Just called out two people leaving an empty beer can on their table seat. They replied 'there is no bin in the train', thus everyone does that, and refused to take it with them. It's an overcrowded train thus the seats are taken instantly. AITA? @crosscountryuk.bsky.social
The next Department of Management, Birmingham Business School research seminar will launch the forthcoming book by Dr Xiaojun Feng (China Agricultural University) on labour precarity in China since 1949. 1-2pm, 10 December 2025. All are welcome.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
Only three months ago, Human Geography at Leicester was ranked No.1 in the UK for overall positivity in the 2025 National Student Survey. Any decent university management would be fighting to keep them. In solidarity, please sign the petition: www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
Should business schools be trying harder to help businesses? My answer would be a definite no.
Try harder to help people, workers, citizens, society.
Somehow I just find it really funny that people in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea tend to use AI for fortune telling more than the rest of the world
ig.ft.com/ai-personal-...
Bring reading glasses
The story is strikingly similar to Hong Kong immigrants (or high-skilled individuals from any Global south country) relocating to the UK - see if the 'lack of local experience' becomes a problem in employers' initial screening of job applications for them
www.ft.com/content/64a3...
I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home.
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...
Is 'deliberately making mistakes' a strategy too? Just like publishing shitty books as a public service for people to know what good books are... (ref from a recent film)
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
Temu anti-racism of Labour (thanks to @edgranter.bsky.social introducing me to the term I have used it twice today already...)
Acabei de descobrir que o goleirão do Auckland trabalha com empilhadeira em depósito de marketplace e ta preocupadíssimo com o campeonato ultrapassar o tempo sua licença das férias e ficar sem grana pra pagar as contas.
Muito gente como a gente
Hi Bluesky, I'm conducting research on the opportunities and challenges in the #UKHE sector that involuntarily displaced mid-career/senior academics face. Particularly interested in speaking to those in humanities and social sciences, regardless of their current employment status. 1/4 #academicsky
Through gathering lived experiences from individuals to examine current structures and policies in shaping the workplace experience of displaced academics, we hope to formulate evidence-based suggestions to guide future work for universities as sanctuaries. Feel free to circulate, thank you! 4/4
Your involvement will include a 1-hour audio-recorded interview (online or in person). Your name, nationality and institution would be anonymised in future publications. After the interview, you will be offered a £25 shopping voucher to compensate for your time. 3/4
If you identify yourself as a mid-career/senior academic in your home country/region but had to relocate to the UK due to political and social threats in the past decade, or working on a role to support these academics, please message me to express your interest in participation. 2/4
Hi Bluesky, I'm conducting research on the opportunities and challenges in the #UKHE sector that involuntarily displaced mid-career/senior academics face. Particularly interested in speaking to those in humanities and social sciences, regardless of their current employment status. 1/4 #academicsky
poster on an underpass. "We Did Not Come To Britain: Britain Came To Us", surrounded by flags of the british colonies around the World.
“The English have a fierce reputation for conquering the world.. invading loads of different countries and then getting upset when those people follow them home.”
- Tommy Tiernan
The new #observer layout, both in print and online, is driving me nuts...
Pope Francis in civilian clothing on a bus in maybe the 90s? He’s wearing all black and looking directly at the camera. There’s a man with a full moustache next to him and a pensive looking suited man sat behind him.
Francis very much looking like he’s in a Pet Shop Boys video here
II wrote about the Lib Dems' idea of stopping unwanted noise/music/speakerphones on public transport. No-one's said it yet, but this is a neurodivergence/autism issue maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/why-speake...
Find us in Glasgow (9th May) and in London (12th May) for the launch of The Precarious Migrant Worker! @politybooks.bsky.social
More info here: interregnum.ghost.io/book-launch-...
Does anyone know if manual letter forward is still a thing for #royalmail? Aka cross over the name of the recipient who moved out, write down their new address and put it back into the mailbox.
a column on jordan henderson, and the double standards of English football’s leadership discourse
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
3+ years of work finally done! Thank you Guglielmo, Elaine, all authors and reviewers for making this happen.
Hui, E. S., & Tse, F. Y. (2025). Industrial relations in Chinese multinational corporations in Europe: A regional lens. European Journal of Industrial Relations. doi.org/10.1177/0959...
From celluloid to cinemas - Birmingham's contribution to film is surprisingly significant.
Today's members-only story is about the great Brummie inventors of the 20th Century, by Jon Neale.
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/lights-camer...
Indeed!!! Watched it on Sunday evening and could not wait to recommend to students in class on Monday morning
Sans the music on loud speaker please, from a fellow cyclist
