International Labour Review | Issue: Issue: 1(165) (2026)

🧵 (8/8) 📚 Plus, book reviews on the ICESCR, worker-to-worker organizing by @ericblanc.bsky.social, and a Bob Hepple Award speech from Alain Supiot (@college-de-france.fr) on labour law and the "debt of life" at #LLRN7.

🔖 Browse the full #OpenAccess issue: bit.ly/4bnJ9ST

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Innovation in academic publishing! 🌅

At #ILOInnovationDay, we presented our new diamond #OA model via @openlibhums.org / @ojcollective.bsky.social & the growing movement toward community-led, non-commercial academic publishing that expands access to research beyond paywalls🚫🪙

🔗 ilo.org/ilr
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Creative meditations on Svalbard! What’s not to love about this? Another fantastic issue just dropped from the award-winning @openlibhums.org journal Regeneration @regenerationeac.bsky.social 🙌🏼 #OpenAccess #AcaSky

Do robots make recessions worse for workers? 🤖📉

Our latest research revisits #OkunsLaw and finds that higher automation is linked to smaller rises in unemployment during downturns.

New evidence on automation & employment dynamics ⬇️

bit.ly/3Mqnu2H

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That has been my team's conclusion, but it has been hard to confirm, esp with all the focus on expiration of ePTC and IRS resetting the caps. Figured #ACAsky to the rescue 😀

A painting of a possum rearing back in horror/disgust with the words *shocked hissing*

Mood. Classes start next week. #academicsky #acasky

Ooooh look what's AVAILABLE TO PREORDER! Looking pretty lush and £21.99 is about as affordable as it gets for a new academic book these days! @universitypress.cambridge.org #AcaSky

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Choose your fighter meme with different drawings of animals pictured including a bird with an acorn like a bundle stick sitting on a branch with the words "too old for this shit but has got nowhere else to be" and a tiny hamster in a cape "thinks they're in charge. Isn't"

Every faculty member is at least two of the animals on this chart. #academicsky #acasky

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This "Just in Time for Christmas" Hallmark movie apparently features a NTT community college professor in her first year being offered an associate professor position at Yale because the Dean was "browsing dissertations and thought hers had bestseller potential." #acasky

I have so much grading to do, and Canvas is down because of the AWS outage.

Object lesson #1940273 that maybe forcing us all to use crappy LMS tools that are beholden to tech infrastructures controlled by Bezos et al wasn't the best idea. #acasky

It’d probably be better for me to get back from the field more than a week before the paper is due 😅 #acasky

Lovely interview with our new OLH colleague Dr Maddie Sinclair who reflects on the importance of research being publicly available. "As a researcher, I became aware very early on of the structural inequalities in publishing systems, and I didn’t want to perpetuate them." #OpenAccess #AcaSky

This is a really exciting journal (re)launch at @openlibhums.org working with @the87press.bsky.social ! This poetry journal is doing such important work to address the massive under-representation of writers of colour and entrenched inequalities in literary publishing. #OpenAccess #AcaSky #poetry

Syntactic Theory and Research Ana Werkmann Horvat (University of Osijek), Matea Birtić (Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics), Martina Gračanin-Yuksek (Middle East Technical University)

Congrats to @starlinguistics.bsky.social on their inaugural issue published by @openlibhums.org ! Read it here: star-linguistics.org #OpenAccess #AcaSky

Screenshot of a blog post that reads Cultural Appropriation? Willy Chavarría x Adidas’ “Oaxaca Slip-On” Statement from the Secretary of Cultures and Arts of Oaxaca (provided by Cultural Documentalist Laura Quiroz) On Sunday, August 3, 2025, designer Willy Chavarría unveiled his latest collaboration with Adidas—the “Oaxaca Slip-On” (see images here). While the shoe is being celebrated as a “nod to Chicano culture” and a “revival of Mexican tradition,” the Secretary of Cultures and Arts of the State of Oaxaca claims that Chavarría and Adidas have neglected to credit the Yalalag Community, “whose traditional huaraches were used as the aesthetic basis for the footwear.” This accusation of cultural appropriation is now being widely reported, including on CNN.com (August 6, 2025).

The nerdy tattle-tale in me grew up to be an academic who loves calling out designers who plagiarize and culturally appropriate. The latest is #Adidas x #WillyChavarría. Here’s what I wrote (including learning resources!): deed.parsons.edu/2025/08/07/c...

#culturalappropriation #acasky #huaraches

This is great news! Hopefully the UK can follow suit by funding similar collaborations between diamond university-based publishers, such as those affiliated with @oipassoc.bsky.social #OpenAccess #AcaSky

This meeting was so important. The N8 group of northern UK libraries are providing much-needed leadership to the whole sector. They’re standing up to a bullying, extractive commercial oligopoly that threatens the integrity of our research. I was honoured to be part of this day! #OpenAccess #AcaSky

Deadline 30/06 - last chance to apply for this year’s @openlibhums.bsky.social small grants to support #openaccess publishing! #AcaSky

N8 Research Partnership calls for urgent reform of scholarly publishing models - N8 Research Partnership The N8 Research Partnership – the collective body for the North of England’s eight research intensive universities – has released a landmark new statement urging fundamental reform in the way scholarl...

