EU hits Google with €2.95bn antitrust fine on.ft.com/4m6m2OK

Delighted about our new article 'Pay and Train to Sustain' with A Georgiadis @universityofleeds.bsky.social at the Human Resource Management journal @wiley.com It is available #OpenAccess #HRM #Pay #Skills @kingsbschool.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Nuffield Foundation announces funding to tackle UK’s biggest social challenges www.nuffieldfoundation.org/news/nuffiel...

"Apple and Google have 'effective duopoly' in UK says regulator" from BBC. Unless the UK authority (CMA) takes strong action just like the EU against Google, the Big Tech giants will dominate the market with detrimental results for consumers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What Do Content Moderators Do? Emotion Work and Control on a Digital Health Platform - Petrakaki - Journal of Management Studies - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Uncovering the highly skilled emotional work of content moderators phys.org/news/2025-07...

Bang goes the "AI will solve the problems of the world" thesis www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Dismissing people by email or phone is still distressingly common and needs to stop on.ft.com/4dWYrxq

“Carey’s nomination as NLRB general counsel is certainly another example of Trump’s attacks on workers and the right to organize,” said @epi.org senior policy analyst Margaret Poydock. Some of Crystal Carey's clients: Amazon, Trader Joe’s, and Apple.

Delighted that our article on technological innovation & institutions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... with @dimitrapetrakaki.bsky.social appears as the most read article in the last 12 months! Thank you @businesshistory.bsky.social #BuzHis

Always exciting to see new research coming out about @careopinion.org.uk and online patient feedback 😍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Donald Trump has threatened to slap 25% tariffs on the European Union claiming the 27-country bloc was “formed to screw the United States”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's a very sad day. Just notified that @iza.org is closing its doors as of 31 December 2025. At a time when labor is under attack and technological change moves at an ever-faster pace, I can't help but think that this is a short-sighted decision. My heart goes out to those folks who work there.

We have a massive academic base on Bluesky, we can lobby unis to quit X. The French are leading on this, others can do it too. 3 more French unis quit Twitter: Université Paris-Saclay @univparissaclay.bsky.social Université PSL @psl-univ.bsky.social Sorbonne Université @sorbonne-universite.fr

In 1987 already, Donald Trump bought full-page ads in major newspapers to call for America to stop paying to defend other countries.

Can people please stop calling Musk by his first name, like we're all on a first name basis with him? Critics on socials do this and now the @financialtimes.com too? Musk is not your buddy. He's a billionaire class warrior & wannabe Bond villain

Very sad. Great loss to labour and sociology www.ktvu.com/news/uc-berk...

Reminded of this paper by Akerlof that applied the work of Burawoy to challenge some established ways of thinking around incentives and market clearing in economics. Rare crossover of ideas but illustrates the erudition of Burawoy's work. RIP www.jstor.org/stable/18163...

There is a sense in which talk about growth has a performative element to it (as if talk will deliver in the end, perhaps by setting the right [sorry to repeat] "animal spirits"). But talk has clear and obvious economic limits www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How does pay vary after job moves? Boris Groysberg @harvardhbs.bsky.social & coauthors show narrow pay differences between men and women after job moves and show that women have higher pay raises because of the differences in the supply and demand for women executives. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

ETUI researchers and trainers on Bluesky! 👇 go.bsky.app/UxQuB3b

Big Tech billionaires had a front row seat at Trump's inauguration. They were seated in front of Trump's own cabinet. Tells you everything you need to know.

Special @ilrreview.bsky.social on multi-employer bargaining with articles on UK, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark etc. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1564... Check also the @uni-europa.bsky.social video on single and multi-employer bargaining here www.youtube.com/watch?v=rstj...

Collective bargaining is good Sectoral bargaining is better Explainer video by @uni-europa.bsky.social youtu.be/rstjViHTEUk?...

Handbook for the Future of Work, edited by Julie MacLeavy and Harry Pitts, out in Dec. Dave Hesmondhalgh and I have a chapter, arguing that the large literature on labour platforms and platform workers needs to be rebalanced towards a focus on how non-labour platforms affect non-platform workers.

As this is really helping me getting a network, here are some people doing research on industrial relations and trade unions Feel free to suggest more @etui.bsky.social @mhermans.bsky.social @melaniesimms.bsky.social @johnwbudd.bsky.social @kurtvandaele.bsky.social go.bsky.app/8W2BZMR

This is a really, really bad thing to say out loud. www.theguardian.com/education/20...