Such a privilege to be in Brussels last week with the bright young minds studying European Social & Political Studies at UCL.
They loved the interactive talks with leading think-tankers @heathergrabbe.bsky.social, senior fellow @bruegel.org & @sophia-russack.bsky.social, researcher @ceps.eu.
‼️job alert‼️My department at UCL, along with the Faculty of Laws, is hiring a Lecturer in Law and Politics (full academic track). Applications welcome from candidates interested in an interdisciplinary approach to EU/international law www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
🚨Job alert! 🔔 My dept is advertising for a post in Global Politics with a specialization in Latin America! We’re a small+nice global liberal arts outfit in UCL’s Arts&Humanities faculty. IR, politics, development, pol economists, all welcome. Check it out and circulate: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
|| NEW PROFILE || Chinese migration to Madagascar began more than a century ago and the new arrivals evolved into a deeply integrated community. However, bilateral ties have experienced ebbs and flows, with China’s image in the country impacted by recent controversies, writes Xuefei Shi.
Senior permanent position has opened up in Chinese studies here at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It is a very nice place. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN980/rea...
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excited to share the call for the workshop
EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION
happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025,
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social
deadline: 10 September!
full call below ⤵
#envhist #envhum
@doctorswithoutborders.org released a report this morning documenting the targeted, orchestrated killing of civilians at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution sites.
Please read and do everything in your power to stop this.
www.msf.org/not-aid-orch... 1/7
Yet another senseless, catastophic set of proposed university cuts. Given there are only a handful of institutions in the UK that teach Chinese, Korean and Japanese at all, this loss would be felt keenly across the UK academic landscape.
omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain
Wonderful thank you!
Slightly unrelated but since she’s also on the list - how are the Ferrante translations? Any idea?
Screenshot of three headlines in news search results, all from the past 24 hours. 1) Elon Musk Takes Aim at Wikipedia, 2) Elon Musk says his $1 billion offer to Wikipedia “still stands”, 3) Musk Slams ‘Wokepedia’ for Biased Editing, Urges Donation Boycott
Christmas is a good time to throw Wikipedia a few bucks to thank them for the many times you relied on the site that year. Members of the billionaire class want to destroy it for some reason.
(@archive.org is also under constant threat nowadays and in need of support)
The latest issue of Global China Pulse is out! This one delves deep into the online scam industry, and the human trafficking and cyber slavery that accompanies it. As always, it is fully Open Access and free to download. globalchinapulse.net/global-china...
From now on, we plan to publish calls for papers for our forthcoming journal issues. Two calls are already out. The first is for an issue of the Made in China Journal about Chinese youth slated for publication in mid-2025.
We did a staff workshop at UCL on pedagogy for Chinese students for several years in a row. It was very popular (probably too popular for the paltry resources allocated) but yeah it’s not really a coherent institution level effort
Equally problematic are the assignments that that write - I’ve had students asking to have their work removed from Turnitin over concerns that “someone” might identify them down the line. But obv we can’t also change the curriculum to adhere to ever changing red lines, sigh.
Is there a critical mass of people here? 🤔
Please retweet this if you think I should start posting books here!
The number of references I have written in the last 2 months for academics with good jobs in Germany looking to leave the country because of its racism is more than the last 10 years combined.
To clarify for those not in UK academia: this means no foreigners qualify to even apply for museum jobs, anything in heritage or libraries, junior fac jobs, UK postdocs, all are entirely out of the question.
And do that math outside academia- no foreign nurses, teachers, and on and on.
