Megan Eardley

phd @PrincetonSoA studying the architecture of ultra-deep mining in South Africa. she/her

[Idrees Ahmad @im_PULSE]

96% of children in Gaza feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of trauma. 92% of the children in the survey were “not accepting of reality”, 79% suffer from nightmares and 73% exhibit symptoms of aggression. https://t.co/HbaAtLRAqL

[Mikhail Moosa @Mikhail_Moosa]

Sad to read of the passing of Rashid Vally, a titan of jazz. As-Shams released and preserved the best of South African music for generations of listeners https://t.co/QCi2zbr0bM @TC_Africa

[African Studies Association of Africa @ASAA_Africa]

The ASAA announces call for papers, panels, workshops, films etc for the #ASAA2025 biennial conference in #Cabo_Verde

https://t.co/o5ZejxsMIO

@kafmurhula @divinefuh @Africaishome @qwesidjan @adomakoampofo

[Gabriel Geiger @gabriels_geiger]

I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency @fk_media accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”

[Megan Eardley @meardley]

@tweetissima @unsereOEBB 😧

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

Forensic Architecture put out a 827-page report analysing Israeli military actions, demonstrating in practice the genocide, and it's been largely ignored. Findings include: "Between 7 Oct 2023 and 30 June 2024 approximately 83% of all plant life in Gaza was destroyed."

[Duncan Money @mininghistory]

My review of the edited book 'History Beyond Apartheid' is now available in @JAH_editors. The book is a kind of snapshot and guide to how historical scholarship on South Affrica has expanded and fragmented over the last 30 years:

https://t.co/kYqZNNHgVh

[Mattia Dessì @mattiadessifrau]

Glad to see NUM and AMCU broadly agreeing on this. Dehumanising workers by calling them criminals is a tactic often used by governments but we should not forget why that most of these people are willing to risk their lives and go underground out of sheer necessity

[Matthew D. Taylor @TaylorMatthewD]

Yesterday Trump announced he's nominating Pete Hegseth as his Secretary of Defense.

Hegseth's a prominent Fox News personality & veterans advocate, but he also has strong ties to the Christian far right that I've not seen fully exposed yet.

Here's a thread w/ receipts... 1/

[Mattia Dessì @mattiadessifrau]

One in five (21%) people in mining and quarrying occupations have experienced harm at work in the past two years, third only to fishing and construction. One might wonder why, despite all the talks about new technologies, numbers are still so high...

https://t.co/GfAtfVSyuM

[WiSER @WitsWiSER]

🌱 Announcing Plant Lives: Critical Plant Humanities🌱

Join WiSER’s new online seminar series exploring plant worlds and postcolonial "plantariums" from the Global South. Feb-June 2025, Mon 4-5 pm SAST.

Papers posted weekly in advance

#PlantLives #GlobalSouth #PlantHumanities

[Heinrich Böll Stiftung Office Cape Town @boellza]

HBF partner, @macua_sa, has launched Radio MACUA, a podcast series sharing the experiences of ordinary people, activists & scholars on the development of Green Hydrogen in SA. Find out more at the link below or explore on Spotify.

https://t.co/N883VyVE5E

[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

While it might be cathartic to compare Elon Musk’s tech firms to apartheid-era mines, @karayiannides shows that the connection between ex-South Africans and American capitalism is complicated. https://t.co/SBI7n9LAwN

[SWOP Institute @SWOPInstitute]

From SWOP’s Land, Labour, Life course taught by @DineoSks @WitsPolitics

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

🇬🇭 60% of Ghana's water bodies are now polluted, mainly due to illegal gold mining. At this rate, Ghana may have to start importing water to meet its needs by 2030.
BBC Africa's @Sulengo investigates.

[Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) @SAH1365]

CALL FOR SESSIONS - SAH's 79th Annual International Conference will take place in Mexico City, Apr 15-19, 2026. The Society invites everyone interested in the history of the built environment to submit a proposal to chair a session at the conference. https://t.co/rAP3MHhO4l

[Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) @SAH1365]

Applications are open for the 2025 Indigenous Architecture Annual Conference Fellowship, supporting event travel for researchers of all levels whose work focuses on Indigenous architecture anywhere in the world.

Full details: https://t.co/rn414fMrc3

[WiSER @WitsWiSER]

Invite | Beyond the Apocalypse

Rethinking Capitalism, Democracy and Crisis in South Africa

🗓️ 9-11 October 2024
🕕 6pm

[Helen Schneider @schneider_helen]

Unfair knowledge practices in global health: a realist synthesis | Health Policy and Planning | Oxford Academic https://t.co/MYadQyqOGd