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Kate Hardy

@katerhardy.bsky.social

Professor of Global Labour. Co-Editor in Chief - New Technology Work and Employment. Interests include: Marxist-Feminism, sex work, feminist activism, self-employment, work and technology, gender, decolonial theory.

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Tom Gillespie@t-a-gillespie.bsky.social · last wk.

Many thanks to @digitcentre.bsky.social for supporting this project with @katerhardy.bsky.social, Gianluca Iazzolino and Yawei Zhao

ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit)@digitcentre.bsky.social · last wk.

🎉 Meet @t-a-gillespie.bsky.social supported by the Marie Jahoda Innovation Fund 2026! His project compares "green" data centre development in China, South Africa & the UK, testing whether promises of jobs and growth for peripheral regions hold up in reality. 🔗 digit-research.org/marie-jahoda...

Image with Tom Gillespie's quote. The quote says: Addressing climate change is more urgent than ever and data centres are at the top of economic, social and political agendas across the world right now. We are delighted to receive the Digit Marie Jahoda funding for our project on the promise of 'green' data centres. Our interdisciplinary team is excited to get started with examining the impact of green data centre investments on jobs, work quality and occupational structures in China, South Africa and the UK.
Kate Hardy@katerhardy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join our editorial team as an Associate Editor at New Technology, Work and Employment. If you have any questions, please do get in touch and I would be pleased to talk about the positions.

New Technology Work & Employment@ntwejournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Do you have expertise in the sociology of work & expertise in technology (broadly defined)? Would you like to become and Associate Editor of New Technology, Work and Employment? We are seeking new Associate Editors at the journal, full details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds

Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds

Report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found. The report by the UN independent international commission of inquiry examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war in Gaza, and said about 30% of those killed by Israeli forces have been children. Continue reading...

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Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Opposition to genocide is being conflated with very real threats to Jewish people. It's not just a false smear: It stops people believing that antisemitism is real - when it is a very real menace that needs to be fought.

University of Hertfordshire UCU@uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday. They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Aye. Heard today that my university is closing UG History, Philosophy, English Lit, Linguistics, and Creative Writing in one go.

BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

You won't have seen it on the News but right now Israel is destroying 600,000 homes in Lebanon, to move 2m out of 22% of Lebanon, so they can steal it all for themselves. A war crime not seen since Hitler, or Gaza.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Seven countries now use renewable energy for 100% of their electricity Recent data has shown that in 2022, countries including Albania, Paraguay, Ethiopia & Nepal produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, /1 thread www.renewableinstitute.org/seven-countr...

Seven countries now use renewable energy for 100% of their electricity - The Renewable Energy Institute

Countries including Albania, Paraguay, Ethiopia & Nepal produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar and wind power marking what scientists say is an “irrev...

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The Liberal BoJack@thelibbojack.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I don’t think people around the world realize how bad the attack on Lebanon was today. It’s BAD. Like 9/11 BAD. Hospitals are overflowing and do not have enough blood. We still don’t know what the death toll is. This is TERRORISM. Pure and Simple. April 8. Never forget.

Jeremy Corbyn@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran. Meanwhile, the UK is letting US bombers land, refuel and re-arm. Complicity is always a choice — and our government has chosen to drag Britain into an illegal war.

Kate Hardy@katerhardy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our new research with @coalitionedcare.bsky.social found that low pay & poor conditions in early years undermine parents' confidence in settings. Parents know that educators working conditions are their children's learning conditions. www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/news... @ceric-lubs.bsky.social

Early years sector's low pay impacts parents' views of quality of settings - Nursery World

New research finds that poor pay in early years settings is impacting parents’ view of quality and calls on the Government to introduce a 10-year workforce strategy.

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Kate Hardy@katerhardy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am pleased to today launch the Model for Change for building the early education workforce in England. Together with other @ceric-lubs.bsky.social researchers, we have worked with the @coalitionedcare.bsky.social to interrogate what needs to change to increase the status of early years work.

