Opinion: Limiting industrial action to defensive branch battles on redundancy is not enough. We need to politically challenge the HE funding model in the UK: my piece for the @timeshighered.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/only...

🌟 Disrupting Technology Conference 2025, 16 & 17 June, Leeds 📣 Fantastic keynote speakers: 🔹 Prof Mark Graham, Fairwork & Oxford Internet Institute 🔹 Dr Uma Rani, Senior Economist, ILO ‼️ Abstract deadline 7 March ➡️ Join us! Check out the call for papers: business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cer...

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

The awful and tragic loss of Michael Burawoy has caused me to pause and reflect on the many ways his work has influenced my development as an early career scholar in sociology of work -.

📣 Call for papers! ✨DISRUPTING TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 📅 Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th June, 2025 📍 University of Leeds, UK ‼️ Abstract submission deadline: 7th March 2025 📧 Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted via email to: [email protected] www.linkedin.com/posts/esme-t...

I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water. Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?

Tomorrow is the final CERIC Seminar of the semester! Akram Al Ariss will be joining us online at 1pm to discuss Employment of International Migrants: What we know and what we still need to know. Free registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/akram-al-a...

New limited series starts tomorrow. BHOPAL: stories of an Ecocide. Where @lucyburke Explores the history and impacts of the world’s worst industrial disaster. Listen to the trailer below. Only on GND Media, where ever you get your podcasts.

Absolutely grim list, which now includes roughly half of UK universities. One of the most important takeaways from all of this should be that a lot of these cuts are pre-emptive, and/or in response to shortfalls rather than responses to actual deficits. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Digit has secured a further 5 years of funding from the ESRC totalling £8.3million - congratulations to the co-leads here at CERIC and University of Sussex, and all the partners on this brilliant project! digit-research.org/news_article...

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📢 Join us for the next HuLog Circle Talk on Wednesday, November 27, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM (CET) [online]! ✨ Topic: Labour Control and Worker Resistance at Amazon 🎤 Speaker: Prof. Peter Birke, Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen 🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/fmhkZ @ceric-lubs.bsky.social

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