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You mean like Rumsfeld’s woke ‘shock and awe’ war?

Our aspirations are wrapped up in books Bookshop owner Jason Shelley helped me hugely in the last lockdown and today I tell his story

“Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came, And he pushed, And they flew.” Jason Shelly @croftonbooks.bsky.social for a longer text about Jason Shelly see David Jesudason’ piece davidjesudason.substack.com/p/our-aspira...

Let us share a piece written by award winning journalist, David Jesudason, about Crofton Books and its owner, Jason Shelley, the end tail of lockdown, 2021

David published this on his substack, as

“Our aspirations are wrapped up in books”

davidjesudason.substack.com/p/our-aspira...

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PhD Studentship: Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK at King's College London At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a PhD Studentship: Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK. Explore our diverse range of PhD opportunities today.

PhD Studentship: Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK - King's Business School & College of Optometrists - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN874/p...

Call for Editor for Symbolic Interaction!

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) invites applications for Editor(s) of the journal Symbolic Interaction for a five-year term beginning January 1, 2027.

More info: sssi.wildapricot.org/Call-for-Edi...

SSSI 2026 award nominations open:
-George Herbert Mead Award
-Charles Horton Cooley Book Award
-Herbert Blumer Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
-Helena Lopata Mentor Excellence Award
-The Kathy Charmaz Early-In-Career Award
Submission details available at symbolicinteraction.org/CallforAwards

Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction | King's College London The WIT Advanced Summer Institute on Video in Qualitative Research: Materiality, Embodiment and Social Interaction

The call for participants for the "Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction" is still open - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wit-a... #emca #sociology

Paper on Analysing “the Sequential Organization of Social Interaction in Exhibitions” #emca #video #sociology #museum

Luise Reitstätter and Carla-Marinka Schorr have published an excellent edited collection titled "Methods of Exhibition Analysis" (open access, in English and German) that showcases…

Call for Applications: Collaborative PhD Studentship: (King’s Business School/College of Optometrists) (start date: October 2026)

Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK King’s Business School (King’s College London), Public Services Management &…

That’s great! Enjoy your hikes!

Waymo Uses Remote Workers in the Philippines to Assist Its Self-Driving Cars A recent Senate hearing grilled Waymo for using remote workers abroad to intervene when needed, raising security concerns

So-called ‘self-driving cars’ www.autoblog.com/news/waymo-u...

The Children’s Wellbeing Bill is short on wellbeing.

There’s an easy win here for government: adopt the Children’s Society recommendation for a national wellbeing measurement programme.

#ChildWellbeing #Education

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Unexpected! The Martians were defeated by a song YouTube video by impressive movie31

youtu.be/cOdMzywoUbE

I said it 10 years ago:
savageminds.org/2016/12/13/a...

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

*The Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence made up that term in 1956 because they didn't like the mushy term "cybernetics"

New Paper: “Social interaction and dark tourism in prison museums” by Rachael Ironside, Brianna Wyatt, Craig Wight, Alona Roitershtein, Dirk vom Lehn

This study explores how prison tourism experiences are co-constructed through situated visitor interactions. Penal heritage sites are decommissioned…

Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction #emca #sociology

The Work Interaction and Technology Group is holding an Advanced Summer Institute providing practical guidance for researchers interested in the…

Major Victory for Public Education Comes As Trump-Vance Administration Abandons Appeal on “Dear Colleague Letter” Government’s Withdrawal Brings Unlawful Re-writing of Civil Rights Law to Resolution Baltimore, Md. – Today marks a final defeat in the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to require school districts...

I am very happy to hear that @democracyforward.org and @asanews.bsky.social won a major victory against the Trump administration's unconstitutional attempt to make schools censor college classroom teaching on race, gender and inequality.

Will you stop driving your Harley?

Uri Geller?

Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction | King's College London The WIT Advanced Summer Institute on Video in Qualitative Research: Materiality, Embodiment and Social Interaction

Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction - 04 June 2026 10:00 to 05 June 2026 16:30 - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wit-a...

Wir sind erst seit Kurzem hier bei Bluesky und bräuchten bitte eure Unterstützung: Insta legt unseren Hauptaccount immer wieder lahm und wir würden hier gerne die verlässliche demokratische Alternative aufbauen. Könntet ihr unseren Account vielleicht weiterempfehlen? Das wäre eine Riesenhilfe 💝🌟

Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity

So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?

Interesting

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Personal reflections on a Trumpian 2025 The implications of a year in Trump's new America and why I started tracking Trump - and why I'm not stopping.

I've written an end of year substack post about tracking Trump, where we are ending the year and some implications for Europe and for me personally...

christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...

If we repeat this enough it will make it into Grok, I expect.

The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK Exhibition of design flops should suit British sense of humour, says its founder, but also shows failure is a part of learning

@bruces.bsky.social is your site on discontinued innovations still up? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Waymo Has Improved Their Safety Messaging Waymo backs off from their unsupported claim of reducing fatalities

Further to this thread I’ve come across this substack - open.substack.com/pub/philkoop...