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Ben Collier @susansegfault.bsky.social · 18d

If you're interested in critical research on criminal justice then I cannot recommend this free event on Oct 7 - launch of a new critical textbook on criminal justice system in Scotland by three amazing academics - highly enough. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-launch...

The launch of 'Criminal Justice in Scotland' textbook

This event offers an opportunity to bring a range of voices together to reflect on where Scottish criminal justice is and where it's going.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 21d

Matthew 25:35-40 (revised version): “For I was hungry, and you cut off funding to feed me, and then decided not to even study how many people are hungry you greedy, miserable bastards.”

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21d

Trump just enacted the largest cuts to food assistance in history. Now he's cancelling the government survey that measures hunger in America.

Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey

The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”

www.wsj.com

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Ailsa Henderson @ailsahenderson.bsky.social · 21d

Advice for the age

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 21d

The conclusion was: if it's bunting, it's a fete.

If there's no bunting and an anti-refugee message, it's the far right.

Just flags: could be for the women's rugby...

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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · Sep 9

Similar thing from the music world: Dmitri Shostakovich attended a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar.

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Chris Farnell is behind you right now @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · Sep 5

Oh I am going to have read this, as someone who constantly wonders A: How anyone else doing the job that I do makes a living, and B: Also, actually, how do I make a living?

Orian Brook @orianbrook.bsky.social · Sep 4

Absolutely thrilled that my paper with Giuliana Giuliani, @drdaveobrien.bsky.social & @markrt.bsky.social is now out in @culturaltrends.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Using the Labour Force Survey we show that people creatives are at least twice as likely to have two jobs

Precarity and second job-holding in the creative economy

There is extensive research on creative occupations, problematising precariousness, pay gaps, unpaid work and other issues. Less research, and little quantitative work, has looked at multiple job-h...

www.tandfonline.com

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Orian Brook @orianbrook.bsky.social · Sep 4

This was a COVID lockdown project - Giuliana and I both juggled childcare with working on this, and the first time we met in person was after her contract had ended!

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Orian Brook @orianbrook.bsky.social · Sep 4

We also use Understanding Society to see if multiple jobholders move to one job over time (no) or leave creative work (also no) - combining creative and other work is a relatively stable way of maintaining a creative career, it seems. It's particularly likely for people working outside London.

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Orian Brook @orianbrook.bsky.social · Sep 4

Absolutely thrilled that my paper with Giuliana Giuliani, @drdaveobrien.bsky.social & @markrt.bsky.social is now out in @culturaltrends.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Using the Labour Force Survey we show that people creatives are at least twice as likely to have two jobs

Precarity and second job-holding in the creative economy

There is extensive research on creative occupations, problematising precariousness, pay gaps, unpaid work and other issues. Less research, and little quantitative work, has looked at multiple job-h...

www.tandfonline.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Sep 3

Teachers are so often a glue that holds society together.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Sep 3

Timeline cleanse

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · Sep 4

Her face! Before she had worked out what to do/say, he'd said his bit and was back to work mode. Legend.

Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · Sep 4

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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UofG School of Social & Political Sciences @uofgsps.bsky.social · Aug 7

Congratulations to Prof Nasar Meer, whose research into how devolution has shaped - and been shaped by - our response to racial inequality shines a light on both the gaps and the possibilities in current policy.

University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social · Aug 7

Racial diversity research that aims to improve lives in UK communities led by @nasarmeer.bsky.social has received @nuffieldfoundation.org funding.

More: gla.ac/46H8Onu

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Orian Brook @orianbrook.bsky.social · Aug 4

Anyone making their way to Edinburgh (or already nearby!), I *think* that there are still tickets available - come here me, @markrt.bsky.social and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social chat about whether Culture is still bad for you www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

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Orian Brook @orianbrook.bsky.social · Aug 4

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What’s on? Rethinking class in the television industry. @whatsontvclass.bsky.social · Aug 4

We have a shiny new poster designed by our own @lrjdmnr.bsky.social for our one day symposium in September, registration link coming soon too!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 4

They want to go back to a time when college was only for wealthy White men. Because that will make the rest of the population easier to manipulate with misinformation and easier to force into unpaid care roles (women) or underpaid manual labor jobs that remain as more jobs get AI-ed (men).

Ben, A.D. 1972 @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · Aug 4

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Aug 3

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · Jul 30

Love this. Also, not wishing to start a Ding-Dong Discourse but we called this Knock-Down Ginger

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · Jul 16

Edinburgh! 19 August! 15:30! Spiegeltent! Book! www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

(per the advertising, i promise @orianbrook.bsky.social and I will be slightly higher up than @drdaveobrien.bsky.social throughout)

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Jul 9

The moment your rules for Lifelong Learning exclude *Birkbeck*, you know your rules are silly.

Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · Jul 9

Important new rules for Lifelong Learning Entitlement: eligibility for degree modules limited to "priority skill need" areas, and only universities with gold/silver TEF eligible for accelerated approval (so not Birkbeck) www.timeshighereducation.com/news/lle-pri... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

LLE to prioritise degree modules aligned with skills needs

Coming new English student finance system offers flexible study options for subjects that support Labour’s industrial strategy

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Jul 2

Checked out the @edbookfest.bsky.social?

Don't miss Vince Cable (Eclipsing the West), @orianbrook.bsky.social, @markrt.bsky.social & @drdaveobrien.bsky.social (Culture is bad for you) and @aldersonday.bsky.social (Presence).

9-24th August at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social: www.edbookfest.co.uk

Home | Edinburgh International Book Festival

www.edbookfest.co.uk

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · Jun 13

An incredible line for an article opener:

Before ChatGPT distorted Eugene
Torres's sense of reality and almost killed him, he said, the artificial intelligence chatbot had been a helpful, timesaving tool.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · Jun 11

‘tech visionaries’ imaginations go limp when it comes to transforming our social reality’

lol word choice calculated for maximum psychic damage

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 10

What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s?

The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly)

Why?

Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Orian Brook @orianbrook.bsky.social · May 28

Great opportunity to work at the intersection of policymaking, arts and higher education - closing 4 June

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/project-...

Project Manager

Job Purpose This role represents an exciting opportunity to provide high level and specialist communications and project management service to the European Research Council project ‘Art and Policy ...

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk

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Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social · May 19

I know that the US has seen worse life expectancy trends than other high income countries in recent years, but I hadn't realised things were so bad across all ages - particularly people of working age.

US 20-59 year olds are dying at several times the rate of their peers, and it's getting worse.

A 9-panel line chart with each panel representing trends in all-cause mortality rates since 1980 in the US and a range of high income countries including the UK, France, Canada and Japan. Each panel is an age group from 0-9, 10-19 etc. up to 80+. In each panel, the US line is both higher (i.e. higher mortality rates) and has a worse trend (rising or stagnant while others are falling).

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · May 9

The workers united will never be defeated!

Our strike action finishes at Sheffield after membership of our UCU branch @sheffielducu.bsky.social accept offer from management for no compulsory redundancies as a result of organisational restructures this year (and no pay deductions to be taken!)

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