🚨NEWS: Civilians in Gaza are at unprecedented risk as Israel imposes communication black-out during bombardment and expanding ground attacks. @Amnesty, we have lost contact with our colleagues in Gaza as well. https://t.co/iZuqO2WHK1

Around 3.8 million people experienced destitution in 2022, a 61% rise since 2019. ⬆️ This included around 1 million children, an 88% rise since 2019. ⬆️ The no. of people experiencing destitution has more than doubled in the last 5 years, while the no. of children has tripled.

Palestinian filmmaker, journalist, and fixer Roshdi Sarraj “was killed on the morning of Sunday, October 22, by an Israeli bombardment on the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City” https://t.co/InNzDuTFi3

⚠️The healthcare system in #Gaza is facing collapse. Hospitals are overwhelmed and lacking resources. We recently made a large donation of medical stock, including medicines and medical equipment to Al Shifa hospital, the main surgical facility in the Strip. 1/4

"Gaza in Context," a @jadaliyya teach-in series, starts tomorrow, with "Gaza 101." For a link to the live, online program: https://t.co/SzboOuTuVZ

Breaking news: At least 500 killed in Gaza City hospital blast. Blowing up hospitals is a war crime. https://t.co/6YkoWPztGY

A UN official just told me civilians in Gaza are reduced to drinking sea water because clean water has run out. Body bags are running out, fuel for hospital generators powering ventilators will run out in hours. Food supply low. The bombing is intensifying. There aren't words.

One of the awesome tools created by Robert Crellin, more to be found at his GitHub repo

The Politics of Rage A post on reading Iliad 1 with shoutouts to a few recent publications and a bibliography for politics in Homer https://t.co/LEUIvq7Y1O

Some have started asking me why as a practicing Jew have I said nothing about the unthinkable dispicable atrocities committed by terrorists in Israel. Frankly I've struggled to process it, and felt the combined gutteral fear for relations in Israel, anxiety about possible

Lord Nick Stern, a globally respected climate economist, has accused the UK government of being "flaky" on Net Zero. Responding to @TheCCC's scathing assessment of the PM's new strategy, Lord Stern told @ITVJoel he has "serious doubts" the UK will be able to deliver on its

I have some more bluesky escape pods, if any friend here needs a way out to a new home. Just DM me.

Did you know that OU students in the UK can apply for funds to help with study-related costs such as computers, internet access, travel and childcare? Find out more: https://t.co/czHZg7eskf 📸 @kellieandfaith on Instagram

Now there's a thing. 🤔

📅 Today marks 87 years since the Battle of Cable Street, one of the most celebrated and iconic victories in anti-fascist history in Britain. In 1936, between 100,00 - 300,000 anti-fascists blocked Mosley’s fascists and battled police. Here's the story of how they did it. 🧵 1/

I can state with confidence that not a single one of the scientists I work with at Oxford has any idea what this means.

Publish your paper about Spatial Humanities in our Journal of Digital Humanities, edited by @EdinburghUP. The deadline is January 31st

Throughout his tenure as Mayor,@SadiqKhan has treated our community with friendship & respect. We hope to co-host the key Mayoral candidates at a 2024 Jewish hustings, where it will be clear that while London Jews may have varying political views, there is no fear present at all

Tomorrow (2 Oct) at 14:00 BST, the @PelagiosNetwork Annotation Activity will be hearing from software developers @jamiefolsom + @aboutgeo on the future of Pelagios's open-source annotation platform #Recogito. All welcome! Please email annotation@pelagios.org for the zoom link

'Whether you can drive 20 or 30 mph in a particular zone doesn't seem quite as important as a child having a bed or enough food.' @ShelaghFogarty questions why Rishi Sunak is so focused on 20mph zones when a million children don't even have their own bed.