Really proud of Dr Shingi Masanzu who has just been awarded the LSE 2025 FLIA PhD Dissertation Prize ‘recognising outstanding doctoral research that advances critical perspectives on Africa and global development’. Shingi was a joy to supervise and this is so well-deserved. @lselaw.bsky.social

I studied the Palestine Question. This is what I wrote. law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/asset...

Professor David Kennedy: In Conversation with Professor Susan Marks - LSE Law School Events Speakers: Professor David Kennedy and Professor Susan Marks

David Kennedy will be around the eve of 5 December. Come join us for a chat: lselaw.events/event/profes...

This is going to be excellent

Anarchist Bookshelf - Pluto Press

50% off their anarchism collection now. If you are outraged at the exercise of authority, sick of entrenched hierarchy, and looking for solidarity and modes of living beyond the state-market there is something for you.
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I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

Powerful and lucid statement from Edward Said professor emeritus at Columbia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A powerful, practical, and even hopeful letter. ‘As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities’ | Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch and Michael Rothberg
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Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George Monbiot Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Human Rights for Kids Human Rights for Kids

Fantastic:Human Rights for Kids is out including privacy by Lavapuro (ECtHR),climate by (Wewerinke) & power of pacifism (yours truly) Buy it for the little revolutionaries in your life.We’ll need them.Proceeds to unicef @lselaw.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social
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‘Positive cascades could help accelerate change’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisis The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton

‘.. positive tipping points: If the EU & China coordinate, it’s enough to shift the balance to clean green alternatives. Despite Trump ..you don’t need everybody, ..only need a fifth to tip to the new alternative .. then everybody else is compelled to follow’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AI sceptic Emily Bender: ‘The emperor has no clothes’ I suggest this is widely read. At least to get another take. And of note too that her co-authors, senior members of the ethical AI team at Google, lost their jobs at the company shortly after their publication.

Scary, slightly hopeful that there will be effective pushback against this manifestation of governance by greed and narcissism. AI race, like climate change & war, is the end of life & beauty as we know it, so some can get richer.
‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users’ FT

‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it

We still have choice, now is the moment to exercise it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A moving and substantively rich set of conversations to mark the many contributions of Martin Scheinin. His former Phd students have also turned out in force at this wonderful Symposium on the Future of Human Rights Law. ❤️ apps.eui.eu/EUI_API/EVEN...

Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant The end of civilisation might look less like a war, and more like a love story. Can we avoid being willing participants in our own downfall?

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Read this piece: ‘The technical field of “AI alignment” – concerned with making sure machines share our goals – needs to broaden its scope to include governments, institutions and society itself.’

FT today lists major corporate and wealthy donors in ‘Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised record-breaking $240mn’. Includes 250k from Treasury Secretary Bessent.

Francoise was a powerhouse, fearless, smart. I remember those years at the UN, how she gave young women, like me, courage to say it like it is without apology. Such a loss to the good fight. Thank you for all you stood for, Francoise. My condolences to all in her wide circle. #francoisehampson

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Trump and Noem’s threats to eliminate FEMA — a shared, if imperfect, resource for people and communities in crisis — is a very direct manifestation of end times fascism.

US Jewish academics: Not in our Name
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The ecological face of the commune form At this free LSE event Professor Kristin Ross will discuss her new book The Ecological Face of the Commune Form.

First Bluesky post, must bring attention to the public lecture by Kristin Ross Wed 12 March. Good moment to recall: there is critical mass dedicated to solidarity and postcapitalist praxis. The series is brilliantly curated by the tireless @aycacu.bsky.social register
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