Su-ming Khoo

"The nose knows"

What does the shadow of your nose smell like, Radu?

Wow. That is some race tax

Book 11, 38 Londres Street was simply gripping. I read it in one sitting. On universal jurisdiction, impunity, immunity and the continuities of killing, torture, and lies #books2026

On Feb 23, I’ll be debating @katharinapistor.bsky.social on the topic of beyond capitalism at Columbia University. Link to details and registration below. Please share!

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Looks great! #saturdaybooks

Book 11 #books2026

38 Londres Street with a postcard of Bottle and Newspaper by Picasso marking a few pages in. A pile of books with Scanlon on the top in the background

#books2026 got to p143 of What We Owe To Each Other, painfully slow progress. Started 38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands as a faster read since I'm teaching lots of human rights. Bookmark is a postcard of Bottle and Newspaper, Picasso (1913)

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The launch of 'The Modern World After Colonialism', a @brisunipress.bsky.social textbook developed from the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project resources

📍March 4th 2026, 11am, Zoom

@sumingkhoo.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social @thesociologicalreview.org
bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hurray! Come join our launch of #TMWaC on 3 March, thanks to the lovely @brisunipress.bsky.social

#books2026 hard going to get through 77 pages of Book 5 What We Owe to Each Other and one essay in Book 10 Morality and Responsibility by Scanlon, but hugely relevant to our interests and deeply enjoyable to discuss in depth with serious and good friends

"Ever tried. Ever failed. Fail upwards, fail better", as Beckett never wrote

Painting of Cote D’Azur: tree in foreground in full leaf, houses in mid distance, then bright blue bay, and lighter blue sky.

Royal Academy promoting their new exhibition with this rather wonderful Raoul Dufy: Golfe Juan, 1927

This specially curated list of 100 books celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The titles are personal recommendations from some of today's most celebrated Black writers, artists, & luminaries & curated by the Schomburg Center’s reference division.

Morality and Responsibility by TM Scanlon (2025). Bookmark is a postcard of Sean Keating's painting An Allegory (1924)

#books2026 Book 10 is an attempt to get back to Scanlon by way of some more recent essays. Morality and Responsibility (2025). Bookmark is Sean Keating, An Allegory (1924)

Maeve McKeown's book With Power Comes Responsibility. Bookmark is "Wissenschaft", A Kubin

Book 9 is Maeve McKeown's With Power Comes Responsibility, inspired by Iris Marion Young #books2026

Hadn't posted anything on #books2026 zero idea how threads work here. Still on these books, currently chs 4+5 of 5/ - wonderfully written with sensitive insight and around 100 pages into 6/ - tough going but discussions are rewarding. Reading a few pages most days

Measles. Again. Imagine wanting this to happen, out of sheer stupidity and spite

People need to think about this graph

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

Court Orders the Netherlands to Protect a Caribbean Island From Climate Change

Here's the news in English: #ClimateChange #Netherlands
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/c...

The characteristics of this ongoing genocide are utterly horrendous, targeting any vestige of humanity, anything that could help people to survive as human beings.

Boycotting is something

Bog Trouble | Caitlín Doherty In Ireland, a preference for a traditional fuel source is overridden by a Green Party more concerned with household emissions than poverty.

In recent years, American tech money has flooded into Ireland for the construction of data centers and the infrastructure to support their energy needs. This has threatened the country’s boglands, and complicated the debate around its green transition.

Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim

In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.

"Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a 'mistake' but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate...Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency."

Clean your data - The Research Companion Data cleaning is a hugely underrated skill. Learn how to clean up data and your future self will thank you.

Data cleaning is not something you'd associate with wellbeing. 'Boring' probably springs to mind. Or 'what's data cleaning?'

Yet this little guide on data cleaning for #ResearcherRenew remains one of the most appreciated activities of the month.

theresearchcompanion.com/cleandata

International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
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