#Vacancy for an Assistant Professor position at the #Sociology department of @tilburg-university.bsky.social: tiu.nu/23054 (Universitair Docent in de Sociologie van Sociaal Beleid) Deadline: 14 December Questions? Contact the HoD, Tim Reeskens (and yes, C1 level in Dutch is a prerequisite...)

Hello all on bsky 👋 As with so many of our @ucu.org.uk sister branches, here @brunelucu.bsky.social we are again this year fighting compulsory redundancies. Please circulate and sign: Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London 👇 speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-brunel-...

Monopoly and totalitarianism go hand in hand. The only way to stop the growing censorship of Trump's critics is to fight the consolidation of media outlets into the hands of a few families that do not care about the best interests of the country.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Judith Butler responds to Berkeley's sending names: "When Universities Become Informants: A Practice from the McCarthy Era Makes an Ugly Return" www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Organizing a workshop in Tilburg on community-building among platform workers on 18 June. With, among others, @casilli.bsky.social and @antirapani.bsky.social . Workshop will be in-person, but it might be worth paying a visit to Tilburg for this. Looking forward to this!

A reminder that the entire #DisabilityStudies team at Liverpool Hope (my former colleagues) are threatened with redundancy. Devastating not just for individuals, but for the field. Students have written this powerful open letter about the impact. #SaveHopeDisabilityStudies

Repeat after me: This is not what a university is for.

The Internet...built by universities; paid for by the government.

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

More evidence that US citizens are not safe in this assault on democracy. Two American citizens detained while driving home. Of note: "CBP insists that the incident was routine...that can 'apply for any traveler'.” Expect to see "detentions" of US citizens become routine under this corrupt regime.

Not surprised, given the way these mafia-style authoritarian regimes tend to operate. And, doing the unethical thing often pays off. A lot of companies should have been put out of business following the Nazi collapse.

Federal authorities on Monday detained a permanent resident and Palestinian student activist in Vermont after he was summoned for a citizenship interview with immigration officials, according to his attorneys and the state’s congressional delegation.

France's President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that he told Israel's leader in a phone call that the suffering of Gazan civilians "must end" and that only a ceasefire in Gaza could free remaining Israeli hostages.

News update - we just sent the letter to the Commission. We very much hope we can engage constructively on this issue, and are looking forward to contributing to solutions that benefit journalists, citizens and officials alike.

If Bourdieu had Twitter

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

> Every day, about 100 terabytes of material are uploaded to the Internet Archive, or about a billion URLs, with the assistance of automated crawlers. Woah.

That is a pretty great article, but even if you don't want to read it, the first sentence is 👩‍🍳💋 "Musk’s impotent attempts to get his giant shiny phallus to work are the perfect metaphor for the man" www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-w...

With everything happening in the US right now, how safe are scientific conferences for foreign participants in the US? I think this is something we have to discuss as a scientific community. I am hesitating to register for US meetings due to the unpredictable situation. Others who feel the same?

Excellent! Thank you @polestarcars 👏🇸🇪 TeslaTakedown

Another big corp joins in on the race to self-destruction. Is there some sort of an anti-climate pledge I'm not aware of?

Acknowledging that Palestinians exist and have history is antisemitism now

We are reaching multiple climate tipping points. This is what it looks like. Note that we've already reached 560 ppm CO₂ equivalent (total greenhouse gas forcing of about +4 W/m² above 1750).

Wow. It’s a bit unnerving seeing it like this

#BREAKING Dozens of nations urge 'open' and 'ethical' AI at Paris summit: statement

We are in the "Palestinians are not indigenous but Afrikaners are" stage of Orwellian historiography

@dacemoglumit.bsky.social speculates on how we would explain the impending American Collapse in 2050. Most of it plausible, perhaps except the attempt to pin some of the blame to a supposed "radical social change agenda" of the Democrats. The real threat to American prosperity - on.ft.com/4aNSvp3

"Negotiating online conspiracy theories is a challenge companies like Arla increasingly have to prepare for."

I once wrote a whole paper working up to an argument like this at the end, and H. G. Wells just tweets it out smh. (I never published it because a reviewer really hated it and I lost confidence.) philpapers.org/archive/PETB...

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

Yesterday in Nature. A new place for science 👌

You can't even afford to totally devastate your own colon anymore because anti-woke.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said today that tech billionaires want to use social media “to overthrow democracy” — adding he’ll push EU leaders to take action.

Really insightful work on how media can enable, empower, and entrench

And this is an example of precarious nature of this work. Libs and NDP should be speaking up for gig workers and confronting tech bros at the same time. www.thestar.com/business/i-w...

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

Quixotic stance on wind power

There is no way this Tim Gill is not @timgill924.bsky.social

Trickle down Christmas tale... Actually, more of a Halloween post ;)

Dear academics We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists. This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by… *checks notes* …every other industry on earth.

Next in this year's #AdventCalendarOT: "Large Language Models and the Future of Organization Theory" by 𝗝𝗼𝗲𝗽 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘂𝘀 𝗔. 𝗛ö𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗿, 𝗘𝘃𝗮 𝗕𝗼𝘅𝗲𝗻𝗯𝗮𝘂𝗺, 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗷 and 𝗝𝗼𝗲𝗹 𝗚𝗲𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗻. #EditorialEssay #OpenAccess #ImpactfulTheory #DiverseTheory #BetterTheory doi.org/10.1177/2631...

THIS IS AMAZING NEWS!!!

Here @ilpost.it, an Italian national newspaper, confirms the pattern of Bluesky bringing more traffic than Threads. It's not an Anglosphere phenomenon! "[...] in just two weeks the percentage of traffic coming from the platform to the newspaper’s site has surpassed that coming from Threads [...]"

What's the fastest you've ever turned around a (major) paper revision? And what's your strategy- letter first, then edits? Something else?

Dr Olimpia Burchiellaro has invited me to give a virtual talk at Essex Business School today on my paper on conflict in the gig economy (2023, Human Relations - journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....). The gig economy is evolving fast and regulation is catching up. www.essex.ac.uk/events/2024/...

For fuck's sake. I would never have thought society would regress to doubting the discoveries of Pasteur. First vaccines, now this shit.