Jana Bacevic

yeah, so far it's been a pleasant surprise, which is rare these days

ah, another fan 🙂! I only recently discovered it and was skeptical af at first, but love it - would love a reading group or somesuch on it at some point!

On refusing to be a spectator I had a dream. No, no the Martin Luther King kind of dream, by which I mean I do not think this one will be used to retroactively construct a politics of reconciliation where none are due. A real d…

I wrote up some - entirely hypothetical, of course 👀 😏 - questions for everyone (still) working in UK HE. janabacevic.net/2025/08/05/5...

this, 100% - as we know from so many other examples, once you introduce 'members' club' and then 'members' club plus' it's a sure sign the enterprise is going down...

hard agree - as far as any monitoring is to be supported, this was the one element that brought attention that institutions can produce highly-ranked papers while still being awful to work in, and thus likely to eventually lose that standing. but of course, in the new short-termism, no-one cares.

I've seen the same on trams in San Diego (incidentally, also useful for people with prams, luggage, or bicycles) - it's such an easy fix.

That is really terrible and shouldn't happen, but I guess speaks to your point - the whole of Britain is one big contingency plan, it seems

I mean, yes, like any half-decently educated person it's always been obvious how some spaces are massively inaccessible, but I always thought Britain was one of the more decent places in terms of public transport. The fact that over the past 5 years it managed to rapidly stop being so speaks volumes

One of the ways in which the breakdown of Britain is really visible (even when returning from a proximate 'abroad' as Ireland) is the disrepair of station lifts. I try not to carry luggage up/down the stairs (sciatica), but how tf do people in wheelchairs or with mobility issues manage, no idea 😱

not to be woowoo on main, but: yogi-life.com/en-GB/produc... (actually excellent, as much as most of their other teas)

Jana Bacevic I had a dream. No, no the Martin Luther King kind of dream, by which I mean I do not think this one will be used to retroactively construct a politics of reconciliation where none are due. A real d…

Wrote a wee thing janabacevic.net/2025/08/05/5...

True. A friend who is a migrant in the UK (I don't want to tag them, but they're on here) recently told me (as we were following the anti-ICE protests in the US) "I'm not sure, if the police came for me, my neighbours would do anything to stop them".

I'm not sure either.

which, eventually, means people begin to fight for resources, in order to justify their unequal (re)distribution judge [some] others as "less deserving" (of food, shelter, safety, freedom, jobs) than themselves. which is how you get aggrieved entitlement. which is *exactly* what this is about.

or, let me put this differently: yes, perception and/or fear of 'difference' (meaning everything that is unknown) is likely universal. for this to turn into conflict, mistreatment, or even the (still very present) ideology of superiority, you need a selective system of incentives & scarcity.

there is no point in "educating" people about "good" migrants (or, equally nauseating, the "net benefits of migration"). the moment you have an idea of 'illegal' migration and the idea that somehow political participation (that's citizenship, you lot) has to be "earned", you've set hate in motion.

Take this from a theorist of (non)knowledge: this is not 'failure', this is a very deliberate set of omissions/exaggerations/interpretations that have a clear political goal, which is to make sure the (still mostly white) Brits are fighting asylum seekers, rather than their own ruling class

I see the media is settling in for the traditional Far Right British Summer

It is yet another day when the UK media spent more airtime on the fact storm Floris (never mentioned in relation to climate change) ruined the Edinburgh Tattoo (first I heard of it) & threatens to ruin Fringe, as well as Sydney Sweeney (not sure why this is a thing at all), than starvation in Gaza

This is exactly what doing AI-assisted research looks to me

you're right, it shouldn't be an either/or if it can be both, as long as it involves fire 😃

+ it takes between 5 and 10 hours per funding application (*regardless of whether successful*) to smooth out the glitches in the application systems/processes that institutions introduce *on top* of those required by funder (yes, you heard that right). I am seriously considering budgeting for this.

Picture of the article called 'The dark side of diversification: Passive finance and fossil-fuel investment'

What shapes fossil-fuel investment decisions?
What are pension funds’ climate considerations?
And how does the portfolio risk concept influence these issues?

Excited to see my paper "The dark side of diversification: Passive finance and fossil-fuel investment" published in @finandsoc.bsky.social!
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Worse, if "the money" is international students (as they increasingly seem like the euphemism for it), not even...

I'm always more on the fire vs. rich guy solutions side, fwiw 😁

as we say, the system isn't broken, it's working as intended...

This is an excellent resource for all yours (you know, mum, dad, best friend/s, neighbours, partner/s, dogs, whatever) who ever said with that knowing 'it's a phase' look "oH YES But what ABOUT large-scale infrastructure" etc. etc, and @detritusbooks.bsky.social always send excellent stickers too :)

I have other revolutionary/relationship anarch(y)ist advice, maybe I'll start a column 💅🏴

Seriously, one of the main reasons why heteropatriarchal competition-based partnership models (even when not sexually conservative, by the by) are reactionary AF is because they are meant to durably sever the possibility of alliances/solidarity. always be excellent to people, even if you date them.