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The #nostalgia for 'simpler times'. Ever present but increasing? Spoiler alert: the imagined simpler times are very much not the same period.

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This week, Rachelle Vessey @rachellevessey.bsky.social will talk about "Gender ideologies in workplace surveys: The case of the Canadian military" Join us on March 13 at 16 EET (check the time zone!): tinyurl.com/talkosso @lulind.bsky.social @ylvabiri.bsky.social

New publication led by Paige Johnson where we point to the staticity of curated stories about migration compared to other forms of online storytelling. An excellent way to end a busy teaching year! #goodprojectswithgoodpeople Regimenting migrant storytelling benjamins.com/catalog/ip.0...

Predatory recruitment ‘will cause UK university failures’. Hepi report proposes capping student numbers for high-tariff universities with soaring undergraduate recruitment. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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I really appreciated the opportunity to talk in this format. It would be great to see this at conferences too

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Search triggered by this headline - in which the 'simpler times' are not those of the text world so much as the cultural context of the first adaptation

Here is the link for today's NOSTALGIA reading group meeting teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi... See you at 3 p.m. Italian time

In this study, we examine the online stories of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers curated by UK-based charity organisations. Through a mixed-methods approach, we focus on the online emergence of a positive storytelling canon that privileges certain affective positions over others. These positions feed into a problematic sense-making about migration in the UK that celebrates the stories of those migrants who incur positive (affective) changes in their lives, at the expense of potentially marginalizing others. Using a critical storytelling perspective that draws on the frameworks of affective positioning and small stories, we take one representative story as our focus to illustrate the affective participation frameworks made available to migrants. We discuss the linguistic and multimodal configuration of the story online, and the implications of the affective positions created for migrants for wider discourses about migration in the UK. Finally, we show how certain exemplary stories are static and affect-centred and do not seem to capitalise on dialogic and interactive participatory formats, unlike other forms of online storytelling. We argue that they contribute to a positive migrant storytelling canon that is well established in advocacy contexts and may have overtly empowering but covertly disempowering effects.

Hepi report proposes capping student numbers for high-tariff universities with soaring undergraduate recruitment

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It was a pleasure to host @proftaylor.bsky.social at @livunihss.bsky.social and bring our research projects in conversation as part of the 'Transgressive border dialogue' series. We really enjoyed the dialogic format. Thank you Stefania Tufi, Anna Saunders & @gemmabird.bsky.social for organising it!

Have you missed us? OSSO / DDI online lecture series is back for one more season! This spring: Rachelle Vessey - 13 March Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen - 17 April Dominika Kovacova - 4 May Join the Zoom room: tinyurl.com/talkosso

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

An update: in February 2026, *every single one* of the 1,507 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 3,155 white South Africans, three Afghans, and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...