Australian industry superfunds are often seen as the “good” investors, looking out for members’ interests. This chapter explores tension between labour roots and financial logic, and what it means for the promise of workers’ capital. #superannuation #ESG www.martijnboersma.com/does-workers...

When universities police dissent rather than protect it, their claims to ethical purpose ring hollow. The genocide in Gaza has exposed the narrowing space for critique by students and scholars within institutions that once prided themselves on it. #HigherEd www.martijnboersma.com/universities...

Imagine a B-cast like Tony Abbott, Pauline Hanson and Gina Rinehart 'having your back' after you are charged with the killing of 5 Afghan civilians. Here comes the cavalry, but it's season 34 of Dancing with the Stars, the white supremacist edition. #BenRobertsSmith www.youtube.com/watch?v=trtu...

Habermas’ core belief was that the formation of public opinion through constructive deliberation was vital for democracies. There is a sad symbolism in his passing coinciding with a peak in mis-and disinformation, anti-intellectualism, and rising authoritarianism. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38%. Major broadcast networks in the U.S. cut their climate coverage 35% compared to the year before. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein. grist.org/language/glo...

Palantir CEO saying the quiet part out loud: “This technology disrupts humanities-trained - largely Democratic- voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters.” #AI newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

This is some grim dystopian crap. Forever wars driven by AI-systems that make 37 million computations per second. #Palantir #Maven www.afr.com/world/middle...

Meanwhile, Australian energy companies are making windfall profits. Time for a windfall tax. During the 2022-23 energy crisis the EU collected €26 billion which it used to support households. In Aus, use for of cost of living easing and energy transition. #auspol www.smh.com.au/business/mar...

Left: Dutch career criminal Willem Holleeder, who kidnapped brewery magnate Freddy Heineken in 1983. Right: Angus Taylor, the new leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. I think the Liberals may want to check Angus’ eligibility to sit in Parliament: he may be a dual citizen. #auspol #libspill

Meanwhile, Australia rolls out the welcome mat for the president of israel. This is the head of state of a country whose prime minister stands indicted by the International Criminal Court. This is also a man who declared there were “no innocents in Gaza.” Disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w...

“Market failure” suddenly matters when it’s about critical minerals. Price floors, guarantees, trade rules, etc. But when labour prices plummet this is accepted as an outcome of supply and demand. Minerals get protection from volatility; workers are told to absorb it. 🤡 www.afr.com/world/north-...

The abduction of Nicolás Maduro marks a grim threshold. If a head of state can be seized with impunity, then the international rules-based order (what was left of it) is dead. The statements by Trump about access to Venezualan oil shows that this is US imperialism asserting itself without disguise.

A resolution by the ILO’s regional staff union, which was supported by nearly 80% of the members, warned that “relocation risks sending mixed signals to constituents and normalising weak labour standards in a region dominated by migrant workers with limited effective rights”. on.ft.com/4oR679i

A federal judge delivered an extraordinary 161-page rebuke of President Trump, ruling that the administration impermissibly chilled the protected political speech of university professors and students by targeting non-citizens on college campuses who have spoken out in support of Palestine.

“This amendment is really designed to shield Israel from any accountability by penalizing those who protest its violations of Palestinian human rights through boycotts, which should be protected by the First Amendment.” #Boycott #BDS #Israel #US #Gaza theintercept.com/2025/09/11/i...

UC Berkeley has handed over 160 names of faculty, staff, and students to the Trump administration in a probe of “antisemitic incidents.” With no due process, no transparency, and international students at risk, this is blatant McCarthyism and a disgraceful betrayal of academic freedom. #highered

Charges against Sydney pro-Palestinian protester Hannah Thomas, who was seriously injured by police, were dropped.

UTS has KPMG on retainer for $180,000 per week for work it was meant to complete in the original $4.8 million contract. KPMG gets $180,000 a week. The same amount gets you a lecturer and tutors for an entire year! Incompetence of UTS 'leadership' and utter governance failure. #auspol #highered

A labour court, in the Amazonian state of Pará, on Friday ordered VW's Brazilian subsidiary to pay compensation of 165 million reais ($A46.5 million) over the illegal exploitation of workers in the 1970s and 1980s, the Brazilian public prosecutor's office for labour said.

It's really fucked up the news media at large is searching so hard for humanity in machines, while systematically denying humanity to Palestinians, trans people, immigrants, and other persecuted people

With moderate CO2 emissions, the tipping point will be reached at around 2063. With high emissions, the collapse could begin as early as 2055. This leads to additional sea level rise, more storm surges, and agricultural yields will decrease by about 1/3. And all of that will last for centuries.

New research | 4 largest US asset managers, like BlackRock and Vanguard, now manage 1/8th of all Dutch listed companies. That’s over 10 times more than the five largest Dutch asset managers. They are much less likely to vote in favour of climate resolutions compared to Dutch asset managers.

Amid international outrage, Israel is now claiming the double-tap strike on Nasser hospital was an accident—after celebrating it in Hebrew media. Drunk on their own impunity they take us all for fools. They mock humanity itself. Hell is not hot enough for these monsters.

Israel has murdered at least 192 journalists. The latest 5 journos were killed after #IDF ‘mistakingly’ bombed a hospital in Gaza. Israel is not going to stop slaughtering Palestinians unless the rest of the world makes them. Impose sanctions FFS #auspol www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...

