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An Omani mediator said last night a peace deal between the US and Iran was within reach.

This morning, the US and Israel bombed Iran.

No imminent threat. No legal basis. Another illegal war dressed up as “security” and “democracy”.

Wednesday

An excellent report on this was published last year, based on a survey in 2024, and written by two excellent folk who are no longer working in UKHE. Their report, Universities Degraded, can be read at the below link

We have the data, we know the impact. Time for action.

zenodo.org/records/1563...

Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Petition: Grant visas & scholarships for Palestinian students, collaborate with Gazan Unis We demand that the Government extend the Gazan student evacuation policy that ended on the 31st December 2025 indefinitely, grant further scholarships for studies and facilitate twinning partnerships ...

Important action to supoort Gazan students. Please consider signing this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Postgraduate Summer School on Anti-Racism, Social Justice and the European City - Padua, July 6-11.

- Scholarships available
- Application deadline March 15, 2026
- Queries arjec2026@gmail.com

I stand firmly with @markpendleton.bsky.social for UCU Vice-President (HE). Mark manages uniquely combines three traits - emphatic driver of political change; a close reader of letter/spirit of protocol; a caring human with deep collectice sense. The only person I trust can change UCU from within.

This from my fellow departmental #ucu rep Anna means a lot.

We have been through the wringer in recent years but we built power through a focus on unity, organising and empowerment, doubling density in the process.

We can do the same in UCU nationally.

ucucommons.org/endorsements...

Trump and ICE Are Driving the Country Off a Cliff The Trump administration’s secret police force has again murdered someone in broad daylight and is blatantly lying about it. It’s time to abolish ICE.

The Trump administration’s secret police force has again murdered someone in broad daylight and is blatantly lying about it.

It’s time to abolish ICE.

Looking forward to participate in this symposium in Glasgow this Friday 16/01. My talk from 2pm is titled The digitalisation, casualisation and outsourcing of academic labour. organised @strath-ioe.bsky.social by advanced pedagogical theory network

www.pedagogicaltheory.co.uk/event/whats-...

No lockout for University of Sheffield staff UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of educ...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

Varieties of academic precarity across (and beyond) Europe: Anthropology of Labour Network Webinar Join us for the upcoming Anthropology of Labour Network webinar on experiences of academic precarity. 12 November, 17-19 CET. With Bhargabi Das, Martin Fotta, Mariya Ivancheva, Roberto Mozzachiodi and...

📢 Varieties of academic precarity across (and beyond) Europe: @easainfo.bsky.social Anthropology of Labour network Webinar TOMORROW w/ Bhargabi Das, Martin Fotta, @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social , Roberto Mozzachiodi & Aslı Vatansever ! easaonline.org/event/variet...

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Post-Communist Grounds. In Search of the Commons CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow’s hub for the arts, hosting exhibitions, films, music, literature, workshops, festivals and performances.

Glasgow, join us for this exciting book launch from 18h tonight, 09/10/2025, at CAA for a conversation with amazing thinkers, activists, artists, humans about a versatile new book on common grounds and commoning in the ruins of post/communism ...
www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/po...

Thanks to @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social and everyone who came along for a great start to our 2025/26 seminar series!

Looking forward to many more interesting talks over the coming year 😊

Photo credit @milicaprokic.bsky.social x

Was great to present LevFem's report "Who cares? Feminised care and social reproduction in post-socialist Bulgaria" at the @strathfem.bsky.social seminar today and have a deep discussion afterwards.

Chicago journalists are doing a helluva job staying on top of the ICE incursion here.

Organization - Volume 32, Number 7 Table of contents for Organization, 32, 7

New SI now out with journal Organization : " #Intersectionality #Precarity #Subjectivities: #Labour and #Organisation Perspectives"
edited by Amanda Peticca-Harris, Annalisa Murgia, Gabriella Alberti and myself
journals.sagepub.com/toc/orga/32/7

Sign the Petition Не на стратегическото сближаване на България с Израел и позициите ѝ в ООН

If you're a Bulgarian citizen/resident/voter, please sign and share for the government to stop its support for the g3noc1dal mob running 1sra3l
chng.it/Rjv66GpvsL

Text reads: BREAKING In Italy, the general strike has shut down train lines, ports, highways, schools and shops. With a genocide ongoing, there can be NO business as usual. Stay peaceful, everyone. Do not react to any provocation. Freedom for all allows no mistakes.

@strathfem.bsky.social seminar series restarts this acad year with @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social's talk on a report coauthored with Bulgarian feminist NGO LevFem #carework #whocares
@strath-gender.bsky.social
@strath-ioe.bsky.social
@unistrathclyde.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.com/e/mariya-iva...

Severe malnutrition in under-5s has tripled at Gaza City clinic, charity reports Charity says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’

This is a terrible war crime by an Israeli extremist government.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order in class-action lawsuit The injunction would bar Trump from denying citizenship to US-born babies based on their parents’ immigration status.

The injunction would bar Trump from denying citizenship to US-born babies based on their parents’ immigration status.

Let's all be the rain on this motherfucker's parade.

#NoKings #NoKingsDay

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

Weeping Trump Boys Told ‘Uncle Elon’ Blown Up In Rocket Accident WASHINGTON—Making sure the pair were sitting down before she delivered the news, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles reportedly told the Trump boys Friday that their Uncle Elon had been blown up in...

Weeping Trump Boys Told ‘Uncle Elon’ Blown Up In Rocket Accident