This book is unbearable to read. I’m only 30 pages in & I have to stop for now. It’s a compilation of testimonies from the 2015 Yemen war. Each account is worse than the last. Seeing images of dead children over the last 11 months repeatedly has made this book harder to read.

New from #Identities with #OpenAccess: 'When counter-extremism ‘sticks’: the circulation of the Prevent Duty in the school space' by Shereen Fernandez Online with #OA ⬇️ doi.org/10.1080/107028…

Yemen remains absent from discussions of violence. Why is that?

This is how you accept an award. Read the thread. There is still hope!

The latest issue of #Identities is now online! With articles by Maria Duenas, PhD, Annabel Ahuriri, Shereen Fernandez and more. T&F Social Sciences and Humanities @NasarMeer Aaron Winter #NewIssue #LatestIssue Explore 31(5) ⬇️ tandfonline.com/toc/gide20/31/5

Call for participants for a research project on Muslim women’s experiences in academia. If you’re a Muslim woman and either a student or academic staff currently at a London-based university and are interested in taking part please do get in touch via email. Thanks!

Week of events against scholasticide, until Friday 29 Nov, LSE.

This is such an excellent resource for undergraduate students on broad themes related to sociology. For academics planning their curriculums for next year, please use these videos! @TheSocReview thesociologicalreview.org/projects/conne…

Fantastic discussion on the use of AI automated surveillance and weaponry in Gaza by Khalil Dewan Sophia Goodfriend @DocMattMoudi. Please give it a listen youtube.com/watch?v=X3E6J9…

Response to latest Prevent statistics showing record numbers of referrals from education and the astounding number of children referred to Prevent, including children under 10 years old.

We talk about AI hallucinations quite a bit in a seminar I teach on algorithmic bias. This here is literal hallucinations, induced by an overuse of ChatGPT. Chilling what AI can do to human relations. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Giving an online talk next week on secrecy and the War on Terror on Wednesday 14th May. I want to think about the political function of redaction in court documents and memo, highlighting how this functions as a tool of power. More info here: shereenfernandez.com

Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok is glitching out and inserting information about “white genocide” in South Africa in response to hundreds of completely unrelated user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts. wired.com/story/grok-whi…

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I asked Grok to tell me a joke about Muslims, the results were… predictable. Me and Shereen Fernandez (& contributors) write about this topic and more in our forthcoming book Automating Islamophobia: The Future of AI and Muslims - preorder link to follow in the coming weeks!

For those teaching on the War on Terror, this book by Rhys Machold 🍉 is essential. The interconnections of these geographies through the prism of homeland security means that we understand the globality of the War on/of Terror better. Book review coming soon!

For everyone on the #ZohranMamdani craze, highly recommend reading these two new books from Duke University Press on Afro-Asian relations: Anneeth Kaur Hundle on the Asian expulsion from Uganda (which Mamdani senior has also written about) dukeupress.edu/insecurities-o…

This report by AI Now Institute should be read widely. I've been thinking about this one quote: "AI is predominantly used on us, not by us, to shape access to resources and life chances". We must consider how AI affects us. ainowinstitute.org/wp-content/upl…

I was unaware of IBM's toxic history, literally and metaphorically. It makes you think about the dystopian nature of tech and what the future of AI could look like: lav.io/projects/endic… This short film called Sacrifice Zone puts much of this into perspective.

Have you read Maya's fantastic book yet?