#LegalizeIt

No one should ever be in jail for smoking weed 🌱 💨 ✌️

The early-Ottoman (probably even earlier?) Burmalı Camii in Uşak, Western Anatolia is a delight with its Byzantine architectural style and its decorative additions including Phrygian door-type tombs integrated into its walls and çeşme.

Sve vam jebem.

Summer courses in 'Oriental Languages' including Ge'ez and Tigrinya 4.-13. July 2024 in Venice Italy!
Or learn Hebrew, Armenian, Coptic, Syriac and MANY other languages!
unil.ch/summerschools/…

This is an important point and I would like to see the follow up, i.e. are they arming Ukraine to prolong the war? Ukrainians are not disposable in some geopolitical game. They are people.

With another semester ending, here's your annual reminder that teaching evaluations systemically disadvantage women. Even when controlling for grades and other factors, students (esp. males) consistently give female professors lower scores. This can have serious ramifications.🧵

Of course the young UK pleb shouldn’t be allowed to enjoy any of the social gains of their predecessors, like freedom of movement and free tuition. The Grand Tour and Arts degrees are obviously only for the patricians. #feudalbritain

As my employer - Columbia University University - calls armed riot police into campus to smash a peaceful protest against a genocide, we must all speak out. My former students have been arrested. I'm proud of you. History will be too. Remember what I said in our first class last year:

This #MayDay we'll respond to the call of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions-Gaza & walk out in solidarity with Palestine and for the future of HE as part of the Stop the War workplace day of action, with rallies at Guy's & Denmark Hill. Workers unite for Palestine! ✊🏽

David Bartram @dbartram.bsky.social UCU yes and no: the court had ordered her release but the state was appealing that release and it looked like she'd be detained over the weekend. She's now indeed released but that is only very recent and against the wishes of the police. x.com/AdalahEnglish/…

New Interview: I talked to Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei about how his Gaza Community Mental Health Programme has managed to continue its work over the past six months, and how he has approached treating children living through trauma. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/h…

UCU is deeply concerned by the wrongful arrest of Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Professor and Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London, in Israel. We condemn any attempts to stifle freedom of speech on the war in Gaza and demand that diplomatic access is

A Turkish company engaged in trade with Israel is faced with a strike.
This is how the Turkish security forces treat the striking workers.
Textbook case on the increasingly connected global axes of domination (ethnicity, labor, colonization, imperialism).

We’ve written to Jo Grady & Justine Mercer UCU President asking that UCU denounce the arrest in Israel of Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (Prof in Law Queen Mary UCU & Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and push for diplomatic access & her release. docs.google.com/document/d/1-N…

We'll be holding a webinar in June with immigration & employment lawyers to understand the impact of redundancy & restructuring on migrant members.

Keep an eye out on the date 👀

We'll be adding another PDF on changes to Global Visa scheme on UCU website in the upcoming days.

We're putting together a short document to support UCU branches local bargaining on immigration fees & reimbursements.

Let us know what your work place covers and/or how you were able to move the employer to cover these fees.

We're hoping to get this document out soon.

Yesterday UCU Migrant Members Standing Committee met. A short 🧵on upcoming actions. Have a read & if you can support get in touch!

In short:
1)webinar in June on redundancies/restructure & its impact with immigration law
2)looking for testimonials of impact of graduate scheme

Lovely review of Ben and I's book (or shall I say 'petit ouvrage') in Sehepunkte by Adrien Palladino!

sehepunkte.de/2024/03/38593.…

academia is actively hostile to low income students

Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx. Date: c. 1160s–70s, Seljuk Empire. Place of made: Konya, Turkey. Medium: Stonepaste; over- and underglaze-painted, gilded.