Italy was on strike in solidarity with Palestinians last Monday. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated blocking roads, ports & railway stations. In Rome, many drivers found themselves stuck in traffic — & were happy about it, saluting demonstrators & condemning Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

"Any risk we could be subjected to is, of course, nothing to what Palestinians are risking every day, just trying to survive." Climate activist Greta Thunberg, currently abroad the Global Sumud Flotilla, shares why she is part of the mission to break Gaza's siege.

Sex on TV did not us shock Our favourite time was wine o’clock On computers the net we’d surf Read Mumsnet and became a terf

You experience one day in 24 hours, your baby experiences 3, 4, 5 depending on their nap schedule - you baby is grinding so hard, they are doing laps on you

Support @iwgbunion.bsky.social members on strike at UCL against job losses from cleaners! actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Strike starts TODAY!!! Branch members will be picketing from 8 to 11 today, tomorrow, and Wednesday at UP's west, south, and north entrance and Jubilee's main entrance on Derby road. Come show your support! #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

Strike action is ON!!! Next week will be the first of 4 weeks of striking from our members as we continue to say NO to the compulsory redundancies forced on us by the university for their poor financial choices. #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

We're standing up against job cuts! @uonucu.bsky.social

Reform party will eventually come after citizens, with parents who were born abroad, like myself. My friends and I have had this discussion for some time. Make no joke about it, if they get into power they will need to continue to enrage the British voting public, they need chaos to thrive.

L’extrême droite est votre ennemi

This paper looks great! “Another way of seeing” education pasts and presents: art, education, and activism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bangor gets it.

However bad the your party situation is, I'm not sure it's worse than the dire internal state of local Labour party structures, locally anyway they are absolutely full of delusional loyalists hellbent on carrying on with Starmer's kamikazi status quo.

522,000 children starved to death in Sudan since April 2023

‼️MEDITERRANEAN HISTORIC HEAT WAVE >40c Insane, unprecedented heat in SPAIN with 39/40C from South to North even above 500m asl including Canary Islands ! 40.5 Navalmoral 40.2 Merida 39.6 Plasencia 39.3 Candelada etc 37.9 Portela GALICIA CANARY I: Tasarte min 28.6! Max 39.5

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

21st century Britain where it's illegal to project an image on a wall but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

Thread giving a chapter-by-chapter overview of Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification (co-authored with Paul Lambert) #CAMSIS #SNA #SocialInequality

Looking at old (2016-17) data for Free School Meals. Some of the figures are truly shocking: Pate's Grammar: 3 students out of 1062 students! Sir William Borlase's Grammar: 3/1065 Chesham Grammar: 5/1272 NS-SEC 1 for those going onto uni: Pate's: 51% (Sec2: 24%) SWB: 50% (26%) Chesham: 42% (30%)

Our paper on clusters of schools across the UK is out. We find five clusters: multi-racial & super-diverse middle & working-class schools of towns & cities, suburban white middle class schools, established elite schools & (post-)industrial white working class schools. doi.org/10.1002/berj...

This honestly should’ve been the bigger scandal for Rayner than her underpaying stamp duty

So, can #UKHE please follow the Sorbonne’s example? Loads of money and manpower wasted on giving that data to rankers who distort the purposes of universities. Can’t get more prestigious than being in the same category as the Sorbonne, surely?

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

"Farage & Tommy are fuelled by cheques from billionaires & promotion across their media empires." 🤜

It turns out that police were so exhausted after arresting terrorist 80 year olds carrying placards that didn't have enough energy left to deal with far right thugs terrorising London

Yesterday our dept had our education away day. The mood was grim following the far right demo in London, the election of Reform UK locally in May & what to do in the face of GenAI. Rather than moan tho, we have to try & organise - if sociologists aren't going to organise now when will they?

Another update 🚨 We just launched Beyond the Core: Elites and Power in Swiss Second-Tier City-Regions (1890–2020) at @unil.bsky.social, funded by @snf-fns.ch I’m thrilled to coordinate this 4-year project with a multidisciplinary team @obelitessuisses.bsky.social #BeyondTheCore #EliteStudies

HUUUGE turnout this morning to demand protection for our jobs and our students' learning conditions. There is no deficit!!!

As for the USA ... meme via Kudzi Mashaire

This government could have taken on the super-rich to tackle inequality. They chose to fan the flames of racism and embolden the far-right instead. Our country needs a change in direction, now. It’s time for a real alternative that redistributes wealth, ownership and power.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

via Women For Justice #SocialistSunday

If you're on campus today in Canterbury we've got a table set up in the Gulbenkian from 12 noon. Come and chat to us! This was planned well before this week's news as an opportunity to see and talk to a UCU branch committee member - we'll be holding drop-in chats like this throughout term.

Approximately 10% of the 188 staff being lost at Robert Gordon University were made compulsorily redundant. A reminder of the antinomies of 'voluntary' redundancy.

Why is our trade union emulating the worst behaviour of our employers towards UCU staff? How many of our letters, motions, attempts to bring motions from lay members pressing for resolution have been ignored now? Solidarity with all @uniteucu.bsky.social #UnionStrong #ReclaimUCU

Seen out and about in Chicago.

meme via Mike Hall

Obligatory ballot / postbox and photo. Go vote for @beehughes.bsky.social #ucu

We now go live to our Westminster correspondent who will explain with inordinate enthusiasm why keeping all the same people but changing their roles is in fact extremely interesting & important.

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Happy to share that our article (@heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social and Yulia Lemesheva) which looks at representation on BBC Question Time has now been published at IJPP journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @nclpolitics.bsky.social @strathpolir.bsky.social

Unclear why we need external recruiters for these things. Those searches are expensive. Surely, those with an actual interest in universities can be reached via connections through the staff body? The only people recruiters like these reach are the floating board-sitters.

Missed this. Very clever and interesting paper.

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Israel is systematically demolishing Gaza City, razing entire neighbourhoods.

Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

"We recruited some elites with little actual understanding of education or universities, were paid well to do it and this is a good thing." University governance is just dire. @newcastleucu.bsky.social www.peridotpartners.co.uk/case-study-c...