Really encouraging to see today’s landmark statement from the N8 Research Partnership urging fundamental reform to academic publishing. The current system is completely unsustainable. I’ll be speaking at today’s N8 event about @ojcollective.bsky.social. www.n8research.org.uk/n8-research-... #AcaSky

Fab new issue of @regenerationeac.bsky.social on Affects of Energy Transition! #AcaSky #EnergyHums @openlibhums.bsky.social

Indigenizing Art & Design Education Symposium Please join us as we continue to develop strategies in centering Indigenous Art and Design pedagogy, and in direct partnership with Indigenous knowledge keepers Trinity Poolaw & Andy Jacobs, members of the Lenni Lenapexkweyok Collective.Part public program, and part visioning workshop, we see this symposium and future offshoots as challenging the status quo, improving our support structures for our Indigenous colleagues and student body, and strengthening our own research practices in service to a wider college-wide initiative around decolonizing design. With an Indigenous speaker/facilitator line-up, we are ensuring an important step towards decolonization: the centering of Indigenous people and their lived experiences.A closed visioning workshop with New School stakeholders will be held in the afternoon to develop actionable and comprehensive strategies for scaffolding, developing, and supporting Indigenous ways of knowing and being into our community.(NOTE: While we do not expect to keep time strictly, we offer this schedule for your guidance. The general public is welcome 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The afternoon session is for New School community members only.)Schedule:  9:30AM - 10:00AM - Arrival & check-in10:00AM - 10:45AM - Welcome & framing remarks, Trinity Poolaw & Andy Jacobs, Lenni Lenapexkweyok Collective.11:00AM - 12:00PM - Conversation facilitated by Trinity Poolaw & Andy Jacobs12:00PM - 1:00PM - Lunch (provided) & Mingling+++++++ Afternoon sessions are open only to members of The New School community (students, alumni, faculty, and staff) +++++++1:00PM - 3:00PM - Thematic breakout conversations (rotating every 30 minutes)3:00PM - 3:30PM - Break & mingling3:30PM - 5:00PM - Visioning session

I'm thrilled to announce Parsons' first "Indigenizing Art & Design Education" Symposium, featuring members of the Matriarchal Lenape Collective Lenni Lenapexkweyok

Tuesday, May 27th, starting at 9:30 a.m.

event.newschool.edu/indigenizing...

#lenapehoking #indigenousart #indigenousdesign #acasky

Amazing opportunity to join our fantastic growing @openlibhums.bsky.social team! We're looking for an academic who is passionate about publishing and sees an exciting career for themselves in the #openaccess movement. If that's you, please consider applying! 100% remote with London weighting #AcaSky

Editorial Officer (2137) - Birkbeck, University of London Birkbeck

JOB KLAXON!!! We're hiring an Editorial Officer starting August 2025, application deadline 8 June 2025. If you're an academic who is passionate about building an exciting career in open access publishing please consider applying. #AcaSky #OpenAccess cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

🌍 Flavia Maximo calls for sustainability frameworks that centre communities facing the real costs of extraction.

Read how the latest ILR Special Issue brings decolonial thought to the heart of #SustainableWork:

🔗 bit.ly/4jEG7Ls

#Acasky #LabourResearch #OpenAccess #OA

📢 What if sustainability was redefined by those most affected by extractivism?

In our latest blog, Ania Zbyszewska imagines what #SustainableWork could mean when rooted in care, land, and community.

🔗 bit.ly/4jEG7Ls

#LabourResearch #OpenAccess #Acasky

I’m really excited about this journal migration to @openlibhums.bsky.social! Energy Humanities has been a vibrant hub of scholarship since 2020. From 2026 it’ll be a fully-fledged diamond open access journal, funded by our international library community! #OpenAccess #AcaSky #petrocultures

Really looking forward to this! Anyone interested in #OpenAccess & #OpenSource is welcome to join us in Dublin next year #AcaSky

#openaccess #academia #acasky

International Labour Review inspires innovations in multilingual publishing at the OLH In May 2023, the OLH accepted an application from the International Labour Review (ILR), who have moved from legacy publisher Wiley and relaunched as a diamond open access journal with …

With the move of @ilr-rit.bsky.social from Wiley to OLH, Dr Katherine Parker-Hay explores ILR's publishing history. Find out how ILR is working with OLH's @janewayolh.bsky.social team to offer multilingual workflows on our publishing platform: www.openlibhums.org/news/804/ #OpenAccess #AcaSky

💼🌱 Work is more than what we do — it’s how we live, care, and connect.

Our new special issue redefines #SustainableWork in a time of planetary and social urgency.

🔔Don’t miss this essential read🔗 bit.ly/4254yeO

#Acasky #EnviromentalJustice #JustTransition