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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to work with the interdisciplinary team at UoE and Glasgow. And really looking forward to a turn towards STS and critical data studies over the next few months. If anything about this topic interests you, do get in touch :)

Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 1d

This week I joined @uoelawschool.bsky.social as PDRA on a project investigating the social implications and risks of AI-integrated wearable devices (e.g., Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses), funded by the AI Security Institute.

Still admiring my new office building!

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Ms Marchmont @msmarchmont.bsky.social · 15d

More from the misty Meadows this morning

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 17d

think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all

ʟɪɴᴇs @lines.snail.skin · 17d

Myself I feel powerless to stop this fascist rise precisely because it feels like all our institutions are just rolling over to it.

josh @lobstereo.bsky.social · 17d

also engenders a dangerous complacency where the mass civil society response that is required to actually push back on this stuff doesn‘t happen because people convince themselves “it won’t happen so why should they have to put their heads above water on it“

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17d

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.

They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.

Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation

Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

www.theguardian.com

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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 17d

Beyond the media's omission of migrants navigating a path to ILR paying thousands of £ for the NHS, visa fees, NI, etc., and of any opposing views, this to me is as clear a plan to strip dignity away from those who choose to build a life here as can be. And it's been given legitimacy.

Reform plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain for migrants

The party says scrapping the scheme and restricting migrant access to benefits will save hundreds of billions of pounds.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 18d

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 18d

I'm a bit concerned about the use of the word "clash" here, @theguardian.com. Not only does this imply 'two-sideism' (my favourite bit is designation of anti-racist protesters as "hardcore" - turns out the only thing they were 'hardcore' about is techno) but also a physical conflict. Was there one?

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 19d

Don’t buy the hysteria. Ignore the right-wing propaganda. Buy the facts. The UK’s problems are no more being caused by immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth. @timharford.ft.com

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration

It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

www.ft.com

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 23d

But it’s also been a site of racism and racist violence for a century as well. It was especially bad in the 1970s and 1980s, with economic decline exploited by the National Front to foment racial hatred. As I say in my book:

(The national front had set up an office in Canning Town to drum up anti immigrant feeling through the guise of pro)viding housing advice to white residents. In 1978 it supported striking (white) workers at the Tate & Lyle factory. Through its increasing activity in the borough, the NF cast the problems of Newham at the feet of its immigrant community; it was claimed by the NF they sold more newspapers outside the Boleyn stadium, West Ham's home ground, on match days than outside any other football club. By 1987, a piece in the London Review of Books stated that 'Newham is like a macabre laboratory for studying the hideous cruelties which whites are capable of inflicting on people of a different colour'.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 23d

It's fairly pointless fact-checking this sort of racist bilge, but as it happens I live in Plaistow and -- of course the area is undoubtedly multicultural, one of the most diverse in the country -- but there are certainly white children here. I've got two of them in my house.

Martin Warne @martinwarne.net · 23d

This, from The Londoner yesterday, also features people on the march who claim not to be racists. Though the things they say prove otherwise

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 23d

“The Overton window moves when there are no ideas to fight the ideas moving it.”

@lewisgoodall.com asked a senior gov’t minister - Peter Kyle - about Musk’s comments at Saturday’s rally.

His response? It was “too silly to even talk about.”

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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 27d

Taking a practice-based approach to health, it adds to research on an as-yet underexplored dimension of how platformisation affects workers. Hoping to follow up on this with outputs on racialisation (up next!🤞🏼) and work value.

Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 27d

Based on ethnographic data collected during my PhD, this paper examines how the rise of digital platforms has recast the configuration of stressors in an already 'unhealthy' occupation - intensifying existing stressors like isolation, and bringing forth new stressors like algorithmic control.

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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · 27d

Pleased to share that after a long, at-times difficult review process, 'Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving' w/ @tiagoemoreira.bsky.social is out now!

Available open-access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Attuning to Uncertainty: Enacting Health in Platformised Taxicab Driving

Increasing use of digital platforms for coordinating and organising work processes has drawn research interest in and policy concern about conditions …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · Sep 9

Reminder: if interested in learning about Uber drivers' struggles for finding value in their work, and some of the ways in which they contend with diminished chances of doing so, come by Room 2.220 at 2:30pm tomorrow! #wesconf25 @britsoci.bsky.social @bsaecf.bsky.social

Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · Sep 3

Looking forward to presenting at the BSA Work, Employment & Society conference next Wednesday, contributing to a timely debate on 'Continuities and Discontinuities in Work and Employment'. See abstract for my talk below, based on a paper in its initial stages.

Join us in Room 2.220 at 2:30pm! :)

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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · Sep 5

would be keen to follow this!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 3

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · Sep 4

I will be reading the experiences and struggles of Uber drivers in terms of not only regimes of value/orders of worth (see abstract), but also Bissell's work on 'anaesthesia' or numbing affects, tying the two together.

Read his insightful paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Anaesthetic Politics of Being Unaffected: Embodying Insecure Digital Platform Labour

Building on critical geographic research on the embodied politics of labour that has explored how different forms of work transform bodily capacities for action, this paper argues that a body’s capac...

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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · Sep 3

Looking forward to presenting at the BSA Work, Employment & Society conference next Wednesday, contributing to a timely debate on 'Continuities and Discontinuities in Work and Employment'. See abstract for my talk below, based on a paper in its initial stages.

Join us in Room 2.220 at 2:30pm! :)

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · Sep 1

3 project reports now available for our Leverhulme-funded Rural Racism project. A film below reflecs just 3 of our 135 in-depth interviews. These supplement statistics, gaining insights into the human experience of racism in the countryside, where only 4% of the population is from a minoritised gp

Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · Sep 1

youtu.be/mz0MRL2CCH4?...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 24

Dining across the divide: ‘I was really hardline about immigration – but her struggles softened me a bit’

Illegal immigration and the climate crisis were hotly debated by the novelist and the former tram driver. But did they end up on the same track?

www.theguardian.com

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Jérôme Denis @jrmdns.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

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Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · Aug 12

the paper (in progress) looks at new geographies of difference in a platformised taxicab trade - more hopefully soon! :)

Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social · Aug 12

trying to relate a Deleuzian/materialist analysis of everyday socio-spatial enactments of race with the racial capitalism literature, and this by Kendra Strauss provided the best opening for it.

'Racialization' here goes *beyond* labour market hierarchies.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · Jul 25

2. Domaining: associating certain knowers (usually based on their perceived characteristics/identity) with certain domains of knowledge, and thus limiting their knowledge claim to contribution *within that field* (see also: why is de Beauvoir a 'feminist philosopher' and Sartre a 'philosopher')

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