Alessandro N. Tirapani

Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London Brunel University of London management have expressed their intention to move forward with plans for further compulsory redundancies in 2025-26. This comes after a year of decimation in 2024-25, when ...

Hello all on bsky 👋

As with so many of our @ucu.org.uk sister branches, here @brunelucu.bsky.social we are again this year fighting compulsory redundancies.

Please circulate and sign: Stop compulsory redundancies at Brunel University of London 👇

speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-brunel-...

Monopoly and totalitarianism go hand in hand.

The only way to stop the growing censorship of Trump's critics is to fight the consolidation of media outlets into the hands of a few families that do not care about the best interests of the country.

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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Opinion | When Universities Become Informants A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

Judith Butler responds to Berkeley's sending names: "When Universities Become Informants: A Practice from the McCarthy Era Makes an Ugly Return"

www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Organizing a workshop in Tilburg on community-building among platform workers on 18 June. With, among others, @casilli.bsky.social and @antirapani.bsky.social . Workshop will be in-person, but it might be worth paying a visit to Tilburg for this. Looking forward to this!

A reminder that the entire #DisabilityStudies team at Liverpool Hope (my former colleagues) are threatened with redundancy. Devastating not just for individuals, but for the field. Students have written this powerful open letter about the impact. #SaveHopeDisabilityStudies

Repeat after me: This is not what a university is for.

The Internet...built by universities; paid for by the government.

RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet. "I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.

Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

More evidence that US citizens are not safe in this assault on democracy. Two American citizens detained while driving home. Of note: "CBP insists that the incident was routine...that can 'apply for any traveler'.”

Expect to see "detentions" of US citizens become routine under this corrupt regime.

Not surprised, given the way these mafia-style authoritarian regimes tend to operate. And, doing the unethical thing often pays off. A lot of companies should have been put out of business following the Nazi collapse.

Permanent resident who helped lead Columbia’s pro-Palestinian protests arrested in Vermont - The Boston Globe Mohsen Mahdawi was detained after he was summoned for a citizenship interview with immigration officials, according to his attorneys and the state’s congressional delegation.

Federal authorities on Monday detained a permanent resident and Palestinian student activist in Vermont after he was summoned for a citizenship interview with immigration officials, according to his attorneys and the state’s congressional delegation.

France's President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that he told Israel's leader in a phone call that the suffering of Gazan civilians "must end" and that only a ceasefire in Gaza could free remaining Israeli hostages.

News update - we just sent the letter to the Commission. We very much hope we can engage constructively on this issue, and are looking forward to contributing to solutions that benefit journalists, citizens and officials alike.

If Bourdieu had Twitter

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

> Every day, about 100 terabytes of material are uploaded to the Internet Archive, or about a billion URLs, with the assistance of automated crawlers.
Woah.

Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.

That is a pretty great article, but even if you don't want to read it, the first sentence is 👩‍🍳💋

"Musk’s impotent attempts to get his giant shiny phallus to work are the perfect metaphor for the man"

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-w...

With everything happening in the US right now, how safe are scientific conferences for foreign participants in the US? I think this is something we have to discuss as a scientific community. I am hesitating to register for US meetings due to the unpredictable situation. Others who feel the same?

Excellent! Thank you @polestarcars 👏🇸🇪
TeslaTakedown

Another big corp joins in on the race to self-destruction. Is there some sort of an anti-climate pledge I'm not aware of?

Acknowledging that Palestinians exist and have history is antisemitism now

We are reaching multiple climate tipping points.

This is what it looks like.

Note that we've already reached 560 ppm CO₂ equivalent (total greenhouse gas forcing of about +4 W/m² above 1750).

Wow. It’s a bit unnerving seeing it like this

#BREAKING Dozens of nations urge 'open' and 'ethical' AI at Paris summit: statement

The real threat to American prosperity Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on trade wars, tech industry hubris — and how loss of faith in US institutions could spiral

@dacemoglumit.bsky.social speculates on how we would explain the impending American Collapse in 2050. Most of it plausible, perhaps except the attempt to pin some of the blame to a supposed "radical social change agenda" of the Democrats. The real threat to American prosperity - on.ft.com/4aNSvp3

A Milk Brand Wanted to Tout Its Sustainability Push. Then It Got Swept Up in a Conspiracy Theory. Companies want to promote their green credentials, but doing so can sometimes come at an unexpected cost.

"Negotiating online conspiracy theories is a challenge companies like Arla increasingly have to prepare for."

I once wrote a whole paper working up to an argument like this at the end, and H. G. Wells just tweets it out smh.

(I never published it because a reviewer really hated it and I lost confidence.)

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