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 · last mo.

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...

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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If Streeting is the answer, Labour hasn't understood the question.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

Starmer faces perilous 24 hours as Streeting preparing for leadership bid

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.

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.

Thank you Rabbi for your kind words! 🙏🏽

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

Politicians and media attacking @zackpolanski.bsky.social over antisemitism lack any decency. So says Rabbi Herschel Gluck - who was given an OBE for advancing interfaith understanding.

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.

More u-turns, prevarication and caving into developers from Labour. The Greens are clear. No more leaseholds. Bring in rent controls. Vote Green on 7th May. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We can't abolish leasehold outright, minister says

Matthew Pennycook rejects criticism the government is dragging its feet on leasehold reform.

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If you missed it, I’m part of a small collective trying to bring a radical bookshop shop to Newcastle. We haven’t had a good proper radical book shop since the 1980s. We think that should change! We launched our crowdfunder today, support if you can: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb... Pls share

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

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 International Labour Process Conference is almost here. We're starting with online on Tues 14th & Thurs 16th April. This is free to attend. It promises to be fascinating & insightful two days. You can check out the programme on the ILPC website and register there www.ilpc.org.uk/ILPC-2026/Co...

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.

BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying.

What would it take to build a stronger early years workforce in England? Our Model for Change identifies the policies that shape workforce experience and sustainability over time. Read more: www.earlyeducationchildcare.org/model-for-ch... @katerhardy.bsky.social @ceric-lubs.bsky.social

Take a look at @katerhardy.bsky.social and colleagues findings on pay and conditions in early years work.👇

Kate Hardy@katerhardy.bsky.social · 4mo 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

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.

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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Zionists have coveted the land south of the Litani, since the late 19th century. Israel's talks about "buffer zones" are, AS ALWAYS, about territorial maximalism

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Israel destroys the seven bridges on the Litani River and effectively annexes over 8% of Lebanon. Greater Israel brought to you by the expansionist Netanyahu regime. A crime, under international law.

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 · 4mo 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

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.

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself share.google/CjcdXejrMQyJ...

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself

Automating knowledge production and teaching weakens the ecosystem of students and scholars that sustains universities, raising existential questions about their mission.

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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%

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...

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“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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The Green Party will stop Reform in Gorton and Denton. We'll be announcing Manchester's first Green MP in the morning. Lots and lots of work to do! youtu.be/02HnpczQQnQ?...

‘How can they be anti-establishment if they're ALL TORIES?!’ | Zack Polanski pulls apart Reform UK

YouTube video by Manchester Evening News

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400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close. This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it. 📍 Southend rally | 5 February

⭕️ 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 👇