What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

Just finished back to back seminars on opposite sides of campus.

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

Not every morning you wake up to hear the leader of a potential future government wants to kick you out of the country.

Un sentimiento que nos une, ¡feliz 18! 🇨🇱 La chilenidad se lleva en el corazón y se refleja en la fuerza, alegría, tradiciones y tierras de nuestra patria querida. ❤️ ¡Felices #FiestasPatrias y Viva Chile! Descubre más en 📲 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #ChileDiverso

It is so sad to hear about Conor Gearty’s passing. I never met him, but I've come across his work on several occasions, which is always inspiring and illuminating. A recent piece he wrote on academic writing has helped me with motivation on my last leg of the PhD. RIP.

11/09/1973, a day that will live in infamy.

Kirk’s shooting has echoes of Calvo Sotelo’s murder in 1936. I hope I’m wrong.

So, at the risk of upsetting folks, we need to be aware that two things can be true at once. It can be true both that 1) the chilling effect on speech on campus existed and was bad but that 2) the application of state power to silence academics is much, much MUCH worse.

Can't imagine how it must feel to be afraid of speaking in my mother tongue for fear of being profiled. Empeñados en hacer cosplay de los peores regímenes de la historia.

Platform companies have deployed the term "disruption" as a tool for deregulation in such an effective manner that I instinctively look for synonyms every time I want to discuss their effect on labour regulation.

The ILO Digital Labour Platform Tracker is an amazing tool for all researching the platform economy. No more homemade translations of Latin American and Spanish provisions in my papers. Great work by Uma Rani and all her team! digitallabour.ilo.org/homepage

Happy feast of Saint Alberto Hurtado sj, patron of Chilean workers. From the introduction of his 1950 book “Sindicalismo” (Trade Unionism): “It is a well-proven fact by history, that the rise of the working class has always been the result of their own efforts, having reached a mature state”

Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK

One day, you decide to use an astronomical analogy in your thesis, cause, yes, you are a nerd. Then it goes out of hand, and you find yourself reading about types of galaxies and their characteristics to find the one that fits the analogy better.

I need to share the amazing new stadium my beloved football club is about to inaugurate. Man, I wish I could be there.

Sunday early morning views.

Exactly right. They simply want the end product — whether it’s an actual production of art or music or the end result of hard work like a PhD — without doing the work. It’s cheat codes all the way down.

Godspeed, Captain Lovell.

Drop an old person that you're going to turn into in the future.

Besides my disappointment as a kid of the 90s, I hope the irony of having someone known for playing the most famous illegal immigrant as an ICE henchman is not lost on anyone.

Some day, I hope to have enough experience and prestige as an academic to write a piece on comparative labour law with a section called "What to compare when you are comparing" (hopefully everyone still gets the reference by then). Will it be frowned upon, @husajaakko.bsky.social?

I am generally a big fan of the BBC - but this is a truly terrible 'both sides' *push notification* to send out to people in this country about this news event

Raise UK gambling taxes to fund removing two-child benefit cap, Gordon Brown says on.ft.com/4549YZ2

When will it become acceptable to say “somehow Palpaltine returned” as an equivalent of Deus ex Machina? Are we there yet?

No, automated grammar reviewer, I am not repeating words by mistake. There is value in repetition, cadence and emphasis in academic writing.

Nobody asks, and probably this will help no one, but I come from a country with a physical and digital ID system (Chile). Well used, it's an incredible tool for a modern society, and, despite some problems, Chile is a good example. (1/3).

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

"Artificial Intelligence will have an impact ten times greater than that of the Industrial Revolution," says somebody whose only knowledge of the Industrial Revolution must come from Artificial Intelligence.

More like, "Neatly play out"

Ahh, the struggle to make English-speaking academic publishers and platforms understand that we Latin Americans usually have two last names, and that I'm not "Jorge García" but "Jorge Leyton García". Don't get me started with my second name...

The most creative Human Rights academic could not have devised an exam question with such outlandish (and worrying) scenario.

Working here has its perks (like the view).

Paging...

Rocks and sand. Nothing special. Except these rocks and sand are on another planet.

NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.

Fully agree with what @alangreene.bsky.social says here. This is a sector-wide problem and needs a coordinated solution. In the meantime, in-person exams are the only feasible option. www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/have-c...

I have the pipe dream that I will be able to found a ticket for one the Oasis Wembley shows for under 100 quid.

Today's university with the job cuts is Stirling. Every single day is like this in UK Higher Education. Billions of pounds of your money and your taxes are being thrown down the drain. When will the madness stop? www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5282...

Oh, the irony of reading this on the 4th of July (even though the list of grievances on the Declaration of Independence did not include the charge of nullifying laws).

First line of the NHS 10 year plan is "The NHS is at a crossroads". Which means I'm immediately thinking of the best Simpsons gag ever...

I'm not the most progressive voice on this issue, but this is utterly shameful. Whatever your views, banning books and defending it by comparing a person's life experience with "actions that could cause them harm – for example alcohol, cigarettes and gambling" is pure vitriol and bigotry.

Jurassic Park is a perfect franchise because the question "why would they keep doing this" is answered by simply asking yourself if you would want to go see a dinosaur. Of course you would want to see a dinosaur.

I remember attending the presentation of the 2014 collective book in Westminster. It was inspiring. The conversations and the spirit back then have very little in common with the current iteration. @mds49.bsky.social captures that disconnection very well.

“Today’s Maga-inflected version has far more in common with the “move fast and break things” worldview of Dominic Cummings than it does with the everyday, practical wisdom of Aristotle” A well-thought critique, from @mds49.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/703...

Again, from @adamprz.bsky.social's indispensable newsletter...

“I like the way Reform combines nationalism and socialism” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

I suspect the Independent or some news agency has a team going through science journals, in the hope of finding studies that could land them a headline worthy of a Roland Emmerich movie.

The most “polemic” aspect of my research agenda is that I am not that really interested in the platform economy or algorithmic management. What really interests me is the effect these phenomenons, emblematic of our times, have on labour regulation.