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Alexlee

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phd researcher on sociology and rewilding at the university of brighton. now living in Darlington.

currently over one hundred academics at my uni will be sacked this summer. please donate to the strike fund at https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/ucu/2023/05/12/redundancy-fightback-resources-links/

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Good turn out in Amsterdam @palestine

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@palestine the other protest was against China's banning of Falun Gong, a bizarre ban given that Falun Gong is mostly a set of exercises like tai chi and not exactly a major threat...

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50 Spanish universities to break ties with Israeli institutions

The Confederation of Spanish Universities (CRUE) announced on Thursday that it will cut ties with Israeli universities and research centers “that have not expressed a firm commitment to peace and compliance with international humanitarian law.”

https://english.palinfo.com/news/2024/05/09/318701/

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Large and heavy handed police response again try to evict Palestine activists from Amsterdam.

Live blog on AT5:
https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/226541/liveblog-shovels-jetskis-en-me-busjes-in-omgeving-binnengasthuisterrein

Live on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/week.4palestinenl/live/17930206019768969

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Never forgive the Guardian for their deliberate misrepresentation of antisemitism, not only helping enable the current genocide but also destroying the reputation of one of the few leaders that might have actually worked towards as solution @palestine

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Fundraiser by Warwick For Palestine : Support the student encampment at Warwick University
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-student-encampment-at-warwick-university
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In an era of post-truth, the strategy of rigidly defending your version of truth and attacking other people's view of the truth is a largely self-destructive excercise that just creates a never ending argument

Understanding the logics and rationales of those people we disagree with is a far better way but requires humility and nuance

Naomi Klein in Doppelganger and Büscher in The Truth About Nature show us how this can be done with , and

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I personally think the concept of logic is unhelpful in a post-truth world.

Lakatos explains this well in his work. Those with different paradigms or worldviews cannot agree on a common rationality because they have literally different worldviews.

This is increasingly true in the post-truth era. There is no common worldview, so therefore no common rationality.

Emotion is a good approach. As is how worldviews are created, e.g. by narrratives.

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @samohTmaS @academicchatter
Sorry, corrected my post... I meant Kuhn not Lakatos (it was a few years since I read this)

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Bernardine Evaristo joins calls to save Goldsmiths’ Black British literature MA
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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/10/bernardine-evaristo-joins-calls-to-save-goldsmiths-black-british-literature-ma?CMP=share_btn_url

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Writers and academics - my partner works as a freelance proofreader and i speak from experience when i say she can spot a missing comma at 50 paces!

Please check out her website Better World Words if you are interested and to get in touch https://betterworldwords.com/

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My friend Wanda has her book out today, Sonic Rebellions, for anyone working on issues around sound and social justice
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003361046/sonic-rebellions-wanda-canton
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Today is the last day for PGRs to join UCU in time to receive voting papers for the current elections. Full membership is a pound a month or free for most PGRs. Find out how to join up at
https://pgrs.uk/2024-01-29-PGR-Survey-UCU-Election-Results/ @academicchatter
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Today is the last day for PGRs to join UCU in time to receive voting papers for the current elections. Full membership is a pound a month or free for most PGRs. Find out how to join up at
https://pgrs.uk/2024-01-29-PGR-Survey-UCU-Election-Results/
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Rereading my interview with a local activist, a damning indictment of private conservation. A well known local river of huge conservation value had a section that nobody collected data on. It was privately owned. That is, until he trespassed and found a huge area infested with Asian Clam, devastating to many other rare species in the river. The river is now dead, he says. If it was public land it would have been seen many years ago. Private land enables neglect. We need commons @academicchatter

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I think I have never in my life flagged an email I sent as "high priority" ❗ and I intend to keep it that way.

Do people who do this derive a special pleasure from it? Do they think it works?

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@dingemansemark @academicchatter the kind of people that do that, in my experience, tend to flag ALL their emails as high priority. They are also, coincidentally, people who are highly irritating.

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An unexpected combination of surveillance capitalism and dog poo - some apartment blocks in the US are taking samples of their residents dog poo so they build a databased to monitor identify illegal poo and slap large fines on owners...
https://www.animalgeography.org/somebody-call-the-poo-lice-using-dog-poop-dna-to-police-private-property/
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I wish Lacan didn't have to make so many nonsensical and bizarre jokes. Its already hard enough to understand what he is saying... @academicchatter

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Anyone wanting to try and take action on their university campus about the silencing of Palestinian voices (supported by Tory alleged "free speech" advocates) BRICUP are a great organisation to get in touch with https://bricup.org.uk/get-involved/

I went to a talk with them last week where they gave a talk to counter misinformation, about knowing your rights and how to organise against this repression. @academicchatter

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Conversation this morning: I'm so tired I can't write my PhD, but I can't rest because I feel guilty for not working... when I am dead will I still feel the need to be productive all the time? @academicchatter

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The university of brighton is being destroyed... i am quoted in The Canary about my experience as a PhD researcher and academic support worker

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/10/10/brighton-university-ucu-union-busting/

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