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Patrick Alexander

@patgalexander

Anthropologist of Education; Professor of Education & Research Lead, Oxford Brookes; HongKonger; former guitarist for The Wedding Present

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Steven Donziger (@sdonziger) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Israeli soldiers post themselves "conquering" a hospital in Gaza where 43 intensive care patients just died because of a lack of oxygen, according to ABC News. As a Jew and human rights attorney, I find this photo repulsive. Get out.

UCU (@ucu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The impact of the current conflict on education is hard to overstate. Dozens of staff and students, including 84 from Ben-Gurion Uni of the Negev, were killed in the Hamas attack on 7 October and 439 Palestinian staff and students have been killed by the Israeli response 1/6

Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

‘All ICU patients’ dead in al-Shifa amid Israel raid, according to the Hospital's director. No further comment needed. Just a question to Europe's leaders: Are you sleeping OK at night? aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/…

Oxford Brookes UCU (@brookesucu.bsky.social) (@brookesucu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The campaign is building! Stop the redundancies! Stop the attack on arts, humanities and social sciences! #OpenTheBooksatBrookes UCU Music at Brookes Sign the petition to save Music at Brookes change.org/p/save-music-a…

The campaign is building! Stop the redundancies! Stop the attack on arts, humanities and social sciences! #OpenTheBooksatBrookes
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Sign the petition to save Music at Brookes change.org/p/save-music-a…
Oxford Brookes Children & Young People Network (@brookescyp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hi, I'm Junior, an early-career researcher and the new CYP Fellow. Completing a PhD on children's YouTube engagement, I'm passionate about visual methods. I also teach marketing at Oxford Brookes. Excited to connect with fellow enthusiasts. Shelly Coe Sarah Mitchell

Hi, I'm Junior, an early-career researcher and the new CYP Fellow. Completing a PhD on children's YouTube engagement, I'm passionate about visual methods. I also teach marketing at Oxford Brookes. Excited to connect with fellow enthusiasts. <a href="/Dr_ShellyC/">Shelly Coe</a> <a href="/SarahLouiseMit/">Sarah Mitchell</a>
Oxford Brookes UCU (@brookesucu.bsky.social) (@brookesucu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We need to open a big debate about the future of post-1992 Unis. Several of us are threatened with redundancies and closures in arts humanities & social sciences with questionable financial arguments. Aberdeen UCU Brighton UCU Staffs-UCU and + to come. Stop destroying our future

The Nation (@thenation) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In 1984, Edward Said wrote a landmark essay, “Permission to Narrate,” in which he critiqued the Western media’s biased coverage of Israel-Palestine. Now Mohammed El-Kurd picks up where Said left off in his own essay, “The Right to Speak for Ourselves. bit.ly/46sOhPT

Patrick Alexander (@patgalexander) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Did you ask Krampus for an open access article exploring the importance of reparative futures thinking for reimagining education beyond the confines of racial capitalism? Thought so. Here it is! 🤘🎄🤘 ‘If Education is the Key, then School is the Lock’… authors.elsevier.com/a/1iI4a_NmknVwf

Democracy Now! (@democracynow) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, has announced the cancellation of traditional Christmas festivities in “mourning and honor” of Palestinians killed in Gaza. "The Christmas story actually is a Palestinian story,” says Rev. Mitri Raheb.

Oxford Brookes UCU (@brookesucu.bsky.social) (@brookesucu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In coming days the fate of many people at Oxford Brookes University is being decided. We want to reiterate how unjustified compulsory redundancies would be & how devastating this would be to what our university needs. Please listen to us and to proposals by those affected! #stoptheSHAMcuts

UCU (@ucu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“As an education union, we utterly condemn the way Israel is systematically destroying the entire education system in Gaza – from nurseries to world-leading research facilities.” Our President Justine Mercer UCU President (2023/24) speaking at the 250,000 strong march for Gaza in London today ✊🇵🇸

“As an education union, we utterly condemn the way Israel is systematically destroying the entire education system in Gaza – from nurseries to world-leading research facilities.” 

Our President <a href="/justinemercer11/">Justine Mercer UCU President (2023/24)</a> speaking at the 250,000 strong march for Gaza in London today ✊🇵🇸
Sol Gamsu (@solgamsu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Never forget that the generation who imposed fees, loans & debt on us & our students went to uni for free & received a grant to do so. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

Never forget that the generation who imposed fees, loans &amp; debt on us &amp; our students went to uni for free &amp; received a grant to do so.

commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…
Alexandra Wilson (@amwilson_opera) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Notice served. 18.5 years' loyal service, five books with leading publishers, 6th and 7th on the way, an international prize, two massive grants, loads of "impact" work, glowing teaching reports. Need another job. Surely someone would value all this. Please spread the word.