Immigration salience - by local area
Most affluent: 43%
2nd most affluent: 44%
Middle fifth: 41%
Second most deprived: 41%
Most deprived: 38%
Ipsos issues index, Feb 2026
'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'
Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3
It really is quite grimly hilarious how the drive for "Open Access" in academic publication was almost immediately captured by publishers who declared that, if readers weren't going to pay, then authors and their employers would have to.
And we bought it, schmucks.
3 synagogues shot at in a week. This attempt to intimidate the Toronto Jewish community must be unequivocally condemned and thoroughly investigated. We are deeply relieved no one was injured.
For Whom The Bell Tolls - How do you manage to make the Spanish Civil War boring?
Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.
Palestinian refugee camps of Burj Barajneh and Sabra and Shatila are being evacuated
These are the people who fled the Nakba and their descendants
The same state, Israel, is the cause of both
www.instagram.com/reel/DVgaM3u...
"Mahmood said housing a family of three in asylum accommodation costs up to £158,000 per year."
Given that asylum accommodation is awful, and asylum support is a pittance, HOW?
Is Mahmood lying? Or are the HO terrible negotiators paying 48x the going rate for moldy, overcrowded hostels?
Hi! Immigration lawyer here! Mahmood's view of the Refugee Convention as providing temporary protection just isn’t correct & AFAIK isn’t one anyone has ever adopted.
On the contrary, the Convention is clearly predicated on a long-term need for protection.
1/🧵
Another ICE murder
RIP Emmanuel Damas, a 56-year-old Haitian asylum seeker held at the Florence Correctional Center in Arizona, died Monday at a hospital in Scottsdale. His family says he complained for nearly 2 weeks before collapsing and developing sepsis from a tooth infection.
Get around the table and talk! Raiding pensions is completely unacceptable! Support Northumbria UCU in this fight. If they get away with it here it will happen everywhere
As @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social say in this article - we don't want to be on strike and our door is open to talk to management @northumbriauni.bsky.social. But our members (and any right-thinking people) will never accept pay and pension injustice! www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
*it's also very possible that the pensions dispute is a pretext to get Northumbria out of national collective bargaining in order to facilitate further extraction
Why? Because, this is not really about TPS per se. It's about how the logic of extraction has pervaded HE. The goal is to pay staff as little as you can, even if it hurts research and teaching, and undermines the purpose of the University. 3/3
And it resonates a lot with the current @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social strike. Northumbria claims that they can't afford TPS, but it's not clear that this is true. The union's counter-offer is more likely to get employees to move from TPS to USS - what the uni wants*- but has been rejected.2/3
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social is on strike, so I went for a midday run, and listened to this great podcast episode from NYPL, about the way in which tech monopolies are extracting wealth from ordinary people, deepening the class divide while threatening democracy:
www.nypl.org/blog/2026/01.... 1/3
When you've got to tour a migrant camp at 11 but clock in for your volunteer shift on the Death Star at 12.
THREAD. 😡
Imagine putting in all the time and effort required to be an MP, just so you can give a kicking to people who have survived untold horrors.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Denmark has *far* worse outcomes - economic, social and integration - than the UK.
Just a fantasyland for those who want an excuse for their own xenophobia and/or are incapable of doing the hard work of confronting the UK's real problems.
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Take two seven year olds in a primary school in the Prime Minister’s constituency.
His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank
Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?
Do I know anyone who is a) going to RGS this year and 2) would agree be on a panel for my book Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy?
You would get my undying gratitude, and a free copy of my book! Please share!
#AcademicSky
@isameier.bsky.social @jonnydarling.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social
Israel is responsible for two in three journalist killings across the globe in 2024 and 2025. The Israeli military has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992.
Read more in CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549
The MRG Seminar Series is back 🙌
Join us for our in-person MRG Seminar (co-organised with the GLP) with Dr Sara Kunz on 03/03/2026 at the University of Sheffield
More info:
sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
anti-abortion groups don't see abortion as a single-issue - they are simultaneously funding & driving anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI, anti-migrant [...] efforts in the UK and transnationally. it isn't just 'what happens in the US', it's also what they've funded in Uganda, Hungary, Mexico, Poland [...] 1/
Also, you don’t have to look too hard to link “UK’s most prominent Jewish politician is facilitating large-scale illegal entry” back to some of the most grotesque antisemitic tropes about Great Replacement or Undermining Our Nationhood
I would *never* cross a picket line, but I could really have used work as a distraction from Olympic hockey for the last hour! (It's fine, Canada won in the end) @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
3 weeks to decide, 9 months salary to choose to leave - almost certainly forever - the industry you've dedicated most of your adult life to.
"Somewhere along the way, the handbrake has come off. Feelings that were once contained now seem to be spilling over."
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