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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (https://tinyurl.com/54r98nv6), Constitutionalising Anarchy with Ruth Kinna (https://tinyurl.com/4y9pn3v4 coming soon). Uni Exeter, UCU, HEC Rep. UCU Commons. DM me re anything UCU UK-wide HE. I’m your rep. #ynwa
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy.
Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education).
Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social Small time sociologist.
He/him
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.
Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social Interim Professor at Europa-Universität Viadrina and Senior Researcher at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany | organization studies | critical management studies | higher education
he/him
Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
British Journal of Industrial Relations @bjireditor.bsky.social A multidisciplinary, international journal of work, labour, and employment relations.
Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class and Coal Country. Should be running or writing.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social Writer, plant-lover, water-baby, #healthpolicy nerd. Ex-OpenDemocracy UK editor. NUJ/Unite/Green. Grew up on free school meals. Stroud-based. caroline.molloy@cantab.net
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Christian Lyhne Ibsen @clibsen.bsky.social Associate Professor of comparative employment relations and comparative political economy at University of Copenhagen
@faos-dk.bsky.social
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Arianna Tassinari @aritassinari.bsky.social Assistant Prof, Dept of Social and Political Sciences, University of Bologna | Political economy, labour, crises, Southern Europe
Franziska Paul @franziskapaul.bsky.social Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Glasgow.
Researching ownership and transformation. Interested in de-privatisation, democratisation, and development.
Currently (re)reading Rosa Luxemburg.
Beekeeper.
TULE Network @tulenetwork.bsky.social Trade Unions and Labor Environmentalism (TULE) is a network of early-career researchers exploring how trade unions can advance working-class environmentalism. We organize regular events: https://tulelabour.org/get-updates/
https://tulelabour.org/about
@crimt.bsky.social @crimt.bsky.social
Esme Terry @esmeterry.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Leeds | ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work | Technology, sociology, work and employment
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Isabel M. Perera @isabelmperera.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell
Author of The Welfare Workforce (CUP, open-access: https://tinyurl.com/yc2t9hw5)
www.isabelmperera.com
Charles Umney @charlesumney.bsky.social Industrial relations, technology, sociology of work. Currently focused on technological change in warehousing work among other things. Co-author "Marketization" (Bloomsbury, 2022). https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marketization-9781913441463/
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Paul Nowak @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social General Secretary of @the-tuc.bsky.social
Family, unions, politics, canals, Everton FC, music.
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social sociologist, interested in organizing for change, solidarity, intersectionality, inequality, she/her, editor at @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
Siobhan @nhsactivistrn.bsky.social Nurse, Activist, Socialist
Campaigner for pay restoration & better conditions for NHS workers in the UK. Trade Union Rep. #FBPE 🏴 #nursesky #resist
90% healthcare current affairs, 10% random musings
Contact Me: https://www.nhsactivistrn.com/
Jason Foster @abbeerguy.bsky.social Beer guy. Work prof at Athabasca University. Director of Parkland Institute. Be prepared to put up with beer posts, public policy posts and the-study-of-work posts. And whatever else takes over my brain.
Cornell ILR School @cornellilr.bsky.social The ILR School at Cornell University: Transforming the future of work by preparing leaders, informing policy and improving the lives of workers. 🌟 #CornellILR
NIC-ICTU @nic-ictu.bsky.social Confederation of Trade Unions representing over 200,000 workers across Northern Ireland. Part of @IrishCongress
CERIC @ceric-lubs.bsky.social The Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change at Leeds University Business School. Researching employment relations and the changing world of work. https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-ceric
Ethics in Bricks @ethicsinbricks.bsky.social Plastic philosophy. Sort of famous on Twitter (X).
