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Giulio was indeed an extraordinary conversationalist. Unforgettable in every way. Thanks for updating your post and thank you *for* the original post
His wife, Laura Lepschy (a distinguished Italian linguist, and also the daughter of Arnaldo Momigliano) survives Giulio
In case you hadn't seen, Stuart, Giulio Lepschy, co-editor of Studies in General Linguistics series, died last month. My mother was very close friends with his wife; I remember many conversations with Giulio, all with extraordinary metaphysical and linguistic turns www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...
5 minutes ago I closed Powerpoint and this was the slide showing, which accompanied my undergrad lecture this week
AI companies are paying screenwriters, lawyers, and other white-collar professionals to produce the training data needed to automate their jobs. I spoke with more than 30 workers about conditions inside this fast-growing and extremely secretive new gig economy.
I've been thinking for the last few days about Omid Mehrgan's complex essay in @parapraxismag.bsky.social which moves between Tehran, Gaza, resistance – and the task of the translator www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ren...
For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog:
truethings.naghmehs.com
crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website
against-a-i.com
My flat’s a few mins’ walk away and sounds of trains rolling into Glasgow Central come every few minutes. Today their absence I am noticing repeatedly. I can’t yet face walking to see the burnt building. One burnt building; no injuries. Elsewhere US and Israel pound urban landscapes to oblivion
Sally Rooney: "By standing in solidarity with Palestine, we are learning how to fight for life on earth"
Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"
My lecture will include discussion of @hamayel.bsky.social Abdaljawad Omar’s “Can the Palestinian Mourn?” rustedradishes.com/can-the-pale...
I’m lecturing on mourning and melancholia to my honours’ students this week and in the midst of writing my lecture I read Haley Mlotek’s essay in @thenation.com on Duras and on grief www.thenation.com/article/cult...
I remember the feeling of the day in late 2023 on which I read Nadia Bou Ali's 'Ugly enjoyment' when it was published in English in @parapraxismag.bsky.social www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ugl...
'Why do people resist?...staying with where pain refuses to soften. Keeping vigil with the unbearable, enduring the night where all the cows are black'
Always read Nadia Bou Ali communispress.com/dispatches-f...
I wasn’t surprised to read, given how much Oxford has been crowing about its preeminence in embedding AI (eg www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...), that the workshop is being run by a member of the “AI Competency Centre” at University of Oxford, which supports the deployment and adoption of AI across Oxford
Just declined this invitation my university just sent me for a full-day workshop. Push back against the relentless reduction of socially necessary labour time
A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
oh. yes. you're right
Same in Glasgow. Having just taught a seminar on Freud’s essay on the uncanny I am feeling particularly unsettled
And just look at how Adam Tickell, economic geographer and vice-chancellor, has chosen to word his attack here: 'getting access to the student loan book', 'investing money in people who are not really capable of graduating'
“What began as an attempt to alter the regional balance may instead hasten the erosion of the order that presumed it could interfere with impunity”
Teaching Mark Fisher this morning and making sure the students also read @callumsutherland.bsky.social on Fisher’s spatial imaginaries in @dialogueshg.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This is not a substantive engagement with the economy of Dubai but Caitlín Doherty's short piece in Sidecar is worth a (re)read newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Such an incredible essay by Nazanin Shahrokni on what practising solidarity as relation really entails spectrejournal.com/who-speaks-f...
All photos taken in Inveraray. Bus from Glasgow takes under 2hrs and it’s a beautiful route. Costs £23 return
‘This dossier starts from a basic question. How did we arrive at a moment in which imperialist powers that have waged war across the region and enabled Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, can appear as plausible agents of “freedom for Iran?”’
I know @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social will have lots of suggestions
Not very helpful, but I think so much depends on how the editor has set out what the edited book aims to do. Sometimes writing a chapter can feel very similar to writing a research article for a journal, and other times, as you suggest, seems to require a more synoptic approach
The oystercatchers and curlews are calling (but not visible in this photo)