#Sourdough weeks 117 and 118 #ceasefirenow

I’ve missed a few again. #Sourdough weeks 115 and 116

So looks like calling in the NYPD to arrest over 100 students for peacefully protesting in solidarity with Palestinians in an attempt to silence them has backfired for @columbia. It’s night 3 and these students are making it clear they’re not going anywhere.

Columbia Professor Rebecca Jordan-Young: 'The faculty who are supporting the students do not all agree on the issue of Israel and Palestine...[but] we are astonished and disgusted with the way the university has cracked down on the students.'

This is unacceptable.

Head of Policy of CST who have a serious role in tackling genuine Antisemitism in our society.

1) Being Jewish I think the tone of this is awful.

2) It's a blatantly transparent political attack.

Solidarity with Owen Jones.

🚨 Potential strike action at University of Lincoln 🚨

Over 220 employees face the axe, including 1 in 10 academics.

We must stop the cuts ✊ Read more 👇

UCU Lincoln **NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES**
ucu.org.uk/article/13542/…

PhD Scholarship: Cultures of Palestine Solidarity in Europe, Maastricht University (four years) vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht…

2025 ENAS Awards for best PhD thesis and best MA thesis in the field of Aging Studies. This info will soon be on the ENAS website: here's a sneak peak: #awards #agingstudies #gerotwitter Let your brilliant students and peers know!

Join us on Wednesday!

thank you so much to everyone who's donated already! ♥️ I'm halfway to my fundraising target and 85km done already

We are thrilled to open registration for this year’s Digital BAAS conference, April 10-12, 2024!

Full registration details are available on the conference page of our website: baas.ac.uk/conferences/di…

#AmericanStudies #DigitalBAAS #Conference

Israeli historian Dr Ilan Pappé reminds us why Gaza is Gaza in terms of geography.

Glad to be part of this campaign to extend the BA’s Researchers-at-Risk scheme to Palestinian academics and grateful for the support of Caroline Lucas in leading on this agenda in Parliament.

I’m pleased to say that English Literature at the University of Glasgow are advertising two new permanent posts. Applications for the James Murray Beattie Lectureships in Victorian Literature, and in Fantasy Literature, close on 6th May 24. More info here: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/

Times Higher Education Emma Cayley 谷曦 Dr Zahid Naz But even if an employability agenda is prioritised, arts, humanities, and social sciences should be prioritised too, as key job skills are fundamental to these subjects, as numerous recent The British Academy reports have shown University English English Association Arts & Humanities Alliance (AHA)

New exhibition on campus 👀
'Health From Cradle to Grave' highlights the work of Health Humanities Research Network through transhistorical connections between objects and word.

📅 27 March-23 April
📍 Martin Hall Exhibition Space
🕐 12-2pm Mon-Weds

Dr Sara Read

New book series!🥳
'Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Disability', edited by me and the incomparable Ann M. Fox.
Official info: shorturl.at/dovC0 - but do get in touch directly if you'd like to chat about a book proposal more informally.
And please share!
Palgrave Theatre

We have today written to the university employer body UUK calling on them to review their UK-Israel research partnership scheme – in line with legal and ethical obligations to avoid any complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Jo Grady’s letter to Universities UK 👇

The murder of World Central Kitchen staff is only the latest. The genocidal Israeli regime has sealed the border & destroyed crops, wells, bakeries & food stores, murdered 200 aid workers, targeted security for aid, blocked aid trucks & massacred starving people lined up for aid. #genocide