Early Education and Childcare Coalition@coalitionedcare.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The working conditions of the early years workforce are the learning conditions of our children. Today we’re introducing our Model for Change, part of the Building the Early Education Workforce in England programme with the @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is huge - and proves exactly what we're saying. We cannot have a moment of complacency - only the Green Party can stop Reform. Vote Hannah Spencer and the Green Party on Thursday in Gorton and Denton. 💚

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New Omnisis poll of Gorton and Denton by-election gives Greens a *two point* lead over Reform and four points over Labour. Basically neck and neck and within margin of error. Hannah Spencer (Greens): 22% Matt Goodwin (REF UK): 20% Angeliki Stogia (Lab): 18% Charlotte Cadden (Conservatives): 3%

Felicity Callard@felicitycallard.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Urgent writing on Birzeit U from @hamayel.bsky.social “Terror…disciplines through anticipation, exhaustion, and saturation. Subjects end up managing risk instead of imagining alternatives. Education as a space of experimentation becomes intolerable…” @mondoweiss.net mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...

The hollowing out of Palestine’s most important university

Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the P...

mondoweiss.net

Kate Hardy@katerhardy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“The devastation of Gaza by this same elite is not a moral anomaly. It belongs to the same architecture. The same assumption that some lives are fully human, while others are expendable. Children abused on a private island. Children beneath rubble in Gaza” www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/epst...

From Epstein to Gaza: The depravity of the western elite is now fully exposed

Gaza was not a deviation from the morality of the financial and political class that oversaw its annihilation. It was their culmination

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Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 7mo ago

⭕️ The last Bedouin community in the southern Jordan Valley is being emptied, as more than 120 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from the hamlet of Ras Ein al-Auja, according to B’Tselem. Residents were driven out after months of escalating settler violence... Additional details 👇

⭕️ The last Bedouin community in the southern Jordan Valley is being emptied, as more than 120 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from the hamlet of Ras Ein al-Auja, according to B’Tselem. Residents were driven out after months of escalating settler violence, including daily incursions, livestock theft, vandalism, and physical assaults by settlers, some armed and operating with military and police backing. Pressure peaked after a new Israeli outpost was established just 200 meters from the community. B’Tselem says the displacement is part of a broader campaign to clear Palestinians from Area C of the West Bank to expand Israeli control. Additional details 👇 See new posts Conversation B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem Today (Thursday), 8 January, after persistent attempts, organized settler groups operating in coordination with, and backed by, the Israeli military and the police, succeeded in forcibly transferring 26 families numbering 124 people, including 59 minors from their homes in the community of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja.​ The community of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja, located about 10 kilometers north of Jericho, is the largest remaining shepherding community in the West Bank and the last surviving in the southern Jordan Valley, after the area has been “cleansed” of Palestinians. It is still home to about 100 families numbering roughly 600 people. The community has long suffered severe and daily violence carried out by Israeli youths, some of them minors, as well as armed settlers supported by military and police forces. This violence includes repeated incursions into its territory with herds of camels and sheep, physical attacks on residents, destruction and theft of property, and livestock theft. In one incident, in March 2025, approximately 1,500 head of sheep were stolen. On Wednesday, 31 December 2025, another outpost was established some 200 meters from residents’ homes, where, with the approval of the Israeli authorities, herds of sheep and camels were brought for an extended stay. On the morning of Thursday, 8 January 2026, Palestinian families in the houses near which the outpost was established packed their belongings and left their homes of decades. This marks the first wave of departures from the community, whose residents have faced escalating violence since October 2023. Although journalists report on events in the West Bank, diplomats visit and witness them with their own eyes, and local and international human rights organizations document and publicize the rampant violence, world leaders see, know, and yet choose to do nothing to stop the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.​ The international community, which has failed, and continues to fail, to stop the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, is still standing idly by in the face of the Israeli regime’s crimes in the West Bank, granting de facto immunity to the State itself and the individuals responsible for these crimes.Bild