Living in an unequal society, regardless of individual wealth, can lead to structural changes in the brains of children. #ScienceatKings #PopulationHealth

🌍✊ The ITUC joins global voices in concern for the safety of participants — including trade unionists — in the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civil society mission bringing humanitarian aid to civilians in #Gaza. ⚖️ Human rights and international law must be respected. #SailToGaza #TradeUnionsForPeace

“We express our strongest condemnation of the recent additional large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip.” Together with the other European trade unions, we publish statement following meeting with the Ambassador of Palestine to the EU. Read it here: www.uni-europa.org/news/joint-e...

"How does the local state mediate the relationship between technological change and work?": Forthcoming in Work & Occupations. Offers a typology for how devolved govt can intervene to shape technology's impact on local workers, esp in low wage jobs. @digitcentre.bsky.social @ceric-lubs.bsky.social

A friend working in—and enthusiastic about—AI asked me how kids were using it in K–12 schools now, so I asked my kids. Kids: "Cheating." Me: "Yeah, I figured, but have you ever had a teacher try to use it for something el—" Kids: "No, it's for cheating. For writing papers for you."

Israel is deliberately depriving people of aid in #Gaza. MSF’s new report shows how restrictions blocked medical supplies, sometimes even forcing our teams to perform procedures without anesthesia. Read the report: ow.ly/YZ8v50WZFBs

INDIA: Urban Company IPO leaves gig workers fearing tougher conditions www.context.news/digital-divi...

Clashes were minor in Milan, and they shouldn't distract from the thousands of people striking and demonstrating peacefully in all Italian cities against the genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Our new podcast by ECRs, for ECRs is here. Tune in as researchers share their academia survival tips. The first episodes of Confessions of an Early Career Researcher are available now. Subscribe for our final episodes, going live 15 October. https://bit.ly/47PXZQH

Hot off the press: Negotiating the Algorithm Our new guide ℹ️ to help workers prevent the abuse of algorithmic management and put the human back in control in their workplaces.

The Leverhulme Trust has teamed up with @britishacademy.bsky.social to produce Confessions of an Early Career Researcher, a new podcast by ECRs for ECRs. Tune in now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/... Read more about this collaboration: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/confess...

INDIA: Platform Work Unions Are Fighting Gender And Caste Bias, Clearing New Paths To Resistance behanbox.com/2025/09/19/p...

We must continue to call on those with power to respond to these humanitarian crises [...] We should start with Gaza. There is a path to stopping the genocide still happening daily before us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Mr Kyle said: Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT UNIVERSITIES ARE ABOUT. www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

Excellent piece by Guy Standing for @opendemocracy.net - #HigherEducation #Universities are increasingly being strategically managed as "‘human capital’ factories geared to the demands of economic growth and increasingly dominated by finance." www.opendemocracy.net/en/private-e...

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Read the review by Nathan Burke of Fulfilling the Pledge: Securing Industrial Democracy for American Workers in a Digital Economy by Roger C. Hartley here doi.org/10.1177/0022... #MIT #bookreview #industrialrelations

Francine Blau, professor emeritus of labor economics at #CornellILR, explains that long-term unemployment risks eroding job skills and professional networks, affecting workers' desirability to employers.

Hundreds of content moderators are being laid off by TikTok. Now they're unionising and speaking out. @cwunews.bsky.social

Very sad news: Conor Gearty 1957-2025 www.lse.ac.uk/law/news/202...

This was Conor Gearty only a week or so ago at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on ECHR withdrawal and the Palestine Action ban.

Video shows a Global Sumud Flotilla boat struck by a drone at Tunisia’s Sidi Bou Said port, causing fire damage on the main deck. The vessel was carrying members of the flotilla’s steering committee.

As if the whole academic publishing business wasn't squeezing authors (and taxpayers) enough.

In Yemen as in Gaza, bombs and starvation are stealing the lives of our children | Elham Al-Oqabi

UNISON condemns 'deliberate killing' of Al-Jazeera journalists www.unison.org.uk/news/article...

Riders in Edinburgh create ROOM (Riders Observatory and Organising Movement) a collective based at @workersobservatory.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwX1...

We all know that the main problem for hardworking people in the UK are immigrants delivering pizza.

#TikTok claims swapping human moderators for #AI will “streamline workflows.” But at what cost? ❌Displacing workers ❌More mistakes ❌More harmful experiences Solidarity with @verdi-medien.bsky.social members demanding justice. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The decline in vaccination rates as a result of growing libertarian authoritarianism 1/2

The authors warned that ChatGPT and other AI apps could ‘“generate scientific inaccuracies, lack the ability to critically discuss results, and ultimately fuel the spread of misinformation”. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is a really helpful summary. There are some (fairly minor) differences in devolved nations. And understanding charity financial rules is important. But this is a v good start.

"The figures simply don’t add up." Tuition fees are rising, staff are underpaid, and universities are in crisis but politicians still won’t face the truth. Thanks to Zoe Williams for highlighting the crisis in The Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Palestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms | Letter www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"Turning universities into an arm of the border force is shameful & doomed to fail. This policy could force unis to bar students from places like Palestine or Ukraine." @drjogrady.bsky.social calls on Labour to stop fuelling anti-migrant rhetoric & start backing education.

Agree 👇

The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us

"Nurses should be at the very top of our social hierarchy but we live in a world where it’s just the opposite" www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities Sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Well designed paternity leave makes Spain a model of success blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

Nearly one in three people in Gaza are going multiple days without eating, according to the UN. More than 1,000 have been killed by Israeli forces while trying to get food at aid sites. By continuing to supply Israel with military aid, the U.S. is complicit in this bloodbath.

The UK wants (cheap and docile) labour no (family) ties attached. My op-ed for @uk.theconversation.com based on our @iclaimeu.bsky.social recently published reports. theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...

Exactly: "in the UK, however, is that the practice of riders renting out accounts to substitutes... is an important part of the companies’ business model... and has enabled the company to fend off legal challenges to its claim that its couriers are self-employed." www.ft.com/content/e9f1...

Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule www.wired.com/story/silico...

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I hope that we have all noticed the daily 'small' news about dozens of palestinians killed at aid distribution centres. It's so regular that most people probably think it's yesterday news. It's not. It's everyday planned massacre. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

BREAKING🇩🇪: For the first time, TikTok moderators are on a one-day strike today in Berlin to protest the replacement of staff with AI. If the company doesn't bargain, UNI affiliate @social.verdi.de might launch a longer-term strike later this month. Solidarity with the striking workers.

This is disgraceful and dangerous. It is particularly upsetting that it is coming from a Labour government.

This appeal is for a colleague's child: www.anthonynolan.org/help-save-a-... In general, if you are between 16 and 30 and you register as a stem cell donor you can save people's lives.