Uni lecturers are turning to food banks. The scandal is that it's no longer shocking This year's CEO Sleepout campaign is called 'At Your Doorstep'. The charity's CEO wants it to act as a wake-up call.

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“You go back to zero”: Embodied precarity, endo time and employment - Victoria Williams, Joanna Brewis, Vincenzia Priola, Katherine Sang, 2025 Drawing on interview and diary data from 21 women in the UK, this paper focuses on how endometriosis, a long-term gynecological condition, is lived and navigate...

#OpenAccess in #Organization just published: “You go back to zero”: Embodied precarity, endo time and employment journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

With Victoria Williams, Jo Brewis and @katesangs.bsky.social
#endometriosis #precarity #workplace

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

RIP Jane Goodall. “We have a window of time to change this planet’s course, but it’s rapidly closing,”
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Italy's largest union, with over 5.5 million workers, has called a general strike for Friday in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla.

And smaller Italian unions have said they will join CGIL's general strike.

First students evacuated from Gaza to study in UK The group includes at least four medical doctors who have places to study at UK universities.

First students evacuated from Gaza to study in UK

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Italian photographer Valerio Minato

Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent six years planning a perfectly aligned shot of the Moon with Turin’s Basilica of Superga and Monviso. Weather delays thwarted annual chances until December 2023, when a crescent Moon with visible da Vinci glow completed his long-envisioned composition

📣UNRISD Annual Report 2024 is out!

This year, we:

🌍 Informed the road to the #WSSD2

⚖️Championed care economies + just transition solutions

🌱Boosted SSE & sustainability metrics

💬Elevated global South voices within global policy forums

Read now: www.unrisd.org/annual-repor...

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is calling on every single leader in the world: DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD & WATER INTO GAZA RIGHT AWAY. Even if it takes bypassing the reports, meetings, endless conferences, parliamentary sessions, UN sessions, and all the other regular diplomatic channels that have led nowhere. Just do it. Genocide must not be allowed to continue while we all watch. We must not allow mass starvation in Gaza. We cannot wait any longer. IF YOU HAVE POWER, USE IT. HISTORY WILL DEMONSTRATE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS.

DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD AND WATER IN TO GAZA.
This is from Lemkin Institute begging..... we are all begging.

📢CfP We invite scholars to submit contributions that challenge ableist norms in organisations to reframe understandings of episodic disability, chronic and long-term health conditions in relation to gender, work, social justice, ethics of care
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Honoured to be part of the new journal #FeminismandOrganization, with a team of outstanding scholars from across the globe.

Media article of our study on 'gendered space in financial institutions in Pakistan' -- with Shafaq Chaudhry | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Who’s onboard the Madleen Gaza flotilla, and where has it reached so far? The 12-person crew, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, is expected to reach Gaza on June 7.

The 12-person crew, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, is expected to reach Gaza on June 7.

UK-EU talks ‘down to the wire’ as fishing and youth mobility hold up deal EU ambassadors told to remain on standby for late-night meeting in scenes reminiscent of Brexit talks Negotiations on a major reset of the UK’s relationship with the European Union have gone “down to the wire”, with fisheries and youth mobility among outstanding sticking points with hours to go before the start of a crucial summit. In scenes reminiscent of the Brexit talks, British officials were still trying to reach a compromise with their EU counterparts overnight, as Keir Starmer prepared to host the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, in London on Monday. Continue reading...

UK-EU talks ‘down to the wire’ as fishing and youth mobility hold up deal

In Memoriam: Sandra Harding (1935-2025) IN MEMORIAM: SANDRA HARDING (1935-2025) Rosi Braidotti, Sarah Bracke, and Iris van der Tuin   In the history of feminist theory, there is a before and an after Sandra Harding. She has structured th…

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World military spending hits $2.7 trillion in record 2024 surge \World military expenditure reached $2.72 trillion in 2024, an increase of 9.4% from 2023 and the steepest year-on-year rise since at least the end of the Cold War, according to a report released by a leading conflict think tank on Monday.

World military spending hits $2.7 trillion in record 2024 surge reut.rs/3YOhd3y

The supreme court didn’t rule on the definition of ‘a woman’ – this is what its judgment does mean | Sam Fowles The judges had to interpret the law as set down by parliament. But it must be remembered this is not an abstract debate; it concerns real people, says barrister Sam Fowles

The rule has complicated the legal framework while exacerbating the oppression of trans and non binary people. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is this AI produced ???

Spatial Modesty (Chaudhry and Priola, 2024) YouTube video by Mayukh Mukhopadhyay

Just stumbled across this YouTube video summarising one of my papers with Shafaq Chaudhry in the Journal of Management Studies
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The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.

Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.

Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.

This. An emergency recall of parliament on a weekend for British Steel. Nothing at all for UK HE which employs far more people, has already shed 10,000 academic jobs, with several institutions on the brink of collapse.

A reminder: we train all the doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, lawyers &c &c

Trump is pushing students towards Britain – ministers, don’t let your immigration obsession stand in the way | Polly Toynbee Beleaguered UK universities have a golden opportunity. If the government passes it up, it risks billions in revenue, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Trump is pushing students towards Britain – ministers, don’t let your immigration obsession stand in the way | Polly Toynbee

‘We have failed to prevent genocide’ – Francesca Albanese We spoke to the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, for the Fourcast podcast.

"This is a military strategy aiming to ethnically cleanse what remains of Palestine."

UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese speaks to @krishgm.bsky.social after Israel's latest attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Read and watch here:

Israeli attacks on women’s healthcare in Gaza amount to ‘genocidal acts’, UN says Report details attacks and abuses that ‘destroyed in part the reproductive capacity of Palestinians in Gaza as a group’ Israel’s systemic attacks on women’s healthcare in Gaza amount to “genocidal acts”, and Israeli security forces have used sexual…

Israeli attacks on women’s healthcare in Gaza amount to ‘genocidal acts’, UN says

📚Would you like to take a PhD in digitalised healthcare work, the ethics tensions and paradoxes of this phenomenon?
👋🏼 Prof Dimimitra Petrakaki and I are looking for a student to supervise, with 4 year fully funded ESCR scholarship, at the @digitcentre.bsky.social
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International Fellowships 2025 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

International fellowship scheme funded bu the BA. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Michael Burawoy’s legacy: Why sociology must engage with the public for a more just world

Sociologist Tannistha Samanta, a member of our journal's editorial board, pays tribute to a giant of the discipline and staunch advocate for public sociology.

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A Sweeping Ban on D.E.I. Language Roils the Sciences President Trump’s executive order is altering scientific exploration across a broad swath of fields, even beyond government agencies, researchers say.

Ban on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Language Sweeps Through the Sciences

As a community there is only one choice: between silence and resistance

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