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Onwards, when people ask me about Chile, I’ll just show them this:

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What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

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Just finished back to back seminars on opposite sides of campus.

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

Opinion | This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education

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*to hear that.

Yeah, I usually make a mess of pronouns when speaking informally. One of the downsides of English being my second language.

Not every morning you wake up to hear the leader of a potential future government wants to kick you out of the country.

I have to confess I always say “guys” to refer to a group, whatever gender. It’s the only way I can prevent myself from reverting to Chilean Spanish and use some slang to refer to people.

Un sentimiento que nos une, ¡feliz 18! 🇨🇱

La chilenidad se lleva en el corazón y se refleja en la fuerza, alegría, tradiciones y tierras de nuestra patria querida. ❤️

¡Felices #FiestasPatrias y Viva Chile! Descubre más en 📲 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#ChileDiverso

There is only one correct answer to that question.

It is so sad to hear about Conor Gearty’s passing. I never met him, but I've come across his work on several occasions, which is always inspiring and illuminating. A recent piece he wrote on academic writing has helped me with motivation on my last leg of the PhD. RIP.

I’ve never been an Allende fan, but I admire his decision not to surrender that day.

The Chilean presidential palace being bombarded during the military coup that took place on 11/09/1973.

11/09/1973, a day that will live in infamy.

Kirk’s shooting has echoes of Calvo Sotelo’s murder in 1936. I hope I’m wrong.

Can I put this on a t-shirt?

So, at the risk of upsetting folks, we need to be aware that two things can be true at once.

It can be true both that 1) the chilling effect on speech on campus existed and was bad but that 2) the application of state power to silence academics is much, much MUCH worse.

The annoying part!

Shocking!

Can't imagine how it must feel to be afraid of speaking in my mother tongue for fear of being profiled.

Empeñados en hacer cosplay de los peores regímenes de la historia.

It caught me having lunch in Brandon Hill. Thank god I had my jacket with me.

Platform companies have deployed the term "disruption" as a tool for deregulation in such an effective manner that I instinctively look for synonyms every time I want to discuss their effect on labour regulation.

The ILO Digital Labour Platform Tracker is an amazing tool for all researching the platform economy. No more homemade translations of Latin American and Spanish provisions in my papers.

Great work by Uma Rani and all her team!

digitallabour.ilo.org/homepage

Happy feast of Saint Alberto Hurtado sj, patron of Chilean workers.

From the introduction of his 1950 book “Sindicalismo” (Trade Unionism):

“It is a well-proven fact by history, that the rise of the working class has always been the result of their own efforts, having reached a mature state”

Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK

Yo a veces pienso que soy un loco gritando en el desierto con esto, pero por suerte somos varios. El uso en la educación universitaria aquí en el Reino Unido se está volviendo una plaga.

One day, you decide to use an astronomical analogy in your thesis, cause, yes, you are a nerd. Then it goes out of hand, and you find yourself reading about types of galaxies and their characteristics to find the one that fits the analogy better.

A view of the Claro Arena, CD Universidad Católica's new stadium.

I need to share the amazing new stadium my beloved football club is about to inaugurate. Man, I wish I could be there.

Sunday early morning views.

Exactly right.

They simply want the end product — whether it’s an actual production of art or music or the end result of hard work like a PhD — without doing the work.

It’s cheat codes all the way down.