#Precarity

Bret Devereaux

BretDevereaux

This is a good thread that I think nails the lottery nature of academia as a result of marketization, but as always I think it is then necessary to ask

Iromi Perera

iromip

A long thread: Ever since my coffee-drinking-armchair-self became a bit active on twitter yesterday, many people have messaged me to better understand why I'm so opposed to high-rises for the

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

White liberals must face the truth by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/white-liberals-must-face-the-truth?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. Ezra Klein, a prominent white liberal, is the top

Sun-ha Hong

sunhahong

1/n In my new book, Technologies of Speculation, I talk about 'control creep': data surveillance justified for one purpose is inevitably repurposed elsewhere. Exhibit A: Self-tracking & Internet of Things,

Richard V. Reeves

RichardvReeves

1/18 New paper from me & Katherine Guyot on unpredictable work hours. Bottom line is that workers need more control of their time - or "time sovereignty" - and more

Ayesha A. Siddiqi

AyeshaASiddiqi

Engaging with their terms legitimizes them. I’m not going to use “cancel culture”, it’s an unserious aspiration to victimhood by those who the status quo benefits and protects. It’s term

Muireann Crowley

crowleyblab

Attending the @ucu_solidarity conference this morning. Discussing need for collective responses in branches to the health crisis. Margot Hill summarising it: "we can't casework our way out of his crisis".

Sandeep Vaheesan

sandeepvaheesan

1. In 2020, @openmarkets focused on developing a vision of fair competition 2. OMI sought to introduce sophistication into antitrust debates around “competition” and show that *not* all tactics by

Phil Pawlett Jackson

ppawlettjackson

I’m researching co-ownership, #squadwealth, income-sharing, neo-tithing. So, a meanwhile placeholder thread of links. I would love to connect with anyone else weaving similar things together. (Thanking @sariazout’s brilliant CYP substac

Dr Emily Wilson

EmilyRCWilson

If you are, for any reason, in the mood for a long poem about the abuse of power, I'd like to recommend Ovid's Metamorphoses. I spent the last month rereading

Joe Strong

JoeStrongDemog

Now more than ever it’s important to call in our colleagues, disciplines and sectors. A recent thread on sex in quantitative social science shouldn't define us - a [super long,

Beth Stratford

beth_stratford

I wrote this for @openDemocracy b/c I was fed up of green growthers & degrowthers talking past each other. Those who care about environmental & economic justice on both sides

Economic Security Project

EconomicSecProj

Starting now at https://www.facebook.com/EconomicSecProj/videos/707375056587729/, join @AmirforATL, @NikemaWilliams, @rashadrobinson, @dorianwarren, @MichaelDTubbs, and more calling for a #guaranteedincome to make real #MLK 's vision to

Petra Boynton

DrPetra

I've had lots of folk get in touch worried about mandatory wellbeing activities in schools, colleges and unis. To clarify,pushing people to do wellbeing activities as decided by an employer/educator

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docrussjackson

Sociology of nationalism THREADWe've witnessed the rise of political leaders & parties relying on #populist #nationalist discourse: Trump, Orbán, Modi & Bolsanaro are united by their espousal of nationalism, majoritarianism,

Jeevika

jeevika_shiv

Women migrants are the ones struggling at the front line & yet they have been invisiblised in the stories & narratives that have come out,& in state & civil society

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