! A collection of 50 articles, books, and chapters that I hope will be a useful resource for anyone researching queer digital cultures in non-Western contexts.
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
@rkdasgupta.bsky.social speaking on South Asian Diasporic Cultural Production and Queer Organising for this yearโs Welcome Lecture chaired by @sumimadhok.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
24.09.2025 16:50 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Yesterday marked 8 years since the late Sarah Hegazi raised the rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert in a moment of uncalculated joy so threatening to Egyptian authorities that they arrested, tortured, prosecuted her, and sent her to exile.
Sarah in my heart today. ๐
Graphic with the headline โLondon is the greatest city in the worldโ set against a bright view of the River Thames with the Shard, Tower Bridge and the city skyline. The text celebrates what makes London special: regularly voted the number one city in the world, incredible diversity with over 300 languages spoken, world-class transport, world leader in finance tech and life sciences, best museums and galleries many free to visit, world-leading nightlife, food sport and music for every taste, host to the worldโs best sporting events, home to seven Premier League clubs, globally-ranked universities, a city where you can be yourself and love who you love, and a place for everyone.
Iโve said it once, Iโll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the ๐
@sumimadhok.bsky.social welcoming our new cohort this morning โค๏ธ
@rkdasgupta.bsky.social
@aikoiiris.bsky.social
@asiyaislam.bsky.social
@hsw.bsky.social
A year on since we have been raising the alarm. We have been shouting Labour canโt out reform Reform and with the far right rising I have seen my communities divided and this is what we have now. I hope this โprogressive fight backโ is not too little too late.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Happy Welcome everyone! ๐
Last chance to sign up to our WELCOME LECTURE 2025!
Start the academic year off right with @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social and a drink on us! ๐ฅ
Comment for details on how to attend! ๐
What an absolute privilege it was to join Ambassador Dr Husam Zomlot at the Palestine Embassy today to raise the flag and mark this historic recognition of the State of Palestine. As he reminded us, this is just the first step, we still need the violence to end and a permanent ceasefire.
22.09.2025 14:25 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Next week! Start the academic year off with @sumimadhok.bsky.social and @rkdasgupta.bsky.social! (And a drink on us ๐ฅ)
19.09.2025 09:48 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Queerbeat Media have published an extract from our book focusing on how Desi queers navigated the club scene, including racism, in Britain during the 80s and 90s. You can read the complete excerpt here: www.queerbeat.org/stories/in-b...
10.09.2025 06:53 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Tooley's the guy that, if you reconstructed the public timeline of events, was previously removed from his position after he (almost definitely) threatened his ex-wife with a weapon, then the police immediately searched his house and found an unregistered weapon in his bedside table.
08.09.2025 09:51 โ ๐ 46 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Youโre invited to this years WELCOME LECTURE delivered by the one and only @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and chaired by Head of Department @sumimadhok.bsky.social!
Start the year with a great talk and drink on us! ๐ฅ
Details below! โฌ๏ธ
Congratulations to everyone on here! โ thrilled to be sharing space w/ @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social Prof Churnjeet Mahn, Dr Maria Sledmere & others.
Big shoutout to @yvettetaylor.bsky.social for making this happen!
Out April 2026.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-in-...
Weโre inviting all LSE students, staff and alumni to attend our WELCOME LECTURE 2025!
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www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
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Desi Queers review out now by @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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