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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · Jul 11

It was never "complicated"

Headline:

Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says

UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · Jul 1

Shitshow at the #BritishAcademy @britishacademy.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

“Haddad vs the Council for British Research in the Levant” Why it Matt

A preliminary hearing for “Toufic Haddad vs The Council for British Research”, (TH vs CBRL, for short) is set to take place from 1-4 July in London to determine if the UK Employment Tribunal is the ap...

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · Jun 17

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Fernando Domínguez Rubio @fdrubio1977.bsky.social · Jun 6

Aquí os dejo la conversación preciosamente editada y dirigida por Anna Ramos, Jara Rocha y Nicolas Malevé.

radiowebmacba.bsky.social @radiowebmacba.bsky.social · Jun 5

Nuevo #podcast 📦 Conversamos con el sociólogo Fernando Domínguez Rubio sobre las ecologías del cuidado que mantienen viva la ficción de la estabilidad artística–un entramado de infraestructuras, tecnologías climáticas, laboratorios, almacenes y figuras invisibilizadas rwm.macba.cat/es/podcasts/...

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · May 26

And the next event on 3 June!

Next steps: How To Have A Trade Dispute Over Funding In Higher Education · Luma

A cross-branch UCU online meeting in support of a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over the current funding model. On Sunday 25 May UCU…

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · May 25

And here's the motion and some context: lu.ma/a0vv0sjb

How to Have a Trade Dispute Over Funding In Higher Education · Zoom · Luma

A cross-branch UCU online meeting in support of a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over the current funding model. Supported by: Queen…

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · May 25

A motion urging
@ucu.org.uk
to open a dispute with the secretary of state for education has passed without amendments at Congress. This is an important first step in redirecting our energies beyond random vice-chancellors to a fundamentally broken and unfair funding system #UCU2025 💪💪💪💪💪💪

QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · May 25

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · May 24

Our marvelous Zara Dinnen in speaking at #UCU2025 about the motion to move towards a Trade union dispute with Secretary of State for Education over funding.

All our employers are destroying careers & disciplinary knowledge in reference to the volatility of finances. Let's solve that volatility.

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · May 25

And here's the full motion docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Branch Motion: Trade Dispute with the Secretary of State for Education Over Higher Education Funding

Branch Motion: Trade Dispute with the Secretary of State for Education Over Higher Education Funding This branch notes: That the current higher education funding model in Britain has led to widespread...

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · May 25

New job, Artist in Residency at the department of Art and Media Tech (WSA, UoS), nice opportunity with good people, share widely criticalinfrastructures.net/events/we-ar...

We are hiring: Artist in Residence; deadline 6 June – CIIP

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · May 21

The U.S. is spreading the narrative of a false genocide in South Africa while actively funding and supporting Israel as it carries out a real genocide in Gaza—one that international human rights organizations have repeatedly condemned.

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · May 20

Two days before “No Aesthetic Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance,” a piece about Palestinian mourning, was scheduled to be performed at the Whitney ISP's curatorial exhibition, the institution canceled the performance.

Whitney Museum Cancels Performance About Palestinian Mourning

Fellows in the prestigious Independent Study Program have denounced the move and withdrawn artworks in protest.

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · May 20

We have managed to secure 14 scholarships covering 50% of fees for home students embarking on a masters programme, full or part time. Other scholarships are also available for international students. Please disseminate to those who might benefit from this www.e-flux.com/announcement...

Applications open for master’s programmes and scholarships - e-flux Education

Applications open for 2025 master’s programmes and scholarships in the Department of Art and Media Technology at Winchester School of Art.

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · Apr 30

Some good news in bleak times, a new book by @fdrubio1977.bsky.social and it's open access!

Fernando Domínguez Rubio @fdrubio1977.bsky.social · Apr 29

Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!

"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"

It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓

Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair

An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · Apr 27

Israel, backed by the United States, is starving the people of Gaza to death.

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MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona @macba.cat · Apr 19

Últims dies! #contrapanoramaMACBA
Fins al 21/04 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/jhtyogdaoc

Cinc treballs produïts expressament per al projecte per Julia Montilla; Nicolas Malevé i Jara Rocha; Albert Gironès, Eva Paià i Marina Ribot; Montserrat Moliner; i Elena Blesa Cábez en col·laboració amb Violeta Mayoral.

