Kate Hardy

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself Automating knowledge production and teaching weakens the ecosystem of students and scholars that sustains universities, raising existential questions about their mission.

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself

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This is huge - and proves exactly what we're saying.

We cannot have a moment of complacency - only the Green Party can stop Reform.

Vote Hannah Spencer and the Green Party on Thursday in Gorton and Denton. 💚

The hollowing out of Palestine’s most important university Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the P...

Urgent writing on Birzeit U from @hamayel.bsky.social

“Terror…disciplines through anticipation, exhaustion, and saturation. Subjects end up managing risk instead of imagining alternatives. Education as a space of experimentation becomes intolerable…” @mondoweiss.net mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...

From Epstein to Gaza: The depravity of the western elite is now fully exposed Gaza was not a deviation from the morality of the financial and political class that oversaw its annihilation. It was their culmination

“The devastation of Gaza by this same elite is not a moral anomaly. It belongs to the same architecture. The same assumption that some lives are fully human, while others are expendable.

Children abused on a private island.

Children beneath rubble in Gaza”

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‘How can they be anti-establishment if they're ALL TORIES?!’ | Zack Polanski pulls apart Reform UK YouTube video by Manchester Evening News

The Green Party will stop Reform in Gorton and Denton.

We'll be announcing Manchester's first Green MP in the morning.

Lots and lots of work to do!

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I've just emailed you @felicitycallard.bsky.social, as Bluesky won't let me message you directly because it's age verification AI doesn't work properly. lol.

400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.

This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.

📍 Southend rally | 5 February

⭕️ The last Bedouin community in the southern Jordan Valley is being emptied, as more than 120 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from the hamlet of Ras Ein al-Auja, according to B’Tselem. Residents were driven out after months of escalating settler violence, including daily incursions, livestock theft, vandalism, and physical assaults by settlers, some armed and operating with military and police backing. Pressure peaked after a new Israeli outpost was established just 200 meters from the community. B’Tselem says the displacement is part of a broader campaign to clear Palestinians from Area C of the West Bank to expand Israeli control. Additional details 👇

See new posts Conversation B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem Today (Thursday), 8 January, after persistent attempts, organized settler groups operating in coordination with, and backed by, the Israeli military and the police, succeeded in forcibly transferring 26 families numbering 124 people, including 59 minors from their homes in the community of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja.​ The community of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja, located about 10 kilometers north of Jericho, is the largest remaining shepherding community in the West Bank and the last surviving in the southern Jordan Valley, after the area has been “cleansed” of Palestinians. It is still home to about 100 families numbering roughly 600 people. The community has long suffered severe and daily violence carried out by Israeli youths, some of them minors, as well as armed settlers supported by military and police forces. This violence includes repeated incursions into its territory with herds of camels and sheep, physical attacks on residents, destruction and theft of property, and livestock theft. In one incident, in March 2025, approximately 1,500 head of sheep were stolen.

On Wednesday, 31 December 2025, another outpost was established some 200 meters from residents’ homes, where, with the approval of the Israeli authorities, herds of sheep and camels were brought for an extended stay. On the morning of Thursday, 8 January 2026, Palestinian families in the houses near which the outpost was established packed their belongings and left their homes of decades. This marks the first wave of departures from the community, whose residents have faced escalating violence since October 2023. Although journalists report on events in the West Bank, diplomats visit and witness them with their own eyes, and local and international human rights organizations document and publicize the rampant violence, world leaders see, know, and yet choose to do nothing to stop the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.​ The international community, which has failed, and continues to fail, to stop the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, is still standing idly by in the face of the Israeli regime’s crimes in the West Bank, granting de facto immunity to the State itself and the individuals responsible for these crimes.

⭕️ The last Bedouin community in the southern Jordan Valley is being emptied, as more than 120 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from the hamlet of Ras Ein al-Auja, according to B’Tselem.

Residents were driven out after months of escalating settler violence...

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This is what I meant when I wrote that "we can overthrow them with a union of care."

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Join the launch of L-earning: rethinking young women's working lives project's final report to hear how women's early experiences of work shape future inequalities.

12 December, 4pm-7pm, University House, London.

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Let’s also not forget that foreign born nannies have been very vocal about facing no wages, sexual assault, and violence and if they speak out, their rich white employers will threaten to report them to ICE

Young women students are 50% more likely to work, face sexual harassment & unclear about their rights.

Join us *today at 12pm* to hear more about our findings on women student workers from our ESRC project L-Earning: rethinking young women's working lives.

