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LSE students & staff — please sign the petition against LSE’s decision to leave Stonewall: forms.office.com/e/AY6GRpjWHw

LSE STAFF sign the petition below. Don't let them take our Stonewall benefits away too: - Popular mentor training programme - Action-plans for improvement - Feeling of support amongst LGBTQ+ from a trusted resource - Support for our EDI recruitment goals forms.office.com/pages/response…

This week's Open Social Science Handbook seminar presentation on "Open social science principles in systematic documentation analysis" by @[email protected] and me is now up on Zenodo for OA reading & download at zenodo.org/record/7565810… Comments, suggestions & questions welcome

HE workers pay cuts since 2010. Who would not strike? 2010 -3.8% 2011 -5.0% 2012 -2.9% 2013 -2.6% 2014 -0.8% 2015 -1.2% 2016 -1.5% 2017 -1.7% 2018 -1.2% 2019 -1.5% 2020 -2.1% 2021 -1.4% 2022 ~-7.1% (avg of Q1-Q2) Staff deserve better, students deserve better.

Lua is a beauty 😍🐱 CATS AGAINST CASUALISATION 👊 #ucuRISING

On day 6 of #ucuRISING I'm striking for all my UCU academic related & professional service colleagues Unis literally cannot run with you. You do so much to support students and staff every single day! Proud to be in a union which supports working conditions of all staff 💜

Bristol geographers unite! Get down the picket line and vote YES in the reballot #ucuRISING

75% of scientists are burned out and pulling back on conferences, peer review, committee membership, etc nature.com/articles/d4158… When scientists set boundaries, it not only improves their own personal well-being, but also creates norms that limits are acceptable and healthy

With food inflation at 18%, think this bit of Unite the union: join a union's recent report into profiteering and inflation is very relevant.

Geographers striking for a better higher education system for all! ✊ Featuring our fabulous University of Nottingham UCU branch prez Agnes Flues 🙌. #ucuRISING

Staff in UK universities are NOT worth 15% LESS than 2 years ago. Pass it on

There's a crisis of academic casualisation and precarity at the LSE. Insecure and short-term contracts are rife. We're social scientists, so we decided to research how serious the problem is. Here's a thread with our key findings, 28-page report + code repository. UCU #ucuRISING

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I’ve recently heard the devastating news of Prof Bridget Hutter LSE Sociology passing away. She was HoD and Head of the PhD Program while I was studying. I was also her research assistant for 3+ years and I will be forever grateful for having meeting her. (1/3)

"Let them eat cake." Change in price of cake ingredients over past year: 🔼Flour: 23.4% 🔼Eggs: 32.0% 🔼Butter: 22.7% 🔼Sugar: 42.1%

I’m not surprised Sunak has made Gove stepdown his plans to abolish leasehold, as much as I loath the system, it would be a legal nightmare of a reform. And this government simply doesn’t have the intellectual or administrative capacity to undertake such a serious reform.

A message emerged at the LSE pride party

OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK (£20) #HowTheOtherHalfLives #HTOHL Manchester University Press Ed myself (BCU Sociology (dormant account)) & Katie Higgins (Oxford DSPI). manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146557/….