BREAKING: King's College London council chairman, Lord Geidt, was paid by US arms company to lobby MoD on its behalf, breaking the parliamentary code of conduct. Does King's senior management still have full confidence in him? #DemilitariseEducation theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

For years I’ve been interviewing data annotation workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry. For years I’ve heard the same story: the platforms they work for wield total power, leaving them precarious & vulnerable to exploitation. A horrible example of this just happened 1/

Palestinians in Gaza are enduring horrifying levels of hunger and suffering.

This is the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system –anywhere, anytime - António Guterres

Permissive access is little more than an excuse to hand taxpayer cash to often already wealthy landowners.

The public has no control over what the access is to, or for. It is conditional. It can be revoked at any time. And it will be binned the moment the state revenue dries up.

The @UCU NEC met today to discuss the concerns about structural racism raised by the Black Members Standing Committee (BMSC) and Black staff represented by Unite UCU. Three important motions were passed at the meeting. The business wasn't marked confidential so, a 🧵 1/

'Prepayment technology is socially and financially isolating UK asylum seekers': new study by Sophie Bennani-Taylor Oxford Internet Institute and Nasar Meer University of Glasgow UofG Social Sciences published in SCMR.
phys.org/news/2024-03-p… via Phys.org

Tonight, 5pm. Join us!

This year we're responding to the call for solidarity of our sisters in Gaza & joining the #IWD2024 workplace day of action. Join us in the Strand (midday) & at KCLH (5pm). We'll also march to SOAS & UCLH with students University & College Workers for Palestine & health workers 4 Palestine #OneOfUsAllOfUs everyone, everywhere!

Come and work with us! We are hiring 12(!) new positions. All full time, all permanent. From across many areas in #DigitalHumanities Details here:
jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/linki…
Please share far and wide!
#JobAlert #AcademicTwitter #academicjobs #London

In London Thurs? Join us 5pm Africa Group: 'Displacement, labour and the making of global cities in Somalia'. Jutta Bakonyi and I will be presenting our book+screening film we made w/ research participants. Discussing w/ Surer Mohamed, PhD+Kieran Mitton REGISTER: tickettailor.com/events/globala…

We have a great range of presentations in our annual Africa Group Research Forum.
Come along and hear from King's College London doctoral researchers and meet staff and students with shared interests. A great hub for anyone research on the African continent
kcl.ac.uk/events/africa-…

A fake Twitter account got a grey government checkmark and announced a fake new East African currency.

The real account of the East African Community now has to clean up a mess they didn't create. This sheafra scam is what X has become

We have successfully completed a 3-months-long practical research training course for young researchers in #Mogadishu .

We are grateful to two of our fellows Pete Chonka, Mohamud Garre, and Somali Public Agenda (SPA) Executive Director Mahad Wasuge who co-facilitated the training.

Uni & College Workers for Palestine joins the UCU in demanding #USS ends its complicity in Israeli apartheid, settler colonialism & genocide. We call on USS & UCU members to rally in front of USS London office on Wed 28 Feb & to demand immediate #USS divestment from genocide.

'Displacement, labour and the making of global cities in Somalia.'
Looking forward to chairing this #AfricaWeek event (7 March - 5pm) - book discussion & film screening with the excellent Jutta Bakonyi,Pete Chonka, & Surer Mohamed, PhD. Registration now open.

kcl.ac.uk/events/displac…

📅REMINDER: Join us today in our virtual seminar today, themed 'Mobilising aid while constituting ethnic groups: the role of mosques and kinship associations'

⏲️2:00 pm-3:30 pm [EAT] via Zoom.
🔗It's free! 🎉 Register here: bit.ly/3P4726r
#IDSResearchAgenda #WeareUoN

Your daily reminder to look beyond the numbers for indicators of quality.

Join the trade union bloc at the national march for Palestine today! We’ll be assembling at 11.30am. If you’d like help us steward & keep the bloc together during the march, please come to the meeting point. If you have one, bring a yellow vest used on picket lines 👷🏽‍♀️✊🏾🇵🇸

.UCU is calling on all branches to #StandWithGaza & take part in the 7 Feb workplace day of action called by Stop the War. Join us! Let’s say it loud & clear that the genocide must stop, our government’s active role in it must stop & our university’s complicity must stop too. University & College Workers for Palestine