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Ecologistas en Acción @ecologistasenaccion.org · Apr 4

#SantanderBancoChungo financia a algunas de las mayores empresas de armas del mundo 💣

🇵🇸 Colabora con la ocupación de Palestina: aparece en el 6º puesto del 'ranking' de bancos europeos que financian los asentamientos ilegales en los territorios ocupados.

#SantanderBancaArmada

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · Apr 4

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · Apr 4

More like this please

QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Apr 4

This week saw the publication of 3articles which piece together some of the #UKHE clusterfuck, all fab in catching a particular aspect.

The level of clusterfuckedness, that can't be fully captured in 1 deepdive, shows how this can't be left to individual institutions.

There's governance flip-flops

“Most vice-chancellors haven’t been public about these issues,” says the academic at Edinburgh. “They’ve not been willing to engage politically.” Researchers argue that managers over-expanded recklessly, often based on projections that failed to anticipate the immigration crackdown and assumed tuition fees would go up with inflation.

“But it’s not just that,” says Dyfrig Jones, a senior lecturer at Bangor. “They come in and can advise you, but there is a herd mentality within university management in the UK. Everyone buys into the same datasets, makes the same decisions. What that leads to is bland uniformity across the sector, particularly outside the Russell Group.”

No single decision is to blame. Talk to academics and, as you would expect from some of the cleverest people in the country, you will hear a variety of well-argued explanations for the crisis facing British universities. But many trace it back to a decision made by chancellor George Osborne in December 2013.

Osborne announced that the government would no longer cap the number of students that a university in England or Wales could admit. There were some grumblings about how this would be funded and whether the quality of courses would go down. But on the face of it, the decision offered them big opportunities for expansion. It helped that only a year earlier, the government had tripled the tuition fees they could charge to £9,000 each year.

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · Mar 25

The fascist system starts from the overcoming of unemployment, develops into an armament economy of scarcity, and ends inevitably in war.

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · Mar 26

It would be good if people stopped being shocked at the US and looked closer to home for a change. While Sussex university gets fined 585k for defending trans rights, students are being served injunctions for denouncing the ongoing horror in Palestine #AbolishOfS
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University of Sussex fined £585,000 for failing to uphold freedom of speech

Regulator accused of ‘perpetuating culture wars’ after case of Kathleen Stock, who faced protests for views on gender

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · Mar 26

Absolutely outrageous, @ucu.org.uk should organise a very loud response.

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · Mar 25

Hugely important intervention in a rapidly collapsing HE, needed to recover some momentum and get to the root of the problem. As in radical.

Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · Mar 25

📢A New Strategy for Higher Education: How to Have a Trade Dispute over Funding in Higher Education📢
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Join a cross-branch @ucu.org.uk online meeting to discuss a new national industrial strategy to fight for the future of HE: Thurs 10 April 6-7:30pm BST.
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How to Have a Trade Dispute Over Funding In Higher Education · Zoom · Luma

A cross-branch UCU online meeting in support of a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over the current funding model. Supported by: Queen…

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · Mar 11

Yes, of course, I just think that the idea that they'd leave if salaries were reduced is too optimistic, they'd have nowhere else to go. Some were actual profs. before becoming managers, many have earned professorships on the back of "leadership" and for most of them research is a thing of the past

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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez @yaizahvelazquez.bsky.social · Mar 11

I'm afraid there're plenty that come from academia and could have never earned anything remotely approaching 100k anywhere else, it hasn't all been external actors, plenty of academics have been complicit in the destruction of the sector for the sake of a grossly inflated salary for themselves.

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MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona @macba.cat · Mar 10

Dimecres 12 de març, @montserratmoliner.bsky.social conduirà un debat amb la PAAC sobre la importància d’arribar a acords, i la responsabilitat compartida tant d’institucions públiques com privades en la professionalització del treball artístic.

🕕18.30h
Gratuït. tiny.cc/PAAC-contrap...

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