need crowdsourcing help #polisky - if your department is not admitting PhD students this cycle, please respond with the department
i already know my department, GW, is not admitting students
If you can't trust a citation, what can you trust? AI chatbots are inventing academic sources – and some scholars are citing them. My latest on "scholarly slop" for @theobserveruk.bsky.social
w/ thanks to @benpatrickwill.bsky.social & everyone who spoke to me
observer.co.uk/news/science...
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
Mahmoodism strikes 👇
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Very cool postdoctoral opportunity on an ERC project looking at 'Art and Liberation Movements during 20th Century Decolonization'. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
"Zeteo just bought rights to the Palestine documentary the BBC first commissioned, then refused to air due to pressure from paedo zio-nazi worms
UK viewers should be able to watch it on Channel 4 for free
Non-UK viewers can subscribe with Zeteo and watch it there"
zeteo.com/p/watch-now-...
via BDS
The military junta in Guinea is looking to stay...first by election, then by eliminating any rivals at the ballot box.
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If you don't read French, the takeaway here is that a judge used AI in writing their decision which is a problem on many, many levels one of which being that they cited non-existent case law.
Jesus Christ Seigneur.
I updated the post with the archive link (1999-2012; rest coming later) which they sent after I wrote about it on the other site. I don’t think the spot understands why having a history of “just media links translated into English “ are important for understanding Kosovo’s history 🤷🏽♀️
What is Canada's Favourite Book: ROUND ONE
From a list of 96 fiction and 96 non-fiction books, we will choose a winner.
All matchups chosen by random number generator.
(To vote, go into the thread and click like on the book you are voting for)
Quite a weekend for the Guinean junta. Received an ICE deportation flight and bans 40 opposition parties in the same 48 hour window.
Why we invited @carolinelucas.bsky.social to speak in Scotland this week: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
Almost 90 people being cut.
Canadian historian Adam Chapnick, a professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada:
“I don’t know how you justify this decision if you have any sort of commitment to history."
nothing makes me less enthusiastic about joining a picket line than the dreaded:
"We hope to make it a carnival atmosphere"
don't have time for anxiety...frantically rewriting lectures on oil & mineral extraction, trade, aid, smuggling....
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
Christopher Hale standing in front of a large building with lots of foliage and looking to the left, next to a mockup of his book ‘The Great Groundnut Fiasco’. The cover has a sand-coloured background and green detailing of grass, trees, and a tractor, and there is an image of peanuts in the middle. There is black and cream lettering for the title, subtitle and author name.
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In 'The Great Groundnut Fiasco', Christopher Hale reveals the fascinating story of Labour's efforts to feed post-war Britain by leveraging its African colonies—and the enduring political consequences of the Scheme’s failure.
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You can tell those of us who have had to rewrite all our lectures this year.... 🙋♀️
A still life photo of an hourglass with sand, set against dried leaves, symbolizing the passage of time.
Last chance to sign up for Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights WG event tomorrow! 🚨
'The demise of conflict studies' with Yvan Guichaoua and Wolfram Lacher 🎉
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maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
holy shit
These are on sale at Waitrose ecom-su-static-prod.wtrecom.com/images/produ...
Africa was the smartphone industry’s most overlooked market.
Shenzhen-based Transsion Holdings took a different approach and is now the world’s 5th-largest smartphone maker.
Miao Lu joined Eric and Cobus to explain the strategy.
📹- tinyurl.com/3jju9yex
The Congolese government launched a major operation to seize territory around the M23-held Rubaya mine. The US imposed sanctions on the Rwandan military.
recapturing the Rubaya mine - which accounts for roughly 15% of the world’s supply of coltan, may be among the key aims.
@abuaardvark.bsky.social 's America's Middle East cited in this important Sunday Read from the @theguardian.com about analysis of the Iran war. Read a book sample and purchase here: tinyurl.com/y5mmr9u5
www.theguardian.com/news/series/...
He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void, including the layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers. n.pr/4sy0uhE
