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Flyer for the SGSSS Advanced Training workshop “Doing Embodied Research: Practising Care, Creativity and Collaboration,” hosted at the University of Glasgow. Includes event details, description of the two‑day fully funded workshop, and logos of the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science.

Our @sgsss.bsky.social Advanced Training is here! Help me and @drfigtree.bsky.social reach the PhD researchers looking for creative tools, supportive practices, and new ways of imagining scholarly life.
Apply by 10/03/26: forms.gle/GD7ixJ4JDvpx...
@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

Cover of Melodrama as Provocateur by Linda Williams. The cover is black with three red triangles creating a geometric design. The title is written at an upwards diagonal in a cream all lowercase sans serif font. The author’s name is written in diagonally between two of the triangles in all caps and yellow. The editors are written in a serif font in the bottom red triangle.

"Melodrama as Provocateur," edited by Christine Gledhill, Laura Horak, and Elisabeth R. Anker, showcases the final project of influential film scholar Linda Williams, along with responses by a diverse collection of scholars. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/PkD02nj

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Special issue alert from @catherinehapper.bsky.social and Hayes Mabweazara!

Glasgow University Media Group (GUMG) is also now on Bluesky! @gu-mg.bsky.social 👇🏼

Low-emissions, High Tensions: Social Media Groups and the Escalation of Climate Obstruction Backlash against climate policy is rare, but it is growing as policies become more present in everyday life, and resistance is becoming more confrontational. In the UK, this includes property destr...

1/2 Check out Lluis de Nadal's new article on social media's role in the growing backlash against climate action.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With the start of the latest round of the Ashes, Andy Smith reflects on the extent to which English cricket has become a game for the elite.

👉 Read our latest Sociological and Cultural Studies blog piece here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Image text says: What challenges do you face as a PhD student working in the field of arts and culture? Discuss at ‘Meeting Emerging Sociologists of the Arts and Culture: A PGR Online Tea Chat’ – a free online event by the BSA Sociology of the Arts Study Group, 12 December https://tinyurl.com/47hw76h6

What challenges do you face as a PhD student working in the field of arts and culture? Discuss at ‘Meeting Emerging Sociologists of the Arts and Culture: A PGR Online Tea Chat’ – a free online event by the BSA Sociology of the Arts Study Group, 12 December tinyurl.com/47hw76h6

The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live!

In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Picture of the GLINTS logo. Glasgow Lab for Intersex Non-binary and Trans Studies

Thanks to everyone who came to the GLINTS launch yesterday. Great to see so many academics, students & supporters. Excited for the possibilities of this new space. Thanks to @echomikeromeo.bsky.social @notrightruth.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & co-directors not on here

it is the age of the crybully

Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK Manar al-Houbi’s husband and children refused entry despite her winning a scholarship to cover tuition fees, living costs and housing for them all

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Where now for Britain’s Universities? UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

Happy Monday to UK academics

politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

A stall featuring books and zines written by co-directors and members of GLINTS. Also features our own zine beautifully crafted by Kirstie Ken. The table also has a trans flag on.

If you are a @uofglasgow.bsky.social staff or student interested in intersex, non-binary and trans studies join us for our GLINTS launch event later this month on October 21st: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glints-lau... also enjoy this image of some our publications (books and zines!) from our stall.

2/ '...one that seeks to explore and celebrate the connection between our capacity to engage in critical resistance and our ability to experience pleasure and beauty'. From 'An Aesthetic of Blackness - Strange and Oppositional'.

1/ Here, to close out the week, is a word from bell hooks, whose 73rd birthday would have fallen yesterday: 'I remain passionately committed to an aesthetic that focuses on the purpose and function of beauty, of artistry in everyday life, especially the lives of poor people...'

Academic Sign-On Letter: Support for Gazan Students with UK University Offers This form is to collect signatures from academics at UK universities in support of an urgent open letter addressed to the UK government. The letter highlights the critical and ongoing barriers faced b...

If you are an academic based in the UK, please consider signing and circulating this letter. It's important. cc @ophiragamliel.bsky.social @cairsti.bsky.social @erdemavsar.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social

Gaza student hoping for Glasgow PhD in urgent plea as family blocked from entering UK A student from Gaza hoping to study in Scotland has issued a plea to the UK Government urging them not to "make her choose" between her…

"I trust that the UK Government will take the right decision. Please, don't let me choose between my family and my education, because it's impossible for me to be separated from them."

www.thenational.scot/news/2548316...

Italy's Unions Lead General Strike for Gaza | Common Dreams "Meloni should take a stand with the facts against those who have slaughtered 20,000 children, rather than limiting herself to saying 'I do not agree,'" said one critic of Italy's right-wing prime min...

"Italian labor unions led a massive 24-hour general strike on Monday to protest Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, with estimates of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators rallying in dozens of cities across Italy."

Circular bench in dawn light

Dawn

Today we inaugurate the Peace Bench, round the Peace Tree @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Reflections with and for the whole University Community - from the youngest in our Nursery to those serving the longest.

A yearning for peace in our heart, lives and universe.

@uofgunescorila.bsky.social

Still time to register for our next #IdentitiesEvent!

'Race, Gender and Misogynoir Stereotypes within the Constructions of Digital Women Footballers​'

23 Sep, 1-2.30pm (Online)

@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk...

Really touched by all the messages and comments from colleagues and friends who have read (or attended) our BERA plenary, also by the academics and academic associations choosing to share the text. 🙏🏾

#KeepTellingOfGaza
#AntiPalestinianRacism
@khawlabadwan.bsky.social @hyabyohannes.bsky.social

Just City by the Med Research network exploring social justice and inequality in Mediterranean urban contexts.

Just City by the Med Research Network connects researchers investigating social justice and inequality in cities and exploring pathways towards just urban futures, through the context of the Mediterranean. Check justcitymed.org for details 👇

Hehe thanks! Expect a barrage of photos, sound recordings, and maybe even a half-formed Baldwin-themed short play :D

10 positive stories from my 30 years of working with refugees IN the 30 years of working with refugees worldwide I’ve never once looked back. Whilst there are many things I’d love to change in the system I…

Perhaps I live closer to death than many, but I also live closer to life, real life, joyful moments and the things that at the end of the day really matter.

www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

(I’ve also booked myself on a walking Giovanni's Room x James Baldwin tour, so double the excitement)

In Paris next week for @unesco.org's Digital Learning Week. I'm especially looking forward to conversations on the speculative and imaginative uses of AI. Grateful to @uofgunescorila.bsky.social for the opportunity to join as a delegate and affiliate artist-researcher! @uofgsociology.bsky.social

LET'S LET'S LET'S!

Here's something a bit special and a bit different - with thanks to @awtsn.bsky.social for facilitating these exciting engagements, and featuring @mindyptolomey.bsky.social, @academicdiary.bsky.social, @kenglish.bsky.social, @erdemavsar.bsky.social, @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social and more...

Aw Harvey - that's so lovely of you to say! So happy you liked it, and yes, shitfaced fairies are massively understated. (I'm so tempted to plot a reading of these pieces. I would LOVE to hear the Egg Timer read out loud 😍😍)

Edition #17 OUT NOW! So Fi Zine #17 is a special issue created with sociologists and other academic kin at the University of Glasgow in 2025 – full of new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. Thi…

The new special edition of So Fi Zine is live! A beautiful collection of sociological fiction - HUGE thanks to the legend that is Ash @awtsn.bsky.social for making this possible and including my piece, and to everyone involved.

Read here: sofizine.com/latest-editi...