Bianca Luna Fabris @biancalunafabris.bsky.social Researcher at the European Trade Union Insitute (ETUI) & PhD-ing at the University of Edinburgh
Comparative social policy, politics of welfare state reforms, climate change and trade unions
Views are my own
Ceri Hughes @ceridwenhughes.bsky.social British Academy Fellow researching insecure work, activation & work-related conditionality
Based at Work and Equalities Institute, University of Manchester. Visiting Fellow, CASE, LSE
Heejung Chung @heejungchung.bsky.social Professor of Work&Employment &Director of the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership at KCL, views my own
Interests Flexible Working, digitalisation/future of work, labour market (gender/race) inequalities, welfare state/gender role attitudes 한국인
Heather Connolly @heatherconnolly.bsky.social Associate Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM). Researching trade union futures in Europe.
Gewerkschaft ver.di @social.verdi.de ✊ Als Dienstleistungs-Gewerkschaft ver.di engagieren sich rund 1,8 Mio Beschäftigte für ihre Interessen. #wirsindverdi✊
Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/subscribe
Abbie Winton @abbiewinton.bsky.social postdoctoral researcher @ceric-lubs.bsky.social | work, technology, (currently) warehouses + nice cats | 😻✊
Univ of Manchester UCU @umucu.bsky.social
Jack Thrower @jack-thrower.bsky.social he/him | deputy research director at @australiainstitute.org.au | interests in economic policy, inequality, the welfare state and industrial relations | views my own
Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
@nroby.bsky.social @nroby.bsky.social
The Politics of Equality at Work @politicsofequality.bsky.social A 3 year ESRC-funded project researching how equality at work has developed across different national and institutional contexts, based at the Work and Equalities Institute, University of Manchester.
https://politicsofequalityatwork.manchester.ac.uk/
M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social ‘Bent in emptiness over emptiness but flying’(Hughes); cooperatives & radical democracy; labour relations academic; born Paddington to exiles, live Leeds, work Manchester.
Joscha Wagner @wagnerj.bsky.social Gewerkschafter mit besonderem Interesse an Tarifpolitik, (transnationaler) Solidarität & guter Lektüre.
Wojtek Gwiazda @wojtekgwiazda.bsky.social Journalist, photographer, videographer. Formerly with Radio Canada International (RCI), CBC, Radio-Canada, Montreal Gazette, Cinema Canada…
Member: ACTRA, CAJ, DOC, FPJQ, SAJA, UDA
Latest news on RCI: https://rciaction.org/blog/
Lucas Osborne @lucastosborne.bsky.social Natural Resources Law, Public Utility Regulation, Monopolies, Private Law Theory, Law and Technology PhD @UCBerkeley, JD @VanderbiltLaw, MPP @TheHellerSchool
Abigail Harrington @abigailharrington.bsky.social PhD student @uniofBirmingham Interests: digitalisation of work, platformization, AI and the future of work, resistance,collective action. MScR @UvA_AISSR
Sarah Katz-Lavigne, PhD - Free 🇵🇸 @sarahgeokl.bsky.social Runner, researcher, writer on resource capitalism in the DRC and the EU. Migrant and postdoc at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. De Montréal.- H David Kim @hwdkim.bsky.social staff attorney @ strategic organizing center
Dan Gabor @dangabor.org 🏳️🌈 Progressive organizer and data nerd ❄️ President @wbng.org ✊ Traveler 🛫 Dog Dad 🦮
Sari Madi @sarimadi.bsky.social Lecturer in industrial relations at University of Montreal. Interested in labour relations, labour law, and AI/algorithmic management.
Nicola Cianferoni @ncianfe.bsky.social Sociologist of Work, PhD, associate researcher at the University of Geneva. Passionate about R, guitars and brewing.
David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellow in political science at Aarhus University, by way of the University of Zurich. Research on deservingness, solidarity, and social cleavages in politics.
Website: https://www.davidattewell.net/
Jillethelmurray @jillethelmurray.bsky.social Labour law, international labour law, politics, dogs
Kate Jones @kate-jones.bsky.social AI Policy Lead at UNISON / Trade Union Liaison Officer on GPEx at Green Party
Limiting social media use so on here rarely.
unison.org.uk/aihub
ILR Review @ilrreview.bsky.social The ILR Review features international and interdisciplinary research that advances new theory, presents novel empirical work, and informs organizational and public policy.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Tony Dundon @tonydundon.bsky.social Professor, Work&Employment @ul. Fellow @AcadSocSciences @WorkEqualities Dad, Everton Fan, Humanist. Own views (obviously). Re-tweets not an endorsement.
Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social Former organizer, current Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Author, Labor and the Class Idea in the US and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Valerio De Stefano @valeriodeste.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Innovation, Law and Society, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social Associate Professor, School of Labour Studies, McMaster University
Unions | Labour Politics | Social Movements
Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social
author We are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big
www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/
Red State Revolt,
laborpolitics.substack.com;
EWOC, AAUP-AFT, 🌹
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
Michael Maffie @maffie.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Labor Relations, Platform Work | Developer, Coauthor Project (coauthor.fly.dev)
Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social Professor ILR School - Global Labor and Work. Unions & AI in telecoms, game development, ICT industry. Co-Editor ILR Review.
Ian Greer @ianithacagreer.bsky.social Industrial relations academic involved in various labor struggles. Cornell-ILR Ithaca Co-Lab. Marketization book with Charles Umney. Current research on re-entry, electric vehicle transition, living wage, unemployment.
Ewan McGaughey @ewanmg.bsky.social 🎓Law Professor @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, CBR, Cambridge + @granthamlse.bsky.social
🌹Labour law, enterprise law, pensions, corporations, human rights
🌍Cares about stopping inequality, climate damage + war
🕸️ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ewan-mcgaughey
Aziz Çelik @azizcelik.bsky.social emeğin halleri, çalışma hayatı, sosyal politika, çalışma ekonomisi,
BirGün yazarı https://www.birgun.net/profil/aziz-celik-257
professor of labour studies kocaeli.academia.edu/AzizCelik
labour in Türkiye
sosyal medya: https://linktr.ee/ACelik
Nick Scott @nickscott.digital Work on (responsible) AI and digital in trade unions, think tanks and non-profits.
Director of Centre for Responsible Union AI ( @unions21.org ) + Freelance Consultant
Home = family + seaside living in a town near Barcelona.
Any views I do share are mine.
Becky Wright @beckyunions21.bsky.social Exec Director of Unions 21. Interested in how unions organise and build strategic capacity. Working with and for the union movement.
Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social Industrial relations, political economy and sociology of work.
John Budd @johnwbudd.bsky.social Work & Organizations professor at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Mgmt. Researching labor relations & work; learning about race, power & justice in business. Past LERA President.
Tony Tracy @tonytracy.ca Trade Unionist.
Socialist.
Anti-Racist.
Anti-Fascist.
Married to @esooze.
Solidarity! Always. ✊
Any & all opinions expressed are mine, and mine alone… of course.
UnionizeEverything @unionizeeverything.bsky.social Local 89 Teamster from Louisville, Kentucky. TDU member. Dispatcher. If you want to unionize your workplace, reach out to me.
Marcus Reed @labornerd22.bsky.social Lawyer for working people ⚖️✊ • proud union member
Robin Huguenot-Noël @rhuguenotnoel.bsky.social Post-doc FU Berlin | @EUI-EU PhD | Macroeconomic & Social policy in 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 | ✍️‘Resilient Welfare States in the European Union’
Kirsty Newsome @kirstynewsome.bsky.social Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Decent Work, University of Sheffield
LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social The global trade union movement's news and campaigns service. www.LabourStart.org
Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social Nurse. Trade unionist. Socialist. RMN/RGN/TANP. ADHD. Green 💚Personal account - my own views 〓〓 Substack: https://substack.com/@harryeccles94
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@harryeccles94?si=FKhjt3zfa6zqn2Ka
https://buymeacoffee.com/harryeccles
Luca Cigna @lucacigna.bsky.social Postdoc LUISS, PhD EUI | Trade unions | Welfare states ✏️ Politics, Ideas and Praxis
@serencollins.bsky.social @serencollins.bsky.social Trade unionist. Data strategy and ethics. Organiser and agitator at heart. Currently watching the world in disbelief.