Wow. As ordered by a Turkish govt agency, internet service providers in Turkey provide hourly activity logs of all users, complete with user's full name, IP, name of website/app opened, what time it was opened and for how long. Insane mass surveillance, jaw-dropping investigation

🧵A new project funded by the EU to predict migration flows using AI has brought the Italian sections of the Red Cross and Oxfam and a number of public universities to work together under the supervision of Frontex. This raises some questions... disclose.ngo/fr/article/uni…

Apropos of everything, this deserves a new and bigger round of virality tbh

Faculty are withdrawing instructional labor, joining the strike's commitment to withhold grades until the strike ends, refusing to take up labor otherwise undertaken by the striking workers, and withdrawing campus and university service work.

"Algorithms of Violence" is our next #DisruptiveFridays Join us on Dec 2 online for a conversation on technological violence and enforced #AIdiscrimination towards #migrants and minoritised groups. Register here: bit.ly/3weu3ZH Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋) Martina Tazzioli Yasmine Boudiaf

CFP Datafication of borders and migration, workshop to be held at Toronto Metropolitan University May 25, 2023, with CERC Migration Kaarina Nikunen🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 Younes Ahouga - also perhaps of interest to #ICA23 participants torontomu.ca/cerc-migration… - call closes Jan 10, consider submitting!

I am returning my William James books to the library because I don’t have time to read them :( #phdlife

Here is the constantly updated list of earthquake relief funds for people who would like to help internationally #Rojava #Turkey #Syria You can send Velvele the campaigns you want them to add. #earthquake t.ly/gLtz

Twitter has been restricted via filters from major internet providers in Turkey. A key platform connecting those needing and those providing aid is effectively blocked. VPNs work but drain batteries. This is unconscionable.

My heart breaks for my relatives, for friends in SE Turkey, most from NW Syria, & for all Syrians who have suffered the darkest of decades & now suffer more. My heart rages at the politicization of aid, at failed sanctions regimes, & at feeling helpless in the face of such hurt.

Weber's Religions of the East box set arrived. After Protestant Ethics, Weber worked on China, then on India to generalize about "Asiatic religion." in contrast to Marx who worked on India and extended to China etc to develop his Asiatic mode of production thesis.... 🧵

Do you write and tell stories about migration and mobility? Research, journalism, documentation – anything in these domains. Come to Beirut in September, join our 2-week workshop on how to tell better (more just and fair) stories. Deadline 5 May switch-perspective.com/summer-worksho…

📢: The Evoke Lab is recruiting community organizers for a project on how organizers use data to pursue grassroots-led projects. Please share with anyone who might be interested. Find more info at evoke.ics.uci.edu/recruitment/ or scan the QR code.

"... excitement about ideas was not sufficient to create an exciting learning process. As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our inter­est in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence." #hooks

I wonder how some people came up with the idea, “Turkey’s elections are not fair but nonetheless they are free. Turkey’s elections are neither free nor fair by any standard. Just to refresh our memories: nytimes.com/2023/05/12/wor…

Thanks to @GSPIA's own Andrea Peña-Vasquez, PhD for sharing her excellent comparative work on sub-nat'n forms of citizenship. Gratitude to UCHRI for supporting our Multicampus Working Group 🙏 Anibal Serrano Seyfullah Özkurt Pascal Dafinis, Lupe Arellanes, Sifat Reazi, Kevin Kandamby