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Rhythm scholar | Associate Professor in Philosophy and Theory of Higher Ed | CUS | Editorial board Time&Society, Ethics and Education, Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education | TRC Lab Sunkhronos Somewhere in Birmingham and often in other places.

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Tens of thousands of Palestinians are walking back to Gaza City as the Israeli military begins its withdrawal from the area following the ceasefire agreement.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum is there, watching what he described as β€˜an endless tide of humans’.

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Syrian FM in Beirut on first high-profile visit since al-Assad era Landmark visit sees nations seeking solutions to border issues, status of Syrian prisoners and fate of Syrian refugees.

Landmark visit sees nations seeking solutions to border issues, status of Syrian prisoners and fate of Syrian refugees.

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UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

Good morning, in today's edition of How UK Universities are Becoming More Like the US, but not in terms of quality, research rigour, or internalisation www.theguardian.com/education/20...

10.10.2025 07:29 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sharing my working space with the queen today. Or, better, she is. #niece

10.10.2025 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Universities: we teach critical thinking, we are so passionate about challenging orthodoxies

Also universities: here is our entirely uncritical adoption of AI-bleat that turns platitudes (about both the nature of academic labour and 'the digital') into "policy"

What gives, mates

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Such an important essay by Rawad Wehbe on poetry in a time of genocide:

β€œWhen a poet is relegated to mere commentary, regardless of context, language ceases to be an intervention, and the poet is no longer an agitator”

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Risk-averse universities β€˜hindering own REF performance’ - Research Professional News Hidden REF Festival: Institutions urged to β€œpull their socks up” and submit more non-traditional outputs

Risk-averse universities β€œhindering REF performance” by ignoring non-traditional research.

Institutions should β€œpull their socks up”, @nataliejessic10.bsky.social tells the 2025 Hidden REF Festival (@hiddenref.bsky.social).

Free to read: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

07.10.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. The cover also states the name of the Special Issue (Getting Critical About Critique in Higher Education) and the Guest Editors (Kathy Luckett, Ibrar Bhatt and Alison MacKenzie)

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. The cover also states the name of the Special Issue (Getting Critical About Critique in Higher Education) and the Guest Editors (Kathy Luckett, Ibrar Bhatt and Alison MacKenzie)

List of contents (please see the link for the full list of articles in the Special Issue)

List of contents (please see the link for the full list of articles in the Special Issue)

List of contents (please see the link for the full list of articles in the Special Issue)

List of contents (please see the link for the full list of articles in the Special Issue)

New Special Issue: Getting Critical About Critique in Higher Education 🚨

The SI rethinks the meaning and practices of β€˜criticality’, foregrounds diverse perspectives (Confucianism, Arabic-Islamic philosophy...), and opens new pathways for global scholarship

www.tandfonline.com/toc/cthe20/3...

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Research Practice Seminar - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

πŸ₯ͺ Our Research Practice Seminars are back!

Join us in exploring some of the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice

Thursdays from 12-2pm, a sandwich lunch is provided
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research-practice-seminars/

07.10.2025 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Academic careers have become a professional sport - Impact of Social Sciences Academia like professional sports is increasingly a system defined by competition, precarity and quantification does this lead to a loss of meaning?

πŸ’₯New: Academic careers have become a professional sport

✍️ @swallaschek.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #ECRchat #AcademicCareers

06.10.2025 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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AI and the Digital: On Ways of Being

TODAY: Mon., Oct. 6 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK

"AI and the Digital: On Ways of Being"

James Bridle and Audrey Borowski on how natural systems reveal their complexity and knowledge as new technologies threaten to cause their extinction. #Philosophy

Register:
www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...

06.10.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today I presented my BA/Leverhulme research project to the 'meithel' of doctoral students in Philosophy of Education at UCD, Dublin. What a joy to discuss & theorise reading with such a group of engaged students. A special thanks to the @pesgb.bsky.social for funding this visit 😊

06.10.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Il mondo dalla parte di Gaza. Foto di copertina di Emanuele Donazza. Leggi il sommario del nuovo numero di Internazionale: intern.az/1Ohi

03.10.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
Statement from the Syrian Community in the UK on the Tragic Attack in Crumpsall – Syrian British Consortium

Statement from the Syrian community in the UK ❀️

syrianbritish.org/statement-fr...

