Large crowds on Gadigal land (Sydney) today to mark Invasion Day, which was declared a day of mourning by Indigenous Elders in the 1930’s. Now more than ever, we are standing against colonialism.

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_...

Relevant to some of the orientalist discourse reacting to the fall of Assad 👇 "From discourse to practice: Orientalism, western policy and the Arab uprisings": academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...

Insights into prospects for positive social change from Anu Besson and Amy Mowle in the Sociology of Work, Labour & Economy today. #TASA2024

Smoky skies today in Perth. Lovely to see parts of the city before attending #TASA2024 this morning.

Insightful presentations on work at the #TASA conference today. Emma Lees on co-operative workers and job satisfaction and @lutfunlata.bsky.social on the importance of weak and strong ties in the networks of platform economy gig workers in Australia.

My (research based) comedy show is on tonight as part of WA Comedy Week and (inexplicably) there are still some tickets left. If you're in Perth consider coming along Tickets: eventbrite.com.au/e/future-sci...

Will you be in Perth for the TASA conference next week? I’m presenting a work in progress and interested in constructive feedback 😊. Come along and let me know what you think.