academic with an interest in critique, capitalism and alternatives. All views expressed are my own.
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See you there. Join us local Councillors, MPs, help save jobs, local economy & the uni sector. @NadiaWhittomeMP @LilianGreenwood @adamthompson111 @JOCampbellMP @NottsTUC @UoNSU
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I wrote about Grenfell, a defining 'national atrocity' for which the identifiable culprits have so far gone unpunished, for the forthcoming issue of the @LRB. You can read it online, early, now. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n19/…
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#NotADoneDeal for all 97 colleagues in all 11 departments devastated by threats of redundancy
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🚨Check your MPs record on Palestine 🇵🇸
See whether your MP has defended Palestinians rights, alongside the promises that candidates make in this election, before you decide where to put your X
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I remember Jon from my days as a PhD student, he was sharp, with a great dry wit. In his later research on feminism, populism, & Corbynism his takes were always intellectually engaging... A committed union member, a person with real principle & a sad loss of an insightful voice
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"If we'd have done nothing, they'd have done anything."
@UCUNUbranch fought back against brutal cuts from management, and WON.
Here's how👇
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🚨🚨 URGENT: SUPPORT NEEDED NOW. Police vans and unmarked vans making movements at Lunar House, Croydon. We expect a detention any minute, WE NEED NUMBERS ASAP 🚨
40 Wellesley Rd, Croydon CR9 2BY
obv. all post 2017 judgements are now published online, but some hugely important earlier ones do not seem to be accessible.
this is ultimately the reason why my eyes tend to glaze over when I hear about REF 'research impact'...
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Proud of everyone who walked away from @WileyGlobal. The pressure on those who remain will be immense - and already witnessed in emails from the new editors who I thought were passive aggressive, but actually aggressive. That is not the feminism who had @GenderWorkOrg
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🚨🚨🚨👇👇👇🤝🤝🤝PLS SHARE AND RT Amazing students @NorthumbriaUni have set up a petition for students to stop course closures and job losses @NUstudents @NorthumbriaSU @ChronicleLive @GdnUniversities @nusuk @NorthernUNISON @UCUNorthern @UnisonNorthumb1 forms.gle/t3dThSYGrRP5RRCYA
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🚨🚨🚨NO TO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES AT NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY! PLS RT and share + see joint statement from @UCUNUbranch and @UnisonNorthumb1 in 🧵🧵🧵below 👇👇👇
Furious union brands Northumbria University job losses 'a crisis' chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…
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In order to game the algorithms, Israel supporters have been giving PTO one star ratings on spotify. While the show is rated 4.8 on apple podcast, it's now just 1.6 on Spotify! Please do give it a rating on Spotify and help to bump it back up. Thanks!
if anyone involved in community gardening or related community activities around Nottingham fancies being involved as Community Project Coordinator in our Notts Uni edible campus initiative. A new post has come up #Nottingham jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacanc…
v happy to see this coauthored piece published in @mgmt_learning for future Freire special issue; about developing pedagogies that stay with the trouble of climate crises. In sum we need composting and a lot more politics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Hey everybody! I’m on The Dig, talking about land dispossession, climate change, and the capacity and incapacity of modern people to solve really big problems.
I had so much fun talking to @DanielDenvir, and I like to think that our conversation could be fun to listen to for others as well.
New @thedigradio! My interview w @joguldi on The Long Land War: global fight for agrarian reform and tenant rights from late-19th century Ireland thru mid-20th century China and India, late 20th-century UK—into a future of climate-induced mass displacement thedigradio.com/podcast/long…
I'm sympathetic to much of this article, but I do think a key barrier that's not really addressed is the extent to which many academics feel a deep sense of vocational responsibility to students, this has a direct immediacy that possible gains from direct action doesn't seem to
Lorna Finlayson (@LJFinlayson) on academics and the plight of higher education:
'The uncomfortable truth is that academics have been complicit, and often instrumental, in bringing about the present predicament.'
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