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Uncategorical imperatives: understanding nonreciprocity This research project, supported by the Leverhulme Trust, seeks to understand nonreciprocity as both a constitutive and ethically neutral force in social and political life. By conceptualizing ever…

The world hasn't stopped falling apart, but if relevant, Monday onwards I'll be observing this from the vantage point of @lselibrary.bsky.social archives & research for my @leverhulme.ac.uk project on non-reciprocity (janabacevic.net/research/und...), so give us a shout if around!

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I chaired a wonderful Viva today. Such a privilege and pleasure to see students defend their thesis with true passion and a commitment to change. Now heading home to enjoy... ❀️
#vivavoce

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❀️ (hi Tom)

02.10.2025 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This. Now.

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β€˜Kidnapping’: Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla; detains activists, Thunberg Activists on board Global Sumud Flotilla report interceptions after Israeli vessels approached.

Israel has intercepted and bombed the Sumud flotilla www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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UKCGE | UKCGE to Partner on Β£3.4m Project on AI Researcher… A joint project from Aston University and the University of Leeds to set up an artificial intelligence (AI) tools researcher development network has won…

UKCGE to Partner on Β£3.4m Project on AI Researcher Development Network.

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Looking forward to reading this.

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Dr Jana Bacevic - Durham University

Earlier this year my department somehow published this, where I offer reflections on my visiting fellowship at @ucsandiego.bsky.social, and write about why, if we are committed to higher education, we must fight for a borderless world: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

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Dr. Marc Wittmann, Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST
YouTube video by ESI Frankfurt Dr. Marc Wittmann, Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST

My talk at the ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference (ESISyNC) 2025 on "Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST", Frankfurt, 9.9.2025, to be found here on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=phDq...

30.09.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marx's Capital: A conversation with Paul North Paul North presents Marx's Capital as a dynamic, multi-genre work that blends economics, philosophy, and satire, along with tools from German idealism and political critique. Marx’s first volume lays ...

Sunday read:
"Marx's Capital: A Conversation with Paul North"

Marx challenges capitalism's apparent inevitability, offering a framework to see capitalism's operations and imagine its undoing.

#Philosophy
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/marx-s-...

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And that says it all, really:(

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Exhibit G: Baby Moses & Khalas β€” Parapraxis or Notes on Palestinian Interiority Fady Joudah

β€œWhen Palestine in English revolts, it’s because Palestine in Arabic gives it life. Palestine in English resists becoming ghost because

Palestine in Arabic is never ghost, no matter the immensity of ruin”: Fady Joudah in @parapraxismag.bsky.social www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/exh...

27.09.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Launching: de Beauvoir Reading Group on "Old Age" Network members Valeria Motta, Andrew Maile and Jodie Russell are excited to announce that start of a new reading group starting October 28t...

Interested in feminist approaches to age and mental health?

Join our new reading group starting October 28th where we will be discussing part 2 of Simone de Beauvoir's "Old Age".

Sign up and and see the schedule here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/laun...

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Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health Launches Successfully with Inaugural Workshop From left to right: network leads Francesca Brencio and Matthew Broome, and research fellow Jodie Russell at the launch event The Birmingham...

On September 3rd, we launched our network with an exciting and inspiring event designed for and led by ECRS across the Midlands.

If you missed it, you can read our report here: birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/09/birm...

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"On Nature's Free Gifts": Alyssa Battistoni with AndrΓ©s Saenz de Sicilia
YouTube video by The Philosopher "On Nature's Free Gifts": Alyssa Battistoni with AndrΓ©s Saenz de Sicilia

ICYMI: "On Nature's Free Gifts"

Alyssa Battistoni's discussion with AndrΓ©s Saenz de Sicilia on the limits and social costs of capitalism, the socialization of nature, and freedom in a post-capitalist future.

Please like and subscribe on our YouTube channel!
#Philosophy

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