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New report on student workers and ‘earning while learning’ released Not only are student workers important to the economy, but working while in education has positive and negative effects on students, says a new report released today.

New article published on the CERIC website about the work our researchers @katerhardy.bsky.social and Mia Zhong have been doing with @ywworking.bsky.social

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Global Marxism by Simin Fadaee, featuring Helen Yaffe, Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Kate Hardy In this panel discussion event, an all-female panel discussed Marx’s enduring influence, as well as whether writing about Marxism is a male-dominated space a...

Women have long faced sidelining in Marxist spaces, yet as this panel argues, their insights have radically reshaped Marxist thought—whether by exposing unpaid labor or connecting dispossession and oppression.

Feat. Simin Fadaee, Helen Yaffe, @katerhardy.bsky.social et al.

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Maybe all those @ucu.org.uk members who were told they couldn't take their employer to Employment Tribunal for [insert dubious excuse here] reasons over the punitive Action Short Of Strike deductions should feed into this?

#EmploymentTribunal #EmploymentLaw #WorkersRights

Professor Vincent Gillespie, FBA (11 February 1954–13 March 2025)

It is with great sadness that we report the news that Professor Vincent Gillespie died at home on 13 March.

Read more about Professor Gillespie's life as an inspiring scholar, a warm and caring tutor, and a much-loved colleague.

Just the sheer, obscene spectacle of a Government minister on £160K+ plus expenses and all the freebies, coming for the sub £10K per year that my son gets in PIP - being autistic & learning disabled in a deeply unequal, discriminatory & hostile society is not a “lifestyle choice”

@lilithbrouwers.bsky.social, @katerhardy.bsky.social & Prof. Kim Allen will present their experiences from the @ywworking.bsky.social project

1/3: Last August, upon my becoming a Prof., Vincent Gillespie emailed me unexpectedly to congratulate me & to note his belief that supporting rising talent meant more to him than any of his publications. He also said that it was now my turn to foster that support. When I was a PGR, after giving a …

Vincent Gillespie — Portrait of Keble

Reading the many heartfelt dedications from his colleagues & students, it's clear he was not only the warm, generous & kind husband, father & grandfather that I knew, but an exemplar of collegiality, which we -as scholars- should all seek to emulate.

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My Father in Law, Vincent Gillespie, passed away last night. Vincent was born in Liverpool. His parents -who left school at 14- saw education as the ticket out of disadvantage.

Vincent went on to become Emeritus J R R Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at @ox.ac.uk

Thanks for this memory. Vincent was my Father in Law.

It's beautiful to see how generous and collegiate he was in his professional life, having only known him in a person capacity. I've passed it on to his family, who really appreciated reading it.

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New article from Hanne Stegeman & I: "Locating online labour: the salience of the national scale in remote digital work" (Environment & Planning A)

We theorise nation-scale cultural & infrastructural norms & practices as still constitutive of online-only work.

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@lilithbrouwers.bsky.social, @katerhardy.bsky.social, & Prof. Kim Allen will present their experiences from the @ywworking.bsky.social project

The "Disrupting Technology" conference calls for abstracts of careful, empirically grounded, theorisations of technology & its impact on work and employment relations.

Asking what is genuinely novel about digital innovations & should be excellent & of interest to readers & authors of NTWE.

🌟 Disrupting Technology Conference 2025, 16 & 17 June, Leeds
📣 Fantastic keynote speakers:
🔹 Prof Mark Graham, Fairwork & Oxford Internet Institute
🔹 Dr Uma Rani, Senior Economist, ILO
‼️ Abstract deadline 7 March
➡️ Join us! Check out the call for papers: business.leeds.ac.uk/research-cer...

A new study published in the Lancet finds that life expectancy in Gaza dropped by nearly half, from 75.5 years to 40.6 years, during the first twelve months of the genocide. Apocalyptic.

Rhiannon for UCU VP (Higher Education) Vote Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) for UCU Vice President (Higher Education): ballots are live 27th January till 3rd March 2025

Sorry to have missed the UK-wide UCU VP and Treasurer hustings today, but I hear @illdoitanyway.bsky.social and Deepa Driver were articulate, and had concrete plans on how to move forward. Read more about Rhiannon here: rhiannonforucuvp.wordpress.com

Special Issue deadline approaching:

"Reshaping work: Disabled people’s inclusion & digitalization in the new world of work"

Exploring how digitalization, AI, & machine learning affect job search, hiring processes & working life for disabled people: tinyurl.com/5n7znjzx

Deadline: 31 January 2025