Six universities are looking to cut around 1,500 jobs. Millions of dollars have been spent on external consultants, who get to shape the future of public higher education in Australia - and with what accountability? Universities are a public good, education is not a product. #auspol #highered

Not even rain, cold and crappy Sydney weather could stop @nteunion.bsky.social members coming together to protest against corporatised uni governance and job cuts today. ✊✊✊💜💜💜☔️☔️☔️

Fear mongering - for a second I thought I was reading Murdoch media. An inheritance tax on the very wealthy to reduce inequality should not be dubbed a 'death tax', just to get some extra clicks. This won't impact the inheritance of the bulk of Australians, and it is a sensible policy idea. #auspol

“Israel fears the people who tell the world about what is happening in Gaza — the war, the genocide, the famine. Anas made it a mission to tell these stories, our stories, all over the world. And people listened,” a pseudonymous Palestinian journalist who lives in the US writes for @theintercept.com

Big win for the TWU and a big congratulations to everyone involved in building this case ✊🏻💪🏻

I’ve donated to support John Keane and Nick Riemer in their Federal Court case defending free speech, academic freedom, and the right to oppose genocide and apartheid. I encourage others to read about their fight and contribute if you can. #highered #freepalestine @nteunion.bsky.social

The U.S. State Dept’s new human rights report on Israel has been gutted — shrinking from 103 pages last year to 9. Gone are UN and NGO accounts of abuses, the ICJ genocide case, ICC warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant, and detailed reporting on press freedom, torture, and mass civilian deaths in Gaza.

Recorded electrical activity from brain implants can predict attempts to say different words. With the use of AI, the computer accurately predicted almost 6,000 words, with an accuracy of 97.5%. It then synthesises words using the patient's voice based on recordings made before they developed A.L.S.

‘Our public universities have become corporatised, governed from behind closed doors by people with little connection to the daily realities of staff and students. The consequences have been catastrophic.’ Dr Alison Barnes, NTEU National President at today’s Senate Inquiry into university governance

There are just two weeks until the United Nations Business and Human Rights Regional Forum in Melbourne, co-hosted by the Australian Human Rights Institute. Explore the program and register here: events.humanitix.com/un-bhr-regio...

The draft report identified 56 “nationally significant climate risks” in eight areas, including defence, the economy, primary industries, regional communities, and health and social support. www.afr.com/policy/energ...

“UK civil liberties are trapped in a manufactured crisis. Peaceful citizens of conscience – including pensioners – have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian who now lunges at opinions that expose the moral vacuum of his unrecognisable government.”

The largest ICE detention center in the Northeast draws scores of complaints: detainees and civil rights advocates noted a serious lack of language services and an oppressive environment that seemed more like a prison for convicted criminals than a temporary holding center for immigrants.

In a weird game of dystopian monopoly, rich people (doctors, lawyers, business executives and Stanford University professors) in a Palo Alto neighbourhood complain that someone richer than them (Zuckerberg) moved into the area and spent more than $110 million to scoop up at least 11 houses.

A plan to recognise a Palestinian state is better than nothing, but it does little to alleviate immediate suffering in Gaza. Stopping (military) exports to Israel would have much more meaningful. This borders on symbolic politics, especially since no timeline or concrete steps have been announced.

Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal were in a tent for journalists at the hospital's main gate when it was targeted. 186 journalists have been confirmed killed since the start of Israel's military offensive in Gaza in October 2023.

Whether it's drink driving, crashing, and fleeing the scene; tasering a 95 y/o woman with dementia who died after; punching peaceful protesters in the eye potentially blinding them; or stomping on the face of a mentally ill woman and pepper spraying her genitals, NSW cops are here to help. #auspol

In fairness, I, an actual PhD candidate, also sometimes misspell embarrassingly simple words.

A bribe. In broad daylight. In the middle of the oval office. And they did it on live TV.

Rushanara Ali has resigned as UK homelessness minister after she evicted 4 tenants from a property she owns then re-let it weeks later for £700 more a month(!). The tenants were told in November 2024 their fixed term contract would not be renewed because the house was being put up for sale. #Grub

Oh my dear @ABCnews — you did it.. An entire story on @abc730 about the famine inside Gaza — and not one mention of the word ‘Israel’. Not one mention it is due to an Israeli blockade of food supplies — no mention it is an Israeli-forced famine — Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war.

The policy notes that the university will remove flags that are “unapproved”, considered “inappropriate, dangerous or offensive” or contravene “any university policy”, the policy notes. A breach of the rules can be considered as misconduct. Come on @sydney.edu.au - be better.

A new technology can track public debates of interest to the Chinese govt, offering the ability to monitor individuals & their arguments as well as broader public sentiment. The technology also has the promise of mass-producing propaganda that can counter shifts in public opinion home & overseas.

"Israel has long intercepted phone calls in the occupied territories. But the indiscriminate new system allows intelligence officers to play back the content of cellular calls made by Palestinians, capturing the conversations of a much larger pool of ordinary civilians." #Microsoft #Complicit

We stand in solidarity with the Indonesian fishers who have filed a human trafficking lawsuit against US tuna brand Bumble Bee. It is never easy for individuals to go up against influential corporations, but they are. Join us in standing with them: act.gp/solidarity-with-fishers

#jobs #jobFairy #IR #LSE #academia #UK