The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Thanks to @claudinegrisard.bsky.social for pointing me towards this great special issue of CPA on 'The financialization of daily life: the lived experience of financially responsible behaviour?' www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

QMUL cut 200 roles in the past two years: qmucu.org/2025/06/26/s... #SaveHE #UKHE

Moving towards a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education! UCU Congress voted to support a national trade dispute with the government over the Higher Education funding crisis. Motion & further info: lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=... JOIN to discuss next steps 3 June, 6pm: lu.ma/zs6bklhz 🧵

This is happening next week...

Motion brought by @ucuessex.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social, Oxford, Kingston, UAL #UCU2025 #UCUCongress

Jana brilliant speech is now available 🎉

@claudinegrisard.bsky.social & I open, our first panel explores the international political economy of central banking & macrofinance w/ @monicadileo.bsky.social & @brusselermel.bsky.social. Then on to the issue of instituting green macrofinancial policy w/ Maria Nikolaidi & @apsmolenska.bsky.social

📣 On the 4th of June, AARG is organizing an event that brings together scholars to discuss political economy and accounting perspectives on the challenges for transforming central banking in the ecological crisis. Registration link: www.tickettailor.com/events/queen... Come along

📣 Join us for an event on the multiple crises that are currently affecting UK Higher Education,at QMUL hosted by AARG and the Mile End Institute (MEI). More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/queen... @mileendinstitute.bsky.social

📣 28-29 May at QMUL @clasp-qmul.bsky.social End of Year Event on 'The Materialities of AI', feat. @katecrawford.bsky.social @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

On the 4th of June, AARG is organizing an event that brings together scholars to discuss political economy and accounting perspectives on the challenges for transforming central banking in the ecological crisis. Registration link: www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...

59. And it’s really not “oh boohoo, the humanities and social sciences are having a hissy fit again”. Very tired of that narrative, those who spin it with the governing body to delegitimise actual concerns, and those who enable it. Science & Engineering is going to have an Education meltdown.

The event page is now available for the AARG event on 20 May on the Multiple Crises of Higher Education. Register here - www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...

New on the CLaSP blog: 'Race, Profit, and Algorithms', @wonyoungso.bsky.social details his research on iBuyers, a new class of real estate actors generating profits in racialized housing markets www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ra...

Struck reading how everything is replicated at QMUL (“stabilisation” language while the crisis isn’t local; ungrowth; focus on cutting (staff…) cost rather than growing income; redirection of the purpose of the university) Only to read in the last paragraph that, of course, the NOUS group is there…

This is what the redundancy wave in British Higher Education currently looks like on the map: ‘British University Redundancy Map’ maps.app.goo.gl/yUteDm2MCXUi...

The outlines of a White House plan to produce a government science report that highlights the "benefits" of climate change is coming together. The intent is to expand presidential power, target regulations and fight litigation filed against fossil fuel companies. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

A blogpost outlining what's happening @qmul.ac.uk this Spring. Spoilers: it's not pretty. qmucu.org/2025/03/10/q... #SaveHE #UKHE

On May 20th, AARG is organizing a round table about the multiple crisis of higher education. This event aims to reposition this specific crisis in relation to other crises, students’ debts, cost of living crisis, University governance crisis, crisis of the welfare state … registration link 👇

Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws

🗣️ EVENT: Join us at CLaSP on 13 March for a dialogue between two leading scholars of the global fossil fuel economy - Alice Mah & Adam Hanieh - on 'Petrochemical Transitions'. Register for a free ticket: www.claspblog.org/events/petro...

Book Review: The book 'Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice' follows over 500 environmental justice movements evidencing why 'environmentalism of the poor' is key to socioecological transformation. Read here: www.claspblog.org/blogposts/la...

📚 Book round-up: browse some of the recent book publications from CLaSP members. Topics from supply chains, agricultural labour, artistic production & activism and more www.claspblog.org/blogposts/g9...

"Unless we are willing to act imaginatively and fearlessly to save our universities now, we will soon find that there is nothing left to save."

Water shortage fears as Labour’s first AI growth zone sited next to new reservoir

📣 New on the CLaSP blog! Tracing exploitation in the gaming industry, Jamie Woodcock highlights the organising by workers in the industry and the model it provides for organising in non-union work sectors. www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ga...

AARG is on Blue skye - bsky.app/profile/aarg...

Not to be missed - see you there:

If you are an early career scholar or a PhD student wanting to showcase your work, we - at CLaSP Blog - welcome essay submissions on a range of issues related to CLaSP’s research themes. More info and guidelines here: www.claspblog.org/contribution...