Dr Adam Jones

Occupational, I/O #Psychology, Evidence-based HR, #DataScience & #PeopleAnalytics: making work and organisations better. Husband, dad, marathon runner.

[Rosalynd Southern @rv_southern]

Oh no 🥺 has the horror show of HE started to affect proper subjects and real people? Oh no...maybe this is now a proper real crisis 🥹🥺

[Union of Jewish Students @UJS_UK]

UJS has published our Best Practice Guidance to support Jewish students and tackle antisemitism

The guidance can be found here:

https://t.co/nQXeDonEjH

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

This piece is so obviously, undeniably, true.

[Never Again @Never_Again2020]

Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (@SholaMos1) has been interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan Police in connection with her antisemitic hate-speech. @UniofNewcastle awarded this vile racist an honorary doctorate in 2023, but the award can, and should be withdrawn.

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

https://t.co/ocuXdcP5hs

[Hannah 🇮🇱 🥑 @nice_cuppa]

@jwomencount2 @UniofNewcastle @antisemitism The silence from @UniofNewcastle about her race baiting is disgusting. They should be completely distancing themselves from her.

[Academics Against Antizionism @AAAntizionism]

An important read

[Dr Kareem Carr @kareem_carr]

As a statistician, I keep asking myself how all these AI people are dealing with the massive potential for catastrophic errors in critical analyses, and the answer keeps being they either didn't think about it at all, or they don't care.

[Dr Adam Jones @DrAdamJones]

@Powerof10uk @BritAthletics Is there going to be an open API? Or any plans to feed club results via the club pages?

[Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis @chiefrabbi]

The deliberate arson attacks against Hatzola ambulances in London are a particularly sickening assault - not only on the Jewish community, but on the values we share as a society.

Our Hatzola volunteer ambulance corps is an extraordinary service, whose sole mission is to protect life, Jewish and non-Jewish alike.

The targeting of Hatzola by people so committed to terror, hatred and the desecration of life is a most painful illustration of the ongoing battle between those who sanctify life and those who seek to destroy it.

At a time when Jewish communities around the world are facing a growing pattern of these violent attacks, we will meet this moment with shared resolve and stand together against hatred and intimidation.

[Jane @janeprinsley]

Student groups across Britain are pushing to disaffiliate from NUS, claiming it is too... Zionist.

They want IHRA scrapped & accuse UJS of foreign influence.

Remember in 2023 when an independent review found NUS antisemitic? Feels like a long time ago!
https://t.co/qEq6rqZESC

[Francis Harris @fharris2011]

NHS anti-racism latest
A Jewish employee was "investigated for 'Zionist beliefs', including posts celebrating Jewish festivals. A black friend who spoke up for her was smeared as a 'coconut', and a supportive Muslim branded a 'disgrace to her religion'”
https://t.co/059v6Abcu9

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Gaza protesters found guilty of factory damage https://t.co/vg1kV31hFM

[David Taylor MP @DavidTaylor85]

The @UJS_UK are absolutely right:

Student groups who glorify Khamenei and collaborate with Press TV, an Iranian state broadcaster, must be investigated and held to account.

[David Hirsh @DavidHirsh]

The @ucu is a toxic organisation.

[Jan von Hein @JanvonHein1]

@Thaidigsmann @VUBrussel Now, what about Pettit’s ERC starting grant, @ERC_Research? Does this not depend on some kind of academic affiliation?

[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

A reminder: this raving lunatic was a professor at a major UK university and when Jewish students complained, hundreds of academics and public figures wrote a letter in support of him.

Presumably, as his beloved Islamic terrorist regime is dead: he will now need a job.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

I say this as gently as I know how, because it seems to me unforgivably obvious.

You cannot simultaneously build a strong international law system while also hating the West. International law is a Western idea born of a particular Western historical, cultural and political experience.

And because God loves irony, no one exemplifies this fact more than the evil regime whose travails since yesterday have sparked so much legalistic hand-wringing.

Both Khamenei himself and his teacher and predecessor Khomeini consistently and explicitly rejected international law as a tool of "global arrogance" (estekbar-e jahani) — i.e., of powerful secularist, individualistic democracies. Khamenei was even more explicit, routinely declaring legal frameworks like UN conventions as "colonial" traps.

These declarations weren’t marginal to their ideology. They were fundamental planks of the regime’s political theology.

I’ll say this, again, as gently as I can: The fact that international law and international institutions have transformed in practice into a system that more often than not runs defense for the most virulent and explicit enemies of said law might have something to do with their decline as an organizing framework of international affairs.

For example, when UN agencies and international institutions target Israel more than Iran, or more than China, Iran and Russia put together, or more than all the dictatorships and wars in the world combined — they’re doing more harm to the law than to Israel.

Similarly, it matters that so many of international law’s loudest spokespeople had nothing to say about Khamenei’s crimes just six weeks ago, but swung into action only when Khamenei’s long reign of terror was finally brought to an end.

That’s not law. It’s the opposite of law.

International law can be saved, but only if its scholars and practitioners grow up and shed the instinctive anti-Westernism and racist paternalism of the present-day academy. When international law is no longer seen by its own practitioners primarily as an instrument for containing, weakening and delegitimizing the West, but becomes genuinely about actual law, it will once again have a claim on us.

If you fail to see in Khamenei the bitter foe of international law that he was, if in the midst of your legitimate critique of a war you can’t summon at least a little joy that this avowed enemy of your purported moral system is dead and gone, then you haven’t actually been fighting for international law.

[Kenan Malik @kenanmalik]

The issue here is not simply how mocking disabled people has become normalised in the name of antiracism, but the seeming failure to understand that black people also suffer from Tourette’s and that this only makes the situation worse for them… 1/