Though I'm still feeling the impact of 16 days strike action +3 weeks lockout, I've just posted my ballot in our dispute @sheffielducu.bsky.social We can't let management get away with strike breaking tactics and unnecessary attacks on the learning/working conditions of staff and students!
Returning to work this week after 3 weeks of lockout has been stressful to say the least! Please support us @sheffielducu.bsky.social to challenge Sheffield Uni's punitive approach before it becomes more widespread across the sector. Link here: linktr.ee/SheffieldUCU
Staff ,supporters and students gathered outside Firth Court today in solidarity with colleagues locked out and facing withheld pay after lawful strike action at
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Punishment is not negotiation. ✊
The wonderful @maltelaub.bsky.social and I are hosting a workshop on the theme of Austerity Militarism at EWIS 2026 in Izmir! If you are working on these themes then please consider submitting an abstract! We'd love to see you there.
The link to submit is here: eisa-net.org/ewis-2026/ab...
Joseph Ward
‘The faces were familiar, the food was familiar, but we had missed it for so long. The smell took me back years, to a time before all the times I had risked my life to get bread, vegetables or chicken for my family.’
Hassan Ayman Herzallah eats shawarma in Gaza City.
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Last push in our ballot this weekend and into next week 💪
If you haven't already, get that vote posted! If you've posted it make sure you've let us know! (Google Form in our latest member emails)
📣Job cuts are a choice, not a necessity 📣
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Joseph Ward
Joseph Ward
University and College Union (UCU)
London Review of Books
A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
Sheffield UCU
The new V-Dem report was released today. There are dramatic declines in democracy in the US. Much worse than during Trump I.
Jim Ratcliffe is best known as the unpopular Manchester United owner and today he has been in the news for saying that 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants'. We need to understand Ratcliffe's as an energy billionaire who made his power and money by closing workplaces and opposing unions 🧵
Though I'm still feeling the impact of 16 days strike action +3 weeks lockout, I've just posted my ballot in our dispute @sheffielducu.bsky.social We can't let management get away with strike breaking tactics and unnecessary attacks on the learning/working conditions of staff and students!
Eva Haifa Giraud
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.
Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.
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My friend Mahmoud called to check on me at the beginning of January. We hadn’t been in touch for a while. I told him,...
We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs)
In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available.
If you are ready to take the next s...
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In an interview with Sky News's Ed Conway, Sir Jim says Britain faces profound political, social and economic challenges, among them an unprecedented rise in immigration in recent years.
✅ WS R - Making Sense of 'Austerity Militarism': Welfare Cuts and the New Politics of Sacrifice in a Time of Defence Spending
🔗 Find a full list of workshops and descriptions here: buff.ly/zIxO8WE
