Nick Bingham

The image contains details for a Call for papers for the IMISCOE Research Network 2026 Annual Conference. The Panel is entitled Class Matters: Community engagement and middle-class migrants in migration research

Call for papers for IMISCOE 2026 Annual Conference.
Class Matters: Community engagement and middle-class migrants in migration research.

Please email abstracts no longer than 250 words by 10th September to Gunjan Sondhi (gunjan.sondhi@open.ac.uk) and Markus Roos Breines (mrb@fafo.no).

Cover of Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair by Joseph Pierce. The background is bright yellow with an artwork by Jeffy Gibson, Chief Pretty Eagle, at its center. Gibson's piece is a colorful, geometric collage composed of repeating, partially obscured portraits of an Indigenous American man. The composition also includes bright chevron patterns, a beaded, reversed American flag, and a red button that reads "Question Reality."

Save 30% on #NewBook "Speculative Relations" by @pepepierce.bsky.social which consider draws on Cherokee thinking, queer theory, & literary & cultural studies to consider the potential of Indigenous relations to repair the damages of history and imagine new futures. buff.ly/r3uBPre

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

I despise these AI bros for so many reasons — but among the top for me is that, bc of their egos + recklessness, and bc of a gullible grifter culture that expands their uptake + influence, we’re all now obligated to care abt their bullshit + minimize its harms. I’d rather be doing anything else.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

Planetary Futures: On Life in Critical Times Based upon the opening keynote address at the German Congress of Geography held in Frankfurt am Main in 2023, this article traces the current debate on the planetary in the humanities, social science...

Our #dkg2023 keynote on Planetary Futures is now available in both German and English.
Written in 2023, so we only touch upon the threat of Techfascism and rise of in your-face-white supremacy
ENGL: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
GER: biblioscout.net/content/10.2...

Mo Salah respond to a post by UEFA with: Can you tell us how he died, where, and why? The UEFA post reads: Farewell to Suleiman al-Obeid, the 'Palestinian Pelé'. A talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times

Well said, Mo Salah.

Suleiman al-Obeid was shot dead by IDF forces whilst waiting for food aid in southern Gaza.

Super pleased to share a new article that I helped co-author, alongside some amazing Indigenous colleagues, out today in Nature!

Michel Callon has died

The Open University Menopause is a stage of life that affects many people, yet it remains stigmatised and misunderstood. Take a look at our menopause resources.

Look at our fabulous new list of curated resources about #Menopause from my lovely colleagues here at the @oulibrary.bsky.social . Not enough is said, shared or discussed when it comes to #Menopause university.open.ac.uk/library/libr...

Motherfucking wind farms…

Sign the Petition Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University

- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant

But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?

Please read 👇

Sign the petition 👇

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18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs Students increasingly use AI chatbots for anything from academic queries to emotional quandaries. But are they missing out on the chance to make their own mistakes? Three undergrads reveal all …

“A query that started with Joshua asking ChatGPT to fill in the marked gaps in a para…finished 103 prompts…58k words later with “Chat” not only supplying the intro & conc, & sourcing & compiling refs, but also assessing the finished essay against…marking criteria” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

When you strip away humanity

I have an idea: add a widget that uses AI to simulate the depletion of aquifers used to cool the data centers that run each campus’s Canvas AI! Pedagogical self-reflexivity! Infrastructural literacy!

This landmark victory at the ICJ is excellent news for all small island & Global South countries that have faced devastating climate impacts for decades but contributed the least GHGs. This is a step forward on climate justice at a global scale.
#Climatechange #climatecoloniality #lossanddamage

Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are starving to death
Palestinians are st

Reversing the Gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector This article reverses the gaze on research on highly skilled migrant (HSM) women by analysing how the patriarchy of the destination country impacts their experience within the workplace. Most literat...

Delighted to share our new #openacess paper in Global Networks. Reversing the gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector. #womenintech #migrants
@parvatiraghuram.bsky.social and Clem Herman

dx.doi.org/10.1111/glob...

Very excited that this has now been published (and Open Access), probably my best piece of writing - making an argument (or trying to anyway) to reread Article I of the Outer Space Treaty in light of the climate and ecological crises unfolding #spacelaw #spaceresources

brill.com/edcollchap-o...

YouTube video by NPR Music ANOHNI and the Johnsons: Tiny Desk Concert

Omg, ANOHNI Tiny Desk! 🎶💜

"ANOHNI forces us to think where we stand in an ever-churning, chaotic world. Her music invites us to confront our feelings and find a way to own them — and perhaps to move through them, rendering us even more alive."

"Why Am I Alive Now?"
"Hopelessness"
"It Must Change"

Some detail shots...

My latest mural. Commissioned by Canal & River Trust in Birmingham and an absolute pleasure to paint. I adore our waterways 🤎

From Wikipedia, this quite wonderful pre-war poster.

"See Birmingham's charming suburbs by 'bus."

(Love the apostrophe before "bus".)

Jesus, so the official ERC position is that you can use LLMs to write proposals. Just incredible.

My 2024 keynote lecture on 'Voices from the Global South' at the @rgsibg.bsky.social remains amongst the top five most popular resources on the OpenLearn ‘Society, politics and law’ hub at @openuniversity.bsky.social’s @ouopenlearn.bsky.social. Neat!
@americangeo.bsky.social #geosky

Steven Rose obituary Neuroscientist, author, political activist and advocate for social responsibility in science

Sad to hear that Steven Rose has died. He wasn’t just a giant of science; he was a model for how to animate and agitate the politics of science. I knew him as a thinker on science in society (the book he wrote with Hilary is in a pile in front of me). Also… www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Futurist Adam Dorr on how robots will take our jobs: ‘We don’t have long to get ready – it’s going to be tumultuous’ Researcher says tech could replace nearly all human labour within 20 years and societies urgently need to prepare

If you're a social scientist who also claims to be a 'futurist', you're not a real social scientist. The grift of tech determinist 'consultancy' is getting worse. Seemingly no costs to bullshit and countless uncritical journalists to write it up. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Politics of Feeling The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has become a matter of political feelings in an age of uncertainty. The uncertainties of the post-2008 period ha...

The Politics of Feeling, with @ajsecor.bsky.social , is now out! It’s a book of propositions about the affective politics of three political forms - right wing populism, progressivism, liberalism - in the present post 2008 conjunctural crisis:

mitpress.mit.edu/978191598329...

LLMs aren't subjects, but large socio-technical apparatuses, similar to factories, bureaucracies, or corporations, and our critique should not begin by comparing ourselves to them, but by asking what position they impose on us: How do these apparatuses model and interpellate subjectivity?
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