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Elisa Pannini @elisapannini.bsky.social · 11h

This is very upsetting

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence @aiatkings.bsky.social · 15h

⏰ One week to go! Join @nessakeddo.bsky.social online on Wednesday 15 October as she examines the critical intersection of race, media and technology as part of our AI+ Research Seminar Series, chaired by Elisabeth Kelan.

Register ⬇️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/race-...

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James Hickson @jmchickson.bsky.social · 1d

Building on our workshop last year on The Global Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work, @stellamorgana.bsky.social and I are delighted to share a collection of 6 original commentary articles on this theme in @gpejournal.bsky.social

Read the full introduction here: doi.org/10.1332/2635...

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European Trade Unions @etuc-ces.bsky.social · 1d

World Day for Decent Work:

Trade unionists from across the continent are coming together to send a message to @ec.europa.eu that its forthcoming #QualityJobs Act must live up to its promise.

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Elisa Pannini @elisapannini.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 2d

ITALY / PALESTINE: Italian union solidarity with Gaza www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1440/an...

Green Left Radio: Italian union solidarity with Gaza

Green Left Radio speaks to Massimo about Italy's trade union movement supporting the Global Sumud Flotilla

www.greenleft.org.au

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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · 2d

Join us for a discussion on The Latest in Game Worker Organising with:

Sarah Elmaleh, SAG-AFTRA and Spring McParlinJones, IWGB Game Workers

Online and at the Science Gallery London from 6pm on the 17th October

Register here: luma.com/3b8fpjj3

Panel Discussion: The Latest in Game Worker Organising · Luma

Over the past few years, a wave of unionisation has swept across the games industry. The organising has taken different forms, with workers joining existing…

luma.com

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Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social · 5d

"Knowledge should not be locked behind paywalls. We owe it to our students, and to learners everywhere, to open the doors" 👏👏👏 Great article by @lsepress.bsky.social MD @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social on why OERs should be central to the public mission of universities.

LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 5d

In this new article from @lseimpactblog.bsky.social, @niamhtumelty.bsky.social Managing Director of LSE Press, and @heroicendeavour.bsky.social discuss open educational resources in the context of higher education.

Read the full post:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #openaccess #highereducation

Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences

Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Tom Jenkins @tomoljenkins.bsky.social · 5d

Italy paralysed as unions call strikes over Gaza www.ft.com/content/e405...

Italy paralysed as Gaza protests mount pressure on Meloni

Italian premier under fire amid strikes and clashes with police in solidarity with Palestinians

www.ft.com

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FEPS Europe @feps-europe.eu · 5d

🤖 Join us for 'Understanding the power of AI over decisions' at @eesc.bsky.social in collaboration with the @workers-eesc.bsky.social. Spaces are limited - register now!
🔗 bit.ly/Understandin...

📕 🎨It will launch the book "AI & the Power Over Decisions" and the exhibition "My boss, the algorithm"!

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Prospect Union @prospectunion.bsky.social · Sep 8

Do you work in tech? Are your pay, conditions & training needs being heard at work?

💻 Help us influence government policy + support workplace negotiations by completing our short survey ⤵️

online1.snapsurveys.com/ProspectTech...

👥 Share with colleagues & invite them to join Prospect Union.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 6d

Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades | British Politics and Policy at LSE

Students of private and grammar schools are over-represented in elite universities, but only part of that is explained by better grades.

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Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social · 6d

“With the federal government shutting down just days before the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly jobs report, the American people will be deprived of a popular near-real time check on the pulse of the U.S. economy," says Russell Weaver, director of research at the #CornellILR Buffalo Co-Lab.

Russell Weaver, director of research at the Cornell University ILR School's Buffalo Co-Lab, says re: the October 2025 U.S. government shutdown: “As evidenced in the ADP National Employment report, consensus expectations among economists are that Friday’s BLS job report would have revealed a month-over-month net loss in the total number of private sector jobs located throughout the nation.

In the past four-and-a-half years, or approximately 57 months, the BLS reported month-over-month job losses just once, in June 2025. A second observation of net job losses in the span of just four months would be a telling indicator that all is not well with the American economy.”

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 6d

ITALY / PALESTINE: Protests break out across Italy, unions call general strike, as Israel intercepts Gaza aid flotilla www.wantedinrome.com/news/protest...

Protests break out across Italy, unions call general strike, as Israel intercepts Gaza aid flotilla

Italian trade unions call national general strike on Friday. Protests erupted in Rome and cities across Italy late on Wednesday after Israeli forces intercepted a flotilla attempting to deliver humani...

www.wantedinrome.com

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Elisa Pannini @elisapannini.bsky.social · 7d

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint

Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

www.thenation.com

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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 9d

Even after their childcare years, mothers spend twice as much time as fathers providing supervision and support to their teenagers.

@cep-lse.bsky.social

Being on call for teenagers is the missing piece in the gender pay gap debate - LSE Business Review

Even once the childcare years have passed, mothers spend twice as much time as fathers providing supervision and support to their teenagers.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 8d

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

#ScienceatKings #PopulationHealth

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains

Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

www.theguardian.com

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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 15d

🌍✊ 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

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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 14d

“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...

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Charles Umney @charlesumney.bsky.social · 15d

"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

How does the local state mediate the relationship between technological change and work? Evidence from warehousing in England

Abbie Winton, Charles Umney, Gabriella Alberti

Abstract
The debate on technology and the future of work has so far engaged little with the local state. This is surprising, since the local state’s role as a potentially progressive actor in employment relations systems is attracting renewed interest in sociological scholarship. Through a study of warehousing in northern England, we examine how local state actors can mediate the relationship between technological change and work. We show that they often questioned the policy orthodoxy that private employer-led technological innovation always benefits local working populations, and we develop a typology of three strategies through which they sought to engage with technological trajectories in warehousing workplaces: engagement and advocacy, activation, and conditionality. Our study also shows how their regulatory capacity was limited by the opacity of technological innovation in warehousing, confining them to “soft” strategies which enshrined employer discretion and market imperatives. It concludes by reflecting on alternative visions whereby the local state may become more empowered to shape the future of work.

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Conor P. Williams @conorpwilliams.bsky.social · 15d

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."

Bill F @ecualung.bsky.social · 15d

And to be clear, Chat GPT doesn’t do this very well. A human could do it better if they cared to try.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 15d

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

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 15d

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

Urban Company IPO leaves gig workers fearing tougher conditions | Context by TRF

The stock market debut of India's biggest online services platform highlights the gaps in protections for gig workers

www.context.news

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Elisa Pannini @elisapannini.bsky.social · 15d

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...

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 16d

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

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