Dr Sarah Irving

📆 BIAA ANKARA LECTURE: Canals and colonialism: Trans-Palestinian waterways from the Ottoman era to social media

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🗣 Sarah Irving (University of Staffordshire)
📆Wednesday, 22nd October 2025
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Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

earthsky.org/human-world/...

Boss! Autistic woman smashing work goals rewarded with burnout An autistic woman has smashed the glass ceiling only to become too fucking exhausted to reap any of the rewards, it has been confirmed. Beth Hapworth, 32, spent her entire 20s grafting, hustling and…

Beth Hapworth, 32, spent her entire 20s grafting, hustling and girl-bossing her way through her event photography career only to find she now needs to nap for the entirety of her 30s.

Oklahoma regulators to balance costly nuclear potential with projected wave of energy demand Elected state officials voted to require the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to investigate whether the Sooner State could generate nuclear energy or hold off on welcoming the industry.

Building a nuclear power plant just to satisfy projected energy demands from data centers. 🫠

www.kosu.org/show/stateim...

2 Million People Paralyze Italy in a General Strike for Gaza and the Flotilla - Left Voice Workers across Italy brought the country to a halt with a massive national strike to denounce Israel’s attacks against the Global Sumud Flotilla — defying Meloni’s repression and showing the power of…

"[T]wo million [Italian] workers demonstrated and walked off the streets on Friday."

"Workers across the world must follow this example [.] and send a message to the entire world: the labor movement will not allow Israel to massacre the Palestinian people."
#Italy #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

"My only crime is that I am a doctor"

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital, is being unlawfully held by Israel since late December 2024. He is being deliberately starved and denied medical care, as a lawyer from PHRI confirms.

Picture seen on @mosababutoha.bsky.social IG account

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🧵 Libertarian economist Tyler Cowen is making headlines for an extremely creepy post at Bari Weiss's blog fantasizing about robot virgins and the AI character Tilly Norwood.

Unfortunately, the story behind is much worse...

Why not force the Oxbridge colleges to merge & create a system that shares their wealth & resources with other UK universities & looks for the succes & stability of all?

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’ This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in red.

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in green.

After launching them at Queeriosities last weekend, the A3 Risograph posters are now up on our website with all profits going to the Sameer Project in Gaza: polari.press/throw-sand-i...

risograph print - red flowers, green print over saying THROW SAND IN THE GEARS OF GENOCIDE

risograph print - green flowers, red print over saying THROW SAND IN THE GEARS OF GENOCIDE

our @fossilfreebooks.org comrade @peter.polari.com has made these gorgeous risograph prints to raise money for the Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid group supporting people in Gaza. Only 50: get yours quick polari.press/shop/art-pri...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers. We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah. Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

Also one of her logics seems to be that the genocide in Gaza isn’t going anywhere soon, so people can just protest against it in a week or two, which is… interesting

In a functioning society, this would have been front page news everywhere.

In our society, this didn't make the fine print.

As @georgemonbiot.bsky.social pointed out once, it's quite depressing to check the headlines when you know what the real headline should be...

Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist The secret life of a Palestinian Communist activist during the leadup to World War II.In the public eye, Najati Sidqi was known as a journalist and writer, a...

I am so excited about this book coming out next month. Pre-order here! utpress.utexas.edu/9781477333228/

"According to Bosnian documents, he is a traitor. According to Turkish documents, he is a spy. According to American documents, he is an alien. According to them all, he is to be put in no position to help others or himself." Ena Selimović: Airborne Illustration: gray and black embroidery of B-2 bomber patent drawings on a blue background

We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social:
www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...

Hey scumbags, Jews in Manchester have fuck all to do with Palestine or Israel. Commenting beneath news stories about dead British Jews with 'what about Palestinians?' is just fucking antisemitic bullshit. If you think Jews are your enemy, you are the enemy.

Jews are not Israel.

Nadine is correct and this Palestinian wants nothing, whatsoever, to do with you or your performative bs “solidarity”. You’re a repugnant rotter and a stain on our just cause. Our suffering is not your springboard to dismiss, excuse and “what-about” the legitimate pain, suffering and fears of Jews

Security stepped up at the UK's oldest gurdwara based in London Gurdwaras are diverting funds from vital community services to bolster security say Sikh leaders.

"It's not just about being Sikh. It's about being brown. People don't distinguish between Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus... It feels like the 1970s again. I remember the National Front. The difference now is social media is amplifying hate."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#r4today

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...