Thank you for including that last note; that's so inspiring to hear!! 💫
Thank you for including that last note; that's so inspiring to hear!! 💫
"In a world of outsourced fluency, we might end up doing less and less by ourselves, while believing we’ve become more and more capable,” @meghanor.bsky.social writes, reflecting on the possibility that widespread AI adoption will produce a "flatlining of thought." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Mine was lovely because he didn't raise the prices for several years. But I fear this was because he forgot about us or this property (it was probably not to help out two poor students).
Coming in 2026: Feminism and Organization. An international journal committed to advancing critical feminist scholarship, activism, and praxis to promote social justice and equality. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/femos. Publihsed by Bristol University Press
New for 2026: Feminism and Organization
The journal will publish work that challenges structural inequalities rooted in patriarchal systems, especially within the realm of work.
Edited by @profalisonpullen.bsky.social & @nela-smolovic.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/new-journal-...
'If in the future workers and their families are made socially insecure, by for instance the rise of energy prices or trade wars, should the trade union be involved in the fight against these insecurities or not?'
🎙️ Christophe Degryse on etui.podcast
Listen here 🔗 etui.org/ZLG
...trendy concepts like algorithmic management.
But ultimately, this reminds me of Dr. Fleming's work on radical responsibilization of employment: "an extreme version of self-interested individualism, one that is largely unrealistic and unstainable in practice."
Change is needed. (3/3)
...keynote lecture by Dr. Kylie Jarrett on Social Reproduction Theory, Dr. Niels van Doorn's platform-adjacent approach, and the bottom-up approach introduced in my own work. That is, we should be careful not to get entirely distracted from the broader social context by shiny and... (2/3)
Very interesting thread🧵
My thoughts (as a researcher): It highlights—among a many pressing issues on platform work—the need to understand this type of labor within the larger social context of an individual worker, as argued for in various streams of research, including the very recent... (1/?)
Interesting thread on the (lack of) live skeeting of conferences. I really liked live tweeting/conf hashtags as a way of finding out about new research and convos at events I couldn't attend. I also used to use it to signal boost, and give positive feedback on, the work of early career scholars.
haha have a great holiday, Tim! 🏖